PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

From April 26th to May 2d.

Boons.

The Life of George Brummell, Esg., commonly called Beau Brummell. By Captain JESSE, Unattached, Author of " Notes of a Half-pay in Search of Health," &c. In two volumes.

History of the Oregon Territory and British North American Fur Trade ; with an Account of the Habits and Customs of the principal Native Tribes on the Northern Continent. By JOHN DUNN, late of the Had son's Bay Company, eight years a resident in the country. A Tour in Ireland; with Meditations and Reflections. By JAMBS Joax.. eon, M.D., Physician to the late King, &c.

Letters of Horace Walpok, Earl of Orford, to Sir Horace Mann, his Britannic Majesty's Resident at the Court of Florence, from 1760 to 1785. Now first published from the original MSS. Concluding series. Volumes IIL and IV.

Ellen Middleton; S. Tale. By Lady GEORGIANA FULLERTON. In three volumes.

Claudine Iffignot, surnamed La L'hauda, or the Praised One. By Mrs. Colonel HARTLEY, Authoress of " Indian Life, or a Tale of the Car- natic," &c. In three volumes.

Constancy and Contrition. In three volumes. The Book of Symbols ; or a series of Essays illustrative and explanatory of Ancient Moral Precepts.

History of Ireland and the Irish People under the Government of England. By SAMUEL SMILES, M.D. [This compilation originated in the same way as Mma's History of British -India. Dr. SMILES wished to obtain a " full acquaintance with the history of Ireland subsequent to its connexion with England," but could not find one : although very many books were published upon the subject, they only related to parts of it. Having read them for his own information, he determined to give the results of his studies to the world for the benefit of others similarly circumstanced; and hence the ample octavo before us. The story begins with the invasion of STRONGBOW, and may be said to come down to the Union ; for the succeeding account, to the time of passing the Catholic Emancipation Act, is as brief as the introductory view of the ancient state of Ireland. The narrative increases in fulness as it approaches our own times; the earlier period, from the Conquest to the STUARTS, not filling more than one-sixth of the volume, and the first forty years of GEORGE the Third's reign occupying nearly one-half. The composition of the author is vigorous and clear ; but his views are onesided—as extreme as those of an orator of the Corn Exchange. All the deeds of the English Government are wrong, and pretty much all that the Irish have done is right. We are not sure that the author may be open to the imputation of omitting facts ; but it is clear that while he dwells minutely on the atrocities of the English and Orangemen, and presents them in the strongest light, be softens those of the Irish party both in the delineation and the commentary.] So much of the Diary of Lady Willoughby as relates to her Domestic History, and to the eventful period of the reign of Charles the First. [Before we give further care and consideration to this volume, we should like to have some proof of its authenticity. There is no account of its history in the book itself; and the old-fashioned titlepage and style of printing, with the imitative mode of binding, carry with them a counterfeit air. This suspicion is strengthened by.internal evidence : the general style is of the age of CHARLES the First, but many of the sentiments and terms of expression belong to ours. The design seems to be, to depict the amiable and kindhearted mother, wife, and domestic matron of the day.] Royal Dictionary—English and French, and French and English; • com- piled from the Dictionaries of Johnson, Todd, Ash, Webster, and Crabb, from the last edition of Chambaud, Earner, and J. Descarrieres, the sixth edition of the Academy, the Complement to the Academy, the Gram- matical Dictionary of Laveaux, the Universal Lexicon of Boiste, and the standard technological works in either language. By Professors FLEMING and TIBBINS. Vuluinu 1.—English and French. [Fulness, elaboration, and an embracement of all contemporary features, seem the characteristic of this great quarto. The basis of the French part will be the last edition of the Dictionary of the Academy and of CEIAMBARD. The English-French, which forms the volume before us, is composed from almost all the standards of our language—JOHNSON, TODD, WALKER, WEBSTER, for the social and literary words ; URE, AUCELLOCH, CRABB, for the terms of science, art, or business. The selection of words is not, however, the only merit of the work : variety and nicety in the definition or rather illustration of the meanings, is a still more useful feature; for comparatively few want to acquire abstruse or scientific terms, whereas every one is interested in mas- tering the different rendering of words, and the proper application of widely- different French phrases to express the many senses of one English word. Our meaning cannot perhaps be understood without an example, and we give one. To ABANDON (a bau'sdeune), -ING, -ED, r. a. [to forsake entirely ; to renounce and forsake ; to desert as lost or desperate] abandonner, delaisser, se desister de. To- o scheme, an undertaking, a hopeless enterprise, abandonner un projet, une entreyrise, erne entrepri-e desesperee. To — a country, a cause, a party. abandonner an pays, tine cause, unpaid. He is abandoned by all his relations, it est delaisse de toss ses parents. To—a prosecution a claim, a demand, s'en desister. To—all hopes. renoncer a toute esperanee. ABANDON [to give up.ur resign without control], s'ebandonuer, se timer, se kisser alter. To—one's self to intemperance, to grief. to joy, s' abandonner, se timer a Is debauches a Is tristesse, a is joie. h ABANDON [to resign, to yield to another], abandon see. confier. Verus abandoned the cares of the empire to his wiser colleague. Freres abandonna le sots de !'empire a son collegue, plus sage quelui. To — the manage- ment of one's business to another, abandonner, cooper d an metre le suin, in conduite de ses afeires. II Asastoon [in Corn.; to relinquish to insurers all claim to a ship or goods insured, as a preliminary towards recovering from a total loss] se desister, en cas de sinistre et as profit des assureurs, de tonic pretension sur un narire ou sur des mer- chandises assuries; faire our assureurs dune cargaisun le delaissement des objets assures.

[Fr. ban et dottier, liner an ban, a la proscription; on biers, abet !tandem, banniCre, enseigne.]

(To abanuon, abundant's., ; to forsake, Moines ; to relinquish, abandonner ; to give up, sider,rerneltre ; Sc desert, de.ertes ; III quit, quitter ; to leave, fainter (syn..) To abandon, and Imre, sometimes imply involuntary acts; to Arsake, relinquish, and desert, are always voluntary : to abandon is more applicable So thing's; Imre to persons; [..forsake, implies leasing in resentment or dislike; to relinquish, quitting

any slam to; to desert, leaving what we ought to-he faithful or attached to; to quo i, breakg of from, or !roving suddenly. Thus: a man forsakes hie mistress ; abandon. all hope of regaining her sateen, ; relinquishes his pretensions in favour of another; giver up his place under government ; deserts his party ; knee, his parents in affliction; and quit. the kingdom for ever.] The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, and the Apo- crypha. Accompanied throughout with a brief Hermeneutic and Exe- getical Commentary and Revised Version, by T. J. HUSSEY, D.D., Rector of Hayes, Kent. Genesis to Esther. [Some months since we noticed a single part of Dr. FlussEv's edition of the Bible, and explained the plan of the work. An entire volume is now before na ; and from the larger examination we are able to take of it, we can recom- mend it as one of the most useful Bibles we have seen. The plan of interweav- ing explanatory paraphrases in the revised translation, and marking them by the Italic character, supersedes a commentary altogether; whilst the jaxta- poeition attained by the use of the double columns, presents the explanation at the place where it is required, and is not so inconvenient or distracting as a inference to foot-notes. The mode of exhibiting additions from the Samaritan Pentateuch, and any ancient versions, is equally clear to the eye and equally 'lawful to the mind of the reader; and the marginal jottings seem to us suffi- cient. Sufficiency is indeed the characteristic of the book. More particulars may be found in other editions, but we know of none that have so much matter in so few words.] Freedom not Lawlessness. By Miss GOLDIE, Author of " Truth and Opinion," &c. Ellis volume contains a variety of essays, on critical or moral subjects, aiming to enforce Hamlet's advice to the players—",In the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you should acquire and beget a tem- perance that may give it smoothness."]

Remarks on Mr. J. P. Collier's and Mr. C. Knight's Editions of Shakspere. By the Reverend ALEXANDER DYCZ. [This octavo is published to announce the differenCes between the Reverend

Mr. Drcs and Messrs. KNIGHT and COLLIER respecting the text of SHAIE snnan ; and the author tells us that it might have been considerably extended, but the publisher demurred to a larger volume. The process of Mr. DICE is to take each play and poem in succession, to present the readings of the mo- dern editors with their commentaries, and then to exhibit his own. Some- times the critic of the critics considers both wrong, sometimes only one ; some- times his remarks extend to the words of the text, at others to its metrical arrangement ; but the principle he proceeds upon is to prefer the modern emen- dations to the text of the ancient editions, which have been generally followed by KNIGHT and COLLIER, where the new readings were not obvious. In other words, when the text was doubtful they preferred the text as it was printed from SHAXSPERE'S manuscripts, superintended by SHAESPERE'S "fellows," to the conjectures of editors living many years after his age. So far as we have examined such minutiae, we think Mr. KNIGHT'S text is much better where he "sticks to his text than when he tries his hand at emendations. Nothing can be much more absurd than his proposed reading of Iago's description of Othel- lo's reception of the suitors for the Lieutenancy—"off-capp'd to him," instead of "oft capp'd to him "—unless it be the note by which it is enforced. This read- ing, which goes beyond letters to the moral and intellectual character of lago, as well as to a picture offered to the mind, is passed over by our commentator. A man like Mr. DYCE, who is well read in Elizabethan literature and well skilled in verbal criticism, could not go through some twenty octavo volumes upon matters of text canvassed by the keenest minds for upwards of a century, without finding much in which to differ, and sometimes justly. But the book would have been more useful as well as less bulky, had Mr. DYCE confined himself to readings that really affected the meaning.] Anecdotes of Actors ; with other desultory recollections, &c. By Mrs. AlernEws, Author of the " Memoirs of Charles Mathews, Comedian," to which this is a supplementary volume.

[A volume containing anecdotes and reminiscences of some forty or fifty ac- tors, and persons connected with dramatic writing, who were contemporary with Mrs. MaTnEws or her late husband. They are amusing enough, but somewhat empty, like the jokes of performers in general when reduced to paper. There are several stories of HOOK, which for vulgarity and impudence surpass any thing we have met with before of that impudent buffoon.]

The Travels of Marco Polo, greatly amended and enlarged from valuable early manuscripts recently published by the French Society of Geogra- phy, and in Italy by Count Baldelli Boni. With cnpious notes, illus- trating the route and observations of the Author, and comparing them

with those of more recent travellers. By HUGH MURRAY, F.R.S.E.

Two maps and a vignette. (Edinburgh Cabinet Library, XXXVIII.) [An excellent edition of the fine old traveller. The text has been improved and enlarged by a reference to newly-discovered manuscripts ; Mr. MURRAY in an introduction defends the accuracy of MARCO Poto, and gives a history of the manuscripts of his work ' • copious notes illustrate the text ; and two maps of the regions through which he travelled complete the volume.] Supplement to Loudon's Encyclopedia of Agriculture; bringing down Im- provements in the art of Field-culture from 1831 to 1843 inclusive, and comprising all the previous Supplements. By J. C. LOUDON, F.L.G.Z; and U.S., &c., Author of " The Encyclopedia of Gardening," &c. Illustrated with sixty-five engravings on wood.

[A principal object of this Supplement is to exhibit the discoveries, or ins. provements brought more conspicuously into notice, which have taken place since the publication of the last edition of the Encyclopndia, in 1831. The principles, maxims, or practices involved in these new improvements, appear to be nearly forty in number.]

Practical Observations on the Prevention, Causes, and Treatment of Cur- vatures of the Spine; with an etching and description of an apparatus for the correction of the deformity, and engravings illustrative of the case. By SAMUEL Hann, Esq., Surgeon. Second edition, revised and en- larged.

[A revised edition of a work we noticed at length on its first appearance, some years since.'] Hawthorndale Village Revisited. By G. N. M. of Hawthorndale.

The Batuecas ; also, Francesco Alvarez, and other Poems. By WILLIAY HENRY LEATHAM.

[Two very small brochures, of the average run of verses.]

Facts and Fancies ; a Collection of Tales and Sketches. By GEORGE GODWIN, F.R.S., &c., Author of "The Churches of London," &c. [A. small volume of prose and poetry ; the prose consisting of tales, papers, and detached thoughts. Brevity is the characteristic of the book ; which therefore cutout tire. The longest tale is " Mr. Fad's Tribulation," a serio-comic story; but even this is short. ] The Mysteries of London. By Father NORTH.

[A dictionary of persons and things to be met with in town, though not pecu- liar to London; done after the style of Punch. Take one of the shorter ex- amples " Beans—Vide ' Baker' and Coffee.' "]

SERIALS.

The Dispatches of Field-Marshal the Duke of Wellington, during his

various campaigns in India, Denmark, Portugal, Spain, the Low Coun- tries, and France. Compiled from official and other authentic docu- ments, by Colonel GL'RWOOD, C.B., K.C.T.S., Esquire to his Grace as Knight of the Bath, and Deputy-Lieutenant of the Tower of London. Part I.

[This new edition is one of the wonders of the age : twelve volumes, costing twelve pounds, and often referring, like all original documents, to the dry minutia of business, not only exhausted, but another impression called for! Waterloo was nothing to this crowning glory. Cedunt arms togx, or rather to types. Military retenue prevents the Colonel-editor from saying, what is usually said upon such occasions, "that, stimulated by the public approbation, and so forth, he has spared neither labour nor expense to render it worthy of increased patronage"; but he appears to have done it. "Many important letters and papers particularly relating to India" are now published for the first time. "The letters and general orders copied by the Deputy-Adjutant-General from the original manuscripts of the Duke of Wellington when commanding in India, have been inserted according to their respective dates; and extracts from the instructions for the movements of the army, and from the general orders, circulated by the Quartermaster-General and Adjutziak eneral, in the Pe- ninsula, France, and the Low Countries, have also beep, ed, to this edition."

But there is better news behind. NotwithstandiligAh increase of matter, there will be no "extra charge," but a reduction ausitie-t had: the twelve vo- lumes, including the new matter, will be compreised into eight. The first and second volumes will contain the documents relating to India, and will be printed so as to form a separate work : it would be well perhaps to adopt a similar arrrangement with the last six. This is the age of illustration, and an accompanying set of sufficient maps and plans is very much needed for these Dispatches. It may be said that per- sons likely to read this work are likely to have a set already : but most probably they are useless for the purpose,—either too small clearly to exhibit the dis- trict of the campaign or the field of action, or too large for purposes of easy reference when reading the volume : and plans of battles or sieges, of course, are unattainable; yet both are absolutely necessary, to follow the text.]

• Spectator for 1838, page 1219.

The Library of Travel; being a Popular Description of Foreign Countries. Edited by WALTER K. KELLY. With illustrations. Part L—Syria and the Holy Land.

[The object of this serial is to condense the information, and present the more striking points of modern books of travels; not greatly differing in this sense from The Modern Traveller of some fifteen or twenty years since, but apparently intending to give rather lees of history and topography than that well-com- piled work, with rather more of travelling-sketches. The first part is devoted to Beyrout and its environs, with an account of the Koords and Yezids, and a picture of travelling in the East. It is readable, and well enough done ; but the plan seems deficient in system : to which the compiler may answer, if you wish a geography, go to a geography. The cuts are coarse, but expressive.] Murray's Colonial and Home Library, No. VIII.—Drinkwater's Siege of

Gibraltar.

[A. reprint of DRINKWATER.S elaborate and able history of one of the most re- markable defences of a fortress in either ancient or modern times.]

Procter's History of Italy. Second edition. (Whittaker's Popular Li- brary. Copyright editions.)

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