PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Boone.

The week's publications are peculiar. With the exception of books re- served for further consideration, they almost wholly consist of reprints or serial continuations, and those for the most part of a businesslike kind, such as the routine rather than the enterprise of "the trade" gives occasion to. Hungary in 1851; with an Experience of the Austrian Police. By Charles Loring Brace.

Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain. By James Kennedy, Esq., Judge in the Mixed Court of Justice at the Havana.

History of the Council of Trent. From the French of L F. Bungener, Author of "A Sermon under Lewis XPi'." With the Author's last corrections and additions, communicated to the Translator.

Of the reprints, by far the most important is the second edition of Brande's "Dictionary of Science, Literature, and Art." The original idea of this work was to furnish a book of reference without the great expense, and the elaboration and expanded minutite, of the large encyclopaedias, while it should be more generaliy available than dictionaries on special subjects. This was accomplished, not by curt abridgment, but by skilful condensation. Judgment was displayed by the compilers in determining what words were to be defined, or their subjects shortly described ; and what required fuller treatment—sometimes extending to short treatises, as in the case of Music, Painting, and (in the useful arts) Paper-making. A mastery of the subject, and a clear conception of the object of their task, enabled the contributors to manage this condensation so skilfully as to pack up a large quantity of information in a comparatively small space. A double column and a small but legible type, moreover, enable the printer to give as much matter in a single octavo as would fill several quartos under another system. The chief features of the new edition are the insertion of words formerly omitted, and the introduction of the "chief scientific terms, .processes, and improvements, that have come into general use since the publication of the first edition." "Cornelius and his Times" is a revised reprint of two articles by M. Guizot, originally published in 1813. To these are added three articles on writers contemporary with Corneille, chiefly written by the late Madame Guizot; to whom a touching allusion is made in the preface. This preface also contains a philosophical review of the literature and government of the times in which the papers originally appeared; M. Guizot speaking with just severity of the Empire. Among the others may be noticed the second volume of Means. Black's library edition of the Waverley Novels; the second volume of Hazlitt's Na- poleon; Mrs. Jameson's agreeable Sketches in Canada, embraced in two parts of Messrs. Longman's Traveller's Library; and the fourth part of the Book- Case, containing Mr. Kelly's observations in California. "Witchcraft," an American tragedy, founded on the New England persecutions during the seventeenth century, is hardly to be called a reprint, being its first appear- ance in type. The play has been performed at "various theatres" in the United States, but is minted in this country "for reasons with which it is not necessary to trouble the reader."

"The Illustrated Book of Scottish Songs" claims to contain the" cream of the cream" of the national lyrics, excluding living writers. It forms a neat volume, with a good many cuts.

A .Dictionary of Science, Literature, and Art; comprising the History, Description, and Scientific Principles of every branch of Human Know-

ledge, &c. Edited by W. T. Brande, L & E., &c. ; assisted by Joseph Cauvin, M.A., &c. Illustrated by numerous Engravings on Wood. Second edition, with a Supplement

Corneille and his Times. By hi. Guizot.

Waverky Novels. Volume II. Gay Mannering.

The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. By William Hazlitt. Second edi- tion, revised by his Son. In four volumes. Volume II. Sketches in Canada and Rambles among the Bed Men. By Mrs. Jame- son. In two parts. (The Traveller's Library.) A Stroll through the Diggings of California. By William Kelly, Esq. (The Book-Cage.) Witchcraft ; a Tragedy, in five acts. By Cornelius Mathews.

The Illustrated Book of Scottish Songs. From the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century. (National Illustrated Library.) Forest Days; a Romance of Old Times. By G. P. R. James, Esq. (Par- lour Library.) Comic Tales and Sketches. By Albert Smith. (Bentley's Shining Series.)

Chambers's Pocket Miscellany. Volume TI.

Tales and legends of English Lakes and Mountains, collected from the best and most authentic Sources. By Lorenzo Tuvar. [Traditions, anecdotes spun into short tales, and narratives of remarkable persons who belonged to or were connected with the Lake districts. The author quotes freely from poets who have touched upon his topics, and con- tributes some poetry of his own.] The Temptation of Our Blessed Lord. A Series of Lectures. By the Reverend T. Tunstall Smith, M.A., Vicar of Wirksworth.

Michele Orotnbello, or the Fatal Beard ; a Tragedy, in three acts. By George Powell Thomas.

NEW PERIODICAL.

The People's Illustrated Journal of _Arts, Practical Science, Literature, and Social Economy. Part L

frhe numbers of a weekly twopenny periodical collected into a part. The literary matter tends towards the solid and informing, but the chief feature is the number of wood-cut illustrations.]

PAMPHLEES.

On the Union of the Dominions of Great Britain by Intercomnismioa- tion with the Pacific and the East, yid British North America; with. Suggestions for the profitable Colonization of that wealthy Territory. By Captain Millington Henry Synge, Royal Engineers.

Free Trade and Protection Considered, in the prospect of a Genera Election.

A Letter to the Bishop of Norwich on the Establishment ojAdult Even- ing Schools in Agricultural Distriets. By a Country Curate. Second edition.

Principles of Proportion, or a Substitute for the Fifth Book of Euclid. By Leopold Marquard.