PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

BOOKS.

The Principles of P.pulation, and their anne.vian with 'Amon Happiness. By ARCHIBALD ALISON, F.B.S.E., Advocate, Sheriff (It' Lanarkshire, and Author of " History of Europe during the French Revolution." In two vols.

Rough Notes of the Campaign in Sinde and Afghanistan, in 1S3-9 being Extracts from a Personal Journal kept while on the Staff of the

Army of the Indus. By Major JAMES OUT RAM, Regt. N. I., now Political Agent iii Sinde. Illustrated with Plans of Ghizni and Khelat. Repriuted from the Bombay edition.

• Wanderinqs in Germany; with Moonlight Walks on the Banks of the Elbe, the Danube, the Neckar, and the Rhine. By Ei,w.usn WILKEY.

Washington, By Monsieur GUIZOT, Member of the Institute, Ambas- sador of France. Translated by Ile.sny Itsuvc, Esq. [This work MRS originally written as an Introduction to a French translation of WASHINGTON'S Writings. As the original cannot he procured u iihont the bulky volumes which it heralds, Mr. Ii u Eva conceived he should be doing a service to the English reader by clothing GutzuT's view of' Wasuisarrox in an English garb. So fir as regards the eminent characters of the I...spec:the men, this opinion is just ; but the work is rather one which we should not like to be without, than one which we require, tw care tin, having gotten : it rather displays the professional skill of a well-trained s3iolar, than any depth of thought, felicity of diction, or mastery of its sohject. The leading public and private points of WAsui:orrox's career are touched upon in the 111011C of an ancient rinegyrie, with more moderation ; but it seems to us that many men much inferior to might have selected more striking traits of cha- racter and incidents of life, and have told them more uffectively. Neither do we perceive any novelty of illustration or reflection we have no accession of knowledge or of view. WASHINGTON by G UIZOT i3 a long prefatory notice, and nothing more. It may be added as a voucher, not only for the correctness of the transla- tion but in a measure for its spirit, that the copy has been revised and re- touched by M. (3 UIZOT 111111Self.] A Narrative of the Treatment edperienced by a Gentleman during a state of Mental Derangement ; designed to explain the causes and the nature of insanity, and to expose the injudicious conduct pursued towards many uufortunate sufferers under that calamity. By jOIIN PERI2EVAL, Esq. [This volume is at once ludicrous and melancholy—melaneholy from its dis- play of human calamity, ludicrous from the manner in which it is done. Mr. PERCEVAL, we believe, is a sons of the Prime Mini,ter assassinated b), BELLINGHAM; and SOBIC years since his family found it necessary to place him under restraint. The volume, which is merely the continuation of an- other published anonymously, is a jumble of narrative, remark, and curse - spondence, explanatory of the alleged improper manner in which his family and the physicians have treated him ; but, unhappily, fully justifying their conduct so far as confinement goes, if indeed it does not suggest the propriety of some present supervision. This publication is undertaken, the author tells

us, contrary to the advice of all his friends; which is information that can readily be credited.]

Oriselda_ t• a Drama, in five acts. Translated from the German of FREDE• RICK HALM, by Sir RALPH A. ANSTRUTHER, Bart. [This drama is founded upon the story, more talked of than known perhaps at the present day, of the patient Griselda, who submitted to every oppression which her husband thought fit to subject her to ; except that the denouement of the play punishes the husband by a separation, instead of making him happy in a reconciliation. The story does not possess the action requisite for a drama, nor does it appear to us very effectively managed ; and the blind irrational submission to wrong and outrage, because offered by a near connexion, is con- trary to the.growhor opinion, which is more inclined to censure such folly than to sympathize witri it. Neither did the merit of the drama first suggest its publication to Sir RALPH ANSTROTHER; but, having turned it into English as tin exercise whilst studying German, he was so " amusml" with his own exploit that he decided on giving it to the world.]

The Quadroone ; or St. ..11ichael's Day. By the Author of The Pirate of the Gulf," &e. In three vols.

[A tale of New Orleans, when the sway of the Spaniards succeeded to that of the French. The subject, as may be half suspected from the title, is the con- dition of oppression and distress to which the degradation attached to a slave- descended race subjected the Quadroons. The book is by tin American, but widely differing from the author of Archy Moore. Incident, story, character, every thing in Vie Quadroone, displays the Minerva Press school run wild.]

The Paris Slietch-Buoh. By Mr. TITMARSII. With numerous designs

by the Author, on copper and wood. In two vols.

[A collections of clever and smart papers, of the better kind of light magazine articles, and half of which have already appeared in periodicals; consisting of sketches and stories descriptive of Parisian life and character, whit discursive re- marks on French novels, dramas, and pictures. The flippant touch-and-go style of magazine-writing, W here commonplace labours to appear dashing and brilliant, is not tit, however, for continuous reading : hence it may be that the sarcastic humour of this writer appears occasionally forced, and his descriptions ex- aggerated. This broad caricature style is suitable to the characteristics of de- intreps and gamblers, amongst whom he is most at home. His vein of humour is essentially satirical; it is too severe and biting to be pleasant. his etchings are masterly, and distinguished by grotesque drollery, of a caustic kind, that is shown to advantage in hitting off the expression of villains aid their dupes.]

Annals of liumbhi Life. [Nine little stories, illustrating the habits and feelings, the privations and temptations, of the poor • and exhibiting vice and virtue in the aspects they wear and the sufferings alley bring in common life. The characters and in- cidents are mostly real, though the writer occasionally departs front the sim- plicity of liature in the endeavour to heighten the narrative with melodramatic effect : he (or she ? ) succeeds better in simple narration, where the homely truth and literal minuteness of the descriptions aid the humble pathos of the tale.]

Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth. By WIL- LIAM Ilszwase. Third edition, edited by his son. [A volume of nervous and eloquent criticisin of the old English dramatic and, other writers, at a period when the intellect and genius of the nation awakened to a new and vigorous existence. The acute discrimination of the critic, and the glowing fervour of his style, carry the reader along with him. HAZLITT has done more than any other writer, perhaps, in helping the popular liking for the elder dramatists ; which we suspect is founded more on the passages that he quotes than a knowledge of their works.

England and the English. (Works of Sir E. L. Bulwer, Bart.)

[The present volume of Sir E. L. BULWER'S Works completes the Student, and contains the once-celebrated England anti the 1::nylish, revised so as to omit the matter of a mere temporary itature. Looking at the style of getting- up, and the quantity of typography contained in each volume, this republica- tion is about the cheapest of any modern serial.]

A Descriptive Tour in S'eotland. By T. II. C. [This is the narrative of a tour through the Scottish highlands, including a trip to Stalls, Iona, and the Hebrides; written in the form of letters, which seem to have been really addressed to private individuals. The style is lively ; the descriptions and narrative are agreeable ; and those who want a few hours amusement nuty take up many worse volumes. The ground, however, is too well trodden, tool the nature of the descriptions of too iudividual a kind, to re- quire further notice.]

Journal of the Proceedings of the late Embassy to Chbia; comprising a correct Narrative (if the Public Transactions of the Embassy., of the Voyage to and from China, and of the Journey from the mouth of the Pei-he to the return to Canton. By the Right 11011. HENRI' ELLIS, T/11111 Collollissioner of the Embassy, and late Ambassador to the Court of Persia. A new edition.

[This cheap reprint of Mr. Emas's informing and entertaining narrative of the last emilas,,y to China, is prefiteed hy a searching notice of the neglect of the Foreign Secretary in not complying with Captain ELLIS'S urgent request for a diplomatic mission to Pekin, to settle the disputed points that were then (in 1Str7) threatening evil consequences ; and a comparison between the indif- ference of the Minister autl the promptitude of the Company-, ou an occasion far less pressing.]

Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa, from the earliest ages to the present time : with illustrations of the Geology, Mineralogy, and

Zoology. By II nu if 31 t: it It AY, F. U.S. E., Professor JAsinsosi, and JAMES WILSON, F.-1LS. E., and M.W.S. Third edition, enlarged. [This third edition embodies the discoveries which Mr. Lxiito's expedition upon the Niger effected, as well as those which have been made by recent ex- plorations in Southern Africa. It forms the briefest, cheapest, and most com- plete description of the subject extant.] The Rod and the Gun; being two Treatises on Angling, and Shooting. By JAMES WILSON, F.E.S.E., and by the Author of "The Oakleigh Shooting Code." [Two treatises on angling and shooting, by acknowledged masters of their respective crafts ; reprinted, with a careful revisiott, from the articles in the Encyclopedia Britannica, and illustrated with wood-cuts and copperplate engravings. The didactic character of the treatise is varied by frequent digres- sions on any cognate topic, in that rambling style of which WILSON may be

regarded as the principal founder. It is, however, questionable whether the temptation to outponriuff, which this discursive mode offers to a mats of imagination, does not in the long run induce more of weariness than it affords of' relief] Orations of Demosthenes. Translated, with Notes and Introduction, by Owns; FLINTorr, Esq., M.A., &c. [This is rather a specimen than a translation, containing only four orations, and those not all complete. The style of Mr. Fmsrroms is too literal to make even an approach to the spirit of the great orator ; and his idiom so contrary to pure English, that the attention of the reader is fixed upon the construction rather than the ideas.] The Poetry of the l'assions ; selected chiefly from British Authors. [A thick and handsome pocket volume of extracts from the Poets, from

SHARSPERE and SPENSER to SCOTT and Brims, including passages from some American bardlings ; classed under the heads of the passions they re- qectively illustrate, which are arranged alphabetically, and preceded. by COLLINS'S Ode.] A Satirical Poem, addressed to the Aristocracy. By " One of the De- mocracy."

The Honeymoon. By JOHN FISHER, A.M.

A Report upon Deafness, when resulting from Diseases of the Eustachian Passages; with the modern Methods of Cure. Being a paper read to the Liverpool Medical Association, on the 19th December 1839, by Thou NEILL, Surgeon to the Institution for Curing Diseases of the Ear, &c. Third edition.

The Life of Luther ; with Notices and Extracts of his Popular Writings. Translated from the German of GUSTAVUS PFIZER, by T. S. WIL- LIAMS, Johanneum College, Hamburg. With an Introductory Essay, by the Author of " Natural History. of Enthusiasm," &c. (Published by the Society for the Promotion of Popular Instruction.) [An excellent piece of historical biography, in which the career of the great Church Reformer is traced through all the events in which he was actively concerned, without breaking the thread of the memoir : the private life and personal character of LUTHER, his public acts and writings, the controversial and friendly relations to which they gave rise, and the nature and effects of his attacks on the Papacy, are treated of separately ; but so well divided and arranged, that while each branch of the subject is distinct, the several parts form a consecutive history of' this important epoch. The temper and spirit of PFIZER'S work are admirable. The "Introductory Essay" is disquisitional instead of historical; somewhat vague and diffuse ; and with hardly enough of charity in its tone for the use of -a " Society for the Promotion of Popular Instruction," under whose auspices the publication comes forth.] The Servant-Girl in London : showing the dangers to which young country girls are exposed on their arrival in town ; with advice to them, to their parents, to their masters, and to their mistresses.

SERIALS.

Tudor Library. Illustrated British Classics. No. I.—Spectator. Illus- trated in Acrography. LA cheap serial; the distinguishing feature of which is the new art by which its pages are embellished in the manner of wood-cuts. That art is termed by Its inventor, Louis SCH8NBERG, Acrography ; and its advantages consist in the artist's design being reproduced in the form of metallic relief, for sur- face-printing, without the use of the graver. The lines of the impressions, in our copy, are somewhat broken and heavy, like worn or badly-printed wood- engravings, being deficient in clearness and effect of colour : but whether this Is the fault of the printer, or a defect of the process, we are unable to decide. The invention is most important, if it can compete with fine wood-cuts in sharpness and delicacy.] The Law of Landlord and Tenant. By a Barrister. (Tyas's Legal Hand-Books.)

[Explains the stature of leases, and the operation of their covenants, the rights and duties of the lessor and lessee, and the relative positions of landlord and tenant generally in the eye of the law, in a concise and intelligible manner ; and gives forms of the different documents in general use.]

Sir Henry Cavendish's Debates of the House of Commons during the Thirteenth Parliament of Great Britain, which met in May 1768 and was dissolved in June 1774, commonly called the Unreported Parlia- ment. Drawn up from the Notes of the Right Honourable Baronet, Member for Lostwithiel in that Parliament ; and now first published by .1. WRIGHT, Editor of the Parliamentary History, &c. Part II.

PICTORIAL ILLUSTRATIONS, ANI) PRINTS.

The Oriental Portfolio. Part II. [Contains five views, from sketches by Lieutenant BACON, of the magnificent rdmains of tombs, temples, &c. in the sumptuous architecture of Hindostan. The most lively and characteristic scenes are the Market-place, Delhi—a wide street, where almost every building is surmounted by varieties of the melon- shaped dome, and Mahomedan minaret and Hindu pavilion are alike in ruins ; and a mausoleum at the same place, remarkable for a huge striped dome, like a balloon, or a stupendous peg-top point upwards, which -DAVID Rowan's has surrounded with an Indian pageant of elephants and soldiers. The same ob- jection that we made to the first part applies to this,—namely, that the atmo- spheric effects and vegetation are European, not Asiatic ; a defect not lessened by the hazy, feeble style of GAUCI'S lithography.] St. Gewye's, Camberwell, National Schools. W. GOODING COLMAN, architect ; W. WALTON, lithog.

[A pretty and effective lithograph, in the tinted style, of a picturesque Gothic building lately erected ; which, though of humble pretensions, as the first work of a young architect, is creditable to his taste. Perhaps it looks too ssuich like a row of almshouses, with its attics, gables, and chimnies ]

Canadian Scenery Illustrated. From Drawings by W. H. BARTLETT.

The Literary department by N. P. WILLIS, Esq. Part VI.

PAMPHLETS.

Substance of a Speech on Transportation, delivered in the Douse of Lords, on the 19th May 1840, by IticuAnD WidATELr, D.D., Archbishop of Dublin.

[The Archbishop of DUBLIN has thrown his speech on Transportation into the form of a pamphlet, with notes which a speaker cannot pause to make. He has also added an appendix of illustrations, chiefly in support of his charge against the immorality of New South Wales; anti a postscript, in which he suggests, that if the penal settlement of Norfolk Island is to be maintained at all, it should be limited to offenders transported for life, and utterly isolated from contact with other abodes of men. There is more of logic in this than of law, which never contemplated so horrible a sentence. Indeed it may he doubted whether transportation direct to a penal settlement, such as Norfolk Island, is not altogether contrary to the intention of the English law. When sentence of banishment was first pronounced upon a criminal, the object was to punish him by cutting him off from the society of his kindred and countrymen, and to rid society of a nuisance, without caring what trouble he caused else- where. Banishment to the plantations, where the exile's liberty was restrained and his labour enforced, was another step : the foundation of a penal colony, where White slavery either to Government or individuals was established on system, increased the severity : banishment direct to what in penal colonies is called a " penal settlement," is the last step, and by far the severest.] Speech of Mr. William Smith O'Brien, OLP., on moving Resolutions re- lative to Emigration, in the Douse of Commons, on Tuesday 2i1 June 1840.

A Letter to the Right Hon. S. Lushington, MP., and the Opponents of Free Labour ; showing that in their opposition to Emigration from In- dia to the British Colonies they are virtually encouraging the Slave- trade. By Major E. ARCHER, of her Majesty's Service.

A Sermon on the Preservation of our Sovereign Lady Queen Victoria from the late atrocious attempt; preached at the Parish-church of St.

Mary at the Tower, Ipswich, on Sunday 21st June 1840. By the Itet J. C. EBDEN, M.A., Sec Reprint of the Lord Mayor's Sympathy towards the British 4u.vili57*1 who assisted to place the Queen of Portugal on her throne, and ittpm. venting the dethronement of the Queen of Spain. With a sketcliq their destitute condition, and the persecutions they have and are during whilst trying to obtain their just claims.

77toughts on Physical Astronomy ; with Practical Observations thee,, ; By FRANCES BARBARA BURTON, Authoress of "Astronomy pa& Harmed," &c.

Titus ; a Grand Opera, in two acts. In German and English, Th , Music by MOZART.

Iphigenia in Tauris ; a Tragic Opera, in four acts. In German and Eng, lish. The Music by GLUCK.

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