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the Edinburgh Review, and some Essays (excellent) | SELECT LIST OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS.
from the London Magazine on the Elgin Marbles
and Fonthill Abbey. The editor has further en-
riched the volume by an Appendix of Catalogues,
some of them original, and till now quite inaccessi-
ble, than which he could hardly have made a more
welcome present to the lover of art.-Examiner.

The Christian contemplated; in a Course of Lectures
delivered in Argyll Chapel, Bath. By William
Jay. (Works of William Jay, revised.) Bartlett.
The works of this intelligent and pious minister
must always command a wide and attentive
class of readers. Their qualities are a very earnest
practical faith, doctrine thoroughly unselfish, a style
which admits as much as possible of an easy incor-
poration of the exact language and phrase of the
Bible, and, within the bounds of the author's princi-
ple of belief, a warm spirit of toleration and affection.
The preface to the work before us marks the superi-
or tone of mind which may be generally noted in
He enters up-
this celebrated dissenting preacher.
on the question of pulpit-style, and pronounces in
favour of what we may call the romantic as distin-
guished from the classic school. He says that it
matters little if nothing should offend, supposing no-
thing strikes, and he puts the case of a sermon which
shall observe inviolably all the unities and challenge
severity as a finished piece, but yet, no more than a
French drama that has fulfilled the same nice con-
ditions, excite no sentiment and produce no effect
"Give us "-exclaims Mr. Jay, and we quote the
language to his honour-" rather the Shakspeare,
who, with blemishes which a less shrewd observer
than Voltaire may detect, actually succeeds, arrests,
inspires, enchants!" In subsequent remarks of the
same excellent spirit, Mr. Jay guards himself against
recommending anything but an easy, natural, simple
style of language in support of the advantages of
which he shows his educated familiarity not alone
with Milton, Addison, and Lord Kaimes, but with
Rousseau and with Hume.-Ibid.

The Man-o'-War's Man. By Bill Truck, Senior
Boatswain of the Royal College of Greenwich.

Blackwood and Sons.

This is a reprint of one of the many admirable serial papers in Blackwood's Magazine, which, having undergone revision, are now in the course of Tom reproduction in this more enduring form. Cringle,s Log and other works have been similarly published, and proved very welcome additions to the library of fiction. In the instance before us we have to observe, besides a complete revision, some additions to the original text. Mr. William Truck, seeing that he began his lucubrations three-andtwenty years ago, was, we suppose, about the first who plunged into nautical matters in the great wake of Smollett, and seems to have found himself exposed to a deal of squeamishness in consequence. The magazine indeed-assailed by "officers and commanders" for Mr. William's "trivial distinctions between the language of Jack and the gentleman "was forced to run him aground prematurely. We have since got rid of these needless delicacies, thanks to Captain Marryat's brilliant success, which has done still greater good in directing attention to professional abuse" of a different and more serious kind. As a series of sketches, the forerunners of the naval novels, the Man-o'- War's Man is interesting, to say nothing of what candid seaman report of the author having really done what he proposed by it, and delineated with tolerable truth" the principal features and more prominent characteristics easily recognizable in the three different grades which usually compose the practical strength and ship's company of a man-o'war."-Examiner

Theophania; or, Divine manifestation of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. By Eusebius, Bishop of Cæsarea, Edited from a manuscript recently discovered, by Prof. Samuel Lee, M. D.

The Plea of Insanity in Criminal Cases. By Forbes Winslow, Esq. M. R. C. S. 12mo. Reeds shaken with the Wind. By the Rev. K. S. Hawker, M. A. Vicar of Morwenstow, Cornwall.

Enter into thy Closet ; or, Secret Prayer. By Rev. James McGill.

The Duties of the Married State. By James Foster, M. D.

Murray's Handbook for Travellers in Central Italy, including the Papal States, Rome and the cities of Etruria.

Letters of Mary Queen of Scots, illustrative of her Personal History, now first Edited by published from the Originals. Agnes Strickland. Vol. 3, 8vo.

GERMANY.

Edidit C. G.
Corpus Reformatorum.
Bretschneider. Vol. x. Philippi Melanthonis
Opera. Vol. x. Halis Sax.

Commentar über d. Psalmen, von Dr. E.
W. Hengstenberg 1 Bd. 8vo. Berlin.

Versuch einer wissenschaftlichen Darstellung der Geschichte der neuern Philosophie. 2r Bd. 2te Abtheil. Leibnitz und die Entwicklung des Idealismus vor Kant. Leipzig.

Verhandlungen der vierten Versammlung deutscher Philologen und Schulmänner in Bonn 1841. Bonn.

De Romæ veteris muris, atque portis; von G A. Becker. Lips.

Mythologische Forschungen und Sammlungen, von Wolfgang Menzel. Stuttgart.

FRANCE.

Napoléon et l'Angleterre. Campagne de Pologne. Par le Vicomte de Marquessac. Paris.

Poésies complètes de Robert Burns, traduites de l'Ecossais, par M. Leon de Wailly; avec une Introduction du même. Paris. Rimes Heroïques, par Auguste Barbier. Paris.

Discours de M. Lamartine, prononcé à la Chambre de Députés, revue par lui

même.

Paris. Monographie de la Presse Parisienne, par M. de Balzac. Paris.

NAPOLEON AT SI HELEN.