cases, and are still of opinion that there is a want of good faith in the practice, against which, writers of Mrs. Ellis's class should especially guard. The following sentence from her Introduction will sufficiently describe the volume. Those young readers who have been accustomed to welcome The Juvenile Scrap Book,' with each returning Christmas, or New Year, as a familiar friend, will be glad to receive, in a collected form, the best Articles which, from time to time, have appeared in that work; while, to others, the following Tales and Poems will have the additional charm of novelty.'

The Fireside; a Domestic Tale. By Percy B. St. John. London: H. K. Lewis.

MR. ST. JOHN is gifted with the pen of a ready writer, and certainly uses it most indefatigably. This little tale bears marks of great haste, but has some sterling qualities. It is a sketch of everyday life; the characters are not faultless monsters, nor impersonated vices; the style is easy, and unaffected; the sentiments are benevolent; and the purpose, for all books, even of fiction, must have a moral purpose, now-a-days, the very good one of showing the evils that spring from the want of mutual confidence and congenial pursuits in the sharers of the 'Fireside.' Mr. St. John does not possess all the excellencies we have indicated, in the highest, or even in a very high, degree; but, to some extent, they all combine to make this a very pleasant domestic story.

Christ's Intercessory Prayer: Six Discourses on the Seventeenth Chapter of St. John. By Edward Scobell, M. A., London: Haselden. 1848.

Scriptural Teaching; a Pastor's Offering to his People By Rev. W. Blackley, B.A. London: Hatchard. 1847.

Sermons for Sunday Evenings. By Ministers of the Free Church of Scotland. Edinburgh: Johnstone. 1848.

THE first of these volumes is a set of so-called expository discourses on, or rather about,—and sometimes describing a very wide circle,— a portion of Scripture which few men can touch without spoiling. Our author is not one of the few. He has produced a dilection, rather than an exposition, presenting obvious truths, the connexion of which with one another, is not always very apparent, in a diffuse, lumbering, helpless style.

The second is simple, evangelical, Scriptural teaching, with nothing very specially deserving paper and print.

The contents of the third are furnished by the leading ministers of the Free Church,-Guthrie, Candlish, Buchanan, Mc'Cheyne, and others; and seem to be picked specimens of their various excellen cies, chosen with a happy regard to their adaptation to the religious exercises of a Scottish Sabbath evening. We hope the volume will be usefully employed on many an English Sabbath afternoon.

Lectures illustrating the Contrast between True Christianity and various other systems. By William B. Sprague, D.D. Glasgow and London: Collins.

THE systems contrasted with Christianty are, Atheism, Paganism, Deism, Mohammedanism, Romanism, Unitarianism, Antinomianism, Formalism, Sentimentalism, and Fanaticism. One must question the propriety of calling the first of these a religion, and the last three, systems; but, admitting their title to a place, the book is a good one. It quite realizes the current idea of a popular work, that is to say, there is much correct statement both of facts and arguments; there is much Christianity of heart, while there is no overcrowding of the page with thoughts; each that occurs being thoroughly worked out, while the more important are impeded by a repetition that, unfortunately, sometimes misses its aim by its very urgency in the effort to secure it.

Literary Entelligence.

Just Published.

Mosheim's Institutes of Ecclesiastical History, Ancient and Modern. A new and literal Translation from the Original Latin, with copious Additional Notes, Original and Selected. By Jas. Murdock, D.D. Revised and Supplementary Notes added. By James Seaton Reid, D.D. Hora Biblica Sabbatica-Sabbath Scripture Readings. Thomas Chalmers, D.D. Vol. II.

Poems. By Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell.
The Protestant Dissenters' Almanack for 1849.
Trafford, the Reward of Genius, and other Poems.
Minchin.

Mary Barton: a Tale of Manchester Life. In 2 vols.
Ruins of Many Lands. Part II.

By the late

By Jas. Innes

The Nature and Office of the State. By Andrew Coventry Dick.

The Prose Works of John Milton. With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks and Notes. By J. A. St. John. 3 vols. Bohn's Library.

Essays and Tales, by John Stirling. Collected and Edited with a Memoir

of his Life, by Julius Charles Hare, M.A. In 2 vols.

The Life of the most Rev. James Usher, D.D. With an account of his Writings. By Charles Richard Ebrington, D.D. 8vo.

The Biblical Repository and Classical Review. October, 1848.
Baptism. With Reference to its Import and Modes.

Beecher, D.D.

By Edward

Sketches. Part I. Joseph Lancaster and his Contemporaries. Part II. William Allen, his Life and Labours. By Henry Dunn.

Chronology of Prophecy, tracing the various courses of Divine Providence, from the Flood to the End of Time, in the Light as well of National Annals, as of Scriptural Predictions. By Adam Thorn, Recorder of Rupert's Land.

The Work of God, and the Work of Man, in Conversion. A Course of Lectures. By Francis Johnston.

Authorised Street Preaching Proposed as a Remedy for our Social Evils, in a Letter to the Venerable Archdeacon By a Country Parson. The Number and Names of the Apocalyptic Beasts, with an Explanation and Application in Two Parts. Part I. The Number and Names. By David Thom.

The Poetry of Science; or, Studies of the Physical Phenomena of Nature. By Robt. Hunt, author of Researches on Light,' etc.

Sermons. By the Rev. Wm. Lyall.

An Historical Inquiry into the True Principles of Beauty in Art, more especially with reference to Architecture. By James Fergusson, Esq., Architect.

Remarks on the Government Scheme of National Education, as applied to Scotland. By Lord Melgund, M.P.

The People's Dictionary of the Bible. Part XXXIX.
Lepage's French School. Part I. L'Echo de Paris.

Lepage's Ready Guide to French Composition.

The National Cyclopædia of Useful Knowledge. Part XXII.

Inaugural Address of the Christian Young Men's Missionary Asssociation. Rev. S. Martin.

On the Advancement of Nations from the Barbarous to the Civilized State. By Rev. J. J. Freeman.

Poems. By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

A Tribute for the Negro, being a Vindication of the Moral, Intellectual, and Religious Capabilities of the Coloured Portion of Mankind, with particular Reference to the African Race, illustrated by numerous Biographical Sketches, Facts, Anecdotes, etc., and many superior Portraits and Engravings. By Wilson Armistead.

The History of England during the Thirty Years' Peace, 1815-1845. Part III. Second Part.

The Romanist Version of the Gospel according to St. John, from MSS. preserved in Trinity College, Dublin; and in the Bibliotheque du Roi, Paris. With an Introductory History of the Version of the New Testament, anciently in Use among the Old Waldenses, and Remarks on the Texts of the Dublin, Paris, Grenoble, Zurich, and Lyons MSS. of that version. By Wm. Stephen Gilly, D.D.

The Judges of England, with Sketches of their Lives and Miscellaneous Notices connected with the Courts at Westminster, from the Time of the Conquest. By Edward Foss, F.S.A. of the Inner Temple. 2 vols.

Mechanics' Institutions, as Affecting the Character of the People and the Welfare of Society. An Introductory Lecture, delivered before the Gateshead Mechanics Institute, on Thursday, Oct. 19, 1848. By Rev. J. Davies, D.D.

A Descriptive Atlas of Astronomy, and of Physical and Political Geography. By Rev. Thos. Milner, M.A. Parts VIII. and IX.

The Cottage Gardener, conducted by George W. Johnson, Esq. Part I. The Bible of Every Land; or, a History Critical and Philological of all the Versions of the Sacred Scriptures, in every Language and Dialect into which Translations have been made. Part II.

The North British Review. No. XIX.

History of the French Revolutions, from 1789 till the Present time. Part IV.

The Good Man's Grave: a Discourse occasioned by the lamented Death of David Russell, D.D. By W. L. Alexander, D.D.

The Ethnological Journal. No. VI.

Remarks on Chloroform in Alleviating Human Suffering. By W. H. Bainbridge, Esq.

INDEX.

VOL. XXIV.-NEW SERIES.