PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Boors.

A Voyage from Leith to _Lapland; or Pictures of Scandinavia in 1E01 By William Ilurton. In two volumes. "

Tata s History of the Colonization of America. Editedby 'William Hazlitt, Esq., Barrister-at-law. In two volumes.

On the Culture and Commerce.of-Cotton in India, and Elsewhere; with an Account of the Experiments made by the Honourable Bast India Company up to the present time. Appendix : Papers relating to the Great Industrial Exhibition. By J. Forbes lioyle M.D., F.R.S., late Superintendent of the Honourable E. I. C.'s Botanic Gardens at Sa- harunpore, &e.

Casa Guidi Windows ; a Poem. 'By Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

The Erne, its Legends and its Fly-fishing. By the Reverend-Henry Newland, Rector and Vicar of Westbourne.

The Natural History of Ireland. Volume HI. Birds, comprising the order Natatores. By William Thompson, Esq.

The week has been fruitful in poetry : besides Mrs. Browning's poem on the late events in Italy and the future prospects of that country, other publi- cations in verse are before us.

iTforican, by Henry Inglis, is a Chili= tale. The hero, Marican, is an Araucanian Indian, who joins with the Spanish Royalists against the Re- publicans in the war of Independence, to revenge the wrongsof his race upbn the possessors of their country. He is defeated and captured in a tight by sea; but escapes through the heroism of his affectionate wife. lie then raises his horsemen, joins the Spanish land army, is captured at their overthrow,

i and executed in the public square of Santiago, by being torn to pieces by four wild horses.

Mr. Inglis possesses a fatal fluency of diction and ideas. Give him apes- sage from a traveller in South America, and he will turn its leading features 'into verse ; but without much regard to its fitness to hia subject-or narrative. Suggest a theme to him, and off he rattles, as if he were writing reveries in- stead of a poem ; so that the mention of Marican's wife occasions a sorter ohapter on women both good and bad ; " the peaceful music of a convent- bell," an essay on morale in connexion with 'professed" religion ; an in- cident often involves the reader in a maze of words while the story pauses. As Mr. Inglis does not seem to have been in South America, it is proper that he should have studied the features of the country and the people in books; but he does not fuse the knowledge of the traveller ; he takes bits or pas- sages here and there ; and we think he sometimes shows Nature, mates the poet or the people see her, but as the learned eye of the scientific traveller observes her. Mr. Inglis has the more obvious qualities of a poet ; but.lie has got a good deal more to do before he can produce a poem. Philosophy in the Fens is an outpouring in the manner and lax metre of " Peter Pinder," but without his humour and strength, or his subject, in which Dr. Wolcot was rarely deficient. Mr. Grentley, on the contrary, has hardly subject at ell, -exeeptof the most trivial kind, and resenibling the digressive passages in Beppo and Don Juan, where the writer's notions on things in geneml form:the main matter. This kind of egotistical levity may Jess as an occasional variety or.in a short piece, but it is too much in a quarto of nearly four hundredp ages. Aunt Jane's -Verses for Children are.natural and pleasing, but partly de- pending for their effect upon the nature of the subject. When Mrs. Crewel- son confines herself to an incident of domestic life, where the family affed- tions predominate, she not mile produces a more interesting poem, but fre- quently exhibits some nice delineations of character. In elevated subjects, the lair writer is more conventional and less appropriate. Her -verses, how- ever, may bc.read with pleasure brothers than children. The Exile lathe story of en Italian Count whose Protestantism has caused his banishment: the leading piece being followed by occasional verses. .lifixed Poems are occasional verses altogether.

Marian, and other Poems. By henry Inglis. _Philosophy in the Fens, or Talk on the Times ; a Poem in twelve chapters. By T. Greatley, -Esq. Aunt Jane's Parses for Children. By Mrs. T. D. Crewdson. Illustrated. The Exile, and other Poems. By Christiana E. Pugh.

_Mixed Poems. By a Clergyman.

The Serpent Symbol, and the Worship of the Reciprocal Principle of Nature in America. By E. G. Squier, A.M. (American Arehs3ologi-

. eaLllesearches, No. L) "[This volume forms the first part, and but a small part, •of an intended work on the religions, sciences, antiquities, and peoples of America : the facts for which purpose are found in the writings of the earlier discoverers and their .successors, in the existing remains of monuments, and in cognate practices and remains in the Old World, or which seem such to the arehreological mind. The " high-places" mentioned in Scripture, sun worship, the symbols of the egg and of the serpent, the phallic worship and its ramifications, with the growth of the doctrine of the Triune God, are the topics treated of. The

• -volume exhibits-the results of extensive reading ; and the theory of the au- , then is enforced by continual references to the religions of the Old World, which he holds to be identical with those of the New. The volume is illus- ' trated by numerous wood-cuts. It is an American publication.] Lectures on the Study-of Theology, delivered in the Chapel of Oriel College. By the ReVerend Charles P. Chretien, MA., Fellow and Tutor of Oriel.

[Nineleotures on God, Man, and the Church, in reference to theology as a science. God. is considered as regards his being and attributes and the Tri- nity ; Man, as respects his fall, a state of grace, and the way of individual salvation; the.Chureh, as-to its character and as a means of grace. The 'lectures arehrief and rather indicative than exhaustive—a guide to the study rather than the scienceitself.; -but probably they were expanded in private teaching.] Sermons on Romanism and Tractarianism, and other Subjects suited to the Times. My Edward Girdlestone, M.A., Vicar of .Deane, Lance-

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An Exposition orthe Principal Motives which induced me to Leave the Clnerek of Rome. By C. L. Trivier,formerly a Roman Catholic Priest. Translated from the:Frenchby A. S. Busby.

The Dovecote and the Aviary; being Sketches of the Natural History of Pigeons and other Demestic Birds in a-Captive State; with Hints for their Management. By the Reverend E. S. Dixon, M.A., Author of-" Ornamental and Domestic Poultry." With numerous Wood-cuts. IThis volume consists of practical directions and hints respecting the ma- \ nagementund breeding of pigeons, with descriptions of the various kinds : scattered facts and arguments, occasionally reaching to the length of an NeasaY, on-the impossibility orchanging the nature of a species by crossing,

• and the consequent impracticability of taming creatures that are naturally 'wild : an account of various birds that adorn the aviary but which will not domesticate or„breed in this country, or at least in which all efforts have yet failed. A. good deal of original observation and remark is mixed up with curious and out-of-the-way reading in natural history, expressed in -nlively style, though the vivacity is rather artificial.]

•• The Ancient Britons ; a Tale of Primeval Life.

''[The object of this tale is to familiarize the reader with the manners and . daily life of the ancient Britons. The manner in which the author attempts his end is by representing one of Cnsar's officers wounded, taken prisoner, mid adepted into the tribe, after- some adventures and doubts as to whether he was not to be sacrificed as a victim of the Druids. The story is cleverly contrived, well written, and interesting; but it belongs to the class of juve- nile tales, rather than to the imaginative fiction the author has aimed at.] .The Teeth and their Preservation, in Infancy and Manhood, to Old Age. By Alfred Canton, M.R.C.S.L.

'Intended to furnish a sufficient amount of popular knowledge on the teeth, 'to enable people to guard against the deceptions of quacks. It is rather ela- borate for this purpose. The publication contains little or nothing that is new, but it is a better book than several brochures that have lately appeared.]

The Law as to The Exemption of Scientific and Literary Societies from the Parish and ether Local Rates, &c. By George Tayler, Esq., of the Inner Temple.

[A brief and popular compendium of the law as it is interpreted to be, with some remarks on the policy of the statute.]

New editions still continue to form a prominent feature in the week's publications. Among the foremost is Dr. Nichol's ninth edition of the ' "Architecture of the Heavens," thoroughly revised, and embracing the _.newest discoveries by Lord Rosse's telescope; some of which, however, have already been described in other publications of the author. The sixth volume of Napier's "War in the Peninsula" completes the work ; an ap- pendix of 'nearly two hundred and fifty pages containing the controversial

• matter to which the publication of the history has at different times given rise. The second edition of the religious and moral exhibition of social and domestic "Life in England" has been revised, with additions and altera- tions. The reprint-of Mr. Weld's lecture contains a summary of what has • been done in the search for Sir John Franklin. The three others are not ' books of moment, and their titles explain themselves.

The Architecture of the Heavens. By J. P. Nichol, LL.D., Professor of Astronomy in the University of Glasgow. Ninth edition, entirely revised and greatly enlarged. Illustrated with twenty-three steel Engravings and numerous Wood-cuts. (Library of Illustrated Stand- ardScientific Works. Volume IT.) _History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France, from the year 1807 to the year -1814. By Major-General Sir W. F. P. Napier, K.C.B., &c. New edition, revised by the Author. Volume VI.

English Lffe, Social and Domestic, in the Middle of the Ameteenth Century, considered in reference to our position as a Community of Professing Christians. By the Author of "Reverses, or the 1Fairffix Family," &c. Second edition, revised. The Search for Sir Sohn Eranhlin. A leeture delivereil•at the Rnasell Institution, January 15, 1851. By Charles Richard Weld.

Sonanolism and Pyscheisni ; ortheScience of the Soul and'the mena of Nervation, as revealed' by-Vital 'Magnetism or Mesmerism, &c. By Joseph W. Haddock, M.D. Second edition.

Gowrie ; or the Kings Plot. By G. T. it James, Esq. '('Parlour library.) The Decimal System, as Applied to the Coinage andWeights imil'Mea- sures of Great Britain. By Henry Taylor. Fourth edition.

PAMPHLETS.

What is the Working of the Church of Spain? What is implied In Submitting to Rome? What is it that presses hardest .upon the Church of England ? A Tract. 13v the Reverend Frederick Meyrick, M.A., Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford.

An Essay on Claire/I. Reform.

Some Reasons of Want of Success in the Christian Jlinistry. An Ordi- nation Sermon, preached in 'Worcester Cathedral, by the Honourable and Reverend W. H. Lyttleton.

The Coming Conflict. A letter to thellight IleverendthelardBishop of Exeter, occasioned by his recent Pastoral Letter to the-Clergy of his Diocese. By a Lay Member of the Church Of Me:gland.

OfficialCatalogue ofthe Great Exhibition of the Works of 'Industry of All _Nations, 1851.

Companion to the Official Catalogue. Synopsis of the Contents of the Great Exhibition of 1851. By Robert Hunt, Keeper of the 'Mining Records.

H ydropathie Statistics; or a Lecture on Hydropathy, deliveredNovein- ber 26, 1850, at-the Polytechnic Institution, Birmingham. By Wal- ter Johnson, M.D.

On the Prevention and Cure-of -Spinal Curvatures and Deformities of the Chest and .Lintbs ; being the result of many years experience. By Mrs. Godfrey, Renshaw-Street, Liverpool.

Medical Combinations against Life Insurance Companies.

What is Mesineris»i ? An Attempt to explainthe Pliwnermerra on the . admitted principles of Physiological and Psychical Science. By Alex- ander Wood, M.D.

Letter to Sir Balmer Lytton, Bart., commenting upon. theTobey advo- cated in his Letters to John Bull, Esq. By W. Bull, one of John's Sons.

The Koh-i-noor, or Mountain of :.Tht, to :Whom -does it lielowg A Letter to Sir John Hobliouse, Bart., M:P., &c.

Pius de G-irondins. 'Par Louis Blanc.