PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.
Booze.
The _Life of the Reverend William Kirby, M.A., F.R.S., .F.L.S., &c., Rector of Barham. By John Freeman, M.A., Rural Dean, Rector of Ashwicken, Norfolk.
Money and Moral.; a Book for the Times. By John Lalor. On the State of Man subsequent to the _Promulgation of Christianity. Part HI.
Reports by the Juries on the Subjects in the Thirty Classes into which the Exhibition was divided. (Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations. 1851.) ghe mass of people do not care to wait for the formal end of anything. Even at a play numbers rise before the curtain falls. The Reports by the Juries on the works in the Great Exhibition, to which a prize or "honour- able mention" was awarded, is doutily late in the day : not only is the Ex- hibition done with, but the awards, the discussions they excited, and let us hope the heartburnings, are all over. Yet better late than never. This volume will be found an indispensable book to those who either from a liberal curiosity or a more personal feeling desire to preserve a record of that princely speculation. There is, however, in the volume a very great deal more than a mere record. The Reports may without hyperbole be described as a complete and critical review of the best articles in the Exhibition, pro- duced under circumstances of greater responsibility if not of greater care than always accompanies reviewing. And there is more than particular criticism in the book : the different classes of industrial art are preceded by.an his their précis of the rise and progress, sometimes containing passing dis- cussions on their principles, while Mr. Redgrave makes the application of the fine to the ugeful arts as exemplified in the Exhibition a subject for a Sup- plementary Report on Design. It is passing to a more technical matter., but
• hly important in a book containing such a variety and multiplicity of subjects, to say that the facilities for ready reference are great.]
&rife for the Mastery. Two Allegories. By A. H. F. E., and ML. B. [These two allegories attempt to paint the struggles of Christians in the world. They are neither very felicitous nor even very distinct. The first, called "The Church Militant,' represents certain converts under the guise of soldiers in an army, some of whom are lured from their duty by various ene- mies, under the names of Indifference, Vanity, Pleasure, and so forth. The second allegory represents each Christian pilgrim as accompanied by a beast which it is his business to subdue and carry with him along a narrow path.; the sluggishness of some beasts and the violence of others often leading the pilgrim astray. The book is elegantly written; but neither the state of a soldier nor a leader of beasts runs very parallel in its details with the Christ- ian life, and nothing is impressed after all that might not be done as effect- ively and more clearly in a sermon.] The Beauty of Amal ; an Italian Tale. [This Italian tale is written with great skill, as well as with much knowledge of the peasantry and scenery of Amalfi and its neighbourhood. The public events, that superadd historical variety to individual interest, are the insur- rection of Mimaniello, and the tyranny, corruption, and treachery of the Austro-Spanish Government at that time, which are quietly made to remind the reader of a similar kind of rule in the present day. The tale is essentially the madness of the heroine through the supposed loss of her lover in the in- surrection; and when he reappears, the death of both, through the violation of the amnesty by the Neapolitan Government. The attraction of the book, however, lies as much in its pictures of scenery and peasant life and charac- ter as in its story.] The Silent Footsteps; a Tale. [A tale of rustic life. John Grey has robbed his master, to save the lives of his mother and her two little children ; but his crime is vain. The children die, John is transported, his mother sinks under her disgrace. On his return he marries "little Mary," who clung to his mother through all her miseries; but he is rendered wretched by the taunts of a rival, till Mary's affection restores him. The Silent Footsteps is prettily writ- ten, but rather too much in that current style which makes the narrative subordinate to the elaborate description of secondary matters.] .Eccksiography ; or the Biblical Church Analytically Delineated. By John G. Manly. [A very elaborate and formally logical series of essays on the ecclesiastical nature, origin, and characteristics of the Church. Ecclesiography is a clever and painstaking book, but not so new as its author appears to think, or as many besides the author may think from the regular and scholastic manner in which he seta about establishing his propositions. Mr. Manly conceives a church to be "a local society, constituted and conducted in conformity to the whole New Testament "; the definition which ascribes the administration of the sacraments to a church being rejected, because it would exclude Quakers front-forming a church,—which is not a conclusive argument. Mr. Manly's essential idea of a church does not greatly differ from that of the Independents. Ecelesiography is a curious and able work ; but the reader will be tempted to desiderate, with the Queen in Hamlet, "more matter with less art."] Atmosphere: a Philosophical Work. By George Woodhead, Esq.
[In great part a reprint of papers that have been published separately at different times ; the object being to "explain the causes of certain effects, the discovery of which has baffled the efforts of mankind from the earliest ages to the present time."]
The Gold Colonies of Australia &c., and every Advice to Emigrants. With a Map. By G. Butler Australia,
[Such is the auri sacra fames, that, according to a preliminary note, sixteen thousand copies of the first edition of this compilation were sold in ten days. The book gives h. geographical description of the Australian Colonies, and of their staple industrial pursuits, as well as of the gold districts. There is also some advice to emigrants in general, sensible in fact, though.the tone may be over sanguine.]
PAMPHLETS.
The Coming Struggle with Rome not Religious but Political. By Pierce Connelly, M.A. Christian _Education Recommended, in a Sermon preached at St. James's, Westminster. Be, Christopher Benson, A.M., Canon of Worcester, &c. Work the Law o God, the Lot of Man. A Sermon, preached by the Reverend H. W. Bellairs, A.M., at Highgate, on the Opening of the National and Industrial Schools, 13th June 1852. The Morality of Betting Examined. A Sermon preached in the Parish Church of Richmond, 'Yorkshire. By the Reverend Lawrence Ottley, M.A.
Biography of Dr. Sheridan Muspratt, :ER.S.E., &e. And third edi- tion of the Influence of Chemistry in the Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral Kingdom, by Dr. Sheridan Muspratt.
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