PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Booxs.

The Frontier Lands of the Christian and the Turk ; comprising Travels in the Regions of the Lower Danube in 1850 and 1851. By a British Resident of Twenty Years in the East. In two volumes. .Eneyolopadia Britanniea. Eighth edition. Volume I. Dissertations. The Land-tax of India, according to the Moohummudan Law. Trans- lated from the Futawa .Alumgeeree, with Explanatory Notes and an Introductory Essay. By N. B. E. Baillie, Author of "The Moo- hummudan Law of Sale," &c. The Subject-matter of a Course of Six Lectures on the icon-Metallic _Elements. By Professor Faraday. Delivered before the Members of the Royal Institution in the Spring and Summer of 1852. Arranged, by permission, from the Lecturer's Notes, lent for the occasion, by J. Scoffern, MB., late Professor of Chemistry at the Aldersgate College of Medicine. To which is appended, Remarks on the Quality and Tendencies of Chemical Philosophy, on Allotropiam, and Ozone; to- gether with Manipulative Details relating to the performance of Ex- periments indicated by Professor Faraday.

Family Romance ; or Episodes in the Domestic Annals of the Aris- tocracy. By J. B. Burke, Esq., Author of "The Peerage and Baronet- age," &c. In two volumes.

Although the general run of publications has not been numerous, the week has been rather prolific in verse. The best is a small volume entitled "Songs of Feast, Field, and Fray " ; which are always removed from commonplace, and are frequently telling. The writer's mind, however, is rather rhetorical than poetical. The treatment is effective ; he makes good "points" in tell- ing his story or in presenting the sentiment of his subject; his versification is vigorous, and well managed. But he is altogether too conventional or arti- ficial. There is no real congruity between his subjects, his metres, and his manner ; nothing truly naturaL He wishes to elevate the hunting-song, he says; but, instead of refining the coarse, or raising the heavy squire- like spirit of the sportsman, he changes the nature of the song altogether. His efforts are more ballads than lyrics of the chase ; such things as Mrs. Ilemans--" who brought to one dead level every" theme—might have written. His "Mess Song of the 7th" may pass; but his " Eve of Battle" smacks strongly of a carpet knight, and, like some of the hunting ditties, is too longwinded for the occasion. "Decius" recalls Macaulay's Lays of An- cient Rome, and, like the prototype, is not of a very antique cast ; but it is cleverly effective. The author has done wisely to abandon Parnassus for Lincoln's Inn. His farewell garland, however, is a creditable adieu. "The Poems of Goethe," by Edgar Alfred Bowring, consist of a selection from the celebrated German's shorter pieces. The translator has proceeded upon the plan of adopting the same metre as the original, and rendering the words as literally as possible ; a plan which certainly conveys a better idea of the author's thoughts and manner, without necessarily losing more of poetical spirit, than a loose paraphrase. It may be doubted whether the task was worth the labour. Short poems generally depend for their effect upon some grace or power which a translation rarely conveys. Some of the pieces belong to the last century in fashion and sentiment, and have its laxity and phy- sical grossness of idea superadded to that which Goethe naturally possessed. 4 Little Nora" is a long ballad story of an orphan child brought up by her grandfather, and on his death transferred to a cousin, whom her natural grace and early piety are one means of converting before her own death in childhood. There is a good deal of attraction in the simple, affectionate, childish character of Nora ; but the story is contrived with little art, and told with little power-

" The Christian Sabbath" is a series of narrative and occasional poems, sometimes on Scriptural, generally on serious subjects.

Songs of Feast, Field, and Fray. By A.

The Poems of Goethe : translated in the Original Metres. With a 8ketch of Goethe's Life. By Edgar Alfred Bowring. Little Nora. By J. L.

The Christian Sabbath, the Way of Life, and other Poems. By Joshua Russell, Author of "Journal of a Tour in Ceylon and India." The Theory and Practice of Caste ; bein& tin inquiry into the effects of Caste on the Institutions and Probable Destinies of the Anglo-Indian Empire. By B. A. Irving., Esq., B.A., &c. [The Le Bas prize essay for 1861; the subject of which, by, the terms of the foundation, must occasionally be chosen with reference to 'the history, in. stitutions, and probable destiny of the Anglo-Indian Empire." The essay is an elaborate and painstaking performance; exhibiting a digested view of the old theory, and the actual operation of caste, from the best authorities. An acquaintance with the condition of native and Anglo-Indian opinion, so far as it can be learned from study, is visible throughout, and gives rise to some hints that may be useful in our future dealings with the people. The specu- lation (it is nothing more) as to the future effects of caste upon our Indian empire, and the conversion of the Hindoos to Christianity, is but so-so. Some useful remarks on the ill-judged proceedings of the missionaries will be found in the book.]

The Temple of Education ; being Results of the Strivings of a Teacher

after the True Idea and Practice of Education. By J. E. Poynting. [Essentially, this volume is a series of lessons rather designed for teachers than pupils, in which interest is sought to be imparted to the subject in hand by means of imaginative attraction : thus, in physical geography, the teacher, instead of drily pointing out matters on the map, would endeavour to carry the pupils with him to the regions in question and bring them be- fore the mind's eye. The system thus indicated is fully expounded in the volume, and introduced by a framework of story and dialogue too compli- cated for explanation here. The persons are well conceived and de- scribed; the dialogues elegantly written. It is a question, however, whether there is not too much of writing about the whole book. The first matter in teaching, whether it be a system of education or some special rule, is perfect clearness and precision—what must be known, and no more ; and that is not attainable with an exuberant crop of words.]

The Life of Marshal Turenne. By the Reverend J. Oswald Cockayne, M.A. (Traveller's Library.)

[An account of the military career of the celebrated French general, with personal anecdotes. It is to a great degree drawn from De Ramsay's Histoire du Vicomte de Turenne, and it retains some of the French manner.] A People's Edition of Alison's "History of Europe" is the most notable publication in the following list, as it is one of the remarkable publishing events of the week, indicating the extent of the reading demand when it meets with such a supply. The impression is in double columns, and will be completed in forty-four monthly parts at a slualing_each. The third edition of an agreeable and informing omniumgatherum, Pulleyn's "Etymological Compendium "—improved by Mr. Thorns junior—deserves a line of notice ; as does "The Caxtons," typographically condensed, we know not how, into a single volume. The other titles tell their own story.

The History of Europefrom the Commencement of the French Revolution in 1789 to the Battle of Waterloo. By Sir Archibald Alison, Bait, LL.D., F.R.S.E. People's Edition. Part I.

The Etymological Compendium, or Portfolio of Origins and Inven- tions. By William Pulleyn. The third edition, revised and improv- ed, by Merton A. Thome. The Cartons : a Family Picture. By Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, Bart., Author of " Rienzi," 8m. A new edition.

Rambles and Scrambles in North and South America. By Edward Sullivan, Esq. Second edition.

Library Edition of the IVaverley Novels. Volume XIII. "The Pirate."

The Life of Lord Bacon. By Lord Campbell. Extracted from the Lives of the Lord Chancellors. (Murray's Railway Reading.) PAMPHLETS.

Debate in the House of Commons on the gradual Extinction of the National Debt, and on the True Principles of a Property and Income Tax.

National Education. Speech of the Right Honourable Lord John Rus- sell, delivered in the House of Commons, April 4, 1853.

The System of National Education in Ireland. By John F. Gordon, A.31., Rector of Ballyculter, &c. Strictures on the New Government Measure of Education. By Edward Barnes.

A Letter to the Right Honourable Robert Monsey Baron Crantvorth, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, on the Constitution of the Ecclesiastical Courts. By Archibald John Stephens, Barrister-at- law.

An Essay upon the Philosophy of Evidence; with a Discussion con- cerning the Belief in Clairvoyance. By Watkin Williams, of the In- ner Temple. Concise Remarks on the Principal National Governments ; together with some Suggestions and Improvements in the British Government for the benefit of India and the Indians. By Bomanji Dosabhai Munshi.

India Reform, No. III. Notes on India. By Dr. Buist, of Bombay. Adventures of Sir Tames _Brooke, K. £.B., Rajah of Sarawak, late Go- vernor of _Labuan. By G. Foggo, Secretary to the National Monu- ments Society. The Sabbath Made for Man ; or Defence of the Crystal Palace. By John Rose Butlin.

[By a confusion of names, Mr. Paley's editorship of Propertius was in our last number attributed to Mr. Drake, in the note. The name stood correctly in the title that immediately preceded the remarks.]