PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Boone.

Practical Illustrations of the Necessity of Ascertaining the Deviations of the Compass; with Explanatory Diagrams, and some Account of the Com- pass System now adopted in the Royal Navy; Notes on Magnetism, &c. By Captain Edward J. Johnson, R.N., F.R.S., Superintendent of the Com- pass Department of the Royal Navy. (Published under the sanction of the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.) The Reformation in Europe. By Cesare Cantu. Translated by Fortunate Prandi. In two volumes. Vol. I.

Short Readings for Family Prayers; Essays, and Sermons. By the Rev- erend Henry Woodward, A.M., formerly of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Rector of Fethard, in the Diocese of Cashel. A Series of Discourses on Practical and Doctrinal Subjects. By the Rev- erend William Dow, A.M. The Great Salvation, and our Sin in Neglecting it; a Religions Essay. In three parts. By the Reverend Robert Montgomery, MA., Oxon; Author of " The Omnipresence of the Deity," &c. London; a Fragmentary Poem. By J. Heneage Jesse, Author of "Memoirs of the Court of England," &c.

History of Rome for Young Persons. By Mrs. Hamilton Gray. In two volumes.

The same novelty cannot attend the history of Rome as the antiquities of Etm- na, or even its history, by which subjects Mrs. Hamilton Gray first raised her literary reputation; nsr the importance of the Roman story has made it a

downwards, who for popular writers of ability, from Goldsmith down who have popu- larized every learned discovery or opinion soon after it was m e. There exists no actual necessity for these volumes; and therefore the interest of novelty or the gratification of a want is not felt. They will, however, fulfil, and very ably, the purpose for which they were written—that of furnishing a " History of Rome for Young Persons." The views of Niebuhr are not neglected, but they are not dwelt upon in a manner to injure the popularity of the narrative: the deeds and o ' 'ow of the old Romans and their ancient scholastic admirers are brought to the test of reason and modem views; the main story is told continuously; but what is called an "after chapter" to every section exhibits personal characteristics and smaller events, which could not conveniently be exhibited in the history. The style is plain but animated; the reflections are incidental and just. The book terminates with the Commonwealth, that is with Augustus.] Lectures on the History and Principles of Ancient Commerce. By J. W. Gilbert, F.R.S.

[These lectures were originally delivered in 1833, at a popular literary institution ntVaterford, where Mr. Gilbert was then manager of a branch bank; and they ally possibly have been repeated at the City of London Literary and Scientific Institution, to whose members they are dedicated. In the early part of this year they were printed for private distribution, and are now published at the re- quest of friends.

The lectures seem to have been well adapted to the audience before which they were first delivered. The broader principles of trade, as expounded by political economy, are blended with the facts relating to ancient commerce; and both these subjects are intermingled with general views of ancient history, as well as of the morals proper to men of business, with perhaps a slight allusion to Waterford ne- cessities—as punctuality, steadiness, brevity of speech. These characteristics gave the lectures aptness on the occasion of their delivery; as they now fit them for the tyro who wishes for some notion of the subject, or an introduction to pro- founder works. In any other point of view they are not remarkable, beyond being an able and very readable compendium of well-known facts and principles.] Facts front the World of Nature, Animate and Inanimate. By Mrs.

Loudon, Author of " The Ladies' Companion to the Flower-Garden," &c. With an Engraving on steel, and nnrnerous Illustrations on wood.

[In this pretty little volume Mrs. Loudon arranges the world of nature into moan- mine, rocks, volcanoes, caverns, plains, deserts, mines, earthquakes, and islands, as regards the earth; while lakes, rivers, springs, waterfalls, whirlpools, ice-fields and icebergs, make up the wonders of the waters. She also draws upon atmo- spheric phenomena for four more classes of facts, strange but true, as well as upon animal life among rnarrunalia, birds, and fishes. This is a large field for " wonders," and Mrs. Loudon makes good use of it; presenting some of the most remarkable facts of each subject in an agreeable way, and conveying at the same time a good deal of useful information. Perhaps the book is too exhaustive, and in a new edition some of the smaller subjects might be advantageously omitted. Where the end of the writer is to present a complete view of anything, minute particulars must be presented whether striking or not; but where general views and amusement are the purpose, attractive facts should be alone selected.] An Essay on the Diseases of the Jaws, and their Treatment. By Leonard Koecker. Surgeon-Dentist, M.D., &c. New edition, with copious Notes, and an Appendix containing Tables of upwards of three hundred Cases. By J. B. Mitchell, 11.D., Surgeon-Dentist. [This is the reprint of an essay originally published in 1828, and now, says the editor of the work and partner of the author, all but unknown to the medical pm- fusion; although he seems to claim for the book some influence upon practice since its original publication. Dr. Mitchell has added to the text a variety of notes, and a tabular view of 335 cases of diseases of the jaws, that have been treated by various surgeons. Some of the cases in the text are singular, and there is one (page 60-61) which is a strange jumble of dates. In 1817 the pa- tient is represented as about twelve, but about twenty in 1845; and if this be an ester of the press, he is said to have been placed under Astley Cooper's care in 2818, while that surgeon's written opinion upon the case is dated in 1817.1 Classical Parallels. By Frederic E. Gretton, BD., Head Master of Stam- ford Grammar School, late Fellow of St. John'. College, Cambridge. [Ms. Gretton appears to have kept a commonplace book, in which he inserted what he calls parallel passages in Scriptural, Classical, and English authors. The idea is not new, for several collections of this kind have been published, and *haps somewhat happier than theronesbefore bassists 'thy 'swages are offers rather of resemblance than of parallel, and the resemblance, such as it is, exists in the actual circumstance as much as in mere expression or literary ideal L'Interlocutore Italian; oasis Moderni Collognii Italian, in nna aerie di Conversazioni Familiari en' Interantissimo, ad use della gioventd amante della bells ed armoniosa Favella Toscana; intersperse di Aneddotti e Rag- guaglj. Con nn Vecabolario contenente tutte le parole the vi se trovano. Da Giulia A. Benelachi.

[The generality of conversation-books are intended as guides or makeshifts to enable a person to " get on" in a foreign country, or prepare himself before he starts. The object of L'Interlocutore Italian is to instruct the pupil in the rather difficult art of elegant conversation. With this view, the subjects are more general, and relate to passing events, literary topics, and so forth. The Italian dialogues have no corresponding English, but there is a vocabulary of all the words used.] English Spelling; with Rules and Exercises. Intended as a class-book for schools, or for home teaching. By G. F. Graham, Author of "English, or the Art of Composition." [The distinguishing feature of this spelling-book is Mr. Graham's plan to impress upon the pupil, by example and frequent iteration, the difficulties that arise from the different combination of letters forming the same sound,—as the sound of e, in me, sea, bee, seize, people, and chief The different exercises are so constructed as to exhibit and impress these peculiarities; as well as equivocal words. Eng. Usk Spelling also has merit as a common spelling-book.] The Stars and the Earth; or Thoughts upon Space, Time, and Eternity, Part II. (Library of Illustrated Standard Scientific Works.)

SERIAL.

The Art of Blazon; with an Introduction on the Rise, Origin, and Progress of British Heraldry, &c. By the Reverend William Sloane Evans, B.A, KC.T., Trinity College, Cambridge, &c. Part I. [Mr. Evans has the heraldic enthusiasm of that kinsman of Gibbon whom the historian commemorated, as gratifying his " passion " for heraldry at a war- dance of the Red Indians, when his fortune led him to America in the middle of the seventeenth century (1659); and from which he induced the conclusion " that heraldry was engrafted naturally [the Italics are the historian's] into the sense of the human race." It is possible, however, that John Gibbon might not have gone the length of William Sloane Evans, and traced scientific armorial bearings as far back as the book of Numbers. However, his enthusiasm has brought together a great number of curious particulars on ensigns or emblems, but, not we conceive, appertaining to the family; and his descriptions are clear.]

ILLUSTRATED WORKS AND PRINTS.

The Christian in Palestine; or Scenes of Sacred History. Illustrated from Sketches taken on the spot by W. H. Bartlett; with Explanatory Descrip- tions by Henry Stebbing, D.D. Parts XIII. to XX.

Italy, Classical, Historical, and Picturesque. Parts %V. to XX.

ALMANACK.

The Horticultural Almanack, and Gardener's Year-Book, for 1848. [The facts and remarks in the calendar of this publication relate to botanical and horticultural matters, or the pluenomena of nature bearing upon them. The mis- cellaneous information chiefly refers to the same topics; consisting of hints and directions to the cultivator, lists of useful fruits, flowers, &c.]