PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Books.

Memoirs orthe 'Life and Writings of Thomas Chalmers, D.D., LL.D. By his Son-in-law, the Reverend William Hanna, LL.D. Volume HI. Ilistory of the Conspiracy of Pontiac, and the War of the-North-Ame- rican Tribes against the English Colonies after the Conguest-of Ca- mule. By Francis Parkman junior. In-two volumes.

Lives of the Queens of Scotland, and English Princesses connected with the Eva( Succession of Great Britain. By Agnes Strickland, Author of "Lives of the Queens-of England." Volume IL Man and his Migrations. By R. G. Latham, M.D., &c.

Plain Parish Sermons,-preached at Rotherhithe. By Reverend Philip Blandr.RA., Curate of St. Mary's Church.

Fortification for Officers of the Army and- Students of Military His- tory; with Illustrations and Notes. By Lieutenant Henry Yule, Bengal Engineers.

John Drayton; beingsa History of the Early Life and Development of a Liverpool Engineer. In two volumes.

Marian Withers. By- Geraldine E. Jewsbnry, Author of " Zoe," &c. In three volumes.

The History of Mary Queen of Scots. By F. A. Mignet, Member of the Institute, &c. In two volumes. Volume I.

Jewish &hisol and Family Bible. The First Part, containing the Pen- tateuch, newly Translated under the supervision of the Reverend, the Chief Rabbi, by Dr. A. Benisch. Olds transiationof the Bible is primarily designed for the use of Jews ; a purpose that gives, its distinctive features to the work. The three principles which Dr. Beniach has lido down for his guidance in rendering are uniform. ity, independence, and fidelity. Great as are the merits of the English au- thorized- version, the translators, Dr. Beniach says, continually rendered a Hebrew word into various English words, (though the examples which he adduces have the same general meaning) ; they have looked at the Scrip- tures as Christians, not as Jews ; and in a certain sense they were restrained by the instructions of King James: hence they have been led unconsciously to give a Christian version to some passages. Their object, though Dr. Be- nisch does-not say so, was to give a free, spirited, and richly poetical tran- script : they render words freely, or supply what even a Hebrew of the He- brews cannot translate, because he does not know the creature or thing al- luded to. These three errors or peculiarities Dr. Beniach avoids. He will al- ways use the same English for the same Hebrew word ; where he is not limited by " authoritative tradition," he will be quite unfettered in his in- vestigations ; when he cannot translate a word, he will leave it in the original; if 'a literal version is too cramped, he will place the literal word at the foot and use a freer rendering in the text.

A more distinctive characteristic of the translation, however, is that it will be made with reference to the actual laws and traditions of the Jews, espe- cially as regards the ceremonial parts ; that is, the law which the Christian looks upon -as superseded and dead,. the Jew regards as a living organism, and can illustrate from actual practice transmitted by tradition.

The theological student will of course form his own opinion upon the translation by a. careful examination. Its general character is more literal than the authorized version, .but we think it brings out Oriental manners more exactly : is.-warmth of colouring, in poetical spirit, in primitive and majestic simplicity, it falls behind that wonderful production, which com- bines the ttuth of a- translation with the freedom of an original work.]

The Bible Unveiled.

sinettlar little book on several abstruse theological or controversial sub- jects: 'The Papacy as denounced in the book of Revelations, the millennium, the Trinity, the Atonement, and several similar themes, are handled bythe author, with a view to settlement on his interpretation' from the authorized version. For this version, in a preliminary chapter on the An to-Saxon Bible, he claims the authority of Divine inspiration. The arguments in favour of the "Divine authority of the English Bible" will be found at pp. 6-12.] Angelology : Remarks and Reflections touching the Agency and Minis- tration of Holy Angels, &e. ; interspersed with Traditional Particulars respecting them. By George Clayton junior. [A book on the ranks and titles, attributes and characteristics' residence and society, employments and pursuits of the angels, may exhibit curious learn- ing and ingenious speculation, but can lead to no very definite conclusion. The curiouereading in this volume is overlaid by a very diffusive style : the speculations-are vague.] A Sketch of Madiira ; containing Information for the Traveller or In-

valid Visitor. By Edward Vernon Harcourt, Esq. With and Views.

[Mr. Vernon Harcourt handles. too many subjects in too small a space to make a very telling book; or rather, he does not handle them in book- making manner. He breaks up his topics into numerous heads : if he has only a sentence of matter upon any particular head, he only prints a sen- tence ; so that subjects in themselves continuous are separated by an arti- fice of typography, and made to -look of small account. Some of the matter, too, belongs to that class of literature to which the author modestly ascribes the whole book—compilation. The chapters on climate and vital statistics, as well as on geology and botany, are of this kind. A good deal of the his- tory, government, &c., is of the same character, but elevated above mere compilation by earnestness of purpose, and some new information. The sketches of the country, and of the different excursions that may be made by the resident, with numerous hints for his guidance, have a good deal of freshness: the matter may not be absolutely new, but it is fresh-gathered. The book is agreeably illustrated by drawings from the pencil of Lady Har- oourt.] Official and Illustrated Catalogue of the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations. Part III. Section III.—Manu- factures Classes 11 to 29. Section IV.—Fine Arts, Class 30.

[This third volume is perhaps hardly equal to its predecessors, except as re- gards the cuts. The letterpress is generally little more than an expansion of the common official catalogue, while the occasional expositions either of (lasses or particular things have an encyclopaedic ponderousness about them.]

The World in its Workshops : a Practical Examination of British and Foreign Processes of Manufacture, with a Critical Comparison of the Fabrics, Machinery, and Works of Art contained in the Great Exhi- bition. By James Ward. 'Metals, Machinery, and Glass.

[In this shilling's- worth, thirteen subjects or classes of manufactures in the Great Exhibition are made the means of furnishing a popular account of the substances from which they are formed, as well as of the manufactures them- selves; to which is added a brief descriptive notice of the most striking articles in the Exhibition.]

The Paperhanger's and Upholsterer's Guide. By James Arrowsmith. The Anatomy and Diseases of the Prostate Gland. By John Adams, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, &e.

[.1 compilation tested and animated by practical experience, on an im- portant surgical subject, but not of a nature for newspaper notice. Mr. Adams has succeeded in his object, which was to give a brief account of the diseases to which the prostate gland is liable.]

Interest Tables from Ma l00 Days, and fromeise-teThreeper Cent per Annum,- by Eighths per Cent. Calculated byDeeimalts By- William Henry Thomas. [This goodly volume differs from others upon. the same subject-by the low- ness of the rates of interest, "to meet the time;" and the various fraction- al parts of.a pound which it calculates. The display is clear, the nieanssof application easy ; the author vouches for the correctness of the tables.] Wanderings its North. Wales ; a Road and Railway CruidesBook. By William Cothran, Author of "The History of. North Wales." Illus- trated by forty Engravings on Steel and-Wood; with. a correct. Map of North Wales.

[This neat volume contains information useful to the pleasure tourist, but its distinctive feature is accounts of the historical; events that have taken place in difibrent places ; so that the excursionistmay enter into the associations of the-past, art-well as enjoy the- scenery of the present.]

Verses. By Haziefoot Ardetr. [Avolume of occasional poems on a variety of themes, with. some-variety in the style, according to the poet Haslefoot Arden happens to have in his eye.] Three small family or school books are before, us, cleverly exhibiting the elements of the-subjeetson which they treat. The "Cutlinesof the History of Ireland" is entitled to higher praise : in a shilling-volumesof lees than one hundred, and fifty pages,- it presents the leading facts of Irish history, accompanied by a sound and judicious commentary.

Outlines of the History of Ireland, for Families and 'Sdhools. By 0. Cookayne, M.A. A First Spelling. book. Dy C. W. Connors;. Miscellaneous Examples irs Aritlinsetic. By tho Reverend -Henry Pin, Some of the new editions, reprints, or collections, are worth noting. Messrs. Longman have sent forth Mr. Laing's "Norway" in two parts of their Traveller's Library ; decidedly one of the cheapest hits of the day. The con- tractors to the Royal Commission for printing the Catalogues, &c., have bound- up some of the numbers of Mr. Hunt's "Handbook" into a neat'first volume, useful in the Exhibitions and agreeable afterwards as a. reminisoence of what was seen in the great year of 1851. Mr. Mitchell, in conjunction with Michel Levy, Freres, of Paris, has published in a handsome volume the epistolary contributions of Jules Janiu to the Journal des _Debate on the sub- ject of the Great Exhibition and London in May. Mr. Ellis's bookon "Edu- cation" is in part a reprint of lectures at inechanies'.institutions ; and what appears for the first time is not very striking.

Residence in Norway, irs the Years 1834, 1835, 1836. By Samuel Laing. Parts I. and IL (The Traveller's Library, VI. and V.11.) Hunt's Handbook to the 0j1k ial Catalogues;. an Explanatory Guide to the Natural Productions and Manufactures of the Great Exhibition-of the Industry of All Nations, 1851. Edited by Robert Hunt, Keeper of Mining Records. Volume I.

Le 1110i8 de Maid Eondres, et l' Exposition de 181. Par Jules Ianin. Education as a Means of Preventing Destitution; with Exemplifica- tions and Applications of -Economical Science at.theBirkbeck Schools. Prefaced by a Letter to the Right Honourable Lords John.Rusaell, 31:1). By William Ellis, Author of the "ttudines. of Social E00- 'horny,' &c.

Recollections of Military Service, in 1813; 1814, and 1815; through Ger- many, Holland, Belgium,, and France ; including some Details of the Battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo. ByThomus Morrie. Fourth edition.

Ass Emigrant in Search of a Colony. By Charles Rowcroft, Anther of " Tales of the Colonies," &e. (Fortune iiisruxy.) The Countess of Radolstadt. By George Sand. (Parlour Library.) Arithmetical Tables, i for the Use of Schools: By James Child. Fifty- first edition, with important Additions.

Pastry.

An English Merry-making in the Olden Time. Painted by W. P. Frith, A.R.A. ; engraved by William HolL (Art-Union of London, 1852.) PAMPHLET'S.

Speech of the Earl of Aberdeen against the Second Reading of the Jii- elesiastical Titles Assumption Bill; with the Protest against the Passing of the Bill, entered, on the Journals- of. the House of Lord* 29th July 1851. Lectures on the-Present Oondition of Catholics in England : addressed to the Brothers of the Oratory. By John Henry Newman, D.D. Lec- ture VI.

The Application- of Associative Iiinciples and Methods to Agriculture.; a Lecture. By the Reverend Charles Kingsley junior, Rector of Everaley.

Flax, its Culture and Preparation, in Scotland„ stand, and Flanders; particularly with reference to the Western Highlands and. Islands of Scotland. -By Robert Brown, Esq., Hamilton. The Self-Organized Coiiperative Associations in Paris and the French. Republic. A Public Lecture, delivered in the Town Hall, Brighton, 28th July 1851. By William Coningham. A Plea for Emigration. By a Female Emigrant. Speech of the Honourable Joseph Howe on Intercolonial Railroads and Colonisation, delivered at Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 1861. Is the Competition between- Large and Small Shope Injurious to the Community? Being a Lecture delivered in Trinity College, Dublin, in Trinity Term.-1851. By W. Neilson Haneook,-LLD.

The Question of Mersa:prorated Foreign Copyright in Great Britain. A Report of the Speeches and Proceedings at a Public Meeting held at the Hanover Sqeare Rooms, July 1,1851.

Spanish Bonds. APull Report of the Public Meeting held on 3d July 1851, at the London Tavern; with Letters- of James Cepa, Esq. What shall we Do with Smithfield? or- How to rebuild the Mang Gardena, of Ancient Babylon in any modern crowded city, at- a profit. By an Old Sanitary Reformer. Aurientar Confession, and Speciiri Judicial Absolution, Examinekby the Canon of Holy Scripture, &e. Ats.Essay. By William %Nee, Esq.