PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Booxs.

Treatises and Essays on subjects connected with Economical Policy; with Biographical Sketches of Quesnay, Adam Smith, and Ricardo.. By S. R. M'Culloch, Esq., Member of the Institute of France. Histoire de in Revolution Francaise. Par M. Louis Blanc. Tome quatriame.

Scenes and Impressions in Switzerland and the North of Italy. To- gether with some Remarks on the Religious State of these Countries, taken from the notes of a Four Months' ,Tour during the Summer of 1852. By the Reverend D. T. K. Drummond, Incumbent of St. Thomas's English Episcopal Chapel, Edinburgh.

The Fine Arts, their Nature and .Relations. By M. Guizot. Trans- lated, with the assistance of the Author, by George Grove. With Illustrations drawn on Wood by George Scharf junior.

The Dean's Daughter; or the Days .we Live in. By Mrs. Gore, An-; thoress of "Mothers and Daughters," &c.

Passion and Pedantry; a Novel. In three volumes.

The History of the Restoration of Monarchy in France. By,Alphonse de Lamartine Author of "The History of the Girondists." Trans- lated by Captain Rafter, Author of "The Queen of the Jungle." Vo- lume IV.

An Introduction to Mental Philosophy. In two parts. Intended especially for the use of Students in TJniversities. In Part Second is contained a Particular Inquiry into the Nature and Value of the Syllogism. By George Ramsay, B.M., Author of " An Essay on the Distribution of Wealth," &e.

fThe subjects of this book are not fitted for the columns of a general journal; or they would involve its readers in the mazes of metaphysics, perhaps more completely than the " fixed fate, free will, fore-knowledge absolute," and other abstruse topics, by which Milton's fallen angels endeavoured to while away the time in Hell. They at least were occupied with entities. Mr. Ramsay is engaged on terms, such as " quality," " quan- tity," " relation," which are no doubt important in mental science, and involve in their discussion not merely words but the properties of things ; still the discussion is caviare to the general.

In Mr. Ramsay's opinion on the insufficiency of the syllogism, or even as to its uselessness in proving the truth, we coincide. But logic altogether is just as useless ; because the science does not and could not attempt to prove the truth of the "major " proposition : that can only be done by an actual ac- quaintance with the subject contained in it. But logic sharpens the per- ception and trains the reasoning powers ; while the syllogism compels the reasoner to put his argument in a simple and intelligible form, which facili- tates the detection of fallacy and the discovery of error,—important points towards the establishment of truth.] The First Six Books of Euclid. With numerous Exercises. The Illustrated London .Practical Geometry, and its Application to Architectural Drawing. By Robert Scott Burn, M.E., &c. First Lessons in Arithmetic, Ike. By Hugo Reid, Author of "The Elements of Astronomy," &c. Mechanics and Mechanism: being Elementary Essays and Examples for the use of Schools, Students, and Artisans. Edited by Robert Scott Barn,"M.E., &c.

[These four volumes are part of a speculation that emanates from the pub-

ere of the National Illustrated Library, designed to furnish cheap, and where the book admits of it copiously illustrated, educational works. The first in the list is another edition of Simson's "Euclid" as far as the sixth book. . "Practical Geometry" contains directions for reaching a variety of mathematical results or working out the problems without the mathemati- cal demonstrations, followed by a section on geometry applied to architectu- ral drawing. "First Lessons in Arithmetic" contains copious examples in notation and the first four rules, very fully and familiarly explained. This is followed by reduction, practice, and compound addition, subtraction, &c. "Mechanics and Mechanism" is the most fully illustrated and the most masterly compilation of the whole. The leading principles of mechanics are clearly explained, and distinctly impressed by illustrations drawn from the commonest and most striking applications of mechanism in daily use.]

Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1861: Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue. By Authority of the Royal Commission. Supplementary Volume.

[This volume comprises several illustrations which it was found impracti- cable to include in the first edition of the Catalogue, owing to its premature publication, together with ethers of objects which the exhibitors had failed to get represented at the time. Some omissions are supplied in the descrip- tive portions, and the reports of the Royal Commissioners are added. Like its precursors, the volume is carefully compiled and copious, and presents a handsome front.] The School for Dreamers ; a Story of the Present Day. By T. Gwynne, Author of the " School for Fathers."

[The 'folly of young ladies expecting perfection in this world, either in men at large or in any particular lord of the creation, is the lesson sought to be conveyed in The School for Dreamers. Lady Caroline, the haughty, exact- ing, "dreaming" daughter of a nobleman, marries, against the wishes of her family, a weak, conceited, silly personage named Hall, who renders him- self ridiculous at Chartist meetings, Peace meetings, &c., and kills his son by over-educating him. Contemporary life may give greater attraction to the book than was possessed by this writer's previous tale, the "School for Fathers" of the last century ; but the style has not improved.]

The Charm : a Book for Boys and Girls. Illustrated with more than one hundred Engravings.

[An attractive and well-varied book. Tales, travels, plain lectures on popular subjects, anecdotes of travel, historical sketches, and poetry, from a variety of authors, form the contents of The Charm. The "more than one hundred engravings" which illustrate the text are somewhat rough in execution, but often striking and characteristic in design. It is thecollection into a volume of the numbers of a monthly publication.]

Wonder Castle : a Structure of Seven Stories. By A. F. Frere. With a Frontispiece by E. H. Wehnert. [Seven tales, most of them fairy or verging upon fairy stories. They are cleverly planned, well written, and designed to impress some lesson. The writing,: though very good, is a little too obvious in its smartness for a book of this kind. Wonder Castle is prettily got up.] New Nursery Songs for all Good Children. By Mrs. Follen. Illustra- ted with above fifty Pictures. [Intended as a substitute for Mother Goose, to get rid of the coarseness and vulgarity of that popular nursery-book. The themes are well adapted to youthful comprehension, and executed with fancy and feeling. Two " tra- ditional" songs are added, which might as well have been away.] The Gospel Revealed to Job : or Patriarchal Faith and Practice Illus- trated in Thirty Lectures on the Principal Passages of the Book of Job ; with Explanatory, Illustrative, and Critical Notes. By Charles Augustus Hulbert, MA., Perpetual Curate of Slaithwaite, Yorkshire, &c.

[The extreme antiquity of the book of Job—the question whether it is really Jewish in the Israelitish or national sense, (that is, whether it was written by a descendant of Israel,) and the speculations which these points open up —render it one of the most curious works for the learned and critical anno- tator. In the work before us, however, the object is not historical or ar- chEeological, but theological. Mr. Hulbert aims at showing, in the words of his title, that the "gospel was revealed to Job,"—that is, that the patriarch had an idea, through revelation, of Christ and the redemption.] Xaffraria and its Inhabitants. By the Reverend Francis Fleming, M.A., Chaplain to her Majesty's Forces in King William's Town, British Kaffraria.

[An informing, close, and neatly-written account of the history, natural fea- tures, and productions of the Cape territory, with descriptions of the native tribes. The form of the work is rather common or encyclopedic but the matter is condensed, and animated by a good deal of original knowledge, the result of personal experience. Some graphic sketches from the author's 'mi- en are introduced into the book, and convey to the eye a lively idea of the scenery of South Africa.]

Rambles in an Old City; comprising Antiquarian, Historical, Biogra- phical, and Political Associations. By S. S. Madders. [A pleasant, diffuse, gossipy account of the antiquities of various kinds that are to be found in Norwich: but the matter is beaten out much too thin. The fair authoress substitutes opinion, sentiment, and even reverie, too fre- quently and too largely for facts.] A Treatise on the Proper Condition for all Horses. By Harry Hieover. • [This treatise has more of the discursiveness of the essay or article than the closeness and practical information of the treatise proper. It treats of the race-horse, hunter, lady's-horse, hack, carriage-horse, and cart-horse, but most fully of the race-horse.]

A Catalogue of Greek Verbs, Irregular and Defective, their leading

- Tenses and Dialectic Inflections, arranged in a Tabular Form; with an Appendix, containing Paradigms for Conjugation, &c. By James. Skerrett Baird, Trinity College, Dublin, Author of the "Classical Manual."

[These tables are:arranged in two parts; the verbs most usually met with in the first division. The tabular display is neat.]

Daily Bible Illustrations : being Original Readings for a Year, on sub- jects from Sacred History, Biography, Geography, Antiquities, and Theology. By John Kitto, D.D. &a., Editor of " The Pictorial Bible," &c. Evening Series : Life and Death of Our Lord. July— September.

Arnold' s School Classics. Part V. The Antigone, with English Notes, translated from the German, by the Reverend Henry Browne, M.A., Canon of Waltham, &c.

Arnold's School Classics. Part VI. Selections from Cicero, Part IV. With a Preface, English Notes, &c. By the Reverend James Beavan, D.D., late Professor of Theology in King's College, Toronto.

MAPS.

Elementary School Atlas of General and Descriptive Geography. By Alexander Keith Johnston, F.R.S.E., &c.

[This publication contains twenty School Maps, reduced from Mr. Keith Johnston's larger School Atlas, with an index of the names of places con-

tained in the volume. All the maps are coloured, and drawn to scales indi- cated by letters of correspondence. The physical features are marked with great distinctness, and the broad outlines kept clear to the eye by avoiding over-crowding in details.] The Juvenile Atlas.

[Ten maps ; consisting of the World, the four quarters exhibited in five with England, Scotland, and Ireland. They appear in three forms—plain coloured, and with the lines of latitude and longitude for the pupil to fill in The publication is cheap.]

PAMPHLETS.

Appendice all' Opuscolo intitolato Ritratto di Vittoria Colonna, dipinto

Appendice

Michelangelo Buonarotti, di Domenico Campanari. Volto in In- glese da Enrichetta Bowles. [On the 22d January 1848, Signor Campanari purchased, at one of Christie and Manson's sales, a portrait of Vittoria Colonna, the object of Michel- angelo's Platonic vows, which circumstances led him to regard as the work

of the great painter himself. His opinion was confirmed by the unanimous decision of the Academy of St. Luke at Rome' and by the suffrages of many connoisseurs. The opponents of this view cited Michelangelo's known scorn of oil-painting; and, in particular, Vasari's assertion that the painter had never done more than one portrait in his life—that of Tommaso di Cavalieri

and it is now suggested that Signor Campanari's picture may be the work of Sebastian del Piombo. The present pamphlet, which is supplementary to one published in 1850, is chiefly addressed to the confutation of this theory. The story of Michelangelo's share in the authorship of Sebastian's Lazarus, now in our National Gallery, is also incidentally glanced at, and scouted

with equal decision. Signor Campanari has more argument on his side in this respect than in that of the Colonna portrait ; the settling of which seems to be very much matter of opinion and connoisseurship. His style has too much of the Italian grandiloquence for a disputed point of criticism ; and his translator is only too true to her model.]

1793 and 1853; in Three Letters. By Richard Cobden, Esq., M.P.

Lettres d Ramon de la Sagra, Membre Coffespondant de I' Institut de France, au sr& de son Ouvrage cur Utome de la Pair. Par FerdinandE. A. ease, Membre de la Soci6t6 Royale de Litemture.de Londres, &c. Seconde ddition.

Case of the Cape of Good Hope and its Constitution. A Letter to the Honourable R. H. Clive, M.P., on the late Correspond- ence between the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Exeter and the Very Reverend the Dean of Exeter. By George W. flutings, B.C.L., Cantab., Barrister-at-law.