PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

BOOKS.

Narrative of the Discoveries of Sir Charles Bell in the Nervous System. By ALEXANDER Sousa Assistant-Surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital. Documents and Dates of .1Iodern Discoveries in the :Verrone. System. [Two volumes on a subject which seems to be exciting some interest in the medical world—" Who are the authors of the modern discoveries respecting the nerves?" We shall return to the controversy, if not to settle it, at least to place it clearly before our readers.]

A Memoir of the Life, Travels, and Gospel Labours of George Fox, an eminent Minister of the Society of Friends.

[A compilation, partly from history, but principally from the journal of GEORGE Fox, the first and foremost promulgator of Quaker priimples; amid

who, though not actually the founder, consolidated the " Society of Friends."

The Memoir is somewhat meagre. in substance and formal in style ; the narrative wanting the fulness, vigour, and animation requisite to fuse

into one entire piece the fragments of an autobiography. The hook,

indeed, is better suited to the Friends themselves, than to the general reader ; for whom, however, the journal of so remarkable a character RS GEORGE Fox would possess the interest inherent in every record of the convictions and sufferings of a man actuated by exalted motives and a strong sense of duty and rectitude. The mixture of shrewd- ness and simplicity, of courage and caution, in his character, is admirable; but the inflexible constancy, uncompromising sincerity, and ardent self-devo.. Lion with which lie declared and maintained Ids principles—enduring persecu- tion with the patience and resolution of a martyr—were such as to give to human nature an aspect of sublimity. A sketch of the origin, early history, and tenets of the sect, precedes the Memoir ; and an account of the " Insti- tution of the Discipline " of the Society is appended.] Antipopopriestian; or, an Attempt to Liberate and Purify Christianity from Popery, Politikirkality, and Priestrule. By JOIIN ROGERS. [ A vary strange book—an olla podrida of the author's opinions, expressed in lan- guage of an unmeasured kind, but whose quaintness, and the evident good

faith of the writer in all he his putting forth, redeem it from coarseness. The hest thing in the volume, if its facts are accurate, is the introductory chart, in which the writer chronologically exhibits at a single view the :era of the origin of the different corruptions of Popery.] Tegg's Hand-book for Emigrants; containing Useful Information and Practical Directions on domestic, mechanical, surgical, medical, and other subjects, calculated to increase the comforts, and add to the con- veniences of the Colonist.

[This little volume contains various lists of articles which the emigrant should carry out ; instructions in a number of trades, which he may have occasion to

practice ; directions for medicines, and a medicine-chest ; together with a rather elaborate "Domestic Medicine and Surgery." Something useful may no doubt he picked out from its pages, if the reader, on perusing the varied

accomplishments a colonist ought to possess, should not be deterred from emi- grating at all. But there is a great deal more of bookish theory in it, than of practical knowledge.]

A Practical Treatise on Accounts, Mercantile, Partnership, Solicitor's, Private, Steward's, Receiver's, Executor's, Trustee's, &c. : exhibiting a

view of the discrepancies between the system of the Law and of Mer- chants; with a Plan for the Amendment of the Law of Partnership, by which such discrepancies may be reconciled, and partnership disputes and accounts adjusted. By Isaac PRESTON Cony, Fellow of Caine College, Cambridge, Barrister-at-Law. Second edition. [The appearance, in a short space of time, of a second edition of a work which could have no attraction beyond the utility of its subjects and the lucid manner in which theyawera handled, jastifies the favourable notice we gave of Mr. CORY'S volume on its first appearance, It also indicates, we imagine, the

earnestness with which any feasible plan for reforming the law is atteuded to. Good as the work is, we suspect the Treatise on Accounts alone would not have been in such demand : it was the Plan for the Amendment of the Law of Part- nerships which carried off the edition.]

Sketches in Ireland, descriptive of interesting portions of the Counties of Donegal, Cork, and Kerry. By the Author of "A Tour ht naught." Second edition, corrected. [A new edition of one of the most lively and characteristic pictures of the scenery and peasantry of Ireland ; full of amusing anecdote, humorous ad- venture, and legendary stories, illustrating the habits and character of the people and the superstitions of the country.] Every Lady her own Flower-Gardener. Addressed to the industrious and economical only. By LouisA JOHNSON.

[A cheap and pretty little manual of simple and concise directions fur the ma- nagement of a bower-garden. Its circulation will tend to increase the number of female thwiculturists, and improve the appearance, not only of the parterre, but of the fair gardeners also—by promoting out-door occupation.] .17/e French Master for the Nursery; or early Lessons in French. By Iseemse Professor of the French Language, author of "L'Echo de Park,"

[The plan of this "first French book" consists in giving a series of progres- sive lessons wholly of French ; beginning with words amid sentencesin common use, and proceeding with simple stories and fables in prose and verse, to the niceties of the language ; the key to the meanings being placed at the end of the book, in the form of notes.] Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, among the Flying Indians in the South 'liken aken from his own mouth, in Ins passage to England, off Cape Horn, in America, iu the ship Hector ; by IL S., a passenger. By Roomer PALTOCK.

[Peter Wilkins is mo; of those popular fictions that is better known than the name of its author, which now appears in the titlepage for the first time. Any recommendation of a book stamped with the approbation of successive gene- rations of juvenile readers, were superfluous.]

The First Principles of Religion, and the Evidence of a Deity, explained in a series of Dialogues adapted to the capacity of the infant mind. A new edition revised. [An ingenious attempt to explain the mysteries of revealed religion to the compregension of a child, but only successful up to a certain point. In this book, as in actual experience, the innocence, of childhood by a simple pertinent inquiry often confounds the " philosophy " of the teacher.]

SERIALS.

WigOand Slwiches : a series of Characteristic Portraits of Trees, adapted

for studies for :Mists and amateurs. Drawn from Nature and on stone, by Ccottale CHILDS. With Historical, Poetical, and Miscellaneous Descriptions, by the Author of " Sentiment of Flowers," &c. Parts Ill, and IV.

A History of British Birds. By Wisaran l'aonnats F.L.S , V.P.Z.S. Part XIV. A Geacral Outline of the Animal Kingdom. By THOMAS RYMER JONES, F.Z.S. Part VII.

.Nino PERIODICAL.

An Eneyehnnedia of Rural Sports. By D. P. BLAINE. Part I. [The plan of this work is comprehensive ; including hunting, shoothe*, cours- ing, hawking, horse-racing, and cock-fighting, in all their details ; and it aims at practical usefulness tl.ir the sportsman as well us popular information and amusement for the general reader. This number treats of the wild'sports of foreign nations, and of the early English; being a sort of introductory epitome of the history of the chase, bringing it down to -the present time. The author has compressed a great deal or various and interesting matter into a small corn- pass ; giving succinct descriptions of every kind of sporting, from tiger and elephant-hunting to bear and boar-shooting. The pages arc very full of matter, well-selected amid arranged, and inlaid with a number of spirited little wood.. cuts, engraved by BRANSTON from designs by Thomas LANDSEER, ALREN, and other artists of celebrity for sporting subjects.]

PAMPHLET.

A Sermon preached in Norwich Cathedral, on Sunday 18th August 1839, by the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Norwich, before an assem- blage of a body of Mechanics termed Chartists.