PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

From April 180 to etpra 24th.

Booxs.

A Memoir of the Honourable and Most Reverend Power Le Poer Trench, last Archbishop of Tuam. By the Reverend Joseph D'Arcy Sirr, D.D., Vicar of Yoxford, Suffolk, and late Rector of Kilcoleman, Diocese of Tuam. History of the Consulate and the Empire of France under Napoleon. By M. A. 'fillers, late Prime Minister of France, Member of the French Aca- demy, &c. Translated by D. Forbes Campbell, Esq. Volume III. Self By the Author of "Cecil." In three volumes. The Cock and Anchor; being a Chronicle of Old Dublin City. In three volumes.

Sketches of Life and Character; taken at the Police Court, Bow Street. By - George Hodder, Reporter to the "Morning Herald." With Illustrations by Kenny Meadows, Leech, Hine, Hamerton, Henning, and Newman. [Mr. Hodder, the author of this volume, is reporter to the Morning Herald; in which journal most of the sketches originally appeared, but " in a less compre- hensive and perfect form." We incline to believe the additions and emendationu spoken of have been made upon a mistaken principle. Except as mere acci- dents and offences, the " cases " at a poli.m.Ace have a value only when they exhibit some striking traits of character, or some singular mode of life: but their interest is matter-of-fact, and depends entirely on our reliance upon the accuracy of the report. As soon as the reparter begins to expand and improve the original matter, the reader begins to distrust the representation; besides which, the cases, being personal, can rarely bear a minute exhibition. When the feelings are touched, or the indignation excited—as in the case of parental indifference and cruelty called the Inhuman Father—a fuller narrative than appears in the news- paper may be worth preservation: but the " larks " of young gentlemen, the rows of " disorderlies," the quarrels of fish-fags, not to speak of persons even less re- putable, do not require reptint. "Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof.") A Grammar of the Latin Language. By C. G. Zumpt, Ph.D., Professor in the University, and Member of the Royal Academy of Berlin. Translated from the ninth edition of the original, and adapted to the use of Engliah students, by Leonhard Schmitz, Ph.D., late ofthe University of Bonn, with numerous Additions and Corrections by the Author. [Thirty years and nine editions bespeak the value attached by Germans to Zumpt's Grammar of the Latin Language; nor is the work unknown in this country. The first English translation, however, has been madefrom the third edition of the original; which, as the author is continually improving his work, does not of course present his last improvements. The present volume has been translated from the last edition under the sanction of the author, who has also added some fresh observations.

Elaboration is the character of the Grammar, not so much by refinement of view as by fulness of matter. In this sense the work may be said to contain a history of the language as well as its grammar, with some of the greater interest attend- ing historical inquiry. The publication is of course adapted for more advanced pupils; but this is chiefly on account of there being too much for tyros. The ex- planations are clear, perhaps clearer than the definitions in our common grammars, because founded on principles rather than arbitrary rides.] On the Origin and Ramifications of the English Language. Preceded by

an Inquiry into the Primitive Seats, Early Migrations, and Final Settle-

ments of the principal European Nations. By Henry Welsford, Esq. [The object of Mr. Welsford is to trace the origin of the English and of many other European languages to Sanscrit; his main theory being introduced by an- other, in which he denies the original existence of proper names or nouns; their first meaning, he says, having been significant. There is some learning and a good deal of ingenuity in Mr. Welsford's book; but he rides a hobby—some may Chink rather hard; and perhaps his mind is of too rhetorical a cast to pursue successfully a subject requiring such contrary qualities as minute attention, criti- cal acumen, and comprehensive view.] A Summary View of the Evidences of Christianity. In a Letter from the Right Honourable Charles Kendal Bushe, late Chief Justice of the King's Bench. With a Preface and Notes, by the Reverend James Wills, A.M., Author of "The Philosophy of Unbelief," &c. [It was the habit of the late Irish Lord Chief Justice Bushe to amuse himself in his leisure hours by " threwing off some thought suggested by circumstances, or in the course of meditation or reading." On one of these occasions he sketched a Summary View of the Evidences of Christianity, including his idea of the frame of mind necessary to their study, in the guise of a letter to a friend. The Sum- mary is merely a very brief account of the leading books to be perused during the inquiry; the frame of mind requisite is said to be serious and earnest, and based upon a steady searching disposition. This production was not originally designed for publication, but was given to the Reverend James Wills to be printed as a note, in a volume he contemplated. That design having been laid aside, he has published the Summary with explanatory notes of his own. There is nothing very new or striking, but the little volume may be advantageously perused.] Love's Legends, Adhemar's Vow, Bertha, The Pen; Poems. By Archer

Gurney.

[This volume consists of three poems. The first, " Adhenuir's Vow," is laid in the time of the Saracens' invasion of France, when they were met by Charlie Martel. "Bertha," the second, is nominally fixed in the early period of but the incidents and sentiments of the tale belong to the latter part of the Elide' Ages. "The Pen" carries us to Oriental mythology, where time is difficult to settle. In his preface Mr. Gurney stands up for originality. "Though super- ficial critics," says he, "may liken Bertha' to Byron 's shorter poems, and Th8 Pen' to Moores Leila Rookh; I cannot but think that both these poems, whether good or bad, have an individuality peculiar to themselves." As regards Byrorr and Moore, especially Byron, we must rank among the superficial m our belief. " Adhemar " strikes us as being an echo of Monk Lewis, or rather of Monk Lewis's imitator in the "fytte " of" Giles Julep the knave and his patient the sick Sally Green."] . Italy; a Poem, id four cantos. With Notes. A new edition, revised and corrected. By John Edmund Reads, Author of " Cataline," [" In the revised edition of this work," says Mr. Heade, "all reference to Conti- nental political relations has been avoided. The poem dwells only on those sub- jects which are immutable; on the master-works of Italian art in painting, sculp- ture, and architecture; and on the sublimest forms of nature in that glorious land, over which the Ineffable Being seems to cast the mantle of the Beautiful." Mr. Heade also states, that those who read his poem "throughout will discover in every line that the tone and tendency of thought, the imagination, the whole. philosophy, and, if he may be allowed the term, the humanities of the poem, are the author's own." Our opinion upon this, and other points connected with Italy, was expressed in a notice of the first edition, seven years age] • Spectator, 1838; page 494.

Mary Aston, or the Events of a Year. [The events of a year consist of a series of pleasure-parties--dances, races, and so forth; at the end of which Mary Aston marries Charles Maberley. Taking any single occurrence, the style of narrative is about equal to the sketches of the common magazines; but the whole is put together with so little art or purpose that there is scarcely any story at all.] The Spirit of the Polka; being an historical and analytical disquisition on. the prevailing epidemic, its origin and mission. By Captain Knox, Author of "Harry Mowbray," &e. IA lively and clever jeu &esprit, tracing the Polka to Ireland, giving humorous airections for dancing it, criticizing the performances of amateur dancers, and hitching in the events of the last year to give more weight to what it must be confessed is slight enough, by connecting foreign politics with the Polka. Some Irish airs are printed at the end, as specunens of the genuine Milesian Polka.] A Review of the Principal Facts connected with the Rise, Progress, Con- clusion, elusion, and Character of the Recent State Prosecutions in Ireland: in- cluding an Examination of the most important of' the decisions and opinions. of the Judges in both countries, and of the Judgment of the House of Lords. By a Barrister. [The subject of the Irish State Trials is gone by for the prisent, and the Bar- rister's Review of the Principal Facts is not of a character to revive their in- terest; ill-arranged and verbose as it is, and Old-Bailey-lawyerrlike in its efforts to make much of little things. The "monster indictment," the challenge of the array, the charge, and the reversal of the judgment by the House of Peers, are the points principally handled. In such a multiplicity of topics, treated often in a newspaper-article fashion, the true legal points are of necessity overwhelmed; besides which, the mind of the writer is too onesided and heated to discuss and settle such a gurastio somata.]

The London Medical Direstory, 184.5.

[A useful little volume, displaying in alphabetical order the physicians, sur- geons and general practitioners established in London and its vicinity; with the ipartiCulars of their respective qualifications, and an account of their works when they have written any. In short, it combines the lists of the two Colleges and the Apothecaries Company, with a better arrangement than those bodies adopt. It seems accurate.]

The Mesmerist; or the New School of Arts. With cases in point. Second edition.

[A jeu d'esprit on the subject of mesmerism; the large results that wit can deduce from the electric fluid being told in preliminary verse, which is followed by "cases in point" from different magnetic publications, with additions and a little colouring.] Scriptural Conversations between Charles and his Mother. By Lady Charles Filmy.

[The subjects of these ScripturalConversations are the story of Balsam, and the punishment of Borah, Dothan, and Abiram, for their opposition to Moses. Charles reads the Bible narrative, occasionally asking questions; to which his mother re- plies, besides originating more recondite explanations, and introducing moral ex- tanona.],

Specimens of the Early German Christian Poetry of the Eighth and Ninth Centuries. To which is added, a Literal Translation, with Critical and Etymological Notes. By Edward IL Dewar, M.A., late of Exeter. Col- lege, Oxford, Chaplain to the British residents at Hamburg.

ILLUSTRATED WORKS AND PRINTS.

Frederick Tayler's Portfolio, Part IL [The second and concluding portion of Mr. F. Tayler's Portfolio consists of a dozen lithotint sketches, of sporting and rustic scenes, dashed off in his loose, free style A hawking-party in full chase, a Highland keeper returned from

with dogs and game, a trooper watering his horse, girls returning from gissoing, children feeding a pet eagle, a deer-stalker with his spoils thrown across a horse, girls feeding calves in a cow-house, a Cromwellian soldier reading the Bible in the stable, a page with a hawk on his flat—such are the su1ccts. treated in this volume, with that artistic feeling for picturesque cha- racter in men, animals, and costume, that constitutes the charm of this artist's sketches. His children especially are full of life and unsophisticated nature; and

his dogs are almost as expressive as those of Edwin : the prettiest group of all—and the brightest and purest of the lithotints—is a bare- legged Highland boy seated on the heather, sharing his noon-day meal with a couple of hungry dogs, who watch with longing eyes for the expected morsel. There is great spirit and movement in the sketch of rabbit-shooting; and all the out-door scenes am full of stir and atmosphere.

The lithotints are unequal; some of them looking worn and smudgy, while others are clear and sparkling. The coloured copies are beautiful: the prints look like original drawings. There is no material comparable to lithotint for colouring uponi the-print and the washes of colour are so perfectly homogeneous.]