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Original Thoughts on Various Passages of Scripture, being the substance of Sermons preached by the Rev. RICHARD CECIL, A. M., never before published. Taken down by Mrs. HAWKES, and now edited by CATHARINE CECIL. New-York: Robert Carter & Brothers.

In this volume, containing 452 octavo pages, there are upward of sixty sermons in miniature. They are not skeletons merely, without any flesh upon them, and withal exceedingly dry and marrowless, as is the case with many sketches of sermons that we have seen; but they are full of thought; plain, simple, spiritual, pungent thought. They will bear reading, not simply by the clerical student, as models of sermon-writing, but by the humble Christian in his family and in his closet. Cecil was a holy man. The cross of Christ was exceedingly precious to him. His whole heart was in the work of preaching the gospel. He was peculiarly happy in his illustrations, and the book under review bears strong marks of the author's power in this respect. Oregon and California in 1848. By J. Q. THORNTON, late Judge of the Supreme Court of Oregon; with an Appendix, including recent and authentic information on the subject of the Gold Mines of California, and other valuable matter of interest to the Emigrant. With Illustrations and a Map. 2 vols. 8vo. York: Harper & Brothers.

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This book will have a multitude of readers. The information it contains respecting Oregon and California, must be of essential service to those who have no other object in view than simply to learn, as a matter of curiosity, the particulars respecting this western country It is a readable book; and one may find not a little interest in these pages, who has not the slightest idea of ever himself seeing the region of gold. But those who are actually going to California, or who have friends about to make the journey -we are disposed to think, sometimes, that in these two categories pretty nearly the whole Anglo-Saxon race are included-the book will be of incalculable benefit.

History of Hannibal, the Carthaginian. By JACOB ABBOTT. New-York: Harper & Brothers. Here is another of the admirable series of histories, several of which have already been noticed in our pages. The general style of this book is much like that of the former. It is plain, simple, and to the point. Mr. Abbott is among the few who can write well for the young. He seldom wields his pen for their entertainment and instruction, without effecting the end, in the most pleasing manner.

How to be Happy; an Admonitory Essay for General and Family Perusal, on Regimen, Ezpediency, and Mental Government. By ROBERT J. CULVERWELL, M. D., author of "Guide to Health," &c. New York: J. S. Redfield. Price 25 cents.

This is a book with an odd title. "But that I know already," says the reader. Well, then, it is something more than that. It is a work treating on most important subjects, in a very singular and often a very quaint and almost grotesque manner. But it is evident enough, by even the most cursory reader, that the author is a profound thinker, and that his conclusions are worth attention. Some of his remarks on hypochondria, and his advice to the hypochondriac patient, are in our view, particularly original and serviceable. May the poor victim of that terrible disease reap the benefit of them. He needs it enough.

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In an introductory notice, prefixed to this volume, the following remarks are made by the Rev. Dr. Milner, whose judgment in efforts of this kind is entitled to great weight: "The volume here introduced to the American public is a very able discussion of a most important subject, no where else, to my knowledge, treated in the same radical and thorough manner. It is eminently adapted to be useful; and I cannot but hope that it will be highly acceptable, especially to those sustaining the solemn and weighty responsibilities of the paternal relation." With these views, from one of the most eminent American divines, we entirely coincide, though we have examined the book less thoroughly than he must have done. Works of this general character cannot be too greatly multiplied, or too widely disseminated.

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