PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Mr. Anthony Trollope serves his country doubly, and to her hearrer content, as a writer and as a Post Office inspector ; and our readers know with what happy economy he makes his experiences in the one caper- city yield him materials for use in the other. THE WEST IND1PS AND THE SPANISH MAIN, one of the results of his last official excursion abroad, is now before us. At present we need not do more than an- nounce the publication of a book which all readers will be eager to lay hands on.

Mr. Triibner has followed up his revival of Till Owlglass by the issue of a still more sumptuous edition of BEYNARD THE Fox. The text he gives is a metrical translation of Goethe's recast of the celebrated medireval satire, and the book is exquisitely illhstrated with Kaulbach's cuts.

The careful and masterly hands of Messrs. Spudding, Ellis, and Heath are still employed upon a work of monumental grandeur and complete- ness, their edition of the WORKS or Loam BACON. The Seventh vo- lume, just issued, is the second of that section of the series which com- prises the great writer's Literary and Professional Works. Its principal contents are the Advertisement touching a Holy War, the Apophthegms, the Confession of Faith, the Meditationes Sacra), and the Translations of Certain Psalms. These and some minor pieces belong to the Literary division, the whole of which is edited by Mr. Spedding. Mr. Heath edits the Professional works, of which this volume includes the Maxims of the Law, the Reading on the Statute of Uses, Arguments of Law, (some of which are not to be found in any other edition,) the Ordinances in Chancery, &c. A copious index to the section completes this, its second and concluding, volume.

Tho author of THE GREAT PYRAMID. WHY WAS IT BUILT, AND WHO BUILT IT ? has, with immense labour, succeeded, as he believes, in confirming the surmise of the men of science who accompanied the French expedition into Egypt; namely, that the pyramids, which, as they ascertained, were founded on certain geometrical principles, were intended to perpetuate the standard by which they were constructed. To the question, " Who built the great l'yramid ? " he replies that Noah was the probable originator of the work, and the sons of Joktan its probable builders.

Among recent reprints are—the first volume of THE CAxTosS, which includes one half of that work, and forms the first instalment of a handsome and not high-priced library edition of the novels of Sir Bulwer Lytton, to be completed in forty-three volumes, one of which will be issued monthly by Messrs. Blackwood;—SAM SLICK'S VISE SAWS and MODERN INSTANCES, a worthy sequel to the book that first made the name of the Clockmaker illustrious ; it forms a volume of Hurst and Blackett's Standard Library ;—Smolletrs translation of that perennial book, Gm BLAs, published by Mr. Bohn in one volume of 600 pages, with 24 engravings by Smirke, and 10 etchings by George Cruik- shank ;—EltIN-GO-BnAGH ; Olt, LUSH LIFE PICTURES, a collection of magazine articles by the late W. H. Maxwell. Few readers of taste, we imagine, will deem them worthy of exhumation from the tomb in which they have slept for a score or so of years, and it almost seems as if the same misgiving had crossed the publisher's mind, if we may judge from the blundering way in which he has suffered the printer to do his work.

Mr. Henry Cooke has produced an historical romance, THE COUNT DE PERBHCCK, by a contrivance which we do not wish to see repeated. He has made a rases of one of M. Soulie's best novels, cutting it down from nine volumes to two, with the result which might be expected from such an operation. The story, which passes in La Vendee previous to and during the revolutionary war, requires for its clear development the full space given to it in the original, for the personages are very numerous, their comings and goings as intricate as those of conspirators and their secret pursuers usually are, and the tendency to confusion is increased by there being two Counts de Perbruck as like each other as the brothers in The Comedy of Errors. Mr. Cooke gives us little more than the dry and disjointed bones of the story ; he plunges us into a hurly-burly, without caring to make us understand very clearly what it is all about.

Mrs. Robert Cartwright, the author of PILGRIM W,uars : A CHAPLET OF MEMORIES, has visited the Crystal Palace, Kew Gardens, Versailles, and other holy places, and favoured the public with a series of pensive platitudes on each of them.

We have before us a group of three books for boys. Incomparably the best of them is WALKS, TALES, TRAVELS, AND EXPLOITS OF Two SCHOOLBOYS, by the Reverend J. C. Atkinson. It is a genuine book of British field sports, as they are practised or practicable by boys, and its, racy narrative will carry the young reader with delight through a con- siderable curriculum of natural history. Whoever wants a healthy and: hearty gift-book for a boy may confidently order this one.—We can hardly say as much for Mr. Merideth Johnes's PRINCE CHARLIE, THE YOUNG CHEVALIER. We find no fault with its style, which is lively and agree- able enough, but decidedly object to its spirit and tendency. An attempt to indoctrinate the minds of British boys at this day with Jacobite prin- ciples is neither commendable nor likely to be very successful.—Tias Boy VOYAGERS ; OR, THE PIRATES OF TILE EAST, by Miss Bowman,

creditable to the ind of the compiler, some of whose previous pro- ductions appear to have favourably received by boys—or by those,

who buy books for them—which is not exactly the same thing. The- present work strikee us as having too much the air of a wade-up book to be altogether acceptable to the juvenile critics upon whose decision its, foe.. tunes must depend in the last result. {R. Professor Henry Attwell has translated from an unpublished original a MANUAL OF GENERAL HISTORY FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS. This little book of seventy pages is said by the translator to have been suc- cessfully employed for many years in the excellent school of Noorthey, in Holland, and to be in his opinion as nearly perfect of its kind as pos- sible. But the keenest razor will not shave by itself, and Professor Attwell does not warrant this manual to teach history without trouble to teacher or pupil ; for it is in effect a syllabus of lectures, in each of which the pupil is to be well grounded before the corresponding portion of the text is committed to memory.

In the composition of his LATIN GRAMMAR FOR ELEWITARY CLASSES it has been Mr. D'Arcy Thompson's purpose to compress into a small compass all that is essentially requisite for a pupil during his first two years of studying Latin, and we think he has accomplished this in a very satisfactory manner. We notice a misprint in page 6, milites for militia ; and we are not content with the definition of cases, as " ways of altering the termination of a word to suit its position in a sentence." The word position is here used in a non-natural sense. But these are slight blemishes in a well-arranged and handy little book.

Booms.

The West Indies and the Spanish Main. By Anthony Trollope, Author of " Barchester Towers," &c.

Reynard the Fox. After the German version of Goethe. By Thomas James Arnold, Esq. With Illustrations from the Designs of Wilhelm von Kaulbach. The Great Pyramid. Wify was it Built ? and Who built it ? By John Tay- lor, Author of "Junius Identified." &c.

Literary Reminiscences and Memoirs of Thomas Campbell, Author of " The Pleasures of Hope," &c. By Cyrus Redding. In two volumes.

Studies on Pascal. By the late Alexander Vinci, D.D., Professor of Theology in Lausanne, Switzerland. Translated from the French, with an Appendix of Notes, partly taken from the Writings of Lord Bacon and Dr. Chalmers. By the Rev. Thomas Smith, M.A. The Church Distinguished; or, the Christian Community in its Relations to the World. By Caleb Webb.

Discourses. By William Anderson, LL.D. Second series.

Jesuitism. Being a Review of the Comte de Montalembert's Treatise, L'Avenir Politique de l'Angleterre." By William Brewer.

The Quay of the Dioseuri : a History of Nicene Times ; written in Greek, by Macarius, Merchant of Tunnies and Palrunydes ; and now Translated from two Alexandrian Manuscripts.

School Series. Edited by the Rev. G. R. Gleig, M.A., Chaplain-General to her Majesty's Forces. Elements of Mensuration. By the Rev. John Hunter, M.A., Formerly Vice-Principal of the National Society's College, Battersea. A Class Book of Geography, with Examination Questions. By William Hughes, F.R.G.S., Professor of Geography in Queen's College, London. Prince Charlie, the Young Chevalier. By Merideth Johnes. With Eight Illustrations by Morgan.

A Biographical Memoir of Constantine Simonides, Dr. Ph. of Stageira ; with a Brief Defence of the Authenticity of his Manuscripts. By Charles Stewart.

NEW EDITIONS.

The Adventures of Gil Bias of Santillane. Translated from the French of Le Sage, by Thomas Smollett. A new edition, carefully revised, with twenty- four line engravings after Smirke, and ten etchings by George Cruikshank. Complete in one volume.

The Cartons : a Family Picture. By Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart. Library edition. In two volumes. Volume I.

A Series of Tales for Children. Translated from the German of Christoph Von Schmid. By Richard Cox Hales, M.A. of Magdalen Hall, and Rector of St. Martin, Carfax, Oxford. Second edition.

The Practical Nature of the Theological Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg, in a Letter to his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Dublin, occasioned by his Observations on that subject in his Essays on some of the Peculiarities of the Christian Religion. By the Reverend Augustus Clissold, M.A., formerly of Exeter College, Oxford. Second edition, revised and enlarged.

Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances; or What be Said, Did, or Invented.

ALMANACK.

The Farmer's Almanack. and Calendar for 1860. By Cuthbert W. Johnson, Esq., F.R.S., and William Shaw, Esq.

NEW MAGAZINE.

When a new magazine knocks for admission at the doors of the literary world, it is sure to be asked in every variety of tone, from friendly to surly, " Why do you come here ? Don't you know that your class is too numerous already ?" To these questions Macmillan's Magazine gives the best practical answer in its first number, The complaint that there are too many magazines means in reality that the good ones are few in comparison with the bad and the indifferent. There will always be a market for those of distinguished literary merit, among which Macmillan's promises to hold a high place. The first paper, "Politics of the Present," by the editor, is a masterly review of the dynamical problem from its genesis in 1848 to the condition in which it now stands. The first three chapters of "Tom Brown at Ox- ford" are an alluring instalment of what will doubtless prove to be a natural sequel to the hero's " School Days," and one that will sustain the reputation achieved by that famous narrative. The last article in the number, " Colloquy of the Round Table," an imaginary conversation of the contributors at a monthly symposium, is the only one which inspires us with some misgivings. Not that it is wanting in wit and fun, but we cannot forget how often the same thing has been tried since the ex- ample was set in the " Noetes Ambrosiana3," and never with ultimate success. We will try, however, not to let our recollections of the dead unfairly prejudice us against the living. "The many fail, the one suc- ceeds.' Among the other articles, all of which are worthy of the com- pany in which we find them, we specially commend " Cobbett ; or a Rural Ride," by G. S. Venablea and the late Henry Lushington ; and "Paper, Pen, and Ink," by Professor George Wilson, in which exact technical knowledge, and the results of the most far-reaching scientific inquiry move before us in spontaneous harmony with the poetry of a lively fancy.