PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED, From October 2715 to November 2d,

BOOKS.

Lord Dacre of Gilsland ; • Novel. By Etazaszxst M. STEWAIT. In three volumes.

Forget Me Not; a Christmas, New Tear's, and Birthday Present, for 1844. Edited by FREDERICK SHOBERL.

The Emigrant to North America from Memoranda of a Settler in Canada. Being a compendium of useful practical hints to Emigrants, with ea account of every day's doings upon a farm for a year. By an Emigrant Farmer of twenty years' experience. [This is the production of an emigrant who has been settled in Canada up- wards of twenty years. It was written, thrown aside through accident and self- distrust, and would have been lost altogether had not the sheets been seen by the editor of the Quebec Mercury, who printed them in his journal; whence they were copied into other papers, published in a collected shape, and received with much approbation in the colony. The object of the publication is to re- commend Canada as the best place to settle in ; and, by the story of the au- thor's own experience, with observations superadded, to instruct the new comer how to manage his settlement properly. It contains some letters from a bro- ther who went to Illinois, exhibiting the specious advantages but real evils of that fertile country ; it narrates the early career of the author in general terms, and contains a copy of his journal for a year ; but as he himself settled in Lower Canada, he supplies particulars respecting the Upper Province by a series of letters, professing to be actual epistles sent home by a Scotchman who came out to discover a location for himself and others. The reception of these Memoranda in Canada would seem decisive of their value ; but we suspect their ['trot); recommendation of the colony may have had an effect in this direction. Without disputing the position of the author as to the superiority of Canada, we think that throughout his book he falls into the same error which he attributes to the first letter of his brother from Illinois—a predisposition to view every thing in the most favourable light, and not to allow sufficiently for drawbacks. We have some doubts, too, not about the facts, but about the reality of the production. There is an air of writershiP about it : the letters descriptive of Upper Canada, especially, seem to have in- ternal evidence against their authenticity. They hare two distinct characters- = assumed one, and the author's own ; the assumed one being a shrewd but rather narrow Scotchman, such as GALT excelled in painting. The best piece of advice in the book is to be deduced from the writer's conduct—Don't be in too great a hurry to buy land, but place your money in a bank at interest, and arrange to board with a farmer and assist him in his farm for a year, till you get thoroughly acquainted with the country.]

The British Journal of Homeeopathy. Edited by J. J. DRYSDALE, M.D.,

J. R. RossELL, M.D., and FRANCIS BLACK, M.D. Volume I.

[It is impossible to read this volume without feeling that the entire contempt with which a large majority of medical men and the public speak of Homoeo- pathy, can only arise from ignorance of the amount of statistical and other evidence by which its claim to attention is supported. The history of the sys- tem as here detailed—the proceedings in foreign hospitals and dispensaries— the certified statements of its comparative results when fairly, tested side by side with the routine practice—all go strongly to recommend it as a subject worthy of dispassionate inquiry. The British Journal of Honweepathy will tend to accelerate this; for its articles appear to have been prepared with care, and they are characterized by an absence of that spirit of recrimination which abuse and ridicule on the other side were likely to engender. One of the most valuable features of the volume consists in the account which it contains of the "proving" of the effects produced by various medicinal substances when taken by persons in perfect health ; and, as this should interest all persons in the profession, it may prove serviceable by carrying the book into the hands of xmponents.]

Titi Livii Patarini Historianim ab Urbe Condita Libri Quinque Priores. Ad fidem optimorum exemplarium recensuit Guratratus M. Gusset, et notulis Anglicis indiceque instruxit. Editio auctior et emendatior.

[The First Five Books of LIVY, from the text of DRAKENBORCH ; with more consideration than is usually given to the manuscripts, especially in the first two books. An index of proper names is appended to the text, ostensibly as a reference to the places where the words will be found, but in reality a classical dictionary of the persons, things, and places mentioned by Levy, so as to form a sort of commentary in alphabetical order. English foot-notes are added to the text, of a various character—grammatical, critical, illustrative of institutions or customs, and sometimes rising to an estimate of the character of the author, of the times, or of the general principles of morals or politics in- volved in the narrative. To the production of these notes modern writers on Roman history, as well as the older commentators on Lrvv, have been laid _under contribution ; but many have a claim to originality; and what is more, an original consideration has been given to the matter drawn from foreign sources, so as to give it a new and uniform character. It is a very useful and valuable edition for students, and for more than students.]

The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore. Complete in one volume.

[The whole of the ten volumes comprised in a single royal octavo, uniform with the similar collections of BYRON and SCOTT. Truly we live in an age of literary luxuries, when a single book-shelf will contain the standard litera- ture of our own nation, with a fair sprinkling of ancient authors to boot.]i

Gareyinz Honor ; a Tragedy, in five acts. By the Author of " Wal- denberg," &c. [There is nothing essentially different in Gawyim Honor from the general ran of new tragedies, unless it be a closer approximation than usual to the "Critic, or a Tragedy Rehearsed."] The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere. Edited by CHARLES KNIGHT. The second edition. Volume IX. [This ninth volume contains Lear, Timon of Athens, and Troilus and Cressida. The bibliographical and illustrative matter is as full as usual; the critical more scant, and somewhat jejune. Nothing is said of Timon of Athens, and more about TATE and DRYDEN than SHAKSPERE in the general notice of the other two plays.

Knight's Cabinet Edition of the Works of William Shakspere. Volume X. [This volume completes the publication of this neat and correct pocket edition. It will be followed by the Poems of SHARSPERE, and a notice of -his Life.] The Adventures of Gil Bias of Santillane. Translated from the French of LE SAGE. To which is prefixed, a Memoir of the Author. [Gil Bias for one shilling and eightpence ! The paper and print might be batter, but it is the cheapest among the cheap.]

Langue Franeaise. Simples Notes Grammaticales, par Is moyen des-

quelles on pent repasser, en quelques heures seulement, tous les prin- cipes et lea plus grandee difficultes de la Langue Francaise. Par J. S. LUCET, nine, Professeur de Langue Francaise, de Belles-Lettres, et d'Elocution.

SERIALS.

Chambers's Cyclopmdia of English Literature, Part XI.

[This Part embraces the Poetry of what may be called the first Georgian era; beginning with SAVAGE, ending with Smora,Err, and containing, among other intermediate writers, YOUNG, Toomson, COLLINS, GRAY, JOHNSON, AKENSIDE, and GOLDSMITH. The specimens of these writers are well chosen, and seem to us to convey a more sufficient idea of the author than many of the other eseerpta ; though more of Gomm:arra, and perhaps of Tisomsosr and B• AY, will be desired by the popular lovers of poetry. The selections from

JOHNSON are exceedingly good, and the large extracts from "The Vanity of Human Wishes" are alone worth the price of the Part.]

Murray's Home and Colonial Library, No. IL—" Borrow's Bible in

Spain," Part IL [Completes this strange and amusing series of adventures, and the first volume of MY. MURRAY'S remarkable speculation.] Ireland, Before and After the Union with Great Britain. By R. MONTGOMERY MARTIN, Esq. Part IL London, Part XXXII.

Stephens's Book of the Farm, Part XVI.

Boz's Martin Chuzzlewit, No. XI.

Our Areas, No. XXIII.

The People's History of Ireland; a History of Ireland and the Irish People under the Government of England. Part II.

[We have not seen the beginning of this series.]

PREtioDIoLLS.

Law Magazine, No. LXII.

New York Democratic Bedew for October.

Magazines for Notsember—Blackwood's, Dublin University, Tait's, Fra- ser's, Ainsworth's, British, Church, Illuminated, Artist and Amateur's, Hesperus.,

ILLTISTRA.TKO WORKS AND PRINTS.

A Series of Compositions from the Liturgy. By JOHN BELL, Sculptor. No. I.—" The Lord's Prayer." [A. set of six designs in sculpturesque outline illustrative of " The Lord's Prayer "; to be followed by others of "The Belief," and various portions of the Liturgy. These compositions are stated to have occupied the leisure hours ef the artist for several years, and were designed to be executed in xelievo they may be regarded, therefore, as spontaneous conceptions deliberately ma- tured, not crude ideas hastily thrown on paper "to order." As graceful groups of figures embodying real religious sentiment, they are admirable; but we CAR. not accept them as exemplifications of the spirit of Christianity. The heads have a feeble physiognomy, and a puling expression of reverential submissive- ness, not indicative of the fervent aspirations and active virtues of the Chris- tian character : the goodness represented is of that negative kind resulting from temperament more than intellect ; and the worship is nearer akin to apa- thetic acquiescence than sublime resignation and devout reliance. These peculiarities, combined with a tameness of style tending to mechanicalness- as shown in the clasped hands, for instance—convey an impression that Me. BELL'S qualifications for the lofty task he has ventured upon rest upon feel- ing rather than power : his invention seems inadequate to soar to the height M his sacred theme ; and when he attempts energetic action and intricate coal- position—as in the last design, " Deliver us from Evil," where angels rescue mortals from the Powers of Darkness—his deficiency is very evident. Plaintive tenderness, innocent simplicity, and placid repose, he delineates best : the grace- ful is his forte.] Shaw's Alphabets, Numerals, and Devices of the Middle Ages, No. III. [A useful work for ornamental writers and decorators; the old characters being in most cases combined with quaint fanciful devices. Illuminated manu- scripts, tombs, carved work, stained glass, and early printed books, are the SOUTCCS whence the specimens are derived : and the date of each is given. The execution of the plates is perfect.]

Pictorial History of England, first Half-Part LXXX.

Gailhabaud's Ancient and Modern Architecture, Part XIV.

Pictorial Museum of Animated Nature, Part X.

Miss Corner's History of China and India, Part X.

ALMANACKS.

The Farmer's Almanack and Calendar, for 1844. By CUTHBERT W. JOHNSON, Esq., F.R.S., Editor of the "Farmers' Ency-clopiedia "; and WILLIAM SHAW, Esq., late Secretary to the Royal Agricultural So- ciety of England, &c. [Contains a great quantity of practical information for the agriculturist, not only in the pages of the Almanack itself, but in the ample advertising-sheets appended to it. The Agricultural Societies, the different kinds of manure, and the myriads of machines which are addressed to the cultivating community, seem to indicate that the march of improvement is reaching the farmers. But the dulce is mingled with the utile even here: the Notes on the Month, follow- ing the usual directions for the farm and garden, carry the reader pleasantly into the country, without the necessity of encountering the wintry weather. Even advertisements, in these times must contain literature or philosophy thus, "The Hail-storm Insurance dompany " at once terrifies and attracts, by a review of remarkable hail-storms that at different times have ravaged the cultivator's property!]

Punch's Pocket-Book, for 1844.

[Utility and drollery here go hand in hand; information is given with a joke, and even the Income-tax is made a jest of. Nor is this always impertinent : for instance, the enumeration of " Transfer-days at the Bank" reminds you of the active agents who effect transfers of property with such celerity in omni- buses. The Diary is interleaved with facetize • and some clever etchings by LEECH, with a sprinkling of comic cuts, enliven the pages: the plate of " Fashions for 1844" is a capital caricature of' the male costumes in vogue.] Oliver and Boyd's Threepenny Almanack and Daily Remembrancer, for

1844.

[There is nothing new in this well-established publication to call for remark; but the quantity of matter for the money is always remarkable.]

PAMPHLETS.

Actes de l'Alliance et de la Cone de Baviere relatzfs a fetablissement d'un Gouvernement Constitutionnel en Grece, et aux Bavarois y residua. Avec des Notes.

Music.

The People's Ilfusie-Book, Parts V. to VIII.