PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED,

Booxs.

The Origin and Progress of the Mechanical Inventions of James Watt, illustrated by his Correspondence with his friends and the Speci- fications of his Patents. By James Patrick Muirhead, Esq., M.A. In three volumes.

The Island Empire ; or the Scenes of the first Exile of the Emperor Napoleon I. Together with a Narrative of his Residence on the Island of Elba, taken from local information, the Papers of the Bri- tish Resident, and other authentic winces. By the Author of "Blon- delle."

The Druses of the Lebanon ; their Manners, Customs, and History. With a Translation of their Religious Code. By George Washington Chasseaud, late of Beyrout, Syria.

Historical Memorials of Canterbury. The Landing of Augustine ; the Murder of Becket; Edward the Black Prince; Rocket's Shrine. By Arthur P. Stanley, M.A., Canon of Canterbury. With Illustrations. History of the City of Dublin. By J. T. Gilbert, lion. Sec. Irish Archa3ological and Celtic Society. Volume I.

Reminiscences of the University, Town, and County of Cambridge, from the year 1780. By the late Henry Gunning, M.A., Christ's College, Senior Esquire Bedell. In two volumes. Second edition.

The Step-Son ; a Domestic Romance of the Present Day. By F. N. Dyer, Esq. In two volumes.

Poetical Works of Geofry Chaucer. Edited by Robert Bell. Volume II. (The Annotated Edition of the English Poets.) A Month in the Camp before Sebastopol. By a Non-Combatant.

Anglo-Belgic Ballads and Legends, and other Tales in Verse. By Charles F. Ellerman, Author of " The Amnesty, or Alba in Flanders." [The themes of this volume are something more than either English or Bel- gian, for Mr. Ellerman takes up some Yankee yarns,—as the alleged capture of the sea-serpent by skipper Seabury ; and the finding of the keg which Co- lumbus, when expecting shipwreck, threw overboard with an enclosure nar- rating his discoveries. The ballads are of the "funny" order, something be- tween Hood and Ingoldaby ; always readable, often laughable, but wanting a more sustained supply both of the " vis " and the "comics."] The Olden and Modern Time.; with other Poems. By the Reverend W. Smith Marriott, M.A., Rector of Horsmonden, Kent. [A satire on modern times from the Protectionist point of view, a local poem on Dorset, and many miscellaneous and religious pieces, form the contents of this volume. There is here and there a domestic sentiment or moral image, though imperfectly developed : he volume has no poetry. The Reverend writer's extreme political opinions renderhim sometimes amusing.] The Science of Arithmetic : a systematic course of Numerical Reasoning and Computation, with very numerous Exercises. By James Cornwell, Ph. D., and Joshua G. Fitch, M.A.

[The object of this volume is to facilitate the study of arithmetic as a branch of mathematics, in common schools. For this purpose, the principles of a rule are investigated previously to the statement of the rule itself; so that arithmetic, which is usually taught as a mere art of computation, may, be used as a means of mental discipline. The exposition of the arithmetical principle before the enunciation of the rule is not a novelty. The method is carried out more elaborately in this volume ; perhaps so elaborately that. the elements of geometry might be taught with as little labour.]

Horses and Hound.: a Practical Treatise on their Management. By- " Scrutator." Illustrated by Harrison Weir.

[This book does not greatly differ. in literary character from several

other volumes on "horses," "hounds," and accompanying subjects, that

i have appeared at intervals for some years past. It s more extensive in its range ; containing in one volume matters that have hitherto been published, at least in this form and style, in several volumes.] The Chemistry of Common Life. By James F. W. Johnston, MA. F.R.SS. L. and E., &c. ; Author of Lectures on Agrioultmtd Che- mistry and Geology," &o. In two volumes. Volume IL The Book of the Garden. By Charles M'Intosh, F.R.P.S., F.R.S.A. Corresponding Member of the London Horticultural Society, &c. In two volumes. Volume II. Cultural, with 279 Illustrations. [The completion of two works of practical utility, in which new and living knowledge is combined with theoretical skill, occupied upon subjects inter- esting to many classes, if not to all. They are books that we should gladly enter more fully upon if time and space permitted.] George Cruikshank's Fairy Library. Cinderella and the Glass Slipper. Edited and illustrated with ten subjects, designed and etched on steel, by George Cruikshank. [The feature of this old story is George Cruikshank's illustrations. They are clever and effective, but we do not perceive his peculiar vein—perhaps the tale did not admit of its display.] Sappho ; a Tragedy. By Franz Grillparzer. Translated by L.C.C.

[The new year is beginning, as the old closed, with a superabundance of prose fiction. Besides the reserved romance, we have the following in ad- dition.

The Californian Crime; or the Lost Treasure Found. The delusions of Mormonism, the vices and miseries it produces, and the frauds of its leaders, exposed in a tale. The hero is a small freeholder of Lancashire ; by negkoting his parish-church and going to a conventicle, he lays himself open to the delusions of the Latter Day Saints. Selling all that he has, he departs with wife and family for Nauvoo ; undergoes a variety of adventures on the voyage and in America ; after losing his property, his wife, his sons, and seeing his daughter become one of the wives of an"elder he is led to perceive the sin of Mormonism, and is reconverted to the trite Protestant Episcopal Church. The Californian Crusoe displays more of intel- lectual force than imaginative power. It is clear in its delineations, with variety and matter-of-fact interest in its story, as a story.

Mother and Son; a Tale.

This tale is also of an ethical and religious cast, designed to illustrate the consequences of self-will, the bad bringing-up of children, and an evil which our fathers heard more of than we do— bad company." The scene is laid in an English village ; poachers and ill-disposed peasants are main actors ; Walter Markham, the son, after being the accidental cause of his father's end, and rendering his mother's life miserable, is also a means of her death through excitement just as he is returning repentant from prison. There is a good deal of reality in the story : the object is not very new.

Augustin the Happy Child. From the French of Madame Clara Mon- nerod.

This French juvenile didactic tale is designed to inculcate the virtues ge- nerally, more especially kindness and self-denial. In robustness of tone, and in the character of some of its incidents, it appears inferior to the gene- rality of English tales. The pictures of simple life in the district of the lower range of the Vosges mountains not only gives novelty but furnishes information.

The Mouse and her Friends ; with other Stories. Translated and adapted for Children, by Charles Edward Taylor. A selection of the fables of Pilpay, nominally translated from the German, but in reality rewritten by Mr. Taylor, or " adapted " for English young people. It is a pretty, pleasant, and seasonable book ; though Pilpay'a shrewd wisdom is perhaps better adapted for adults than for children.

The Curse of Gold: a Romance. By R. W. Jameson, Author of "Nim- rod," and "'Ilmoleon." (Routledge's Series of Original Novels.) _Legends of Mount Leinster : Three Months in Kildare Place ; Bantry and Duffrey Traditions ; The Library in Patrick Street. Harry Whitney, Philomath.

Two cheap and not very striking affairs. The Curse of Gold is based on a wild improbability—wildly carried on in the fluent style of part-published fictions. In The Legends of Mount Leinster there is too much wordy de- scription and too little substance.] The most weighty and valuable new editions are the concluding volume of "Johnson's Lives" and the sixth volume of Dr. Smith's "Gibbon's Decline and Fall." The most amusing, probably, is Mr. Bentley's new speculation, a cheap edition of Heneage Jesse's gossipy "Memoirs of the Court of England" under the Stuarts and the Protector- ate,—long since reviewed by us as they successively appeared. The most curious volume is undoubtedly Dr. Hassall's "Food and its Adulterations," —a revised and extended edition of the laborious analytical accounts that have appeared in the Lancet respecting the manner in which the people of this and other countries are slowly poisoned, and more promptly cheated. Many years ago, Accum entitled his exposure "Death in the Pot " ; but it lurks in the bottle as well, and is even found in smoke. Mr. Murray's two reprints from Bishop Ken are neat serious-looking books. Mr. Mayne's "Arctic Regions," in the Traveller's Library, is principally a reprint from some periodical. The nature of the established books, Dod's " Peerage " "Who's 'Who's Who," and the "Edinburgh Almanaok," is known by dim time, as well as the tenth volume of "England."

Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets' with Critical Observations on their Works. By Samuel Johnson. With Notes Corrective and Explanatory, by Peter Cunningham, F.S.A. In three volumes. Vo- lume III.

The History of the _Decline and Fall of the Boman Empire. By Ed- ward Gibbon, Esq. With Notes by Dean Milman and M. Guizot. Edited, with additional Notes, by William Smith, LL.D. In eight volumes. Volume VI. With Portrait and Maps.

The Court of England during the Reign of the Stuarts, including the Protectorate. John Heneage Jesse. New edition, revised. In three volumes. vi olume I.

Food and its Adulterations; comprising the Reports of the Analytical Sanitary Commission of the Lancet for the years 1861 to 1854 inclu- sive, revised and extended. By Arthur Hill Ffassall, 11.D., Chief Analyst of the Commission, Doctor of Medicine in the University of London, Ike.

Approach to the Holy Altar. By Bishop Ken. From his " Manual of Prayer" and "Practice of Divine Love." Third edition. _Exposition of the Apostles' Creed. By Bishop Ken. From his "Prac- tice of Divine Love."

'Voyages and Diseoveries in the Arctic Regions. Edited by F. Mayne. (The Traveller's Library.)

The Peerage' Baronetage and Kfahtage, of Great Britain and Ire- land, for 1856, including all the Titled Classes. Fifteenth year. By Charles R. Dod, Esq., Author of "The Parliamentary Companion," &e.

Who's Who in 1855. Edited 'by C. H. Oakes, M.A. Seventh year.

Oliver and Boyd's New Edinburgh Aknanack, and National Repository, for the year 1855.

The History of England. By Hume and Smelled. With the Continua- tion by the Reverend T. S. Hughes, B.D., &c. With Historical Il- lustrations, Autographs, and Portraits. A new edition. Volume X.

NEW PERIODICALS.

The Literary Mail-Coach. Driven by Tom Whipcord; Dick Scribbler, Guard. No. L [A new monthly, whose subjects are or will be tales, sketches, lively and satirical "articles," with poetry, anecdotes, notices of books, and miscella- nies. The style of the Mail- Coach is pretty well preserved throughout ; which may be dramatically consistent, but as a matter of taste there is too much of the "stable mind."] O'Byrnds Monthly Navy List, for January 1855, (corrected to the 28th of December 1851.)

rile primary object of this handy publication is to chronicle the changes in the Navy caused by the war, so that those interested need not wait for the quarterly official list. It also contains other features, as personal notes of service, the naval obituary of the month, &o.]

Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal. New Series. No. L The Governess : a Repertory of Female Education. No. L Eareenurrs.

The Prospects and Conduct of the War. of the See of Hereford, by Dr. Mue-

speech in the House of Commons, on grave, its late Incumbent, the present December 12, 1854. By Austen Henry Archbishop of York.

Layani, Esq., M.P. for Aylesbury. A Entailing for the Cbar! being Some Words on the Battles of Inkerman, Balaklava, and Alma. By a Soldier. "The Good Fight." 1 Tim. vi. 12. An Allegory.

Copy of a letter to the Ecclesiastical Com- missioners, by the Reverend W. R. Arrowsmith, Incumbent of Lingen ; clearly setting forth the Fraudulent Returns made to them of the Revenues Seed-time and Harvest. ASermon preached in the Chapel of Marlborough College, on Michaelmas Day 1854, being the An- niversary of the Consecration of the College Chapel. By Charles John Vaughan, D.D., Head Master of Har- row School, &c.

Plato as read in English by an English- man ; being an Address to some Friends.