PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

BOUND BOORS.

Peru As It Is: a Residence in Lima' and other parts of the Peruvian Republic, comprising an account of the social and physical features of that country. By ARCHIBALD Swum, M.D. In two vols. A Winter Journey through Russia, the. Caucasian ..4lps, and Georyia, thence across .2h1bunt Zagros, by the Pass of Xenophon and the fen Thousand Greeks, into Koordistaun. By Captain R. MIGNAN, of the Bombay Army, M.R.A.S., Author of "Travels in Chalthea." In two vols.

Xiirrative of an Expedition into Southern Africa, during the years 1836 and 1837, from the Cape of Good Hope, tlirough the Territories of the Chief Moselekatse, to the Tropic of Capricorn ; with a sketch of the recent Emigration of the Bonier Colonists, and a Zoological Appendix. By Captain H. C. HARMS, 11. E. 1. Company's Engineer, &c. Illus- trated by a Map and Drawings. .,ILnh,irs of the Early Life and Service of a Field-Officer on the Retired List of the ludiuu Army. Waking Dreams. By C. M. J. With Illustrations, designed and etched by the Author. [A.pleasant collection of tea tales in prose and verse, both of a light and a serious nature; with some humour, some tenderness, a good deal of vivacity, and much variety in subject and scene. They are, however, too deficient in strength and individuality to require a more elaborate notice.] Henry Acton, or the Gold Smugglers, and other Tales. By the Hon. LOEISA SAYERS. Iii three vols.

[Nouvellettes of the Minerva Press school.] Englund and its People ; or a Familiar History of the Country, and the Social ana Domestic Manners of its inhabitants. By EMILY Tacrws, Author of " General Beading for Schools," &c. [A Ilistorv of England for young folks, on a new plan ; embracing an ac- count of the people, their condition, arts, and so forth, as well as a story of their kings. Thc execution is worthy the idea, being sensible and spirited; though, of course, in so small a compass the historian misses matter which he would deem important ; and sometimes a sentence would supply a cause—the why I, which even children may ask. The volume is profusely. Illustrated.] Alfred Morehl,d, the Would-be Traveller. Being an entertaining and instruct Vt.. Account of the Habits and history of the larger and -most interesting Quadrupeds. By the Author of "The Moral Budget of my 17nc'e Newbury," &c. (A very interesting collection of anecdotes of animals, pleasantly told in the halo of dialogue, between an old traveller and a little gentleman, who is smitten with a love of wandcring in the lands of wild beasts, till he hears of the risks am1 perils attending it. - The volume is illustrated by a number of wood,cuts, sometimes indifferent, sometimes strikingly characteristic.] The Bouquet, or LaXes' Elmeur-Gardrn : being a Description of those Plants which will flower in the room, and the Treatment most suitable for them. By a Florist. [A practical treatise on io-door gardening, arranged for every month ,ii the year; by sIBtlyillg 166, a London sitting-town may be kept constantly gay with dowers in bloom, without the expense of contracting with a nurseryman. or a regular supply of flowering plants.] Th'e Laws ,!1* Harmonious ralonring adopted to Interior Deeorations,..11-a- nufactur. it, nod other r:,,ful Pu■ppscs. By D. R. HAY, House-Painter

and Decorator to the Queen, Edinburgh ; Corresponding Member of the Society for Promoting Practical Design, &c. Fourth edition. [A ),..aet ical book, er willv useful to the mechanic and the man of taste, and which moi:ffit be studicA mv the artist with advantage : it reduces decorative art to seieot iiie rule in regard to colour. '1' his new edition is improv.A, and dedi- cated to the Society for promoting Practical Design.]

Seff-eallure an Address introductory to the Franklin Lectures, deli- vered at Boston. September 1536. By W. E. 01.1,01:NG. [A very neat little edition, adapted to the pocket or the table, of the Address liv Dr..CliANNINt:, the general character of which we described last week.]

PAmrnt.ETS.

,Sm, .E.y, ;qr.. of the Absurd, Unfoaoh it, and Gmtradictory Statements in s's •. Six 11,1iths hum Sault! Australia." By JOHN STEPHENS, An- thor mit tlu " I listory of' South Australia." The Corn-Laws Consielcred, by C.atmon .Thought8 (al the (1.ra Laws, aiblhsserl to the Clasms of the Outlay if' Gloms( slur. By the Honourable A. II. MonETos, senior', Lytter$ on the Corn Lou's, A new edition. By a Member of the Temple.

The lAttse of Lords, the People's Charter, and the Corn-hues. By Sir Fum.se'ms nLARE, Bart., Author of " Peers All Alike."

Ireland and Canada ; supported by Local Evidence. By the' Right Jl,im,ummmble SIT ROM:HT WILMOT HORTON, Bart., G.C.H.

Thoughts on the Pr, s,nt rr:sis rf the G000tas, and on the Policy of a Legislative Uni,o, n the two ramie::: being the Prefave to a second edition of - Tim, Administration of the Affairs of Canada." By the Bight Honourable Sir Itottmc Wit.mor HORTON.

LeitcY to 'Viscount -11elhourne on the Ordinance of the Earl qf Durham. By a. Commoner.

_el Letter to Lord Viscount Melbourne, on the Rebuilding of the Royal Ex- change. By THOMAS HOPPE% Architect. (Mr. IloerEtt has taken advantage of the rebuilding of the Royal Exchange,

to broach a project for deciding competitions for public buildings fairly. The i only sure mode of making an approach to justice, s by bringing opinion to bear upon the decision,—which will not be done till instruction in art is made a part of education ; when the public will discover that there is little more in our architects than imitative merit. We have nothing but mispluced and mis- applied copies from Greece, Italy, and the Goths ; and the Committees who decide upon the subject have often only to choose from a parcel of unnatural births.

Following the scheme, is an account of the anther's treatment by the Post- office Committee ; in which he covertly intimates, whilst openly repudiating the idea, that Sir ROBERT SMIRKE might have been indebted to his designs for the plan and elevation of the act util building : and there is certainly strong general coincidence, though the impression, to a non-professional eye, would be that there was no resemblance.]

Observations upon the Report of the Irish Railway Commissioners; with a Review of the Failures which have already occurred under the different Government Boards and Commissions connected with Public Works in Ireland. Addressed to the Right Honourable the Viscount DUSICallI1011, Lord Privy Seal, First Commissioner of Woods and Forests, &c. &c. By GEORGE LEWIS SMITH.

First Report and Proceedings of the General Railway Committe_,e appointed at a Public Meeting held at the Commercial Buildings, Dublin, 22d November 1838.

21'ilv Epistle by the Apostle Paul, addressed to the Lord Bishops of England and Ireland, and recently discovered among some other manu- scripts of remote antiquity, and very exactly mid diligently translated out of the original Greek.

Socialism, as a Religious Theory, Irrational and Absurd. The first of three Lectures on Socialism, (as propounded by Robert Owen and others,) delivered in the Baptist Chapel, South Parade, Leeds, Septem- ber 23, 1838, By JOHN EUSTACE GILES, Minister. Third thousand. Revised and corrected.

The "Nelson Testbnonial :" a Letter to the Committee appointed to select a Design for a Memorial of the Achievements of the late Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson. By WILLIAM BEHNES, Sculptor in Ordinary to the Queen.

27w Anonymous Letters.

An Introduction to Thomsmt's Geography ; with an Appendix. For the use of the Junior Classes in Schools. By Wlia.rs.st S. HARVEY. SC-. coud edition.