PROGRESS OF PUBLICATION.
"THE cry is still they come." In addition to the new publications " perused and settled" in our Library, we have a number of others yet waiting for critical examination. Amongst them are
1. Mr. FONELAINIQUE's England under Seven Administrations; in three volumes; with the comprehensive motto " Quic-
quid agunt homines nostri est farrago libelli."
2. A translation of Guam's General History of Civilization in Europe ; a work which, apart from its high reputation, and the compreheusiveness of the subject, has a further interest in being the proeuction of a man who has risen from a lecturer to be a minister—but this is in France.
3. Memoirs of Sir John Sinclair, by his Son. Judging from a casual glimpse or two, the Memoirs are agreeably anecdoti- cal and gossipy, though rather diffuse. 4. The Felonry of New South Wales, by JAMES MUM, Esq., late a Magistrate for the Territory of New South Wales. This volume professes to give a faithful picture of the romance of real life in Botany Bay; and the subject is no doubt a fruitful one, to those who have wit to turn their experience to account, and elevation of mind to enable them to rise above colonial prejudices. We observe in an appendix, more than twenty pages full of certificates vouching for Mr. MUDIE'S character as "a gentleman and a justice of the peace ;" whence we infer that some of his matter is controversial.
5. Essays on the Principles of Charitable Institutions; ap- parently an able, painstaking, and well-considered work.. 6. Concealment ; a novel, in three volumes; of whose merits and capabilities we entertain a very shrewd doubt.
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