we should have liked better to see the book thrown on its own merits, than ushered in with such an overpowering flourish of trumpets. And this flourish was rendered especially unnecessary by the fact that the work itself is sufficiently remarkable to draw on it wide attention, and enough of vitality to secure its safety. The history of St. Paul is carefully, but not drily expounded, and is made the text of a very warm and lively running comment. The book deserves the popularity which it will doubtless attain, since it is adapted for usefulness to a very large class.

CONVERSION: THE DANGER OF DELAYING IT. From the French of REV. JAMES SAURIN. A new Translation, with Introductory Memoir. By JOHN S. GIBB, F.S.E.I. London: James Nisbet & Co. SAURIN's sermons are too well known to require introduction to our readers. These are three of the most powerful. The translation is faithful and idiomatic. The Memoir occupies twenty-four pages, and is interesting. The little volume is elegantly "got up."

WORK AND PLAY. BY HORACE BUSHNELL, D.D., Author of "The New Life," ""Nature and the Supernatural," &c. London: Alexander

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DR. BUSHNELL is one of the first of American thinkers. His great powers are not cramped, like Emerson's, by an obstinate self-exclusion from the Christian region of truth, but are permitted wide and free play. The result is admirable. This is a volume of essays, eight in number, which are remarkable for intellectual vigor, and force, and beauty of expression.

GARIBALDI: HIS ENTRANCE INTO LONDON. A Sermon for the Working Men of England. By R. E. FORSAITH. London: Passmore & Alabaster. Mr. Forsaith's Sermon is characterized by remarkable ability and vivacity, and ought to circulate by thousands amongst working men. THE PARABLE OF THE SEED GROWING SECRETLY. A Sermon preached in St. Stephen's Church, Paddington. By REV. CHARLES SHAKSPEARE, of Trinity College, Dublin. London (Bayswater): J. C. Cribb. Mr. Shakspeare well brings out the sense and practical reference of an important and beautiful, though neglected passage of Scripture. His Sermon was published at the request of those who heard it, and is well calculated for usefulness to Christian parents, teachers, and ministers of the Word. EASY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FROM THE PENTATEUCH. For the Use of Children. By a Lady. London: William Macintosh. The conception of this little book is good, but the execution is not equal to the plan. SURE OF HEAVEN. A Book for the Doubting and Anxious. By THOMAS MILLS. A New Edition. London: Hamilton, Adams & Co. This has neither the clearness of view nor the perspicuity of expression which are

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indispensable in books of experimental religion intended for general circulation. THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF A Refutation of the Views generally held by the Christians commonly called "Plymouth Brethren " on that subject. London: Elliot Stock. It seems that there has been a stupendous theological war raging for a considerable period without the circle of our limited knowledge. The writer of this work evidently thinks that his opponent ought now to submit. If his views are what they are here represented, we think that the world would lose nothing by his silence. THE STORY OF CAREY, MARSHMAN, AND WARD, THE SERAMPORE MISSIONARIES. By JOHN CLARK MARSHMAN. London: Alexander Strahan & Co. An important chapter of Church History is here written in an interesting and we doubt not faithful manner. Here and there condensation might have been an improvement, but on the whole the book is readable, as well as judicious, and we cordially wish it a wide circulation. AONIO PALEARIO. A Chapter in the History of the Italian Reformation. From the French of M. BONNET. London: Religious Tract Society. Paleario was a native of Rome, and an eminent scholar at the time of the revival of learning. He advanced doctrines resembling those of Luther, and suffered death as a heretic in 1570. The memoir is written with considerable vivacity and Protestant zeal. We should have liked a refutation of the common allegation that Paleario retracted before his death. REST UNDER THE SHADOW OF THE GREAT ROCK. A Book of Facts and Principles. By REV. JOHN KENNEDY, M.A., F.R.G.S. London: Religious Tract Society. This volume contains a good deal of practical religious matter, not, however, of the highest order. The main current of the writing flows somewhat wearisomely by, but this the reader can easily escape by skipping it in favor of the anecdotes which are plentifully intersperst. UPLIFTINGS OF THE SOUL TO ITS GOD. By NAPOLEON ROUSSEL, Pasteur. Translated from the French. With a Preface by FREDERIC CHALMERS, B.D., Rector of Beckenham. London: James Nisbet & Co. This book of devotion is not only approved of by the translator, but by his venerable relative, the well-known Dr. Marsh. After this, it is unnecessary for us to say that many pious persons might derive from it valuable assistance. HUMAN SADNESS. By the COUNTESS

DE GASPARIN, Author of "The Near and the Heavenly Horizons." London: Alexander Strahan & Co. As might be expected, the style of this book has considerable elegance. Along with much really valuable matter, there is a measure of sentimentalism, which, to us, is sometimes surprising, but seldom pleasing.

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