PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

BOMB.

_Louis XVIL His Life—his Suffering—his Death. The Captivity of the Royal Family in the Temple. By A. De Beauchesne. Trans- lated and edited by W. Herat, Esq. Embellished with Vignettes, Autographs, and Plans.

The Story of Mont Blanc. By Albert Smith.

The Lives of the Poets-.Laureate. With an Introductory Essay on the Title and Office; By Wiltshire Stanton Austin junior, B.A., Exeter College, Oxon; and John Ralph, M.A., Barrister-at-law.

New editions form the moat remarkable feature of the week's publications. First in bulk and weight comes the second volume of the new edition of the " Encyclopmdia Britannica "; opening with a curious paper on the letter

"A," and proceeding in its travels through the alphabet as far as " Anato- my." The most elaborate intermediate articles are " Agriculture " and

" Agricultural Chemistry"—timely essays just now ; " AEronautics," or sailing through the air—in plain English, the story of the attempts at fly- ing, and the history of balloons ; with " Algebra," " Alphabet," " Alps,"

and " America." In -a certain sense, notwithstanding the words eighth. edition, the volume may be reckoned new in substance, wherever discovery or time has turned up new facts.

The week has also produced several editions of classical authors. Messrs. Ingrain and Cooke have issued the first volume of a new edition of "Pope's Poetical Works" ; this first volume containing the life of the poet, with interwoven selections from his correspondence, of an autobiographical character. It is a painstaking and pleasant memoir ; wanting the regular march of strict biography, but marshalling the principal facts that old research or publications of family papers have brought to light respecting the poet, his family and friends, and doing it well. The volume is copiously illustrated with wood-cuts: the best is Dennis behind his pipe, after Ho- garth.

Mr. Nichol of Edinburgh has sent forth editions of Milton and Thomson, in well-looking octavoes, with a life of each author and a criticism upon his works, written by the Reverend George.Gilfillan : they form part of a con- templated series, to appear under the title of "Library Fid.tiou of the British Poets."

Of more modern authors, Messrs. Longman have begun the reissue, at a cheaper price, of the ten-volume pocket edition of Southey's Poetical Works; possibly stimulated thereto by somebody having published an edition of

"Joan of Arc," the copyright of which has expired. In this case it hap- pens that the poet had thoroughly revised and in point of detail to

some extent rewritten the poem, when he published the complete edigon of

his works in 1837. The volume has n graphic vignette of the monument to the heroine at Roueni and a portrait of Southey after Lane. It scarcely realizes the impression left by Byron's panegyrics on his appearanoe; for he

has a kind of smirking professional look, something between the apothecary and the " minister," with a sort-of cast in his eye to boot. Francis William Newman has sent forth a new and cheap edition of his religious autobio- graphy the "Phases of Faith." Trio smaller books, " The Vices," and "Lec- tures on Intemperance," evidently American reprints, may claim a line. The relationship of the authors to Mrs. Stowe has perhaps been the prompt- ing motive to republication ; but the lectures, both by father and brother, may be recommended as powerful exhortations to practical morality. "Tit for Tat" is a new edition with additions of poems written to inculcate Peace principles on youthful minds, followed by a variety of prose documents ad- vocating the same doctrines for adults.

The Encyclopedia Britamdca ; or Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature. Eighth edition. With extensive Improvements and Additions, and numerous Engravings. Volume IL The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. Edited by Robert Carruthers. Illustrated by Portraits and Original Designs. In four volumes. Volume I. Memoir of Pope, with extracts from his Correspondence. (National Illustrated Library.) Milton's Poetical Works. With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Ex- planatory Notes. By the Reverend George Giltillan. Thomson's Poetical Works. With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Ex- planatory Notes. By the Reverend George Gilfillan. The Poetical Works of Robert Southey. Collected by Himself. In ten volumes. Volume I.

Phases of Faith ; or Psawiges from the History of My Creed. By Fran- cis William Newman, formerly Fellow of Bathed College, Oxford. Second edition. (Chapman's Library for the People.) The Vices; or Lectures to Young Men. By Reverend Henry Ward Beecher, Brother of Mrs. Stowe. Lectures on Intemperance. By Lyman Beecher, D.D., Father of Mrs. Beecher Stowe.

Tit for Tat, for Juvenile Minds; with large additions of Prose and Verse for more Mature Intellects, in advocacy of Peace Principles. Scenes in the Life of Christ ; a Course of Lectures, delivered on Thurs- day Mornings during Lent 1853, in the Parish Church of fR. Peter's, Cornhill. By the Reverend Henry Christmas, M.A., F.R.S., &c., Thursday Morning Lecturer, &c. Second edition.

The Fortunes of the Scattergood _Family. By Albert Smith, Author of "The Adventures of Mr. Ledbury." (Bentley's Standard Novels.) The Herb of the Field. Reprinted from "Chapters on Flowers," in the Magazine for the Young. By the Author of "The Kings of Eng- land," &c.

icons Franvaes de Litterature et de Morale en Prose et en Vera; ou Nouveau Recueil de Morceaux extraits des Meilleurs Auteurs. Nouvelle edition, corrigee avec win, et considerablement augmentee.

Voltaire's Charles XII., and Life of Lord Herbert of Cherbury. (Uni- versal Library.) Life of Colonel Hutchinson. (Universal Library.) A Child's History of the World; or Glimpses of the World's History, in Familiar Letters. Written for the Instruction and Amusement of a Child. By Mrs. Percy Sinnett. [Instead of a mere summary of events, Mrs. Sinnett in these letters attempts to present to the childish mind a view of the social characteristics of the leading empires of the world, and of their effects upon the progress of man- kind. For this purpose, Layard's discoveries at Nineveh, and the labours of various archaeologists in Egypt, are laid under contribution ; and the sys- tem of modern philosophical writers in generalizing history is adopted. The introduction is a little verbose, and the same tendency may be found oc- casionally in the illustrations ; but the book effects its object, and supplies a want.] The Crook and the Sword, The Heir of Lona, and other Poems. By Francis Fitzhugh.

[" The Crook and the Sword" is the tale of a Scotch shepherd who carried off a lassie against her father's consent, and was living comfortably in a town till he got connected with political and drinking clubs, which led to his leav- ing his wife and enlisting for a soldier. In the wars he was taken prisoner; and on his return with peace, he finds all his family dead, including his wife. It is a tale of bumble life, trippingly told, but without either breadth or depth. "The Heir of Lorn" may display the same merit as "The Crook and the Sword," but it is one of thoke "legendary" subjects which we have had to nausea.]

Sketches of Russian Life in the Caucasus. By a Ruse, many years resident amongst the various Mountain Tribes. With numerous Illus- trations. (The Illustrated Family Novelist.)

[It is possible that the author of these tales is a "Busse " ; there is no doubt that be is a litterateur—clever, Frenchified, and conventional. The tales want the freshness of matter which observation on the life of a new country imparts ; while their mode of treatment is commonplace and magazinelike—the theme, such as it is, expanded by description of scenery, manners, and persons, as well as by subordinate incidents. But they are clever in their way.]

A Discourse on the Birth and Pilgrimage of Thought. By Walter Cooper Dendy, Honorary Fellow, and formerly President of the Medical Society of London, &e. ; Author of " The Philosophy of Mys- tery," Ike.

The three following publications belong to the various classes of books that are now so numerous—shilling volumes in fact.

Spirit-Rapping in England and America : its Origin and History. In- cluding Descriptions of the Spheres, the Spirits and their Pursuits,

- and the various classes of Mediums; also Records of numerous Inter- views with Spirits and Mediums, with full particulars and explana- tions of the Rapping Process.

Three Tales—The Village Doctor : Christine Van Amboy : Resigna- tion. By the Countess D'Arbouville.

Whittington and the _Knight Sans-Terre' or the Hermit of Tottenham ; a Tale of the Vintners' Company. By Miss E. M. Stewart. (London City Tales.)

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A New Distance-Map of London, for Cab-Fares, &c. [A useful sixpennyworth, published by Messrs. Smith, of the Strand. The map is intersected by latitudinal and diagonal lines, crossing each other so as to show each half-mile distance in every direction. With this map in his hand, the "fare" need not rely on himself for much beyond making reasonable allowance for deviations from the direct route. A compendious summary of the new cab-regulations, including the recent amendments, is print& round the margin of the map. It would be a great advantage if the space had allowed of showing the four-mile circle round Temple Bar on all sides : but this could scarcely be expected for sixpence. A neat case makes the map conveniently portable.]

PAMPHLETS.

How Wars are got up in India. The Origin of the Burmese War. By Richard Cobden, Esq., M.P.

Reply to a Madras Civilian's Defence of the Mofussil Courts in India. By John Bruce Norton, Esq., Barrister-at-law.

Index to Books and Papers on the Physical Geography, Antiquities, and Statistics of India. By George Buist, LLD., Secretary to the Bombay Geographical Society, &c.

The Australian Emigration Circular. Showing the present State of Australia, with the Prices of Gold, Grain, Food, &a., Duties on Goods Imported, and Postal Arrangements for 1853, &c. By Joshua Firmer.

On the Reform of the Law of Real Property : in a Letter to the Right

Honourable Lord Lyndhurst, &c. By H. Bellenden Ker, Esq.

Agricultural Labourers, as they Were, Are, and Should Be, in their Social Condition. By the Reverend Harry Stuart, A.M., Minister of Oathlaw.

Caltnstorm, the Reformer. A Dramatic Comment.

Curiosities of Modern Shaksperean Criticism. By J. 0. RalliWell, Esq., RBA,