PUBLICATIONS .RECEIVED.

Boons.

The Recommendations of the Orford University Commissioners; with Selections from their Report, 8re. ByiJames Heywood, M.P., P.R.S., Trinity College, Cambridge. dimabel; or the Victory of Love. By Mary Elizabeth Wormeley. In three volumes.

Gertrude Cameron; a Novel. By Mrs. Mackenzie Daniels, Author of ■ "My Sister Minnie," &c. In three volumes.

Last Girfizses of Convocation; showing the latest Incidents and Results

of S 'cal Action in the Church of England. By Arthur J. Joyce. [A. very ably written book, imparting interest by a quietly sarcastic manner to the dry matter of ancient Church law and practice. The real object of the author is to show the impolicy of reviving Convocation by proving that when endowed with more power of debate, it never did any good to the Church, but on the contrary produced evil. With this object, Mr. Joyce takes an historical view of the proceedings in Papal times, and till the total abo- lition of the Church during the Great Rebellion. To a considerable extent this summary is antiquarian or historical rather than practical ; the pre- sent state of society and opinion so widely differing from that under the Plantagenets and Tudors, that little conclusion as to the propriety or im- propriety of reestablishing Convocation can be deduced. From the Restora- tion to the real extinction of Convocation, the narrative is fuller ; the re- semblance of those times to these being much closer, and the doings or ra- ther attempts of the clergy offering a fairer subject of inference as to what they might do or attempt now.] Sermons, _Devotional and .Practical; preached to Country Congrega- tions. By the Reverend J. Bandinel, M.A., of Wadham College, Ox- ford.

[Well-selected texts, clearly and succinctly treated, with a view to the en- forcement of practical duties and the regulation of life, will render this vo- lume fit for individual use or family service. For this latter purpose, in- deed, the sermons are particularly well adapted, since they are founded on texts in the Lessons, and made appropriate to certain times of the year.] Self-Denial the Preparation for Easter. By the Author of "Letters

to my Unknown Friends."-

[Hints for self-improvement in various ways, by the exercise of self-denial during Lent, on seven subjects, of which Society, Intellectual Pursuits, and Work, are the most generally available. Sometimes the practical hints run into disquisition ; self-denial in personal indulgence for instance, is chiefly occupied in discussing the question of whether fasting is really enjoined or useful.] The Daughters of Zion. By Reverend S.D. Burchard, D.D. Illustrated with numerous Steel Engravings. [An American importation. It consists of the lives, or more truly of dis- courses on the lives, of the principal women mentioned in Scripture, from Sarah to Mary Magdalen.] • ; or a History of Greece in Greek,' beginning with the Inva- sion of Xerxes. Part I. From the Invasion of Xerxes to the Sup- pression of the Ionian Revolt, a space of forty years, as related by Diodorus and Thucydides. Edited by Josiah Wright, _M.A., Head Master of Sutton Coldfield School, &c. [Designed as a first reading-book for pupils in Greek. It contains from Dio- derus the account of the invasion of Greece by Xerxes, followed by the easi- est part of Thucydides,—the masterly sketch of the principal events which took place between the Persian and Peloponnesian wars. The pupil has thus an entire story of one of the most interesting periods of history. The carelessness and other failings of Diodorus are admitted by Mr. Wright; but he has chosen him for his easy diction, correcting his occasional errors of facts or words by notes. There are some very good observations on the grammar of cases; with a variety of notes, historical,. critical, and grammatical, affixed to the text. The book would have been improved by a vocabulary, which can render the particular sense more precisely than a dictionary, where the pupil is puzzled by a variety of meanings.] Memoir of a Metaphysician- By Francis Drake, Esq. Edited by the Author of "Beginnings of a New School of Metaphysics," &c. [A. tale which embodies the metaphysical ideas of the editor " ; though as a system these are somewhat disjointed. The tale itself would seem intended to point the morals of the evil that may follow from bringing up a boy and a girl together, especially if the parents of the girl should try to get up a love affair for the :eke of the boy's fortune ; that man's affection is more transient than woman's ; and that sensual excess may lead to actual insanity. The instances are too extreme to conduce to any useful purpose, and the latter part of the tale is of a preposterous and repelling kind.] Raymond Bury ; a Tale. Founded on T. Hood's Poem, "The Haunted House." By Eliza H. Keating. Illustrated by Mrs. W. Ingram. The Chapel of the Hermits, and other Poems. By John G. Whittier. [John G. Whittier is an American poet, apparently of the Society of Friends. His religions tenets have directed him somewhat in the choice of his sub- jects, which often have an Anti-Slavery and Anti-Papal bearing. The same cause and a study of Wordsworth have rendered his style more sober than that of his countrymen in general, without in any way impairing its strength. There is poetical spirit in this volume of short poems, but not of the highest order. The author is deficient in that genius and deep knowledge which can endow almost anything with interest. Whittier's poems greatly depend upon some temporary interest in the subject, so that the reader as it were meets the poet half-way.] Sketches by a Sailor; or Things of Earth and Things of Heaven. By a Commander in the Navy. [A series of incidents, real and striking in themselves—as a wreck, a roan overboard and his wonderful escape, a criminal trial in Ireland. They are effectively told, especially the nautical narratives ; but they are somewhat encumbered by "introductions and conclusions, which religiously apply the subjects in rather a sermonizing way.]

The London Clubs; their Anecdotes and History, Private Rules and Re- gulations.

[Historical and aneedotical sketches of the old clubs of London, from the time of the Mermaid, until the real convivial or social clubs were superseded by the modern Palaces ; of which, and the objects of the associations, a pretty full account is given. The tiny volume is pleasantly written, in a gossipy style.] The Navigation and Mercantile Marine Laws Considered with a view to their Consolidation ; also an Inquiry into the principal Maritime

Institutions. By W. S. also, Second edition, condensed and carefully revised. The Pocket Peerage of Great Britain and Ireland. By Henry Rumsey Forster, of the Morning Post. Third year. Revised by the Nobility. The Wide, Wide World. By Elizabeth Wetherell. A new edition. Speculation; or the Glen Luna Family. By Amy Lothrop.

PAMPHLETS.

The Coalition Ministries of 1783 and 1853. By Edward Capel White- hurst.

Property and Income Tax. The Present State of the Question. By J. G. Maitland, 11.A., F.R.S., of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister-at-law. The People and the Parish, /to. By J. Toulmin Smith, of Lincoln's Inn ha' q., Barrister-at-law.

Thoughts on Our Foreign Relations. By a Member of the $011130 of Commons.

Recommendations respecting the Extension of the University of Oxford, as adopted by the Tutor's Association. January 1853. (Reports of the Oxford Tutors' Association, No. I.) Thoughts on the Oath of Abjuration, in a Letter to the Earl of Aber- deen. By a Member of the late Parliament.

A Plea for the Princes of India. By John Sullivan, Esq.

The Emperor of China v. the Queen of England. By P. P. Thorns, Author of "The History of Sun-King," &c.

A _Refutation of some of the principal Mintatements " Life and Actions in Hungary in the years 1848 and 1849," &o. By George Kmety, late General in the Hungarian Army of Independence. .Homceopathy : an Attempt to State the Question with Fairness, &c. By George Wyld, M.D., Physician to the Hahnemann Hospital.