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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Again the books of the week consist for the most part of new editions and reprints. One new book which has already achievdd-Rotoriety; if not fame, is that which bears the stunning title of THE GREAT TRIED. LATION, OT THE THINGS COMING ON THE EARTH. We have indicated in a preceding column how little Dr. Cumming is qualified by his know- ledge of the past and the present to forecast the future ; but what has knowledge to do with the sale of a book ? His is selling rapidly. Our copy bears on its title-page this golden legend, " Third Thousand."

A book which will have a general and a hearty welcome is the Rector of Eversley's MISCELLANIES, reprinted chiefly from Fraser's Magazine and the .North British Review. Among its contents is that exquisite paper " My Winter Garden," and many others on kindred subjects, dis- playing the fine perception, subtle and vigorous thought, and marvellous word-painting of the " Minute Philosopher."

A new translation of the history of that renowned knave and hu- mourist, Tyll Owlglass, has been issued by Mr. Triibner in a volume of rare beauty, finely printed on tinted paper, and profusely adorned with chromolithographs and woodcuts in Alfred Crowquill's best manner. Wonderful has been the popularity of Tyll Eulenspiegel (so the original is called), surpassing even that of the Pilgrim's Progress, though the latter has been translated into Arabic, and is now much in vogue among the Syrian Christians. " Tyll's fame," says Carlyle, " has gone abroad into all lands ; thus the narrative of his exploits has been published in innumerable editions, even with all manner of learned glosses, and translated into Latin, English, French, Dutch, Polish; nay in several languages, as in his own, an Eulenspiegelerci and Espieglerie, or dog's trick, so named after him, still, by consent of lexicographers, keeps his memory alive." A " wise critic " quoted by the same writer, remarks that the book abounds " in inventive humour, in rough merriment, and broad drollery, not without a keen rugged shrewdness of insight ; which properties must have made it irresistibly captivating to the popular sense; and with all its fantastic extravagancies, and roguish crotchets, in many points instructive."

BOOKS.

The Great Tribulation ; or, the Things Coming on the Earth. By the Rev. John Cumming, D.D., F.R.S.E., Minister of the Scottish National Church, Crown Court, Covent Garden.

Miscellanies. By Charles Kingsley, Rector of Eversley ; Chaplain in Ordinary to her Majesty. Reprinted chiefly from " Fraser's Magazine " and the " North British Review." In two volumes.

The Marvellous Adventures and rare Conceits of Master Tyll Owlglass. Newly collected, chronicled and set forth, in our English tongue, by Kenneth R. II. Mackenzie, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. And adorned with many most Diverting and Cunning Devices, by Alfred Crowquill.

All the Tear Round. A Weekly Journal, conducted by Charles Dickens. With which is incorporated "Household Words." Volume I. From April 30, 1859, to October 22, 1859. Being from No. 1 to No. 26. Bentley Priory. By Mrs. Hastings Parker. In three volumes. Notable Women ; Stories of their Lives and Characteristics. A Book for Young Ladies. By Ellen C. Clayton. Women Artists in all Ages and Countries. By Mrs. E. F. Ellet, Author of " Pioneer Women of the West."

Pilgrim Walks: a Chaplet of Memories. By Mrs. Robert Cartwright.

NEW EDITIONS.

The Naral History of Great Britain, from the Declaration of War by France in•1793 to the Accession of George IV. By William James. A new edition, with Additions and Notes. In six volumes. Volumes V. and VI. The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England. Collected and Edited by James Sled- ding, M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge ; Robert Leslie Ellis, M.A., late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge ; and Douglas Denon Heath, Barrister- at-Law, late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Vol. 7. Literary and Professional Works. Vol. 2.

Longfellow's Prose Works, Hyperion. Part 2.

PAMPHLETS.

An Examination of the Rev. F. D. Maurice's Strictures on the hampton Lec- tures 0'1858. By the Lecturer.

A Week in Jail. By William Brown, lately Prisoner in the Calton Jail, Edinburgh. [Mr. Brown was arrested in September last for refusing to pay the Annuity-tax.] The Geological Age of Man in its Present Aspects. By the Reverend John Anderson, D.D., F.G.S. Delivered before the British Association at Aber- deen on the 10th September 1859.

[The author reviews the circumstances under which remains of man and his works have been found in caverns, or strata, or superficial drifts, and argues that none of them warrant the theory of along prtehistoric existence of the human race.]