PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

[The increased number of printed wares sent to the Spectator, many of them of a trivial or merely trading kind, obliges us to modify the treatment of the classified list of Publications Received which we introduced ten years ago. In future, the notes will generally be bibliographical; giving a brief account of the changes in new editions of more important books, and of the contents or size of new publications, so as to prevent misapprehension from titles, which sometimes look as large and promising in trifles as in import- ant works. Books not described in this way will be reserved for further consideration.

As a general rule, books and pamphlets will be announced in the list, and at least the first number of serials, periodicals, and works appearing in parts. But there is no engagement to print the titles of everything that anybody may choose to sand. For some time past there has been an increase in the number of mere tracts and trashy publications, or of books that have little or no interest for readers of the Spectator; in fact, they sometimes seem to come on the chance of insertion in our list, as furnish- ing not a bad substitute for an advertisement. Now and then, too, we receive things any sort of mention of which is objectionable on other grounds. When the title of a publication is not printed in the list, it may be assumed by the sender that some reason for its omission exists, which is sufficient to our minds, and which therefore we must act upon.]

BOOKS.

Curiosities of Literature. By Isaac Disraeli. With a View of the Life and Writings of the Author. By his Son. In three volumes. Fourteenth edition.

A Sketch of the Origin and Progress of Steam Navigation, from Authentic Documents. By Bennet Woodcroft, Professor of Machinery in University College, London. With Illustrations.

The Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary and Greek Lexicon; forming a Glossary of all the Words representing Visible Objects connected

with the Arts, Manufactures, and Every-day Life of the Greeks and Ro- mans; with Representations of nearly two thousand objects from the an- tique. By Anthony Rich junior, B.A., late of Coins College, Cambridge.

What I Saw in California:' being the Journal of a Tour, by the Emigrant Route and South Pass of the Rocky Mountains, across the Continent of

North America, the Great Desert Basin, and through Califomia, in the year 1846-1847. By Edward Bryant, late Aloalde of St. Francisco. (Bent- ley's Cabinet Library.) Sertum Ecclesice: The Church's Flowers, The Lily of Paris; or the King's Nurse. By J. Palgrave Simpson, Esq. Author of "Pictures from Revolutionary Paris," &c. In three volumes. Lucille Belmont; a Novel. In three volumes.

Friends and Fortune; a Moral Tale. By Anna Harriet Drury. Brampton Rectory; or the Lesson of Life.

Sir Aymer; a Poem, in four Cantos.

Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: chiefly illus- trating the Origin of our Vulgar and Provincial Customs, Ceremonies, and Superstitions. By John Brand, 111.A., Fellow and Secretary of the Society of Antiquaries of London. Arranged, revised, and greatly enlarged, by Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., F.R.S., &c., Principal Librarian of the British Mu- seum. A new edition, with further additions. In three volumes. Volume L (Bohn's Antiquarian Library.)

[Considerable changes have been made in this new edition of Brand's Popular work. "The most entertaining and popular portions have been inserted m the

text, while the merely recondite and subordinate have been thrown into foot-notes"; some other transpositions have also been made. The rfeoiges quoted from acces- sible foreign books have been translated, and "considerable additions have been made from every available source, some of which have never before appeared in print."] The Elements of Materia Medico and Therapeutics. By Jonathan Pereira, M.D., F.RS. and L.S. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Lon- don, &c. Third edition, enlarged and improved; including .Notices of meet of the Medicinal Substances in use in the civilized world, and forming an Encyclopaedia of Materia Medics. Volume L [" Numerous recent discoveries in natural history, chemistry, physiology, and practical medicine relating to the materia medics, have been embodied in this edition," and "notices of many of the less frequently employed medicinal sub- stances have also been added." Some of the older articles have been rewritten, some curtailed, some enlarged, and every part of the old matter has been carefully revised.] Book of English Epithets, Literal and Figurative; with Elementary Re- marks, and minute References to abundant Authorities. By James Jermyn. [An alphabetical list of words which Mr. Jermyn considers "epithets," with quo- tations from the poets in which the words occur. The introduction contains an elaborate discussion on the sense of "epithet"; which here would seem to be a word that may convey a meaning, but must add force or beauty of expression.] The Book of Ballads. Edited by B071 Guaitier. Illustrated by Alfred Crowquill and Richard Doyle. [Small quarto, bound in crimson and gold, with grotesque wood-cats and orna- mental borders to the page. The Ballads are parodies of a superior kind: many if not all of them have appeared before, though not in so_hiuidsome a form.] The Works of Plato; a new and Literal Version, chiefly from the Text of Stallbanm. Volume I. By Henry Cary, MA., Worcester College, Ox- ford. (Bohn's Classical Library.)

[The titlepage of this new translation of Plato, to be included in Mr. Bohn's Classical Library," sufficiently tells its own story, except that there are intro- ductions by the translator to each separate piece.]

The ,Esthetic and MiscellaneousWorks of Frederick von Schkgel. Trans- lated from the German by E. J. Millington. (Bohn's Standard Library.) [A translation of F. Schlegel's Letters and Essays on the fine arts, on romantic poetry, including Shakspere and the fictions of the middle ages, with some criti- cal essays on miscellaneous topics.] First Steps to Zoology. By Robert Patterson, Author of "Zoology for Schools." With 244 Illustrations.

[Founded on the author's "Introduction to Zoology," which it is intended to pre- cede. It embraces an outline of the entire subject, beginning with Infusoria and i

endg with Monkeys and Man, It is a pretty book with many wood-cuts.l Catarrh, Influenza, Bronchitis' and Asthma; their Causes, Symptoms, and Rational Treatment. By T. H. Yeoman, M.D. [A small book, containing a popular account of the complaints mentioned in the title.] The Natural History of Evening Parties. By Albert Smith. With Illus- trations by Leech. A new edition.

[One of Mr. Smith's droll shilling brochures.]

Clouds and Sunshine; with other Poems. By John James Halls, B.A. Thoughts and Meditations in Verse. By a Young Lady of the Hebrew Faith. Poems. By Henry S. Sutton. Fugitive Poems. By Emily.

[Miscellaneous poems and short tales on common themes.]

The Standard Library Cyclopadia of Political, Constitutional, Statistical, and Forensic Knowledge. Volume IV.

History Philosophically Illustrated, from the Fall of the Roman Empire to

the French Revolution. By George hillier, D.D., M.RI.A., &c. Third

edition, revised by the Author. In four volumes. Volume If. 12'ecollections of a Chaperon. Edited by Lady.Daere. (Standard Novels.)

SERIALS.

The Anglo-Saxon.

[A quarterly publication to be exclusively devoted to "matters of general inter- est to Anglo-Saxons in all parts of the earth." The present number is rather a prospectus than a part ; and only contains an Anglo-Saxon map, or the world coloured to mark the districts occupied by Anglo-Saxons, a calendar, and some explanatory matter.] Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Edited by William Smith, LL.D. Part XXVII. [This part completes a very valuable and much-wanted work.] Con Cregan, the Irish Gil Bias. Na L Frank Fairlegh; or Scenes from the Life of a Private Pupil. Illustrated by George Crnikshank. Part L

PERIODICALS.

Reviews.—The Edinburgh. The Quarterly. The Westminster and Foreign Quarterly. The Church of England Quarterly.

Magazines, d-c. for January.—Blackwood. Fraser. British. Dublin Uni- versity. Bentley's Miscellany. Simmonds's Colonial. Chambers's Jour- nal. Dolman's Magazine. Sharpe's. Englishman's. The Patent Jour- nal. Colonial Church Chronicle. Roland Cashel. The Pottleton Legacy. Pendennis. A Man Made of Money. Clement Lorimer. The Cottage Gardener. Milner's Descriptive Atlas. Journal of Agriculture. Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England. A History of France, &c. Cnvier's Animal Kingdom. Journal of Public Health. Journal of Sacred Literature. Quarterly Educational Magazine. Mac- phail's Edinburgh Ecclesiastical Journal. The National Cyclopsedia. Knight's Farmer's Library and Cyclopedia of Rural Affairs. The Land We Live In. France and its Revolutions. Pictorial History of England. Half Hours with the Best Authors.

ALMANACKS.

Oliver and Boyds New Edinburgh Almanack and National Repository, for the year 1849. [The chronicle for 1848 has "been prepared on an enlarged scale," in conse- quence of the great events of the year. Additions have been made to the usual statistical part of the book, in "a detailed inquiry into the operation of the Poor- law, and an account of the criminal statistics of Scotland for the last ten years." The legal digest kas also been extended.] The Ombrological Almanack, for 1849. By Peter Legh, Esq., A.M., &c. Cock's Musical Almanack, for 1849.

PAMPHLETS.

Tracts of the Edinburgh Financial Reform Association. Na L Letter to Robertson Gladstone, Esq., on the Publications of the Financial Re- form Association.