NEW BOOKS PUBLISHED IN NOVEMBER, With an HISTORICAL and CRITICAL PROEMIUM. Authors or Publishers desirous of seeing an early notice of their Works are requested to transmit copies before the 18th of the Month. TRAVELS in Palestine, through the countries of Bashan and Gilead, east of the River Jordan: including a Visit to the Cities of Geraza and Gamala, in the Decapolis, by J. S. BUCKINGHAM, is a work of great interest and importance, and forms a valuable addition to the numerous volumes of travels into the Holy Land which have been published during these last ten years. Mr. Buckingham seems to have been peculiarly fitted, by early habits and pursuits, for the task he has undertaken. His wanderings commenced at a very early period of his life. He went to sea at nine years of age, and the year fol lowing was made prisoner of war, and conveyed into the port of Corunna. From 1796, up to the time of his settlement at Calcutta, (where he is, we are informed, the editor of the Calcutta Gazette) Mr. Buckingham visited the finest parts of Spain and Portugal; America, the Bahama islands, and the West Indies, Egypt, Greece, Phoenicia, Italy, and Mauritania. To his perseverance we are indebted for some valuable charts, without which the navigation of several parts of the Red Sea would be dangerous, and at certain periods almost impracticable. In the course of his last journey, Mr. B. saw the greater part of Palestine, and the country beyond the Jordan, traversed Moab, Bashan, Gilead, and the Auramtes; crossed Phoenicia, and the higher parts of Syria in various directions from Baalbek and Lebanon, to the sea coast, and from Antioch by the banks of the Orontes, to Aleppo. He next journeyed through Mesopotamia to Ninevah and Babylon, and on his way visited Diarbekr, Mosul, and Bagdad. Exploring his way through the mountains into Persia, he saw Ecbatana, Persepolis, and Shapoor; with Kermanshah, Harmadan, Isfahaun, and Shiraz, where the two great Persian poets, Sadi and Ferdousi, are entombed. On his return to Bombay our traveller began to arrange the materials of which the present volume is composed. To make amends for the want of novelty consequent upon all details respecting Palestine, Mr. B. has introduced numerous and learned disquisitions illustrative of the sacred writings, and has corrected many errors, which, like the mummies of the Egyptians, have only been consecrated for their antiquity. Tyne Acre, Nazareth, Mounts Tabor, and Carmel; Cesarea, Jaffa, Jerusalem, Rumlab, and the holy places round the sacred city, have all been described by Mr. B.'s predecessors. Those portions of his volume, therefore, will be found to be most important, which are the details respecting the country beyond the Jordan, in which he has not been anticipated by other travellers. The minute descriptions of Geraza, Soof, Oom Cais, the ruins of the ancient Gamala Nazareth, Tiberias, Shechem, Mount Ebal, Gerizim, and the Wells of Samaria, are full of interest; and as they have not been touched upon before, afford valuable records of a country which has been an object of curiosity from the earliest ages. The style is worthy of the materials. Numerous curious and erudite notes are scattered over the work, which is further illustrated by some excellent charts and plans, and a series of neatly engraved vignettes. Some of our readers may probably have seen the newly-invented ornamental incrustations in glass, called Crystallo Ceramie. By this process, ornaments of any description, arms, cyphers, portraits, and landscapes of any variety of colour may be introduced into the glass, so as to be come perfectly imperishable. An account of this curious invention may be found in a small quarto volume, lately published, called A Memoir on the Origin, Progress, and Improvement of Glass Manufactures; including an Account of the Patent Crystallo Ceramie, or Glass Incrustations. This discovery is not only useful in producing very beautiful ornamental works, but miniatures may likewise be enamelled on it, and the colours will thus be retained by being embodied in the crystal, so as, in fact, to become as imperishable as the crystal itself. The Memoir contains a curious historical account of the process of glass-making, both among the ancients and in modern times. Some explanatory coloured plates are given, which, however, scarcely convey an idea of the beauty of the ornaments themselves.. Our medical readers will be entertained and interested by the perusal of à Treatise on Acupuncturation, by JAMES MORSS CHURCHILL, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London. This operation, as the name imports, consists in inserting a needle into the muscular parts of the body, to the depth, sometimes, of an inch. The instantaneous effect of this singular remedy in alleviating pains of a rheumatic nature, is truly surprising aud unaccountable ; but the the facts, as exhibited in many cases, are sufficiently strong to command our assent. In attacks of a nervous nature, the happy influence of this process is equally undeuiable. This remedy has long been in use amongst the Japanese and Chinese, and is now making its way into European practice, with results which at least demand the earnest attention and scrutiny of the physiologist. The author of the Treatise in question abstains altogether from the dubious enquiry into the origin of these singular effects; and we think that, in this stage of the business, he does well to confine himself to the establishment of facts. He must expect to find no little scepticism, on a subject so much at variance with the common apprehensions of the public; but, as far as we can yet judge, we think he is proceeding on solid ground, and will, in the end, do considerable service to the cause of surgical science and humanity. Observations on Vocal Music, by Dr. KITCHINER, an author, who, whether we contemplate him in the various, and certain ly somewhat opposite capacities of cook, optician, physician, or musician, equally excites our surprise. We could, however, undertake to refer him to fifty much better written treatises than his own, on the subject which has occupied his attention. But that he does not in reality stand in need of our assistance to enable him to turn the writings of his musical predecessors to good account, is evident from the circumstance of his having half filled bis volume with quotations from those who have gone before him. This is bad enough in a small essay like the one before us, but it is infinitely preferable to the continual extracts from his own books, which the worthy Doctor inflicts upon his readers in every recent production. About thirty of the eighty widely-printed pages of this small volume consist of quotations from published works. We have not lately met with a more entertaining and able work of the sort, than Sketches of Upper Canada, byJOHN HOWISON, Esq. This gentleman appears to be of Scotch extraction, and possesses much of the shrewd and clever character of his nation. His descriptions of the wild and picturesque territories through which he passed, are uncommonly characteristic and vivid; and we have only to object to them, that his imagination seems occasionally to grow too enthusiastic, and revels somewhat too luxuriantly amidst the beauties of nature that surround him. At one time he paddles down the river St. Lawrence in a half slumber; and at another, is roused in the woods from a delicious reverie, by a bear or an Indian. These are exaggerations of feeling, which a traveller, when they in reality exist, should rather conceal than express, as they tend to throw a suspicion on MONTHLY MAG. No. 361. the graver and more common-place parts of his narrative. When, however, Mr. Howison descends from his ideal transports, he shews himself to be master of humbler subjects, and his information on the state of the present inhabitants of Upper Canada, and his advice to emigrants about to proceed thither, are truly valua ble. He appears to have a happy talent in catching the peculiarities of manner and language of the people, the details of which will afford no small amusement to his readers. Some of the conversations which he records are expressed in a phraseology excessively ludicrous to an English ear. Upon the whole, this volume well deserves perusal, which it will reward with very valuable stores of information and amusement. The lovers of light reading will find a considerable fund of entertainment in a small unpretending volume, entitled Paramythia; or, Mental Pastimes: being original Anecdotes, historical, descriptive, humorous, and witty, collected chiefly during a long residence at the Court of Russia. From the preface, we learn that the author is the writer of the descriptions which accompanied the prints of the Costumes of Russia, published a few years ago. The author has, we think, succeeded in what he tells us was his aim to amuse, and not to offend; and certainly his little volume will be found of considerable utility in dispelling the tediousness of those long winter evenings which are so dreadful to those who have nothing useful to do, and nothing amusing to read. Amongst the many writers of fiction of the present day, whose aim it is to be at once both useful and agreeable, we may rank the author of "Rachel and the Authoress," who has lately offered to the public another little tale, on the same model, entitled Prudence and Principle. We have no hesitation in saying that this volume is all that it pretends to be a tale of common life and common failings. It is written for the valuable purpose of demonstrating that it is not upon one virtue alone that we can rely for happiness, but that it is by the operation of seemingly contrary principles that our actions are to be governed. The author has exemplified this truth in the characters of Ellen and Phoebe, one of whom possesses principle without prudence, and the other prudence without principle. There is no genius shewn in this volume, nor is it peculiarly interesting; but the useful tendency of its design, and the excellence of its precepts, render it valuable. Like the other productions of the same family, it is neatly printed, and ornamented with a frontispiece. It is a very painful thing to be compelled to read a bad novel, and it is still more painful to be compelled to give it a bad character; 3 L character; but as there are so many indis criminate novel readers in the world, we apprehend any thing we can say will have but little effect. Such of our readers as will take the trouble to cut open the pages of Happiness, a Tale for the Grave and the Gay, will, we think, be inclined to concur in our opinion. It is an attempt to unite two of the most opposite things in the world-satire and sanctity; and dandies and serious christians are mingled together in strange confusión. It is perhaps useless to say any thing further of a work which, like many of its cotemporaries, is fated to take its silent stand on the greenbaize-protected shelves of country circulating libraries. To the other works of Mrs. Taylor of Ongar, all distinguished by their plain good sense and useful tendency, is now added Retrospection, a Tale; in which, from a review supposed to be taken by an elderly unmarried lady, in the middle ranks of life, it is intended to point out those errors of temper and indiscretion, which, in the absence of greater calamities, suffice to make human life abundantly miserable. The story is quite unaffected, and follows with an air of great reality the ordinary course of domestic events, yet the interest is well supported. After all other means of happiness fail, the old lady finds it at last in the arms of devotion, a resource by no means uncommonly resorted to by persons of that age and sex, in all times and countries. There is a decided spirit of evangelical devotion in this little volume, accompanied however with such correct feelings and sentiments, that we do not feel inclined to find fault with it, or to quarrel on dogmatical points with a work which is obviously intended and adapted to promote the cause of virtue. If not brilliant, the abilities of this lady are solid, and in their exertion, useful, The To those who are fond of novel reading, we think we can recommend The Sisters, a Novel in four volumes, as a well-written work and not devoid of instruction. story, which relates the fate of two sisters, the one attached to the world and all its fashionable frivolities, the other of a nobler and purer mind, is well told, and possesses a reasonable share of interest. The character of Felicia is by no means heroinelike, in the sense in which many of our modern novelists would use the term; she is rather serious and useful, than romantic and sentimental. Perhaps she will be con. sidered by some of our readers as too strict a disciple of Mrs. Hannah More, and we must confess that her seriousness is sometimes a little too overpowering for our taste Rosalind's character is sketched with a good deal of power and truth, and in spite of ourselves gains an interest in our hearts. Evanmore, the hero of the tale, is drawn somewhat after the model of Miss Edgeworth's Vivian. The interest of the novel increases as the reader proceeds, and is finely wrought up in some parts of the last volume. It is with unmixed pleasure that we once more behold Miss EDGEWORTH before the public in the shape in which she is so pre-eminently excellent. Perhaps there is not a single writer of the present day who has been the means of bestowing at once so much instruction and delight, as this lady. To our juvenile friends her early lessons are well known, and many older eyes have perused them with almost equal pleasure. To those excellent little volumes Miss Edgeworth has lately added a continuation, called Rosamond, a sequel to Early Lessons, which exhibits our old friend more advanced towards womanhood, but possessing the same engaging frankness of disposition and purity of heart. It is superfluous to say that these volumes inculcate the best morality; it is sufficient perhaps to add that they fully equal any of the writer's former productions. A small volume of Miscellaneous Poetry, by SAMUEL BAMFORD, weaver, of Middleton, Lancashire, has just issued from the press, which, amidst some rude composition, exhibits so much energy of thought and diction, that it well deserves a longer notice than we can in this place bestow upon it. There is a bold and manly love of liberty in the mind of this humble bard, which needs no assistance from the tricks of art, to make a deep impression on the feelings. 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