PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Boors.

Recollections of a Literary Life ; or Books, Places, and People. By Mary Russell Mitford, Author of "Our Village," &c. In three vo- lumes.

The Life and Letters of Barthold George Niebuhr. With Essays on his Character and Influence, by the Chevalier Bunsen, and Professors Brandis and Loebell. In two volumes.

Solwan • or Waters of Comfort. ,By Ibn Zafer, a Sicilian Arab of the twelfth; century, From the original manuscript by Michele Amari, Author of " The War of the Sicilian Vespers," &c. And rendered in English by the Translator of " The Sicilian Vespers." In two vo- lumes. • • The Life of General Washington, first President of the United States. Written by Himself. Comprising his Memoirs and Correspondence, as prepared by him for publication, including several Original Letters now first printed. Edited by the Reverend C. W. Upham. In two

volumes. •

Allerton and Dreux ; or the War of Opinion. By the Author of " A Rhyming Chronicle." Memorialls of the Trubles in Scotland and in England. A.D. 1624— A.D. 1645. By John Spalding. In two volumes. Volume U. (Printed for the Spalding Club.) A Ride over the Rocky Mountains to Oregon and California. With a Glance at some of the Tropical Islands, including the West Indies end e the Sandwich Islands. By the Honourable Henry J. Coke, Author of

"Vienna in 1848."

Mr. Wray's Cash-box ; or the Mask and the Mystery. A Christmas Sketch. By W. Wilkie Collins, Author of " Antonina, ' &e. The Pathway of the Fawri.; a Tale of the New Year. By Mrs. T. K. Hervey.

The Life and Trials of a Youthful Christian in Pursuit of Health, as developed in the Biography of Nathaniel Cheever, M.D. By the Re- verend Henry F. Cheever, Author of "The Whale and his Captors." With an Introduction by the Reverend George B. Cheerer, D.D. [This book appears to be an American reprint : it contains the life and cor- respondence of an American physician, who died of consumption in his twenty-ninth year, having suffered from childhood under an asthmatic af- fection. Neither the doings of Nathaniel Cheever, nor the incidents of his life, were such as to require or indeed to justify a biographical volume of this extent. There is nothing in his health or his religious feelings which dif- fers from that of numberless others ; his journals and letters, containing out. pourings of religioutikentiment instead of facts, would be unattractive if they related to a better-known person, but are simply flat when connected with a man whose name ninety-nine readers out of a hundred have never heard. The best portions of the book are some notes on the South of Spain and the island of Cuba, where Nathaniel Cheever passed some time for his health : but they are smothered by the other parts.] . The Medical Aspects of Death, and the Medical Aspects of the Ifununa Mind. By James Bower Harrison, M.R.C.S.L., &c. [An essay on the true signs of actual in opposition to apparent death, and on the immediate physical causes of dissolution. It is an interesting paper, from the clearness of the treatment, and the number of facts brought toge- ther respecting a subject which interests all except those who " cannot bear to think of it." The second essay on the " Medical Aspects of the Human Mind" is a reprint from the Psychological Journal.] The English Family Robinson. The Desert Home, or the Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness. By Captain Mayne Reid, Au- thor of "The Rifle Rangers," &c. With twelve Illustrations by William Harvey. [An attempt to display in the form of a tale of adventure the geographical features and animal and vegetable wonders of what the author calls " the great American Desert,"—meaning a portion of the Rocky Mountains, and the inhospitable regions lying on each side of them.] Letters from Sicily, written during the year 1835. [These observations and reflections, made during a tour in Sicily so long ago as 1835, are written in the form of letters to a friend; and their light, fami- tlioart,errestrained style, indicates that they really are what they profess.

The Cottage Gardener's Dictionary : describing the Plants, Fruits, and Vegetables desirable for the Garden ; and explaining the Terms and Operations employed in their Cultivation. Edited by G. W. Johnsont Esq., Editor of "The Cottage Gardener," &c.

[A large quantity of useful and varied information, alphabetically arranged, on the cultivation of vegetables and flowers that may be successfully at- tempted with moderate means.]

Daily Bible Illustrations : being Original Readings, for a Year, on Sub- jects from Sacred History, Biography, Geography, Antiquities and Theology. By John Kitto, D.D., &c. Evening Series. Job and the Poetical Books. January—March. p. continuation of the previous work, or rather volumes, of the able and indefatigable writer, designed for evening perusal, and embracing the poetical books of the Bible—that is, Job, the Psalms, the Proverbs, Eccle- siastes, and the Song of Songs.] An Authentic Account of the Chinese Commission which was sent to re- port on the Great Exhibition. By Sutherland Edwards.

[A skit in verse, accompanied by caricature plates, which are better than the Poetry.]

Lady Felicia; a Novel. By Henry Cockton, Author of "Valentine Vox," &e.

The Cassell Prize Essay on the Condition of Ireland. By William Edward Hearn, L.L.B., Professor of Greek in King's College, Galway, Instinct and Reason definitively Separated. By Gordonius.

The new year begins with several editions of mark or value. Mr. Alison has expanded his Life of Marlborough into two volumes, by incorporating more of the history of the War of the Succession into his biography : he has accompanied the text with maps, and with plans of battles after Kausler's great work, which are well contrived, so as to be independent of the volume while the text is read : but they had better have been strengthened by cloth, for the paper connexion will soon give way. Messrs. Chapman and Hall have sent forth the first volume of a handsome edition of Sir Bulwer Lytton's Poetical Works. Mr. Addison has published a new edition of his His- tory of the Knights Templars," at nearly half the price of its predeces. sore, and in a more popular form ; the author having omitted sundry mat-

term of dry detail, which rather encumbered his narrative, as well as the quotations in the notes. Messrs. Blackwood have reproduced in the old stele a reprint of the "third impression" of the "Mother's Legacie to her Childe Unborne " with an elaborate introduction by the editor ; and, to drop to plainer affairs, Messrs. Chambers have started a "Pocket Miscellany," chiefly consisting of " amusing papers from the early quarto volumes of the Jour- nal," but also embracing " articles of a similar kind for which space cannot be found in the current numbers of that periodical."

The Life of John Duke of Marlborough. With some Account of his Contemporaries and of the War of Succession. By Archibald Alison, LLD., Author of "The History of Europe." Second edition, greatly enlarged. In two volumes. The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart. Volume I. Narrative Poems, the New Timon, &c. The Knights Templar°. By C. G. Addison, Esq., Barrister-at-law.

Third edition.

The Mother's Legacie to her rnborne Childe. By Elizabeth Toceline. Reprinted from the edition of 1625. With a Biographical and His- torical Introduction.

Chambers's Pocket Miscellany. Volume I. Michael Angelo, considered as a Philosophic Poet. With Translations. By John Edward Taylor. Second edition. The Story Without an End. From the German of Carove. By Sarah Austin. Illustrated by William Harvey, Esq. New and improved edition.

Wealth, How to Get, Preserve, and Enjoy it ; or Industrial Training for the People. By Joseph Bentley, Founder of the British Penny Savings-bank, &c. America and Me American Church. By the Reverend Henry Caswell, M.A., Vicar of Figheldean, Wilts. Second edition.

NEW SERIALS.

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. By various Writers. Edited by William Smith, LL.D., Editor of the Dictionaries of "Greek and Roman Antiquities," and of " Biography and Mythology." Part I.

Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour. By the Author of " Handley Cross," &c. With Illustrations by John Leech. Part I. The Companion Shakspere. No. L King John.

NEW PERIODICALS.

The New Quarterly _Review, and Digest of Current Literature. No. I.

[The object of this publication is to give "a complete review of the literature of the preceding quarter, and careful notices of all [books] that are worthy the least attention." The present number, both in its summary and its no- tices, deals with the works of the preceding year. So far as a judgment can be formed from the specimen before us, or hazarded from the extent of the periodical itself, the reviews will not differ in treatment from those of weekly periodicals, except by being some weeks or months behindhand.]

The British Journal. No. I.

ALMANACILS.

The Banking Altnanack, Directory, Year-Book, andaDiary, for 1852. [In addition to a ruled diary and the usual matter of a business almanack, this volume contains an amply minute banking directory ; and a variety of statistics connected with currency, as well as the titles of all the acts of the last session, with digests of the most important.] Art-Union of London Almanack, 1852.

PAMPHLETS.

The Anglo-Catholic Theory. By Bonamy Price, M.A. Reprinted from "The Edinburgh Review," No. CXCII—October 1851. The Claims of Science, &c. A Lecture delivered in Queen's College, Cork. By George Boole, Professor of Mathematics, and Dean of the Faculty of Sciences. A Lecture on the Early History and Academic Discipline of the Inns of Court and Chancery. By John Fraser Macqueen, of Lincoln's Inn, Paq., Barrister-at-law, &c.