MOUNT SOREL. Chapman & Hall's Monthly Series. 12mo. Pt. I. 2s. 6d.

As a general rule, it does not come within the scope of our design to notice pamphlets, or works that are in the course of periodical publication. But, as our great object is to be useful, and to make our readers acquainted with all that is passing in the literary world, worth their knowing, even this very essential rule will, of necessity, be liable to exceptions. Whenever a work possesses particular merit, it would be unjust to pass it over because it appears in the humble form of a pamphlet, and still less would it be advisable to leave any excellence unnoticed, because it comes out in parts instead of making its appearance as a whole. Now, "Mount Sorel" comes under this exceptional class; we have, it is true, only a fourth part of the whole work, but such is its superiority to the general run of similar publications, that we should be doing a great wrong to the author, and, what is of more importance, to our readers, were we to wait for the completion of the volume.

The author is already known to the public, and very favourably, by his "Two Old Men's Tales ;" but in this new attempt he has done more than keep up to his reputation. It is not that the story, as far as we can yet judge, has anything particularly new or striking; it is not that he introduces us to characters with which we were previously unacquainted; the contrary of all this is manifestly the case; but there is a health and truthfulness about his pictures, that at once bring us into the real world, and there is, moreover, in all he says the undeniable impress of wisdom as well as power. However commonplace the subject, nothing of the kind can be detected in his way of treating it. With the generality of those who cater merely to amuse, one is too often impressed with the uncomfortable notion of their bearing about a weight that is much too heavy for them; they are evidently striving might and main to write up to the subject, and failing miserably in the attempt: not so the author of "Mount Sorel;" in his case it is the man of superior intellect descending to trifle-and trifling most delightfully-to amuse his hearers.

Having said thus much, we shall forbear giving any analysis of the plot, till we have at least a volume of the work

before us.

CURIOSITIES OF HERALDRY. BY M. A. Lower. 8vo. 14s.

"Ra

TAXATION AND THE FUNDING SYSTEM. By J. B.
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MR. M'CULLOCH presents us here with a very elaborate theory of a science with which, practically, Englishmen are better acquainted than any people in Europe, namely, Taxation. The prominent features of the volume are, Taxation generally, Taxes on Rent,, Taxes on Profits, Taxes on Wages, Taxes on Property and Income, Indirect Taxes, Ad Valorem Taxes, Taxes on raw produce, Excise and Customs, Stamp Duties, with all the various offsets that would naturally grow out of so prolific a tree as the tree of taxation. That he has brought together a mass of valuable information is undeniable; but he has still left the root of the matter untouched, and hence, amidst all his subtle disquisitions and nice distinctions, we seem to be as far from the truth as ever.

MODERN COOKERY, IN ALL ITS BRANCHES. By Eliza
Acton. 8vo. 7s. 6d.

THIS is the book of books! at once useful and poetical: useful, because it teaches the best and cheapest mode of gratifying the stomach-and poetical, inasmuch as the perusal of these dainty inventions inflames the imagination more than all the battles dwell upon her art! Hear her descant upon the difference between good and bad cookery-how she dilates upon sauces and jellies, upon soups and upon meats, upon preserves and upon pastry,-how this should be fried, and that roastedhow this way is the best, and that the cheapest.—Shade of Dr. Kitchener! excellent Mrs. Rundall! if either of you could put on flesh again and read this chubby little volume, you would die of envy.

of old Homer. And with what unction does the fair Eliza

INTRODUCTION TO DUTCH JURISPRUDENCE. By Hugo Grotius. Translated by C. Herbert. Royal 8vo. 17. 11s. 6d.

it

THE original of this work is so well known to law-students, would be superfluous to enter into any details. It will be -the only class of readers whom it can possibly interest,—that enough to say, that it is a compendium of the Dutch law in all its leading points, and that the translator has executed his task with care and fidelity.

By the

A PLAIN GUIDE TO THE HOLY COMMUNION.
Rev. Plumpton Wilson. L.L.B. 32mo. 2s. 6d.
THIS little volume will be of use to all who take a proper

A MERE list of the contents of this volume will save us the trouble of all criticism. These are a "Preface," to prove that heraldry is one of the most useful and amusing studies possible; a "Fabulous History of Heraldry;' a "Genuine History of Heraldry,"-(qy. what is the difference ?); tionale of Heraldic charges, &c. ;"-The rationale of heraldry, interest in religion, and more particularly to those who are kept quotha! why, it is mere trumpery, white, black, blue, and red, from participating in the holy Sacrament by a too apprehensive from the beginning to the end;" Chimerical figures of He- sense of their unworthiness. The reverend author shows that raldry; "Armes Parlantes, &c. ;" "Heraldic Mottos;" perfection is not expected from man by the benevolent and allAugmentations;" "Distinctions of Rank and Honours" wise Creator; and having thus cleared the way for the approach "Historical Notices of the College of Arms;" Distinguished of the communicant to the altar, he then proceeds to supply Heralds and Heraldic Writers;" "Genealogy;" "Differ- him with the necessary prayers and meditations to qualify him

ences," &c.

"

A real professor of the art, such as Burke, would probably look "naso adunco at this compilation; but for all that, it is very amusing, and will be read by many, who would never be persuaded to enter into the dry details of the Heralds' College.

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THIS Almanac contains the miscellaneous information com

mon to other works of the kind; but, as might be expected, is particularly diffuse on everything connected with Scotland. In fact, it may be considered as a provincial almanac on a very extensive scale; and, in this respect, it has many features in common with the Dublin.

PHILOSOPHICAL DIALOGUES. By the Rev. Dr. Morehead. 8vo. 5s. 6d.

DR. MOREHEAD has here ventured to break a lance with the celebrated Hume; and, borrowing not only the form, but the characters of the historian's "Dialogues on Natural Religion," he has endeavoured to confute him with his own weapons. That the amiable divine is on the right side of the question, no sincere Christian will deny; but it may be doubted whether the soundness of the argument is equal to the goodness of the

cause.

for this the holiest rite of religion.

THE OLD MAN'S WANDERINGS. By Charles Lyne,
M.A. 12mo. 48.

We can hardly understand what is the author's object in this little volume; if it be to tell the poor that their state is wretchedness, we apprehend they know so much already without teaching; if to extend the influence of the church, that will be done more effectually by example than by precept. There is, however, such a vein of sincerity and good feeling running through the work, that the follower of any sect, calling itself Christian, may read it with pleasure, though the story, which is made the vehicle for the author's opinions, is hardly worth detailing.

PRACTICAL ASTRONOMY AND GEODESY. By John Narrien, F. R. S., &c. 8vo. 148.

THIS is a treatise on Practical Astronomy and Geodesy, including Spherical Trigonometry, and forms the fifth portion of a general course of Mathematics. It has been compiled for the use of the Royal Military College, and will be found useful to all, who merely wish for a practical acquaintance with these subjects, and have not leisure to study them in the severer fashion prescribed to Cambridge students.

FACTS UPON FACTS AGAINST THE LEAGUE. By Albert
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MR. ALBERT WILLIAMS is a decided enemy to free trade in
corn; and by way of enforcing his doctrines, he proves by
long essays on Egypt, Galilee, Rome, China, and Germany,
that agriculture is essential to the well-being of society. Now,
as this is a doctrine which has never yet been impugned by
any man in his sound senses, his work so far seems to be one
of mere supererogation. He might with great advantage to his
readers have spared himself the labour of this unnecessary dis-
quisition, and have assumed it as an admitted fact, if such a
datum be of any use to him, though we must confess we do
not see how it bears at all upon the question. The point in
dispute is, do the corn-laws benefit the community at large? or
are they an exclusive tax for the benefit of the landlord at the
expense of every one else? or, finally, would the abolition of
them be followed by greater evils than any it removed? Surely
it is possible for a man to advocate whichever he chooses of
these doctrines, without his having the least intention of deny
ing the utility, or even the absolute necessity, of agriculture to
a nation. As far as our own opinion goes, we much fear that
each party will find itself mistaken in the results, for each looks
upon it as a question standing alone, and to be judged simply
on its own merits; whereas in reality it forms a branch only of
the great question, which is now agitating all Europe, namely;
the right of the few to the labour of the many. In theory, and
while we deal in abstractions only, the subject presents no dif-
ficulties; but it is far beyond human prescience to calculate the
tremendous results, when that which seems a reasonable doc-
trine shall come to be fairly carried out. One thing only is
certain-take away the corn-laws, and the landlord must inevit-
ably lose his present position in the social scale. Some will
not hesitate to say that such a result is desirable.
We have
our doubts.

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The

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Ir is an odd remark, perhaps, to say of anything that it
pleases us against our inclination; yet such is the case with this
it. There is nothing particularly new or striking in it, but
tale, or novel, or whatever Miss Jewsbury may choose to call
it shows an absence of all pretension, an air of nature, that
makes even commonplace to a certain degree attractive.
story is briefly this :-Zoe, the beautiful daughter of a Greek
lic gentleman of Doncaster, for the sake of a home. After a
slave, and of an English officer, marries a rich old Catho-
season of dissipation in London, the husband builds a Catholic
college on his estate, and a superintendent of that persuasion is
despatched to him from Rome, in the person of a young
Englishman, by name Everhard Burrows. According to the
laws of novel-writing, in such cases made and provided, Zoe
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sets off for Germany, and there well-nigh starves. In the
meantime Zoe's husband dies, and she falls in love with the
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her, whereupon her old passion for Everhard is rekindled.
Unluckily he dies; and Zoe, who seems to have a very capacious
heart, contrives in a short time to be as gay as ever.
the main strand in the rope, but there is also an underplot of a
certain Miss Clotilde and an Evangelical Irish parson, a con-
this is a shade better than the average run of novels.
firmed hunter after the loaves and fishes. Take it altogether,

This is

NATURAL HISTORY OF ANIMALS. By T. R. Jones, F.R.S.
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WE have here the first volume only of a series of lectures on the Natural History of Animals, not so diffuse as to be tedious to the student, and yet sufficiently comprehensive to give him a fair knowledge of the subject. It commences with the organised creation, that forms the connecting link between the animal and vegetable kingdoms, and then proceeds to what, in our opinion, should have been the opening chapter, namely, the classification of the forms. In default of this very obvious

the classification having made an intermediate chapter, dividing that branch of the subject into two portions. The Infusorial Animalcules, the Entozoa, the Acalephæ, the Epizoa, and the Bryozoa, follow, with all that wide class of kindred creations,

into which naturalists have divided and subdivided their

SMALL as this volume is, it would take much more room than we can afford to give anything like a just idea of its de-arrangement, we are a second time introduced to the Acrita, tails. As a general summary, it shows what preparations should be made by the emigrant, what ship he should choose, how to act so as best to secure his personal comfort on the voyage, what passengers should be avoided, what things should be looked out for as objects of amusement, and what to do on landing. The writer then proceeds to supply a variety of useful information in regard to America, New York in particular, such as the prices of food and lodging, the various canals and railroads, with the places on the different routes, the fares, &c., and has altogether made a work that, if attended to, will assuredly save the emigrant from many unpleasantnesses, and most probably from some more serious evils. We need hardly warn him that, if he have anything to lose, he will be beset by sharks both in this country and on the other side of the Atlantic.

science, more, as we think, to its confusion than its elucidation. The volume then concludes with a notice of the Myriapoda.

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book to the student in chemistry, who has some previous THESE outlines will be found highly useful as a textacquaintance with the science. Still it is not a perfect elementary work, and is far from presenting that clear system from the alpha to the omega of the science, which we should have liked to have seen from the pen of a writer so competent to

HARMONIA APOSTOLICA. By George Bull, D.D. 8vo. 9s. THERE are few, we imagine, of our readers, who will require to be told that the Harmonia Apostolica consists of two Disser-mical combinations by the equational forms of algebra; this is tations by the celebrated Bishop Bull. In the first of these the doctrine of St. James, on Justification by Works, is explained and defended; in the second, he demonstrates the agreement of St. Paul with St. James. It is scarcely necessary in the present day to discuss the merits of these admirable treatises, and even more unneeded is the translator's apology for having rendered them into English; many, who have forgotten their Latin, or who never knew enough to grapple with the original, will be much obliged to him for his version.

BISHOP BULL'S EXAMEN CENSURE. 8vo. 9s. THIS is a translation of Bull's answer to certain strictures on his "Harmonia Apostolica," and of his apology in reply to Dr. Tully's Justificatio Paulina." Certainly it must be admitted that the good Bishop is, or rather was, the fairest of controversialists, and felt strong in his cause, since he himself was the first to publish the censures of his adversary, which, but for this excessive gallantry on his part, would have probably been long since forgotten. The whole forms a valuable addition to the library of the divine.

the task. Above all, we object to his plan of expressing cheadding to the difficulties of no very simple science, by calling blance to some of Dr. Johnson's definitions, wherein he exin the aid of one yet more complex, and has a mighty resemplains the simplest words by the most obscure; as, for instance when he defines a net to be a thing of "reticulated interstices." Still, this little volume is a valuable manual in the class-room ISLAFORD, AND OTHER POEMS. By George Murray. 12mo. 4s.

Ir appears from the internal evidence, afforded by these poems themselves, that the author is a Scotch schoolmaster. Some of them are not without merit, though none belong to the higher order of poetry.

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-for on that point we profess the utmost impartiality, but
for the way in which he treats his subject.

THERE is a class of readers, and that neither a small nor an uninfluential one, to whom Mr. Snow's "Sermons in Stones" will be a gift of no ordinary value; they will forgive much to With such feelings the poet for the evident piety and goodness of the man, and will judge of his verse rather by the moral sentiment it conveys, than as it is poetical or otherwise: we have no inclination whatever to interfere, but shall rather endeavour to increase the favourable impressions, as far as in us lies.

The only fault Momus could find with Venus was, that her slippers made too much noise; the only fault we shall find with Mr. Snow is, that the title to a book, like the title to an estate, should be a clear one, and his title tells so little, that we are under the necessity of explaining to our readers what they have to expect.

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THIS is the fourth volume of one of the most interesting historical works of modern times, which, commencing with William IV. of Holland, ends with the overthrow of the French Empire in the nineteenth century.

Osonal influence in the cabinet to the young and obstinate king than that to which he could have any claim on constitutional grounds. Bute and the king, who were both narrow-minded and devoted to

the church, could not bear the king of Prussia, who examined and

regarded the relations of men and things with the eye of a philoso-
pher, and paid no respect to ecclesiastical faith; and when, there-
fore, the duke of Newcastle would not consent to relinquish the
cause
of Prussia, disputes arose in the cabinet, and the inexperienced
king was bold enough to dismiss Newcastle from the ministry (26th
May), in which the duke would willingly have remained."

This is speaking out plainly, and in a way which will full surely sound ungracious in the ears of those who can see nothing but virtues in George III. Not that we join in the vulgar cry against him; though not exactly the impeccable mortal that his admirers would represent him, he was yet better than many of his censurers would have been, had they been placed under the same temptations of power, almost without responsibility. Nothing, we repeat it, is more senseless than the usual clamour against kings and nobles for their exercise of power, though that they too often abuse it cannot be denied; it is wise, it is necessary, to abate the nuisance if we can; but less chance of putting down one evil only to substitute another we shall surely set about the task in a better spirit, and with

The author begins with the internal history of the states of Europe, in reference to life, morals, and administration, till 1755. His picture of the morals of kings and nobles is more true than favourable; but his surprise is anything rather than philosophical irresponsible power invariably produces the same results; and the very reformers, who are so clamorous in the cause of virtue, while they have not the means to be vicious, or are too much under the control of opinion to exercise it, place them at the upper end of the scale, and they would differ but little, if at all, from those they have been condemning. It is the system, not the men, that we should censure. Still it must be allowed that the annals of a brothel could hardly be more offensive than the history of the Russian court in the times of Elizabeth and Catharine. And yet, bad as they were, even their license was better than the despotic piety of Frede-in its place, if we come to a clear understanding of things; rick William of Prussia, who published an ordinance," that Democracy is a far more imperious tyrant than kings or nobles, whosoever did not attend upon divine service either in the and for this plain reason—it is responsible to no one, for when morning or the afternoon of the Sunday, should either be the people rule, who is there at any time to call them to acpunished by fine, or be exposed in the pillory." Nor was this count? Hence it was that in Athens they banished or doomed to death men whose only fault was, that they were too good in the worst of his pious cruelties; an attempt at murder was punished by the culprit being "publicly flogged by the com- down the opponents of negro slavery, rob the helpless Indians, morals, or too great in intellect; hence in America they hunt mon executioner, with twenty-seven stripes for nine weeks successively; afterwards to be racked from the feet upwards, gouge and use the bowy knife, or pistol the judge whose deciand, without receiving a finishing stroke to their torments, to sions happen to offend them. But has it not always been the be bound alive upon the wheel !” When the Roman Catho- same when power was held without any moral or physical check lics are taunted with the Inquisition, they have only to quote to keep it within the bounds of reason? Thus the Scotch presthis monarch of the Reformed faith; and if they do not conbyterians in the days of Cromwell would have crammed their vince philosophers, at least their Protestant opponents must be own peculiar tenets, at the sword's point, down the throats of silent from very shame. their English allies, and yet no one can doubt that their piety was as sincere as it was fervent; thus the Catholics have too often shown a taste for burning Protestants, and the several sects of Protestants have seldom dealt over-mildly with their dissenting brethren; was not Servetus roasted like a Smithfield ox by one, who, according to Papist doctrines, was as foul a heretic as himself, while the Quaker Naylor had his tongue bored with red-hot iron by the liberty-loving Independents. All men, in short, love power, and, if they can, will abuse it; but the great secret is, by the check of responsibility, to prevent them.

But still more revolting to moral feeling-if anything can be more revolting-is the tissue of meanness, falsehood, and hypocrisy, which the historian exposes when relating the words almost always contradicted by actions, and the motives no less opposed to common honesty, of all those who conducted the affairs of Europe for the century that followed; an English king plundering his subjects to feed Hanover, with which this country had no more to do than with the kingdoms in the moon; German princes selling the blood of their subjects to establish English despotism in America; a French monarch, steeped to the lips in debauchery while health and strength lasted, and affecting the severity of religion when he had no longer the power to be vicious; a people in every state of Europe basely licking the feet of royalty, and terrified at the very name of freedom: these were the leading features of a time, to which the sycophants and despots of our own days are so fond of referring as "the wisdom of our ancestors,"—a wisdom which affords us examples of every crime most disgraceful to humanity.

downright way of stating things, without much regard to men's We have already given one example of the author's plain opinions; still bolder is the following, and we quote it, not as yielding an unqualified assent to the doctrines it promulgates, but because it affords a key to the author's general mode of thinking.

"The new empress of Russia could not boast of possessing the virtues of the empress Maria Theresa; but her talents, capacities, and knowledge, her genius for extravagance and daring prodigality,

found more numerous eulogists, and a greater body of poetical,

philosophical, and rhetorical admirers in Europe, and especially in puts more to shame the narrow-minded and prosaic writer, who does homage to social morality, and ventures to judge persons of high rank strictly according to its principles; nothing furnishes a better proof that Machiavelli's politics and Diderot's philosophy were drawn from life, and that the ordinary rules of morality, as well as criminal law, are applicable only to the vulgar, than the history of Catharine II., her friend the princess Daschkoff, and

As far as regards England at this period-we include the latter end of the seventeenth and the greater part of the eigh-Germany, than the piety and virtues of Maria Theresa. Nothing teenth century-she was in some measure justified, at least in her own eyes, by her successes in the East; we do not indeed mean morally, but after the judgment of those who deem that success of any kind, or however obtained, is in itself a sufficient compensation for all other evils. George II., therefore, was honoured at the close of his reign, while Louis XV. sank into the grave, despised by his own people, and detested by all Europe.

We now come to the reign of George III. and it may not be altogether uninstructive to see what other nations think of us.

their numerous favourites. Peter III., with all his morality and good dispositions, was despised, betrayed, dethroned, and murdered, because he was deficient in a knowledge of the world, in capacities and prudence; whilst Catharine was universally celebrated and admired, though she dethroned her husband, and destroyed the khan of Tartary, and the king of Poland; moreover she excluded her son from the government as long as she lived, and yet died at an advanced age universally lamented."

The suppression of the Jesuits forms a far more important point in history, than the sieges and battles that now follow in rapid succession, though as exhibitions of human talent in devising, and human courage in executing, as well as patience

"The English people were so full of their victories and conquests, and those who had the popular voice so much disinclined to relinquish even the smallest acquisition which they had made, that the new ministry, whose love of peace gave offence to the public, was obliged to have recourse to every species of ingenuity in order to avoid the necessity of giving back their conquests on the conclusion of peace. King George and his mentor, on account of their cirpeace with their foreign enemies, in order to be able to withstand in enduring, they are records that the young and enthusiastic with effect their opponents at home. In May lord Bute had will love to dwell upon. The fraternity of Jesuits is only a assumed the whole guidance of public affairs, and he was univer- less stupendous wonder than the Popedom itself; in America, sally accused of attempting to give and to procure a greater per- they, for a long time, set at defiance the king, the whole body

cumstances and characters, thought themselves obliged to seek for

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of the clergy, and the Pope himself, and it wanted but a little that they had triumphed over all of them combined. The French philosophers never could have stood against them, had they not previously made enemies of all classes, and the first blow being thus struck, Spain and Portugal were not long in following the example.

The partition of Poland is the next great feature in the history of modern times.

MR. DEARDEN has favoured us-qy. favoured ?—with a
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poem in six books, being a story of the Past and the Present.
more intolerable.
He is a very tolerable poet-than which we know nothing

12mo. 5s.

MR. COHEN is, it appears, a convert from Judaism to Christianity at the age of 70, and this advanced period of life seems to be a sufficient voucher for his sincerity. Men do not usually begin to trifle with religion, when they have already one foot

in the grave.

At the risk of shocking many preju- THE GLORY OF THE LATTER HOUSE. By S. C. Cohen. dices, we most frankly confess, that looking calmly at all the facts, we cannot bring ourselves to think that it was productive of any evil whatsoever. That it was a measure in the highest degree nefarious, as far as regards the perpetrators, is beyond all doubt; but that the people themselves lost anything by the change we utterly deny; they were the abject slaves of a set of ignorant and oppressive nobles, whose only occupation was robbery and bloodshed, and who never ceased to torment their serfs, but when they were otherwise employed in factions amongst themselves, cutting each other's throats, flinging dissidents out of windows at their diets, or making war upon the sovereign of their own choice. Neither Catharine, nor the Prussian King, nor the Austrian rulers, could be compared to these fierce savages, with anything like a show of justice; they were at least civilised, if not enlightened, sovereigns; they brought with them the benefits of established order, and under

their rule the mass were better off than under their own oli-
garchy, so far as the yoke of one tyrant is easier to be borne
than the yoke of many. Even the late revolution was decid-
edly a revolution of the nobles, and not a revolution of the
people; it was indeed to be purchased with the blood of the
latter, and all those arts were called in to aid it, which a crafty
priesthood, and an ambitious aristocracy knew so well how to
use, when the object is to gain some purpose of their own; but
had the attempt prospered, what on earth would the people
Nicholas of Russia may, for aught
have gained by its success?
we know, have been a despot, but worse than these Polish
nobles he could not be; and judging of that monarch rather by
his acknowledged actions, than from the thousands of vague
accusations brought against him, we firmly believe the people
of Poland have been infinite gainers by this change of masters.
This is not the only point of importance on which we are at
variance with our author, notwithstanding the great and unde-
niable merits of his work; but we have said, and quoted enough
to show what his volume really is, and we now leave it to the
judgment of our readers.

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Fully impressed with this new spirit, Mr. Cohen is here
anxious to show that the "Glory of the Latter House," pro-
mised to the Israelites, has been fulfilled in the person of the
Messiah. He next gives the reason for his Christianising,
compares the Covenants, attacks the Rabbinical doctrines,
examines and defends the Trinity, and quotes some Jewish
traditions, which, it must be confessed, have much of the ex-
travagance belonging to the Koran. Some of these are so
curious, that we shall quote one, as an inducement to the
reader to inquire into the subject for himself.

"The rabbies represent the Deity as existing in a human form,
of a certain number of millions of miles in height, which they have
his respective members, as circumscribed, since the destruction of
undertaken to specify, together with the particular dimensions of
the temple, within a space of four cubits; as dressed in a snow-
white coat, and studying in the scriptures by day, and in the
Mishna by night; as employed during the last three hours every
day, before the destruction of the temple, in playing with Levia-
than; and since that event in sitting to give instruction in the law
to young Israelites, who have died in infancy; as reading the
one; as putting on the thephilim and thaleth, and appearing like
Talmud, and rehearsing the decisions of all the rabbies, except
a public prayer-reader in a synagogue; as actually praying-as
groaning, howling, and roaring; as weeping daily; as shedding
two tears into the ocean, whenever he remembers the dispersion
and distress of his children, which tears produce an earthquake,
and a noise that is heard to the extremities of the world; as
inflamed with a momentary paroxysm of rage every day; as
creating and implanting a propensity to sin; as swearing, and
from his oath; and at length being released by an angel, as being
afterwards lamenting the obligation, and desiring to be released
deterred from revealing to Jacob the fate of his son Joseph, by the
curse which his other sons had denounced upon any who should
make that discovery, expressly including God himself; as exer-
arguments and disputations with angels, and even with devils,
cising little or no providence over the Gentiles; as engaging in
who are supposed to study in the colleges of heaven; on one of
which occasions, it is said a rabbi was called in to terminate the
controversy, which he decided in God's favour; and at another
time God is said to have acknowledged himself overpowered."

THE title of this work will, perhaps, repel many readers, and yet, we can promise those, who venture upon it, that they will Mr. Bernan is not only be no less delighted than instructed. a thorough master of his art, both theoretically and practically, but he has the knack of communicating his knowledge in so DURLACHER'S TREATISE ON CORNS, BUNIONS, NAILS, &c. pleasant a manner, that a subject, not usually considered attractive, becomes both interesting and amusing.

A VISIT TO BURY ST. EDMUNDS. 12mo. 2s. A LITTLE story-book for children in the form of dialogue, and well adapted to amuse the young fraternity. CHILLON; AN HISTORICAL TALE, By Jane S. Williams. 2 Vols. 8vo. 18s.

THIS is a tale of the Protestants in the sixteenth century, much better both in style and matter than is common with lady novelists, whose writings in general-absit invidia dicto -are apt to relish of the tea-table. The book, having come at the end of our month, we have no room for details.

THE CURATE OF LINWOOD. 8vo. 5s.
THE Curate of Linwood is in fact an exposé of the author's
ideas with respect to what he calls "the real strength of the
Christian ministry." It is totally without interest.

CHINA, AND HER SPIRITUAL CLAIMS. By the Rev. E.
Davies. 2s.

MR. DAVIES has been a missionary to China, and, of course,
writes with strong feelings on the spiritual claims of the
Chinese. The subject, however, of missions in general, is one
hat admits of much argument.

8vo. 10s. 6d.

A CLEVER little treatise for those who are plagued with corns, though an actual cure for them seems, like the perpetual motion, to be destined for an eternal desideratum.

KENNION'S MODERN GEOGRAPHY. 12mo. 5s.
AN useful companion to the school-room, the price being
moderate, and the size convenient.

MANCHESTER. By M. L. Foucher. 12mo. 5s.
THIS is a brief account of the present condition of Manches-
ter, and is not without interest.

THE GERMAN FIRST BOOK. By M. Mienhaur.

12mo. 2s.

As far as a simple vocabulary and a few easy dialogues can be of service to the beginner, Mr. Meinhaur's "First Book" may be useful. Beyond this it has no pretensions.

THE DUBLIN ALMANAC. 8vo. 1845. 12s. 6d. In addition to the usual contents of almanacs, this volume To those who have any correspondence, with Dublin, has appended a copious street directory, and a classified list of trades. it will be a work of great utility.