OCT. 15, 1866. The Julius Cæsar of Napoleon III.-The Philosophy of Death.-Arabian Civilization, and What we Owe It.-Newton and His Discoveries.-Our Colleges and our Churchmen. Irish Law and Lawyers.-Sample of Modern Philosophy.-The National Convention and its Work. - Notices and Criticisms. New York: E. I. Sears. Harper's Magazine. October. Personal Recollections of the War, No. 4 (Gen. D. P. Strother).- Wooden Legs. - Cruise of the Rob Roy.-Heroic Deeds of Heroic Men, XIV., The Wilds of Arkansas.-Shelby Cabell. - Mrs. Roth's Bridal Tour.-Sleep. The Ruined Chapel.-Lady Godiver at Home.-September Woods.-Robbed of Half a Million. The Burning of Columbia Again.-The Freedman's Story. - The Ugly Toad. Cost of a Home.-Editor's Easy Chair.-Monthly Record of Current Events.-Editor's Drawer. New York: Harper & Bros. The Galaxy. Oct. 15. - Archie Lovell: Chapters 27, 28, 29 (Mrs. Edwards).—A* Dream of the South Wind (Paul H. Hayne). The Sea Islands of South Carolina (E. B. Seabrook).-The Last Battle of Winchester (J. F. Fitts).-Number Thirty-Nine (Ingoldsby North).— The Claverings: Chapters 25, 26 (A. Trollope).The Mormon Commonwealth, by a Mormon Elder | (E. M. Tullidge).-Gil Garay (J. W. Palmer).—The Seventh Commandment in Modern Fiction (W. L. Alden).-The Secret.-English and French Painting (I. Perdicaris).-Nebula (the Editor). New York: W. C. & F. P. Church. Methodist Quarterly Review. October. The Origin of Revolutions in Public Opinion (E. O. Haven, D.D., LL.D.).—The Greek Church in its Relation to the Protestant (Rev. R. B. Welch).Worship of Relics and the Miracles of the Ancient Church (P. Schaff, D.D.).—Childhood Conversion. (B. Hawley, D. D.). - Voltaire. Frederick W. Robertson (Rev. E. H. Dewart).-Milton's Early Life (Rev. P. Church, D.D.).-Foreign Religious Intelligence.-Foreign Literary Intelligence.-Synopsis of the Quarterlies.-Quarterly Book Table. New York: Carlton & Porter. Evangelical Quarterly Review. October. The Dependence of the Church upon the Holy Spirit (F. W. Conrad, D.D.).-Credulity of Unbelief (W. B. Sprague, D.D.).—Reminiscences of Deceased Lutheran Ministers.-Progress of the Gospel (H. L. Baugher, D.D.).-Samuel Johnson (S. A. Allibone, LL.D.).-Early History of Lutheranism in Illinois (S. W. Harkey, D.D.).—The Trinity (J. A. Brown, D.D.).-The Conversion of Children (J. Macfarlane, A.M.).-Notices of New Publications. Gettysburg: J. E. Wible, Pr. Church Monthly. October. Bishop Burgess's Last Journal.-Dr. Coles and his Poem (Rev. R. Lowell, D.D.).-Hirst's History of Rationalism (Rev. J. F. Ohl).-The Offering (Harriet McEwen Kimball).-The Daughter's Mistake. Boston: E. P. Dutton & Co. BOOK NOTICES. HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY. The History of England from the Accession of James the Second. By Lord Macaulay. In 8 vols. New York: Hurd & Houghton. We have here an edition of Macaulay's England which will be gladly welcomed by the public. It is convenient in form, well printed, and in large legible type. This Riverside edition will doubtless take position as the edition of the work for the American trade. It includes, of course, the latest corrections, additions, and notes of the author, and also other notes which have been prepared specially for this edition. This latter class of notes refers mainly to those passages which have become subjects of discussion, or furnishes additional facts or statistics, in which respect this is perhaps superior to the English editions. The publication, in such excellent style, of a voluminous standard work such as this is highly creditable to the enterprise of Messrs. Hurd & Houghton, and as good books are in the long run a better investment than bad ones, we trust they will have their reward. The Life and Letters of James Gates Percival. By Julius H. Ward. pp. xiii., 583. Boston: Ticknor & Fields. We have here a very interesting and instructive piece of biography. Percival possessed abundant genius. His varied gifts, linguistic, scientific, and poetic, combined to constitute a character of marked individuality. The growth of his mind, the events of his life, and the range of his studies are all indicated in the volume in a very pleasant style, and the book will be especially gratifying to those who can appreciate literature and scholarship. A Memorial of Giles F. Ward, Jr., late First Lieut. Twelfth N. Y. Cavalry. By William Ives Budington, D.D. pp. 97. New York: Anson D. F. Randolph. This is a tribute to the memory of a gallant young man, which, while it is gratifying to his family and friends, possesses but little general interest. Recollections of Mary Lyon, with Selections from her Instructions to the Pupils in Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. By Fidelia Fisk. pp. viii., 333. Boston: American Tract Society. We learn from the preface that there have been already "two considerable volumes" published sketching the life and labors of Mary Lyon. That is much more biographical notice than many a great man receives, but we still have another instalment of three hundred pages more. This, however, is not a memoir, but is made up chiefly of instructions in religious subjects. History of the Reformation in Europe in the Time of Calvin. By J. H. Merle D'Aubigné, D. D. Vol. IV. England, Geneva, France, Germany, and Italy. pp. xxxi., 491. New York. Dr. D'Aubigné's productions have taken a permanent position as contributions to ecclesiastical history. The present volume narrates the events of an important epoch in the Reformation of England, Switzerland, France, Germany, and Italy. The English portion of the narrative begins in 1529. In his estimate of the character of Henry VIII., and in certain matters of detail, our author expresses his dissent from the views expressed by Mr. Froude, OCT. 15, 1866. in his "History of England," although he bears testi- | subjects discussed are social duties, habits, amusemony to the good use which that gentleman has made of the original documents which he had before him. RELIGIOUS. The Book of Psalms, arranged according to the Origi nal Parallelisms for Responsive Reading. pp. 229. The New Sabbath Hymn and Tune Book, for the Service of Song in the House of the Lord. pp. ix., 473. Mason Brothers, New York, publish both of these works. The one first named takes the current version of the Psalms without omission or alteration, and arranges them in parallelisms for responsive reading, so as to adapt them to this use of the Psalms as a devotional exercise in Sunday and day schools, churches, and families. The ordinary division into verses is disregarded, for those divisions do not indicate the parallelisms. The Hymn and Tune Book has been in use for about fifteen years. This edition differs from the earlier one only in the alterations which have been made in the tunes by modification and substitution. Both editions will henceforth be published. Life and Death Eternal: a Refutation of the Theory of Annihilation. By Samuel C. Bartlett, D.D., Professor in the Chicago Theological Seminary. pp. xii., 390. American Tract Society, Boston. The title of this volume states exactly its scope. It is not controversial, though more allusions will be found to the writings of C. F. Hudson than of any other author. The work is full and elaborate, and purports to investigate the bearings of the doctrine from the time of the Sadducees of Judea down to the most recent Annihilationists of England and America. The Divine Attributes, including also the Divine Trinity; a Treatise on the Divine Love and Wisdom and Correspondence. From the "Apocalypse Explained" of Emmanuel Swedenborg. pp. 390. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. The Messrs. Lippincott recently republished a Life of Swedenborg by William White, an English author. We have now a volume forming a portion of the "Apocalypse Explained." It consists of five parts: The Divine Trinity; The Divine Attributes; The Divine Love; The Divine Wisdom and Correspondence. The work is neatly printed on fine tinted paper. "The Omnipotence of Loving Kindness;" being a Narrative of the Results of a Lady's Seven Months' Work among the Fallen in Glasgow. pp. 340. New York: Robert Carter & Brothers. This volume is a narrative of zealous labors by a Christian lady to restore the fallen women of Glasgow. During twelve months no fewer than two hundred and fifty girls were reclaimed The details will interest and instruct those who are devoting attention to social questions. A Walk to the Communion Table. By Rev. James R. Boyd. pp. 122. New York: Anson F. D. Randolph. Instruction, counsel, and guidance are here given in order that the communion table may be worthily approached. The object has been to prepare a brief devotional manual which may be easily perused prior to participating in the ordinance. Social Hints for Young Christians; in Three Sermons. By Howard Crosby, Pastor of the Fourth Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York. pp. 56. New York: Broughton & Wyman. In this neatly printed little volume we have three sermons preached by the author to the Young People's Christian Association of his church. The ments, etc., and under the latter head the theatre and opera, as they are now, are vehemently denounced as "satanic and soul-destroying." The See of St. Peter the Rock of the Church, the Source of Jurisdiction, and the Centre of Unity. By Thomas William Allies, A. M. pp. viii. 310. New York: Lawrence Kehoe. This is an English treatise on the Primacy, writ ten by Mr. Allies, while a member of the Church of England, when, upon leaving that church, he became a layman in the Catholic church. The present, the third edition, contains a lengthened preface addressed to Dr. Pusey, in which some of the recent phases of the question of ecclesiastical unity are discussed. Laurentia; a Tale of Japan. By Lady Georgiana Fullerton. pp. 215. Baltimore: Kelly & Piet. The object of the author is to illustrate, by incidents, for the most part founded on fact, the condition of the Church of Japan in the sixteenth century, and to exhibit the peculiar character of the Japanese converts to Christianity. It is a spirited, impressive narrative of missionary labor and of martyrdom. Griffith Gaunt; or, Jealousy. By Charles Reade. pp. 214. Boston: Ticknor & Fields. Mr. Reade displays all his power in this novel. and the discussion which it has occasioned will add to the desire to read it. "Who Breaks-Pays." By the author of " Cousin Stella," "Skirmishing," etc. pp. 302. New York: Leypoldt & Holt. We are quite sure that this story will gratify those who are fond of a novel that is really fresh and lively. It is written in a sprightly style, with plenty of incident to keep the attention on the alert, and the dialogue is really a pointed conversation rather than a mutually interchanged soliloquy. Helen Ford. By Horatio Alger, Jr. pp. 297. Boston: W. Loring. We have here a domestic story, the scene of which is laid in New York. It reads well enough, and. is not particularly good or particularly bad, though it has the negative merit of not being spasmodic in style or intricate in plot. The Lost Beauty; or, the Fatal Error. A Spanish Novel. pp. 291. Fanchon, the Cricket. By George Sand. pp. 230. These are the last two additions by T. B. Peterson & Brothers, Philadelphia, to their large and still increasing stock of fiction. For the first of them the publishers quote strong commendation from the "Edinburgh Review," and the second is the source of the popular and pleasing drama of the same name. Dr. Johns: being a Narrative of Certain Events in the Life of an Orthodox Minister of Connecticut. By the author of "My Farm of Edgewood." 2 vols., pp. 300, 295. New York: Charles Seribner & Co. Even those who have heretofore read this pleasant story by Mr. Mitchell, in a serial form, will not ob OCT. 15, 1866. The This is a beautiful volume, and one of the finest specimens of typography recently issued from the University Press. The open page, bright paper, and clear-faced type are really grateful to the eye. contents well deserve such tasteful accompaniment, for our authoress writes as from a true poetic impulse. Some of her productions possess a high order of merit, and the volume will please those who are fond of a style which is natural, earnest, and thoughtful, and free from labored verbal conits. The illustrations, fifteen in number, exclusive of the portrait, are generally well executed and expressive. The Picture of St John. By Bayard Taylor. pp. 220. Boston: Ticknor & Fields. This is probably Mr. Taylor's most elaborate and best considered poetical production. The experiment as to the form of the stanza is, we think, a success; due, however, to a most creditable and rather rare command of versification. The poem abounds with passages of extreme merit and power, and as a whole is fit to take place side by side with the best of recent poetical productions on either side of the Atlantic. The popularity which it will attain will not be sudden, but a growing one; for, as it is the result of study in its creation, so will it require study for its appreciation. Poems. By Elizabeth Akers (Florence Percy). pp. vi., 251. Boston: Ticknor & Fields. Here is a new addition to the "blue and gold" series which has become so popular with the lovers of well written and well manufactured books. Although none of the poetical productions contained in the present volume are of an elaborate character, the authoress will reflect no manner of discredit upon her gifted companionship. The Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson, Poet Loureute. pp. vi., 369. Boston: Ticknor & Fields. In this little volume we have what the publishers are well justified in calling a Diamond Edition. Α small faced type must of course be employed in such a work, but the page has, notwithstanding, a remarkable appearance of legibility. As a specimen of this sort of typography, it is most creditable to the taste and skill of Welch, Bigelow & Co. The entire volume is a complete success, and is both goland cheap. It contains all the poems of Tennyson, in a neat and compact form, for a price which brings the productions of the laureate within the reach of all. and simple language. Each of them is illustrated by a wood-engraving. One-armed Hugh, the Little Corn-Merchant: or, Ralph Gypsy's Cousin Joy. By G. Stuart Phelps, author Graves & Young, Boston, are the publishers of these juveniles. They are produced in an excellent style of manufacture, the paper is clear and stout, the type of good size, and the binding well done. Lucy Clifton. By Abby Eldridge. pp. 288. Alice and her Pupil, and Other Tales. pp. 216. The Path and The Lamp. pp. 242. The Presbyterian Board of Publication, Philadelphia, has added these volumes to their list of juveniles. By the late Rev. Martin Moore, of Boston, Mass. pp. 84. Pastoral Reminiscences. The Reign of Grace. By Thomas Chalmers, D. D. pp. 45. The American Tract Society, New York, issues both of these small volumes. MEDICAL. The Handbook for Mothers: a Guide in the Care of Young Children. By Edward H. Parker, M. D. pp. viii., 250. New York: Hurd & Houghton. The first edition of this work was well received, and was found to be useful to those to whom it was addressed. It has been the aim of the writer to make it a safe book to be placed in the hands of a mother, but at the same time one which will not make her believe that she can do without the ser vices of a physician when her child is sick. POLITICAL ECONOMY. The Science of Wealth; a Manual of Political Economy, embracing the Laws of Trade, Currency, and Finance. By Amasa Walker, Lecturer on Public Economy in Amherst College. pp. xxx., 478. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. with a manual containing the general principles of In the present work we are furnished not only Political Economy, but also with an analysis and description of the different currencies used in the and effects of the mixed-currency system of this commerce of the world, in order to exhibit the nature country. Perhaps the distinctive feature of the volume is the prominence given to the monetary question in its different bearings. The complex subject of taxation, in all its forms, as imposed by national, state, or municipal authority, has received a large share of attention. After presenting some definitions, the chapters treat successively of Production, Exchange, Distribution, and Consumption. SCHOOL BOOKS. Southern Pictorial Readers. 3 vols. pp. 60, 120, 168. New York: Richardson & Co. We have here three Readers which are issued as a portion of a general "Southern University Se ries." The object of these Readers is stated to be to give "representation to the productions of Southern intellect, the eloquence of Southern statesmen, and the sentiments of Southern writers." In all particulars, the Readers of this series are sought to be made as full, complete, and properly graduated, and in pictorial and mechanical features as attractive, as any before the public. Analytical First Reader. By OCT. 15, 1866. Richard Edwards, and general manufacture of the book are neat and This is a primer prepared on the plan of Webb's Word-Method, so modified as to enable those teachers who prefer to do so to teach the letters in connection with the words. MISCELLANEOUS. Treasures from the Prose Writings of John Milton. pp. viii., 486. Boston Ticknor & Fields. Character and Characteristic Men. By Edwin P. Fields. Mr. Whipple is well known as a lecturer, essay. ist, and reviewer. He is a vigorous thinker, expresses himself clearly, and is master of an elevated and rather stately style. His intellectualism is thoroughly healthy, his views of life are sound and judicious, and he affects no tricks or conceits of expression under the current delusion that such things constitute originality. There are twelve papers in the volume, and their subjects are Character; Eccentric Character; Intellectual Charac ter; Heroic Character; The American Mind; The English Mind; Thackeray; Hawthorne; Edward Everett; Thomas Starr King; Agassiz: Washington; and the Principles of the Revolution. Whoever reads the book will find it suggestive and scholarly, Spanish Papers and other Miscellanies, hitherto Un published or Uncollected. By Washington Irving. Arranged and edited by Pierre M. Irving. 2 vols., pp. xv., 466, 487. New York: G. P. Putnam; Hurd & Houghton. It is gratifying, at a time when the press is issuing so many publications of a trashy and ephemeral character, to meet with a volume like this, of undefiled English and noble thought. Although it is, in the phrase of Milton himself, like violating a tomb thus "to rake through the entrails" of a good old author, yet we suppose the preparation of such volumes of excerpts is necessary for a large body of readers; although, besides the mere act of necessary mutilation, the author may be positively misrepresented by suppressions. We do not see, however, that the gentleman who has prepared the present work could have done much better in the way of executing the plan he has adopted. He has gone through the various works chronologi- Some portions of these volumes have appeared cally, and extracted certain passages from each of before, though now out of print, and the part them, sometimes continuous, and sometimes with of them which appears for the first time is obomissions; in some instances indicating the sub-tained from the unpublished manuscripts beject of the passage by a head-line, but generally queathed to the editor by the author's will. The not doing so. There are no foot-notes explanatory papers thus collected are of a miscellaneous char of the text. The selections undoubtedly exhibit the best portions of Milton's prose, which is beyond all question the finest in the language. It should be read much more than it is, and we hope the present volume will do something towards calling attention to it. Appended to the volume is a list of Milton's prose works arranged in chronological order. Mr. Fellowes' translation of the Familiar Letters is referred to, but no mention is made of an excellent translation, with notes, by John Hall, published in Philadelphia, in 1829, by E. Littell. The index to the contents is an admirable help to their study, and the typography, paper, acter. The first volume, however, consists wholly of Legends and Chronicles illustrative of the wars between the Spaniards and Moors. The second volume contains a number of biographical sketches and reviews, most of which originally appeared in periodical publications. Among these is the allthor's first essay in print, which appeared in the "Morning Chronicle" of New York, and bears the date of November 15, 1802. The volumes are, of course, an indispensable supplement to the editions of Irving's works, and can be had in styles corresponding with the various forms in which they are issued by Hurd & Houghton. Charles Scribner & Co., New York. ANNOUNCEMENTS. The Handbook of English Literature. By Joseph The Constitutional Convention: Its History, Powers, son, Judge of the Superior Court of Chicago, Ill. Lange's Commentary on Acts. Edited by the Rev. Dr. Chas. F. Schaeffer. History of the Christian Church, from the Accession of Constantine the Great to the Pontificate of Gre- Studies in English; or, Glimpses of the Inner Life of History of England, from the Fall of Woly to the The Gain of a Loss. By the Author of " The Last Faith Unwin's Ordeal. By Miss Georgina Craik Lawrence Kehoe, New York. Sermons of the Paulist Fathers, for 1866. 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