PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

BooKs.

Four Months among the Gold-Finders of Alta California; being the Diary of an Expedition from San Francisco to the Gold Districts. By J. Tyrwhitt Brooks, M.D. The History of the Year 1848. By Walter K. Kelly, Author of "A Narra• tive of the French Revolution of 1848." The Slave Girl; a Tale of the Nineteenth Century. In five cantos. By Frederick N. Dyer. Twice told Tales. By Nathaniel Hawthorne. Peregrine Scramble; or Thirty Years' Adventure of a Blue Jacket. By Captain Sir H. V. Huntley, R.N. In two volumes. The Closing Years of Dean Swift's Life; with an Appendix, containing several of his Poems hitherto unpublished, and some Remarks on Stella By W. R. Wilde, M.R.I.A., &c., Author of "Austria and its Instita. tions," &c. The Gold-Seeker's Manual. By David T. Ansted, M.A., F.R.S., Profess/ of Geology, King's College, London, Sic. A Book far a Corner; or Selections in Prose and Verse from Authors the best suited to that mode of enjoyment: with Comments on each, and General Introduction, by Leigh Hunt. Illustrated with eighty Wood. engravings, from Designs by F. W. Halme and J. Franklin. In tiro volumes.

Boger of Wendover's Flowers of History. Comprising the History of England from the Descent of the Saxons to A.D. 1235. Formerly as- cribed to Matthew Paris. Translated from the Latin. By J. A. Giles, D.C.L., late Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. In two volumes.

Volume I. (Antiquarian Library.)

([For this publication of an old chronicler we are indebted to the labours of Dr. riles and the spirit of Mr. Bohn- The translation is made from the Latin edi- tion lately published for the Historical Society. The early portion of the Flowers, being a history of England up to the invasion of Hengist and Horse, is omitted; the next part, a compilation from the time of the Saxon invasion till towards the close of the twelfth century, is nearly completed in the present volume. The se- cond will contain the most important section—that where Roger was contem- porary with the events he narrates, and may rank as an original historian.] Smith's Canadian Gazetteer; comprising statistical and general information respecting all parts of the Upper Province, or Canada West, &c. Witha

Map of the Upper Province. By William H. Smith.

[This book is an original in the truest sense of the term: the author having, as he states, traversed the country, frequently on foot, in order to collect his mate- rials from actual observation, or from inquiries upon the spot, except in the else of public statistics' which were mostly furnished to him by the authorities. There is a good deal of specific information in the volume, with a number of useful hints to emigrants : its value arises from its being the sole work of its kind.] Sermons by the late Thomas Chalmers, D.D., LLD. Illustrative of dif- ferent Stages in his Ministry. 1798-1847. (Chalmers's Posthumous Works, Vol. VI.) [This volume of Dr. Chalmers's Posthumous Works contains three-and-thirty sermons, selected by the editor from the author's unpublished manuscripts those best calculated to illustrate the different stages of his ministry, especially the great change with reference to original sin and free grace, on a true per, tion of which Dr. Chalmers believed that his personal salvation depended. De dates 1798-1847 contain some of his first sermons and of his last.] The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond. By W. M. Thackeray, Author of " Pendennis," &c. [A neatly attractive volume, reprinted from Fraser's Magazine, in which Pe' riodical the story of Mr. Samuel Titmarsh originally appeared. We learn hp genial preface from the author, that this tale was refused by a magazine beta' it found admission into Fraser, and that, stranger still, Vanity Fair was slit rejected by a periodical l] Cosmos; a Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe. By Alex' ander Von Humboldt. Translated from the German, by E. G. Otte. Volumes I. and II. (Bohn's Scientific Library.)

[A cheap and handsome edition of a work, the successive volumes of which " noticed when the translation under Colonel Sabine's auspices appeared.]

The Elements of Botany. By M. Adrian de Jussieu, Membre de !Institut, Professor an Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, 8re. Translated by Awes Hewetson Wilson, F.L.S., &e. [A compact English edition of Jusaieu's well-known work, which has furnished so much matter to botanical compilers.] The Parliamentary Companion, for 1849. Seventeenth year. By Chirkg R. Doti, Esq., Author of the "Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage," &e. History Philosophically Illustrated, from the Fall of the Roman Ere to the French Revolution. By George Miller, D.D., &o. Third edits revised by the Author. In four volumes. Volume IlL The Tithe Proctor; a Novel. Being a Tale of the Tithe Rebellion in land. By William Carleton, Esq., Author of "Traits and Stories of Irish Peasantry," &c. (The Parlour Library.)

SsruALs.

The National Library of Select Literature. Part L Studies of

by Charles Knight.

[The first number of a new speculation which is intended to embrace a variety ILLUSTRATED WORK.

The Toothache. Imagined by Horace Mayhew, and realized by George Cruikshank.

Five-and-forty coloured cuts, mounted on canvass and folding in a case, represent, mg a man in the various stages of the toothache, from the first seizure to the final extraction. Grotesque, but exaggerated.]

PAMPHLETS.

Railway Property, its Condition and Prospects. By S. Smiles, Secretary to the Leeds and Thirsk Company. Defects in the Practice of Life Assurance, and Suggestions for their Re- medy, &c. Practical Suggestions for the Formation of Emigration Mutual Aid Socie- ties, &c. By a late Government Officer.

Amendment of the Irish P007, law. In a Letter to Lord John Russell, by the Reverend T. O'Malley.

The Church of Rome in Ireland in its Relation to the State; with Re- marks on the question of the Endowment of the Roman Catholic Clergy. By William Shee.

The Duty. of the State to its Infant Poor. A Letter to Lord John Russell respecting the Infant Poor at Tooting, by Henry Burgess.

A Solution of the Portentous Enigma of Modern Civilization, &c. Ad- dressed to Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, President of the French Republic, &c., by George Mudie.

works or rather the spirit of works in the belles lettres, condensed by the methods of analysis and extract. The specimen before us-the Studies of Shakapere-is the pith of Mr. Knight's views on the poet's English means of dramatic training, from the Life, and the more general annotations on each play, from his various editions. The special Studies in the publication before us are Titus Andronicus porkies, the Hamlet of 1603, and Timon of Athens. When completed, it will form a companion to all the editions of the poet.]

Political and Social Economy; its Practical Applications. Part L By John Hill Burton. (Chambers's Instructive and Entertaining Library.) Remarkable and Eccentric Characters. With numerous Illustrations by F. W. Fairholt, Esq., F.S.A., Author of " Costume in England," &c. Volume I. (Bentley's Cabinet Library.) Stokers and Pokers • or the London and North-western Railway, the Elec- tric Telegraph, and the Railway Clearing-house. By the Author of "Bob- bles from the Brennen of Nassau." (Murray's Home and Colonial Li- brary.)