The Express.
London, England, 1857-05-16 00:00:00

NEW BOOKS.

(From the Pubis:Mere' Circular.)

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Several interesting publications have appeared
since the date of our last number amongst them the first
three volumes of Dr. Barth's great work on Central Africa ;
Bonne's Life Studies: J. E. Heade'. Poetical Worley 4 vole ;
Amusing Poetry, edited by. Shirley Brooks; a new and im-
proved edition of Mr. G. H. Lewes's Biographical History
of Pbilmophy ; Briggs' India and Europe compared.
Haskolf a Railway Construction, 2 vole. ; the 2nd
vol. of Smith's Greek and Roman Geography ;
Suggestions for the Repression of Crime; The
Sketches, by the Author of Amy Herbert, lea.; Trot-
lope's Barebester Towers, 3 vole ; Mr. St. John's Memoirs
of the Duc do St.-Simon, 2 sole.; The Life of Handel by
Victor Seheekher ; and • smaller Ike, by Mrs. Bray; Good
in Every Thing, by Ides. Foot, 2 yob.; The Memoir. of
Andrew Crosse ; Sir John Herschel's Essays; The Fairy
Family; Alma Therms, by David Macculloch; Egypt and
the Greet Suez Canal ; Chandler's Visit to the Silt Übe •
Below tho Surfer*, 3 vole.; Anertach's Barefooted Maiden;
and Mr. Ruakin's Notes on the Royal Academy.
The Illustrated Tennyson has been subscribed, but is not
yet ready for delivery to the trade.
Our usual) brief list of announcement. eon-prises:—
Helen and 0 • Russian Tale, by the author of Mary
Powell; Meas. aide Stories, Anecdotes, and Pasynnades ;
Primmer of Brefney ; Addreesse on l'ublic Ge-
easioDePTV's fllift..lt.H. Prince Albert; Life of Dlr. Sensual
Wilkins, J. B. Tort • The Works of Spmow, medium
Soo., with , Notes, and; Glowary, by Mr. Payne Collier;
Curiosities of Zoology, by Frank Buckland ; Holland, its
Inetitutionn its Preen,* Kings, and its Prisons; and an
Atlas of British Sea Weeds, in 10 parts, to be published
monthly.
Messrs. Day and Son announce a work to be executed in
Amino-lithography on the Art Treasures Exhibition at Man-
chester: it will be completed in 32 parts.
The complete works of Armand Carrel, editor of the .11-a•
tiotal, are about to be published in four volumes.
The Irish Quarterly will in future appear on the let of
July, October, January, and April.
TUlast day's totle of the base Mr. Colbum's stock, &e.,
Tuesday, the Nth inst., will include the cop)rights of Mies
Strickland's Queens of England, Burke's peerage, Beirke's
Leaded Gentry, and Pepys' end Evelyn's Diary.

Mr. Montgomery Niartin is said to be engaged in
arrenging and selecting the papers of the Late Duke of Wel-
lington, in vie. to their publication.

The name of Montaigne is beginning to be often
repeated in the French pus, on amount, partly, of a eery
curious circumstance. His chateau and estate, which were
worth sixty thousand francs at his death, are now advertised
for sale, and aro estimated at flee hundred thousand franca.
A journalist makes the amusing suggestion that some Eng-
lish lord should effect the purchase and make a present of the
property to Dr. Payen, as a recognition of hie praiseworthy
and valuable rimesrches into the biography of the deacon
philosopher•

Stich en audience—literary, artistic, and other-
wise diatinguished—aa gathered to support Mr. W. H.
Russell', opettfug lectr-e Is certainly not often collected.
There were present Thackerey, Douglas Jerrold, John
Leech, Planche, Mark Lemon, Carter He, Mrs. Hall,
T. P. Cooks, Clarkson Stanfield, John Omnford, Charles
Dickens, Shirley Brooks. Peter Cunningham, Sir Charles
Taylor, Charles Mackay, Robert Bell, B. Lumley, Colonel
Tulloch, Grunetsen, Ella, Colonel de Bathe, Charles Dance,
Thomas Fraser, J. C. Deane, Hon. Mr. end Mrs. Wrot-
talky, MI aid [is 'Kir.