PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

After an interval of ten years the author of FRIENDS IN COUNCIL has produced a second series of that remarkable work. It consists, like the first of essays, mingled with dialogue, and displays the same cast of thought, at once discursive and incisive, and the same solid and graceful quality of literary workmanship.

The papers forming Mr. Lang's volume of WANDERINGS ix INDIA are known to many of our readers, the greater part of them having appeared in " Household Words." They will bear reading again. That they are very clever and amusing is unquestionable : about their fidelity to matter-of-fact there may be differences of opinion.

Tint DOG IN HEALTH AND DISEASE is a handsome book, beautifully illustrated. It is designed to furnish specific information needful to every dog-fancier and sportsman, but which is hardly to be found in any of the numerous works which exist on the subject.

In Lieutenant Majcndie's account of a year's service in India, "Ur AMONG THE Pnivnres, some interesting matter is smothered in heaps of verbiage. Had he been content to tell his story in a simple and straight- forward manner, and in one-fourth the number of pages, he would have quadrupled the value of his book. But notwithstanding its clumsy affectation of smartness, the book has its good points ; and for these we commend it to the notice of readers who are expert in the art of skip- ping.

BOOKS.

Friends in Council : A Series of Readings and Discourse thereon. A new series. In two volumes.

The Dog in Health and Disease. Comprising the various modes of breaking and using him for Hunting, Coursing, Shooting, ke., and including the points or characteristics of toy dogs. By Stonehenge, Author of " The Grey- hound," Ike.

Up Among the Pandies ; or, a Year's Service in India. By Lieut. Vivian Bering Majendie, Royal Artillery.

Wanderings in India : and other Sketches of Life in Hindostan. By John Lang.

Our Engines of War, and How we got to Hake them. By Captain Jervis- White Jervis, M.P., Royal Artillery, Author of the" Manual of Field Opera- tions,"" The Rifle-Musket," &e.

Valentine's Jewish Calendar, 362041. 1859-60-61.

A Night in a Haunted House. A Tale of Facts. By the Author of " Kazan."

Phases of Thought and Feeling. Poems and Lyrics, by .1. 11. Powell. Satan Restored. A Poem. By William Cypiee.

POC1113. By L. Second series.

Jarenal, Persius, Sulpicia. A New Version.

Naw EDITIONS.

An Introduction to the Zeidenees of Christianity. By J. 0. lialliwell, Esq., F.R.S. Second Edition.

The Watering Places of England; wills a summary of their Medical Topo- graphy and Remedial Resources. By Edwin Lee, M.D. Fourth Edition. With considerable additions.

The Rifle-Musket By Captain .Jervis-White Jervis, M.P. Royal Artillery. Second edition.

Afareleing Oat; a Manual of Surveying and Field Sketching, intended for the use of officers and students civil and military, By Lamorack Flower, C.E., Lieutenant 3c1 Surrey Militia. Published by Mitchell, Charing Cross.—One of the most useful accomplishments of a soldier ill that of sketching a country side with rapidity and accuracy. Good in- formation is often as essential to a brigadier or the commander of a batta- lion as to a general-in-chief, and information that can be seen in picture and measured by the compass to scale is the best of all. Officers some- times complain of having nothing to do. Let them cultivate the use of the pencil and the art of laying down a tract of country, either from the saddle, a gate-post, or a flat stone. In "marching out" they may find plenty of practice, or they may march out on purpose. Mr. Flower's book, simple, clear, and "homespun," as he describes it, will be found a most useful companion. It has been found so by those officers who have used it; and we gladly take this opportunity of recommending it to young officers anxious to become soldiers worthy of their commission and of their profession.