PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Boons.

A History of India under the two first Sovereigns of the House of Tai- slur, Bdber and Hunuiyun. By William Erskine, Esq., Translator of "Memoirs of the Emperor Baber." In two volumes.

The Aguarium : an Unveiling of the Wonders of the Deep Sea. By Philip Henry Geese, A.L.S., &c.

The Principles of Physiology: the Structure of the Skeleton and of the Teeth ; and the Varieties of the Human Race. With an Introduc- tory Treatise on the Nature, Connexion, and Uses of the Great De- partments of Knowledge. The Principles of Physiology, by the Edit- or. Structure of the Skeleton and Teeth, by Professor Owen, F.R.S. Varieties of the Human Race, by R. G. Latham, M.D., F.R.S. (Orr's Circle of the Sciences. Volume I.) Ambrose the Sculptor : an Autobiography of Artist Life. By Mrs. Robert Cartwright, Author of " Chriatabelle," &c. In two volumes. Transmutation, or the Lord and the Lout. By N. or M.

Katharine Ashton. By the Author of "Amy Herbert," &c. In two volumes.

Handbooks to the Crystal Palace.—The Palace and Park : the Portrait-. Gallery : by Samuel Phillips. The Egyptian Court : by Owen Jones : with an Historical Notice of the Monuments of Egypt, by Samuel Sharpe. The Greek Court : the Roman Court: the Pompeian Court : by George Scharf junior. An Apology for the Colouring of the Greek Court : the Alhambra Court : by Owen Jones. The Nineveh Court : by Austen Henry Layard. The Byzantine and Romanesque Court : the Medisival Court: the Renaissance Court : the Italian Court : by M. Digby Wyatt and J. B. Waring. The Courts of Modern Sculp- ture: by Mrs. Jameson. The Natural History Department : Ethno- logy, by G. Lathani, M.D. ; Zoblogy and Botany, by Edw. Forbes, F.R.S., &c. Geology and Inhabitants of the Ancient World, by Richard Owen, F.R.S.

[It will be seen that competent, in several cases eminent men, have been secured to write the handbooks to the contents of the Crystal Palace. This is as it should be : handbooks are imperatively required by those who would derive serious profit from their visits, and if a handbook at all, then a good one. Those which we have as yet had most occasion to look closely into, the General Guide and that to the Egyptian Court, are probably not the best. The first, while a very adequate cicerone, is rather wordy and commonplace. The second tells you a good deal of what you want to know; but it omits something too. There is no hint of the general principles upon which hieroglyphics are deciphered ; which would be useful, in fact is almost indispensable in a handbook having any pretension to literary completeness, and might have been carried far enough to give the visitor a start, without overloading the pamphlet. The essay on Greek Colouring is enriched with papers contributed by Mr. Lewes and Mr. W. Watkisa Lloyd. The handbook to Modern Sculpture, which the visitor will thank the directors for having intrusted to the genial and informed mind of Mrs. Jameson, leaves several works unavoidably uncatalogued and undescribed, and will have to be reissued with additions. Is the authoress right in say- ing that the building contains not a single work by Flaxman ? If so, the collection would be most insufficient : but we are very much mistaken if we did not see some bas-reliefs by this distinguished sculptor in the Palace as early as January last. This handbook and that to the Portrait-Gallery are without prints ; the others are illustrated with a good sprinkling of wood-cuts, as well as with plans of the courts. One blemish, which we notice in the set generally, is that they are too compliment. ary. Every one connected with the undertaking is giving every one else, so connected, the tribute of his warm and respectful admiration. This might be all very well—though "soft sawder " has been too much the plan in connexion with both the old and the new Palaces—if the handbooks were independent; but, considering that they are official, it is bad taste, to say the least of it.] Theologia Germanica : which aetteth forth many fair Lineaments of Divine Truth, and saith very lofty and lovely things touching a per- fect Life. Edited by Dr. Pfeiffer from the only complete manuscript yet known. Translated from the German by Susanna Winkworth. With a Preface by the Reverend Charles Kingsley, Rector of Eversley, and a Letter to the Translator by the Chevalier ffunsen, D.D., D.C.L., &c.

[This unrivalled specimen of German Evangelical literature of the four- teenth century is translated by Susanna Winkworth from a lately-discovered manuscript, and a better one than that from which Luther printed his edi- tion of 1516. In the form of a letter to the translator, Chevalier Bunsen fixes the merits and character of the book in German religious literature.; and Mr. Kingsley produces a recommendatory preface, of broadly catholic feeling. The translator has written a very capital historical introduction, containing a lifelike picture of the times about 1350 ; when it is suppomd the pious though unknown member of the Teutonic Order threw off this practical and really Protestant view of Christianity amidst the struggling faith of the few and the dead formalism and corruptions of the many.]

Religious Partisanship; and other Papers. B1 William C. Dowding, M.A., of Exeter College, Hon. Sec. of the Berkeley (Bermuda) Col- lege Committee. [An essay on religious differences, which the writer seems to think are per- mitted to exist for a purpose. The other papers relate to the establishment of a College in the West Indies for Coloured people.] A Letter to Robert Lowe, Esq., Joint Secretary of the Board of Con- trol, from John Bruce Norton, Esq., on the Condition and Require- ments of the Presidency of Madras.

[An importation from India. It consists of a series of pamphlets in the form of a volume, handling the condition of the people and of the country, ryotwaree or land-tax, its oppressions and their remedy, with other ques- flow] of even a larger kind relating to the Presidency of Madras, if not to a great part of India. The facts are mostly drawn from public or private sources ; the suggestions are the author's own.]

The Fortunes of a Colonist. By Philip Ruysdale.

[Whether this is a book of pure invention, or a substratum of real occur- rences exaggerated into wild adventures, may be a question. There are things in it which shock credulity ; such as the writer's adventures on an iceberg, whither the captain of an emigrant-ship lets him go to shoot a bear, boat and ship being both suddenly blown off. There are pictures of scenery and stories of back-wood adventure in it, which have some general colouring of truth, but nothing more than could be attained by reading.]

Miscellanies ; chiefly Narrative. By Thomas de Quincy.

[This volume of selections grave and gay from the writings of De Quincy is varied in its papers. A Spanish Military Nun precedes the Last Days of Kant, which is followed by the System of the Heavens as revealed by the telescopes of Lord Roue. History comes after philosophy and science, in a life and character of Joan of Arc ; anecdote or ana winding up the miscel- lany in papers on [ancient] Roman meals and modern superstitions.]

Fares for Hackney Carriages, and Distances within a Circle of Four Miles' Radius from Charing Cross ; measured by the Authority of the Commissioners of Police : with an abstract of the Laws relating to the Fares, hiring of Hackney Carriages, and Misconduct of Drivers, (Second Part.)

[A sequel to the first part of the official cab-fares. The leading places which stand in alphabetical order from top to bottom of the respective pages are the same as in the first part. The new points of measurement are contained in the columns. It completes a useful publication for those who ride, and a curious test of their own exploits for those who walk.]

A Yacht Voyage to Iceland, in 1853. (Railway Reading.) [A plain unaffected account of what the writer observed in a yacht voyage to Iceland, and an excursion through the island to the Geysira and its other natural curiosities.] The Twins of Fame; or Wellington and Bonaparte. A National Poem. By the Reverend Chas. Fred. Watkins, Vicar of Brixworth Author of the "Human Hand, and other Poems," &c. [The careers of Wellington and Bonaparte, the causes of the French Revolu- tion and the wars which sprung from it, form the topics of this poem.]

The reprints of the week are not numerous, but two are important. Messrs. Longman and Co. have published in a cheaper and compacter form the "Miscellaneous Works," or, except his History, the works of Sir James Mackintosh ; and the articles, sermons, and miscellanies of Sydney Smith. Each collection is in three very neat volumes.

The Miscellaneous Works of the Bight Honourable Sir James Mackin- tosh. New edition. In three volumes.

The Works of the Reverend Sydney Smith. New edition. In three volumes.

The Baths of France, Central Germany, and Switzerland. By Edwin Lee, Corresponding and Honorary Member of the Medical Academies of Vienna, Madrid, &c. Third edition, with considerable alteratiims.

The Hero of Our Days. From the Russian of Michael Lermontotf, by Theresa Pulszky. (The Parlour Library.)

NEW PERIODICALS.

The Horticultural Journal and Farm and Garden Advertiser : a Weekly Chronicle of Rural Affairs, Art, Science, Literature, and Amusement. The Garden Department by Mr. Glenny, F.H.S. Part I. April and May 1854. [Collected numbers of a weekly journal chiefly devoted to gardening, though varied by other matter. It is a large well-looking paper.]

PRDITS.

Sebastopol. Published by permission of the Admiralty from the Pa- noramic Sketch made by Lieutenant Montague O'Reilly, on the oc- casion of the memorable visit paid to that fortress by H. M. S. Retri- bution, January 6, 1854.

Incidents, Places, and Costume, sketched in the Baltic. By E. T. Dolby. Part I.

[The first of these war-publications of Messrs. Colnaghi is a lithograph, similar to that of Cronstadt, printed from the original sketch which we no- ticed recently. The several points and localities, which were there presented consecutively on the same plane, are here grouped according to their actual disposition, and the print is accompanied by a key-plate and a plan of the harbour. The second gives the four opening plates of a series, sumptuously got up, but not of eminent artistic pretensions. "The St. Anna's Plods, Copenha- gen, Sunday," and the print showing the "Danish Costume, South part of &eland, near Kioge Bay," and a "Swedish Girl, Isle of Gottland," have the value which attaches to subjects of some immediate collateral interest authen- tically represented ; but the other two lithographs, portraying the bustle on boacdchipas a "Rooshian" heaves in sight, and a discussion of war-prospects in a Swedish cottage, being sketches wholly or substantially from the artist's own invention might as well be dispensed with in a work of this kind. facts connected with the war are interesting for their own sake ; fancies tagged on to the war are not interesting unless superiority of treatment makes them so.] 8amuel Johnson, LL.D. : from the Original Picture in the possession of the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Ely. By Reynolds; en- graved by George Zobel. miis is not, strictly speaking, "Samuel Johnson, LL.D.," but plain Mr. Anson ; being the youngest-looking of all the ponderous man's portraits. Be must have been in fact at least forty when it was taken, for he is re- presented leaning his hands on his tragedy of "Irene," which was not produced till he had attained that age (in 1749) ; otherwise, we should have supposed him not older than thirty-five or thereabouts. The face is by no means an uncomely one ; dreamy yet determined in expres- sion, surmounted by thick natural hair, instead of the more familiar wig, and realizing the idea of what Johnson called himself according to Boswell's anecdote-"a goodnatured fellow." This interesting portrait of a man un- failingly interesting is engraved by Mr. Zobel, in mezzotint, with scarcely sufficient force or distinctness of parts, but skilfully enough.]

PAMPHLETS.

The Observance of the Sanitary Laws, Di- vinely appointed in the Old Testament Scriptures, sufficient to ward off Pre- ventable Diseases from Christians as tvtll as Israelites.

The Peoples of Europe, and the War in the East. By J. W. Jackson, Esq. Thoughts on Education in India, its Ob- ject and Plan, Re. By Thomas A. Wise, M.D., II.E.I.C.S., F.R.S.E., formerly Secretary to the Council of Education of Bengal, Sze.

Remarks on Civil Service Reform, in a Letter to the Right Honourable Sir James Stephen, LL.D., K.C.B. By James Buller, M.A., late Treasurer and Accountant to the Tithe Commission. Central Criminal Court Jurisdiction. A Letter to the Right Honourable J. S. Wortley, M.P., Recorder of London. By John Adams, Sergeant-at-law, As- sistant-Judge of the Middlesex Ses- sions.

Letters written to my Sister during a visit to Jeremy Bentham, in the beginning of the year 1830.

Customs Reform. Final Report of the City Committee. June 13, 1854. The War and the Fast. A Discourse de- livered in Egham Hill ChapeL By John G. Manly.

Die War amid its IMES. Two Sermons. By the Reverend John Cumming, D.D., F.R.S.E., Minister of the Scottish Na- tional Church, Crown Court, Covent Garden ; Author of "Apocalyptic Sketches," Re.

A Sermon preached in the Cathedral, Manchester, on Sunday Morning, April 30th, 1854. By the Reverend Charles Richson, M.A., Clerk in Orders. With Notes by John Sutherland, M.D., of the General Board of Health, London.

A letter to the Archbishops and Bishops of the United Church, of England and Ireland, on the Order for Morning Prayer. By the Reverend John W. Lester, B.A. Incumbent of Ashton Hayes, near Chester.

Faith in the Work of the Teacher. An Address, delivered May 20, 1854, to the Metropolitan Association of Church Schoolmasters. By Henry Moseley, M.A., F.R.S., Canon of Bristol, one of her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools.