PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

BOOKS.

John Howard, and the Prism-World of Europe. From Original and Authentic Documents. By Hepworth Dixon.

The Equitable Jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery. Volume IL Com- prising Equitable Estates and Interests, their Nature, Qualities, and Inci- dents ; in which is incorporated, so far as relates to those subjects, the substance of "haddock's Treatise on the Principles and Practice of the High Court of Chancery." By George Spence, Esq., one of her Majesty's Counsel.

A Tour of Duty in California; including a Description of the Gold Region, and an Account of the Voyage around Cape Horn; with Notices of Lower California, the Gulf and Pacific Coasts, and the principal Events attending the Conquest of the Californias. By Joseph Warren Revere, Lieutenant U. S. Navy, lately in Command of the Military District of Sonoma. Edited by Joseph N. Balestier, of New York. With a Map and Plates from ori- ginal designs.

Addresses on Miscellaneous Subjects. By the Reverend James S. M. An- derson, M.A., Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen, &c. [Four of these lectures were delivered before the Brighton Athenaeum ; the fifth was addressed to the Sussex branch of the Society for Promoting Colonization. The first address was appropriate to the circumstances of the institution; dwel- ling on the profitable employment of hours gained from business. The next was on the lifelind literary and personal character of Johnson, especially his unfelt: ing piety. The subjects of the other three lectures were probably suggested by Mr. AndersonTs-studies for his History of the Colonial Church. Two are respec- tively devoted to the character and career of Columbus and Raleigh ; the other is a brief survey of the English Colonies, with a sketch of the history and uses of colonization.

The first address is too obvious in its topics to be remarkable; the other ad- dresses are models of their class—just the sort of lecture fitted for a mixed audience, who require information, stimulus, and a guide, if any of its members wish to extend the study of what they hear. The leading features of each subject are presented broadly and plainly ; the striking points are made palpable by rhetorical figures, which are appropriate to the living speech, and not too worn for papers; any moral topic is impressed in the mode of a sermon ; and the person who wishes for farther information is told where he can find it.] A Lift for the Lazy. [A species of table talk, or" curiosities "of words and things, as well as "literature," upon a small scale; compiled in America, and designed to furnish mental food and subjects of conversation for "the lazy." The topics are of different lengths, and as various as well can be. "Consols " are put into a couple of sentences, for the information of Yankee speculators, who may wish to know the real meaning of a term they so often meet with. The alleged derivation of "Dirge" is contained in one sentence. Seven pages are devoted to the proper reading of the passage con- nected with the pictures in the closet-scene of Hamlet; five to a ludicrous paper on the legal pronunciation of old French terms; one page condenses the story of the Man m the Iron Mask. A good deal of the matter will be familiar to English readers; but some, descriptive of American manners, as the "Merchant-Prince Snob," is new, if not original. A Lift for the Lazy will be an amusing com- panion for the lounging chair, the railway, the steam-boat, or the rustic seat. As the order is not alphabetical, an index is added.] The Golden Remains of the Early Masonic Writers; illustrating the Doc- trines of the Order. With an Introductory, Essay and Explanatory Notes, by the Reverend G. Oliver, D.D., Author of "The Historical Landmarks,"

&c. Volume IV. "Masonic Doctrines."

[This volume of the indefatigable'and enthusiastic Dr. Oliver's edition of select masonic writers, consists of a series of sermons preached by a chaplain of the order before different congregations of the brethren, chiefly in the county of Bent. To the uninitiated they seem to consist of exhortation cleverly applied to the character of freemasons, or to a defence of that body against popular prejudices. But brother Jethro Inwood would seem to have an esoteric as well as an exoteric doctrine. In one of his numerous notes, Dr. Oliver states that the profanum vuloua who attended the church would lose the very essence of the discourse. " e delicate allusions to freemasonary cannot have been rightly understood or duly appreciated. These sermons are chiefly remarkable for the ingenuity with which masonic truths have been introduced no as to make it impossible for an uninitiated person to detect the passages where they are embodied. They contain a tissue of moral aphorisms extracted from the lectures of masonry, and inter- woven with such art as to be invaluable to the curious and assiduous brother."] Manual of Devotion, compiled from the Book of Common Prayer and other

Sources.

[A collection of several forms for religious self-examination, a varied selection of Collects from the Prayer-book, St. Cyprian's paraphrase of the Lord's Prayer, with some miscellaneous directions of a minor kind, designed to form the mind to habits of constant piety.]

Elements of English Grammar, for the use of Ladies' Schools, By E. G. Latham, M.D. [An abridgment of the simpler and more directly practical parts of Dr. Latham's great work on the English Language, designed for pupils, even for juvenile pupils in ladies' schools. It contains a succinct historical .pr6cis of the language, and a condensed summary of the author's philosophical principles of his Grammar, done In a clear and masterly style. It will require, however, much careful attention on the part of the teacher, and some cleverness on the part of the little ladies, thoroughly to acquire these elements; but when this is accomplished, they will be well prepared for any intellectual course of study.] Letters to a Young Master Mariner, on some Subjects connected with his Calling. By Charles Lorimer. New edition. [This edition has been carefully revised, and some improvements and additions made to it. Nautical matters are not so much the subject of the book, as the commercial duties and legal powers or responsibilities of the master mariner, under the critical circumstances in which he may continually find himself placed.] Poems. By William Cullen Bryant. [A compact edition of Bryant's Poems, reprinted from the American edition of 1848. It appears to form, part of a' cheap series of American authors.] A Practical Treatise on Brenting;based on Chemical and Economical Prin- ciples; with Formulae for Public Brewers, and Instructions for Private • Families. By. William Black, Practical Brewer. Fourth edition. [It is a good many years since we noticed Mr. Black's Treatise, as we have chro- nicled at intervals its successive editions and their improvements. For the prac- tical purposes of the professional or family brewer, we suppose it is the best book extant.] Tints from an Amateur's Palette; or a Few Stray Hiles of Thought. By Alfred Jackson.

[Short papers of the "article " genus, on a variety of subjects.]

The Pilot; a Tale of the Sea. By J. F. Cooper, Author of " The Red Ro- ver," " &c. (Railway Library.) Sense and Sentailitic• a Novel. By Jane Austen, Author of "Pride and Prejudice," " &c. Railway Library.) Tales of the First rench Revolution. Collected by the Author of " Emilia Wyndham." (Parlour Library.) [Three of the best fictions that have been put forward by the various shilling libraries: Cooper's Pilot for less than what was once the charge for a reading I] Waverley Novels. Volumes XLL to XLIV. "Highland Widow," &c. "Fair Maid of Perth." "Anne of Geierstein," Volume I.

Zoistic Magnetism: being the Substance of Two Lectures, descriptive of Original Views and Investigations respecting this mysterious agency4 de- livered, by request, at Torquay, on the 24th of April and 1st of May 1849. By the Reverend W. Scoresby, D.D., F.R.S., &c.

A Guide to Port Stephens, in New South Wales, the Colony of the Austra- lian Agricultural Company. By Alexander Harris, Author of "Convicts and Settlers," Ste. With a Map.

PAMPHLETS.

"The Unwillingness of God that any should Perish" • a Sermon, in aid of the Funds of the Royal Freemasons' School for Female Children. By the very Worshipful Brother the Reverend John Edmund Cox, M.A., F.S.A., Grand Chaplain of the Order, &c.

Religious Ignorance, its Cause and its Cure; a Tract for the Times. By Alexander Q. G. Craufurd, M.A. of Tesus College, Cambridge, formerly Curate of St. Mark's Church, Woodhouse, Leeds.

The Earliest and Best Means of Promoting the Moral and Social Elevation of the People. By Charles Brewer.

Two Letters to the Right Honourable H. Labouchere, ¢c., by C. N.

Newdegate, Esq., 'M.P., On the Balance of Trade, ascertained from the Marke‘Value of all Articles Imported, as compared with the Market Value of all Articles Exported, during the last four years.

Six Lectures on the Philosophy of Mannerism. By the Reverend John Bovee Dods, of Boston, U.S.

On the Ventilation of Coal-Mines. By William Brunton, M. Inst. C.E.