only state it so a fair case has been made out to prove | again to his mother, he still looked towards her as if he

that he might have spoken Greek. Further than this, we doubt much if any learned inquiry will bring us at this time of day.

could take delight in none but her; while she, on the other hand, continued graciously playing with him, and cherishing him with her heavenly lips. What honour was this for St. John!" Now, there is nothing wonderful in St. Bonaventure, or any other Popish saint, having

PHILLIP VON ARTEVELDE ; a Dramatic Romance. By Henry Taylor. London: Moxon.-Exactly in the same neat style, and on the same easy terms as Serjeant Tal-written this inane sacred fiction six centuries ago, but fourd's Dramas, the public are presented with a popular composition, which experiences the not uncommon fortune of being the more prized by readers the more it is decried by the critics.

The Life of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, from
the Latin of St. Bonaventure, newly translated for the
Use of Members of the Church of England. London:
James Toovey.

that it should be published at this day "for the use of members of the Church of England," is marvellous. Practical Observations on the Prevention, Causes, and Treatment of Curvatures of the Spine. By Samuel Hare, Esq., surgeon. Second edition, revised and enlarged. London: Churchill. Edinburgh: Maclachlan & Stewart.

Every body allows that malformation among the female sex is on the increase, nay, that there are a greater propertion of crooked girls turned out of fashionable boarding schools than from the factories. Improprieties, folliescrimes we may call them, when attended by consequences so baneful-in dress, is the alleged cause of ill health and deformity, though perhaps too much stress is laid upcr mere dress; and stays are made answerable for more than can be justly charged against them: yet tight-lacing must merit all that is said against it. Were schoolmistresses, governesses, and nurses, furnished with copies of the engravings of spinal and other deformities which illus trate this treatise, to be used in terrorem, young ladies would surely be frightened out of their lacing malprac tices. These engravings show, side by side, the cond tion of the patients' distorted bodies before they have been treated by Mr. Hare's method, and in their in

It is not enough, it would appear, that members of the Church of England have the Gospels and the Epistles, and that a deluge of Saints' Lives and Popish legends is pouring out upon them from the press, but the New Testament must be eked out, parodied, and paraphrased, to inculcate Popish doctrines; and the Life of the Saviour, as recorded therein, tricked out in figments, of what the translator terms "pious conjecture "about what "St. Elizabeth " said to the "Blessed Virgin," concerning whom the Scriptures being "mysteriously silent," the "Church" and the Saints are at liberty to imagine what they please of her " ineffable dignity." To show what kind of spiritual food the translator, who dates his work "Lent, 1844," takes the pains to set before " Members of the Church of England," we shall copy out a passage from the close of the "Temptation in the Wil-proved state. Those who would understand his apparates derness :"-" As soon as Satan had been repulsed, the angels flock in numbers to our Lord Jesus Christ, and, prostrate on the ground, adore him, saying, 'Hail, Lord Jesus our Lord and our God!' The angels say to him, 'Lord thou hast fasted long, what wilt thou that we prepare for thee?' To whom he replies, 'Go to my dearest mother, and, if she have any thing at hand, bear it to me for of no food do I partake so gladly as that which she prepares.' Then two of the number [of the Angels] set out, and in a moment are with her. They respectfully salute her, and having acquitted themselves of their embassy, bring a mess of pottage, which she had got ready for herself and St.

Joseph, and a piece of bread, with a linen cloth and other necessaries. Perhaps, too, Our Lady procured a small fish or two." Our readers may fancy this a dull, irreverent joke ; but we assure them it is sober earnest ; and a fairly transcribed passage from a book intended either as supplemental to the New Testament, or to take the place of the sacred volume in informing and edifying devout "members of the Church of England." There are in it many passages which we shrink from transcribing; but as another brief specimen of this edifying work, we copy the visit of the Virgin to her cousin Elizabeth:-"Neither the length of the journey, nor the roughness of the road, could deter her from her pious resolution; but she went with haste, not wishing to appear long in public. Nor was she, like other women in her condition, in the least encumbered by the Divine When Elizabeth's full time was come, she was happily delivered of a son, which our Lady received in her arms, and swaddled with becoming care. The infant, as if conscious of the majesty of his nurse, fixed his eyes steadfastly on her; so taken with her beauty, that when she delivered him

Infant she bore within her. . . .

must consult himself or his book. The book contains numerous cases of partial or complete cures. One warding we may give :-" A deformity of this kind (exeurvation of the back) is taking place among the yotag females of the present day, who, in addition to their having lateral curvature, are generally becoming roundshouldered, owing to their dress not resting, as it ought to do, upon their shoulders, but pressing against ther arms, a little below the acromion; the obvious tendency of which is to bring the scapulæ forwards, to obstruct the free use of the arms, and cause an unsightly protaberance of the shoulders and upper part of the neck." The Military Annual for 1844. Royal 8vo. Colbert

This is a handsomely done up volume, bedecked. 19 beseems its quality, in scarlet and gold, and ornamented with military emblems and trophies, and portraits of the Duke of Wellington and Lord Hill. Its contents are "The British Soldier's Almanac; an "Essay on Arts and Armies;" "The Parliamentary proceedings of the year" relating to the army; the "Official Despatches:" "War Office Circulars ;" "General Orders;" "Reports of Courts Martial;" accounts of the Military Schools and other institutions. Besides this useful matter, there is a liberal allowance of miscellaneous information connected with military men and affairs: as memoirs of deceased officers, and historical accounts and anecdotes of regiments, &c. &c.; the whole forming a promising new work, which, unlike the ephemeral Annuals, may go on and flourish, as it takes possession of a fair neid, with power and material to occupy it usefully. The Book of Symbols, illustrative and explanatory of Ancient Moral Precepts. Post 8vo, pp. 506. London: Chapman & Hall.

This is a series of concise, well-written, and pointed

essays, to which a symbol, or rather the ancient moral | made public through other channels; but Mr. Sandby precept signified by it, a religious truth, or a philosophic has also observed and dabbled in animal magnetism himtenet, is set as a text. Within these limitations, every self. He is a thorough and enthusiastic believer. variety of subject is introduced. Though the philosophy Narrative of an Expedition to the Polar Sea in the Years and maxims of Pythagoras supply the bulk of these 1820, 1821, 1822, and 1823. Commanded by Lieutexts, other ancient philosophers furnish their quota, and tenant, now Admiral Wrangell, of the Russian Impeillustrations are gleaned from writers or thinkers of rial Navy. Second Edition, with additions. Transall ages. The essays, though occasionally trite enough, lated by Lieut.-Colonel Sabiñe, R.A., F.R.S. London: contain nothing but pure and generous sentiments, with Madden & Co. many good thoughts, though their form is in general all that originally belongs to the author. Altogether, this series of short Lay Discourses may be perused with advantage, whether in forming opinion or regulating conduct; while the brevity of the essays makes them very apt for snatch-reading of the solid kind.

Many of the cases are those that have already been Works of the Poet. By Mrs. Cowden Clarke. Parts I.

II. III. pp. 144, Size of the Pictorial Shakspere. Lon- | G. N. Wright. Quarto. Parts I. to IX., each Part don: Charles Knight & Co.

This work furnishes a remarkable monument of female industry and perseverance. It is out of sight, so far as it has gone, the most comprehensive and complete concordance of Shakspere of any that has hitherto been attempted. On the value of such a work to the admirers of Shakspere it were superfluous to expatiate. It is one which, where it is possessed, must be in perpetual requisition. The compilation has occupied Mrs Clarke for twelve years, which certainly seems a long period: but unless she set out originally upon a very good system, we can easily conceive that the labour must have been immense. The value of the Concordance is much increased by its being planned

to agree with Knight's, Collier's, the Variorum, and all the best received editions up to the present time. It is

to be completed in eighteen Monthly Parts. Every page contains three columns closely printed. As a matter of curiosity, we have been led to calculate the number of quotations. In a single page, there are 360; in a single part, 17,280; and, at the same rate, the eighteen parts would contain no fewer than 311,040 quotations.

MAXWELL'S HISTORY OF THE REBELLION IN IRELAND IN 1798. Part VII. Illustrated by George Cruikshank. London: A. H. Baily & Co.

SPECIMEN OF THE ROYAL PHRASEOLOGICAL ENGLISH

FRENCH DICTIONARY. By J. Ch. Tarver. London: Dulau & Co.-This, so far as we are enabled to judge, is likely to be a work decidedly superior to any thing of the kind that has yet appeared. Improvement on even the best of our French dictionaries is indeed urgently required; and Mr. Tarver, who has been for eighteen years French master at Eton, may be presumed well qualified for the undertaking.

CHAMBERS'S CYCLOPEDIA OF ENGLISH LITERATURE; embellished with engravings on wood. Parts XIX., XX., XXI., which conclude the work. It forms two handsome volumes in royal octavo, and may be advantageously consulted in matters of reference, even by those who might desire to see the criticism and analysis of our literature on a much more ample scale.

OLD ENGLAND. Part VII. London : Knight & Co. With a coloured frontispiece of the interior of Methley Hall.

A TREATISE ON THE STEAM-ENGINE. By the Artisan Club. Part I. Illustrated by steel plates, &c. London: Longman & Co.

THE PEOPLE'S FAMILY BIBLE; containing the authorized version of the Old and New Testaments: printed at the Cambridge University press. Embellished with historical designs from the old masters, and landscapes from drawings on the spot. Parts I. to V., super-royal quarto, each containing two steel engravings, and two sheets of letter-press. London: Fisher, Son, & Co.This is a very handsome family Bible, printed in a large bold type, and supplied with copious marginal references. If, by the phrase "The People's Bible," extreme low price is understood, the title is inaccurate. The Bible is, no doubt, cheap for its quality; but certainly not low priced. The embellishments are beautiful; and are either original, or selected from the finest specimens of Messrs. Fishers' well-filled store-house of Art.

THE PEOPLE'S GALLERY OF ENGRAVINGS. After original pictures and drawings; by Lawrence, Turner, Stanfield, Prout, D. Roberts, &c, &c. Edited by the Rev.

containing four highly-finished engravings. London: Fisher, Son, & Co.-This is one of the cheapest works of the kind we have ever seen, considering its quality.

PAMPHLETS.

THE MINISTRY AND THE SUGAR-DUTIES. London: John Murray.

LORD CHATHAM, ROUSED BY THE PRESENT CONDITION OF BRITAIN, POLITICAL, NAVAL, AND MILITARY. Octavo, pp. 152. London: Pelham Richardson, &c.

THE NAVAL FORCES OF FRANCE, COMPARED TO THOSE OF ENGLAND. By his Royal Highness the Prince de

Joinville, Admiral of the Fleet. Literally translated from
the French, by B. H. Beedham. London: W. E. Painter.

THE MYSTERIES OF THE PAPAL POLICY REVEALED ;
OR, THE TESTAMENT OF POPE LEO XII. TO HIS SUCCES-
Translated from an Unpublished Manuscript.
SOR.-
Edinburgh: William Ritchie.

THE CHURCH ADVANCING; A POPULAR ADDRESS TO
ROMAN CATHOLICS ON THE PRESENT ENCOURAGING ASPECT
OF AFFAIRS. Edited by J. Wakeham. London: Aș-

lott & Jones.

A LETTER TO THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF DEVON, ON THE LATE MASSACRE AT WAIRAU. London: Longman & Co.

MENTAL HYGIENE: OR, AN EXAMINATION OF THE ISTELLECT AND PASSIONS, DESIGNED TO ILLUSTRATE THEIR INFLUENCE ON HEALTH, AND THE DURATION OF LIFE. By William Sweetser, M.D., late Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic, and Fellow of the American Aca demy of Arts and Sciences. Reprinted from the Ame rican Edition. Edinburgh: Maclachlan, Stewart, & Co.

THOUGHTS ON THE POINTS AT ISSUE BETWEEN THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH AND THE NATIONAL BOARD OF EDUCATION IN IRELAND. By the Rev. Henry Woodward, A.M. London: Duncan & Malcolm.

THE POSITION, PROSPECTS, AND DUTIES OF THE INDZPENDENTS, OR CONGREGATIONALISTS, BRIEFLY CONSIDERED. By William Davis. London: J. Snow.

INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION OF THE HIGHLANDS OF ETHIOPIA. By Major W. Cornwallis Harris.

EDUCATION: MEN'S SALVATION FROM CRIME, DISEASE, AND STARVATION; with Appendix vindicating Robert Burns. By John Thomson, M.D. Edinburgh: Ferrier & French.

AN ARGUMENT FOR IRELAND. By John O'Connell, Esq., M.P. Printed by order of the Loyal National Repeal Association of Ireland. Octavo, pp. 400.-As this may be regarded as an elaborate case for the Repeal party, we advise our readers to look into it.

A LETTER to the VERY REV. J. W. KIRWAN, D.D., VICAR-GENERAL of GALWAY, on some variations from the more ancient Liturgies of the Church, in the form prescribed in the canon of the Mass, for the Conse cration of the Most Holy Eucharist. By T. F. Triebner, F.S.A.

SUBSTANCE of a SPEECH DELIVERED at the MEETING of the EDINBURGH ANTI-CORN-LAW ASSOCIATION, in reference to the Letter of the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, M.P. for the City, dated May 1st, 1844. By Duncan Maclaren.

POLITICS OF THE MONTH.

THE "very unenviable position" in which the two great | each time it has been on a false principle, and in a disparliamentary Leaders have recently taken occasion to creditable way. On the Ten-hours' question, he quietly inform the world that they "find themselves," may be turned his back on the deliberately and repeatedly extaken as a hopeful sign that the break-up of parties and pressed opinions of his previous official life, and lent his party-politics, which all honest men are looking for, is voice, without cause shown, to the popular cry of the day: not far distant. The confession was a testy and hasty on the Sugar Duties, he joined the very men who, on that one, and has perhaps been regretted, in both cases; but it very question of more or less West Indian monopoly, expresses, in each, a permanent and growing fact; and upset him three years ago. Of course, it is possible that there seems no chance of the position, either of the Con- some sort of sincere, or half-sincere, conviction, may servative Premier or of the Whig Chief, becoming much have dictated his vote and speech in each instance; but more enviable than it is at present. The ministry of the thing, to say the least of it, has a shabby look, false pretences is gradually crumbling down, under the especially as there is nothing great to set off against it. detection, one after another, of the make-believes on The Whig minister of 1841 has shown himself not unwhich it was built, and in which it lives, moves, and has willing to be borne back into office on the shoulders of its being; and the process has seemed, of late, to go on the West India monopolists,-taking care, at the same with accelerated rapidity. Assailed, denounced, vili- time, to hoard up ostentatiously his scorned and scouted pended, snubbed, divided against, weekly almost fixed-duty, as a bait for the landlord monopolists. That nightly, by one section or another of its own adherents, the member for London, and expectant minister of the on Factories, on Sugar Duties, on Welsh Bishoprics, on country, should be without a vote to give, one way or Dissenters' Chapels, on Poor-law Amendments; twice, the other, on the question of Corn-law Repeal, is a within six weeks, driven to save itself by the perilous ex- downright abdication of political status. "No very pedient of dishonouring its own majority; indicted, by enviable position," truly! If the Session has been a the public opinion of Europe, for a system of treachery, failure for Sir Robert Peel, it has been no less a failure espionage, forgery, burglary (of letters,) theft (of secrets,) for Lord John Russell. Not one act or speech of signifalse coining (of seals,) fitter for examination at the Old ficance; not one sentence or syllable indicative of enerBailey than in a parliamentary committee-room, and gy, character, force of will; nothing to create confidence, compelled, after much contempt of court, to surrender and rouse enthusiasm, has come from this cold, quiet and take its trial; the case of this government is indeed, Whig lord, from the beginning of the Session to this as Sir Robert Peel says, "by no means enviable." hour. He has made himself, or shown himself, as small Curious it is, however, that such a confession should as possible throughout. Instead of boldly and enerhave to be made by the shrewdest and most prudent man getically leading the attack against the government, in the House of Commons, wielding a parliamentary on great, central questions of principle, his ambition power greater than any other British minister has had has limited itself to the poor policy of tripping them since Pitt. The fact is curious, and the moral of it is up in a clever way, by making one of a miscellaneous useful: it is well, after all, even as a matter of conven- herd of malcontents, on by-points of detail. ience, for a great political party to have a great political principle to hold by.

If it be strange that so clever a man as Sir Robert Peel, having so convenient a tool to work with as a parliament that will stultify itself at his bidding, should confess his position unenviable; it seems stranger still that a like confession should be made just now by the Leader of the Opposition. The position of Lord John Russell, at this particular time, ought to be a most enviable one. To a statesman of large views, and firm, high purpose, one would think no position could be more enviable than that of being appointed to watch, check, oppose, upset, and finally succeed this ministry, based on false pretences, and backed by a party without a principle: that such a position should ever be unenviable, is a man's own fault. Of the fact that the Whig Chief is far from comfortable there cannot be much doubt. Lord John Russell is as little in harmony with the party of which he is conventionally the leader, and on whose confidence his future tenure of office depends, as Sir Robert Peel is in harmony with his party. He has neither said nor done a thing of note, all this session, to justify the confidence of those who look to him, or who would be glad to look to him if they could, as the future ruler of the country. He talked last year, like another Canning, of leaving off" securitygrinding;" but there he is to this hour, with his little fixed-duty security crotchet, as pragmatical as ever. Twice during the Session, he has got within view of office:

We are glad that the policy has failed. Il as we think of the men now in office-nay, because we think so ill of them—we do not wish to see them tripped up. To get rid of them by accident or trick, by heterogeneous pro hac vice combination with deserters on secondary questions, would do extremely little good. The policy were at once undignified and of most dubious expediency. We would have the judgment of the country in this cause given on the merits; and till the country be ripe for this, it is better to let the evidence go on accumulating. What would have been the consequence of a second ministerial defeat on the Sugar Duties, and a resignation? Possibly, a recall and restoration, with a vote of confidence, granting a new lease of office on easier terms: at the best, a premature ministerial change, with a premature general election, taken on no broad principle, and producing no decided result. When the change comes, it must be a thorough one; and to make it thorough, we must have another registration or two. The only ministerial change from which real and lasting good is to be looked for, must be effected by the country protesting, utterly and on principle, against Sir Robert Peel, his men, and measures, his half-faced expediencies, his double-faced dishonesties; and demanding, through the registered constituencies, public honesty in general, with justice to Ireland, and free-trade in particular. Till the country is prepared to make this effort, we are better as we are, accumulating

strength for it. We must not trip up the government, | powerless argument may be, as argument, the action of