PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED,

From November 29th to December 5th.

BOOKS.

Anti- Coningsby ; or the New Generation grown Old. By an Embryo M.P. In two volumes.

The History of British India, from 1805 to 1835. By HORACE HAT. MAN WILSON, M.A., F.R.S., &c. Volume I.

Australia, from Port Macquarie to Moreton Bay ; with Descriptions of the Natives, their Manners and Customs; the Geology, Natural Pro- ductions, Fertility, and Resources of that Region, first Explored and Surveyed by order of the Colonial Government. By CLEMENT Ilona- HINSON.

The Chevalier ; a Romance of the Rebellion of 1745. By Mrs. Tuox- SON, Author of " Widows and Widowers," &c. In three volumes.

Saint James's, or the Court of Queen Anne ; an Historical Romance. By WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH, Esq., Author of " The Tower of London," &e. With illustrations by GEORGE CRUIRSHA.NIL In three volumes.

Notes on Northern Africa, the Sahara, and Soudan, in relation to the Ethnography, Languages, History, Political and Social Condition of the Nations of those Countries. By WILLIAM B. HODGSON, late Con- sul of the United States near the Regency of Tunis.

The Border Wardens; an Historical Romance, By Mrs. Possownr. In three volumes.

[A tale of Border feuds and forays; its leading incidents derived from the journal of Sir ROBERT CART, which was published in 1759. Sir Robert Cary, the hero of the romance, was Warden of the East Marches on the English border in the reign of Elizabeth, and resided in Berwick Castle. Between him and Sir Robert Ker, Warden of the opposite march on the Scottish border, national enmity is embittered by private quarrel. Walter Leslie, a ruined spendthrift dependent on Ker, is the unsuccessful rival of Cary in the love of Lady Margaret Dalstone, a rich and beautiful heiress. The domestic interest of the tale turns upon the hindrances thrown in the way of the match between Sir Robert Cary and the lady, by the plotting of an artful priest, who espouses the cause of Leslie on religious grounds, and gains over the lady's mother to his scheme. But ultimately Sir Robert Cary defeats all the stratagems and violence of his enemies; is united to the lady ; and lives with her as peacefully in his castle of Berwick as a Border Warden could do.

The love-story is the weakest and least exciting portion of the novel: its vicissitudes are few and slight ; nor are the lovers redeemed from insipidity by any remarkable characteristics; though the real Sir Robert Cary was no com- mon man. The picture of Border warfare is clear, and probably correct in its details; the deadly animosities, daring feats, and acts of cruelty and lawless violence, that marked this local strife—the insecurity of life and property, and the misery entailed on high and low—are effectively set forth. The habits of life and customs of the time are likewise indicated ; and the contrast between the rude ferocity of the Scotch reivers and the more chivalrous style of the English leaders gives variety to the sketches of manners and dress. Mrs. PONSONRY'S forte is description : in the conduct of a story and the development of character by speech and action she is deficient : the dialogue, consequently, is tedious and diffuse, and the occurrences have a melodramatic air. The episode of a Border farmer, Rowie Forster, who is plundered and murdered in a raid—and of his beautiful widow, Rona, who marries one of his assailants, by whom she is carried off as Mary Stuart was by Bothwell—is stirring and lifelike; more so than the main-story on which it is grafted.] The Court-Partial of 18—; a Tale of Military Life. In two volumes. [Horace Rawdon, the hero of The Court-Partial, deceived by a flirt, enters the Army, and embarks with his friend Roehampton for India. This resolve gives rise to a sea-voyage, a variety of sketches of Anglo-Indian characters and society, and an account of the capture of Bhurtpore. The voyage and India serve to introduce several of the dramatis persona, including the father of Rawdon's eventual wife, and Lord Wyville—a coarse caricature of Lord Cardigan ; the "Court-Partial" being a travestie of the celebrated Court- martial on Captain Reynolds, omitting the black bottle, and transplanting the place to Calcutta. The outward voyage and some of the scenes in India are written with apparent knowledge of the reality ; but their truth fails of effect, from the form in which it is presented. The author is deficient both in the art and animation necessary for fiction : his manner is too heavy to impart the requisite life and likelihood to his incidents and dialogue; whilst the structure of his story, and the general arrangement of its occurrences, are too inartificial to excite interest. The best thing in the book is the episode of Brereton ; who is poisoned on his wedding-day, by a native mistress, who dies with him.] Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or the Married Life, Death, and

Wedding of the Advocate of the Poor, Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkfis. By JEAN PAUL PRIEDERICH RICHTER. Translated from the German,

by EDWARD HENRY NOEL. ln two volumes. [We suspect that individual liking, rather than a true estimate of the public taste, has prompted Mr. NOEL in his choice of JEAN PAUL RICHTER'S strange story of " Siebenkas ": for a book whose minute detail, forced jokes, elaborate

verbiage, and frequent unintelligibility, renders it unpopular in Germany, is not very likely to be popular here. The translator indeed combats the opinion that

RICHTER need be more obscure to us, because his obscurity depends less upon language than inherent qualities : but these qualities or faults are all charac- teristic of the German mind, and more likely to be pardoned by Germans than by English readers. The translation is free, and the work neatly got up.) The French in Ilheinstadt; a Romance of the Day. A Friendly Voice from the Avon's Banks to the Nations of Germany. And other Poems. By JAMES NISBET. [The subject of the principal poem is a conspiracy by some modern French propagandists to murder the German Prince of Rheinstadt, and revolutionize the state. Belford an Englishman, and Adolph a German noble, are led into the plot;and, after a vast deal of talking in King Cambyses' vein, and NOME brawling among themselves, the meeting of the conspirators is beset by a guard ; and Colmar, the prime mover of the whole' springs a mine and blows up everybody except Belford, Adolph, and a boy. The execution is about as incongruous as the plan ; the verse resembling that turgid prosaic style which is ridiculed in SHERIDAN'S parody. The other poems are better; and some imi- tations of the German ballad have vigour and movement.] The Reformers before the Reformation : the Fifteenth Century—John Huss and the Council of Constance. By EMILE DE BONNECHOSE, Author of " Histoire Francaise," &c. Translated from the French, by CAMPBELL MACKENZIE, B.A., Trim Coll. Dublin. [The principal subjects of this work are the careers of JOHN Huss, JEROME of Prague, and &min., together with the general proceedings of the Church during the period of their labours ; a review of the schism in the Popedom, by the election of Pontiffs at Avignon and Rome, preceding the principal subject. The hook is readable, and the style animated, with much of that ready generaliza- tion and vivacity which distinguish the Frenchman. The book will be useful ; for, whilst the Reformation has been amply treated ot; the Reformers before the Reformation have been rather neglected as a whole. The translation contains the two volumes of the original in one.] The Classical Student's Translation of Horace or the Works of Quintus Iloratius Flaccus, translated for Classical Students, on the principles of the Middle System of Teaching Classics. By the Reverend H. P- HAUGIITON, B.A., Rector of Markfield, Leicestershire, &c.; Author of the " Middle System of Teaching Classics." [This volume contains a translation of HORACE, the words rendered literally ; and where two or more English words are required, they are connected by a hyphen. Wherever it is possible, the Latin word is expressed by the English derivative ; and this or any other peculiarity is explained by notes : thus, " fervidis rolls" is translated " fervid wheels," and " glowing " given at the foot. The book, so far as we have examined it, is correct and crabbed enough ; though sometimes, by following our collocation of words, the parts of Latin words, compound in English, are needlessly separated : thus, and lay various plumes on members," might better be rendered "and various plumes lay on members." At the same time, we do not think HORACE an author proper to be subjected to this barbarous mode of exhibition ; and if a beginner wishes to acquire an idea of the language and a copia verborum by these constrains- made-easy, the interlinear translations are tar the best. The student has the original and its counterpart before his eyes, and a reference to the text shows the transposition of the order. In the work before us, he has neither of these helps ; though he most assuredly would want them, if he began, as Mr. DAUGHTON says he could, to translate HORACE at the end of a few weeks.] Logic : designed as an Introduction to the Study of Reasoning. By Jot's LEECEIMAN, A.M. Second edition, enlarged and improved. [A well-arranged compilation from ancient and modern logicians; the works of Archbishop WHATELY being especially laid under contribution, with his consent. As various meanings are attached to the word logic, the reader should understand that Mr. LEECHMAN confines himself to the art of reasoning from premises, the truth of these premises being assumed. The power of detecting the falsehood of propositions is, he truly says, a power quite inde- pendent of the art of drawing conclusions and detecting fallacious modes of reasoning, because it requires a knowledge of the particular subjects in dispute. At the same time, we think it desirable that the student should have some idea of the principles on which the truths that can become the subjects of major propositions are founded; and we prefer those systems of teaching logic that commence with some instruction in ontology.] Sermons for the Seasons of Advent, Christmas, and the Epiphany. By the Reverend G. H. GLEIG, M.A., Principal Chaplain to her Majesty's Forces.

[Fourteen seasonable sermons, of a plain character in their doctrine and practice, and of powerful but popular composition. They do not, however, exhibit sufficient theological novelty of matter or:manner to demand notice from a lay journal.]

Elements of Sacred Truth for the Young. By JOHN ABERCROMBIE, M.D., &c. Part I. Third thousand.

[A little book designed to introduce the little reader to the higher order of truths bearing both upon natural and revealed religion. We should have thought the pitch of Dr. ABERCROMBIE a degree too high; but the words 4' third edition" seem to say "no."]

SERIALS.

Memoirs of Father .Ripa, daring thirteen years' Residence at the Court of Peking, in the service of the Emperor of China; with an Account of the foundation of the College for the Education of Young Chinese at Naples. Selected and translated from the Italian, by FORTUNATO PRANDL (Murray's Home and Colonial Library.) [This is a condensed and selected translation of Father REPA'S History of the Chinese College, published at Naples in 1832. Mr. PRANDI'S Memoirs of Father Ripa is, however, a very different work from what the original source of it would lead any one to suppose. The Memoirs are a mixture of foreign travel and autobiography : the travels embrace part of Europe, a voyage to India, a visit toCalcutta, and a sojourn in the Celestial Empire during the first half of the last century ; the autobiography, which is inseparably mixed with the travels, exhibits the simplicity of the unworldly rather than igno- rant Neapolitan, united to the wisdom of the serpent, ascribed to the Popish priest. His account of his own conversion, his mistaking the women who visited the ship in the Thames for the wives of the officers, and his consequent judgment of the freedom of English ladies, are early examples of his peculiar characteristics. In fact, the combined singularity of the facts and the mode of narration render this as curious a book as any that has appeared in the Colonial Library, not excepting Boanow's Bible in Spain. Besides this, the work is useful for the information it conveys respecting the Chinese court and cus- toms.]

Political Dictionary; containing all the General Terms, whether histo- rical or in present use, of Constitutional and Ecclesiastical Law, of Civil Administration, of Political Economy and Social Relations ; forming also a work of universal reference in all the more important Statistical Departments of Finance and Commerce. Part I.

[This is rather an encyclopmdia of political, legal, and economical terms, than a dictionary; for the words are seldom merely defined, but the things which the words represent are elaborately expounded. As a compilation, the work is able and ample; though perhaps only Mr. KNIGHT'S preexisting matter re- shaped. The work is announced for completion in twelve parts; but on its present plan and scale of treatment we suspect that such limitation is impos- Bible. The First Part only gets half through the letter A—" Ambassador,"

Amnesty."]

The French Revolution, Vol. L Part IL (Knight's Library for the Times.) [This part continues the subject to the end of 1790, to far as regards French affairs; but the last chapter brings us to England and 1791; its subject being the state of the Whig party, and the quarrel between Fox and BURKE. The execution is distinguished by the same qualities as the previous number, with perhaps still more of will, and looking still more like Lord BROUGHAM'S hand.]