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THE "Boston Gazette" says: Mr. B. P. Shillaber, who for so many years was the associate editor with W. W. Clapp, Esq., in the editorship of the Evening Gazette," and whose piquant sayings as Mrs. Partington, humorous sketches, and graceful poetry added so much to the attractiveness of the paper, has now a prominent position in the publishing house of Elliott, Thomes & Talbot, proprietors of the "Flag of our Union," "American Union," &c.

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THE "Tribune" notices a most extraordinary series of essays which are now publishing in the "London Reader," setting forth the most impious blasphemy in singularly polished language, and purporting to be Papers of a Suicide." The second of the series, termed "A Religious and Autobiographical Romance"-reviving, in language that reminds one rather vividly of one of the choruses in Mr. Swinburne's "Atalanta," where the maidens address "that Supreme evil God”'-one of the most curious and most utterly obsolete dreams of the oppressed Gnostic imagination. There is a hint that the papers are partly, if not altogether, dramatic, and that they are supposed to be written by a man with a germ of insanity in his blood-but still this hypothesis would scarcely be resorted to, to give color of probability to a very strange form of evil dream, were there not a wish on the part of the writer to revive that intellectual nightmare of an age of modern faith and unbelief. The Gnostic fancy to which we refer was, that the Jewish Scriptures were inspired by an inferior, and, to some extent, incapable God-the dimiurgos, as the Gnostics called him-who was the instrument, indeed, of creating the earth, and of governing it when created, but whose power was altogether limited by the matter with which he had to struggle in the task.

MR. H. N. MAGUIRE, formerly editor of the "Gentile" paper called the " Valley Tan," in Salt Lake City, and late of the "Helena (Montana) Gazette," is writing a work entitled "Settlements of the Rocky Mountains." It will appear in two

volumes.

"His

EMMA HARDINGE, long known as a "medium" and lecturer on spiritualism, is preparing a tory of Spiritualism in America," which will be published in two volumes. She has collected a vast amount of curious material, including per

sonal narratives, contributed by zealous believers, and full accounts of the different manifestations which have taken place in the United States since the first appearance of the Fox girls. Miss Hardinge has finished her public engagement at Dodworth Hall, and after a short tarry in the West will return to England to complete her book.

N. P. WILLIS.-We notice that Mr. Routledge, of London, announces Willis's Poems, with a memoir, the whole making a half-crown volume.

OBITUARY.-Mr. Charles F. Browne, generally known by his nom de plume "Artemus Ward," died at Southampton, in the South of England, on the 6th of March, aged 33. He was a native of Maine, and started into active life as compositor on a country newspaper, in which calling he soon became expert. At the age of fifteen his writings for newspapers commenced, but, as might be anticipated, were of small account. Going to the West, he became a reporter on a daily paper there, and in the “Clevelaud Plaindealer" commenced the eccentric sketches by "Artemus Ward, Showman." Although very hastily written, and elaborately mispelled, they attracted so much attention that their author was invited to join the staff of "Vanity Fair," by far the ablest and most long-lived of the comic and satirical papers ever published in New York. This connection continued for over three years, and, in the mean time, Mr. Browne started as a lecturer. in this capacity he was very popular, and circulated largely through the East, North, and West. He went to California, returning via Utah in 1864, and hence originated his latest and best lecture, on the Mormons, with characteristic illustrations. This proved a source of great profit to him, and, after a and towns in the Union, he went to London, where very successful tour throughout the principal cities his book had been republished and his name and particular talent as a humorist already known. He arrived there in last June, but his consumptive admitted into the charmed circle of contributors to tendency had already developed itself. He was

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humor of his previous writings. Next, he gave his Punch," but his articles lacked the spirit and Mormon lecture in London, and literally "took the city by storm," so well adapted was his manner to his matter. Three months at this, however, was too much for him, and he had to retire from the platform. He went to Jersey for a short time, bat from which he expected to sail for New York. He not getting better, returned to Southampton, a port was too far gone to attempt this, and was made aware, by the middle of February, that his recovery him in his last days, and his funeral, which was was hopeless. His English friends did not neglect his own country, who sincerely mourned his loss. almost a public one, was attended by many, not of

GOULD & LINCOLN, Boston, announce that the "Annual of Scientific Discovery," which for sixteen years regularly appeared, but, for reasons before indicated to the trade, the issue of which for 1866 was necessarily deferred, will be published on or about the 10th of March. Mr. Wells being prevented from attending to the preparation of the volume, the publishers have secured the services of Dr. Samuel Kneeland, connected with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The present volume will embrace two years (1866 and 1867), bringing up the progress of science to the latest dates, and will contain near 400 pages.

Mr. ARTHUR J. PEABODY, nephew of George Peabody, the philanthropic banker, has become associated, as a member, with the firm of Charles Scribner & Co., New York.

MAR. 15, 1867.

ANDREWS' HAWAIIAN DICTIONARY.-The printing work (1827) not only fails, it is said, in innumeraof this valuable work is now completed, and the ble instances, to convey the author's meaning, but sheets are in the hands of the binder. It consists omits nearly forty pages of the original German of 560 pages, octavo size, and will make a volume edition, printed at Berlin in 1800. The new and about the size of Webster's Counting-House Dic- correct edition will be in an octavo volume, on tionary. The book comprises: A Dictionary of the tinted paper, with a portrait of Madame Riedesel, Hawaiian Language, with English definitions (about engraved expressly for the edition, an engraving of 15.500 Hawaiian words have been collected and Smith's House, in which Gen. Frazer died, attended rendered into English); a vocabulary of the more by Mrs. Riedesel, sketched on the spot in 1818 by common English words rendered into Hawaiian, the late Theodore Dwight; a fac-simile of the vigabout 4000 in number; a chronological table of nette of Cape Diamond on the original title page, events in Hawaiian history; and a brief treatise on together with additional notes and comments, all the structure of the Hawaiian and other Polynesian comprised in a volume of about 300 pages, forming dialects. the 6th volume of "Munsell's Series of Local American History." Mr. Stone is also engaged on a translation of the "Life and Writings of General Riedesel," edited at Berlin, in 1856, by Max von Elking, which, relating principally to the campaign in Northern New York, will be issued as one of the same series. Besides Riedesel's military and personal journal during his residence in America, the work contains many letters from Washington, Gates, Burgoyne, and other Revolutionary characters, which have never been published in English. Mr. Munsell also has in press "A Memorial Volume of the Half Century Celebration of Hartwick Seminary."

WILL be published March 25th, 1867, "Mr. Secretary Pepys, with Extracts from his Diary," by Allan Grant, one volume cabinet size, illustrated with a steel engraving from Sir Godfrey Kneller's portrait. Behind the nomme de plume of Allan Grant, a well-known litterateur of New York has in this volume given to the American public a memoir of Samuel Pepys, together with the cream of his famous journal, which he kept during the reigns of Charles II. and his successor, James II., of G reat Britain. The American editor proposes to place within the reach of all the best things from the expensive four-volume London edition of Pepy's Diary. A memoir of the Secretary, brief notices of the individuals mentioned in the Diary, and a minute index will be added to the volume. James Porteus, New York, is general agent.

NEW AMENDMENT OF THE COPYRIGHT LAWS.-An act amendatory of the several acts respecting copyrights :

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That every proprietor of a book, pamphlet, map, chart, musical composition, print, engraving, or photograph, for which a copyright shall have been secured, who shall fail to deliver to the Library of Congress at Washington a printed copy of every such book, pamphlet, map, chart, musical composition, print, engraving, or photograph, within one month after publication thereof, shall, for every such default, be subject to a penalty of twenty-five dollars, to be collected, at the suit of the Librarian of Congress, as other penalties of like amount are now collected by law.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That every such proprietor may transmit any book, pamphlet, map, chart, musical composition, print, engraving, or photograph, for which he may have secured a copyright, to the Librarian of Congress, by mail free of postage, provided the words "copyright matter" be plainly written or printed on the outside of the package containing the same; and it shall be the duty of the several postmasters and deputy postmasters to give a receipt for the same, if requested, when such package shall be delivered to them, or any of them, and to see that the same is safely forwarded to its destination by mail, without cost or charge to said proprietor.

Approved February 18, 1867.

All copyright matter should be plainly addressed to the "Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C.," and indorsed "Copyright Matter," to insure its transmission free of postage.

MR. J. MUNSELL, Albany, has in press the "Memoirs and Letters of Madame Riedesel, relating to the War of American Independence and the Capture of the German Troops at Saratoga, 1777." It is a new translation by William L. Stone, author of the "Life and Times of Sir Wm. Johnson." These memoirs of Madame Riedesel have long been out of print. The first and only translation of the

It will contain the historical address

of the Rev. Henry N. Pohlman, D. D., and other papers and documents of historical interest, relating to the institution and its founder, John Christopher Hartwick; also "Microcosmography; or a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters," by John Earle, Bishop of Salisbury, with notes and appendix by Phillip Bliss. First American edition. Edited by L. L. Williams. This curious work was first printed in 1628, and had six editions during that century, under the pseudonym of Edward Blount. Since then several editions have appeared; the last one in 1811, with notes and appendices, among which is a bibliographical list of books of this character. The present edition is printed from a copy belonging to the library of the late John Taylor, and its variations from the first edition are noted. The character of the author was delineated by Isaac Walton.

MR. L. W. SCHMIDT, German bookseller, New York, has lately made the exportation to Germany and the continent of Europe his speciality. All the German bookhouses and most of the French, Italian, Russian, and other bookhouses of the continent of Europe have, we believe, heretofore been generally supplied with American books by way of England. As these houses have their agents at Leipsic, the centre of German and continental book trade, and get weekly packages from there, it is thought they will receive American books and periodicals quicker and cheaper by the new arrangement. Mr. Schmidt executes his orders by shipping packages to his agent at Leipsic, who distributes them to the different agents.

MANSE TRACY WALWORTH, author of "Hotspur," "Stormcliff," and one or two other works of romance, is engaged on a society novel to be called "Bleeding Hearts." The book is to be published in New York, and will be dedicated to Morris Phillips, one of the editors of the "Home Journal.”

BOOK TRADE TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO.-Mr. Editor: In looking over some old catalogues to-day I came across one headed "First Boston Book Fair," &c. &c., held June 21, 1842, and conducted by Harrison Gray, at 107 Washington street, Boston, and, by chance, a few of the prices are marked, with the purchasers' names, and, as most of them are deceased, it will be no breach of etiquette to give them, so here they are:

MAR. 15, 1867.

Stereotype Plates.-Boyer's Dictionary, $1,950 (Samuel Shattuck); Donnegan's Lexicon, $6,350 (Wilkins & Carter); Colburn's First Lessons in Arithmetic, $3,800 (W. J. Reynolds); Adams' Latin Grammar, $2,150; Leverett's Journal, $375; Hedge's Logic, $600; Newman and Baretti's Spanish Dictionary, 2 vols., $1,800 (Wilkins & Carter). These are all that are worthy of note, but as some folks think stereotypes are high now, they will see that good books then commanded good prices, if sold at public auction. These were real sales, and W. & C. published those they bought, and finally sold them. Boyer and Donnegan are, I think, owned in Philadelphia.

D. BIBLIOTHECA AMERICANA.-Mr. William Gowans, New York, has just issued a catalogue [No. 13], containing, among other things, a series of reprints of rare old books and pamphlets of history, biography, topography, narrative and poetry relating to the early settlement of North America, together with remainders of editions by other publishers of some odd works not usually met with in catalogues. THE AMERICAN NEWS COMPANY's advertisement in our present number shows how extensively the department of newspaper publications has been organized by that enterprising and flourishing association. The wholesale supply of public journals is a new feature of trade in this country, though it has been practised for a long time in London. This is only one branch of the business of the Company. Its publication and general booksale and stationery business is assuming improving dimensions.

UNIFORM TRADE LIST CIRCULAR.-Mr. Howard Challen, Philadelphia, proposes to publish a special edition of the six numbers of his admirable Trade List Circular, containing the trade list of over one hundred publishers with corrections to date. is prepared to receive advertisements.

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AMERICAN BOOKS IN ENGLAND.—The "Athenæum," reviewing recent books by our Whittier, Whipple, and Thoreau, says: "But whilst the Americans are daily readers of our literature, and through it constant observers of the best features of our political and social existence, it is matter for regret that England does not take a corresponding interest in

the native literature of the States. Of course there

is an imposing roll of American authors who have been thoroughly adopted as captains of thought by the intellectual rank and file of this country. Longfellow is not less popular in London than Tennyson in New York or Boston; Cooper is read in Old almost as widely as Walter Scott in New England; the novels of Washington Irving are as much works of universal and permanent interest in the cities and villages of Great Britain as the tales of Charles Dickens are affairs of familiar conversation throughout the Union; Prescott, Bancroft, and Holmes are names that glitter on the shelves of every well-furnished library on this side

of the Atlantic."

ANOTHER ROYAL AUTHOR.-It has been stated that Queen Victoria employs some of her leisure hours in writing a book which will soon be published, and the "Athenæum" "thinks it probable that her majesty is engaged, with the assistance of her Helps, in writing a memoir of the late Prince Consort."

MISS MARTINEAU.-This veteran authoress has now on hand "A British Friendship," which will be her closing literary labor, and will not be sold, but distributed among her own friends, and the friends of the late Lords Canning and Elgin, whose memoirs it will contain. These noblemen, with the late Lord Dalhousie, were at Oxford University together, and each, in turn, was Viceroy of India.

VICTOR COUSIN.-This eminent French writer, lately deceased, has bequeathed his books, a very valuable collection, to the library of the Sorbonne.

BYRON'S PLACE OF BIRTH.-It is known that Lord Byron was born on January 22d, 1788, at 24 Holles Street, Cavendish Square, London. Following the French example, the Society of Arts, with permis sion of the present owners of the house, have attached to it a neat tablet of terra-cotta, with white letters on a blue ground, recording the natal fact.

CHARLES LEVER.-This veteran novelist, whose nom de plume has been "Harry Lorrequer," from the first, over thirty years ago, is reported as having been promoted by Lord Stanley, from the British consulate at Spezzia, in Italy, to that of Trieste, in the Austrian dominions. It may be a promotion, but cannot be a gain, for the salary at Spezzia is £250, while that at Trieste is only £100 a year.

THE RIVAL" Belgravias."—It is announced that

the monthly magazine, called "Belgravia," published by the proprietors of " London Society" ahead of the "Belgravia" edited by Miss Braddon, will be converted into a weekly illustrated magazine, which will also be issued in monthly parts. Miss Braddon's publication, which has been remarkably successful, will be continued, of course, as monthly. Her own story in it, "Birds of Prey," is full of incident, character, and sensation.

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PRINTED PEDIGREES.-Many Americans, who desire to trace the descent of their families in the "old country," may like to know that there has just been published in London a volume by Charles Bridger, entitled "An Index to Printed Pedigrees, contained in County and Local Histories, the Heralds' Visitations, and the more important Genealogical Collections." It contains over 15,000 references, and is a similar work to "Sims' Index of Pedigrees," in the MSS. in the British Museumbeing for printed books what Sims' is for manuscripts.

SHAKSPEARE'S SONNETS.-M. Philarète Chasles, of the Mazarin Library, Paris, has again communicated to the London "Athenæum" a discovery of his relative to the dedication of Shakspeare's Sonnets, dressed as "the only Begetter of these Insuing by Thomas Thorpe. He says that the person adSonnets" is Lord Southampton; that "the wellwishing Adventurer" is Thomas Thorpe himself, the publisher (who risked his money), and that "Mr. W. H.," set down as "the well-wishing," who really dedicates the volume to the nobleman, was not William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, but the wife (she survived the poet six years)—in other younger brother of Ann Hathaway, Shakspeare's words, William Hathaway, to whom the poems were probably presented by Shakspeare. M. Chasles volume on Shakspeare, on which he has been ten promises to substantiate his case in a forthcoming years engaged, which will be, he says, "the modest, but complete, mature, and definite result of my long researches on the subject." His conjecture (for it is no more) is better than the German idea that "W. H." meant William Himself, or Gerald Massey's that it was Lord Pembroke. Unfortunately, as the best and oldest book tells us, there is no

thing new under the sun.

MAR. 15, 1867.

ANOTHER NOBLE AUTHOR.-Viscount Pollington,
eldest son of the Earl of Mexborough, has just pub-
lished, in one volume, with map, a record of travel
and general adventure, entitled "Half Round the
World."

PERIODICALS.

Methodist Quarterly Church Review. January.

The Rev. Samuel Neill,
who dates "Moffat, N. B." and signs "Rector"
(which mostly means schoolmaster, in Scotland,
where there are no church rectories) has written a
letter on M. Chasles' communication, to say that
as far back as January, 1861, he published a small
shilling volume entitled "Shakspeare; a Critical
Biography," in which an argument for supposing
that "Mr. W. H." was William Hathaway is given
Hurst's History of Rationalism (Rev. J. McClin-
at length, and that he repeated the statement in tock).-The United States and Methodism (Prof. S.
two literary journals in 1864 and in 1865. In the D. Hillman).—Adam Clarke as a Preacher (Rev.
latter year, too, an Inverness paper stated that S. Dunn).-Reprobation (C. A. Etalii, D. D.).—The
"Mr Neill believes that the mysterious personage New Testament Idea of the Pastoral Office (Rev. M.
was William Hathaway, brother-in-law of the J. Cramer).-The_Wesleyan University.-Dr. A.
poet." In January, 1862, M. Philarète Chasles' W. Smith (G. P. Disosway, Esq.).-Foreign Reli-
first communication touching Hathaway was pub-gious Intelligence.-Foreign Literary Intelligence.
lished in the "Athenæum," whereupon Mr. Neill's Synopsis of the Quarterlies.-Quarterly Book
volume, published twelve months earlier, was sent Table.-Plan of Episcopal Visitation, 1867. New
to him at Paris, and its receipt duly acknowledged York: Carlton & Porter.
by his secretary. It would seem, therefore, what-
ever the value of the discovery or conjecture, that
the French critic is not entitled to its credit.

"EYES AND NO EYES."-This is the title of a new
monthly magazine on Natural History, etc., for the
West of England, edited by the Rev. W. Tuckwell,
M. A., at the College School, Taunton. It will
be devoted to local and general Meteorology and
Natural History. The first number was advertised
to appear on the first of March, and the title, which
is very declarative, has evidently been suggested
by the tale familiar to children of the last gene-
ration, of the two boys who went into the country
on a holiday-one observing nothing, and the other
coming home laden with information and observa-
tion; he having used his eyes in fact.

ANGLICAN CHURCH.-The fifth volume of Dean
Hook's "Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury,'
completing the Pre-Reformation period, has just
been published in London.

TEXTILE MATERIALS FOR PAPER.-The following
substitutes for rags in paper making are now ac-
tually in use: abaca (Manilla hemp), agave of
Cuba (American aloe, or century plant), cultivated
hemp, white hemp of Hayti, Indian hemp, cotton,
acacia, fibres of aloes, Spanish broom, silkweed,
hops, jute (Bengal hemp), down of the date tree,
common flax, Chinese hemp, textile mallows, paper
mulberry, Chinese nettle, New Zealand flax, fibres
of false aloes, esparto, linden-tree, yucca

TENNYSON, THE POET.-What is called a "New
Cyclus of Seven Songs," by Mr. Tennyson, will ap-
pear before Easter, with illustrations by Mr. Millais,
R. A., and music by Mr. A. S. Sullivan.

BRITISH HISTORY.-Another "History of the Nor-
man Conquest of England; its Causes and Results,"
is announced in London as nearly ready; or, rather,
the preliminary History to the Election of Edward
the Confessor. The author is Edward A. Freeman,
M. A., late Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford.

A BOOK ON ROMAN ANTIQUITIES.-The London
"Athenæum" says: "The work on the 'Antiqui-
ties of the Roman town of Uriconium (Wroxeter),'
by Mr. Thomas Wright, under whose directions the
excavations were carried on, which has so long
been delayed, will shortly be ready for publication.
It will contain a full account of the excavations
and of the discoveries which resulted from them,
as well as of the light they throw on the history,
condition, and manners of the inhabitants of our
island during the Roman period. We believe that
efforts are in contemplation to recommence the ex-
cavations on this interesting site.”

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Monthly Religious Magazine. March.

The New Portraiture of Jesus (Rev. E. H. Sears).
-The Epistle of Barnabas (S.).—The Pine on Monte
Mario (C. T. B.).-Christ Crucified and Glorified
(W. H. Kimball).-God in the Storm: a Sermon
(Rev. R. Ellis).-Beauty for Ashes (Rev. C. T.
Brooks). -Taunton Church (R. F. F.). - Emily
Cobbe (Mrs. L. J. Hall).-A November Problem
(Z.).-Corporal Punishment as a Means of Moral
Discipline (J. C. K.).—Hymns from the German
(N. L. F.).-Respectable Gambling (S. G. Bulfinch,
D. D.).-Spirit of the Religious Press.-Random
Readings.-Literary Notices. Boston: L. C. Bowles.
The Galaxy. March 15.

Waiting for the Verdict: Chaps. VI., VII., and VIII.
(Mrs. R. H. Davis).-A Literary Couple (Pamela
and their Uses (R. G. White).-George Sand and
Penfeather).-Zisca's Drum (C. A. M.).—Words
(J. H. Pell).-Pickpockets (C. Thomson).-The
her Works (E. Benson).-A By-Way of History
Alchymist (Arthur Fleming).-Reminiscences of a
Parisian Atelier (Ion Perdicaris).-Poets (Paul H.
Hayne).-Capt. Tom's Fright (C. L. N.). The
Bankers of the Poor (E. Howland).-Miss Dix, and
What She has Done (L. J. Bigelow).-Napoleon
III. and the Press (H. A. Delille).-Mr. Swinburne;
a Sketch (W. W. Reade).-Nebula (The Editor).
New York: W. C. & F. P. Church.
Christian Examiner. March.

Christianity and Pseudo-Christianity (E. C.
Towne).-Lessing (F. Tiffany).-Schenkel's Cha-
racter of Jesus (J. W. Chadwick).-Herbert Spencer
and his Reviewers (E. L. Youmans).-Crete and the
Cretans (H. J. Warner).-Review of Current Lite-
rature. New Publications Received. New York:
J. Miller.

The Catholic World. March.

-

The Catholic Ceremonial.-Madame de Swetchine.
The Cry.-The Answer.-The Godfrey Family.—
On the Cure of Bartimeus.-Origen at Cæsarea.-
The Tale of a Tombstone. - Light. - Mediæval
Books and Hymns.-Robert; or, the Influence of a
good Mother. "Inconsolabile."- Christina G.
Rossetti.-The Test.-What I heard about Ritual-
ism in a City Car.-The Barren Fig Tree and the
Cross.-Miscellany. - New Publications. N. Y. :
Lawrence Kehoe.

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The Contemporary Review. February.

Robert Browning: Second Paper.-Public Schools
(Rev. Thomas Markby).-A Legend of the Council
of Nice (Cecil Francis Alexander).-Metrical Tune
Books (R. G. Hatherly).-Apollonius of Tyana
(Rev. J. S. Watson).-Eugénie de Guérin (J. C.
Colquhoun).--Mediæval Universities (T. Helfen-
stein).-Jottings from Danish Theology (Rev. W.
C. Dowding).-Notices of Books. Strahan & Co.

MAR. 15, 1867.

RELIGIOUS. Our Father's Business. pp. 278.

BOOK NOTICES.

Out of Harness: Sketches, Narrative and Descriptive. pp. 388.

Each of these works is by Dr. Thomas Guthrie, editor of "The Sunday Magazine," and they are published by Alexander Strahan & Co., New York. The first of them consists of a collection of papers "Our of a religious character, the subjects being Model," "Our Chief End," "Christian Decision," "The Christian's Work," "Perseverance in Welldoing," "Man's Inability," "God's Ability," "The Believer's Reward," ," "Good Works." The second work is more diversified in its style and contents, and will be found by the general reader to be of

an extremely interesting character. The leading
of the Cowgate,'
," "Watch-Night," " 'Unforgiving and
Unforgiven." It is unnecessary to say that, like
all the other issues of Strahan & Co., the volumes
are produced in an excellent style of manufacture.
In the World, not of the World: Thoughts on Chris-
tian Casuistry. By William Adams, D. D., Madi-
son Square Church, New York City. pp. 64. New
York: American Tract Society.

articles in it are "The Streets of Paris," "Sketches

Dr. Adams has collected in this little volume some judicious thoughts on a subject which would bear more expanded treatment. His key-note is found in a citation from Vinet-"Love is the best casuist."

Rachel Comforted: Thoughts for the Consolation of
Bereaved Parents. pp. 56. New York: Pott &
Amery.

In this neatly-printed little volume the author offers words of Christian consolation to parents who are mourning the loss of children.

Bogatzky's Golden Treasury. pp. xv., 376. New
York: Robert Carter & Brothers.

This is a neat, compact, convenient form of a
work of standard devotional character.
Sermons. By Alexander Hamilton Vinton, Rector
of St. Mark's Church, New York. pp. vi., 330.
Boston: E. P. Dutton & Co.

Dr. Vinton's ability as a sermonizer is well known. There are eighteen discourses collected here, all exhibiting the fervor and eloquence of the speaker. The tone is devout and elevated, and there is an entire absence of that sensational ele

ment which is beginning to too great an extent to enter into pulpit performances.

The Restoration of Belief. By Isaac Taylor. A new edition, revised, with an additional section. pp. 389. Boston: E. P. Dutton & Co.

In the

The forcible logic and masculine expression
which mark this work are well known.
present edition a new section is added on the
present position of the argument concerning Chris-
tianity, with references to Rénan.

A New Translation of Job, Ecclesiastes, and the
Canticles; with Introductions and Notes, chiefly
Explanatory. pp. 357.

A New Translation of the Book of Psalms and of
Proverbs, with Introductions and Notes, chiefly Ex-
planatory. pp. 421.

These are by Prof. George R. Noyes, of Harvard University, and published by the American Unitarian Association of Boston. Each is a third and revised edition. They are volumes with which biblical students are familiar. The introductions present a full exposition of the various views enter

tained of the respective books, and the notes are
copious in textual criticism. The latest results of
English and German investigations are embodied,
and the student and even the general reader of
these delightful portions of the Old Testament will
find these commentaries a very valuable auxiliary.
From things
Heaven and its Wonders, and Hell.
heard and seen. By Emanuel Swedenborg. pp.
453. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co.
We have here a continuation of the series of
works of Swedenborg now being issued by Lippin-
cott & Co. The volumes are presented in an ex-
cellent style of typography and printed on delicately
tinted paper of fine quality.

EDUCATIONAL.

Outlines of Mathematical Science, for the School
Room. By Charles Davies, LL. D. pp. 168. New
York: A. S. Barnes & Co.

It is intended by this work to furnish to the teacher a guide in expounding to his class those elementary ideas of number and space which constitute the foundation of mathematics. It is stated to be an analysis, in abridged form, of the system of mathematical instruction which has been pursued at the Military Academy for over a quarter of a century. The effort of the author has been, not to indulge in abstract disquisition, but to furnish to the teacher a suggestive and practical guide in unfolding the logic of mathematics, the science of numbers, and their applications in geometry and algebra. Several sections are devoted to the Metrie System.

Easy German Reading, after a New System: being a
Selection of Historical Tales and Anecdotes, ar-
ranged with Copious Foot-notes. By George Storme.
New edition, revised by Edward A. Oppen. pp.
X., 206.
New York: Leypoldt & Holt.

The leading feature of this reader is that a vocabulary is dispensed with, and the significations of many of the words, with an indication of their inflection, are contained in foot-notes, in direct connection with each reading lesson.

MEDICAL.

Methomania: A Treatise on Alcoholic Poisoning. By
Alfred Day, M. D., with an Appendix by Horatio
R. Storer, M. D. 12mo. pp. 70. Boston: James
Campbell.

A small essay upon a very important subject:
Are all stimulants poisonous? If not, the dis-
covery of some one capable of gratifying that in-
stinct which pervades all nations, would appear to
be the only means for preventing the evils and dis-
eases which result from alcohol.
The Science and Practice of Medicine. By William
Aikin, M. D., etc. etc. From the fourth London
edition, with additions by Meredith Clymer, M. D.
Vol. 2, 8vo. pp. 1114. Phila. : Lindsay & Blak-
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We noticed the publication of the`rst volume of this work some time since, the second hich pletes it, is now issued. The two volum contain two thousand and fifty-nine pages, the itions made by the American editor being equal hundred and thirty pages of the English The clear and methodical style in which it is ten, as well as the fact that it contains the la discoveries in the treatment and managemen disease, adapts it in an eminent manner as a t book for students. The chapters on diseases of mouth, parasites, etc., are well illustrated by

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