PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Among the books which have appeared this week two are especially remarkable—those, namely which have for their respective authors " Naval Peer," and Professor Baden Powell.

"A Naval Peer " has written with great shrewdness and raciness of style, but also with some prolixity, an exhaustive work on Olin NATAL Posrrion AND POLICY, adapted to the comprehension of the general reader. It was begun in 1868, at a moment when a possible combination of two or more European Powers might have brought into the Channel a fleet very superior to anything we could have opposed to it; and though great and not unsuccessful efforts have subsequently been made to place this country in a better state of defence, the writer forcibly dissuades his countrymen from resting content with such spasmodic efforts to recover their lost maritime superiority—" efforts which may some day prove too late."

The purpose of Professor Baden Powell's work on THE Owen or NATURE is to present " a perfectly impartial, candid, unpolemical discus- sion of the subject of miracles," in immediate connexion with the vast progress of physical knowledge, and with its grand result " the firm establialiment of the great principle of immutable order, and thence of the universal mind in nature." The discussion involves the whole relations of physical, to revealed or spiritual, truth ; and the conclusion to which it tends is their independence, as relates to the essential nature of the Christian revelation.

ANTONIO DE Doirnris, Archbishop of Spalatro, who has now for the first time found a biographer in the Dean of Ferns' was an ecclesiastic of great note in the seventeenth century. He was also a distinguished scholar and cultivator of science. Sir Isaac Newton attributes to him the discovery of the phenomena of the rainbow. Seceding from the Church of Rome he escaped to England, where ho obtained from James I. some valuable church preferments, and speedily began to be so vexatious to his tenants as to incur a severe reprimand from the Bishop of London. Being refused the bishopric of Durham, he accepted a par- don from Rome, signed his recantation of Protestantism in hopes of being made a cardinal, went to Rome, and was imprisoned in the Castle of St. Angelo where he died, not without suspicion of poison, and his body was burned as that of a heretic.

WOMEN PAST AND PRxSENT is a subject on which much may be said, and whatever is said ought to be well said. Mr. Wade, we fear, has not taken much pains to fulfil this rule.

The late Mrs. Schimmelpenninek published, under the title of " A Theory of Beauty and Deformity," the results of many years' obser- vations on the subject of pleasing expression in general, and of beautiful human expression in particular. Subsequently she became dissatisfied with the work, as presenting only the intellectual aspect of a subject which was rich in moral and spiritual meaning. She, therefore, em- ployed the last years of her life in preparing and embodying her new views in another work, the PREiCEPLES or Basevv, which has this week been sent forth by her literary executors.

Mr. Jeffs has published a faithful and spirited translation of M. About's famous work on THE BOMAN QUESTION. Our favourable testimony is founded on a close comparison of several portions of the English volume with the original.

The wide circle of BABY Hay's admirers will rejoice to learn that Mr. W. C. Bennett has ;collected In a pretty tiny volume his ode on that young lady, and his other poems on kindred themes. Mr. I. A. Lane- ford has also issued a collection of poems, among which readers of pe- riodicals will recognize some old friends.

Booze.

Our Naral Position and Polity. By a Naval Peer.

The Order of Nature considered 1st reference to the Claims of Bevelalion„ A third series of Essays. By the Reverend Baden Powell, M.A., 8tc. The Life and Contemporaneous Church History of Antonio de Domini*, Are bishop of Spalatro, afterwards Dean of Windsor, Master of the Savoy, and Rector of West Utley in the Church of England in the reign of James I. By Henry Newland, D.D., Dean of Ferns.

Women, Past and Present: exhibiting their Social Vicissitudes ; Single and Matrimonial Relations ; Rights, Privileges, and Wrongs. By John Wade. Author of the " History and Political Philosophy of the Productive Classes," See.

The Principles of Beauty, as manifested in Nature, Art, and Human Charac- ter. With a Classification of Deformities ; an Essay on the Temperaments, with Illustrations ; and Thoughts on Grecian and Gothic Architecture. By Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, Author of " Select Memoirs of Port Royal"; and edited by Christiana C. Hankin.

First Impressions of the New World, on Two Travellers from the Old in the Autumn of 1858.

The English Bible. History of the Translation of the Holy Scriptures into the English Tongue. By Mrs. H. C. Conant. Edited, and with an Introduc- tion, by the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon.

The Religious Condition of the Chinese : with Observations on the Prospects of Christian Conversion amongst that people. By Reverend Joseph Edkins, B.A.

The Boman Question. By E. About. Translated from the French by H. C., Coape.

Bibliotheca Classics. Edited by George Long, M.A. and the Reverend A. J. Macleane, M.A. Demosthenes, with an Engisla Commentary by the Reverend Robert Whitton, M.A. Volume I.

An Essay on the Cause of Rain and its Arlied Phenomena. By G. A. Rowell, Honorary Member of the Ashmolean Society.

Some Years after : a Tale.

A Mother's Trial. By the Author of " The Discipline of Life," " The Young Lord," &c. &c.

"1745." A Tale.

Baby May and other Poems on Infants. By W. C. Bennett.

Poems of the Fields and the Town. By John Alfred Langford. Author of the " Lamp of Life," &c.

The Parliamentary Companion, New Parliament. By Robert P. Dod, Esq. Seventeen Years' Experience of the. treatment of Disease by means of Water. By Andrew Henderson. M.R.C.S.E. The French Correspondent ; consisting chiefly of Selections from Letters of the most Eminent French and English Authors and others. By L. Nottelle, B.A.

A Methodical and Complete Treatise on the Pronunciation of French Letters; illustrated by upwards of 2000 examples. By P. A. S. Junod.

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From the Sardinian Government Surrey, Beat of War, Hap of Sardinia, and a Portion of Lombardy and Forma.