PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

BOOKS. BOOKS.

Claims of' Japan and Jlialaysia upon Christendom, exhibited in Notes of Voyages made in 1837, from Canton, in the ship Morrison aint brig Ilimmaleh, under direction of the Owners. In two vols.

Births, Deaths, and Marriages. By the Author of " Sayings and Doings," &c. In three vols.

2Vides uf a Wanderer in Search gie Health, through Italy, Egypt, Greece,

Turkey, up the Daimhe, and down the Rhine. By V. F. CUMMING,

M.D. Late Bengal Medical Establishment, &c. In two robs.

Beerbrook; a Novel. By HARRIET MARTINEAU. Ill three vols.

A Treatise on the Industry of' Nations ; or, the Principles of National Economy and Taxation. By J. S. EISDELL, Esq. In two vols.

Ei:Osh Stories of the Olden Time. By MARIA HACK. LI two vols. [A popular history ot England from Atxnua to ELIZARETII, adapted to the capacities of young persons. It is arranged in the shape of biographies of finnous sovereigns and comment statesmen, with accounts of remarkable eveuts, con- nected sl as to form a continuous narrative if the progressive state of the country and people, the constitution, laws, religion, and customs ; broken into chapters, aml interrupted. occasionally hy passages of familiar dialogue between manona, wlto is time relater, and her children. The matter is unexceptionable, and includes a poll deal of information valuable and interesting to juvenile readers ; but the style is rather formal and heavy; and the moral reflections, though just and proper, are somewhat prosy. These defects of manner are, however, counterbalanced. by the dispassionate and just cstimate of the charac- ters of the persons and the causes and influence of events.]

Conversations on nyetable Physiology; comprehending the elements of Botany, with their application to Agriculture. By Mrs, MARCET. Third edition.

[In this new edition are incorporated. the latest discoveries of Professor DE CANDObLE ; to whose scientific treatise on Vegetable Physiology Mrs. HAttcm, acknowledges herself indebted for the substance of the valuable infatuation this volition contains. Young readers, however, owe much to the felicitous tact with which the lady has made the abstruse researches of the Professor clear to their understanding ; stating his facts and opinions in a lively and in- teresting, manner, with conciseness mid simplicity of expression. Tlos book is the philosophy of botany popularized.]

School Botany; or an Explanation of the Characters and Differences of the Principal :Natural Classes and Orders of Plants belonging to the Flora of Europe, in the Botanical Classification of De CANDOLLE: ton the use of Students. By 301IN LINDLEY, Professor of Botany in University College, London. [A text-book flir the junior Botanical Classes of University College in par- ticular, but useful as a grammar of the science to students in general. Here again DE CANDOLLE is the authority ; but Dr. LiNor.ev's scientific attain- ments are also brought to bear in this manual of systematic botany. The ex- amples are illustrated by wood-euts.]

Songs and Ballads. By SAMI7EI, LOVER. [LOVER'S lyrics are no exceptions to the remark that songs sing much better than they read : the idea that enraptures when expressed. with the voice to a charming melody, does not always satisfy the judgment in a cold and attentive perusal. LOVER does not come up to the exquisite neatness and fluency of MOORE'S style, nor have his fancies the felicitous brilliancy of his brother " minstrel of Erin ;" but, on the other hand, he does not sink to the namby- pamby level of HAYNES BAYLY. His humorous effusions are more genuine and cordial than his sentimental ; and the popular Irish songs " Rory o'More" and "Molly Carew " will long outlive his more tender and elegant verses]

The Lunar Soiree ; a Poem. By a Lady. [An imitation of the "Butterfly's Ball ; " the stellar company of Luna con-

sisting of Planets, Fixed Stars, Comets, and Nebultr. an. inducement to the study of astronomy, it has the reconunendation of utility in addition to its ingenuity. The verse halts now and then, by the way.]

The Age of Chivalry, and Other Poems. By ALEXANDER MACLEOD. [The principal poem, written in the balled style that SCOTT made so popular for a time, obtained a prize at Glasgow College ; and with that distinction the author may well be content in this day.]

Geraldine, Athenia of Damascus, and Miscellaneous Poems. By Bores DAWES.

[The idea of publishing a uniform collection of the American Poets is goon; but surely u better start might have been made than with Mr. litres DAWES, whose largest poem, Gera/dine' is a mere commonplace imitation of Don Juan. The minor poems are better, but do not even surpass those of Winus, if they equal them.] Wales, and Other Poents. By MARIA JONES. With an Introduction by A. POTTER D.D. •

[A collection of miscellaneous poems by an American servant-girl ; curious as exhibiting a remarkable fluency—a natural gift for versification, but with little of promise or of character. There is nothing racy in the style or thoughts; nor do the images seem selected from nature, but boiTowed from others, or the coinage of her own brain.]

Hints to Mothers, &c. By THOMAS Bean, M.D. Second edition, greatly enlarged.

[The additions to the new edition of Dr. Bean's popular advice to pregnant Women, consist of four new chapters, entitled " Hints fir the Lying-in Boom," and referring chiefly to the manivrement of the infant ; a duty devolving on the nurse, but which the mother, Juis prompted, nifty see rationally perfinnied instead of ignorantly and, injuriously as it too commonly is. An index is also appended; and the volume, thus improved. is a valuable code of simple laws for the proper government of the realmof Luton.]

The Sorrows of Deafness. By G. II. BOSANQUET. [The object of this vivid description of the miseries of deafness. is to save per- sons so afflicted from the annoyances of a vulgar recognition id' their infirmity, officious suggestions of remedies, ant other inflictions of a similar kind, by in- listing the sympathies of their more fortunate fellow-creatures in their behalf, and pointing out the way to lighten the (as yet) irremediable privation. These hints, among others, are given—if you find one ear deaf, try the other: don't bore a deaf person with long stories, or tantalize him with attempts at wit : be silent rather than bawl: to which we may add, speak slowly, and arti- culate distinct]y, close to the ear.] Observations on the Preservation of Health, 7/1 Infancy, Youth, Manhood, and Age ; with the best Means of Improving the Moral and Physical Condition of Man, Prolonging life, and Promoting Human Happiness. Third edition. By JOHN HARR [sox Curris, Esq.

Measures to be adopted for the _Employment of the Labouring Classesire Deland; detailed in an Address to the Electors of Galuvay; with an Appendix, containing Abstracts of the Reports of some of the Pro- vincial Assemblies in Belgium. By A. H. LYNCH, Esq., M.P.

A Friend in Need; or a Word. of Consolation in the Hour of Affliction from the Death of Friends.

[Religious exhortation to mourners, composed of quotations from the Scriptures, set in eloquent, though obvious, suggestions for mitigating sorrow.] The Religion of Jesus Christ rb:Anded from the assaults of Omenism. lit nine Lectures. By J. R. BEARD. The a,:ford Divines not Members of the Church of England. By T. B. BROWNE, of Mellington, Author of " Thoughts of the Times." .Mariamme, or the Court of Herod the Great. A Tragedy, in five acts.

By WILLIAM WALLER, Esq.

PAMPHLETS.

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The Ballantyne Humbug Handled, in a Letter to Sir Adam Ferguson. By the Author of" Memoirs of Sir Walter Scott." Self-Culture; an Address Introductory to the Franklin Lectures, deli- vered at Boston, Visited States, September 1838. By W. E. CHAN- RING.

[A third getting-up of this American ()ration, by auothet American pub- lisher.]

Artisans, Farmers, and Labourers.

A Feu, Words on the Copyriyht Question; showing it to be One of Public Interest : with some objections to Mr. Sergeant Talfourd's Bill to change the present Law of Copyright.