PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED,

From July 7th to July 13th.

BOOKS.

Personal Observations on Rindh, the Manners and Customs of its In- habitants, and its productive Capabilities; with a sketch of its his- tory, a narrative of recent events, and an account of the connexion of the British Government with that country to the present period. By T. POSTANS, M.R.A.S., Br. Captain, Bombay Army, and late Assistant to the Political Agent in Sindh and Biluchistan. -Rams as it Was under Paganism and as it Became under the Popes. In two volumes.

Some Account of the African Remittent Fever which occurred on board H. M. Steam-ship Wilberforce, in the River Niger, and whilst engaged on service on the Western Coast of Africa; comprising an Inquiry into the Causes of Disease in Tropical Climates. By MORRIS PRICHETT, M.D., &c., late Surgeon of H. M. S. Wilberforce. Letters of Mary Queen of Scots. Now first published from the originals, collected from various sources, private as well as public, with an Historical Introduction and Notes. By AGNES STRICKLAND, Author of " The Lives of the Queens of England." In two volumes.

The Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest ; with Anecdotes of their Courts, now first published from official records and other authentic documents, private as well as public. By AGNES STRICKLAND. Volume VL Dodd's Church History of England from the Commencement of the Sixteenth Century to the Revolution in 1688. With Notes, Additions, and a Continuation by the Reverend M. A. TIERNEY, F.R.S., F.S.A. Volume V.

Hydropathy. The Theory, Principles, and Practice of the Water Cure, shown to be in accordance with medical science and the teachings of common sense; illustrated with many important cases. By EDWARD Jonstsox, M.D., Author of " Life, Health, and Disease." With nine engravings. [An examination or exposition of the Cold Water Cure, in order to recom- mend its adoption in this country. The book consists of four parts; the first containing facts—that is, cases of cures, mostly performed by Pitiessurrx; the second and third parts consider LIEBIG'S theory of life, and the views of Dr. BILLING on the origin of disease, in order to show that they both unde- signedly support the principle of hydropathy ; the last section, which the author calls " Common Sense," chiefly consists of a series of arguments drawn from the practices and health of various classes of society, especially of agri- cultural labourers.

The book is plainly and popularly written, but with a confident determina- tion to support his own views, which by no means induces the same confidence in the promulgator on the reader's part. It is perhaps proper to observe that the author of this volume is not the celebrated Dr. James JOHNSON, but Dr.

EDWARD JOHNSON.]

A Tribute to Hydropathy. By J. E. EARDLEY WILMOT, Esq., Barrister- at-Law.

[This tiny book very pleasantly gives an account of Mr. WILMOT'S ex- periences touching the Water Cure at Stansted-Bury, an institution for "the votaries of bydropathy, about twenty-three miles from London, on the North- eastern Railway, and about four miles from the town of Ware." Finding him- self very unwell, Mr. WILMOT travelled thither on the recommendation of a friend ; and returned cured, after submitting to the hydropatbic regulations and regimen ; among which is an important but almost impracticable rule to thousands in this country—" all mental exertion is absolutely forbidden." The narrative of his sojourn at the house, and his account of the successive processes he submitted to, have some interest ; and though many may not be persuaded into the adoption of the cold-water cure by his enthusiasm, we think those who do attempt it will feel inclined to go to Stansted-Bury, or some other English establishment, rather than to Graefenberg, with its sordid table, such as Dr. EDWARD JOHNSON describes it. But if delicate people take our advice, they will avoid the experiment anywhere.] The Medical Friend ; or Advice for the Preservation of Health. By JAMES PAXTON, M.D. [A little compendium of sensible advice respecting air, clothing, diet, drinking, and some pretty common habits—as bathing, snuff-taking. There is little new in the remarks—little but what may be found in popular medical writers on the subject : but the rules are put into a small compass, and The Medical Friend can hardly be called a mere compilation. The matter, though common property, belongs to Dr. PAXTON as well; and the touch of quaint- ness in his style renders his little book agreeable as well as informing.] The Cape of Good Hope and the Eastern Province of Algoa Bay, &e. &c.; with Statistics of the Colony. By Jona CENTLIVRES Comm, Esq.., a Settler of 1820, Secretary to the Society for Exploring Central Africa, Author of a Map of the Colony, &c. Edited by Mr. JOSEPH S. CHRISTOPHERS.

[The greater part of this volume may be said to be statistics, in one form or other, compiled with a view to recommend the Cape of Good Hope, especially the Eastern District, as a favourable field for emigration. The book consists of three sections; the first containing a geographical description and history of the colony; the second part is of a miscellaneous character, embracing government,

law, religion, agriculture, and trade—the last two very fully treated ; the third section points out the advantages of the colony, and offers various hints and directions to emigrants; and, though not devoid of statistics, it is the least sta- tistical of the three.] The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. With an Essay on his Lan- guage and Versification, and an Introductory Discourse ; together with Notes and a Glossary. By Tito/des TYRWHITT. [This is another contribution by Mr. Moxore towards presenting our standard English literature in a compact form at a reasonable price. Here, in a single handsome volume, we have the whole cf TYKWHITT'S well-known edition of CHAUCER, with such few additional facts as later researches have discovered respecting the poet and his works. And it is to be borne in mind, that this is not merely a reprint of the Canterbury Tales • but of all such poems as TYR- WHITT finally considered were written by CHAUCER, together with some of which he entertained suspicion. Besides this complete text, the prefaces and

annotations contain all the facts that are known of the poet's life, present

a succinct view of the state of our language and literature before and during the times of CHAUCER, and give an explanation of particular difficulties, to- gether with some critical remarks on the origin and character of the poems; whilst theglossary not only explains the obsolete words of CHAUCER, but serves, (as TYRWHITT, in his first edition, observed such a work would before he began it,) as a dictionary of old English.]

Notes of a Tour through Turkey, Greece, Egypt, and Arabia Petra, to

the Holy Land : including a Visit to Athens, Sparta, Delphi, Cairo, Thebes, Mount Sinai, Petra, &c. By E. JOY MORRIS, an American Traveller. With Notes, and an Appendix, by the English Publisher. [A cheap reprint of an American book of travels, over ground "traversed so oft " that there is not much of freshness left, especially as Mr. JOY MORRIS, though a pleasant "get-along" writer, has no particular quality either of nature or learning to give originality to his observations and descriptions. The most remarkable pomts about him are occasional touches of florid writing, with a pretty sprinkling of quotations from BYRON, and the obvious though natural interest with which he regards every.. thing European. The appendix, by the English publisher, consists of Egyptian statistics, drawn up from LANE sad WILKINSON : the notes, by the same hand, are corrective not of the facts but of the sentiments of Mr. Moans.] Nature; Napoleon's Entry into Hades ; and other Poems. By BENXA, MEN WALE.

[Nature, the principal poem in this little volume of homely typography, is a reflecto-descriptive poem suggested by a country ramble in a summer's day. The reflections comparing warlikegreatneas with natural beauties, seem to have been suggested by SHELLEY'S Queen blab; to which the versification of Nature bears some resemblance: but, amidst a mass of imitative though clever

and fluent generality, a passage on the love of flowers is worth noting, as a picture fresh both in conception and execution.]

Launcelot of the Lake; a Tragedy, in five acts. By C. J. RIETIIMULLER. Tecumseh ; or the West Thirty Years Since. A Poem. By GEORGE H. COLTON.

Bible Events. First series. Illustrated with pictures designed by HANS Houterte. Edited by FELIX SOMBERLY. (The Home Treasury.) Little Red Riding Hood. An entirely new edition. With new pictures by an eminent artist. Edited by FELix SUMMERLY. (The Home Treasury.) [The elegant style in which these little books for children are got up, and the pretty coloured prints that illustrate them, are their chief attractions. The new pictures of " Little Red Riding Hood " are admirable fur their homely simplicity, and just the kind of designs to take the fancy of a child : HOL- REIN'S Bible.cuts are too quaint, we fear, to please the young ; to whom the old German style is likely to prove a stumblingblock : children cannot be ex- pected, like adults, to make allowance for the age and country in which the artist lived.]

Popular Tales and Legenes.

[A selection of Fairy tales and romantic legends, including German and other national and local superstitions, both of a droll and mystical character ; Bowdlerized on account of the young readers for whom this pretty and amusing little volume is intended. The object of the editor has been to furnish an in- nocent recreation calculated to awaken the imaginative faculties, and create a thirst for the marvellous and mysterious in youthful minds, as a relief to the too exclusive cultivation of the perceptive and reasoning powers.] The Redbreast, and other Tales. From the German.

The Bird's Nest, and other Tales. From the German.

[Nice little moral talcs for children.]

The Rhine; from the French of VICTOR HUGO. By D. M. Amin, Author of " The Student's French Grammar," &c.

SERIALS.

Austria. By J. G. KOHL. In two parts. Part II. (Foreign Library.) Thornton's History of the British Empire in India, Vol. V. Part IV.

PERIODICALS.

British and Foreign Review, No. XXX. British Quarterly Journal of Dental Surgery, No. II. North of England Magazine for July.

ILLUSTRATED WORKS AND PRINTS.

Felix Summerly's Handbook for the National Gallery; with Reminiscences of the most celebrated Pictures, drawn from the originals, by Joan, JAMES, and WILLIAM LINNELL.

[An explanatory and illustrated catalogue of the pictures in the national col- lection ; not only useful in the gallery, but serviceable in recalling the charac- teristics of the most remarkable works. The design and arrangement of light and dark of the pictures are given with painter-like spirit and feeling in the numerous wood-cuts and glyphographs ; which, small and rough as they are, convey vivid impressions of the composition and effect of the originals. They are executed by the sons of Mr. LINNELL ; who have shown themselves worthy pupils of their father, to whose teaching they do honour. In a prefatory advertisement, Mr. HENRY COLE makes a statement in which Mr. JOSEPH HOME cuts a very shabby figure. It appears that the " Penny Catalogue" which the Member for Montrose vaunted in his place in Parlia- ment Of having printed at his own expense, pro bono public°, was actually pi- rated from one of the cheap catalogues of FELIX SUMMER LY : he it was who first published popular handbooks at a penny, threepence, and sixpence respectively, which were subsequently pirated by an Old Bailey firm, and called " Mr. Hume's Catalogues.") Roberts's Sketches in the Holy Land, Egypt, Arabia, and Syria. Part X.

PAMPHLETS.

An Account of some remarkable Applications of the Electric Fluid to the Useful Arts by Mr. Alexander Bain ; with a Vindication of his claim to be the first inventor of the Electro-magnetic Printing Telegraph, and also of the Electro-magnetic Clock. By JOHN FINLAISON, Esq., Actuary of the National Debt Office, and Government-calculator.

[Mr. Run's ingenious and beautiful inventions, the Electro-magnetic Clock and Printing Telegraph, are fully described and illustrated by diagrams in

this publication. it also sets forth the grounds on which he rests his claim to priority, of invention, in a full and satisfactory manner ; and combats, we think successfully, the opposition to them : others also may have entertained the idea of similar applications of Electro-magnetic agency, but it is pretty clear that to Mr. BAIN belongs the merit of putting it into a practical shape, and this by his own unassisted ingenuity and mechanical skill.] The Real Monster Evil of Ireland. By AUGUSTUS G. STAPLETON, Esq., formerly Private Secretary to the Right Honourable George Canning.

A Memoir on the North-eastern Boundary, in connexion with Mr. Jay's Map. By the Hon. ALBERT GALLATIN, LL.D., &c., formerly one of the Commissioners under the Treaty of Ghent, Minister to Great Britain, &e. Together with a Speech on the same subject by the Hon. DANIEL WEBSTER, LL.D., Secretary of State, &c., delivered at a special meeting of the New York Historical Society, 15th April 1843. Illustrated by a copy of the " Jay Map." Strictures on the Speech of Lord Ducie on the Corn-laws ; delivered at the meeting held at the Hall of Commerce, in the City of London, on Mon- day 29th May 1843.

Defeat of the Anti-Corn-law League in Huntingdonshire. The Speech of Mr. GEORGE GAME DAY on that occasion, at Huntingdon, 17th June 1843; with Notes and Additions.

Facts and Observations relative to the Influence of Manufactures upon Health and L. By DANIEL NOBLE, M.R.C.S., &c.