PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Booxs.

Life in Abyssinia; being Notes collected during Three Years' Residence and Travels in that Country. By Mansfield Parkyns. In two vo- lumes. With Map and Illustrations. Norway and its Glaciers, Visited in 1861 ; followed by Journals of Ex- cursions in the High Alps of Dauphin4 Berne, and Savoy. By James D. Forbes, D.C.L., F.R.S., Sec. B. S. Ed., &c. The Land of the Forum and the Vatican; or Thoughts and Sketches during an Easter Pilgrimage to Borne. By Newman Hall, B A , Au- thor of "Come to Jesus," " It is I," &e.

Historical Development of Speculative Philosophy, from Kant to Hegel. From the German of Dr. H. M. Chalybaiis Professor of Philosophy in the University of Kiel. By the Reverend Alfred Edersheim, Free Church, Old Aberdeen.

The Old Field-Officer; or the Military and Sporting Adventures of Major Worthington. Edited by J. H. Stocqueler, Author of "The Life of the Duke of Wellington," &c.

.Maud, a City Autobiography. In three volumes. .ztnatIol : the Last Home of the Faithful. By the Author of" Frontier Lands of the Christian and the Turk."

The Pilgritn Fathers ; or the Founders of New England in the Reign of James the First. By W. H. Bartlett, Author of "Forty Days in the Desert." With Illustrations. [Unlike the previous Christmas books of Mr. Bartlett, this volume is rather compilation than original narrative ; and is more a. book of plates than of literature. It is an account of the settlement of the Pilgrim Fathers in Ame- rica, with notices of their previous residence and sufferings in England, and their sojourn in Holland ; the whole illustrated by views of places, or things connected with the Pilgrims. The narrative is well put to- gether, and pleasantly intermingled with Mr. Bartlett's account of his own exploration in the footsteps of the Fathers. For the class of purchasers into whose hands this volume may chiefly come, it is probable that the facts may be new. More, however, is known upon the subject in this country than Mr. Bartlett seems to be aware of. Mr. Hunter's critical and historical tract on the subject was noticed in this journal. Dr. Vaughan, if we mistake not, had some pleasant and instructive papers on the Puritans in England in his Review. The American part of the story may not be so readily acces- sible to English readers, yet it can be got at. However, Mr. Bartlett's book contains a good and fair narrative of a remarkable event ; and both the illus- trations and the letterpress far surpass in solid attraction those of any other

annual.] •

Speechsees of the Bight Honourable T. B. Macatday if.P. Corrected by Himlf.

[The orator's own edition is chiefly remarkable for its preface, fierce if not ferocious, with more of anger perhaps than strength. The publisher of the twe-volume edition is assailed in strong terms, for doing that which he had after all a legal right to do, and which as great men as Mr. Macaulay have had to aubmit to. The fact that there are passages which the speaker would not willingly have had revived is a valid ground of regret ; but had Mr. Macaulay always confined himself to justice of statement and propriety of expression—had he never postponed truth to party purposes or self-glori- fication—there would have been no occasion for this regret. The charge of gross and scandalous negligence and ignorance, in printing the speeches, from, it would seem, the worst reports without collation with better, is sought to be established by a comparison of two versions of the speech on the Unitarian Chapel Bill; where Mr. Macaulay has his self-constituted editor on the hip, and makes the most of his advantage. The grossest blunder is when the ei-devant Indian Lycurgus is made to find a law of limitations in "the Pandects of the Benares," instead of the Pundits of Benares.] The Spirit of the Bible ; or the Nature and Value of the Jewish and Christian Scriptures discriminated, in an Analysis of their several Books. By Edward Higginson. [The object of Mr. Higginson is to furnish readers with a general account of the Scriptures' and an exposition of particular parts which shall be

equally removed from German Rationalis ti and the unreasoning regard of "Bibliolaters." He declares for religious, but not universal, still less verbal inspiration : the Scriptures are "records of inspiration, but not an inspired record." Christ was inspired ; but the Evangelists, who wrote his life, were only like other biographers, telling what they remembered of what they had seen. After a bibliographical account of the whole Bible, Mr. Higginson's mode of arrangement is to take each book successively, and examine it his- torically, critically, bibliographically, morally, and religiously; what classes any particular commentary may fall under depending upon circumstances. The tone is moderate ; and Mr. Higginson has brought together some cu- rious matter, and advances some strange views.]

A Devotional Diary. By the Author of "Visiting my Relations," &e. Six Months in Italy. By George Stillman Hillard. In two volumes.

[These volumes contain an American gentleman's record of a tour in Italy, made during 1847. Mr. Hillard appears to be a man of cultivated mind, en- joyable disposition, and tolerant nature ; he has published the memorials of his rapid tour to gratify those of his countrymen who have visited Italy by recalling what they have seen, and those who intend a visit by furnishing some account of what they will see. In America his book may have an in- terest; but it was not worth while to reprint it for British circulation. The matter mainly consists of visits to sights, of which we have ampler accounts than Mr. Hillard's rapid survey could enable him to furnish.]

Auckland, the Capital of New Zealand, and the Country Adjacent : in- cluding some Account of the Gold-Discovery in New Zealand. With a Map of the Auckland District, from recent Surveys.

[A topographical description of Auckland and the adjoining district, with some account of the climate and productions. There are chapters on the so- ciety of Auckland, the mode of journeying in New Zealand, and the late dis- covery of gold, which as yet does not seem to pay. The only thing which removes the book from the merest commonplace is the lateness of the infor- mation.]

High and Low ; or Life's Chances and Changes. By the Honourable Henry Coke, Author of "A Ride over the Rocky Mountains." In three volumes.

[Mr. Coke's best quality is description. He sometimes paints external things with great reality, though too much after the minute manner of Dickens. More generally he is literal, which quality runs into flatness. Mere de- scription, however, goes but a little way towards a fiction. Mr. Coke wants invention and dramatic spirit. Where his dialogues are not of the commonest kind, they want vraisemblance and lifelike character: and the same may be said of his persons and incidents—they are common, or they are unlikely. The matter, too, is beaten out. In addition to some want of natural aptitude for fiction, we suspect Mr. Coke has looked to an indifferent model, and caught little more of Dickens than his faults.] John; or /a a Cousin in the Hand Worth two Counts in the Bush?

By Emilie Carlen, Author of "The Rose of Tisleton," &c. Rendered

by the Translator of "The Birthright," &c. In two volumes. [Emilie Carlen's Rose of Tisleton was a work of power in its passion and its incidents, while the freshness of its manners gave it considerable interest. It would seem to have been a lucky accident ; for none of the other fictions of this writer, whose translation the Bose of Tukton stimulated, have equalled it; most of them have fallen far short of it ; and are indeed better fitted for shilling libraries, in which some of them figure, than for a more expensive mode of publication. The story of John is indicated by the title ; it tells the tale of the foolish widow and handsome well-natured daughter of a poor officer, after the Swedish mode, in which the poverty is sordid, and the simplicity verges upon namby-pamby.] The Wanderings of Persiles and Sigismunda ; a Northern Story. By Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. [This last romance of Cervantes—he wrote the dedication after receiving ex- treme unction—is distinguished for great clearness and facility in the man- ner of telling the tale, but the story itself is so wild and improbable that it will possibly have small attraction for modern readers. The translation reads well. The volume is got up in the olden style ; which is very appro- priate to the old romance.] Flotsam and Jetsam ; a Cargo of Christmas Rhyme. By Hookanit Bee, Esquire. [Except the opening piece, called " Oriande," most of the poems in this volume are reprinted from magazines. They are burlesques after the man- ner of Ingoldsby, or Hood's "Forge, a Romance of the Iron Age." They have some of the point, spirit, and facility, appropriate to such productions, as well as the discursiveness and iteration which accompany facility; so that, in spite of pleasantry, the reader has enough before he reaches the end.] The Oxford Ars Poetica : or How to Write a Newdigate. Oxford Criticism. Dedicated to the Author of that most Fair and Mag- nanimous Poem, "The Oxford Ara Poetica." [The Oxford Ars Poetica is a University jeu d'esprit on Euglish prize poems. The subject is fair enough for satire, and the weaknesses and blemishes of many a Newdigate are well brought out. At times there is more acerbity in the censure than such trifles deserve ; and although the commonplace uniformity of the themes is clearly noted, it is not so clearly marked that this ill-judged choice forces a sameness of treatment upon the unlucky can- didates. Oxford Criticism is a poor reply, except that the acid of the "Ars" is hit ; but that was impossible to miss.] Poenas. To which are added, Critiques on Metaphysical Subjects. By G. H. Wood. [This volume in part consists of reprinted verses, to which new pieces have been added. The subjects, if not personal, generally originate in some occur-

rence connected with the experience of the author, and rather indicate a turn for verse than lift their author into the rank of a poet.]

An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. By Thomas Gray. prince Arthur's Alphabet. Flowers from the Garden of Knowledge. l'Both these have a gift-book air about them ; the first for adults, the second for children. Gray's Elegy is got up with a very elegant simplicity, and illustrated by Birket Foster, George Thomas, and "a Lady," in whose designs we recog- nise, with but slight hesitation, the welcome hand of "E. V. B. They lose, however, in the cutting, not a little of refinement and spirituality - though there are passages, as in the backgrounds of the first and third, well worthy of their authoress. Mr. Foster's best point here is a sense of distances, which is seldom well conveyed in wood-cuts.

"Prince Arthur's Alphabet" is the first of a projected series of shilling juvenilities from the publishing-house of the "Illustrated London News." There is nothing particular about its appearance; and we presume there is nd more special reason for its being called "Prince Arthur's" than that the publisher wishes Prince Arthur may get it.]

Being, Analytically Described in its chief respects; and Principal Truths, in the order of this Analysis, fully stated ; with a Detail of Man's Spiritual Nature and chief relations. By John Richard Pick- mere.

[It is fortunate that the subject of this bulky quarto prevents a general jour- nal from entering upon its treatment ; for a very knotty subject receives small elucidation from distinctness of conception or clearness of style in the writer.] A Treatise on Dentistry and the Care and Preservation of the Teeth. By Samuel Fowell, Dentist.

[Sensible, but not new, unless it be the form of publication, which is a small

t0.] Home Thoughts; a Magazine of Literature, Science, and Domestic Economy.

[The collection into a volume of the numbers of a cheap miscellany.]

Too Clever by Half; or the Harroways. By the Mofussilite. With numerous Engravings.

Rockingham; or the Younger Brother. By the Author of "Electra." Christmas Day ; and How it was Spent by Four Persons in the House

of Fograss, Fog,rass, Mowton, and Snorton, Bankers. By Christian Le Ros. Illustrated by Phiz.

The Shot in the Eye, and Adventures with the Texan .Rijle Rangers. By C. W. Webber.

[The above four are shilling volumes.]

English Grammar and Composition. (Chambers's Educational Course.) Chaenbere's Repository of Instructive and Amusing Tracts. Volume VII.

The third volume of Pope, from Messrs. Cooke and Co., contains "The Duneiad " and the "Essay on Man." The Dunciad is very well edited; the biographical notes of the dunces being removed to an appendix, with cor- rections, additions, or explanations, by Mr. Carruthers the editor. The same publishers have also sent forth an edition of White's " Selborne," copiously illustrated -with wood-cuts, and under the superintendence of Sir 'William Jardine. Mr. Murray publishes a new and revised edition of Jesse's "Country Life," in a compact form. Mr. Bentley has added Brace's "Germany" to his" Parlour Bookcase," and Cooper's "Ned Myers" to his "Railway Library." With the close of the year Mr. Nichol of Edinburgh closes his first annual subscription issue of the British Poets, with the "Night Thoughts." Dr. Theophilus Thompson republishes from the Lancet his Clinical Lec- tures on Consumption," which deal with the practical treatment of the com- plaints. Mr. Lang's real-looking picture of Anglo-Indian society, "The Wetherbys," appears in a neat little volume after amusing the readers of Fraser.

The Poetical .Works of Alexander Pope. Edited by Robert Carruthers. Illustrated by Portraits and Original Designs. In four volumes. Vo- lume III. (National Illustrated Library.) The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne; with Observations on various parts of Nature, and the Naturalist's Calendar. By the late Reverend Gilbert White, A.M. A new edition. Edited, with Notes, by Sir William Jardine, Bart., F.R.S.E.' &c. Completely Il-

lustrated with about seventy Engravings. (National Illustrated Library.)

Scenes and Occupations of Country Life; Recollections of Natural His- tory. By Edward Jesse, Esq., Author of "Gleanings in Natural His- tory." New and revised edition.

Home Life in Germany. By Charles Loring Brace, Author of "Hun- gary in 1851." New edition. (Parlour Bookcase.) Ned Myers ; or a Life Before the Mast. By J. Fenimore Cooper. (Bentley's Railway Library.) Young's Night Thoughts. With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Ex- planatory Notes, by the Reverend George Gilfillan.

Clinical Lectures on Pulmonary Consumption. By Theophilus Thomp- son, M.D., F.R.S., F.R.C.P.L., Physician to the Hospital for Con- sumption and Diseases of the Chest ; Author of Annals of Influenza, prepared for the Sydenham Society, &e. The Wetherbys, Father and Son; or Sundry Chapters of Indian Expe- rience. By John Lang. Reprinted from Fcaser's Magazine. The "Laws of Cholera.' Reprinted, by permission, from the Times.

With an Introduction and Supplementary Matter.

PAMPHLETS.

Science in its Relations to Labour. Being a Speech delivered at the Anniversary of the People's College, Sheffield, on the 25th October 1853. By Lyon Playfair, C.B., F.R.S. Authorized edition. On the Necessity of Principles in Teaching Design. Being an Address by Ps Redgrave, B.A., Art Superintendent, at the Opening of the Session of the Department of Science and Art, October 1853. Customs Reform. Report of City Committee ; with Narrative of Pro- ceedings, and Review of the "Customs Consolidation Act," 1853. With Notes and Appendix. Port of Southampton on the Banks of the Thames. By a Merchant. Cuba y su Gobierno. Con un Appendice de Documentos Historicos.