PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED,

From September 29th to October 12th.

Bongs.

Ireland and its Rulers since 1829. Part the First.

Sir Cosmo Digby ; a Tale of the Monmouthshire Riots. By JAMES AUGUSTUS ST. Josue Author of "The History of the Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece," &c. In three volumes.

The Despatches of Hernando Cortes, the Conqueror of Mexico, addressed to the Emperor Charles V., written during the Conquest, and con- taining a Narrative of its Events. Now first translated icto English from the original Spanish, with an Introduction and Notes, by GEORGE FOLSOM, one of the Secretaries of the New York Historical Society, &c. Familiar !Letters on Chemistry, and its relations to Commerce, Physiology, and Agriculture. By dvterus Limn°, M.D., Ph. 1)., F.& S., Professor of Chemistry in the University of Giessen. Edited by Jose GARDNER, M.D., &c.

Observations on Days of Unusual Magnetic Disturbance, made at the British Colonial Magnetic Observatories, under the departments of the Ordnance and Admiralty. Printed by the British Government under the superintendence of Lieutenant-Colonel SABINE, of the Royal Artil- lery. Part I. 1840-1841 Narrative of the Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet, in Calithr- nia, Sonora, and Western Texas. Written by Captain MARIIYAT, C.B. In three volumes.

Ruins and Old Trees associated with Memorable Events in English His- tory. By MARY ROBERTS, Author of " The Progress of Creation con- sidered with reference to the Present Condition of the Earth," &e. With Illustrations from designs by GILBERT, engraved by FOLKARD. The Greek Ecclesiastical Historians of the first Six Centuries of the Christian Era. In six volumes. Volume V.

Poems, Original and Translated. By CHARLES RAHN KENNEDY, Esq. Lighter Hours; a Series of Poems. By an Etonian. [The first poem of the aeries is called "Early Reminiscences"; in which the Etonian imitates neither the narrative nor the descriptive bat the reflective parts orClti/de Harolde; being very melancholy and mystical, in an echo-like way: the only passages having a shade of reality are reminiscences of some school-companions magnified into Byronic heroes. The next poem is called " Evening"; ; and is a series of fragments, imitative of The Giaour : but, in- stead of being fragments of a tale, they are only disjointed fancies and reveries of the Etonian during an evening walk. The third is " A Tale of Woe." Somewhere about twilight, the Eton scholar is on the banks of a river, and sees an unknown person, who is thus introduced- " Who walks the bank of yonder stream ? A stranger, by his garb 'twould seem. A circling cloak his form conceals ; His face the twilight half reveals ; There's something in his mien and air 'Twist settled grief and wild despair. Methinks, he waits for deeper night; Earth still fur him loath too much light. He stops awhile-his earnest eye Is raised to Heaves imploringly. Is he enamour'd of you star,

Assume have been perchance, and are ?

No. no; it marmot be: his age Suits less the lover than the sage. And yet-again his steps advauce. As one awakeu'd from a trance. Slow-mute- immeasurably slow. As if their sound was fraught with fear, Which e'en appall'd himself to hear. Yet mark -his steps are changed-and lo I They gather swiftness as they go. Why hurries lie so wild and fast? For see. you yew-tree is not pass'd: He turns again. yet hurries still : I fear this bodes some deed of ill, Which I might be in time to sate - I dare nut think the bubbling wave: I will approach him yet more near."

In the interval of a blank with asterisks, the pair fall into conversation ; and when the poem goes on again, the stranger in the cloak is intimating suicide in a high-pitched speech, but not at all distinguished by the pregnant terseness that is held to be characteristic of persons about to die. However, we gather from it, that the unknown was very rich, but exceedingly ugly : a lady never- theless fell in love with him—or at least was about to marry him ; but she die. d before that happy consummation, and the stranger has determined to make away with himself. This he accomplishes, by jumping into the river ; the Etonian taking no steps either to prevent the " rash act " or to " rescue the unhappy gentleman from his perilous situation."

These longer poems are followed by a variety of shorter ones, on occasional subjects; some of which are better than the larger productions, as the topics are more real, and more within the writer's powers. They, however, rather exhibit a turn for poetry, with a knack at versification, than display the germs of a poet.] Gleanings frost the South, East, and West. By a Daughter of the late Author of " The Cambrian Plutarch," &c.

[Three simple and rather elegant little tales: " The Huguenot," a story of religious persecution in the last century, but told by one of the survivors at the Cape of Good Hope, and introduced by a sketch of the colony,—which is the South : " The Cingalese Converts," a tale of the conversion of a young native chief and his sister, who marries the young missionary that preservet1 her from her native idolatry,—and this is the East : the West is represented by " The Two Bridals," the scene of a good part of which is laid in Barbados and Jamaica.]

Hours of Meditation and Devotional Reflection, upon various subjects connected with the Religious, Moral, and Social Duties of Life. B_y HEINRICH ZSCIIOKKE. Translated from the German, by JAMES D.

HAAS, Translator of Dr. Krummacher's " Elijah the Tishbite," [This is a selection of discourses from a German work in eight volumes, which, has for many years enjoyed an extensive circulation in Germany and Switzer- land; probably from the sound common sense, of a commonplace kind, that appears to be the characteristic of the author. The five-and-twenty papers selected for translation by Mr. Hess, form a series of essays or sermons (for the title of " meditation" &c. will not suggest a correct idea of the book to the English reader) on the principal duties and circumstances of social life, with a few on religious topics or historical events—as "the Destruction of Jeru- salem." The morality is not over severe or exacting ; the religious tone not mystical, but rather, it appears to us, akin to the prevailing feeling among High Church people in this country some time ago; and the style and general views of the writer, such as are likely to find favour with the mass of sen- sible common sort of people, making allowance for the difference between. Germany and England.)

Guide to the Madeiras, Azores, British and Foreign West Indies, Mexico, and Northern South America ; compiled from documents specially fur- nished by the Agents of the Royal Mail Steam-packet Company, and. other authentic sources. With a Description of the Passage across the Isthmus of Panama: illustrated with Charts. By JOHN Osnoass, Passenger Department, London Office.

[A descriptive account of the different places to which the Royal Mail Steam- packet Company conveys passengers in the Atlantic islands, the West Indies, or the continent of America; with some useful hints for strangers who may laud at any station, as regards the accommodation to be there met with and the rate of cost,—which last is dear enough. The book also contains very elaborate particulars as to the Company's steamers, and the vessels that sail in conjunc- tion with them to the less important places ; as well as a variety of useful di- rections and hints to persons about to travel in the line. The statistical and geographical particulars of the Guide are derived from obvious sources; the more general descriptions from late travellers, among whom COLERIDGE and the BULLARS conspicuously figure: but an original hand has written a per- sonified account of the outward voyage to Madeira, in the style of a rhetorical clerk, who has qualified himself by Channel excursions to command his legs and stomach in a gale that sends the majority to their hammocks.] The Fundamental Principles of Modern Judaism Investigated; together with a Memoir of the Author, and an Introduction. To which are ap- pended, a List of the six hundred and thirteen Precepts ; and Addresses to Jews and Christians. By MOSES MARGOLIOUTEL of Trinity College, Dublin. With a Preface by the Reverend HENRY RAISES, A.M., Chancellor of the Diocese of Chester.

[The author of this volume is a Polish Jew, who was converted to Christianity on a visit to England. The greater part of the book consists of an account of the formal observances and formulas of the Jews, and will have little attraction but for those who are already interested in the subject. The notes explanatory of the practices of foreign Jews, (for the author ranks the English Jews as "semi-Infidels,") and his memoir of his own conversion to Christianity, have more general interest.] The Works of William Jay, Collected and Revised by Himself. Volume VIIL Containing Memoirs of the late Reverend John Clark, &seam and various Sermons,

[The bulk of this volume consists of sermon', or discourses with the chasactim of sermons, and which might have been delivered instead of printed. "TLS Memoirs of the late John Clark," a Dissenting minister, is Mr. CLARK.* au- tobiography, which Dr. JAY edited and prepared for publication.] The Invisible Universe Disclosed; or the real Plan and Government of the Universe. By HENRY COLEMAN JOHNSON, Esq.

[The Invisible Universe Disclosed is not very easily understood : so far as we can comprehend the book, it appears to be mathematics run mad. Of the twelve demonstrations which the author undertakes, one is to square the circle ; and another concerns " the entire ignited body called the sun, and the entire fertile bodies called planets ": in which Mr. Jorttmori demonstrates the errors of the present system of astronomy.]

Posthumous Extracts from the Veterinary Records of the late John Field. Edited by his Brother, WILLIAM FIELD, Veterinary Surgeon, London. [A collection of remarkable cases of disease in the horse, observed by the late Mr. FIELD during his extensive practice; with a few papers on particular dis- eases, either read before the Veterinary Medical Society, or, seemingly, sketched with that end in view. To pass a decided judgment upon the veteri- nary value of the volume, is beyond our power; but the cases appear to be noted with a scrupulous accuracy, and described with great clearness in their symptoms, treatment, and post mortem examination. We should con- ceive the work likely to be of considerable utility to veterinary surgeons,—who, lucky people, do not as yet appear overburdened with books on their business ;

and not without interest to the medical practitioner who would study compara- tive surgery as well as comparative anatomy.] The Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Volume Ill. .Part I. [The fifth volume of this extensive work (for volume it is, whatever nominal subdivision may be used) contains a vast number of names, the principal of which are ancient or classical : and their treatment exhibits that originahty of judgment and independence of research of which we have formerly spoken. Whether in their scale of treatment more regard is not paid to the eminence of the person and the materials at the writer's disposal than to the end of a biographical dictionary, may be questioned.] Pounds, Shillings, and Pence; or a series of money calculations on a novel system. By T. MARTIN, Accountant. Fifth edition, carefully revised and corrected.

[There is nothing that calls for notice in this short cut to practical arithmetic, of which many thousands have been sold, except a reduction of the price to eighteenpence.] Le Page's French School. Part IL Gift of Conversation. Second edition. And a Key. [A collection of conversational terms and phrases, arranged in chapters having some alight relation to a general subject, with an appendix exhibiting the prin- cipal words. The Key is a full translation of the French School.] Knight's Cabinet Edition of the Works of William Shakspere, Volume 1X. Weale's Quarterly Papers on Architecture, Part I.

Weales Quarterly Papers on Engineering, Part I. [The object of these two publications is to collect in a permanent form, corre- sponding with that of the Transactions of learned societies, and at a moderate price, substantive information on Engineering and Architectural matters, that may be too valuable and extended for the monthly and other periodicals devoted to technical subjects, though not of sufficient bulk and importance to justify their being printed separately. These collections are to embrace essays, bio- graphies, translations of foreign scientific treatises, and accounts of new edi- fices and machinery, and curious relics of antiquity, at home and abroad, illus- trated in the fullest manner by plates. They promise to be valuable and in- teresting.

The First Part of the Papers on Engineering contains memoirs and portraits of JAMES BRINDLES, who introduced navigable canals into England, and WILLIAM CHAPMAN, the inventor of oblique or skew arches ; a sketch of the history of the Dredging-machine ; delineations and description of the Engines of the Kamschatka Russian steam-frigate, whose furnaces consume anthracite coal; and Hints for the Improvement of the Steam-engine.

The First Part of the Papers on Architecture consists of an Essay on Ar- chitectural Design ; plans of the Greenwich Poorhouse, which has been termed the "Model Union Workhouse"; a Memoir of VITBUVIUS MORRISON, an Irish architect of extraordinary genius, who died young; coloured plates of some fine specimens of old stained glass from York ; and drawings of the rich and quaint carved doors of some of the timber churches of Norway. The plates in this Part are fourteen in number, four of them being coloured.]

A Journey Round my Room, and a Nocturnal Expedition Round my Room. Translated from the French of Count XAVIER DE MAISTRE, General in the Russian Service, &c. (Smith's Standard Library.) [A translation of a French work written when STERNE was in vogue upon the Continent ; though Count XAVIER DE MAISTRE was deficient in the

Ethos, wit, and learning of his prototype. A Journey Round my Room, either day or night, is not, as many might suppose from the titles, an account of the contents of the chamber, leading to a theme for discussing science, art, and travels,—a plan which is now getting rather stale; but a mere fanciful rhapsody,

the most real parts giving a description (after STERNE) of the makes ser- vant. There is some elegance of manner in the style, but the book was not worth translating for a "standard library."] Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, Part IV. London, Part XXXL Bra's Martin Chuzzlewit, No. X.

Captain Knox's Harry .Mowbray, Part X.

Lover's L. S. D., Part X.

Our Mesa, No. XXIL

The Lollar& ; a Tale of the fifteenth century. By the Author of "The

Mystery, or Forty Years Ago," &c. (Novel Newspaper, Part LXVIIL) The Miller of Deanhaugh, Part VII. The Steam-packet, Part VII.

Popular Flowers.—The Tulip. Horse-shoe Nails, No. III. PERIODICALS.

Edinburgh Review, No. CLVIJL Dublin Review, No. XXIX.

British and Foreign Review, No. XXXI. Foreign and Colonial Quarterly Review, No. IV. Journal of Agriculture, No. IL (New Series.) New Farmer's Magazine, No. XXVII. New York Democratic Review for September. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, No. CXXXI. Magazines for October—Dublin University, British, Church, Artist and Amateur's, Artisan, Herald of Peace, Phreno-Magnet.

ILLUSTRATED WORKS AND PRINTS.

Baronial Halls, Picturesque Edifices, and Ancient Churches of England. Drawn in lithotint by J. D. HARDING. Edited by S. C. HALL, F.S.A. Part I.

[This handsome work is essentially of a popular and picturesque character, cal- culated to supply the desire for views and descriptions of time-honoured edifices that are identified with the history of old English families: it makes no pre- tensions to antiquarian research or architectural science, but relies for its suc- cess on the interest of the subject and the attractiveness of the illustrations. The work is to be divided into counties, commencing with Kent : the places figured and described in the First Number are Cobham Hall and Church, and West Stow Hall. The plates are executed in lithotint, by Mr. HARDING ; who has given a different character to this new and beautiful art from any other spe- cimens that have appeared. This he has effected by the union of engraving with the washes of the lithotint : the appearance of the prints resembles etch- ings shaded with Indian ink and heightened with white lights ; thus combining minute details of form and crispness of texture with painter-like freedom of touch. The view of Cobham Hall shows the oldest portion of the building, and is enlivened by a group of figures tastefully thrown into the foreground. Both the Hall and the interior of the Church, from sketches by Mr. HARD- ING, are full of light and 'atmosphere : the interior in particular is re- markable for purity and delicacy of tone. The view of West Stow Hall is the quaint old gateway, sketched by MULLER i he has introduced some figures in the old costume ; which can only be done with propriety in those rare in- stances where the edifice retains its pristine character. The descriptive text is embellished with wood-cuts, of the porch of the mansion, the church-tower and font, and other characteristic features of Cobham.] Manual for Students of British Architecture ; containing a brief des- cription of its characteristic features, by which the dates of our cathedral

and other churches may be easily known ; a table showing the duration of each style, a list of cathedrals, and the styles to which the different parts belong, and a copious glossary of architectural terms. A Tabular Display of British Architecture. By ARCHIBALD BARRING- TON, M.D.

[By the aid of this little pamphlet and the chart of architectural details ac- companying it, any person previously unacquainted with architecture may learn to discriminate the various styles and dates of Gothic structures. The examples in the Tabular Display are sufficiently numerous and characteris- tic to embrace the distinctive peculiarities cf each style; and the text referring to them supplies the requisite verbal information. The references are in several instances inaccurate : this may puzzle the tyro, and should be rectified.]

Ecclesiastical Architecture, Part I.—Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts. [This cheap and elegant little work chiefly appeals to the interest now so ex- tensively felt in the study of ecclesiastical architecture: but the various cha- racter of the old fonts—some of them remarkable for beauty of design, others for the richness of their sculptured decoration, and all curious as relics of antiquity—together with the finished execution of the wood-engravings- renders it attractive in a pictorial point of view. This Part contains accurate and effective delineations of sixteen fonts, no two of them alike: each font is figured on a separate leaf, with a concise notice of its style, date, material, and present condition, on the opposite page.]

Canterbury Pilgrims at the Tabard Inn, Southwark, previously to setting out on their Pilgrimage to Thomas a Becket's Tomb at Canterbury. Painted by EDWARD CORBOULD ; engraved by C. E. WAGSTAFF. The Momentous Question. Painted by SARAH SETCHEL ; engraved by SAMUEL BiLLIN.

[These two engravings, we are informed, constitute a portion of the six hun- dred prizes of Mr. Bors's "Fine Art Distribution "; a print and picture lottery, which is to be drawn at Exeter Hall next Wednesday week ; but we can only regard them independently of the lottery-scheme. The Canterbury Pilgrims is the least theatrical of Mr. E. CoRisouLD's poetical designs, and makes a picturesque costume-piece; but the holyday aspect of the groups, and the weak, conventional, characterless faces, convey no idea of the scene so graphically described by CHAUCER. We may trace the pil- grims by their dresses, though these are too much after the fashion of fancy-ball costumes; but the stamp of individuality and antiquity is not on them. This is not the company that CHAUCER drew. The engraving, effec- tive and brilliant in some parts, is deficient in the delineation of form, and will hardly bear close scrutiny : the print, like the picture, may attract the eye and please superficial observers, but it will hardly satisfy those who are read in CHAUCER or conversant with works of art. CORBOULD will not do after STOTHARD.

The Momentous Question is the title given to the print from that striking and impressive picture, exhibited the year before last at the New *Water-colour Society, which established Miss SETCHEL'S reputation as a designer. It illus- trates a scene from one of CRABBE'S Tales, where a devoted maiden goes to her lover in prison, and asks him if he will consent to save himself by giving her up to his rival and accuser. This is the "momentous question "; and it is one that the face of the girl in the print does not seem to be waiting for an answer to : her look of grief and concern is too feebly wretched for so resolute a spirit at such a moment. The struggle of the miserable man is more appa- rent in his attitude. The engraving is elaborate and effective; though it wants the depth and lustre of the chiaroscuro in the original.] Pictorial History of England, Part LXXIX. Gailhabaud's Ancient and Modern Architecture, Part XIIL Miss Corner's History of China and India, Part IX. Pictorial Museum of Animated Nature, Part IX. British Moths and their Transformations, No. XX1V.

PAMPHLETS.

Letters on Law Reform, to the Right Honourable Sir J. R. G. Graham, Bart., M.P., Secretary of State for the Home Department, from Lord BROUGHAM.

On Subscription to Articles of Faith : a Plea for the Liberties of the Scottish Universities, with special reference to the Free Church Pro- fessors. By Joins STUART BLACKIE, Professor of Humanity in Maris- chal College, Aberdeen. Railway Reform ; its Expediency and Practicability Considered. Second edition, revised and considerably enlarged. The Phrenological Theory of the Treatment of Criminals Defended, in a Letter to John Forbes, Esq., M.D., &c., Editor of the British and Foreign Medical Review. By M. B. SAMPSON. A Review of Dr. Pusey's Sermon; and the Doctrine of the Eucharist according to the Church of England. By the Reverend JAMES GAR, BETT, M.A., Rector of Clayton, Sussex, and Professor of Poetry in the University of Oxford.