PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

From March 25th to April 7th.

BOOKS.

History of the Earldoms of Strathern, Monteith, and Airth ; with a Re- port of the Proceedings before the House of Lords on the Claim of Robert Barclay Allardice, Esq., to the Earldom of Airth. By Sir Harms Nremas, G.C.M.G.

Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest ; with Anec- dotes of their Courts, now first published from official records and other authentic documents, private as well as public. By AGNES &PRICK.- LAND. Volume IV.

War and Peace; the Evils of the first., and a Plan for preserving the last, By WILLIAM JAY.

Lectures on Colonization and Colonies, delivered before the University of Oxford in 1839, 1840, and 1841. By HERMAN MERIVALE, Professor of Political Economy. Volume II.

England in 1841 : being a series of letters written to friends in Germany, during a residence in London and excursions into the Provinces. By FREDERECK VON RAUMER, Professor of History at the University of Berlin ; Author of the " History of the Hohenstaufen," &c. Trans- lated from the German by H: EVANS LLOYD. In two volumes. [VON RAUMER is becoming a bore; a fate which never fails to attend a book- manufacturer, even if with much more intellectual vigour and stuff in him than this historeker. The story of England in 1841 is this. Having occasion to come over upon something connected with a new edition of his former work, VON Mumma got hold of the newspapers, the debates, and some Parliamen- tary Papers in the statistical line, and wrote off a commentary upon all the current topics, interspersed with large stuffings from the before-named rarities— Hansard, the daily press, and statistics of the most common kind, put forth in the most commonplace way. As this, however, by some miscalculation, could not be made to Ell two volumes, he ekes out the requisite space by extracts from private letters, some written in 1836, and some in 1841. The questions discussed are, as we have said, the topics of the day—de om- nibus rebus, &c. : the Queen and Prince ALBERT, with a large dose of flattery ; Lord PALMERSTON, with a still larger; Parliamentary Reform, the Colonies, Canada, Commerce, Railroads, Factories, and Post-office Reform, (before it was effected.) He also discusses Socialism and Chartism, Crimes, Criminals, and Criminal Law, Education in all its phases, Poor-laws in England and Ireland, with a variety of kindred or subordinate subjects' not forgetting the Church, including Puseyism. To these may be added our Finances, and the late Whig Budget ; the Elections, with their probable result ; and some prophecies about Sir ROBERT PEEL, not exactly borne out by the event, but which VON RAUMER seems to have sucked in among the Whig coteries. In so wide a field, it would be strange indeed if there were not here and there a shrewd remark ; but the whole is prosy, twaddling, and (to English minds at all events) the sheerest commonplace, doled out with an air of self-conceited philosophy. The extracts from the private letters are for the most part as uninteresting. The best pas- sages in the book are the musical and theatrical criticisms, slight though they are. The most curious thing is the manner in which the Whigs seem to have flattered the German litterateur, for the sake of a quid pro quo ; taking VON RAUMER at his own valuation, and conceiting that he could influence opi- nion somewhere, either abroad or at home. He was presented to the Queen, if we read him rightly, by command; and the poor man was invited to the Palace, &c. It is probable that his book was the result of these civilities, and was written out of gratitude to his Whig friends, and not because he had any thing to say.] The Foundling of Cordova; a Moorish Tale. By JOHN HENRY, A.M. In three volumes.

[The scene of this tale is laid in Spain, during the contests of the Moors and Spaniards ; and the author exhibits a knowledge of the history and manners of the time, as well as of the opportunities furnished to the novelist by the contrasts of national character and religion. As a mere book to read, these qualifications give The Foundling of Cordova an advantage over the common run of romances; but Mr. HENRY is too deficient both in art and imagination to produce a high-class fiction.] Poems, Legendary, Lyrical, and Descriptive. Now first collected. By DAVID VEDDER, Corresponding Member of the Society of Scottish Antiquaries.

[This volume contains a collection of miscellaneous and very readable poems, legendary, satirical, and sentimental. Mr. VEDDER'S forte seems to us the satirical, the humours and peculiarities of Scottish life being hit off with good- humoured pungency and spirit. As far as mere glibness and harmony of ver- sification are concerned, this volume surpasses in popular attractiveness several poems which have lately fallen under our notice ; but it strikes us as being more deficient than a few of them in original cast of thought. The style is not imitative, but anybody's property.] The Lift and Labours of Adam Clarke, LL.D. Second edition. [This second edition of the Life and Labours of ADAM CLARKE has received many retrenchments and additions; the additions being in a measure derived from letters and other documents published since the appearance of the first edition. The narrative, too, the author says, has been "divested of the some- what controversial aspect which in several parts it bore, and it now contains nothing that need give offence to the most sensitive partisan of any class of opinions." There are, however, still some views on special interference, that may not be altogether approved by the more sober-minded members of the Church : the change of wind, for example, granted to WESLEY'S prayer; and the special providence that sent CLARKE a ten-pound note when he wanted a Walton's Polyglott, the price of which was providentially "exactly ten pounds."] A Treatise on Agriculture ; comprehending the nature properties, and improvement of soils ; the structure, functions, and cultivation of plants; and the husbandry of the domestic animals of the farm. Second edition, with corrections and additions; illustrated with numerous engravings on wood. By Jona SPROULE. [Mr. SPROULE'S book was written with a view to the improvement of Irish agriculture ; and the demand for a second edition shows that a work which is founded on nature, and is locally true, is likely to possess a wider utility than one which generalizes things into indistinctness in the hope of being more generally interesting. The titlepage sufficiently describes the subject of Mr. SPROULE'S elaborate volume; which is written with great clearness, and ap- parent soundness, and seems to us to exhibit a judicious mixture of the scien- tific and the practical.] A Masud of the Steam-Engine. By RICEIARD D. HOBLYN A.M., Oxon, Author of a "Dictionary of Terms used in Medicine and

lateral Sciences," &c Illustrated by numerous engravings on steel and wood.

[This volume contains an account of those chemical laws on a knowledge of which the action of the steam-engine depends; a brief history of the various attempts at applying steam to practical purposes before the age of WATT; and a pretty full exposition of the different modes in which it is now used, both on land and water; together with some remarks on the "improved " inventions which have lately been brought forward. The book is a compilation, and so much has lat.ly been written on the subject as to render it a compilation from vary obvious sources; but it is done with Mr. Hostels's accustomed skill, and with that power of mind which gives an independent air to borrowed metal ds.] Liberty Tree, with "The Last Words of Grandfather's Chair." By NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, Author of "Twice-Told Tales."

[An American child's book ; telling in a striking and simple manner the story of American Independence.] A Hand-Book for the Architecture, Sculptures, Tombs, and Decorations of Westminster Abbey ; with fifty-six embellishments on wood, en- graved by ladies, and four etchings by DAVID COX junior. By FELIX SUMMERLY.

[People who visit Westminster Abbey are usually content to follow the guides in looking at the tombs, and overlook the building itself; but those who follow the guidance of this pretty little hand. book will be taught to note the characteristic beauties of the magnificent pile, and find in its pages not only descriptions but delineations of the most striking points : in fact, many who think they have seen the Abbey, will discover that they are not acquainted with some of the finest effects of the structure.] The Domestic Dictionary and Housekeeper's Manual: comprising every thing pertaining to cookery, diet, economy, and medicine. By GIB- BONS MERLE. The medical portion of the work by JOHN REITCLT, M.D.

[A Cookery-book and Domestic Medicine in the shape of a Family Cycloptedia. The dictionary form gives rise to some startling incongruities : thus," Bishop" and "Blacking" are near neighbours ; and " Cockroaches " and "Cocoa," "Flannels" and "Fleas," " Poultices" and" Poultry" come in close con- tact: but this is compensated by the facility of reference. The compilation appears to be well done, by intelligent persons; and the information, so far as a glance here and there enables one to judge, is good and complete : the intro- ductory chapter on the "comparative expenses of living at home and abroad," the explanatory list of wines and other fermented drinks, and the translation of a French bill of fare are useful features.]

Catalogue of the London Library.

[This publication contains a list of the books that have been got together since the recent formation of the "London Library," for the use of its members at their own houses, if they choose to take them thither under the regulations prescribed. The collection is of a miscellaneous kind, and so far probably re- presents the tastes of its members; containing works in all classes of literature, from the Antiquitates Bailee Medii .vi of MuRamont to Min STRICK- LAND'S Queens of England, My Life by an Ex-Dissenter, and a Lady's Ride on Horseback to Florence. Much if not all of this incongruity, no doubt, arises from the liberal presentations of authors, publishers, or individual mem. hers; and in the selection of works for purchase, there must be considerable difficulty in hitting the true medium between a dry collection, useful only to the student, and a mere popular hodgepodge. The only available rule that occurs to us, is to buy nothing, whilst funds are scarce, that can readily be procured at a circulating library, unless in the case of works of such merit that no library can be considered complete without them.]

Goethe's Faust. Translated into English Verse, by Sir GEORGE LE- FEVRE, M.D.

The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere. Edited by CHARLES KNIGHT. Second edition. Vol. IL The Works of William Shakespeare. The text formed from an entirely new collation of the old editions; with the various readings, notes, a Life of the Poet, and a History of the Early English Stage. By J. PAYNE COLLIER, Esq., F.S.A. In eight volumes. Volume IIL Waverley Novels, Volume XIIL—" The Pirate."

Blackwood's Standard Novels. Volume VI.—" The Entail." By Joss GALT. A new edition.

The Natural History of the Birds of Great Britain and Ireland. Part III.—Rasores and Grallatores. Illustrated by thirty-four coloured plates, with Portrait and Memoir of John Walker, D.D. By Sir WIL- LIAM JARDINE, Bart., F.R.S.E, &c. (The Naturalist's Library.) SERIALS.

Lord Byron's Tales, No. I.—" The Giaour ; a Fragment of a Turkish Tale."

[If not expired, the copyright of The Giaour is, we believe, expiring ; and the plan of Mr. MURRAY to retain the sale in his own hands is of the boldest and most judicious kind. Not only is the poem published for sixpence, with an excellent type and paper, a portrait of BYRON, and all the illustrative notes of the larger editions, which are and must for many years be copyright, but The Giaour only forms the first number of a complete series of BYRON'S Tales, to be published in ten separate parts, and completed for five shillings : an enterprise which no other publisher can attempt, because the copyright of the whole series will not expire for some time longer—even if it were possible to publish a cheaper edition than the present.] Godfrey Malvern; or the Life of an Author. By THOMAS MILLER, Author of "Gideon Giles," &c. Illustrated by PIM. Part I. [The "author" commences his career as a village schoolmaster ; and the de- scriptions of rural life are fresh and true, though of a literal character.] Encyclopedia 2Egyptiaca ; or Dictionary of Egyptian Antiquities. By THOMAS JOSEPH PETTIGREW, F.R.S., &c.; Author of " History of Egyptian Mummies," &c. No. L

[..Mr. PETTIGREW has been since 1825 collecting materials for this publics- non; which will include all the recent discoveries of Egyptian antiquities ; some of the most learned antiquaries and travellers having offered the use of their private notes and their personal assistance to the author in compiling his work.

The First Number contains a general view of Ancient Egypt, by way of preliminary outline to the body of information afterwards to be imparted in the form of a dictionary; of which a few pages are given by way of specimen. The number contains a coloured plate of " Thoth," the Ibis-headed God of Letters, and two outlines of figures, which have the true Egyptian character. The continuance of the work will depend on the number of subscribers being sufficient to cover the expense of the undertaking: the list is already pretty numerous.] Thornton's History of the British Empire in India, Vol. H. Part VI. . The New Statistical Account of Scotland, No. XXXVI.

Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hall's Ireland, Part XVIIL

London, Part mat

England in the 1Vineteenth Century. Southern Division, Part IV. North- ern Division, Part IV. Waterston's Cyclopedia of Commerce, Part IV, Brande's Dictionary of Science, Literature, and Art, Part XI.

Stephens's Book of the Farm, Part IV.

Our Mess, No IV.

Handy Andy, Part IV.

The Commissioner, No. V.

Works of Defoe, Part XXVL (PnIteney Library.) Beauvoisin's French Language acquired in four months, Lesson II.

Waverley Novels, Vol. III. Part III.—" The Pirate."

Life and Letters of Cicero, Part VII.

Curiosities of Literature, Part VII.

Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford, Part VII.

Dramatic Works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar, Part VII.

The Guide to Service—" The Laundry-Maid."

PERIODICALS.

New Magazines—London University, The Queen's, The Great Western, The Union, The Evergreen. [Five new Magazines commenced on the First of April I—auspicious day for the appearance of fresh additions to the already excessive accumulation of periodical publications. The London University Magazine is a sort of lesser review, to he published quarterly ; inviting contributions from the graduates of Colleges connected with the University, on subjects of which a knowledge is required by the can- didates for degrees. The Union is a monthly record of educational progress. The Great Western is chiefly devoted to American literature. The others do not appear to have any distinctive feature.] • Other Magazinesfor April—Black wood's, Tait's, Dublin University, North of England, Ainsworth's, Churchman, Village Churchman, Australasian and New Zealand, Facts and Figures, Mirror, St. James's, Polytechnic Journal, British Farmer's, Florist's Journal.

Quarterly Review, No. CXXXVIL Westminster Review, No. LXX1.11.

Foreign Quarterly Review, LVII.

Church of England Quarterly Review, No. XXII.

Quarterly Journal of Meteorology, No. II.

ILLUSTRATED WORKS, PRINTS, &C.

Abbotsford Edition of the Waverley Novels, Part I. [This splendid edition of the Waverley Novels is rightly named the " Abbots- ford," for the riches of that treasure-house of curious relics will be poured into the mine of invention to which they served as talismans. What Mr. KNIGHT has done for the great dramatist in the "Pictorial Shakspere," the great no- velist in part did for himself, and the proprietors of the novels are doing the rest : the materials collected by Sir WALTER SCOTT for his own museum are made available to the gratification of the public ; who will thus be enabled to read the fictions as it were in the author's study. Portraits of the living per- sons whose characters are depicted, the weapons they handled, and the objects they prized—views of the scenery and buildings described, and sketches of whatsoever the fame of Score has hallowed—will be introduced in these pages.

The First Part commences with the author's General Preface to the first col- lected edition of his works, illustrated with delineations of his desk and chair, on which rest the staff and the homely habiliments of him who so often filled it ; an appendix to the Preface, consisting of fragments of fictions and anec- dotes; and the first five chapters of Waverley, each chapter having its appro- priate head and tail-piece. The illustrations of this part are four-and-twenty- various in subject, and by different artists; and the whole number will exceed two thousand: the most important and beautiful of them will be a series of one hundred landscapes, engraved on steel in the most finished style, from drawings purposely made by Srasexerm, whose accuracy is equal to his skill. The plate in the present number is a fine view of the Highland hills from the Teith below Callender, the river winding through the valley in the foreground, and the mountains towering grandly in the distance—moat beautifully engraved by MILLER an outline figure of an officer of the Black Watch, drawn with spirit and precision by J. S. STUART, and cut in wood with the sharpness of an etching by KIRSCHNER, is also remarkable. In the list of the artists engaged in the work, are the names of WILKIE, LANDSEER, M'CLISE, ROBERTS, HARVEY, LANDER, DUNCAN, ALLAN, and others; and the engravers are first- rate. The half-crown number is cheaper than any of the pictorial publica- tions by the steel-plate frontispiece.]

The Pictorial History of England, Part LXII.

The Pictorial Edition of Shakspere, Part XL II.—" The Two Noble Kinsmen."

Winkles's Cathedrals, Nos. XLVI. to L.

Le Keux's Memorials of Cambridge, Nos. XXVI. and XXVII. The Castles and Abbeys of England, Part I1L British Moths and their Transformations, No. VL MAPS.

Map of the Overland Routes between England and India; • showing also the other lines of communication. Drawn and engraved by J. WALKER. [A distinct map of those portions of the three quarters of the globe that are traversed or coasted by the routes between England and India ; marking the track of the overland journies, and giving separately on a larger scale maps of different parts of the lines of communication,—for instance, the route between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, and that by way of the Black Sea and the Persian Gulf: it also shows the relative position of Cabal to our possessions and the frontiers of Russia and Persia. The map is well engraved, coloured, and mounted on canvass, folding into a book-cover.]

The Punjab ; with part of Afghanistan, Kaslinteer, Sinde, fcc. Bokhara, Cahoot, Beloochistan, c.

[Two maps published by the Useful Knowledge Society ; each showing the country that was the scene of the late calamitous reverses of the British troops ; but that of the Punjab including the adjacent country on the side of our Indian possessions, and only part of Afghanistan, while that of Cabul in- cludes the whole of Afghanistan, and part of the Persian frontier.] Fraser's Companion for the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, and Tourist's Guide to Edinburgh and Glasgow.

[This will be found useful not only to the stranger who may visit the Northern capitals, but also to the inhabitants of the two cities, who will now, sped by the Railway, be enabled to reciprocate holyday jaunts ; the length of time that it takes to run from the one town to the other being only two hours. Besides very good plans of Edinburgh and Glasgow, with descriptions of the principal buildings, lists of the hotels, coach-offices, banking-houses, &c., it contain,' a map of the country through which the line of rail runs, with descriptions of the places on each side. All this and other useful information for the tourist is contained in a sheet of large folio, of handsome appearance, and at the price of threepence.]

PAMPHLETS.

Thoughts on the Relative Value of Fresco and Oil Painting, as applied to the Architectural Decorations of the Houses of Parliament ; read at the Friday evening meeting at the Royal Institution, Albemarle Street, 4th March 1842. By B. R. BAYDON, Historical Painter.

Lectures on Architecture; with reference to the proposed Metropolitan Music Hall. By JOSEPH IIANsom, Architect. No. I.

General Drainage and Distribution of Water. The question, What can be done for British Agriculture? answered in a Letter to Philip Pusey, Esq., M.P., &c., President of the Royal Agricultural Society of Eng- land for the past year ; advocating a general and uniform system of drainage, with a profitable distribution of the surface and drainage waters, and the refuse of towns. By J. BAILEY DENTON, Land Agent. Letter to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel, Burt, 3P., on the Dis- tinctive Effects of Taxes upon Realized Property and of Taxes neon Industry. (The Budget, No. VI. A series of Letters on Financial, Commercial, and Colonial Policy. By a Member of the Political Eco- nomy Club.) On the Taxation of the United Kingdom; comprising remarks on the Tax upon Income, proposed to the House of Commons in 1842, and on a less objectionable direct tax.

Observations in Favour of a Property. Tax, made in the Town-Council of Nottingham, 12th August 1841. and the Petition ordered thereon. By WILLIAM FELKIN, Fellow of the Liiimean and Statistical Societies of London.

The Operation of Monopolies en the Production of Food, as illustrated by the Corn-laws : for which the only adequate remedies are moral govern- ment and free trade. By G. BEAUCLERC.

The Report of the Statistical Committee appointed by the Anti-Corn-law Conference, held in London on the 8th, 9th, 10th, I I tb, and 12th March 1542.

The Manufacturers, their System, and their Operatives. A Letter to W. Busfield Ferrand, Esq., M.P., confirming the statements he made in his recent speeches in the House of Commons. By a Factory Operative of twenty-five years' experience.

A Letter to the People of Enyland on the Folly and Cruelty of Imprison- ment for Debt; the unconstitutional and oppressive power of the Insol- vent Debtors Court; and a correct statement, in contradiction to the false- hood and calumny circulated through the press regarding the Author's case, with official documents, family, &c. By Sir WILLIAM BOYD, Knight, Author of "The Epitome of the History of Literature," &c. How to Rise in the Service; or the Life and Adventures of Colonel Sir Arthur St. George, Baronet. Part I.

Before and After the Reform Bill. (Fourth Letter.) By GEORGE Er/SOn. Esq.