PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED, From June 28th to July 4th.

BOOKS.

The Public and Private Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon ; with selection& from his Correspondence. By Hortecx Twiss, Esq., one of her Majesty's Counsel. In three volumes.

Diaries and Correspondence of James Harris first Earl of Malmesbury ; containing an Account of his Missions to the Court of Madrid, Frede- rick the Great, Catherine the Second, and the Hague; and his Special Missions to Berlin, Brunswick, and the French Republic. Edited by his Grandson, the Third Earl. In two volumes.

Constance D' Oyly ; a Tale. By the Author of "The Clandestine Mar- riage." In three volumes. The Grandfather; a NoveL By the late Miss ELLEN Piceztuso, Author of "Nan Darrell," &c. In three volumes. An Encyclopedia of Domestic Economy; comprising such subjects as are most immediately connected with Housekeeping. By THOMAS WEB- STER, F.G.S., &c. ; assisted by the late Mrs. PARKES, Author of " Do- mestic Duties." Illustrated with nearly one thonaand wood-cuts.

The Works of G. P. R. James, Esq. Revised and corrected by the Author. With an Introductory Preface. Volume L—" The Gips." [This new edition of The Gipsy is the first of a series, designed to include the entire works of Mr. JAMES, " revised and corrected by the author." Judging from the specimen before us, each three-volumed novel will be printed in one fair-sized handsome octavo, illustrated by a frontispiece, (which has been so hurried in the present volume that it will be replaced by another design of higher finish,) and by some prefatory remarks. Those in the volume before us are of an autobiographical character, not without interest, though somewhat too general. They tell the reader, that Mr. Janes was originally designed " for more ambitious objects than the pursuits of literature," but the political changes that took place between 1825 and 1827 " closed the door upon those expectations"; that in the years of his youth he spent the night in gayety and the morning in reading at the British Museum ; that when Fortune frowned, he determined to try literature as a pursuit, and, forwarding the first volume of a tale to SCOTT, waited for his decision ; which, when it came at last, en- couraged him to persevere. There is also a reference to the Continental tours of Mr. JAMES, where he picked up his knowledge of national manners and local scenery; together with some account of his own mind. Mr. JAMES thinks it necessary to contradict a hoaxing story of his wonderful fluency— that be is in the habit of writing three three-volumed novels a year. ]

Trip to Italy during the Long Vacation.

[This little book narrates the Continental excursion of a London law-student, who accompanied a friend last autumn on a rapid ran through France and the Northern parts of Italy. There is nothing new in the Trip to Italy, beyond the novelty which arises from the author's character. Except a jaunt to Boulogne, which he once made, he seems rarely to have passed beyond the boundaries of Cockaigne, either in the flesh or in the spirit. Every- thing he saw was strange, wondrous strange ; he evidently enjoyed it with all the zest of an emancipated schoolboy; and, thinking others knew as little as himself, determined to tell the world what he had seen. This spirit of hilarity and delight he has in a measure infused into his book ; which imparts some- thing of character to its commonplace. Had our freshman known more, he would have written worse ; at least he would have written a duller book.] Emigration and Colonization ; embodying the Results of a Mission to

Great Britain and Ireland during the years 1839, 1840, 1841, and 1842.

By THoMAS RoLfit, Esq., late Emigration Agent for the Government of Canada ; Author of "A Tour through the West Indies, United States," &c. &c.

[This volume is a compilation of speeches, correspondence, and public docu- ments respecting emigration to Canada, especially relative to the late rather notorious British American Association. Its author is Mr. Rocca, well known to persons who attend to such matters, as a Canadian agent for emigra- tion, and active both in speechifying and corresponding upon the subject, though without producing a beneficial result proportioned to the extent of his exertions. The volume itself might in some sense be called "The Annals of Rolph "; for the author's sayings and doings, or writings, or rejoinders, form a principal if not the only subject of the volume. Take a specimen from the table of con- tents for the year 1840 : " Visit to Edinburgh—Great Meeting at Hopetoun Rooms—Rev. Dr. Id■Leorl's Speech—My Speech—Memorial of Highland So- ciety—Formation of North American Colonial Committee—Second Letter of the Rev. Dr. APLeod—General Meeting of the Central Agricultural Society— My Speech."] Chemistry as Exemplifying the Wisdom and Beneficence of God. By GEORGE FOWNES, Ph. D., Chemical Lecturer in the Middlesex Hos- pital Medical School. [In 1838, the widow of the late Mr. ACTON invested 1,000/. Three per Cent Consols in the names of the Trustees of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, to pay 1001. septennially as a prize for the best essay illustrative of the wisdom and goodness of God, in such department of science as the Committee of Ma- nagers should select. The subject chosen for the first competition was Che- mistry; and the prize was awarded to Mr. FOWNES. Of the justice of the decision we have no doubt : for the essay is well ar- ranged and well treated ; the more important principles and striking facts of chemistry being distinctly presented, without anything like triteness, and in- deed in a manner to throw a new light upon the subject. Its success as a treatise of natural theology is less. It wants, in common with most modern treatises having a similar object, the ever present purpose of PALEY'S great work; and perhaps chemistry is a less happy subject than some others—its laws seem too essential to the system of nature to exhibit proof of design; an ob- jection that may sometimes be urged against other subjects, though not, we think, to the same degree. Its material laws come under the category of those impossibilities which, according to JOHNSON, "are no limitation of the powers of Omnipotence," that, for example, " odd cannot be even."] Lectures on Heraldry; in which the principles of the science are familiarly explained, and its application shown to the study of history and archi- tecture. Illustrated by numerous drawings. By ARCHIBALD BARRING- TON, M.D.

[A. familiar explanation of the elements of heraldry, illustrated by many plates, to which reference is made in the text of the lectures ; though they are rather of the nature of essays than lectures.] Don Carlos, Infante of Spain ; a Dramatic Poem, in five acts. Trans- lated from the German Of SCHILLER, by CHARLES HERBERT COT- TRELL, Esq., Author of " Recollections of Siberia in the years 1840 and 1841." Second edition.

SERIALS.

Mind Amongst the Spindles ; a Selection from the "Lowell Offering." (Knight's Weekly Volume for All Readers, No. IL) [This is a little book the curious reader will do well to possess himself of, for the singularity of a series of essays by " factory-girls," apart from the intrinsic merit of the papers ; which is considerable—quite equal, as DICKENS observes, to the articles in our Annuals. Lowell, as every one knows, is the American Manchester, where the factory-labour is to a considerable degree carried on by young countrywomen of reputable condition and character ; the peculiar cir- cumstances of American society permitting them to be intruded to themselves ; and the high wages allowing them to live well, dress well, save money, maintain lecturers and institutions for study upon a small scale, and to publish a couple of volumes of miscellaneous papers, from which this publication is selected. Mr. KNIGHT has added an explanatory preface, with a letter from Miss bleu- 'mean, containing some remarks upon Lowell : and though we cannot go the fall length of their praises of the book, we think the selection a highly credit. able specimen of the general female mind in America. There appears to us less of mere imitation—of the echo of the literature of somebody else, in these factory-girls, than in more ambitious authors. Some of the papers, it is true, are on large or general questions, which such young writers could not be ex- pected to treat properly.; but the greater portion consist of things within their own experience—life in American farm-houses, country amusements, the changes of fortune or the whims that drive young women to the factory, as well as the modes of recreation sod study at Lowell, and their effects upon manners and character. Such things may be every-day subjects, treated perhaps in an every-day way : but what is common in America may be rare in England, if it indicates the character of American life.] Echoes of Mind. By C. WHARTON MANN, and CHARLES H.Hrrcntwos. No. I.—Poems. [This brochure is the production of two young authors, with rather indefinite plans and vague aspirations. Echoes of Mind may be continued at "irregular and indefinite intervals," with poems, plays, essays, or anything else which in- clination may prompt them to throw off; a scheme which smacks somewhat of impatience to snatch the rewards of labour before they are earned, and may mark minds too eager to see themselves in print to possess that self-control which is necessary to attain excellence. The first number contains eleven short poems, contributed in nearly equal proportions by the two authors. Great originality or great excellence is not to be looked for under the circum- stances of their appearance ; but they are quite as good as might be expected, perhaps better. The subjects have no essential novelty, but their form is not hacknied; nor is their style of versification a mere repetition of the art of poetry made easy. Wildness, perhaps crudeness, is frequently visible, with several other faults of young composers ; but there is a poetical spirit generally visible, which, with cultivation, may do good if not great things. As regards distinc- tive qualities, Mr. HITCHINGS is perhaps the more real, Mr. MANN the more imaginative.] Letters from the Baltic. (Hurray's Colonial and Home Library, No. X.) Two volumes of a new work, at once entertaining and instructive, compressed into a handy little book, and to he had for half-a-crown. The Letters from the Baltic is as rare a piece of cheapness as The Bible in Spain.] A Treatise on the Steam-Engine. By the Artisan Club. Part I.

ILLUSTRATED WORKS AND PRINTS.

The People's Family Bible. Embellished with Historical Designs from the Old Masters and Landscapes from drawings on the spot. Parts I to V. [A quarto Bible, with marginal references, printed in a bold type, and illus- trated with steel engravings from pictures by ancient and modern paiuters.] The People's Gallery of Engravings. Edited by the Reverend G. N. WRIGHT, M.A. Parts 1 to IX. [A medley of views, portraits, and fancy subjects, good, bad, and indifferent ; accompanied with letterpress descriptions in prose and verse; being an oils podrida of Messrs. FISHER'S popular picture-books. The plates are the worse for wear; this being the third shape in which most of them have appeared: first, in the several publications for which they were engraved, then in the Drawingroom Scrap-book, and now in the People's Gallery. There is a limit to the number of good prints that steel plates will produce, and that is passed in many cases: but the cheapness is an apology.]

MAPS.

Relievo Map of Arabia Petraa and Idumea ; illustrating the Prophetical Scriptures, Wandering of the Israelites, &c.; arranged from Official Sources and the Accounts of Modern Travellers.

[Relievo maps and globes, indicating by projections of their surface the eleva- tions of mountains and table-lands, have an obvious superiority to merely en- graved representations. This relievo map of the Arabian Desert and the ad- jacent places is said to have been collated with the journals and maps of BDRCKHARDT, LA BORDE, STEPHENS, and other travellers, and with the survey of the Red Sea made by order of the East India Company: it professes to mark the route of the Israelites from Egypt to the Promised Land with more than conjectural correctness; and being dedicated to the President of the Geographical Society, it challenges scientific scrutiny. The embossing is not so sharp as some foreign specimens that we have seen ; but it is sufficiently marked, and the whole map is well executed.]