PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Booss.

Personal Narrative of Exploration and Incidents in Texas, New _Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua, connected with the United States and Mexican Boundary Commission, during the years 1850, '51, '52, and '53. By John Russell Bartlett, United States' Commissioner during that period. In two volumes. With Map and Illustrations. The Jordan and the Rhine; or the East and the West. Being the Result of five years' Residence in Syria and five years' Residence in Germany. By the Reverend William Graham, Member of the Royal Irish Academy, &c.

Types of Mankind: or Ethnological Researches, based upon the ancient monuments, painting, sculptures, and crania of races, and upon their natural, geographical, philological, and Biblical history ; illustrated by selections from the inedited Papers of Samuel George Morton, M.D., late President of the Academy of Natural Sciences at Philadel- phia, and by additional Contributions from Professor L. Agassiz, LL.D., W. Usher, 11.D., and Professor S. Patterson, M.D. By J. O. Nett, M.D., Mobile, Alabama, and George It. Gliaion, formerly U. S. Consul at Cairo.

Icwell Pastures. By the Author of "Sir Frederick Derwent," &c. In two volumes.

Collections concerning Me Church or Congregation of Protestant a-

readsformed at Scrooby in North Nottingha»ishire, in the time of Ring James I. ; the Founders of New Plymouth, the parent colony of New England. By the Reverend Joseph Hunter, Fellow of the So- ciety of Antiquaries of London, &c., and of the Massachuirtts His- torical Society, and an Assistant-Keeper of her Majesty's Records. [This volume is in some sense a new edition of Mr. Hunter's very curious tract on the Founders of New England., published in 1849 ; • and which was not more interesting for the knowledge it brought to light respecting the "Pilgrim Fathers,' than for the consummate antiquarian skill and tact with which the superstructure was solidly raised from what appeared at first the very slightest possible foundation—nothing more, indeed, than the words "a manor of the bishops." In America the knowledge was naturalky of greater importance than the skill which discovered it, and in England many regarded it in the same light. The interest thus excited has stimu- lated further researches and elicited new facts : the result is the volume be- fore us, with large additions of minute information' and curious muster-rolls of names, but perhaps no additional breadth. The information now appears in a form befitting the founders of a great state.] Russia and Turkey. From the Geographical Dictionary of J. B.. MiCtil- loch, Esq. (The Traveller's Library.) [It is said that the best way of estimating many things of the Same kind, is not to look at the whole mass, but to take one and carefully examine it by itself. If this course be followed with this reprint of "Russia and Turkey" from M'Culloch's Geographical Dictionary, the reader will form a higher opinion of the execution of that work from the sample than if he examined the whole. In the extent and variety of the Dictionary it is the general plan ivhich strikes him : it is only when, as in the case before us, he comes to separately peruse a particular part that he realizes the wide range of authorities from which the matter has been gathered, the judgment with which it has been selected, and the plain close style in which it has been presented. It so happens that Russia and Turkey occupy each about the same space—some seventy pages; and we know not where so clear an ac- count could be found of the geographical features, population, productions, resources, and political condition of the empires of the Czar and the Sultan, as Messrs. Longman have given at sixpence a piece.

• Spectator 1849. Page 974.

Both articles have been revised, and apparently enlarged; for there are observations relating to the present war, sensible, hopeful, but not over-san- guine.1

Satire and Satirists : Six lectures. By James Hannay, Author. of "Singleton Fontenoy," &c.

[We said something of these lectures when the first delivery of them com- menced about a year ago. Mr. Hannay is well adapted, in a literary point of view, for a lecturer, and has some special qualifications for treating the subject of satire. He commands a considerable range of general informa- tion., seizes the essential point of a thing, and presents it clearly with bright distinctive touches ; beyond which, he has a gat for satire himself, and can give an epigrammatic turn to a criticism or a simile with any man. The lectures are full of acute and genial appreciation of the men who are brought wider review, and of brilliant sallies which rouse the hearer's or the reader's attention, and give tone to Mr. Hannay's writings. One object which he keeps steadily in sight, imparting unity to the entire treatment, is to show that the true and fine satirists have not been crabbed illnatured men, who re- sorted to satire as a congenial outlet for their bile, but, like moat other men whom the world desires to keep in remembrance, persons of strong faculties and sympathies, with a warmth of love corresponding to the intensity of their scorn and hate. The lectures do not profess to exhaust the subject of satire, or to take cognizance of all its ramifications and representatives ; but are confined chiefly to satire proper and the greatest names in that de- partment of literature. Horace and Juvenal are treated in the first lecture ; Erasmus, Sir David Lindsay, and Buchanan, in the second. Early Euro- pean satire is illustrated principally in Boileau, Butler, and Dryden; that of the eighteenth century in Swift, Pope, and Churchill; and, passing on through political satire and squibs, closes with Burns. Byron, Moore, Hook, and others, exemplify satire in the last generation ; and its aspect in living writers is glanced at, not very favourably. The book is one which can be read with pleasure.]

The Church. An Explanation of the Meaning contained in the Bible ; showing the ancient, continued, and prevailing Error of Man, the Subetitution of Worship for Religion ; and showing that the prin- ciples of all right individual action and of general government, or the government of all nations, are comprised in Revealed Religion. By William Atkinson. In two volumes.

[This book is unadapted to a secular journal, as well from its nature as its extent. The design of Mr. Atkinson is to "divest religion of the quantity of error which men have thrown around it and mixed up with it" ; and this design he pursues through nearly twelve hundred ample pages. There is nothing in the treatment to animate the subject. "The Church" is dry and diffuse beyond the verboseness which is proverbially held to attach to discourses connected with that place. The author has a good thought now and then, but he overlays it instead of dressing it.]

Wanderings among the Wild Flowers : How to See and How to Gather them. With two chapters on the Economical and Medicinal Uses of our Native Plants. By Spencer Thomson, M.D., F.R.C.S.E., Fel- low of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh. [A pleasing and instructive book. Dr. Spencer Thomson opens his Wild Flowers with a description of the organs of plants in general—root, stem, leaves, skin, and the reproductive organs; which he follows up by an expo- sition of classification. Having thus armed the reader with sufficient if not complete knowledge, he carries him through a dozen wanderings month by month after wild flowers, describing those which are to be found in their season' and the localities in which they delight. The text is profusely illus- trated by wood-cuts. The book altogether forms an agreeable introduction to botany and a delightful monthly companion.] Shakespeare's Versification' and its apparent Irregularities explained by Examples from early and late English Writers. By William Sid- ney Walker, formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

[The object of this posthumous volume is apparently to ahow that any lameness or irregularity in Shakspere'a versification is owing to changes in pronuncia- tion or orthography. A large adduction of passages from Shakspere and writers of the same period, accompanied by explanatory remarks, is the mode in which the late Mr. Sidney Walker sought to establish his view. The editor, Mr. Lettsom has added some fresh matter to what he found. The in- terest of the book is limited to the critical student of Shakspere.]

Indian Leisure. Petrarch. On the Character of Othello. Agamem- non. The Henriade. Anthology. By Captain Robert Guthrie Mac- gregor, of the Bengal Retired List. Poetical translation forms the bulk of this creditable production of the leisure of a retired Indian officer. There is a version of the greater part of Fetrarch's Italian poems, and of a portion of Voltaire's Henriade ; an ' alter- ation" of Alfieri' a Agamemnon ; and a variety of pieces from French, German, Italian, and Latin sources. The only prose production is a descriptive analysis of the character of Othello, to show, in opposition to a dictum of Coleridge, that the noble Moor was of a jealous disposition, and that Shalt- spore's intention was to "personify and portray the feeling of jealousy.") Final Discourses at Argyle Chapel, Bath, by the late Reverend Wm. Jay. = sermons preached by the well-known Nonconformist William Jay of during the last year of his ministry, 1862, were with his approbation taken down by Mr. Wren' and are now printed. They display the quiet forms which characterized his manner, but are of more count in sectarian than general literature.] 27re Perils and Adventures of Priscilla Eaton, an Historical Tale. (Shaw's Family Library.)

[A tale of Puritan persecution at home and of trouble in New England. It possesses little either of skill in the choice of incidents or dramatic power in their exhibition.]

Die Illustrated People's Paper. (In which is incorporated "The True Briton.") First quarterly path April—June 1854.

[The collection into a quarterly part of a periodical which seems to differ frau other illustrated papers by making current topics of the news kind a feature in the letterpress, in addition to the usual tales, poetry, historical notices, and "miscellanea."] PAMPHLETS.

Remark: upon Sir William Napier's Pam-i course, preached on Wednesday, June phlet regarding the Duke of Welling- 7, 1854, before the British and Foreign ton's Letter. Extracted from the Ben- Unitarian Association, at its Seventy-

gal.Hurkaru of the 13th, 14th, and 17th ninth Anniversary Meeting, held in the

Aped 1854. New Gravel-Pit Chapel, Hackney. By Geographical and Hydrogrophical Notes, Edward Higginson, Minister of West- to accompany Mr. Wyld's Maps of the ' gate Chapel, Wakefield. To which is Ottoman Empire and the Black Sea. prefixed, the Prayer offered in the tr In- 4 Look towards the Future of ihe Brilish J. Taylor, B.A., Principal of Manches- Colonies. Two Letters, addressed to the Right Honourable the Earl of Cla- ter New College, London.

rendon, KG.. one of her Majesty's l "Ake.. ("ere. • Alt and Science, considered Principal Secretaries of State. By (ID. as to. mean' of elevating the Popular Archibald, F.R.S., F.S.A. . Mind: an Inaugural Lecture delivered

' at the Opening of the Lecture Courses

The Universities and the Church of Bag- at the Re Panopticon, Leicester land. By a Cambridge Man. Square, on Monday June 19th 1854. The Church of the Free-born. A Dire- i By the Reverend. G. E. &here. LL.D., part of the Collections of the Depart- meat. By It. N. Wornurn, Keepie. With Illustrations on Wood, en by the Female Students of the r:41:e.ell. Engraving Class.

The Practical Building Toy; with direc- tions and working drawings for the erection of permanent structures.

The Educational Uses of Toys. The Aerial Screw-Propeller.

Ph. D., Director of the Literary and Scientific Department of the Institu- tion.

Pleadings with tap Mother, the Church of Scotland. By ThomarCarlyle, Ad- vocate. The substance of four Lec- tures delivered in Edinburgh, May 1854.

Board of Trade Department of Science and Art. Catalogue of Ornamental Casts of the Renaissance Styles; being