HYMN FOR THE SABBATH EVENING. ONCE more the covenant day is given, A sign between our souls and heaven. Its hours have run their sacred round; But have our willing hearts been found, Stands the sign unbroken still?-Ex. xxxi. 16, 17. We entered in the house of prayer; Thus guilty in his courts to stand ?—Isaiah i. 12. Now, from the morning watch begin, Each vacant hour, each idle word By Him was marked, by Him was heard.-Is. Iviii. 13. His name is " Jealous"-yet our feet May still approach the mercy seat. Repenting now, we may obtain NOW is Christ's accepted day.-2 Cor. vi. 2. M. A. S. BArber. Review of Books. THE PARAGRAPH BIBLE. The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments: translated out of the original tongues; and with the former translations diligently compared and revised. By His Majesty's special command. Arranged in paragraphs and parallelisms. Printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode, for the Religious Tract Society. THIS is what we have long been desiring to see. Occasionally we have noticed the peculiar advantage derived from using what is called the Bible de suite, where the obvious sense is followed in dividing the matter irrespective of the plan of chapter and verse. These are marked distinctly on the margin, so as to afford all facility of reference; but they do not interfere with the course of the narrative or exhortatory portions. This 'Paragraph Bible' is a decided improvement on the preceding; varying from it principally in the arrangement of the poetical parts. In the former, the Psalms, Job, and metrical portions of the prophets, are divided into verses, following exactly the common arrangement: in this they coincide with the Hebrew. As an illustration of our meaning, we will select part of the 46th Psalm, leaving our readers to compare it with the same, as printed in their bibles. God is our refuge and strength, Though the earth be removed, And though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; Though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah. The streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, The holy place of the tabernacle of the Most High. God is in the midst of her; She shall not be moved; God shall help her, and that right early. The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved; The Lord of hosts is with us; The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah. The authorized version is punctually followed, according to the most correct editions, collated with the first edition of 1611. The name of the Rev. T. Hartwell Horne, under whose auspices, combined with those of the Rev. Dr. Henderson, the volume has been prepared, will afford a guarantee for its accuracy. Nothing can approach the sublime magnificence of some passages in Job and the prophets, as now arranged: while the perspicuity given, or rather restored, to other parts of the sacred volume, by removing injudicious divisions that obscure the meaning, is wonderful. It may be as well to remark, for the benefit of such as are not aware of it, that the division into chapters was made by a Romish cardinal, Hugo de Sancto Charo, about the year 1250; and that into verses, by a French printer, Robert Stephens, in 1551. He, however, placed the figures in the margin, as in this edition; it was not until Elizabeth's days that the text was broken up as we now have it in our common bibles. Our blessed Reformers drew their spiritual sustenance from pages resembling those which we now-after long using a similar volume in private-heartily recommend to all our bible-reading friends and surely we have no friends who are not bible-readers? THE LIFE AND MINISTRY OF THE REV. SAMUEL WALKER, B. A. formerly of Truro, Cornwall. By the Rev. Edwin Sidney, A. M. Author of The Life of the Rev. Rowland Hill, A. M.' &c. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Seeley and Burnside. THE book and its subject are already well known: we congratulate the public on the appearance of this enlarged edition. A work more profitable to the laity, more invaluable and important to the ministry, of the church of England especially, we could not readily name. The memoir is particularly encouraging to those-and they are many-who, removed from the wider and more conspicuous walks of ministerial duty, are confined to the cultivation of a stubborn soil, unaided by the powerful, we do not say the salutary stimulants of notoriety and public applause. The narrative part of this work is admirably written, with a constant view to the reader's personal edification: an object too often lost sight of by modern biographers, in the eagerness of a desire to give all RANDOM RECOLLECTIONS OF EXETER HALL. 557 possible prominence to the departed subject; with, sometimes, a conspicuous niche for the living chronicler of his worth. RANDOM RECOLLECTIONS OF EXETER HALL, in 1834-1837. By one of the Protestant Party. Nisbet and Co. THE sketches contained in this book very much resemble those in the famous Random Recollections of the Peers and Commons, but with this difference, that, while graphic and amusing to a high degree, they are totally divested of the sneering sarcasm, prejudice, and ill-nature that do certainly render the political work very disagreeable. By the by, we generally find that those who profess to belong to no party are the most inveterate of partizans: while, on the other hand, one who takes his stand boldly and openly, on what he considers the right ground, and avows his determination to maintain it, usually acts a more liberal part than the affected neutral. We, being most decidedly and avowedly of the same party with the author of these Random Recollections of Exeter Hall, are delighted to see such even-handed justice dispensed even to Daniel O'Connell and Lord Brougham. The first we have never, to this day, beheld the latter only for a moment, some years since, in a dark court, on a dark day, shrouded in the chancellor's wig. Yet we could undertake to pronounce the description given of him in these pages a perfect portrait-distressingly accurate. Of others we can speak more confidently: let any one who has never |