PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

BOOKS.

The Physical Atlas of Natural Pluenontena. By Alexander Keith John- stone, F.R.G.S., &c. Reduced from the edition in imperial folio, for the use of Colleges, Academies, and Families.

The Hebrew People; or the History and Religion of the Israelites, from the Origin of the Nation to the Time of Christ: deduced from the Writings of Moses and other Inspired Authors; and illustrated by copious Refer- ences to the Ancient Records, Traditions, and Mythology of the Heathen World. By George Smith, F.A.S., &c.

Lot Gringos; or an Inside View of Mexico and California ; with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia. By Lieutenant Wise, U.S.N.

Sophisms of Free Trade and Popular Political Eoonomy Examined. By a Barrister.

Lyra Czecho.slovanskti. Hungarian Poems, Ancient and Modern, trans- lated from the original Slavonic; with an Introductory Essay, by A. H. Wratislaw, MA., Fellow and Tutor of Christ's College, Cambridge.

Records of British Enterprise Beyond Sea, from the Earliest Original Sources to the Present Times; with Contemporary Maps and Illustrations. By S. Bannister, M.A., formerly Attorney-General of New South Wales. Volume I. Part L A Review of the French Revolution of 1848, from the 24th of February to the Election of the First President. By Captain Chamier, R.N. In two volumes.

The Post-office London Directory, for 1850.

[This edition has no new features of any importance, but its utility and complete- ness are enforced afresh at each examination. We say nothing of direct and ob- vious uses for reference; because we have often spoken of them; but, whether for the purpose of discovering the domicile or business of a person of whom the in- quirer has but slender trace or for testing the apparent respectability of a man by tracing his whereabouts through several years, or for going direct to your point in a neighbourhood or street to which you are a stranger, this book and its back

es

volum are unrivalled. For example Blackfriars Road s some three quarters of to

a mile long: you have to go a parti i cular house, but you know not whereabouts the number is—whether at the Bridge or the Obelisk end, or any intermediate point. You turn to the "Street Directory," and find that No. 197 is next door to Surrey Chapel, celebrated of yore as Rowland Hill's. Even if you have no local knowledge, a simple division of the numbers will tell you whether the house you seek is towards the ends or middle of the street. And this is only one incidental use of the remarkable volume.]

Southey's Commonplace Book. Second Series. Special Collections. Edited by his Son-in-law, John Wood Warier, BD. [The second volume of the transcribed collections of this indefatigable litt6rateur seems more varied and interesting than the first; partaking of the character of arm The text extends to six hundred pages: upwards of two hundred are de- voted to theological subjects and notes for the history of the Religious Orders; collections concerning Cromwell's age occupy nearly a hundred; about another sixth part is devoted to Spanish and Portuguese literature; the other two hundred pages embrace various subjects, but all curious in themselves, independently of the light they throw upon Southey's mode of working, and his unceasing industry.] The Uncle's Legacy; a NoveL In three volumes. By John Berry Torr,

Esq.

[The uncle's "legacy" is the somewhat stale contrivance of a peculiar will, which renders it desirable to remove two people and their descendants in order that a third party may enjoy the property, the "first lives" failing. With this basis to proceed upon, there is no lack of crime and criminals; one gentleman, a Mr. Bar- row, being ready for anything, from matrimony to murder. This hacknied and now exploded fable is not redeemed by any natural character orsketches of society; yet there is a minute peculiarity about some of the author's places and persons which seems to argue that Mr. Toff is drawing from life. The life, however, is too singular to interest the reader, or the artist has not arrived at "the art of see- ing nature" truly and comprehensively. A murder in the wild part of Devonshire, which opens the story, though somewhat literal, has business, movement, and keeping about it, which excite expectations that are not fulfilled.] The Gladiator; a Tale of the Roman Empire. By Martha Macdonald Lamont.

The Gipsy. By G. P. R. 'James, Esq. (The garlour Library.) ChealkEdition qf the 1Vol.ks qf Ir. Harrison .Ainsworrh, Esq. Volume L

e. 3.1.141 ,480,11SCePlel. . .

The Acknowledged Doctriniek the -Church. offiesse; being an Exposition of Roman Catholic Doctrines, as .set forth by esteemed Doctors of the said Church, and confirmed by repeated pnblieation, with the sanction of Bishops and Ministers of her Communion.. By Sareuel,Caeper. [The expositions in this iifferne . are drawn from various editions of the Donay translation with notes and commentaries, e:Specially those of 1033-'35 and 1816. The topics handled relate to matters of faith and doctrine rather than to disci- pline, with the secular or moral. consequences 'deduced from it, unless the chapter on the Authority of Kings- alierdeViitnments may be an exception. The exposi- tion of Samuel Capper appearsn'tk refair one sot only in giving the text and its commentary in the words of Of Rorli*hist doctors,. but in letting the good ap- pear as well as the questionable or'Sil O &after. The:old English style of the original often imparts to the book a species of milunt interest.] . The Comprehensive ACIdeill' otainin'g" The ohl and New Testaments, translated out of the original tongues, and with the former translations diligently compareiralid' revised. With Explanatory Nato, &c. By D. Davidson, Author of "-The Pocket Commeutary," [The authorized version, with "the various readings and . marginal references of Dr. Blaney." There is some "iiitrect*tery .matter, Mostlyeof an explana- tory kind, with foot-noteieilliiiti-atlfd of'Ynannere and customs, occasionally of a controversial nature,—as on the' Meirlc-account Of the ereatiop, and Joshua commanding the sun to etcandArtill.. The-hoiskils-. fairly entitled to be called "comprehensive ": it is well fitted for the pocket, but the type is necessarily small and the paper thin.]

Principal Points of Difference between the Old and _Very Christian Churches. By Mrs. William Tuner, Of New York, U. S. Revised by the Reverend David Howarth.

[A reprint from an American booK,,iehich seems to us to promulgate the doc- trines of a new sect of Christianity itifor!althoneli Mrs'. Turner ludgmeoks ou41e ":91kOtristi4V113+013f1S1' Iseefelenntereeenthlitime toitheUnitariin viekis df Theo- dere Parker, her m-eed rtei eet !exaetly Ake his, The ledy and those who thiileseittif her believe " that the- Trulity is in one -person, the person_ of the Lord, JeranieCbrints: that his sotilis fhb Father, that his human body ;lathe Son, and that the,prieci- pie of Influence.mePoWeeresulting froni the union of soul and body, and thence. proceeding,-is:',the.:11olysSpirit," The general ideas of the sect may be (Brined train another-F*416 of their .tkelicte The-New.Christituitebelieve' '-thet not only Chrietiees denominations,AKeneh,ef ell other religions beside, msy be saved, Wheelie-6' a good life,- and act up to the light they have." Thesbook.

consists of statement, not argument.] _..

Rudimentary Die‘ipwary4f Terms- ue41ir slrOliteetnite !Civil, Architec- ture Naval, Bull ding-atittObnsti.notibts,illarly and Eaclesiastical Art, Engineering Civil, Engineering _..Meclsanical, Fine Art, Mining, Survey- ing, &c. To which are added, Explanatory...Observations-on numerous Sub- - jecte connected with Pracheal. ae science. BJ John !Neale. Parts I.

- and II. - ' - [Another addition to the series of cheap and sinful little books which Mr. Weale has published for elementary instruction in natural philosophy, mechanics, mathematics, and the arts Connected with architecture and engineering. The present publication is not a mere definition of terms, but abounds in useful hints or practical information-on-many subjects. The five pages on caution in archi- tectural construction is quite a little treatise, whose suggestions cannot be too much kept in mind by the tyro or young- practitioner. The two parts before us come down to "Measurement"; -two more complete the work.] Captain Sword.and Captain Pen; a Poem. By Leigh Hunt. The third edition. With a new Preface, Remarks on War, and Notes detailing the horrors on which the peemis founderk. . A pretty edition " with additions." The new matter consists of a prefatory ad- from the .editor in favour of the Peace' agitation, with various selections from military historians, descriptive of the horrors of war, which the anther omitted from the previous editione because of their horrors.] The Lew. sad Practice relating to the Sale and: Transfer of 'Encumbered Estates in Ireland, as regulated by Statute 12 and -13 Vic. e. 77, (the .Encnosbered Estates.Aet.). With Introduction, &a.. By James O'DoWd, _ - Esq. :Berrister-at.lasi. .

A well-edited and painstaking edition of this important statute, prefaced by an introduction at once explanatory and critical, though the criticism is measured and cautious.]

'

The Physiology of Digestion considered with. relation to the Principles of

Dietetics. By. Andrew Conthe, scs... Niuth edition. Edited, and adapted to the present .state of Physiological and Chemical Science, by James Coie, MD, Fee.

Paddy's Leisure Hours- in the Poor-house; or Priests, Parsons, Potatoes, and Poor-rates. By a Native Resident of Ireland. Second edition, re- vised and enlarged.

An Autobiography by Chateaubriand. Volume IV. (The Parlour Library of Instruction.) Reverberations. Part IL • ' ILLUSTRATED WORKS.

The Keepsake, 1850. Edited by the-late Countess of Blessington. With • beautiful finished Engravings, . from -Drawings by the first Artists, en- graved under the superintendence of Mi. Frederick A. Heath. The Court Album: Fourteen Portraits of the Female Aristocracy. En-

graved by the be,st Artists, from Drawings by John Hayter. - Antiquarian Gleaning., in the North of ..England. Drawn and Etched by W. B. Scott. No. IL

. . SERIALS..

General Introduction to the Encyclopedia Metropolitana; or a Preliminary Treatise on Method. By Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Third edition. [En- cyclopmdia Metropolitana. Second edition, revised.] The Philosophy of Language; comprehending Universal Grammar, or the Pare Science of Language ; and Glossology, or the Historical Relations of Languages. By Sir John Stoddart, Kut., LL.D. Second edition, revised by the Author, and edited by William Hazlitt, Esq.,-Barrister-at-law. [En- cyclopaedia Metropolitans. Second edition, revised.]

[The Encyclopedia Metropolitana was originated by Coleridge, as a system- atic cycle of the arts.and sciences on a more regular plan than any of the other ceclopeedias. Mr. Coleridge,himself contributed little to the fulfilment of his own idea, but his design was carried outby others, in a manner which rendered the Ency- clopedia Metropolitana remarkable for the lustre of its contributors' names, and the unique as well at; original character of their contributions. Arnold, Herschel, Mute- le, Babbage, Blocefield, Hinds, De Morgan, Airy-„Macrice, Senior, and many others, are included in the numter-roll of authors; widths Histbry of -Rome, the treatises

Oil Rhetoric and Logic, hoc., first appeared kits pages. -

The ." remainder." and the copyright have.. passed into the hands of Messrs. Grifrm.„ I WhOnontemplate a new edition- of the -work, in a convenient farm, at a m_oderate price, in periodical parts-and volumes. .Esch-treAtise will be complets, in itself, and be revised with re,feremse tethepreeent state of knowiedge--whare possibk, aitillioraif not, hi, competent 'hands: it strikes us thatthelast is a very questionable measure. Whether the essay on Method, in which Coleridge has displayed his Seheme, has'beed'revised, we do 'not 'knew. The Second part, consisting ohs volume on the Philosophy-of Language, by Sir John &odder; so celebrated in the party warfare of .his day, has been revised'by lnmsetf but is edited by his nephew, Mr. Hazlitt]

. ALHANACKS.

. The approach of "Merry Christmas and a happy New Year" has caused quite. an influx of ;these indispensable publicatipne, from the calendar that goals in the waistcoat-pocket, to the full exposition Of general or special business statisties,,es exhibited.insthe." British" or the "Cleric:al' Almanack. In the following 1., something -will befeundito-sitit all tastes. 'There are Rogue's Pocket Diary the Goldsmith's Alenanack, for these. who wish a Vade-mecum . the latte . meet 4

petite, and fuller of statistics, especially iit the historical, offieial, and, lies

nientary ways the farmer with stiffiCient-useful bntiness informatien, ' le,, paper foe :diary and memorandums. There lithe Latly'S and Gentlerean'a :en's in-the hundred-and-forty-seventh year of its age, with new enigmas, and o14.mase answered, and Fine responses in verse,' and - other things tasting . of the thew, "when George the Third-was King;" and -even cattier. There tOo is the.Y-Yes; StellarinuJ-.' speaking-through-the immortal " FranoisVoore," . tied intimittink lip% the fortunes of- individuals but the destinies of nations; for a silver sixpence,....Tors sides-descending as -low llowa, in .the urrefill scale as directions for reek:Rat_ . Of the modern substitutes -for the Georgics, to be fautid 'hi the list, we en- ,cline to Mr. Johnson's Gardener's Almatmek, as bpt. threepence *wirer than the ' Countryman's*Orderid*' andiwiee as Irk besides possessing; own of ;&149, 1%4 . rnret philosophy.. The two•alrnanacks for divines seem te diffethy the differnsiete of uinepe to .half-e.cxown. The London and the Stationerie 'are' sheet-Mint-

i nacka'for the,..wall. - . . .. .

- The Priti87i '.:4biii4.1O4'....)eith its Compayka, Anil Ai' IV gl-n"t' ehlts.ffiW il.' iterary. ." 60#7'1'113

Scientific Register, AlSe. beyond ' the compil ica

atiion of ,Almanae.;t B seal al :wt.); , poses of generalletsureeerivethink the Bridal' inay Occupy the .fieetplace,..fer quantity and variotriatitstnfornatitin. - Thipapers, -often origmal,,,,on scree subjects, the-digest Of legislative.doings and statistical- returns, with the" illu'l commentary' Oh some sk, tbetznost-,rtirearkable features , elite- year, reitider ■ Companittit ii.§ femaricaby, if not, so wiinderful, as it was en its.first appellanog. upwards of tiventy years-ego. The maee Of scientifie mid .artistical inferseetielgine

Mr. Gtkteh% Pocket:book defies ennm4dhoe, '• ..

The4ritisk AlmanOck and Compagion, 1850. The Literary mut...Scientific Regeter and A Iniernack, for 1850. By J.,W,

Gutch, F.L.S.;-Foreign.Service Queen's,Messenger. Gilberts Clergyman's Almanack and Churchman's Miscellany, for 1850..n..c Conzpletc Clerical Almanack, for the year 1850. . ThZ'Gardeizer. Althanack, for the year 1850. By George W. Johnson, Ea Moore's Almanack Improved, or Farmer's and Countryman's Calender, 185, . Vox,Stellarum, or -4 LeyatAlmisttack, for 1850. By F'rineis Moore, Pby-

.. e;t The Lady's and Gettticutan's Diary; or Complete liathemitical Almatmelrld for the year 1850. . . . ,

White's Celestial Atlas or New and Improved Ephemeris, for the year WO.' Bogue's Pocket Diary.;ind Calendar, 1850.

Goldsmith's Almanack;1850.- _ ' ft:Oil

. Raphael's Prophetic Messenger,1850.

The Englishman's gad Family 4tortmack, 1850. _..- . 1-0,5 London Almanac/c, for 1'850. • . _ 11,11 -sill 77te Stationers' Almanac/c, 1850..

Pestrztarts. • . " On the Constitutional and Moral Right Or' Wrong of our -National Debt- By Francis W. Newman; formerly Fellow ef BaRiol College, Oxford, A Railway- Caution; 'or ExPoSition,of Changes required it the Law and Practice' of the British Empire to elple the poorer districts to provide for themselves the benefits of Bailw IntercoMse, and to forewarn Go vernment and the Capitalists of British India, fed: By Major J. Y.

gennedy. .

Government Intervention -in Railway Affairs.-- A Letter. to the Bight HOitenrable H. Laboachere,,.M.P. By Harry Scrivener, , . , • The London Corporation Reform Act, 1849, and the . City Electiots Act, 1725; with Introductory Comments, Explanatory Notes,sixl the Statutes verbatim' being's Supplement to a Practical 'Treatise Oa, the Laws. Custams;llsagsq and Regulations of the City- And ' Bort dr-London. By -Almeauder Pulling, Esq.,- of the Inner Temple,ilarristerilit-law.

Exposit/9x qf a PInn,for. a Metropolitan Water-Supply, from the Thames . at Maple,Durhaat lly: Lewis D. B. Gordon, and Clucks Liddell, Civil Engineers.. , • . ,

William Penn. and Thomas B. Macaulay; being Ikrief %serrations on the - Charges made in Mr. Macaulayallistory of Eeglautlagainst the Character of William Penn. -By W. E. 'Forster.

Pictorial Maps of the Land,' the Sea, and the Heavens; Geommas, and

Lectures on -Geography. ' A new edition.. '

The Honteopathic Hospital and College. By the Honourable A. IL Id. Moreton,

Ireland Imperialized; a Letter to' his Excellency the Earl of 'Clarendon. Malthus: An Eases, on the Principle of Population, in Refutation of the

Theory of the Reverend T. II. Malthus. Reprinted from the "Westmin- ster and Foreign Quarterly Review" for October 1849. Revised and en- larged by the Author. .

Depopulation not Necessary., An Appeal to the British Members of the Imperial Parliament, against the -Extennimitiod of the lirmh People. By William Sharman Crawford, Esq,, ALP.. -