PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

BOOK.8.

Narrative of a I?.ecent Journey of Six Weeks in Ireland, in connexion with the subject of Supplying small Seed to some of the remoter Districts; with current Observations on the depressed Circumstances of the People and the Means presented for the permanent Improvement of their Social Condition. By William Bennett. The True Story of Mg L; a Sketch. By Hans Christian Andersen. Translated by Mary liovntt. Wayfaring Sk,etches among the Greeks and Turks, and onthe Shores of the Danube. By a Seven-Years Resident in Greece.

Travels in Central America; being a Journal of nearly Three Years' Resi- dence in the country. Together with a Sketch of the History of the Re- public, and an Account of its Climate, Productions, Commerce, ecc. By Robert Glasgow Dunlop, Esq. Materials for a History of Oil-Painting. By Charles Lock Eastlake, ILA., F.R.S., F.S.A., &c.

Ancient Art and its Remains; or a Manual of Archmology of Art. By C. 0. Midler, Author of "The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race," &c. Translated from the German by John Leitch.

The Ant Prince; a Rhyme. By Fanny Steers. [The Ant Prince is a species of allegorical jen d'esprit, displaying more of a lively cleverness in the writer than of happiness in the work. 'I he story is that of an Ant who falls in love with a Bee, and, being rejected, dies; when the Queen Bee, repenting, dies too, and the Prince's confidant, Sir Fly, dismisses the subject in a sententious remark. There may be a lurking satire designed in this, and we think we discern intentional hits at passing things; bat satire fails if it be not quite obvious: delicacy is a good thing, but clearness is all in all; and such clear- ness is not the case in Time Ant Prince, if satire be designed. Considered as a mere sport of the fancy, there is too mach incongruity for direct interest in- the opposite natures of lover, lady, and confidant. Authority, indeed, tells us that natural history may be put aside in fable; but where the tale consists of action as much as discourse, some sort of congruity should be observed. The versification is easy; and some parts indicate poetical spirit, especially the song "Vainly the streamlet ripples byfl Miscellmleous Poems and Songs. By Francis Davis, the " Belfast Man." [The greater part, if not the whole of these " Poems and Songs," have aypeared in the Nation and some other journals; which is a species of voucher tor their merit and their political character. Irish nationality, that consists in a vague aspiration after a misty end without any distinct apprehension of means, and a spirit of national hatred more noisy perhaps than deep, towards the Saxon, is the animating mind of "the Belfast Man's" political poesy. As regards power, Mr. Francis Davis seems to us quite equal to the poets of the Nation, whose pro- ductions made some noise a few years since; and his merit is greater than that of the balk of them, as he is in position "only a muslin weaver, and he has to throw off his conceptions in the intervals of his toil.] Stories and Studies from the Chronicles and History of England. By Mrs. S. C. Hall and Mrs. J. Foster.

[This book is not a continuous history; nor does it resemble those historical tales with which the public have been made pretty familiar of late years, where some real but romantic incident is taken as a subject and expanded at the pleasure of the writer. In Stories and Studies there are chapters of historical events, told with the exactness and with somewhat of the philosophy of history,—as the in- vasion of Cwsar ; other parts approach historical disquisition; some illustrate men and manners by anecdotes or a biographical notice. There is no want of variety; but this very variety, with the length of time the authors travel over—from the aborigines of Britain down to William the Fourth—renders the book fragmentary, and the narrative of important subjects superficial. However, this may have been partly intended. The design of the fair compilers was to stimulate the juvenile student to inquire into the original sources of our history, from which they them- selves have mostly drawn.] All Classes; a Novel. By Madame Wolfensberger, (late Miss Burden,) Au- thor of "Seymour of Sudley," &c. In three volumes. [" Diffici]e eat proprie communia dicere." Madame Wolfensberger had better have stuck to the historical subjects that formerly engaged her pen, than have gone to fashionable life for a story. Not that it is easier to revive the past than to copy the present; but the reader has more means of comparison with the original, in a novel professing to delineate existing life, than he has when the scene is laid in a distant age. All Classes introduces people of many grades, but high life is its main subject, and of a very unreal kind. The principal diffi- culty and the chief action of the story turn upon the stale incident of the sup- posed destruction of a will; which is finally produced, the guilty are punished, and the lovers made happy, as per prescription. The writing is good; that is, the thoughts and scenes, such as they are, are presented clearly and with force.] Cromwell in Ireland; a Historical Romance. In three volumes.

[A commonplace affair. The historical part, especially the character of the Pro- tector, is of a vulgar kind; and the materials of the romance are drawn from the usual storehouse of the Minerva Press. As a work of art the book is beneath criticism; but it has a sort of theatrical rapidity of incident, variety of fortune, and " effective " exhibition of melodramatic characters, that may probably in- terest the common readers of the circulating library.]

Extracts from the Diary of a Workhouse Chaplain. By the Reverend D. L. Cousins, A. M.

[Eight tales of remarkable paupers, whom the writer attended in a spiritual ca- pacity.. The stories are said to be unchanged except in language: and is such possibly the case; for nothing is too singular for human fortune, and a workhouse is a receptacle for old broken-down adventurers and mauvaises sujets, as a regiment is for the young of the same class. Still, the stories have an ex- treme and exceptional character, with a very made air; and it seems quite obvious that the materials have been recast in a mould of the writer. The narratives are continually impeded by reflections on religious topics and the New Poor-law.] The History of the Fairchild Family, or the Child's Manual; being Col- lection of Stories calculated to show the importance and effects of a Re- ligious Education. By Mrs. Sherwood, and her Daughter, Mrs. Streeten, Author of" Henry Milner," &c. Part III.

[The completion of a well-intentioned, and, according to repute, an attractive tale, for the juvenile portion of the community.]

Kew Gardens; or a Popular Guide to the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew. By Sir W. J. Hooker, KR., D.C.L., I.R.A. and L.S., Director. [A popular guide to one of the scientific sights in the vicinity of London, which has the advantage of carrying the reader into pleasant scenery and pure air. In this little book, Sir W. J. Hooker directs the reader through the Gardens, and pleasantly introduces him to the more remarkable features. The guide has a plan, and is profuse in wood-cuts.] The Pictorial Guides to Erith and Greenhithe; including Erith Village and Church, Belvidere, its Park land Picture-Gallery, Lesnes Abbey, Plumstead and East Wickham; also the Villages of Greenbithe and Swanscombe, Ingress Abbey, Stone Church and Castle. With numerous Engravings from original sketches. The Pictorial Guide to Woolwich; a Handbook for Residents and Arbiters: containing particulars of the Arsenal and Cannon-Foundry, with the story of Schalch; the Artillery Barracks and the Parade; the Rotunda, with its category of naval and military curiosities; the Dockyard and its His- toricalAssociations; and a brief Memoir of the Poet Lovelace. Together with numerous Engravings from original sketches.

[Two pretty little guide-books for those who stop short of Gravesend in their ex- cursions down the Thames. Like their predecessor the Guide to the last-named place, they have an original air shoat them, but are a shade too much devoted to antiquarian matters: the first use of these things is to answer the queries "what can be seen 7" or" whither shall we go?"]

A Chart of British Ornithology. Compiled, and most respectfully dedicated to his fellow Members of the Wernenan Club, by T. W. Barlow. [Besides a heading, with some introductory matter, and one or two tables of terms, this chart contains five columns exhibiting the orders, families, genera, and spe- cies of British birds, with the period of their residence if migratory. The can- vass mounted copy before us is large when extended, but folding up into a small quarto case. The central division is reversed in the mounting—perhaps with a view to prevent mistakes in reading: but if so, a possible error is only avoided by an ever-recurring inconvenience.] The Journey of Life. By Catherine Sinclair, Author of "Modern Accom- .plishments," &c.

[A series of moral and religious essays on topics connected with some of the ye- nods of life, or general questions of Scriptural. religion.]

Architectural Maxims and Theorems in Elucidation of some of the Prin- ciples of Design and Construction; and Lecture on the Education and Character of the Architect. By Thomas Leverton Donaldson, ILLB.A., Professor of Architecture in University College, London, &c.

[A set of dicta, after the manner of aphorisms, on the resthetics of architecture and the practical art of construction, with an essay on the training of anarchitect. The theorbtical aphorisms are not distinguished by analytical nicety or logical force. Many of the practical maxims are briefly and pithily put, so as to be well carried in the memory.]

Xesiophon's Memorabilia of Socrates. From the Text of Kiihner; with copious English Explanatory Notes, Life, Chronolwy, Examination Ques- tions, and Indexes. By D. B. Hickie LLD, Head blaster of Archbishop Sandys' Grammar School, Hawkshead. [A clear Greek text—copious English notes, historical as well as grammatical— an index of Greek words, and of English critical explanations, with a variety of other illustrative matter—characterize this useful edition.] The Latin Tyro's Guide; or First Steps towards the acquirement of Latin. By George Jackson. Second edition.

NEW PERIODICAL.

The Eton School Magazine; consisting of Original Papers of a Miscellaneous Literary Character, in Prose and Verse, the entire production of Eton Boys of the present day. No. I.

PRINT.

The First Dawn of Love. Painted by Thomas Brooks; engraved by W. H. Simmons.

[A very young Highland couple, loitering by a spring, whither the girl has come to fetch water. The youth is sitting on a bank, and seems to be insinuating his address rather by modest manner than importunate words. The girl listens with tender but subdued delight, looking abroad in a vague dreamy forgetfulness of all but the voice. The group is prettily designed. The engraving is at once soft and effective.]