PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

The long debates on the Reform Bill, and the uncertain consequences that might follow, have considerably reduced the number of Publications of mark. Except the Reverend John Burgon's Memoir of Tytler, the historian of Scotland, and in some sense of his father and grandfather, the prominent new books of the week are the novels already noticed; for Dr. Robinson's Treatise on Mental Disorders should have been chro- nicled before, but hakaccidentally dropped out of sight. On the Whole, however, the publisher's activity is as great as could have been ex- pected" in a crisis."

Boom.

The Portrait of a Christian Gentleman; a Memoir of Patrick Fraser Tytler, Author of the "History of Scotland." By his Friend the Reverend John NV. Burgon, M.A., Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford.

On the Prevention and Treatment of Mental Disorders. By George Robin- son, M.D., Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London, Sm. Sic.

Life's Foreshadowing.. A Novel. In three volumes.

Tale for the Pharisees. By the Author of" Dives and Lazarus."

False and True. By the Honourable Lena Eden, Author of " Easton and its Inhabitants."

The Buried Titan. - A Drama. By Franklin Leifchild.—Whether considered as altogether a ponderous classico-poetical mistake, or as an imperfectly developed allegorical satire, in which the Emperor Napoleon figures as Jupiter, democracy as the buried-alive Titan, some of the giants as oppressed nationalities, " Force " and " Fraud " as the agents of despotism, and some other gods and goddesses as its ministers, the re- sult of this volume is in either case an ambitious failure. There is some poetical feeling in Mr. Leifchild, and occasional power ; as in this pas- sage from one of the many speeches, by which Titan, with the mass of earth upon him, troubles Jupiter on Olympus, though the Thundercr is advised by Minerva, aided by Mercury, and attended by Ilebe. "The unhallowed crew,

Whose office is in offal, hem thee round ; See them accurst with foul avidity, Feeding on one another, loathing then What they have fed on—in eternal death. They blend me with them in the dust—above The grave of what was empire • they infect My spirit with the motion of decay. This is the worst, with these confederates, To house at last with creatures lewd and strange--A thought-abusing and contaminate crew,—

- Serfs of corruption—parasites of death—

To the same level humbled : shall it be ? "

The merit of "The Buried Titan" is in passages such as these, and some of Hebe's songs ; for the satire is not very close or biting, and the jocularity is rather tame. If the execution, however, were far better than it is, the indistinct plan and obsourity of purpose could not be got over. Though extended through five long acts, there is no action and no intelligible object or end. There is scarcely even an incident, nothing but long-winded monologue, or vague dialogue, varied by attempts at sarcastic pleasantry. The great mistake, however, is in the want of dis- tinctness and purpose. Though a Napoleonic allegory seems evident, yet if a comparatively few parts were removed, the book might appear like an attempt at classical burlesque, save where some natural descriptions or some allusions to Prometheus are found.

Songs for the Suffering. By Thomas Davis, M.A., Incumbent of Rowadhay, Yorkshire, Author of " Devotional Verse for a Month," &c.— For any specific feature it possesses, this volume might as well have been entitled" Songs for Sinners " ; since it is merely a collection of devotional poetry, written for the most part on scriptural texts, but con- taining no further solace for individuals than as " Sternhold and Hop. kins glad the heart with psalms." Like those great masters of the sacred lyre, something of the prosaic mingles with the verse of Mr. Davis, though wrought up to the sentiments, style, and executive merit, of the present day. Some miscellaneous poems follow the devotional. They possess the same general character; but personal feeling, or the strong impression produced by an incident or a scene, gives to a few of them more of living individuality. It need not be said that they are all unexception- able. Even Ellen, who seems somehow to have jilted or disappointed the divine, is improved; if indeed the title "To a Child of Fancy, does not imply a case of imagination. A few stanzas from one of the best general poems, that on "Little Things," will furnish a specimen of the author.

"The flower is small that docks the field' The bee is small that bends the flower ;

But flower and bee alike may yield

Food for a thoughtful hour.

• • • • "Is there who scorneth little things ? As wisely might he scorn to eat The food that bounteous autumn brings In little grains of wheat.

• • "The lark, that in the morning air Amid the sunbeams mounts and sings' What lifted her so lightly there ?— Small feathers in her wings.

"And when the earth is sere and sad From summer's over-fervid reign How is she in fresh beauty clad ?— By little drops of rain.

"Yea, and the robe that Nature weaves,

Whence does it every robe surpass ?- From little flowers and little leaves, And little blades of grass."

Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Peri Banou. By L. A. D. Authoress of

the Juvenile Play of " Aladdin."—" A drawingroom piece " dramatized

from a story in the Arabian Nights. It is what the contemporaries of

Dryden called a "rhyming" play ; but the poetry dote not rise beyond Yen de societe.

A System of Dental Surgery. By John Toomes, F.R.S. Dentist to the Dental Hospital of London, and to the Middlesex Hospital. With 208 Illustrations.—This is not a "popular" publication intended to ad- vertise the writer more than to advance the art, but a professional work designed to instruct the tyro and exhaust the subject. The " System " is founded upon extensive experience and observation by the author, as well as on the works of leading authorities—Hunter, Bell, Cartwright and others. The scheme of the work is first to examine the teeth from their earliest formation in the foetus, through their growth before birth, and during and after infancy, till the temporary teeth are replaced by the permanent. The various diseases to which the teeth and gums are subject next come under review, together with their treatment. The mechanical injuries to which teeth are liable, and their mode of dealing with them follow ; extraction and some other operations completing the whole. The number of wood-cuts mentioned in the title, indicates the assistance which the student of Mr. Toomes's text, will receive from the graphic art.

Homeopathic Hand-Book, and Guide to the Domestic Use of the Me- dicines.—A list of twenty-five homompathic medicines readily procur- able at any homceopathic chemists in globules. These globules people, and especially poor people, are to administer to themselves for " symp- toms ' or "parts affected," the list of which extends through upwards of forty pages. The mode of administration is thus directed. "The

bole of the symptoms of the complaint should be carefully written down [which is sometimes not an easy task for a medical man], with the part of the body affected ; then against each symptom add the remedies insert- ed in this Guide ; afterwards compare them ; and the medicine named either against all the symptoms, or the greater portion should be the one selected." Surety it i to be hoped that these globules are as inope- rative as the allopathic medicos assert.

Healthy Skin. A Popular Treatise on the Skin and Hair, their Pre- servation and Management. By Erasmus Wilson, F.R.S. Sixth Edi- tion.—The merit of this work is sufficiently indicated by the words sixth edition, the preservation and management of the hair and the treatment of corns being perhaps more popularly attractive than the skin. The present edition is neat and cheap ; only half-a-crown.

Liverpool in 1859. By Thomas Baines, Secretary of the Liverpool Office, and Author of the "History of Liverpoel."--Pretty well all the facts and figures that illustrate the commerce, navigation, inland tran- sport, public buildings, educational and social statistics, and civic nota- bilities of Liverpool, are, we suppose' packed up in Mr. Baine's volume. We learn there that the "registered shipping" of the town surpasses that of London itself, and, though the metropolitan receipts of customs is about double that of Liverpool, this is owing to the frivolity and luxury of the Londoners. They import articles of fashion and taste, in more senses than one, which are subject to high rates of duty ; the Liverpool people bring in raw materials which promote industry and pay sli,ght taxes. Then look at its docks and warehouses ; see how railways and canals terminate there as in a focus ; what a river it has too, and what a rush of water at ebb tide acting as a natural scour to the channel. All these and numerous other facts of a like kind will be found fully detailed in Mr. Baines's book; besides much general information of a solid kind. A map of the town and neighbourhood, including Birken- head, is prefixed to the volume.

SERIAL.

The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore. With a Portrait. Part I.— It Seems difficult to fix the point where cheapness in literature is to end ; for the obvious rule of political economy that no undertaking can be permanently carried on which does not repay its expenses and yield a surplus, would seem to be passed in this new adventure of Messrs. Longmans, if it has not been reached before. Here we have the whole of .Lalla Bookh, with its notes, and preliminary matter well and neatly sainted on very good paper and occupying upwards of eighty pages for a shilling. Nor is this all. A capital portrait of Moore at the age of forty, engraved by Roll after the picture by Phillips, serves as a frontis- piece; and not to speak of other times, would now, as a separate en- graving, cost the price of the whole. While to crown the wonder this edition is not a mere affair of print and paper only : it is a copyright work, and in some of its matter the copyright will not expire for many years. Explanations of course eon be offered, and suggest themselves. The work will sell by thousands, if not by tens of thousands ; the main copy- right of the poem itself must be running out, and the proprietors will wave the gain on this score, for the usual publishers' profit on the copies 'with which they are about to supply the country and forestall the free market ; the portrait may be a form of advertisement ; and so forth. But these reasons do not meet our difficulty, which is how the article can be sold for the money, merely in reference to itself. However, here it is. Prodigious ! as well as puzzling; and the reading public will do wel to take the good the firm provides them, without speculating on causes.

NEW MAP.

Keith Johnston's Royal Atlas of Modern Geography. With a special Index to each Map. By Alexander Keith Johnston, F.R.S.E., &c., Oeographer to the Queen for Scotland ; Author of the "Physical Atlas,"

&e. Part I.—The object of Mr. Johnstone in this new undertaking is to produce a series of maps which shall contain the latest results of geographical discovery and research, and present them in the most dis- tinct and effective style of art. The places will be more numerous than usual, greater space will.be devoted to the maps themselves; and greater distinctness achieved, and yet with a diminution of bulk, by means of a "better cartographic division of the surface of the globe, by a form of sheet more calculated to economise space, and by greater clearness of ar- rangement and delicacy of execution in the writing." The index of names which now accompanies every Atlas, will be very copious, and presented in what the cartographer considers an improved form. In fact, he intends to supply what, owing to the great progress of discovery in the Arctic regions and the far West of America, and the great changes which colonization and wars or rather the treaties that have followed them, has become an undoubted want to every class of student, "a good seaTiceable Atlas of general geography."

This promise he gives assurance and warranty of fulfilling. Notwith- standing some excellent maps that have lately appeared, these five speci- mens—France, Italy in two parts, Switzerland, and Greece—scorn to excel all other general maps we have ever met with, for a clear exhibi- tion of names of places, distinct presentation of physical features by the combined operation of the engraver and the colour-printer, and an almost picturesque effect upon the eye. A glance, for example, suffices to im- press the difference between the plains of France and either of the other mountainous countries ; the natures of the different mountain-regions themselves are discriminated ; as the Pennine Alps, a large portion of which fills up the map of Switzerland on a larger scale than in North Italy, and where the very glaciers are indicated. The new mode of re- ferring to the names of places consists in giving a separate index to each country, and substituting squares and marginal letters as references. There is no difficulty whatever in the method, and the clearness of the execution facilitates ready use. But either from habit or prejudice we prefer the old mode of latitude and longitude ; which, moreover, has the advantage of furnishing geographical information. The new plan, how- ever, admits of copiousness. The five maps contain nearly eighteen thousand names.