PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Books.

Memoirs, Journal, and Correspondence of Thomas Moore. Edited by the Bight Honourable Lord John Russell, M.P. 'Volume III. and IV.

Eighteen Years on the Gold Coast of Africa; including an Account of the Native Tribes, and their Intercourse with Europeans. By Brodie Cruickshank, Member of the Legislative Council, Cape Coast Castle. In two volumes.

A True Description of Three Voyages by the North-East towards Ca- thay and China, undertaken by the Dutch in the years 1594, 1595, and 1596. By Gerrit de Veer. Published at Amsterdam in the year 1598, and in 1609 translated into English by William Philip. Edited by Charles T. Beke, Phil. D., F.S.A. (Hakluyt Society.) Lorenzo Benoni ; or Passages in the Life of an Italian. Edited by a Friend.

Hypatia ; or New Foes with an Old Face. By Charles Kingsley junior, Rector of Everaley. Reprinted from" Fraser's Magazine." In two volumes.

Ada Gresham ; an Autobiography. By Mary Anne Lupton. In three volumes.

A Treatise on the Law and Practice relating to Letters Patent for In- ventions. By John Paxton Norman, Esq., M.A., of the Inner Temple, Bander-at-law.

[The changes effected by the late act on the important subject of patents render a fresh account of the law desirable ; and Mr. Norman's treatise is a book that may be safely: recommended. Clear and well arranged, compre- hensive in its leading principles, yet terse in their expression, iris pervaded by a spirit of good sense, without which science of any kind becomes a dry ' husk, and law: especially a mere bundle of arbitrary dicta. It will be under- stood that this is really a treatise on the law of patents, in which princi- ples are digested from the statutes and decisions, expressed in a terse and scholarly manner, and not a mere commentary on a leading act of Parliament ; though perhaps the volume would have been improve& by the addition of the last statute.] The "Field Exercise and Erolutions of the .Army," Illustrated in a Series of Field-days. By Captain Horace Fenwick, Staff-officer of Pensioners, &e.

[A large part of this little book is technical, and in fact only to be comprehend- ed by a son of Mars, who has acquired a certain amount of military experience on parade. Its object is to "aid those officers who have not had an oppor- tunity of exercising a battalion in field movements." The peculiar distri- bution of our service renders this frequently the case in officers of the regu- lar Army ; and to such this manual will be found useful, and still more use- ful to the Militia officer, who really wishes to acquire the theory of his duty, and reduce his theory to practice as often as opportunity offers. An appendix of a less technical kind contains a variety of directions, for the conduct of troops upon a march, the formation of a camp, reconnoitering a country, and similar matters of military economy.]

The Fountains of British History Explored.

[An attempt to restore the authority of the compilation ascribed to Nennius : the small volume in fact consists of translations from that ancient writer of the passages which bear upon early British or early Saxon history. The at- tempt to shake the conclusions of modern critics as to the historical worth- lessness of Nennius is nbt successful. In what relates to the Roman portion of his narrative the means of proving his errors are at hand ; and in the un- known ancient British, or the obscure early Saxon, his apologist is compelled to allow that a good deal is mythic or fabulous.]

Irish National Education : the Church and the Bible. By the Reve- rend John Elmes, A.B., &c. [A series of attacks upon the system of National Education in Ireland. The opposition is thorough ; but is perhaps more especially directed against the rules forbidding the officers to aim at making proselytes, the power over a child's religious teaching allowed to parents, and the laxity in permitting any one of" Christian sentiment" to act as a teacher. Mr. Elmes would claim full power for his own church on all points.] Religion and Business or Spiritual Life in one of its Secular Depart- ments. By A. J. Morris.

[A series of able and thoughtful lectures on the union of Christianity and business, addressed apparently to a Nonconformist congregation. The topic is treated forcibly, without the mannerism frequent among Dissenters; and the rules of life enforced are not impracticably ngid.]

Select Poems of Prior and Swift.

[A judicious selection from the poems of men whose names are better known to this generation than their works. The editor, who has already proved his hand in the Selections from Dryden, introduces each author by a critical preface • the estimate in both cases being true, though we think he assigns a poetical merit to Prior which the present generation will hardly confirm. The "Henry and Emma" inculcates a blindly confident love, which is opposed to the opinions of the present day : ." Solomon," notwithstanding the great merit of passages and parts, is deficient in interest as a whole. Johnson, who was born before Prior died, and who wrote at a time when his works were popular, felt "that it wanted that without which all other excellences are of small avail, the power of engaging attention and alluring curiosity."] Wanted a Curate ; a Satirical Poem. By Gregory Shortcommons, M.A. [A clever enough poetical jeu d'esprit, and not at all bitter or exaggerated, considering that the satire is a succession of versified advertisements for cu- rates,--though some images are rather of things understood than avowed. There is not much of art or strength in the affair.] Reuben Wine h ; or the Force of Example. A Record of Village Life. By George Hodder, Author of " Sketches of Life arid Character," &c. [Reuben 'Winch is a village scamp, who finally gets transported. With his career of vice and crime some love-tales of a more respectable kind are mixed up ; but there is nothing remarkable either in the object or execution of this "record of village life."] The Star in the Desert. By the Author of "A Trap to Catch a Sun- beam," &e.

[The restoration of a wife banished by her husband on account of his pride of birth, and the conversion of the husband himself from infidelity, are the subjects of this little tale. It is well-managed and prettily told.]

The Medication of the Larynx and Trachea. By S. Scott Alison, M.D., &c.

[Dr. Horace Green of America applied nitrate of silver to the interior of the larynx and trachea, and Dr. Scott Alison has extended the practice by other medicines, as olive oil, in 'various diseases of the air-passages. Relief of symptoms, rather than cure, which must be sought by other means, is the object of the practice ; but the ease of the patient doubtless facilitates the adoption of other remedies. The account is clear, and not strained.] Gleig's School Series. Simple Truths in Easy Lessons. And My First School-Book to Teach Me Beading and Writing.

Mr. Bentley has sent forth two new editions of interesting and attractive works in a handsome and cheaper form. Kum Mitford's charming "Recol- lections of a Literary Life" appears in two instead of three volumes. Mr. Dundee Murray's spirited account of Andalusia is (typographically) condensed from two volumes to a single volume. Two biographical sketches originally published by the late Macvey Napier in the Edinburgh Review ; and the Trans- actions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, are collected into a goodly vo- lume. The current interest in Montenegro has induced the republication of an article on the subject from the British and Foreign Review ; to which its author, Count Krasinski, has added some additions on the Slavonian race. Maria Hack's "Winter Evenings" appears with illustrations and revision. Recollections of a Literary Life; or Books, Places, and People. By

Mary Russell Mitford, Author of "Our Village," &c. In two volumes. Second edition.

The Cities and Wilds of Andalusia. By the Honourable R. Dundee Murray. Third edition. Lord Bacon and Sir Walter Raleigh. By, and the " Encyclopredia the late Macvey Napier, Britannica."

Esq., Editor of the "Edinburgh Review,'

3fontenegro, and the Slavonians of Turkey. By Count Valerian Kra- sinski, Author of the Religious History of the Slavonic Nations," &e. (Reading for Travellers.) Winter Evenings; or Tales of Travellers. By Maria Hack. New edi- tion. Improved and Illustrated. NEW Pinuoincsr,.

The Glasgow Medical Journal. No. I.

PAMPHLETS.

India Reform Tracts. No. I. The Government of India since 1834.

Centurion's Letter on the Present Government of India.

Reform or Reject the Income-Tax. By 3. G. Hubbard, Esq. On Continuous drolecular Changes, more particularly in their Relation to Epidemic Diseases. By John Snow, M.D., &e. .Description of certain Improvements in Vessels. By Richard Roberts, C.E.

What shall we Do with our Criminals? With an Account of the Pri- son of Valencia, and the Penitentiary of Mettray. By G. A. Hoskins, Req., Author of "Travels in Ethiopia," &c. Theological Colleges and the Universities, &c. By the Reverend Charles Hebert, M.A. &c. Endowed Parish Schools and High-Church Vicars. Roan's School, &c. By W. C. Bennett.