PUBLICATIONS RECEIVEL

From December 29th to January 4th.

SOCKS.

A' Memoir of the Life and Writings of the late William Taylor of Nor- wich, Author of " English Synonyms Discriminated," &c. Containing his Correspondence of many years with the late Robert Southey, Esq., sad Original Letters from Sir Walter Scott and other eminent literals, men. Compiled and edited by J. W. ROBBERDS, Y.G.S., of Norwich. Its two‘yoinmes.

New sketches of Every-day Life; a Diary. Together with Strife and Peace. By PREDRIKA BREMER. Translated by MARY HOWITT. In two volumes.

Osaline of the Operations of the British Troops in Scuttle and Afghan- istan. betwixt November 1838 and November 1841. With Remarks on the Policy of the War. By GEORGE BUIST, LL.D., Editor of the " Bombay Times," &c.

The Life and Times of the Good Lord Cobham. By THOMAS GASPEY, Author of "The Lollards," &c. In two volumes.

[This is not so much a life of Lord COBHAM, the Lollard executed under lamas the Fifth, for real or pretended treason, as a series of Essays on con- temporary matters, descriptive of the manners, morals, and religion, or religious persons-of the age. Mr. GASPET has turned to account his antiquarian reading among chroniclers' martyrologists, and so forth, undertaken for the purposes of novel-writing, by drawing from their pages a real though literal exhibition of the people and their opinions, intermingled with theological disputes and trials for heresy, both at home and abroad. The work displays a good deal of reading and painstaking-ability, but is deficient in-animation and strengtb.] Chronicles of Gretna Green. By PETER ORLANDO HUTCHINSON. In two volumes.

[This is a strange jumble—" neither fish nor flesh nor good red herring." It is not history, nor topography, nor legend; it is not fact, neither is it fiction, but a mixture of all It opens with the Scotch Border in the times of the Ro- mans; it quotes tales of Arthur from the Mabinogion; it goes into English and Scottish story, from the time of William the Conqueror to the last Pretender. Fleet marriages and the Marriage Act, and Mr. PETER ORLANDO HUTCH/N- sow's opinions on thequalities necessary fur happiness iu the marriage ata.e, are also introduced, with subjects more germane to the title,—as the country. about Gretna Green, the ceremuuies performed there, and an account of some run- away marriages. The execution is as bad as the design—forced attempts at Rat jocularity, and the word-spinning of magazine-writing.]

An Introduction to Practiced OVanic Chemistry, With reference to the , works of Davy, BRANDE, LIMO, &c.

[The elements of chemistry, the principles of their operation in innitanic bodies, plants, and animals, with the discoveries of Linnet, and their practical application to agriculture and regimen, are becoming in various tarns the common stock of compilers. We have not, however, met with so well- arranged an account of the rudiments of chemistry as regards plan, or so clear, terse. and scholarly an exposition as regards composition. The theological objects of the writer, leading him to infer the truth of the Mosaic account of the creation and the immortality of the soul from the discoveries of modern chemistry, also give variety and elevation to the exposition. As much of this portion, however, is hypothesis, and hypothesis easily answered, its effects are more favourable in a literary than a scientific point of view. It appears that this work forms the fourth number of a serial published by Mr. PICKERING, some former volumes of which we have noted without knowing it. It is entitled " Small Works on Great Subjects"; but the one before us is the only publication exhibiting popular treatment.] Lessons on Chemistry, for the use of pupils in schools, junior students in the Universities, and readers who wish to learn the fundamental prin- ciples and the leading facts. By WiLiatim H. BALMAIN. [Lessons in Chemistry is another introduction to the science, of a more tech- nical and teaching character than the previous publication. The Introduction is a rather eloquent exposition of the principles; the Lessons, a presentation of those principles in a form available for practical instruction, each lesson being followed by questions, and often illustrated by diagrams. The Lessons may be compared to a grammar ; the Introduction to a general view of a language.] Coins of the .Romans relating to Britain, Described and Illustrated. By JOHN YONGE AHERBIAN, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, &c.

[An extended and improved edition of Mr. AKERMAN'S book on the same subject, published some years since. Besides a complete list of British coins, with engravings of the most important, the volume contains some striking notices of the Emperors who were most closely connected with Britain, and a selection from numismatic works, on the Roman coin-moulds discovered in Britain and France.]

Future Days; a Series of Letters to my Pupils. [Essays on suajects of a socio-moral nature, addressed to young ladies who have left school, by a lady who has herself been extensively engaged in tuition. The didactic remarks are illustrated by anecdotes, and varied by the introduction of characters and dialogues ; the tone is unexceptionable, and the morality inculcated not of too impracticable a character.]

The Penny Cyclopedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Know- ledge. Volume XXVII. Wales—Zygopbyllaceie.

[This volume contains a great number of articles; but we see none of striking prominence. The most elaborate are " Wales " and " Yorkshire ": one 'of the best is the life of " Xenephon."] The Poetical Works of Gerald Griffin, Esq.

[This volume, published in the series of the Works of GERALD Gairtra, contains the Poetry. The Dramas are to appear in another volume, which is waiting for the expected recovery of some rejected or neglected pieces sent to the English Operahouse ; a project of which the author, were he living, would doubtless disapprove.]

SERIALS.

Maxwell's History of the Rebellion in Ireland in the year 1798. illus- trated by GEORGE CRUIESHANK. Part I.

[A narrative of the occurrences attending the Irish rebellion of '98, with no- tices of the prominent members of the Society of United Irishmen ; compiled from various authorities, and written in a spirit of fairness, though the author does not disguise his aversion from the treasonable designs of the rebels. It is not a " history " in the full meaning of the term ; but as a collection of facts it is suited to the purpose of a popular publication, addressed—as GEORGE CRUIKSHANK'S etchings indicate—to the lovers of circumstantial details.]

Chronicles of the Bastile. Illustrated by ROBERT CRUIKSHANK. Part L [This serial " is intended to comprise the secret history of the Bastile," says the advertisement: it commences with a fiction made up of melodramatic inci- dents, described with circumstantial minuteness; the narrative being further protracted by commonplace reflections and artificial dialogue. The etched illustrations exhibit a corresponding mixture of the literal and theatrical]

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, Part V. [Two of the most prominent lives in this part are "Julius Caesar "`rind' " Catiline "; which are written fully and with judgment, though the style is- scarcely equal to the theme. That of the elder "Cato" is begun, but not finished, breaking off in the middle of the Censorship.]

D'Horsay ; or the Follies of the Day. No. I.

[A flimsy fiction, vamped up out of newspaper-reports and scandalous gossip concerning certain notorious fashionables, who are described inventorially. The dialogue is seasoned with slang phrases and second-hand jokes ; and there is an air of knowing smartness about the writing, calculated to take with the class to whose low tastes this publication is intended to pander.]

London, Part %XXIV.

Boz's Martin Chuzzlewit, No. XIII.

Our Mess, No. XXVI.

Stephens's Book mf the Farm, Part XVII. Martin's Ireland Belbre and After' the Union, Part VII. Horse-Shoe Nails, tins. VI. and VIL PERIODICALS.

The Christian's Monthly Magazine and Universal Renew. No.1—.Tann- ary 1844 [A new Anti- Puseyite periodical, of orthodox principles, written by Church- men of learning and ability. Tractarianism is denounced as a schism of Romanist tendency, and assailed with uncompromising hostility and fervent seal.] The Precursor of Unity; a Monthly Magazine for the Many, illustrative of the system of Association upon Christian Principles for the production and distribution of wealth, and the physical, mental, and spiritual im- provement of mankind.

[The title sufficiently indicates the nature of this cheap periodical; its ohjectis to lead to the establishment of a Christian community, in which the capital; labour, and talent employed for the common good, would bring a return to each member proportionate to the share he contributed of each.] Le Miroir Prangais; on Repertoire de la Littdrature Fratteaise Corttem- poraine. Premiere Livre. [A monthly repertory of the current literature of France, chiefly selections from the periodical and newspaper press, including of course the Feuilletons. The First Part contains an article on the Life and Writings of Vanini, by VICTOR Consist; two or three nouvellettes, one of them the commencement of a tale by ALEXANDRE DUMAS ; with notices of theatres and books, and a smart " Bulletin " apropos of the New Year. To those readers who desire to keep pace with the pens of Parisian littdrateurs, this publication will be acceptable.] The Christian's Monthly Magazine, No. L

The Church Expositor, No. I.

ChUrch Of England Quarterly 'review, No. /C2C17C.

British Farmer's Magazine, No. XXVIIL

Simmonds's Colonial Magazine and Foreign Miscellany, No. I. Other Magazines for January—Churchman's, British, Ainsworth's, Illu- minated, Artist and Amateur's, Chemist, People's Phrenological Journal, Herald of Peace, Ladies' Cabinet.

ILLUSTRATED WORKS AND PRINTS.

The Child's Picture and Verse Book : commonly called Otto Speckter's Fable-book. With the original German and with French. Translated into English by MARY HOWITT.

[A book of polyglot nursery rhymes, with Anglo-German cuts. Otto Spec k- ter's Fable-book consists of a hundred designs of rural and familiar subjects, embodying some little incident, which the simple verses below turn to a moral account ; the children, birds, beasts, or inanimate objects that figure in the pic- ture, being interlocutors in the text. The extensive popularity of this book in Germany and France must be owing chiefly, we should think, to the fame of OTTO SPEC KTER as an animal-painter ; though of the merit of his designs one can form but a very imperfect notion from these wood-cuts, which are below the average excellence of wood-engraving at the present time. The verses, scarcely worthy the name of -. fables," are trite and puerile, exhibiting but little fancy or ingenuity ; nor has MARY HOWITT been happy in turning them into English : the attempt to make the translations as literal as possible, renders them stiff, prosaic, and unidiomatic. The French translations are free ver- sions, in a playful, epigrammatic style.] Genealogical Chart of English Sovereigns ; exhibiting at a view the claims of the various families which have reigned over England from the Con- quest to the present time. By G. F. GRAHAM, Author of " English, or the Art of Composition," du.

[A table showing distinctly the order of Kingly succession in England since the Conquest, and the "line" to which the Sovereigns respectively belong ; enumerating their spouses and progeny, and the titles and fate of each Royal child : red lines identify the reigning Monarchs in the family of their progeni- tors. The only deficiency in this clear chart is in the article of dates; the year when each Sovereign ascended the throne only is given—their ages are not stated, nor their fate either. The lineal descent of Queen VICTORIA is traced separately. The chart folds into a book-cover for the library.] The Pictorial Sunday Book, Part I.

[Another of Mr. CHARLES KNIGHT'S cheap picture-books, with a page of cuts to each page of text. The engravings are taken from the Pictorial Bible and Penny Magazine; and the literature consists of explanatory paraphrases of the Scriptures, arranged under different heads—as " Bible History," " Life of Christ," &c.—divided into sections for Sunday reading : in effect, the ma- terials of the Pictorial Bible are recast into a new and popular form. In ad- dition to the information embodied in the Sunday lessons, a separate portion of each number is devoted to the geography of the Holy Land, which is illus- trated with coloured maps.]

Old England. By CHARLES KNIGHT. Part IL

The Second Part of this pictorial museum of national antiquities completes die Roman and enters upon the Anglo-Saxon period. The pictorial records of the latter are ruder and less attractive to the eye than those of the former ; but they are more curious and interesting, from being thoroughly English in character.]

Payne's Universum ; or Pictorial World. Edited by CHARLES EDWARDS, Esq. No. L [Reduced copies of popular prints; engraved by A. H. PAYNE, in a close and elaborate manner.] Bell's Compositionsfrom the Liturgy, No III. Shaw's Alphabets, Numerals, and Devices of the Mddle Ages, No. IV. Miss Corner's History of China and India, Parts XL and XII. _Pictorial Museum of Animated Nature, Parts XII. and XLII.

British Moths and their Transformations, Nos. XXVI. and XXVII. Pictorial Hutory of England, Part LXXXI. and First Half-part L X X XIL

ALMANACKS.

The Art- Union of London Almanack, for 1844.