to Galilee.

Thus, to take the beautiful parable of the good Samaritan, which appears to have been spoken on the way to Bethany, we are forcibly reminded of its appropriateness by the still traceable characteristics of the locality. We still see the "long descent of three thousand feet by which the traveler went down from Jerusalem, on its high table-land, to Jericho in the Jordan valley."

From this valley we might, even still, expect to see issuing the Bedouin "robbers," who to this day make it impossible for the pilgrim to pass without a Turkish guard, and who still, as in the days of the parable, fall upon the traveler, strip him naked, beat him severely, and leave him to die.

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To this day it is only "by chance" that, on that unfrequented road, the aid of a passing traveler could be hoped for; and of the three 'passers by" of the parable, two at least were just those whose presence would be most natural in that locality, the priest and the Levite going or returning between the two sacerdotal cities of Jericho and Jerusalem, while the solitary Samaritan might also be expected, if at all within the Jewish border, upon the great thoroughfare between two such stations.

The "inn" of the Gospel might still be almost identified in a rude hospice which stands on the mountain side about. half way between Jerusalem and Jericho.

How THE MEANING OF WORDS CHANGE.In Shakspeare's time the word miscreant meant simply an unbeliever; Talbot, calling Joan of Are a miscreant, intimated only that she had fallen from the faith. Influence, among the earlier English poets, meant only that power over mortals which planets were supposed to exercise. Nephew, as used by Hooker, Shakspeare, and others of the Elizabethan era, denoted grand-children and other lineal descendants. Kindly fruits, as used in the Litany, also simply denote the natural fruits, or those which the earth, according to his kind, should bring forth. The word girl was, at one time, applied indiscriminately to young persons of either

sex.

Until the reign of Charles the First the word acre meant any field of whatever size. Furlong denoted the length of a furrow, or a furrow long. Also, the words yard, peck, and gal

lon, were once of a vague, unsettled use, and only at a later date, and in obedience to the later requirements of commerce and social life, were they used to denote exact measure. The term meat, now applicable to flesh only, was once applied to all food. Baffled (defeated) was applied, in the days of chivalry, to a recreant knight, who was, either in person or effigy, hung up by the heels, his escutcheon blotted, his spear broken, and himself or his effigy subjected to all sorts of indignities.

SMALL CHANGE.

A BANKER IN TROUBLE.-The following anecdote of the Court of Russia, in the reign of the Empress Catharine, forcibly illustrates the vital importance of understanding orders, particularly when given by those high in authority:

"A rich foreigner, named Sutherland, naturalized in Russia, was banker to the court, and in high favor with the empress. He was roused one morning by the information that his house was surrounded with guards, and that Reliew, the Minister of Police, desired to speak with him. This person entering, without further ceremony, at once announced his errand. Mr. Sutherland,' said he, I am charged by my gracious sovereign with the execution of a sentence, the severity of which both astonishes and grieves me; and I am ignorant as to how you can have so far excited the resentment of her majesty.' 'I am as much in the dark as yourself,' replied the banker. But what are your orders?" I have not courage to tell you,' said Reliew. Have I lost the confidence of the empress ?' inquired the banker. If that were all you would not see me troubled,' said Reliew; confidence may return; position may be restored.' 'Am I to be sent back to my own country, or, good heavens!' cried the banker, trembling, does the empress think of banishing me to Siberia?' 'Alas! you might some day return,' said Reliew. Ain I to be knouted ?" inquired the agitated banker. This punishment is fearful," said Reliew, but it does not kill." Is my life, then, in peril? exclaimed the banker. But I cannot be lieve that; for the empress, usually so mild, so gentle, spoke to me so kindly only two days since-tis impossible! For heaven's sake, let me know the worst. said Reliew in a melancholy tone, my gracious misAnything is better than this suspense.' 'Well, then,' tress has ordered me to have you stuffed. Stuffed ! cried the banker, horrified. Yes, stuffed with straw," continued Reliew. Sutherland looked fixedly at the minister of police an instant, and then exclaimed, 'Sir, either you have lost your reason or the empress is not in her right senses! Surely you did not receive such a command without endeavoring at least to point out its unreasonableness-its barbarity. Alas! my unfortunate friend, I did that which, under ordinary cir cumstances, I should not dare attempt,' said Reliew; I manifested my grief, my consternation; I even hazarded a remonstrance; but her imperial majesty, in an irritated tone, bade me leave her presence, and see her commands obeyed at once, adding these words, which are still ringing in my ears, "Go, and forget not that it is your duty to acquit yourself, without a murmur, of any commission with which I may deign to trust you."

It would be impossible to depict the hor ror, the despair, of the unhappy banker. After waiting till the first burst of grief was over, Reliew informed him that he would be allowed a quarter of an hour to settle his worldly affairs. Sutherland wept, and prayed. and entreated the minister of police to take a petition from him to the empress. Overcome by his supplications, the magistrate consented to be his messenger, and took charge of the missive; but afraid to return to the palace, he hastily presented himself at the resi dence of Earl Bruce, the English embassador, and explained the affair to him. The embassador, very naturally, supposed the minister of police had become insane, but bidding him follow, he hurried to the palace. Introduced into the imperial presence, he told his story with as little delay as possible. Merciful Heaven exclaimed Catharine, on hearing this strange recital, what a dreadful mistake! Reliew must have lost his wits. Run quickly, my lord, I beg, and de

sire that madman to relieve my poor banker of his groundless fears, and to set him at liberty immediately. The earl left the room to do as her majesty requested, and on his return found Catharine laughing immoderately. I see now,' said she, the cause of this inconceivably absurd blunder. I had for some years a little dog, to which I was much attached. I called him Sutherland, because that was the name of the gentleman who presented him to me. This dog has just died, and I gave Reliew orders to have him stuffed; but as he for some time hesitated, I became angry, supposing that, from a foolish excess of pride, he thought this commission against his dignity. That,' added Catharine, in conclusion, is the solution of this enigma.'"

A MARRIAGE CEREMONY AMONG THE HAWKEYES. -A correspondent of a New-York paper, who had been spending some time in Iowa, gives the following singular account of a marriage ceremony among the Hawkeyes:

"Since I came home I have received a letter from 'Cousin Hannah,' the youngest daughter of the Squire in the town in Iowa in which she at present resides, containing the following account of a marriage under peculiar circumstances: Talking about weddings, writes my cousin, calls to mind one that took place in the suburbs of this city, and as it was a very important affair, I suppose you would like to have an account of it. Well, to commence: Father was called to marry a young couple, so putting on his chicken fixings,' he was escorted down to the place where you went hunting last summer in the woods,' and there we found a mansion which was seven feet front and nine feet deep, and, unfortunately, it was so low that father could not straighten in it, he being about six feet high. The furniture consisted of one small shelf, on which lay a large coon, minus the hide, and covered with a rag; neither chair, sofa, nor table graced the establishment. Within this beautiful establishment was the bride, dressed in what had been a calico dress, but was so disfigured by grease and patches, that it took a close inspection to tell what it had been. After we had taken a survey of this abode, the groom came in dressed in a dirty cotton shirt, slouched hat, and pants made up of all kinds of cloth of different colors. 'How are you, sir? I reckon you're the Squire, ain't you?' 'Yes, sir,' was the answer. 'Well, Squire, I've got a little job for you: can you tie a knot for us?' Certainly, sir.' 'Well, come ahead, Squire.' Whereupon, father, raising himself as well as he could, commenced a prefatory speech. My young friends, this is a very solemn engagement- I know it-that's a fact,' said the groom, taking the chance of a pause in the speech. He then raised himself, and catching the lady' by the hand, exclaimed, Come, hurry up, Squire, crack her through!" Wait a moment,' said the Squire; what is your name? My name is William S'Well, William, do you take this woman to be your wedded wife ? Of course I do-that's the calculation all the time.' Then turning to the lady,' the Squire said, 'Do you take this man to be your husband?' Well, I do-that's the entention.' Here the Squire had to stop to get a new supply of gravity, as his old stock was exhausted. Come, hurry up and crack her through!' repeated the bridegroom. Again the Squire commenced, and finally pronounced them man and wife. That's it, Squire, that's it!' exclaimed the delighted groom; much obliged to you till you're better paid. See here, Squire, I've got a half a cord of good dry wood down here, and if you will haul it you may have the hull on it for doing the job so nice.' Squire Kt sloped with another laughable yarn'

for his neighbors."

A DISTINCTION WIth a Difference.-Some years ago, when Mormonism was rampant, and Millerite preachers began to abound in NewEngland, a reverend divine, a man at once of infinite eccentricity, good sense, and good humor, encountered one of these irregular practitioners at the house of one of his flock. They had a pretty hot discussion on their points of difference, and at length the interloper, finding more than his match at polemics, wound up by saying:

"Well, doctor, you'll at least allow that it

was commanded to preach the Gospel to every critter."

"True," rejoined the doctor, "true enough. But then I never did hear that it was commanded to every critter' to preach the Gospel."

This was similar to the retort given by another minister, in reply to one who quoted the Scriptural assertion, that men are saved by the foolishness of preaching:

"True," said he, "but not by foolish preaching, else had the world all been saved long ago."

Expwessing stwong

Wage against wong

Ah sneewingly tawn vawtuous indignation!"

CANES.-John A. Washington, the occupant of Mount Vernon estate, has sold to James Crutchett, of Washington, several thousand trees on the Mount Vernon property, and most of them from the hill on which the Tomb of Washington stands. This timber is manufactured into canes, and a portion of the proceeds will be used for the purchase of materials for the Washington National Monument.

We cut the above from one of our exchange papers. In another we find the fact thus versified:

"Dead millionaires at Greenwood
Lie royally in state,

Their tombs have rich appointments--
Marble sculpture, metal gate.
But the grave of Pater Patria

Is desolate and bare,

Though it nets on exhibition
A nice income for his heir.
"The groves of England's Windsor
No woodman's ax invades;
They stand as when the Tudors

Chased deer beneath their shades;
But the forests of Mount Vernon
Guarding Washington's remains,
Are sold on speculation,

To be peddled out in canes."
Who says Republics are ungrateful?

RIGHT TO THE LETTER.-Judge R., of this state, was some years since engaged in the defense of a suit against old Parson C. In the course of the trial one or two witnesses testified to one or two facts concerning the worthy parson, which were rather derogatory to his character as a parson. Judge R. handled the poor witnesses without gloves, and declared

that he had known the old parson from his boyhood; had gamboled with him many a summer's day in the shady hills of old M. county."

"O! judge," says the parson, " stop, I pray

INEDITED POETRY BY BURNS.-When Burns was in Edinburgh, he was introduced by a friend to the studio of a well-known painter, whom he found engaged on a representation of "Jacob's Dream." After minutely examining the work, he wrote the following verses on the back of a little sketch, which is still preserved in the painter's family. It is highly characteristic of the man:

"Dear I'll gie ye some advice,
You'll take it no uncivil;
You shouldna paint at Angels, man,
But try and paint the Divil.
To paint an Angel's kittle wark,

Wi' auld Nick there's less danger;
You'll easy paint a weel-kent face,
But no sa weel a stranger."

In the campaign of '44 Henry Clay was the Whig candidate. A Liberty party man, making a speech somewhere in New Hampshire, objected very strongly to the gallant Kentuckian on the ground of his being a duelist. This done, he began to glorify his own party as small in numbers, but destined to achieve great things. He compared it to David going forth with sling and stones to combat with the gigantic Goliath. Piling up the eloquence, he reached the climax at last, and cried out: "And then, then, fellow-citizens, what did David do?" "Fit a duel, sir," came in shrill tones from one of the assembly.

Moore mentions a very amusing anecdote of John Kemble. He was performing one night in a country theater, in a favorite part, and being interrupted from time to time by the squalling of a child in one of the galleries, he came out not a little angry at the rival performance. Walking with a solemn step to the front of the stage, and addressing the audience in his most tragic tone, he said: "Unless the play is stopped the child cannot possibly go on." The

loud laugh which followed this ridiculous transposition of his meaning, relaxed even the nerves of Hamlet, and he was compelled to laugh with his auditors.

Woman is like ivy-the more you are ruined the closer she clings to you. A vile old bachelor adds: Ivy is like woman-the closer it clings to you the more you are ruined. Poor rule that don't work both ways.

This, we presume, was the same bachelor who being asked if he had ever witnessed a public execution, replied, "No; but I once saw a marriage."

BARE SKINS AND FURS.-The editor of the Cynthiana (Ky.) Age having recently attended a ball, says:

"We noticed a great variety of female costume at the last Bachelors Ball. Some of the ladies danced with warm fur capes, made of otter or sable, while others had their necks and shoulders protected from the inclement season and gaze of the world, by white bare skins, very beautiful."

A COLD MAN AND A WARM REJCINDER.-The following comical narrative is related by an old Connecticut lawyer, who gives it as part of his circuit experience:

"A few years ago a county court was sitting in on the banks of the Connecticut. It was not far from this time of year; cold weather, anyhow; and a knot of lawyers had collected around the old Franklin in the bar-room. The fire blazed, when in came a rough, gaunt-looking babe of the woods, knapsack on shoulder and staff in hand. He looked cold, and half perambulated the circle that hemined in the fire, looking for a chance to warm his shins. Nobody moved, however; and, unable to sit down, for lack of a chair, he did the next best thing, leaned against the wall, with tears in his fist and his eyes doubled up,' and listened to the discussion on the proper way of serving a referee on a warrantee deed, as if he was the judge to decide the matter. Soon he attracted the attention of the company, and a young sprig spoke to him. You look like a traveler.' Wall, 'spose I am; I come from Wisconsin afoot, 'tany rate.' From Wisconsin! that is a distance to go on one pair of legs. I say, did you ever pass through the "lower regions" in your travels?' Yes, sir, he answered, a kind of wicked look stealing over his ugly phizmahog any, I ben through the outskirts.' I thought it likely. Well, what are the manners and customs

there? some of us would like to know.' 'O,' said the pilgrim, deliberately, half shutting his eyes, and drawing round the corner of his mouth till two rows of yellow stubs, with a mass of masticated pig-tail, appeared through the slit in his cheek, you'll find them much the same as in this region, the lawyers sit nighest the fire."

THE C's.-The Chess Monthly, a new periodical, thus alliterates with its favorite letter:

"Cherished chess! The charms of thy checkered chambers chain me changelessly. Chaplains have chanted thy charming choiceness; chieftains havo changed the chariot and the chase for the chaster chivalry of the chess-board, and the cheerier charge of the chess-knights. Chaste-eyed Caissa! For thee are the chaplets of chainless charity and the chalice of childlike cheerfulness. No chilling churl, no cheating chafferer, no chattering changeling, no chanting charlatan, can be thy champion; the chivalrous, the charitable, and the cheerful, are the chosen ones thou cherishest. Chance cannot change thee: from childhood to the charnel-house, from our first childish

chirpings to the chills of the church-yard, thou art our cheery, changeless chieftainess. Chastener of the churlish, chider of the changeable, cherisher of tho chagrined, the chapter of thy chiliad of charms should be chanted by cherubic chitnes, and chiseled on chalcedon in cherubic chirography."

Travels and Researches in Chaldea and Susiana. By WILLIAM KENNETT LOFTUS, F. G. S. (8vo. pp. 436: Carter & Brothers.) This is a volume of more than ordinary interest. It relates to that remote and but partially-explored region which, from our childhood, we have been led to regard as the cradle of the human race. Mr. Loftus made two visits to these countries; one in 1852, and the other in the latter part of the year following. The author pleads "literary inexperience" in bar of any severity of criticism. But it was hardly necessary. work of this kind we look for truthfulness and matter of fact rather than for ornate rhetoric or the graces of the practiced book-maker. The volume is illustrated with valuable maps and wood engravings, and will fill a niche hitherto vacant in that part of the library devoted to topography and the antiquities of the Bible. A quotation, showing the present state of manners and morals in the country of the father of the faithful, will be read with interest:

In a

"Nothing could exceed the primitive mode of life which we led in this region of Abraham's birthplace. In the patriarchal style, we were surrounded by our people. Our flocks and herds, asses and camels, were dayly driven to browse by the river side in the morning, and back to the camp at night. A few of the Arabs brought their wives with them, who baked flat loaves of barley bread in their native ovens for the wants of the community. Little enough, it is true, had the poor Arabs; and we were frequently obliged to provide for them out of our scanty store when their own was exhausted. The extreme scarcity of food was, perhaps, our greatest difficulty. In consequence of the river having failed to overflow its natural banks for the four years since my former visit, the small plots of cultivation which formed the chief support of the Madan tribes had utterly failed, and reduced them to a state of the most abject destitution. They had little or nothing to support life beyond the roots dug out of the ground, or the plunder obtainable from neighboring tribes,

"A dearth of provisions everywhere prevailed along the banks of the Lower Euphrates, so that barley had risen fourfold beyond its usual price. On first commencing operations, the offal thrown out from our cook's tent was greedily seized and devoured by the poor, half-starved wretches, who, however, fared better as the excavations progressed, and they received the reward of their dayiy labors. Hunger makes all men selfish, and in most cases alters all the better feelings of our nature.

The Tuweyba tribe, which were previously in comparatively affluent circumstances, and had engaged my sympathies on account of their good-natured hospitality, were now become perfect demons of avarice and rapacity. They insisted on being paid their wages every night, so that, as there was much difficulty in obtaining coin, I was frequently obliged to reduce my customary number of hands until a fresh supply reached me. There was not sufficient small change to pay each man separately, so that a deputy was chosen for parties of four or five, and the wages were handed over to him in their presence.

Then began a violent discussion about the due partition of the spoil. Each man tried to cheat the other, and argued his own case, at the full pitch of his voice, in rich, round Arab gutturals. The furious gesticulations that accompanied the dispute seemed frequently to threaten an open breach of the peace, but only ended in talk and abuse. They would sit for hours over their watch-fires, discussing the knotty question implicated in a black pice; and often, when it appeared to be settled, and the angry voices had subsided to their natural tone, the smothered flame wor'd break out afresh with more impetuosity than before. Half the night was frequently spent in such debates, which invariably ended in some poor fellow being defrauded by his friend. The scenes

which these quarrels gave rise to, under the light of the pale moon and the red glare of the tamarisk fire, were such as would have formed a fine subject for the painter. Each man was the guardian of his own wealth, and dared not trust his little skin of flour to the care of his neighbor; whether in camp or on the ruins, every one carried his supply tied up in his abba which, when measured out to be made into bread by the women, never passed out of its owner's vision!"

We have very little medical skill, and are by no means competent to decide any question about which doctors differ. We have read, however, enough of a little volume entitled Consumption, by DR. W. W. HALL, to say that it is evidently written with an intention to benefit that large class who are predisposed to pulmonary affections. The doctor's style is plain and entirely free from everything like cant and professional pedantry. He is no quack. He has no faith in nostrums of any kind, and abjures cod-liver oil, brandy, swabbings with nitrate of silver, and medicated inhalations, giving it as his decided conviction that all of them are utterly inefficient, as to any permanent radical effect, toward the cure of consumption; and that by their temporary and deceptive ameliorations, they but lose invaluable time, and lure but to destroy. We may safely say, therefore, that a perusal of this little volume, if it does no good, is not likely to do any injury. (Redfield.)

History of the Invasion and Capture of Wash ington. By JOHN S. WILLIAMS. (Harpers.) Mr. Williams was Brigade Major and Inspector in the United States Army in the war of 1812. His object, in the present volume, is to wipe away, if possible, the obloquy which, in his opinion, was unjustly cast upon the American troops who were engaged in the battle of Bladensburg. The gallant major has availed himself of many documentary sources of information not accessible to the general reader, and spreads them out without fear or favor. He reaches the conclusion that the disastrous result of that campaign was not owing to the pusillanimous conduct of the American militia; but, in his own language, that " politicians of the fairest fame require watching, and will not hesitate to sacrifice or jeopard the interests and honor of their country in order to advance themselves or ruin a rival," a general truth which we presume no one will question; but whether competent in itself to account for the shameful conduct of the campaign, the reader must determine for himself.

The Desert of Sinai: Notes of a Spring Jour ney from Cairo to Beersheba, By HORATIUS BONAR, D. D. (Carter & Brothers.) Dr. Bonar promises to give, in another volume, his notes of a journey through the land of promise. The present embraces merely the desert and the semi-desert outside of Palestine. It is written in a very agreeable style, and with that profound reverence for the teachings of the Bible which is not, we regret to say, a distinguishing trait of professing Christian travelers who have

"If the attempts of rationalists to shut out God from the scenes of Scripture be painful, no less so are the efforts of those who, like Dr. Robinson, would compromise matters and reduce a miracle to the very snailest degree of the supernatural. If we must have a miracle, let us have as little of God in it as possible,' seems the maxim of some. Lepsius has praised the American traveler for his dignified protest against too much of the miraculous in Scripture. But from the lips of rationalism such praise carries no comfort to the conscience of a Christian man. There is danger in trying to stand well with rationalists and literary men, lest we sacrifice the veracity of Scripture to their good opinion. There is danger, too, in the well-meant efforts of some to win over opponents by making the miraculous as easy and palatable as is consistent with the admission of miracle at all. In neither case do we gain anything; in both we sacrifice the simplicity and truthfulness of the divine record."

With reference to that most majestic display of the Divine power, the passage of the Red Sea, and the attempts of Christian teachers to account for it without admitting miraculous agency, Dr. Bonar says:

"As to the passage of the Red Ses by Israel at low tide, and when the waters were driven back by the wind, I may add a few remarks which, especially to a spectator of the scene, may come with some force. The lowness of the tide is a mere gratuitous assumption, intended to supersede the necessity of a miracle, or to reduce it to its minimum of the supernatural. There is no hint of anything of the kind given us by the historian, and to assume this is not merely to invent a fact, but it is to say that Moses has given us such a narrative as would imply a miracle, when there was no miracle at all. Now had Herodotus done such a thing, what should we have thought of his veracity? If he stated a thing as a miracle which turns out to be a common natural phenomenon, and which he knew quite well to be no miracle, what opinion should we have of his honesty? If, then, Moses narrates a thing as a miracle, or even if he narrates it ambiguously, when he knew well there was no miracle at all, is he writing honestly? Is he a narrator or an inventor? Now Moses has certainly narrated the passage of the Red Sea in a way such as to make all his readers in every age believe that he was relating a miracle. If he meant no miracle, there has seldom been a narrative so fitted to deceive-a narrative which has been so successful in deceiving millions for more than three thousand years-and that in a matter of the most solemn kind; for the question is not one as to the depth or breadth of water, it is one as to Divine agency --it is the same question as has been raised by neology, as to whether Christ's healing of the sick was the result of supernatural power, or of superior skill of medicine.

"So explicit is the language of the narrator that it has led all subsequent writers, down almost to our own day, to believe that a supernatural event actually took place. It is certain that all Israel at the time believed that a vast miracle had been wrought for them; and it was of no ebb tide that Moses and Miriam and Aaron spoke when they led the mighty song of Israel's happy praise, lifted up within view of those waters through which a way had been cut for them:

Pharaoh's chariot and host hath he east into the sea:
His chosen captains hath he drowned in the Red Sea.
The ABYSSES have covered them,

They went down to the DEFTus like a stone.

"What sort of inan does Dr. Robinson take Moses to be, who could thus declaim about an ebb tide and shoal water, uttering big words which meant nothing? But I forget. It was not Moses who spoke these words; it was the Holy Ghost. It was easy for Rosenmuller to say, 'everybody knows that this expression was by no means to be taken in their proper sense; they are merely the description of an ebb tide;' but it was hardly to be expected that a man so reverent toward Scripture as the American traveler should have spoken much in the same way."

On the miracle of the manna in the wilderness our author observes that

"Lepsius, who wonders how any one can believe Israel's manna to be anything else than the desert tree-honey, tells us that this tarfa-dew trickles down in incredible quantities' every morning upon the sand. Now, we are assured on good authority, that the whole quantity collected throughout the peninsula in the most fruitful season only amounts to seven hundred pounds weight. If the reader will divide this by two millions the numbers of the children of Israel) and again by the number of days in the year, he will find what a small amount of sustenance each Israelite must have had. There would not be so much as one of these yellow drops' of tarfa-dew to each, even bad they reaped the whole produce of the desert. Was this the meaning of the passage, He SATISFIED them with the BREAD OF HEAVEN! (Ps. cv. 40.)"

We commend the volume before us as, in many respects, the best account of the vast howling wilderness through which Israel journeyed toward the promised land.

By the politeness of our Boston correspondent, the Rev. B. K. Pierce, we are in possession of the Debates and Proceedings in the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts held in the Year 1788. This is the convention by which was finally ratified the Constitution of the United States, and is a volume of permanent interest. It was printed by order of the Legislature of Massachusetts, and the care with which it has been edited is very creditable to Mr. Pierce, upon whom, as chairman of a committee, that duty mainly devolved.

Very seldom do we meet with a more interesting and instructive volume than one just issued from the press of Carter & Brothers, entitled, Life in its Lower, Intermediate, and Higher Forms; or, Manifestations of the Divine Wisdom in the Natural History of Animals. By PHILIP HENRY GOSSE. The author's object is to describe the various phases of animal life, commencing with the lowest of the infusoria, the most simple of all living creatures, and proceeding, step by step, upward, through life's various developments and functions, and thus to exhibit the manifold wisdom and goodness of the great Creator. An extract from the volume, entitled "Instinct and Reason," is given on a previous page of this number of THE NATIONAL.

In a neatly-printed duodecimo volume of less than two hundred pages we. have, from the Harpers' press, Elements of Plain and Solid Geometry, together with the elements of plain and spherical trigonometry, and an article on inverse trigonometrical functions. By G. B. DOCHARTY. The author is well known as the Professor of Mathematics in the Free Academy of this city. His "Institutes of Algebra" is deservedly popular; and the present work appears well calculated to facilitate the progress of the student in mathematical science.

The writings of Andrew Fuller are deservedly held in high repute among our Baptist friends. His " complete works" were published some years ago, but in examining his papers, the editor has found material for another small volume, which is printed by the Baptist Publication Society, with the title, The Last Remains