PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Boom.

Letters of William III. and Louis xrv., and of their Ministers; illustra- tive of the Domestic and Foreign' Politics of England from the Peace of Ryswick to the Accession of Philip V. of Spain. Edited by Paul Grim- blot. In two volumes.

Narrative of a Campaign against the KabaVes of Algeria; with the Mis- sion of Id. Suchet to the Emir Abd-el-Ksder for an exchange of prisoners. By Dawson Borrer, F.R.G.S., &c.; Author of "A Journey from Naples to Jerusalem."

Sacred and Legendary Art. By Mrs. Jameson. In two volumes. The Victim of the Jesuits; or Piquillo Alliaga a Romance. From the French of Eugene Scribe. By Charles Cocks, Translator of "Priests, Women, and Families," &c. In three volumes. Madeleine; a Tale of Auvergne, founded on fact. By Julia Kavanagh.

Infant Baptism a Scriptural Service, and Dipping Unnecessary to its right Administration; containing a Critical Survey and Digest of the leading Evidence, Classical, Biblical, and Patristic; with special reference to the Work of Dr. Carson, and occasional Strictures on the views of Dr. Halley. By the Reverend Robert Wilson, Professor of Sacred Literature for the General Assembly, Royal College, Belfast. [A learned and elaborate treatise in defence of infant baptism, and against the dipping or immersion of the Baptists. Professor Wilson investigates the subject in two divisions,—first touching the mode of performing baptism, next as to the subjects on which baptism is to be performed; devoting something like two hun- dred pages of the first section to inquiries into the true meaning of the words Norm and paeregas We agree with Mr. Wilson in both his conclusions; but the subject is not adapted for lay discussion, especially when controversy with other writers is a distinguishing feature of the book: not that Mr. Wilson over- looks his conclusion; but he reaches them as it were through disputing with others. After all, too, the controversy seems an odd one for Protestant writers to engage in so constantly, though it might appear an appropriate subject for Ro- manists and Tractarians, who rest so much in forms. If there is virtue in bap- tism as a form or a "covenant," age can have no influence upon its effects; they operate mysteriously independently of the recipient's years: if a mental action of the subject is the only thing essential, the rite of confirmation, in those churches which use it, or indeed anything that openly acknowledges belief, seems sufficient.] Loci Communes. Commonplaces delivered in the Chapel of Christ's College,

Cambridge, by C. A. Swanson, MA., and A. H. Wratislaw, MA., Fellows and Tutors of the College.

[" Exercises, termed commonplaces, are delivered in the chapel of Christ's Col- [ge, Cambridge, after divine service on Monday morning., during a considerable portion of each term, by one of the Fellows." It fell to the lot of Messrs. Swain- son and Wmtislaw to deliver these exercises in the years 1845-6 and 1847-8. The publication before us seems a selection from their productions,—unless six- teen was the total number delivered by the two Fellows during the two years.

The exercises are substantially short sermons; scholastic in subject and treat- ment, and therefore appropriate to the place of delivery: but the illustrations and exhortations are drawn more from the school than from life, which gives a kind Of college character to the papers.]

Lectures on Logic. By C. E. Moberley, M.A., late Scholar of Bailie]. [The exercise of logic as an art consists, as Mr. Moberley remarks, of three quali- ties of mind,—apprehension, judgment, and reasoning. To render these qualities of much avail in reaching a right conclusion, a knowledge of the subject to be reasoned about is essential; otherwise the forms of logic are very liable to conduct us to a wrong determination and at the utmost can only point out an error in the form of reasoning. The book before us furnishes an instance in point. In giving an examee of propositions, Mr. Moberley states that "all musical sounds are vi- brations ; which is tree, but not the complete truth—namely, that all musical sounds are isochronous vibrations, the equal times distinguishing musical from all other sounds, or noise.

Logic, however, can help the mind in acquiring knowledge, by directing or improving its apprehension or perception, perhaps by training its judgment. And to this purpose Mr. Moberley applies himself, though briefly, and with more of scholastic phrase than is altogether desirable. The art of reasoning, of detect- ing errors in the form of the propositions, or in the conclusions drawn from them, and of coarse the modes of avoiding such errors, is the main object of these lectures.]

An Inaugural Address, delivered by the Eight Reverend the Lord Bishop of Oxford, as President of the Architectural and Archieological Society for the County of Buckingham. [This address differs greatly from the usual commonplace orations delivered on such occasions; exhibiting the quintessence of the schoolmen'a lore and the sound opinions of an Anglican Bishop. The address opens with the view of a school divine on the influence of the past upon the present, and how they who sneer the most at bygone times would not have been what they are had those bygones in any way been changed. Turning then to the more immediate object of the So- ciety, our parish churches, Dr. Wilberforce shows that two leading points are proved by their architectural history,—the gradual substitution by Rome of forms for spirit, of a clergy for a religion; and the destruction, by the Puritans, of those comely ornaments which in our corporeal state may be fitly used to assist devotion. He next distinctly warns the members of the Architectural and Ar- cheological Society for the County of Buckingham, that his Presidentship is de- pendent upon their avoiding the suspicious oddities of Tractarianism.] The Companion Book and Supplement to Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England. By J. Dingwall Williams, Esq., late of St. John's College, Cambridge, and of the Inner Temple; Editor of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Editions of " The Commentaries."

[A species of commentary upon the Commentaries of Blackstone, where his lore, his reasoning, or his independence of spirit has been at fault; together with sup- plementary notes, pointing out the alterations made in the law since Blackstone wrote, and where the representations of the text are consequently no longer correct. By adopting the marginal paging of the Commentaries, this book is available for other editions, and may be used without the inconvenience of long foot-notes or ap- pendices. It is a useful publication: clear and brief in its notifications of the changes of the law, liberal in its views of law and law reform, embodying the substance of Christian's and Coleridge's annotations, presenting a view of all the changes in the law for the last seventy years, and (whatever bathos may attend the state- ment) rendering once exploded editions of Blackstone available.]

Thoughts in Verse from a Village Churchman's Note-book. By the Reve- rend Samuel Childs Clarke, M.A. [Rather a series of exercises, by a scholarly and accomplished mind, than poems in the true meaning of the term. The thoughts are so far appropriate to the subjects, that they are religions after the Anglican form; but they are not close or lively. The metre is ill-chosen: Mr. Clarke appears to have studied the re- ligions poets of the seventeenth century, and to have imitated their manner without a due regard to fitness. The poems are beyond the common ran of verses owing to the training, taste, and skill of the writer; but they want the vie viriida of genuine poetry.] The Trial of Creation; and other Poems. By the Reverend G. W. Birkett, A.M.

[The title of this poem is not free from ambiguity till explained: by " trial " Mr. Birkett means proof. Creation is surveyed, and found to be good; any appear- ances to the contrary being traced to the disobedience of man with whose fall the poem opens. Measured by the extent of the theme, the plan of The Trial of Creation is narrow; little more than a succession of landscapes, and those mostly of a quiet kind. These, indeed, are better suited to the author's powers than the larger topics his subject suggests, as his forte seems to be pastoral description: but it gives an appearance of incongruity, not to say insufficiency to his poem; the treatment being so much below the theme.] The Ocean Monarch; a Poetic Narrative. With an original and authentic Account, in prose, of the Loss of this ill-fated Vessel. By James Heury Legg. Too many topics having little or no connexion with the subject of the loss of the Ocean Monarch are introduced into this piece. The consequence is, that the main event is overlaid.] The Analysis and Summary of Herodotus. With a Synchronistical Table of Principal Events; Tables of Weights, Measures, Money, and Distances. an Outline of the History of Geography; and the Dates completed from Gaisford, Baehr, 8ro. [The object of this clear and painstaking digest of the History of Herodotus is to assist the student in getting up that author for examination, after a careful reading of the text. It contains a summary of the important events recorded in the work, in the order in which they are written; but, the sections or paragraphs being numbered, the student, by BMW of a reference, is able to pass the digres- sions of Herodotus and pursue the narrative of any subject continuously if he pleases. Illustrative tables of various kinds are added; rendering the book an excellent companion to the study of Herodotus. It furnishes as useful a coup d'osil of the History, to any one beginning its perusal, as does the Analysis and Summary for the purpose intended by the author.] English Repetitions, in Prose and Verse, for the Use of the Senior Classes of Schools; with Introductory Remarks on the Cultivation of Taste in the Young, through the medium of our own Writers. By J. F. Boyes, M.A., St. John's College, Oxford. [A selection of short passages from our best English writers, designed to be com- mitted to memory for the purpose of recitation with the view of cultivating the taste of youth. The collection shows a wide acquaintance with our sterling writers, and has been made with care and. judgment, besides offering passages of a more practically philosophical kind than is often met with in a "reader." Ass scrap-book it possesses an utility apart from its avowed object; which object, how- ever, it is likely to forward, as far as taste can be formed by Isolated bits. This point, and other topics—such as style, composition, and the tendencies of the age—are discussed in a preface of some extent, and of more critical merit than is often met with in publications of this nature.] The Old Curiosity Shop. By Charles Dickens. With a Frontispiece, from a Painting by George Cattermole; engraved by T. Williams. [There is nothing remarkable in this cheap double-column edition unless it be a brief preface which, alluding to the desultory character of" Master Humphrey's Clock," explains the why and the how of that introductory portion being can- celled.] Percival Keene. By Captain Marryat, Author of "Peter Simple," &c. (Standard Novels.) [There is a portrait of Marryat after a drawing by Behnes, and an indifferent memoir of his life, prefixed to this edition of Percival Keene, now included in the "Standard Novels " of Mr. Bentley.] Wonders displayed by the Human Body in its Endurance of Injury. From the Portfolio of Delta.

[A brochure containing some of the most remarkable surgical phsenomena oars- cord in relation to the human body, exhibited in a close and condensed manner. The moral of the whole would seem to be-, that neither surgeon nor physician should be too prone to despair.] fierce Biblices Sabbatice. Sabbath Scripture Readings by the late Thomas Chalmers, D.D., LL.D. In two volumes. Volume II. (Posthumous Works of Dr. Chalmers, Volume V.) The Book of the Farm. By Henry Stephens, F.R.S.E. A new edition, revised and improved. Part L MAPS AND PRINTS.

77je World; showing its Religious Aspect at the period of the Reformation By E. Gover.

[A map of the world, in the usual form of a double planisphere, is tinted to ex- hibit the geographical range of territory over which, at the time of the Reforma- tion, every faith that had accepted the Bible, or part thereof, held sway,-namely, the Roman Catholics, the Protestants, the Greek Church, the Maronites, the Ar- menians, and the Mahometans: the benighted heathen, and unexplored regions, are represented by a deep shade of black, which overspreads the larger part of the globe. The period is fixed at the Peace of Westphalia. It is an interesting and useful survey for the student of political geography.] Vancouver's Island. By James Wyld. [A clear outline map of the litigated island; one of Mr. Wyld's opportune con- tributions to popular information on current topics.]

A Parliamentary Souvenir.

[A spirited likeness of Lord George Bentinek, as he used to sit in the House of Commons, from the pencil of HB. The head is excellent; the figure has more of that mannerism which makts the artist endow every man with legs of one pattern.]