PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED,

From July 5th to July lith.

Boosts.

Observations in Europe, principally in France and Great Britain. By JOHN P. DURBIN, D.D., President of Dickinson College.

The Blackwater in Munster. By J. R. OTLANAGAN, Esq.

[The river Blackwater, that falls into the Atlantic at Youghal, near Cork, has. a course of nearly eighty miles ; during which it traverses a country rich alike in natural beauty, the picturesque in art, and historical association. So great, indeed, are its attractions, that INGLIS, fresh from the Danube, Rhine, and Rhone, rated the beauties of the Blackwater as equal to either of these rivers. When he wrote, in 1834, the accommodation for tourists was very slender ; and although Mr. O'FLANAGAN has published his work in consequence of im- provements in this respect, we suspect they are Irish improvements—rather to be done than done. We hear, no doubt, of steam introduced by Sir RICHARD MUSGRAVE from Cappoquin to Youghal; but we do not learn from this quasi guide-book, when the vessel runs, or any other particulars, which English tourists like to know before they make a start. The present publication originated in a paper on the statistics of the Black- water, read by the author at the Cork meeting of the British Association ; which paper his friends advised him to extend. Commencing with the em- bouchure of the river, he travels upwards to the source ; describing the scenery,. noting the places, recalling the history, and intermingling his topography with a few legends and tales. The plan, it may be perceived, is that of the regular hand-book ; but it is redeemed from the triteness by the original knowledge and enthusiasm of Mr. OTLANAGAN. He wrote his book because he knew the Blackwater, instead of seeking the Blackwater to write the book. The volume is handsomely got-up, and well illustrated by a map and a num- ber of engravings. It wants nothing but a few exact particulars of convey- ances, inns, charges, and so forth—if exactness exists in the subject-matter.] Graefenberg ; or a true Report of the Water-Cure, with an Account of its Antiquity. By ROBERT HAY Damien, M.D. [Dr. GRAHAM being subject to the gout, and carrying his son to Berlin for his education, determined to proceed to Graefenberg, to try the effects of the cold-water-cure, and look about him during the process. The volume before us contains a graphic sketch of PRIESSNITZ, and the habitues of Ms place; an account of the principles and modes of practice of his cold-water-cure ; a list of such cases as Dr. GRAHAM could collect, including an elaborate narra- tive of his own misfortunes; together with some general remarks upon the utility of cold water as a medical agent, and a criticism on its use by PRIESS- !FITZ. An appendix contains copious extracts from the works of some English physicians of the seventeenth and a German practitioner of the eighteenth century ; showing that the useful parts of the cold-water-cure were derived by PRIESSNITZ from those authors, or at least from the German Dr. HAHN, who derived his information from the works of Englishmen. As regards Dr. GRAHAM'S gout, he had a severe attack at Graefenberg ; only saved his life, he thinks, by escaping from PRIESSNITZ and his cold water; and experienced another fit on his return home. The original attack, however, was induced by an accident ; his general health was benefited by the cold- water course up to the time of this accident ; and perhaps its constitutional effect is about the most certain utility of the system. Dr. GRAHAM thinks otherwise. He conceives that, judiciously applied in conjunction with medicine, and under medical advice, cold water may be useful in many disorders; the probable causes of which he investigates at some length, after his " spicy " dis- missal of Graefenberg, its practices, cures, and deaths.]

On the Decrease of Disease effected by the Progress of Civilization. By C. F. H. Manx, M.D., Professor of Medicine in the University of Got- tingen, &c.; and R. Wirads, M.D., M.R.C.P., &c.

[This is a German work, translated, with some additional notes, by Dr. WILLIE; whose name has been placed upon the titlepage by the wish of the original author, Dr. MARX, as a testimony of his approval of the way in which his friend has made him speak like an Englishman. The treatise is popularly written; and is of a consoling and hopeful character, by the manner in which it establishes the fact of the decrease of particular diseases, or the diminution of their intensity, as civilization advances. It also makes a general comparison between the hygienic condition of savage and civilized life, and recurs to the records of antiquity to show that whilst diseases are all less virulent their number has not increased ; the apparent additions being a mere change of nomenclature, or their absence in a backward state of society arising from the weakly dying in infancy, or the sick and aged being abandoned to their fate. On the Decrease of Disease effected by the Progress of Civiliza- tion will be found an agreeable and informing little book ; though one of its positions, that the duration of life is increased, may admit of question. Statis- tics, we believe, show that though more live to certain ages, men do not live longer.]

The Nature and Treatment of Deafness and Diseases of the Ear, and the Treatment of the Deaf and Dumb. By WILLIAM DUTTON, bLR.C.S. [A clear, brief, and well-arranged treatise on deafness,—or rather, disorders of the ear; for in some of the violent inflammatory diseases, deafness is subordinate or concomitant, death superseding deafness. Loss of bearing from affections of the auditory nerve, or nervous deafness, which is the moat com- mon form, is the most unsatisfactorily treated in the book ; as we believe it generally is in practice.] Essays on Natural History, chiefly Ornithology. By CHARLES WATER- TON, Esq., Author of " Wanderings in South America." Second series. With a Continuation of the Autobiography of the Author.

The first volume of this racy, fresh, and characteristic work, was written by Mr. WATERTON at the request of the late Mr. Lounon, for the Magazine of Natural History ; and when the author collected the essays into a volume, he added part of his autobiography as an introduction. The present series, which is perhaps more various than its predecessor, also originates with Mr. LOUDON ; but, alas ! under very different circumstances. The present series is "an un- solicited donation to the widow " of the author's friend. " If this trifling present, on my part," says Mr. WATERTON, "shall be the medium of convey- ing one single drop of balm to the wound which it has pleased Heaven lately to inflict on the heart of that excellent lady, my time will have been well em- ployed, and my endeavours amply requited."]

The History of John Marten; a Sequel to the Life of Henry Milner. By Mrs. SHERWOOD, Author of the "History of the Fairchild Fa- mily," &c. [This well-written and agreeable tale is designed to illustrate the weakness of self-reliance in a clergyman, or indeed in any one, and to show the necessity of looking to God for help in our actions. John Marten, the hero, is a young minister, who is carried through various situations as a curate at home and a tutor abroad, and continually involved in difficulties, through his acting from im- pulse, temper, or worldly prudence, instead of shaping his conduct by religious views. His adventures in his different circumstances are well varied, and the persons he encounters are well conceived and cleverly described. Though a sequel, it is perfectly intelligible.] Elementary Education ; the Importance of its Extension in our own Country. With a Sketch of the State of Elementary Education on the Continent. By HENRY EDWARDS, Ph. D., D.D. [A commonplace and rather declamatory essay on the advantages and benefits of education, followed by a view of the state of popular instruction on the Con- tinent, as general as the preceding remarks. The book is rather like a theme, than a work by a doctor of philosophy, on so hacknied a subject as education.] Latin Synonyms and Phrases. For the use of Grammar Schools, &c. By the Reverend E. EEDDALL, Curate of Marston St. Lawrence and Warkworth, Northamptonshire. [A little book containing a useful collection of synonyms,—or rather, of words where the shade of difference in meaning is sufficiently distinct to render the substitution of one for the other a critical impropriety of expression. The "phrases" are chiefly designed to exhibit some peculiarity of idiom.] A Treatise on the Science of Trade as applied to Legislation. By GEORGE BARING KEMP, EMI. [This is a little volume on political economy, which was designed to have fol- lowed a book on currency and capital ; but Mr. KEMP'S friends were "anxious " that his views on the " nature and results of competition" should be given to the world. We conceive the world might have waited.] Plutarch on the Delay of the Deity in the Punishment of the Wicked. With Notes, by H. B. HACKETT, Professor of Biblical Literature in Newton Theological Institution.

An American publication ; containing the Greek text of PLUTARCH'S De Sera Numinis Vindicta, in a clear bold type, an abridgment of the treatise in English, and a variety of English notes. It is published for American stu- dents of theology, and is designed to be read in conjunction with the Greek Testament.]

Criticisms on Art. By WILLIAM HAZLITT. With Catalogues of the principal Picture-galleries of England. Second series. Edited by his Son.

[This volume completes the papers of the late Mr. ILtzt.rrt on the fine arts,— or rather, on subjects connected with the fine arts ; for the contents are of a more miscellaneous character than the first volume, which treated of the Pic- ture-galleries of England. The present volume contains reviews of books and miscellaneous papers, as well as criticisms on paintings.]

The Enblensatic Language of Flowers.

[An illuminated list of flowers, with their emblematical signification, and of the qualities that they express, with their floral interpretation ; furnishing a key to the language of flowers, and hints for the delivery of bouquets-billets.] Beliques of Ancient English Poetry ; consisting of old Heroic Ballads, Songs, and other pieces of our earlier Poets, together with some few of later date. By THOMAS PERCY, Lord Bishop of Dromore. New edi- tion. In three volumes.

[The completion of Mr. WASHBOURNE'S edition of the Relives of Ancient English Poetry; forming the first publication of " the Percy Library," which we noted at length on the appearance of the first volume in April. Completed, the work forms three handsome volumes, sufficiently elegant for the drawing. room, without being too pretty for the library.]

The Splendid Village; Corn-law Rhymes ; and other Poems. By EBENEZER ELLIOTT.

[A very cheap but rather coarse edition of some of the most popular poems of the Corn-law Poet.] Providence. a Poem, in four cantos : with Miscellaneous Pieces. By HENRY EDWARDS, Pb. D., D.D. In two volumes.

My Dog Brace ; a Poem, in very irregular verse, and otherwise very irregular. Cantos First and Second. By the Reverend CALAMUS KURRENS, a little Country Parson, and Secretary to the Antikant Society.

How to Dance the Polka, and all the Quadrilles.

The Ball-Room Polka, Polka Cotillon, and Valse d Deux Tents. Arranged by M. Coin," of Her Majesty's Theatre ; with the most esteemed Quadrilles, Galopades, and Mazurkas. Bijou edition.

[Two symptoms of the prevalent Polkamania. The last of these two pocket manuals for ball-room practice is the most complete and elegant, and also car- ries the stamp of authority. It is so very tastefully got up, moreover, with its illuminated cover and pages, as to tempt tyros in Polkiug to pop it into the waistcoat-pocket, in case of need.]

SERIALS.

The Englishwoman in Egypt. Volume I. By Miss LANE. (Knight's Weekly Volume.) [Miss LANE, now apparently Mrs. POOLE, accompanied her brother to Egypt on his third visit, and at his persuasion wrote off her opinions of things and persons in the shape of Letters to a Friend ; Mr. LANE himself undertaking the office of editor. The first volume gets no further than the arrival of the party at Cairo, and their residence there in what turned out to be " a haunted house"; and chiefly contains the lady's account of her first impressions, and of a visit to the harem of a man of rank. These are agreeably narrated ; and her sex gives some freshness to the writer's remarks : it also introduces her to subjects for- bidden to the "more worthy gender," though as yet not to so many as might have been expected.]

ILLUSTRATED WORKS AND PRINTS.

Daniel O'Connell. Painted by T. CARRICK ; engraved by W. ROLL. [A remarkably characteristic and faithful likeness of " the great Agitator," representing him as he now appears. The engraving is an accurate copy from the miniature by Mr. CARRICK in the Royal Academy exhibition ; and is beautifully stippled. The print is small, but the portrait conveys the truest idea of DANIEL O'CONNELL's physiognomy of any that we have seen : it is full of life and individuality, and makes no attempt at flattery—the man himself is before you.] MAPS.

North Coast of Africa; including Morocco and Algiers, with the Coast of France and Spain. By JAMES Wytn.

[A well-timed publication; exhibiting the coast of Barbary as far inland as the great chain of the Atlas, and the relative positions of the chief ports of France, Spain, and Italy, with the islands of the Mediterranean. The bound- aries of Morocco, Algiers, and Tunis, are distinctly marked ; and the map, though the plate seems worn, is well executed.]