tation to the common mind, and illustrated and enforced by many striking facts. We think this little manual likely to do more good than many a learned and voluminous work on the same subject. The third in the series is a brief memoir of an exceedingly lovely and accomplished character. Clementine united in a high degree all the charms of physical, intellectual, and moral beauty; her attainments were great; she moved in the first circle of Parisian life—admired, courted, tempted, on all sides—and yet she was a meek, consistent, spiritually-minded Christian, and died in faith and triumph at the age of 22. Mr. James' Reflections are practical and pungent. The other volume teaches the first lessons of piety with great simplicity, and with a power of illustration fitted to fix religious truth in the minds of children and youth. The Society is doing a noble work for Christian literature and evangelical religion. 17. The Supreme Godhead of Christ: the Corner Stone of Christianity. WILLIAM R. Gordon, Flushing. 1848. By Rev. Do the Scriptures teach that Jesus Christ is the supreme God? This is the question on this fundamental subject. Our author shows clearly, incontrovertibly, that they do, and also the absurdity, in the face of the many explicit Scriptural declarations, of the denial of this doctrine. He has collated the numerous passages which prove Christ's divinity, and either left them to speak for themselves or accompanyed them with a brief note, by way of exegesis or application. The argument is lucid, able, and eminently Scriptural. We know of no better manual on this subject to put into the hands of the mass of readers. 18. Home Influence; a tale for Mothers and Daughters. By Grace Aguilar. Harper k Brothers: 1848. This is a tale of no ordinary power. It is happily and beautifully illustrative of the benefits of a proper religious home training. The sentiments are in the main correct, and they are clothed in elegant and often moving language. The characters introduced are truthfully delineated, and of a superior and elevated character. Mrs. Hamilton is a model which mothers may study to profit. If all mothers were like her, home would be a sweeter and holier place, and home influence more winning and powerful to captivate the heart, and rule the after life of those whom it nourishes and sends forth into the world. We commend the book to the Mothers and Daughters of our land. The authoress is a Jewess. Her views of religion, especially as indicated in the passage on Sabbath amusements, must be received with due allowance. On the whole, we have not read a more thrilling tale in many a day. 19. Vanity Fair: Pen and Pencil Sketches of English Society. By W. M. Thackeray. Harper & Brothers; 1848. This is a novel of more than ordinary power. It will produce a sensation, and be read with avidity. There is a certain dash and extravagance about it that will make it popular. It hits oft many of the follies and sins of fashionable English society with tremendous effect. The style and tone of sentiment are similar to Dickens', but less extravagant. Many of its characters are natural; we see their counterparts in our daily experience of " Vanity Fair." But there are sad blemishes in the work, which we cannot pass over in silence. The pictorial illustrations we think in bad taste; we do protest against all such horrid caricatures of the human face divine. The profanity of the work ought to condemn and exclude it from every circle in which God and religion command any reverence. No plea can justify such language or extenuate the offence against good breeding and all that is sacred. It so represents religion, too, as to hold it up to the ridicule and contempt of the world. We doubt the good impression of such reading. 20. Arabian Nights. In Twelve Parts. Illustrated with Six Hundred Engravings. Harper & Brothers: 1848. This is a superb edition of these world-renowned Tales, of which every man has read or heard. They need no advertisement to make known their character; and criticism is impotent to reverse the judgment which the world has unitedly and deliberately passed upon their merits. We may, and do, sincerely regret the existing taste for fictitious writings; but these Oriental conceptions are far less injurious, intellectually and morally, than the most of our modern Occidental romances, and are in every way incomparably superior. These stories will be read, and re-read, and admired, by the scholar, the poet, and the rustic, by old and young, as among the most fascinating and brilliant creations of the human fancy. 21. First Book in Spanish: or a Practical Introduction to the Study of the Spanish Language. By Joseph Salkeld, A. M. Harper & Brothers: 1848. This work contains full instructions in Pronunciation; a Grammar; Exercises on the Ollendorff plan; Reading Lessons, and a Vocabulary. It is simple and philosophical in its arrangement, and affords all the aid essential to a knowledge of the Spanish. It will no doubt tend to increase the study of the Castillian language in this country, than which none is said to be more sweet, elegant, and expressive. Professor Vealsquez, of Columbia College, has in course of preparation a new Dicionary of this language. These facilities will tempt many to acquire this tongue, and enrich themselves with its literature. 22. Thankfulness, a Narrative: comprising passages from the Diary of the Rev. Allan Temple. By Charles B. Tayleh. Harper & Brothers: 1848. A book worth reading. It teaches good wholesome doctrine, and breathes a lovely Christian spirit. It is not a veritable history, we suppose, but the record of a man as he ought to be. It is designed to illustrate the happiness and reward of a dutiful, devoted, grateful Christian. This is done by sketching the character and history of the so-called Rev. Allan Temple. There is nothing striking or original in it, but much that is pleasing, instructive, and promotive of a right kind of piety. 23. The British Quarterly Review—for May and August, 1848. London. This Review, although young in years, has attained to a full maturity of stature and life. It is conducted with marked ability. There are some articles of sterling and permanent value in the two numbers now before us. We specify as specially able and good the one on "Charles Lamb, his Genius and Writings," and the criticism on Warren, the author of "Now and Then." 24. The proper Mode of Keeping the Sabbath. Being Sabbath Manual, No. 4. By Rev. Justin Edwards, D. D. American Tract Society. Dr. Edwards is doing a great and effectual work in behalf of the Sabbath. The fruit of his indefatigable labors is abundant, and everywhere manifest. These little Manuals, which he has prepared on the subject, are eminently adapted to do good. They are simple, concise, straight-forward, Scriptural, and powerfully illustrated by facts continually occurring in the providence of God. In previous numbers, he has shown the obligation of the Sabbath as an institution not merely expressive of the will of God, but as founded on natural laws; also that God in His Word, and by His providence, has clearly designated the first day of the week as the day to be observed as the Christian Sabbath; and finally that the Sabbath is a family institution, designed and adapted to aid parents in the holy and responsible work of training up their children for God. In the present number he considers the proper mode of its observance, applies the law of the Sabbath to the facts of real life and to all classes of men, and closes by pointing out the active duties of this holy day. This Manual ought to be in the hands of every Christian, and circulated over all the land, and the great subject which it advocates brought home with fresh interest and power, to the hearts of all who love religion and the welfare of our country and race. ERRATA. On page 215, line 32, read it before extends. On p. 248, line 25, r. these, before things, and leave out then. On p. 218, line 37, for l. e. r. either. On p. 243, line 33, r. even, in place of ever. On p. 247, line 8, r. who for whom. On p. 248, line 17, for loose r. looser; p. 251, line 13, read their for this. July No.—Title p. for Revelations r. Revelation. On p. 478, line 1, for institutions r. instructions. On p. 503, line 39, omit &c., he., &c. On p. 541, line 12, for though r. through. On p. 568, line 26, for Acalypse r. Apocalypse. On p. 567, line 26, for King r. Kurg. On p. 617, line 27, for mummery r. mummy. On p. 618, line 8, for redivious r. rcdivivus. INDEX TO VOL. IV., 1848. Abbott, John S. C. Kings and Queens Adams, Samuel, M. D. The Natural Aquilar, Grace, her Home Influence no- Arabian Nights, noticed, 753. Allen, Joseph, D. D. His Young School- Dying Robin, and other tales, 752. Arvine, K., Rev. His Cyclopedia of mo- 191. Barbarism the First Danger, a Discourse Barnes Albert, Notes on Isaiah noticed, On the Epistles of James, the atheistical tendencies of the intel- Bible not of Man, by Gardiner Spring, Bible, Philosophy of the, by Rev. James Bible True, and Infidelity_Wicked, by Blunt, J. J. Rev., his undesigned coinci- cidences in the Writings of the Old Buena Vista, Battle of the, by Captain Bulkley, C. H. A. Rev., his Niagara, a Poem, noticed, 569. Burdett, Charles. Mary Grover, or the 567. Scripture Readings, noticed, 379. Sabbath Readings, noticed, 752. Cheever, G. B., D.D. Ecclesiastical Faith in God, and Faith in God's Word, 644. -Introduction to Arvine's Cy- 608. -Review of Madame Guyon, Childe, E. V. His Edward Vernon, or Christ, the Supreme Godhead of, the corner Christianity, its influence on Civil and Re- Concordance, Greek, the Englishman's of Corson, John W., M. D. Loiterings in dotes, by Rev. K. Arvine, with Intro- Edwards, Justin, D. D. His Sabbath Europe, Loiterings in, by John W. Cor- Faith in God and Faith in God's Word, Faith, the Life of, a Mental Discipline, by Finney's Theology, reviewed by George 413. Proper office of philo- 711. That justification is Girondists, History of the, by Lamartine, God, the Justice of, by Enoch Pond, D.D. Gordon, Rev. William R. His supreme Greek Reading Book, for use schools, by Grover, Mary, or the Trusting Wife, by 190. Hildreth S. P. noticed, 750. 380. History of the Peleponessian War, by Home Influence, by Grace Aguilar, no- Hotchkin, Rev. James H. His History James, John Angell. His Earnest Minis- Justification by Works, 325. What is the doctrine of the New Testament, 326. Kings and Queens: or Life in the Palace, Knapp, George Christian, D. D. His letters on Christian Theology, transla- Lewis, Tayler, LL.D. Bible everything 670. Chalmers, 333, The Revolutionary Spirit, Lectures on Christian Theology, by George |