PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

BOORS.

The Anatomy of the External Forms of Mani intended for the use of Artists, Painters, and Sculptors. By Doctor J. Fau. Edited, with Addi- tions, by Robert Knox, M.D., Lecturer on Anatomy, &c. With an Atlas of twenty-eight Plates, quarto.

Letters and Memoir of the late Walter Augustus Shirley, D.D., Lord Bishop of Sodor and Man. Edited by Thomas Hill, B.D., Archdeacon of Derby.

Sermons. By the late Reverend John Hamilton Forsyth, M.A., Curate of Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, and afterwards Minister of Dowry Chapel, Clifton. With a Memoir of the Author, by the Reverend Edward Wilson, M.A., Vicar of Nocton, Lincolnshire.

Redburn: His First Voyage. Being the Sailor-Boy Confessions and Re- miniscences of the Son of a Gentleman in the Merchant Service. By Her- man Melville, Author of "Types," &c. In two voluMes.

The Ogilvies; a Novel. In three volumes.

Experimental Agriculture; being the Results of Past and Suggestions for I uture Experiments in Scientific and Practical Agriculture. By James F. W. Johnston, F.R.SS.L. and E., &c.

A Class-Book of English Poetry; comprehending Specimens of the most distinguished Poets from Chaucer to the Present Time, with Biographical Notices, numerous Explanatory Notes, and an Introductory Essay on the Origin and Progress of English Poetical Literature. By Daniel Scrym- geour, of Circus Place School, Edinburgh. [This Class-book differs from the old-fashioned "Readers" or "Speakers" in the wider range of its selections, and their higher aim. Mr. Scrymgeour begins with

Chaucer and ends with Talfourd and Tennyson ; including in the intermediate period names rarely found even in more ambitious and expensive poetical selec- tions,—such as Lydgate, Dunbar, and Sir David Lindsay. The object of the compiler, in fact, is to give a general idea of the history and progress of British poetry, while presenting a series of elegant extracts for reading or recital. As an aid to his purpose, he has prefixed a precis of the history. of English poetry, ar- ranged his specimens into mras, and given short critical and biographical notices of the authors. Mr. Scrymgeour has also added notes, and suggested a course of examination on the passages read, which is perhaps of necessity more grammatical than critical. Some objections, more easily made than remedied, might be urged to the scale of the selections from particular authors; but, taken altogether, the Class-Book of English Poetry is the best and compactest view of the subject we have seen, while it answers all the purposes of a poetical selection for advanced scholars.]

• Exercises in Attic Creek: for the use of Schools and Colleges. By A. R. Carson, LL.D., F.R.S.E., &c.

[This book is in reality Greek syntax illustrated and enforced by a series of examples, in which the rules of concord, government, and construction, are im- pressed upon the mind by the reiterated exercise of turning English into Greek. In this idea there is nothing new, it being the principle of all exercise-books. The value of Dr. Carson's publication consists in the clearness with which his rules are laid down and illustrated, the nicety with which refinements of expres- sion are pointed out, and the care with which the examples of Attic Greek have been selected, so as to remove from the pupil's attention the puzzle of various dialects.] A Voyage to the Slave Coasts of West and East Africa. By the Reverend Pascoe Grenfell Hillr R.N., Author of "Fifty Days on Board a Slave-Ves- ser [This tract has none of the horrors or specific information which characterized the author's "Fifty Days on Board a Slave-Vessel.' It narrates some incidents and observations during a sojourn at the Cape, a call at St. Helena, anti two cruizes in search of slavers,—one off the province of Benguela, the most Southerly slave producing district on the Western coast of Africa, another off the Mozambique coast opposite Madagascar. No captures of any consequence were made, though part of some slave crews were captured, and several stories about slavery picked up. The brochure chiefly consists of descriptions of scenery and observations on natural history, with remarks on slavery and the slave-trade. On two important points the Reverend Mr. Hill is clear: no blockade can be effective, and the at- tempt only aggravates the horrors of the trade.] Toil and Trial; a Story of London Life. To which are added, The Iron Rule, and A Story of the West-end. By Mrs. Newton Crosland, (late Camilla Toulmin,) Author of "Partners for Life," &c. With Frontispiece by John Leech. [Three tales illustrative of social evils. "Toil and Trial" is devoted to the hard- ships and temptations of assistants in shops where late hours are observed. " The Iron Rule " exhibits the consequences of too stern a discipline with children. "A Story of the West-end " is a tale of the sufferings of milliners from late hours, and of the temptations to which their position and the neglect of their employers expose them.] Adventures of a Medical Student. By Robert Douglas, Surgeon, Royal

Navy. With a Memoir of the Life of the Author. Second edition.

[To this new edition of a series of vigorously-written though somewhat coarse magazine tales a life of the author is prefixed. It exhibits a person of much energy, some self-conceit, and little principle; though part of his failings may be ascribed to circumstances and youth: Robert Douglas was but twenty-four when he died, and he had to force his way in the world.]

The Irishman at Home; Characteristic Sketches of the Irish Peasantry. With Illustrations on wood.

[Seven tales illustrative of Irish peasant life and character. "Portions" of them appeared in the Dublin Penny Journal, and they are now completed: by which we suppose is meant, that some of them have already appeared, since seven stories would hardly have been all begun and all left unfinished. They have the interest of story, but are literal and undramatic.]

Dustiana; or the Evening Adventures of a Weaver and a Chimney-sweep. By Henry Dier, A.M.

[A long story in doggrel verse, about the adventures of a chimney-sweep and his friend a ci-devant coachman, who being intrusted by Tibbs to take home his curricle, takes a drive of pleasure instead.] A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. By Henry D. Thoreau.

[This volume is an American importation. The Concord and Merrimack are two rivers of New Hampshire and Massachusetts. The title of the book would have led one to expect an agreeable series of excursionizing incidents and descriptions of landscape in a half-reclaimed state. There is something tbongh not much of these two subjects, but neither of them done in a very lively or attractive way. The bulk of the book consists of Mr. Thoreau's reveries, that might have been written anywhere: they are rather fiat, and not of a kind to interest] Tales of the Peerage and Peasantry. Edited by Lady Deere. (Standard Novels.) Heads of an Analysis of English and of French History, with a brief No- tice of Contemporary Events. For the use of Schools. By Dawson W. Turner, M.A. Second edition, with aduitione and corrections.

SERIALS.

German Literature. By Joseph Gostick, Author of "The Spirit of Ger- man Poetry." Part L (Chambers's Instructive and Entertaining Library.)

PRINT.

' Whittinetots. Painted by F. Newenham; engraved by T. A. Prior. (En- graved forthe Members of the Art Unionof Glasgow, for the year 1849.) {[The hoy. whose history forms so curious an, item in legendary lore—a legeed of the Mansionhoose, a myth of Guielhall—Richard Whittington, site on a bank, listening to the sound of Bow Bells, as their chimes recall him to his high civic destiny. Mr. Newenham has given• us a graceful. youth, somewhat too much comma ii Pant after modern fashions-too nearlylike Lawrence's portrait bf young ]fambton; but there is force in the rapt expression of the boy's handsome connte- =nice: one reads, as it were;the Alderman in his eye. The print is well engraved in line on steel, by Mr. T. A. Prior. It forms the :mania-gift of the Glasgow Art-Union to its subecribers.]

PAMPHLETS. A Charge delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of Chester, in 1842, at the Primary Visitation of John Bishop of Chester.

Law-ReformingDificulties, exemplified in a Letter to Lord Brougham and Vans; accompanied by an Analysis of a Bill for the Improvement of the Law relating to the Administration of Deceased Persons' Estates, and a --Supplement showieg its existing Evils, first submitted to the Government December 24,, 1842, hy-Thoinais Turner i Beckett; Attorney-at-law. An "Article" for Lord Brougham's Bankruptcy Digest; being Remarks upon a recent Letter. By a Practical Man. thogera: et Inquiry, Physiological and Pathological, into its Proximate Cause. By Prothero Smith, M.D., &c. Second edition. - Railways and Shareholders; with Glances at Railway Transactions,. Share- holden; Powers, Accounts And Audits, Railway Meetings, Defective Le- gislation, &e. By en Edinbro' Reviewer. Second edition.