PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

BOOKS.

Game Birds and Wild Fowl ; their Friends and their Foes. By A. E. Knox, M.A., &c., Author of "Ornithological Rambles in Sussex." Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy, between 1793 and 1849; compiled principally from Official Documents in the Admiralty. By William 0. S. Dilly. With a Preface by William Stephen Gilly, D.D., Vicar of Norham and Canon of Durham.

The Keepsake, 1851. Edited by Miss Power. With beautifully-finished Engravings, from Drawings by the first Artists, engraved under the superintendence of Mr. Frederick A. Heath. The Court Album: Fourteen Portraits of the Female Aristocracy. En- graved by the best Artiste, from Drawings by John Hayter. We thought that the race of Annuals had expired with Lady Blessington and Mr. Heath ; but The.eepsake comes forth more gorgeous in appearance than aver under the auVioes of Iliss Power Lady Blessington's niece. The

respectively ; two is remarkablet .ce Cenci appear.s. ng subject, of te Cornwell hising on NO doned, Ilte et ' one -ok and Mr. Oita-ion a thing, ih4 perform' 'We as they eau. Lord Johns suluuet is not, indee4l, to felicitous; for Montrose was a double traitor and only saved

fromPiny by the luck of being executed: Ur. Jilines'a ' Anima Mundy ' is an attempt to deduce our likeness to the Deity from the feelings and aspirations of the hen= Mind, in some of his happiest stanzas. There are other names of lesser mark among the contributors ; and the book con- sists of the due proportion of verses and tales. Of the tales, the best is a storynt. of Irish peasant life, by Miss Power herself; true, natural, and con-

The Court Album is a sort of thing that relies less "on the reader's sense than gazer's eye " ; though it does not do much even in the last alternative. It consists of a series of drawings of heads of young ladies who are in some way. or other connected with ancestral houses ; the accompanying letterpress giving a short summary of the heraldic history of the family, where the spe- cificali of the genealogist is generally lost, without anything else being put in its place.]

Sacred Incidents, Doctrinally Considered and Practically Described; or the Harmony subsisting between the Book of Revelation and the Volume of Nature : setting forth the operations of the antagonistic powers of Good and Evil as portrayed in Creation, in the History of Mankind, in Redemption, and the Resurrection. By "Psychologist." Volumes I. and II.

[These volumes form a portion of the undertaking whose prospectus we no- ticed a short time since; from which it appeared that the entire poem was to be recited in the presence of pictures designed to illustrate the verse. It further appeared that this entertainment was to be a rival or companion to the Grand Industrial Exhibition in Hyde Park, in or near to which a site was to be procured for the erection of a building to contain pictures, reciter, and audience.

So far as length goes, the poem is on a par with the general magnitude of the conception. We have two goodly volumes before us, and get no further than the exodus ; having begun with the author's introduction of himself, followed by his introduction to heaven. There he stands in spirit, in the presence of the Deity, antecedent to the creation of the universe, or the appearance if not the existence of the second end third persons of the Trinity; though the poet, on his first arrival, recognized a place reserved for the second- .. God sat upon his Throne I and him beside,

A right-hand seat there was, unoccupied."

Satan at this time was in the full exuberance of loyalty, and made a volun- teer sech which fills three pages in the report. When the appearance of the Trinity and the intention to create the world are announced, baton turns sullen, even to the loss of footing and flight. " The Central Spot, where Satan, station high, In Heaven's wide floor, did ever occupy;

With deepest shadow frowned ! • • • *****

His frame, immense, did seem at once to be Deprived of powers of former buoyancy; And 'twee, with effort vast, he did sustain His growing weight ; or, standing-place maintain On Heaven's Ethereal Floor!

Effort, alone, His station kept before Jehovah's throne If folded were ; or ceased his mighty wing, For moment's space, from constant fluttering Down ; down ; he sank ! and every eye could see, Deflected rays, and downward tendency, Growing more manifest! until, again, A rush, undue, would former post attain ; And fling his figure dense (whose newborn weight He governed not, and court l not calculate,) To height extreme!"

We are precisely in Satan's position as regards the effect of pictorial art and the reciter's powers in bearing up him and some other portions of Sacred Incidents. The new-born weight we cannot calculate.]

The Mystery of God Finished ; or the Times of the Restitution of All Tyhohoi s. In three volumes. di[Three y-looking octavos of capital paper and fair type, containing up- wards of fourteen hundred pages. The object of the publication is not vain

glory or vain speculation, but a practical end, nothing more or less in fact than to promulgate that which had been "revealed" to the author touching the time of the millennium. It is hard at hand : " the separation of the sheep and the goats preparatory to the destruction of the latter will be in the year 1876, which is in prophetic reckoning 1894." In 1896, "an armed de- monstration of the Christian powers of Europe will rescue the believing peo- ple [Protestants, we conceive] of the kingdoms of Austria, Bavaria, Sarduna, Rome, and Naples, from their oppressors." In 1879, "Rome, spiritual So- dom, and Naples, Gomorrah," will be destroyed. It is to be concluded that the "revelation" to the writer extends no further than to the substance of the matter—the gift of interpreting. the Book of Revelations ; for the structure and the style are both rather dis- cursive. The style, however, if we limitthe meaning of the word to diction, is better than might have been expected.] Sermons, by the late Walter Augustus Shirley, D.D., Lord Bishop of Sodor and Man. [Unless the sermon was designed for some public or special occasion, it was the general practice of Bishop Shirley to preach from short notes or "heads." The editor of this posthumous volume has therefore been obliged to select sermons preached before more educated congregations than those which as- sembled in Dr. Shirley's village churches. Beyond any desire that might be felt to see the style of his parochial discourses, this is no drawback., for sermons preached on important occasions are naturally prepared with the greatest care, and best exhibit the preacher's characteristics. In the case of Bishop Shirley, these appear to have been, a direct plainness of style and puose, which had the effect of force, a power of seeing distinctly the prac- tical religious conclusion to be deduced from the occasion, and a sound Pro- testant feeling.] The British Museum, Historical and Descriptive. With numerous Wood-Engravings. [A popular guide-book to the Museum, preceded by an historical sketch ; from the well-furnished repertory of the Messrs. Chambers, of Edinbrgh. The sketch is succinct and clear ; the guide much more informing than guides

litartm_tog is much the. She vatisAny.sbffes....moeitis ineonnexion_ twit!' the great names. Some 1lYitem,. we think, havtivanishell ; and-bone .rginsin.are mostly sir subjectsur**.their 4,1.,i,,/,..f: ,,he advagtages of being,hl od.„ the eyident marks of ' 046,,, produced a story of, Arm aes,1 li e,„, wife : the racasumm.fix , bqt. son has given two eotikciX 4:nixie!, the lengest.poeiu Ni the pest,., FP41,144'..ftatvitge Lali4lr..-ii OgarinCI FP 94VoPPit 4w114t119,effect, tbr,preper courtro, cut a 0. 6.. ,,nOt be IS:mileg, Aarry mad topms, the death of the isban, i. 'efusiot*:. Ikrd Iohu Manners Is.ni'li'lllze gentlein • Luria- undertaken usually are. The attention of the visitor is not only called to the most re- markable objects, but in the ease of antiquities he is made acquainted with the history., manners, and religion of the people who used or produced them; in art, he is presented with a precis of the history or age of the production, and his attention is called to any peculiarity of workmanship or excellence of style ; and so on throughout. The person who visits the British Museum, and attentively examines any portion of its collection with Chambers's hand- book as a guide, will have gained a more vivid and thorough knowledge of the subject than he could by any other way. The reader at a distance will find an instructive volume, that carries him pleasantly over a great variety of topics. The book is illustrated by capital wood-cuts.] Ponsonby ; a Tale of Trouhlous Times. In two volumes. [This novel is engaged with the well-worn subject of the young Pretender and his campaign of 1745. A species of freshness is given to the story so far as circumstances go, by carrying the hero, Wilfred Ponsonby, to France, and introducing the Chevalier with his adherents in his mock court, as well as by giving prominence to Jaeobite doings at the time in England. The author Ails because he is deficient in the imaginative and dramatic powers neces- 8817 to sustain the interest of a fietion.] Reginald Greeme; or Visible and Invisible. By the Reverend. Claude Always Author of " The Rest."

thise sight of men—as a charitable subscription ; the " invisible," those vir- tues which are practised in secret, or traits of mind that are altogether in- ward. The story of Reginald Gnome' a widower with an only son whom. lie is educating, was probably designed to illustrate this idea, but it does not. In fact, there is hardly any story in the book. It is a series of frag- mentary incidents, sketches, and reflections.) Victories of the Saints ; Stories for Children from Church History. By the Reverend J. M. Neale, M.A.

[Eight stories of persecutions or saintly miracles, six of which refer to the ages of primitive Christianity. The main facts profess to be founded on authority ; the stories display knowledge and taste, and they are written with spirit. We should infer that they emanate from a Traetarian source.] The most remarkable among the new editions is the late Mr. Thompson's "Distribution of Wealth " ; a book which was originally written about 1822 and published soon afterwards, and whose author died in 1833. The " dis-

tribution " aimed at is on the principles of " coOperation" ; and the work at its first appearance almost fell stillborn from the press. The attempt to

resuscitate it is made by one of the author's executors, Mr. Pare, who has revised the original edition, and reduced it to about two-thirds of its former length. Mr. Dick's able "Dissertation on Church Polity" originally appeared in 1835, and was reviewed at large in our volume for that year. The author has at last found time to issue a new edition, with such alterations as seem to have been required by the changes in the circumstances.

Mr. Robson's " First Latin Reading Lessons" are extracted from the second edition of his Constructive Latin Exercises. Mr. Wilson's " Bath Fables" is simply a new edition.

Au Inquiry into the Principles of the Distribution of Wealth most conducive to Human Happiness. By William Thompson, Author of "Labour Rewarded." A new edition, by William Pare.

A Dissertation on Church Polity. By Andrew Coventry Dick, Esq. Second edition.

First Latin Reading Lessons, with complete Vocabularies ; intended as an Introduction to Cesar. By John Robson, B.A.

The Bath Fables, on Morals, Manners, and Faith. With Illustrative Prose, from many Writers of celebrity. By Sheridan Wilson, F.S.A., &c. Second edition.

Peaserserris sine TRACTS.

Rome and her Claims ; a Sermon, preached on Sunday, November 3, 1850. By John Jackson, M.A., Rector of St. James, Westminster. England's Danger and England's Duty ; a Sermon preached in the Parish-Church of St. Helen, Bisho te on Tuesday evening, November 5, 1850. By the Reverend John Edmund Cox, M.A., F.S.A., &c.

.Danger within the Gates, or the Despotic Tendency of Tractarian Prin- ciples; a Sermon, preached on Sunday, November 10, 1850. By the Reverend J. E. Riddle, M.A.

Romish Saeramints and the Confessional, as now Taught and Practised in the English Church, &c. Two Sermons, by the Reverend Henry Hughes, M.A., Perpetual Curate of AIL Saints, Gordon Square, St. Pancras.

The Roar of the Lion; a Discourse in reference to the recent Measure of the Church of Rome. By A. J. Morris.

The Supremacy of the Sovereign Asserted, &e. By the Reverend Sir Erasmus Williams, Bart., Rector of Marlborough.

" No Popery!" The Cry Examined. By Edward Swaine. Fifth edition. A Letter to the Bight Honourable Lord Abinger, on the recent Appoint- ments of Romish Bishops in Great Britain.

The Greek Church ; a. Sketch. By the Author of " Proposals for Christian Union."

A Postscript to a Letter to the Right Honourable Lord John Russell, M.P., &c.; containing additional Suggestions towards a Revival of the Professorial System in the University of Oxford. By Edward Arthur Litton, M.A., late Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. dc Introductory Lecture on the Laws of England, delivered in Down- ing College, Cambridge, October 23, 1850, By Andrew Amos, Esq. The Great Industrial Ealsibition of 1854 ; its Importance to the Work-

ing Classes.

Serpents in Hedges ; a Plea for Moderation in the Hours employed in Business. By Samuel Martin, Minister of Westminster Chapel, Westminster.

A Few Thoughts for a Young Man ; a Lecture, delivered before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, on its Twenty-ninth Anniver- sary. By Horace Mann. Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason, and Seek- ing Truth us the 56767Me8. By Descartes. Translated from the French, with an Introduction. Memoir of James Burnes, &c., Physician-General, Bombay Army.