PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Boom.

The Chaplain's Narrative of the Siege of Delhi. From the Outbreak at Mee.. rut to the Capture of Delhi. By John Edward Wharton Rotton, MA., of Emmanuel College, Cambridge ; one of the Chaplains of Meerut, and Chaplain to the Delhi Field Force. With a Plan of the City.

A Month in Yorkshire. By Walter White, Author of "A Londoner's Walk to the Land's End," 8re.

A Treatise on Coins, Currency, and Banking. With Observations on the Bank Act of 1844 and on the Reports of the Committees of the House of Lords and of the House of Commons on the Bank Acts. By Henry Islicholas Scaly, Esq.

Roman Sepulchral Inscriptions: their relation to Archaeology, Language, and Religion. By John Kenrick, M.A., F.S.A.

Philip Paternoster. A Traetarian Lore Story. By an Ex-Puseyite. In two volumes.

The Reigning Beauty. By Georgians Lady Chatterton, Author of "Life' and its Realities," &c. &c. In three volumes.

Handbook of the British Flora. By George Bentham, F.L.S.—The object of Mr. Bentham has been to produce a book which "should enable persons having no previous knowledge of Botany to name the wild flowers. they might gather in their rambles." Taking De Candolle's Flora. Franfaise as his model, Babington's, Hooker's, and Arnott's works for quarries, he thought that with his own knowledge he might compile a book of? the kind contemplated with comparative ease. He soon found that he must appeal to nature from the written descriptions—that "no satisfactory progress could be made without a careful comparison and verification of the plants themselves." Five years have been devoted to this task and other difficulties ; one of which was such a classification as should afford the amateur the readiest mode of reference to a plant when its name was unknown, another the settlement of what should be con- sidered British plants. The lover of royal roads to knowledge, or very often of knowledge brought to him, without the trouble of taking any road at all, should be warned that he cannot even with Mr. Bentham's labours and time, wander forth book in hand, and tell offhand the name of any plant that meets his eye. Some sort of generalized knowledge he must possess to distinguish the features of plants and identify the rigidity. from the description. For this purpose the author has pr,..fixed a chapter of " definitions " and an analytical key to his " flora" proper, which will. have to be mastered before the flora itself can be readily used.

Short Lectures on Plants for Schools and Adult Classes. By Elizabeth Twining, Author of " Illustrations of the Natural Orders of Plants."— These lectures were originally addressed to the " Classes for Women at the Working Men's College," and even now in print appear to be mainly designed for oral delivery, with illustrations from actual plants to be chosen by the lecturer. The lectures are twelve in number ; and besides some account of plants in general, and of particular products, as sugar, next of the parts of plants, as seeds, the root, the stem, the leaf, the flower, the fruit. The method is somewhat general. The striking pro- perties and uses of vegetables, remarkable anecdotes relating to them, and the instances they furnish of God's goodness, are more dwelt upon than the principles of the subject ; so that the lectures are better fitted to impart " general information " than to teach botany.

Guide for Travellers in Egypt. Translated 11 om the German of Dr. Moritz Busch by W. C. Wrankmore.—The Anglo-Saxon rage for travel is extending when a sea-dreading people like the Germans require a guide to Egypt and " adjacent countries," albeit the author in his in- troduction to Eastern travel does limit the larger portion of it to the " hardy and adventurous." The publication is a useful book—sensible in its observations and general directions—painstaking in its brief digests of Egyptian archmology and the best things for the traveller to examine en route—clear and practical in information especially requisite to the traveller. It would have been an improvement had the German coins of the original been also uniformly expressed in English money by the translator.

Ass English Girl's Account of a Moravian Settlement in the Black Fo- rest. Edited by the Author of " Mary Powell."—A journal of a resi- dence in one of the Moravian establishments by a former pupiL The diary gives a pleasing but somewhat juvenile account of daily life at Kiinigsfeld. Much of the matter relates to domestic economy among the Moravian, but being embodied in occurrences and animated by sen- timent, it may be said to take the character of mild incident. Little, excursions, sketches of Black Forest people, brief biographical notices of young persons, throwing light upon German manners, vary the domestic. menage. Nay, there is love and marriage ; but so undemonstrative that it comes as a surprise even to the observers. The "Account of a Mora-. vian Settlement " is a novelty. Whether it has quite stuff enough for the public at large may be a question.

German Equivalents for English Thouglets. By Madame Bernard.— A collection of some eight thousand English words or phrases, rather in common than literary use, with their equivalents in German. The arrangement is alphabetical ; the primary object seems to be to familiar- ize the student with colloquial expressions, for the book is not designed as a conversation, though many of the phrases can be used for question or reply. The author forestalls an objection that some of the examples. may be "too familiar," by which she doubtless means phrases like "die game," "gift of the gab," &c. If such terms were presented in Engliah, it would have been better always to mark by an explanatory note the precise force of the German equivalent.

The Boy with the Bible. By Ludwig Storeh. With an Inter-lined' Translation for the use of English Scholars. By 7. A. F. Schmidt.— Little more than the title indicates—a German tale with an interlinear. translation and a few brief explanatory foot-notes.

The only reprint of the week is the last volume of the second.edition of "Pope's. Poetical Works" by Mr. Carruthers, included in Bohits: " Illustrated Library." Additions have been made to this second edition,

which may be recommended as the most useful and certainly the cheapest edition of Pope extant.

The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. Edited by Robert Carruthers. In two volumes. Volume II. New edition, revised, with numerous Engravings on Wood.