PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED,

Fnms Jaae MA to June Nth.

BOOKS.

Recollections of the Life of the Reverend A. J. Scott, D.D., Lord Nel- son's Chaplain.

The Simple Treatment of Disease deduced from the methods of Expectancy and Revulsion. By JAMES M. GULLY, M.D., &c.

A Translation of the Book of Psalms from the Original Hebrew. with ex- planatory notes. By WILLIAM FUENGII, D D., Master of Jesus Col- lege, and Canon of Ely ; and the Reverend GEORGE SKINNER, M.A., late Fellow and Tutor of Jesus College. A new edition, with cor- rections and additions.

[Besides a high degree of typographical excellence, combining something both of the modern and ancient styles of finish, the chief point in this new edition is a variety of minute but important verbal changes, caused by an entire revi- sion of the text, a comparison with foreign translations and commentaries pub- liched since the first appearance of the work, now twelve years since, and a careful consideration of doubtful passages. Although much observation is needless after the stamp of public approbation which the call for a new edi■ion denotes, since it is a work not likely to be sought after but by persona qualified to decide upon its merits, we may remark that the translation aims at two points—a scrupulous accuracy, not only in the meaning of words but by a con- sideration of customs and natural features, imperfectly known to the original translators, and an exhibition of the Psalms in sentences of a peculiar struc- ture, which the original Hebrew, in the judgment of the translator?, appears to require. "That there is generally in these compositions," they observe, "some inificial arrangement, they conceive to be unquestionable; such arrangement having been chosen either to adapt the Psalms to music, nr to assist the me- mory, or to inculcate Divine truth with the more sure effect, or to a. fain all these objects collectively. The leading peculiarity in the language of the Nelms is this: each seuteuce la usually divided iuto two parts, closely corresponding to each other—not so much, however, in the number of the syllables contained in them, as in the ideas which they severally express." This peculiar arrange- ment, besides its rythmical effect, seems often to impart a more Oriental cha- racter to the Psalms, and sometimes a more truthful reflection of nature. The new translation seems least successful in matters of poetical feeling and deep sentiment; perhaps because the authorized version has got possession of the mind, perhaps because it would be difficult to equal that translation in those qualities.] A Scamper through Italy and the Tyrol: showing the minimum of ex- pense and of tune necessary fur a visit to the principal Italian cities. By a Gentleman. [A narrative, in the form of letters, of a regular go-ahead tour through France to Marseilles, from Marseilles to Naples by steam, calling at Genus, Leghorn,

and Civita Vecchia, with a hasty drive to Pisa while the steamer waited at Leghorn. With like rapidity Vesuvius was ascended, the other environs of Naples visited, and then hey for Rome ; whence, after a residence of four days, to Florence; next, after a sojourn of two days, to Venice, by Bologna, Ferrara,

and Padua, the two last being seen while the vetturino halted. To Venice three days were given ; and then our author returned home through the Tyrol, part of Switzerland, and Beigium, walking, riding, or using railroads, as op- portunity occurred. The time occupied in this tour of 3,500 miles was fifty- two days ; the sum expended on conveyances 22!. 3s. ed., and the total outlay 391. 3s. 6d. The luggage of the traveller was conveyed in " a leather knap- sack, about fourteen inches square." To persons contemplating a journey over any part of the route traversed, this little volume will be asetul; its rapidity imparting briskness, and the

dose-shaving habits of the writer, whether as regards money or time, giving character. It also contains a good deal of practical information ; and the analytical table of the tour—presenting at one view time, distance, mode of conveyance, inn, and cost—compendiously exhibits the statistical results of the

Scamper. But whoever contemplates a similar trip should have the health and habits of the author, the power of travelling fur successive days, and walk-

ing when a vehicle is not at baud; and even then it may be questioned whether he might not more profitably travel a less distance, and devote less time to his tour. For example, five hours were certainly too little even to see. Rouen, much less to examine it; but of these five hours the tourist spent part in racing through the city to book his place in the diligence, because he would nut trust the agents of the steam-boat, who offered, as ;tart of their business, to secure it ; by which economy lie lust two francs and a half, (the book-keeper imposing upon him,) besides his time and a fee of four sous to a lad who acted as pilot through the town. Again, his two days in Paris were spent in getting his passports ordered by the numerous diplomatic representatives through whose

states he was about to pass ; which saved the Commissionaire's fee, nd gave him, he says, a considerable insight into practical affairs. This last we can readily understand; but we queetion whether a person might not better occupy two days in Paris by acquiring a higher kind of impression than could be gotten by chaffering with the underatrappers of diplomacy touching passports and fees.]

A Few Days' Stroll About Paris; being remarks on the road, and obser- vations during a visit to Paris, Versailles, &c. ; and containing every information necessary to the visiter of these cities.

[A commonplace account of a trip to Paris rid Boulogne ; containing little of the information of a guide-honk, and displaying no peculiar aptitude for com- prehending national characteristics on the more important features of observes- tion which every capital presents. Any tenth Englishman who makes a bolyday-excursion to France could furnish forth as much matter in " a few days stroll about Paris," though he might not be able to write quite so well.] The Old River; or the Chronicle of the Rhine. By Captain Knox, Author of " Hardness," &c. [A series of traditions connected with some of the most remarkable places of the Rhine between Cologne and Mayence, and intended to serve as a steam- boat companion to a tourist visiting the river. It does not strike us that there is much nbvelty in the substance of the tales; but we have probably read a great many more traditions about the Rhine than the generality of nuereaders : they are, however, the best-told of any that we have met with. In addition to the art of selecting the most striking points of a story and sinking the trivial, which characterizes all good raconteurs, Captain KNOX, the author of Hard- ness, infuses into his narrative the spirit of an extensive knowledge of life, which enables him to exhibit his persons with their distinctive traits, though it is only in passing : lie has also a just appreciation of past and present times, which is presented quietly and apropos; both being qualities that a mere writer however skilful does not always possess, and for which elegant composi- tion is a sorry substitute. The Old River may be read with pleasure on the Rhine or any other place.] lionographia Anoplurorum Britannic ; or an Essay on the British Species of Parasitic Insects belonging to the order Aimplum of Leach, with the modern divisions of the genera according to the views of Leach, Nitzsch, and Burmeister, with highly magnified figures of each species. By HENRY DENNY, Author of " ailimographim Pselapbidarum et Scyd- mienidarum Britannite."

[The sttbject of this elaborate contribution to natural history is one not men- tionable to ears polite, but is conveyed by the circumlocution of "parasitic animals." Besides full descriptions and occasional anecdotes of the minute animantia that infest the human species—as Dr. KIRBY thinks, only since the Fall—Mr. DISNIVY has collected, magnified, drawn, and described, as many dif- ferent species as he could collect of the parasites of British birds and beasts ; so that the book gives a full and succinct view of the subject. Any one ex- amining the very handsome volume—its full clear type, its vellum-looking paper, and its spirited and characteristic coloured engravings—will wonder how so much elegance was lavished on such a theme : for though the mag- nified creatures have a sort of wondrous beauty, yet the scaly armour of their bodies, and the weapon-like form of their members, stamp them creatures of prey—fearfully and wonderfully made.] The Farmer's Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Rural Affairs; em- bracing all the must recent discoveries in Agricultural Chemistry. Adapted to the comprehension of unscientific readers. Illustrated by wood-engravings of the best modern agricultural implements. By CUTHBERT W. JOHNSON, Esq., F.R.S., Bsrrister- at-Law, Editor of " The Farmer's Almanack," &c.

[This volume forms one of the series of Encyclopedias devoted to a single art or science, which Messrs. LONGMAN are carrying out; but it does not girth* us as being one of the best of the class, or generally calculated for any other purpose than as a hook of reference; though particular papers may doubtless be picked out which will render further inquiry fur practical objects unneces- sary. The Farmer's Encyclopedia is not merely a compilation, but, as it ap- pears to us, a compilation on a scarcely judicious plan, and without a well-con- sidered scale. It aims at embracing too much ; and bulky as is the volume, its apace is not equal to contain every thing connected with farming. Besides the topics which must have a place as directly connected with agriculture, The Farm• er s Encyclopedia contains a variety of other matters, sometimes having a re- mote connexion with the farmer, though scarcely with farming, sometimes none at all: such as " Alabaster "; "Abate," with its various meanings, espe- cially the legal one, to pull down a nuisance; "Agents," including the law, upon the subject ; and " Abbey-Lands," the legal and antiquarian points of which may he of use to the farmer who happens to hold them, unless they drive him into a lawsuit through conceit of his own wisdom. Biographies of agricultural writers and improvers, with accounts of foreign animah, arc somewhat more closely

connected with agriculturists, and such disquisitions as the acclimatization of plants with agnculture ; but it may be doubted whether they Lave so strict a connexion with the subject as is desirable in a book addressed to that practical race of men called farmers. Considered as a practical book to supersede other books, we question whether The Farmer's Encyclopedia will accomplish the purpose; but as a dictionary containing an immense quantity of information on an amazing variety of subjects, it should be in the library of every agriculturist professing to follow his business in a liberal spirit.] The Public Economy of Athens ; to which is added, a Dissertation on the Silver Mines of Laurion. By AUGUSTUS BOEHM, Professor in the University of Berlin ; translated by GEORGE CORNEWALL LEWIS, Esq., A.M., late Student of Christ Church. Second edition, revised. [The demand for a new edition of this work, like that for the translation of the .Book of Psalms, is sufficient evidence of merit : every reader of the book is More or less a competent judge. As the subject, however, is very curious, and One that will keep, we may return to it on some leisure occasion.] 'H Kauny &carpa. The New Testament. Consisting of the Greek Text of Scuocz, with the readings, both textual and marginal, of GRIESBACH; and the variations of the edition of STEPHENS, 1550; BEZA, 1598; and the ELZEVIR, 1633. With the English Authorized Version with its marginal renderings. [An edition alike distinguished for utility and beauty. The Greek text— that of SCHOLZ (1830-6)—is followed, with the variation of the most impor- tant editions from STEPHENS in 1550 to GRIESBACH in 1805. In juxtaposi- tion with the Greek, is printed the authorized English version ; forming * useful help to the student, and a guide or monitor to the critical reader. The typography of both languages is extremely neat, and that of the Greek both clear and bold.] Hand-Book fur India and Egypt : comprising the Narrative of a Journey from Calcutta to England by way of the. river Ganges, the North-west of Hindostan, the Himalayas, the rivers Sutledge and Indus, Bombay and Egypt ; and hints for the guidance of passengers by that and other overland routes to the three Presidencies of India. By GEORGE Paw- BURY, Esq., M.R.A.S. Second edition. [The rapidity with which this work has reached a second edition, equally proves its own general merits and the attention which India is now receiving ; for we do not suppose that Hindostan has yet become such a part of the grand tour as to cause a regular demand by tourists for the Hand-Book for India and Egypt. The principal additions to the new volume embrace vocabularies of Hiodostanee and the Egyptian dialect of the Arabic, together with a chapter, chiefly derived from ANNESLEY, containing medical hints to persons visiting India, useful on the principle that any thing is better than nothing; but having marks of being compiled by a person who was not master of the subject he was abridging, and was therefore reduced to follow his author literatim. What is the use, for instance, of telling the general reader that he should take medicines that promote the secretions and excretions without di- minishing the vital powers ? What he wants is a prescription, or prescriptions; though even then, indiscriminate dosing himself might do him more harm than good, because in certain conditions medicines that have the effect of strength- ening the system, may in other cases diminish the vital powers.] The Magazine of Domestic Economy. Volume the Seventh. [The collection into a volume of the monthly numbers of a periodical devoted to domestic affairs of every kind—recipes for cosmetics, hints on cookery, dis- quisitions on digestion and the properties of digestible substances, or at least substances that we eat—essays on needle-work, glazed saucepans, and many other household matters. Besides these things, topics of higher character and wider range are discussed—as many subjects connected with horticulture, agri- culture, and domestic life. A good deal of the work seems furnished by cor- respondents, who volunteer lucubrations or ask or reply to questions ; and on specific points, or matters within their experience, they are the best class of writers for such a work. On larger subjects, however, they are very apt to make the pages of a publication a vehicle for their individual views, and to publish short pamphlets at an editor's expense in more ways than one. This volume closes the first series of The Magazine of Domestic Economy ; which is about to double its price and increase its size, in order to discuss larger sub- jects connected with the arts of living.] Natural History of Enthusiasm. Eighth edition, revised.

[A neatly elegant edition of a celebrated work, very .useful at the present time ; since it may be suspected that our religious revivals embrace quite as much of morbid excitement or metaphysical reverie as of true piety, or of that kindness of heart, which, under the name of charity, the Apostle declared to be the great essential, without which all other qualities were useless.] Narrative of the Recent War in Afghanistan, its origin, progress, and prospects; with the official despatches of Government, and authentic returns of the killed, wounded, and missing. By an Officer in the Honourable East India Company's Service.

The Exhibition-Catalogue of the Royal Academy, for the present season, the 74th year; with Critical and Descriptive Remarks on the pictures, the drawings, and the sculpture, by the Editors of the Morning, Evening, and Weekly Papers.

Works of G. Griffln, Esq. Volume V.—" Holland-Tide."

The Works of William Jay, Collected and Revised by Himself. Volume 1.11.—" Morning and Evening Exercises." July to September.

SERIALS.

Dr. Andrews's Cyclopedia of Domestic Medicine and Surgery, Parts IX. to XVIL PERIODICALS.

The Union for June.

PICTORIAL ILLUSTRATIONS AND PRINTS.

The Kitchen Department of the Reform Club. CHARLES BARRY, Esq., R.A., Architect ; the Fittings and Apparatus arranged by ALEXIS SOYER. Drawn and lithographed by JOHN TARRING. [This is a curious print, and unique of its kind : it presents on a large scale a coup-Wail of the matchless culinary arrangements of the Reform Club, the various offices for which extend over the whole basement of the building. To show them at one glance, the partition-walls are cut away, and a bird's-eye view is given of the several kitchens, larders, sculleries, and batterie de cuisine; the different functionaries are all at their posts, and the accomplished chef, Monsieur SOYER; is in the act of pointing out to a favoured visiter the various contrivances suggested by his ingenuity and experience. With a plan of the building, there are references to a minute explanatory account of the uses of the multifarious apparatus here exhibited, for the admiration of the scientific gastronome and the envy of rival artistes.]

The Imperial Family Bible. Illustrated by a superb series of engravings, from the Old Masters, and from original designs by JOHN MARTIN, K.L. Parts XL to XVI.

Original Views of London As It Is. Drawn from nature expressly for

this work, and lithographed by THOMAS SHOTTER BOYS; with His-

torical and Descriptive Notices of the Views, by CHARLES OLLIER. Beattie's Castles and Abbeys of England, Part V.

Btockedon's Italy, Part VL PAMPHLETS.

The People's Rights, and How to Get Them. By the Reverend TRONA' Srzscss, M.A., Perpetual Curate of Hinton Charterhouse, near Bath. A Letter to the Right Honourable Lord Francis Egerton, President Elect of the British Association for the Advancement of Science; containing Observations on Statements made by its officers in the Volume of the Transactions published in April 1842. By ALEXANDER NASKYTH,

F.L.S., &c.

Ninth Annual Report of the Sacred Harmonic Society, with an Appen- dix, and the Rules of the Society.

The Object of the Sunday Lectures at the Philosophical Institution, Beau- mont Square, Mile-End, stated in a Lecture delivered in the Chapel of the above-named I nstitution, 15th May 1842. By PHILIP Hanwoon. Spe'ch of Lord Ashley in the House of Commons, on Tuesday 7th May 1642, on moving for leave to bring in a Bill to make Regulations re- specting the age and sex of children and young persons employed in the Mines and Collieries of the United Kingdom.