PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED - .

Booms.

Impressions and Experiences of the West Indies and North America in. 1849. By Robert Baird, A.M. In two volumes.

liedivont, and Savoy : a Summer Ramble. By Charles Richard Weld.

Phases of Faith; or Passageefrom the Ilistoryof My Creed. By Francis William Newman, formerly Fellow of Ralliol College, Oxford Essays, selected from Contributions to the Edinburgh Bev-Ww. By Hen- ry Rogers. In two volumes. MC Life and. Correspondence of. Robert Southey. Edited by his Son, the Reverend Charles Cuthbert Southey, M.A., Curate of Plumbland, Cumberbuid. In six volumes. Volume IV.

Gazpacho ; or. Summer Months in Spain. By William George Clark, M' A. Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. The _Phantom World; or the Philosophy of Spirits, Apparitions, &c.. By Augustine Calmet. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by the Reverend Henry Christmas, M.A., F.R.S., &c. In two volumes.

The Taranto. : Travelling Impressions of Young Russia.. By Count Sollogula- With eight Illustrations. [Those people who trace every. paper in. favour of Russia to Russian diplo- macy and corruption, will see m this little story an attempt of the same bad arta to enlist light literature in the cause of Eastern despotism. The Taran- tas is a species of tale, designed to impress the merits of old Russian nation- upon the reader, while it depreciates what must be allowed to be has- Rossano civilizationlyoung travelled spark and an old Russian squire meet at Moscow; the youth has exhausted his means, and in order to get home, somewhat unwillingly accepts a seat in the old-fashioned carriage, " the tarantas," of his father's old neighbour. The scenes and incidents on the road. serve-to depict Russian-manners in the interior ; the persons the travellers en- counter exhibit some distinctive classes in the empire ; and the dialoguesthat Ivan Vassffievitsch, the enlightened youth, holds with Vanity Ivanovitsch, the unpolished Country gentleman, and others, serve to hold up to ridicule the Rus- sian reformers, and to paintthe solid qualities that in the author's opinion form the substratum of the genuine Russian. The book is written with some animation and cleverness, and the writer escapes a common. fault of didactic writers in not maldng his characters too good. The genuine Russians have various wealmeases, hke other people - and the author has hao much. humour to suppress them, or enough of. the Ittist to perceive the relief they, give to- hia book. In the main position, that Russia must depend upon her national character and circumstances for advance in freedom and. civilization, not upon a poor imitation of Western Europe, we agree with the writer. Whe- ther the meanshe indicates are the best, or the sort of civilization he chalks out in a dream of Ivan when he falls asleep in the tarantas very llliely, or a Mare echo of the dishonest notions of Russian bureaucracy, is anothe,r affair:1 Clarendon ; a Tale. By William Dodsworth. In three volume& [There is incident, with some power of description, in this fiction- but not mash novelty, or much regard to the likelihoods of life and character. It

form a book for the reader of the circulating library, but it does not.

ge criticism ] The Christian• Philanthropist's Pilgrimage. A Poem. Cantos L and. IL

[The plot of this poem assumes that a philanthropist and his son go upon a pilgrimage to do their duty to their neighbour ; and a variety of stories and characters, such as in prose would be called "sketches," are the resnit. There is nothing remarkable in the execution ; the-great blot is the poor and commonplace character of the subjects. One might as well:versify newspaper paragraphs, or the "facts" of some "blue books" : indeed, these would have more reality, and quite. as much breadth, while the literal facts wenkl have a natural verity which is lost in the attempt at fiction]

Goethe' a New Pantomime. By Edward Kenealy. A, long poem, whose subject is the life, death, and character of G'oethe ; eles and various supernatural and allegorical beings taking part in it. The idea seems to have been drawn from the Faust; but it wants th+eeeniality which amid all its contemptuous satire animated that work. floe e is treated with a harshness without-allowance, and consequently with- out Lightly' hfiting his defects. Neither is the theme sufficient for the length and machinery of the poem.. Mr. Kenealy is fresh and fluent to the last, and might -go on fresh and fluent for ever. He has a fatal facility.] _detrain, and other Poems. By Mrs. H: R. Sandbach. [A collection of poems of the Annual class; that is, subjects obvious to those who are on the look-out for subjects, treated in a conventional style, having thrsetmtla and form but not the substance of poetry.] Wild Flowers from Germany. By Francis du Bourdieu, Captain Royal Hanoverian Engineers. [Aipretty little book, containing a number of German legends, tales, &c., ver- ailed] Pandemonium, or a Glimpse into the Modern. Inferno, Past, Present, and Future. By Asmodeus. [Am attempt at contemporary satire.] The Statistical Companion, for 1850. By T. C. Bonfield, Esq., Sta- tistics' Clerk to the Council of Education, and C. B. Weld, Esq., As- sistant Secretary to the Royal Society. [A. neat volatile, containing, like its predecessor published in 1848, a 1 amount of facts, chiefly compiled or reprinted from public documents. handiness' and the mass of information it contains, render it a useful book for the desk; but it would have been.stall better for more judgment and care. When the facts change with the years, it is of course necessary to repeat the table; the repetition is awful, too, in the ease of facts frequently referred to —such as the ages or reigns of sovereigns : but what is the use of repeating a table of the "assay of denarii," or of the "statistics of consumption' An index of omitted tables, contained. in previous volumes, would answer all the purpose.] Heads of an Analysis of Roman History. For the use of Schools. By Dawson W. Turner, M.A. [Ai chronological summary of the .principal events in Roman history, followed boy short extracts from the principal modern writers, containing die pith of their opinions on each subject. It is a great improvement over the dry and barren compendiums which stuff the head and load the memory with mere dates, or the lifeless names of events.] Brief Outline on the Study of Theology, drawn up to serve.as the basis of Introductory Lectures. By the late Dr. Friedrich Schleiennacher. To which are prefixed, Reminiscences of Sehkiemacher, by Dr. Fried- rich Lucke. Translated from the German, by William Ferrer, LLB. The new editions are numerous, as usual. " God in Christ" appearsio be. an. American reprint, whose peculiarities rather than merits have found favouv in the eyes of the publisher ; for though not ITnitarion' since the author: maintains a superhuman character in Christ, it cannot be considered exactly • orthodox. " Itamblos in Fortin:thin)" is to a considerable extent a re-, t from a series of articles in the Dundee Courier; the publication fag been caused by the attention they excited. The book is &sided into two parts, the first of which chiefly relates to the town. of Dun- .doe, its growth, and celebrities ;. the other embraeoa " rambles" in.: the country. The fourth edition of "Jane Evre " is in a single: -volume, and, we suppose, at a cheap price : the only literary features are the prefaces to the second and third editions, in the second of which the -work was dedicated .to Mr. Thackeray. Mr. Robson's " Constructive _Exer- cises," designed to lay a sound foundation in. Latin, by compelling the pu- pil to teach himself the grammar by exercisinr, himself in its rules at an earlier stage than usual, has been revised, and a delectua incorporated with the book. The eight remaining publications explain themselves by their- titles ; but it may be said that the last four are "shilling volumes," of which. three till the late decision about aliens and copyrights, would Lave been. inaccessible at this.rate.

(1,d-in aliriot. Three Discourses, delivered at New Haven, Cambridge, and Andover. With a Preliminary Dissertation. ou Language. Ily

Horace

Rambks in Forfarshirs; or Sketches in Town. and Country. By James Myles.

Jane Eyre; an Autobiography.. By Calmer Bell, Author of "Shirley." Fourth edition.

Constructive Exercises for Teaching the Elements of the Latin Longways. on a System of Analysis and Synthesis. With. Latin Reading sons and copious Vocabularies. By John.Robson, B.A., London, Mem- ber of the Philological Society, &c. Second edition, revised.

iliatory of the Conquest Peru ; with a Preliminary View of the Ci- vilization of the T By William IL Prescott, Corresponding Mem- • ber of the French Institute, &c. Fourth edition. I.n three volumes; I Volume IL The Tragedies. of Euripides. Literally Translated, with Critical and EE... planatory l('otes by Theodore Alois Buckley, of Christ Church., Volume_ II. (Bohn's Classical library.) . The Christian C'ontmonteeafth. By John Winter Morgan. To whiekis added, tm Inquiry Private Property, &e. From ir Periodi-

cal of 1827. (The-Phoenix • .)

Black's Picturesque-Guide to the Ettglisla Lakes. Including an Essay on the Geology of the District, by John Phillips, E.R.S., G.L., &c. Fourth edition..

Morley. Erusteits • or, the Tenants of the. Heart. By P. IL &mai, EEssqq The 'ketch-_Bookof Goo ey. Crayon, Esq. (Parlour Iihrary.) (Parlour lalirarvyd Oliver. Goldsmith ; a. iography. By Washington Irving. (Bata . Shilling Series.)

Lives to the Successors of Mehemet. By Washington Irving. (Bohn'a a Series.)

Portrtrits Illastriou8 Personages of Great-Britain. With Biaaraphia cal and Historical Memoirs of their-Lives and Actions.. • By Edmund'

Lodge, Bap, F.S.A. In eight volumes. Volume VIL ' tatted Library.)

Nzw PERIODICAL.

London Medieal Examiner; Monthly Review, and Statistical Aurriat of Practical Medicine; Nos. I. II. and III:

Pemenzers.

Remarks occasioned. by the present Crusade against the Efueationtst Plana of the Committee of Council on Dluoation. By the Reverend • Richard Davies, A.M.

Some Itirst Principles of a Christian Faith, &c..

Letters and Doetanents an the Past and Recent Events in the LENRIO Islands, &a. By Lord Charles Fitzroy A Letter to the Right Honourable Sir Charks Wood, Bart., 3LP„.15e.,, on the AssessedTaxes ; with Suggestion& for. a general Revision of the Duties. By an Officer of the Tax Department of the. Inland Re- , venue.

Chancery Infancy; or a Ilea for an Anti-Chancery League. By FL W; Weston.

An .Inquiry into the Establishment of the Royal Academy of Arts,.&e: Edited by William Coningham.

The A B C of Colonization. By Mrs. Chisholm. Na. L The Principles of Punishment oa which the Mark System of Prison Discipline is Advocated. By Captain Maconochie, R.N., K.H. A Summary of the chief Arguments for and against Marriage with a Deceased 'frife's Sister.- IL-avaraATED Woltz.