PUBLICATIONS _IIICETITED. •

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A Visit to India, China, and Japan, in the year 1853. By Bayard Taylor, Author of "Life and Landscapes from Egypt," &e.

.45iinplici4,e and _Fascination; or Guardians and Wards. By Anne Beale, Author of" The Barouet'aXamily," &c. In three volumes.

77w Battle on -the Bosphorus. By F. C. Armstrong, Esq., Author of “The Two Midshipmen," &e. In three volumes.

.The whole Evidence against the Claims of the Romish Church. -By -Sanderson Robins, M.A., Rector of St. James's, Dover.

[An-elaborate treatise on the supremacy of the Pope ; which the author con- siders on Romanist authority, the main question now to be argued, par- ticulai doctrines and discipline being of subordinate importance. The book is clear, close, and exhaustive, well arranged, and very well argued. Mr. Robins commences by examining the evidence from Scripture ; showing that neither by-the texts which the Romanists advance in its support, nor by the facts which they are chary in noticing, is there any evidence that Peter en- joyed Treeminence as an Apostle much less supremacy ; and as for the ffishopric of Rome, there is no proof that he was ever in the city. The testi- mony of the ancient Church or Fathers is then considered, and with the mime result. The negative being dismissed, the positive is next treated of,- -that is the gradual means by which the Papal usurpation grew, and the arts and frauds by which it was supported. The question is then argued more generally. The argument involves in some degree a review of the Papal history—es the wickedness of many Popes. The weaker points of Popery are also noticed—as internal differences ; many Romanists opposing the Ultiamontane view of the supremacy just as much as Protestants, though they may not treat it so freely. The book closes with an argument %wain& the claim of infallibility.

Besides the qualities already mentioned, the scholarship of the book is re- markable; exhibiting the wide range of reading that characterized the di- -vines of the last two or three centuries. The exhaustive nature of the treat- ment, and the cumulative manner in which the proofs are adduced, some- timea-impair the force and effect which the taste of modern readers is prone to look for.]

-Zama of Astronomy. By the Reverend Joseph A. Galbraith, M.A.,

Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College, and Erasmus Smith's Professor of Natural and Experimental .Philosophy, in the University of Dub- lin • and the Reverend Samuel Haughton, M.A., Fellow of Trinity

College, and Professor of Geology in the University of Dublin. ' fThis is in aridness an account of the solar system, rather than a complete -treatise on the elements of astronomy. It is, however, a thorough introduc- tion to the subject ; embracing the leading principles and facts connected with our-planetary system, and exhibiting the leading proofs by which they are established. The method pursued is positive, not historical. The stu- dent is not introduced to the sun and planets as they appear to the unin- structed eye, and thence led step by step through the discoveries of astrono- mers to the received truths they have finally reached : on the contrary, he hipresented at starting with a summary of those results. This method has the advantage of condensing matter and allowing principles to be presented in briefer compass : we doubt whether it has the same interest for the mass of enders as the historical mode, where the demonstrations seem to grow up net-wally, and thus leave a stronger impression on the mind. To those who will earnestly apply themselves to its study, this Manual of Astronomy will be an elementary book of great value; but it requires study.] Olga or Russk in the Tenth Century : an Historic Poem.

Olga, the Czarina, or Empress Mother of Sviatoslav, a Czar of the tenth

century, is celebrated in Russian history for her policy, (on Russian pm- espies,) andior her spontaneous conversion to Christianity. The Greek Em- pererateod sponsor ' • her baptismal name was Helen and she takes rank as an eminent saint in the Russo-Greek Church, though she showed upon occasion rather a heathen 'frame of mind.

This volume is an attempt to put into blank verse the traditional or

mythical esploits of Olga, with such imaginative fillings-up as poetical art requires. Whether a collection of historical occurrences strung together could furnish aproper subject for"-an historical poem," is not hi the present can necessary -to inquire. -Ole is-not prose "ran mad," or even "on stilts,' but rather prosaic prose printed in the form of blank verse. Sometimes it fall& below prose, into a species of absurd bathos. A 'Russian general, in a Sipe& to Olga, gives this reason for running away- .'".1'waa not that death we feared, or danger shunned, But ratherjudged that thus to,save ourselves Were moat conducive to the public weal."

Thiais heyonelTalstaff's discretion.]

Recollections of the Eventful Iffe of a Soldier. By the late Joseph Donaldson, Sergeant in the Ninety-fourth Scots Brigade. New edi- tion.

I.Under the above title are included in a single volume three works published a good many yeses ago ; "Recollections," &c., "The War in the Peninsula," and "Scenes and Sketches in Ireland." They attracted a good deal of at- tention when they first appeared, and have often been referred to since for their truthful picture of the life of a private soldier and the incidents of Peninsular warfare. Their author, Sergeant Donaldson, after some inef- feetual struggles to advance himself in life, died in 18-30, leaving a widow and children to wrestle with difficulties he could not himself emerge from. The struggle Mrs. Donaldson seems-to have maintained vrhile the strength of maturity lasted. The sole dependence of herself and surviving daughter is upon the profits of this collected edition, which Messrs. Griffin have under- taken. It has been carefully edited ; names, die, when it has been prac- ticable to ascertain them, being now inserted that were formerly sup- pressed ; a brief sketch of the author's life is also prefixed.] :Sermons by Eminent Living _Divines of the Church of England. Con- tributed by the Authors. With an Introductory Charge onPreaching, by the Venerable Archdeacon Sinclair. [& collection of sermons, some new, some reprinted, by prominent preachers of the Church of England, prefaced by Archdeacon Sinclair's very practical charge on the qualifications which a preacher should cultivate. It is a rich and 'varied collection of discourses. Archbishop Whateley, Bishop Hinds, Bishop Wilberforce, Frederick Maurice, Trench Dale, Hook and Purley, are among the contributors ; and they are supported by other distinguished pul- ,pit names.]

cond volume of Hallam's " Constitutional History," forming one of the series

The new editions of the week are numerous. Mr. Murray sends the se- of the'popnlar edition of the historian's works. From Messrs. Parker and -Son there is another volume of "Batlees Poetical Works," concluding Hu- dibras, with Mr. Bell's original and selected notes. The current number of Messrs. Longman's "Traveller's library" embraces a reprint from the Edinburgh Review of Herbert Spencer's searching dissection of Railway practice -and principles, with a 'postscript," containing a confirmation of his views from men with an actual knowledge of particular lines, and a reprint of some articles from the Amsrican_Railroad Journal. Messrs. Taylor and Francis have published a third edition of Mr. Hopkins's "Con- nexion of Geology with Terrestrial Magnetism." The eighth editions of Jackson's Bookkeeping and Tate's Cambist, bothfromMr.Effingham Wilson, vouch for themselves.

The Constitutional History of England, from the Accession of ilenry VII. to the Death of George II. By Henry Hallam, LL.D., F.R.A.S., Foreign Associate of the Institute of France. In three volumes. Vo- lume 11. Eighth edition.

Poetical Works of Samuel Butler. Edited by Robert Bell. Volume II. (Annotated Edition of the English Poets.) Railway Morals and Railway Policy. By Herbert Spencer, Anther of "Social Statics," &c. Reprinted from the Edinburgh Review. With Additions and a Postscript by the Author.

On the Connexion of Geology with Terrestrial Magnetism : showing the general Polarity of Matter, the Meridional Structure of the Crystalline Rocks, their Transitions, Movements, and Dislocations ; including the Sedimentary Rocks; -the Laws regulating the distribution and con- centration of Metalliferous Formations, and all other operations con- nected with Terrestrial Physics. By Evan Hopkins, C.E., Third edition, with new Introduction and Appendix, &e.

A Yew Check-.Tournal.upon-the principk of Double Entry : combining the advantages of the-Day-book, Journal, and Cash-book; the whole familiarly explained, and forming a complete and Practioal System of Book-keeping by Doubly Entry. By George Jackson, Accountant. The eighth edition.

The Modern Cambist forming a Manual of Foreign Exchanges, in the different operations of Bills of Exchange and Bullion, according to the practice of all trading nations ; with Tables of Foreign Weights and -Measures, and their equivalents in English and French, &c. &o. By William Tate. Eighth edition. With extensive alterations and additions, brought down to the present time.

'PAMPHLETS.

Thoughts on the Revision of the Frayer- Living Streams, or Illustrations of the

Book and of the 7'ermsof Clerical Non- Natural History and the various Dis- conformity. By the Reverend J. B.. eases of the Blood. By James Paxton,

Pretyman, M.A., late Vices-of Ayles- bury, Bucks. Four Letters to the Morning Advertiser, on the Admiral, the First Lord, and the What is Wanted? An Answer to the Re- Auglo-Carthaginians. verend J. C. Ryle, B.A. By an Ortho- dox Christian.