PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED,

From May 26th to Juno 1st.

BOOKS.

Political Philosophy. By HENRY Lord BROUGHAM, F.R.S., &c. Part IL—Of Aristocracy : Aristocratic Governments. (Published under the Superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Know- ledge.) The Rhone, the Darro, and the Guadalquivir; a Summer Ramble in 1842. By Mrs. ROMER, Author of " Sturmer," &c. In two volumes. Egypt and the Holy Land in 1842; with Sketches of Greece, Constanti- nople, and the Levant. By NV. DREW STENT, B.A., of Wadham Col- lege, Oxford. In two volumes.

Bentluzmidna; or Select Extracts from the Works of Jeremy Bentham. With an Outline of his Opinions on the principal subjects discussed in his works. Edited by Jolts HILL BURTON. Advocate. [This volume is a useful publication. It will be welcome to many who cannot afford to buy the collected works of the patriarch, as well as to others who might lack time and patience if not money. It will also extend the phi- losopher's reputation - for the selection being made upon the rhetorical prin- ciple of regarding the effect of the composition rather than the Utilitarian matter, the best parts of the best works of BENTHAM are here presented in a form which intelligibly exhibits some of his views without overloading them. The Benthamism of BENTHAM must of course remain, select as one may; but this volume may have a further effect in modifying the fears of one set of poli- ticians and the panegyrics of another : We think if a Tory read his criticism on the French "Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen," decreed in the Constituent Assembly of 1791, he would not find JEREMY such a bug- bear as the party often fancies him. Mr. BURTON has prefixed to his "elegant extracts" a brief and judicious notice of BENTHAM'S life ; and appended an elaborate account of his systems of politics, legislation, political economy, morals, and metaphysics, as deduced from his works.]

Hints from the Journal of an Australian Squatter, late in the service of the Hon. East India Company. Compiled for the use of Emigrants; and edited, with an Introduction and Appendix, by ALFRED Caswext,, Esq., of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law.

[About half of this little publication consists of general remark or disqui- sition upon the Wakefield principle of the sale of lands, or the late Government regulations ; the remainder embraces a description of the modes of managing sheep, cattle, and horses in New South Wales, with some useful practical in- formation upon the subject. There is an appendix of advice respecting the purchase of implements and stock in this country, and a few extracts from the Squatter's letters, which give a more vivid notion of Australian life than the more elaborate composition. The Hints are addressed to capitalists with 2,0001. or 3,000/. Below these sums our author does not think a pastoral settler stands much chance of success; and a labouring man wants very few directions, if he only eschews irrational hopes and will set to work.]

Historical and Descriptive Account of South Australia : founded on the experience of a three years' residence in that colony. By J. F. BENNETT.

[Fulness and fairness are the characteristics of this compilation.]

The Foil; an Historical Poem, in three cantos. By ROBERT HUGEIBAN. [This poem is founded upon an incident which occurred at the Turkish cap- ture of Nicosia in Cyprus, the year before the battle of Lepanto. The Pasha MUSTAPHA having selected some beautiful captives to send to Constantinople, one of them contrived to blow up the vessel in which she was embarked; and the fire spreading to the other ships, a considerable loss ensued. This occur- rence, and a subsequent meeting of the lady's betrothed with Mustapha, are nearly all the special incidents that the poem contains—the rest are common to BYRON'S Oriental tales, and those of Beades imitators; "The Giaour " and "The Siege of Corinth" being Mr. ilvemsew's more immediate types. The imitation, however, is fluent ; and so far as words go not devoid of force—per- haps, indeed, too forcible. The rhapsodist makes the stars and streams " half-arrest" their course to listen to the nightingale, and the sun " pauses " in his setting to gaze upon some dances of the fair Cypriotes, or " Cy- prians " as Mr. HUGEIMAN has it.] Legendary Rhymes, and other Poems. By MARY ANNA E. CHARNOCK. [This is a posthumous volume, though the publication was contemplated in Mrs. ClIARNOCK'S lifetime. The poems chiefly consist of continental legends, with some occasional pieces, and exhibit much delicacy of thought and expres- sion, with considerable melody of 'deification; bat, like** many other poems continually appearing, they want distinctive character. Their model is the narrative ballad style, as revived by several modern writers, from ScorT to L. B. L.; but Mrs. CHARNOCX does not copy any particular model, unless it be Mrs. HEMANS.]

The Power of Conscience, or the Monopolist ; and other Poems. By THOMAS LATTER.

[The Monopolist is a bulky publication of some three hundred pages of doggrel. It may be as well to say that the title has no reference to the Corn- laws, and little to monopoly of any kind ; the hero being rather a miser than a monopolist.]

Bose of Woodlee ; a Tale. By MARIA BAINI3RIDGE. In three volumes. [This novel might be called "Rose of Woodlee and her Daughter"; for the heroine, after becoming a widow, and having, among other troubles, to bring an action for breach of promise of marriage, meets an old lover, but as she dies before any thing could come of the rencontre, Mr. Montravers adopts the daughter and then marries her. There is something pleasant and unaffected in the manner of the writer, but the tale is deficient in probability and knowledge of life. Miss BAINBRIDGE affirms, indeed, that the story is founded on fact; but this is not the first occasion by very many that we have felt the truth of the axiom "le vrai n'est pea toujours vraisemblable."] Gentle Gertrude ; a Tale for Youth. By MARY ANN KELTY. [A little story illustrating the ill effects of parental indulgence, and the good produced in a family by a firm governess; in which the gentleness of Gertrude, i

a missionary's orphan, s made to work for good. The tale is pleasing; but its progress is too often suspended by remarks, and occasionally by something like a "discourse" from Mr. Allen, the Clergyman, in whose family Gertrude resides.] The World of London. By Joao FISHER MURRAY. In two volumes. [A neat reprint of a series of articles which have appeared in Blackwood. The style partakes of the wordiness of magazine-writing, and much of the sub- stance seems rather derived from speculation or a superficial survey than actual knowledge; but the book exhibits liveliness and cleverness.]

Elements of Practical Agriculture ; comprehending the cultivation of plants, the husbandry of the domestic animals, and the economy of the farm. By DAVID Low, Esq. F.R.S.E., Professor of Agriculture in the University of Edinburgh, Esq., Fourth edition.

[The words "fourth edition" on a book of this magnitude, and addressed to a class whom no one would select as the most voracious of the reading public, is a sufficient test of merit and utility. The basis of the work is to treat agri- culture as the leading subject, and every other study as subordinate to it: geology, chemistry, mechanics, and other cognate sciences, are considered not in themselves, but only as they can be applied to farming.] A Hand-book for the Architecture, Tapestries, Paintings, Gardens, and Grounds of Hampton Court; with numerous Engravings. To which are added, Extracts from Public Records, now first printed, illustrative of the original building and extent of Hampton Court Palace, the state of the Arts, and the value of artisans' labour during the Tudor period. By FELIX SUMMERLY, Author of Hand-Books for the National Gal- lery, Westminster Abbey, &c. Second edition. [The principal additions to this edition are some historical notes relating to the erection and extent of the palace, drawn from an " account " of the time of HENRY the Eighth, and the Parliamentary survey during the Commonwealth. They are curious, but of rather an antiquarian interest than of any direct ser- vice to the visiter.] A Course of Lessons in the Spanish Language; intended to enable persons to acquire the language without oral instruction. By A.. H. Moo- TEITH, Esq., Hon. Mem. of the W.L.C. Second edition.

The System of Nature ; an Essay. By EDWARD Nzwiteav, F.L.S., &c. Second edition.

SERIALS.

Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Know-

ledge, Part XII. Waterston's Cyclopedia of Commerce, Mercantile Law, Finance, and Commercial Geography. Part VI. Stephens's Book of the Farm, Part XIV. New Statistical Account of Scotland, No. XLIII.

Box's Martin Chuzzlewit, No. VI.

Our Mess, No. XVIII.

Novel Newspaper, Part LXIV.

Klauer's German Amaranths, No. V.

The Miller of Deanhaugh, Part IIL Popular Flowers.—"The Camellia," and The Cactus." Lover's L. S. D., Part VI.

The Smugglers, Part IV. PERIODICALS.

Tem? s Magazine, Nos. I. and II. [The most characteristic features of this magazine are the neatness of its getting-up and the moderation of its price compared with other monthly periodicals. Its literature is various but partakes of the compilation character, with the exception of a few articles; the best of which, to our taste, is "London Coffeehouses."]

Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, No. CXX VIII.

Magazines for June—Bleckwood's, Dublin University, Tale's, Fraser's, Ainsworth's, Asiatic Journal, Illuminated, North of England, Story- Teller, Artisan.

ILLUSTRATED WORKS AND PRINTS.

The Early Fonts of England. Part I.—The Ancient Font of Little

Walsingham' in Norfolk, drawn and illustrated with a descriptive in- terpretation,by G. R. LEWIS, Author of a Series of Groups portraying the Physiognomy, Manners, and Character of the People of France and Germany, illustrations of Kilpeck Church, &c. [An elaborate account of one of the most beautiful and least defaced of the ancient sculptured fonts remaining in England, with exact delineations of every part of this richly ornamented relic of ecclesiastical art. Eight plates are devoted to the details, and one of large size gives a complete representation of the whole. The description of the subjects of the bas-reliefs, and the interpret- ation of the symbolical meaning of the design, which runs into mysticism, are not the least curious portions of the work. This is intended to be the first of a series of Old English Fonts, if the work be encouraged : it is, however, com- plete in itself. Had it been commenced on a smaller scale, the prospect of success would have been much less doubtful.] Abbotsford Edition of the Waverley Novels, Part XXIX. Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland Illustrated, Part XXV. Gailhabaud's Ancient and Modern Architecture, Part IX. Miss Corner's History of China and India, Part V.

PAMPHLETS.

Report on the Patent Road and Street. Cleansing Machine. 'With an en- graving. [A brief statement of the result of a twelvemonth's trial of the ingenious machine for street-sweeping, invented by Mr. JOSEPH 'WHITWORTH of Man- chester. It has been successfully used in that town, and is soon to be regu- larly at work in Regent Street, where its complete and expeditious scavenging

has already been exhibited. The machine consists of a cart with a weeping- apparatus attached to the back of it ; the motion of the wheels putting in

action the machinery ; which causes an endless chain, with brooms three feet

wide fastened to every fourth link, to revolve round two wheels, one at the top of the cart the other near the ground : each broom, as it passes over the

surface of the road, whisks the dirt it swept off into a trough, one end of which rests on the ground, and sweeps it up this trough into the cart. The average amount of work performed by one of these self-acting scavengers is estimated at 24,000 yards per day of nit3e hours ; which is equal to the labour of twenty men in sweeping only, to say nothing of carting. The average of the present cost of street-sweeping is from 3s. 6d. to 5s. per 1,000 yards: by using the machine it will be reduced to little more than a shilling ; and the streets will be oftener and more efficiently cleansed than at present. It is applicable to turnpike roads also.] The Late Hour System. Proceedings at a Public Meeting of the Metro. luau Drapers Association : held at Freemasons Hall, Great Queen. Street, on Thursday evening 9th March 1843. A Lecture on Free Trade, in connexion with the Corn-laws; delivered SA the White Conduit House, on the 31st January 1843. By THOMAS RODGSKIN.

"Peace, Law, and Order"; a Lecture delivered in the Hall of the National Association, on the 29th September 1842. By THOMAS HODGSKIN.

Description of Whitelaw and Stirrat's Patent Water-Mill, with an Ac- count of the Performances of a number of these machines; to which is added, Information on Water-Power and other subjects related to the above. By JAMES WHITELAW. With seven plates. Second edition. greatly enlarged.

Music.

Signor Lanza's New Method of Teaching Class- Singing, Part 11.