rises above every meagre, narrow, selfish interpretation of human duty, contemplating man and society in their loftiest relations, and calling manners, institutions, and souls to be judged by the standard of absolute Right. Even those who dissent from his theological system, and regret the association of his name with rationalistic modes of thought, are able to find a quickening spiritual influence in many of his sermons. The two volumes previously published under the same title are here united in one, of convenient form and handsome appearance.

The Annual of Scientific Discovery. By DAVID A. WELLS, A. M. Gould and Lincoln. This publication has now become extensively known, not only among scientific men, but among practical machinists, inventors, and all who are concerned in the application of the principles of science to the arts of life. The materials are collected from a wide field of observation, and are arranged with care, according to their several departments. The editor contributes an account of the eleventh meeting of the American Association at Montreal. At a future day, this series of compact volumes will be diligently consulted by the historians who shall write of our times. A full knowledge of their contents would form quite an education in itself. Along with records of the most important discoveries and improvements in chemistry, astronomy, geology, zoology, botany, mineralogy, meteorology, geography, antiquities, mechanics, and natural philosophy, there is a list of recent scientific publications, and a classified list of patents, with obituaries of eminent scientific men.

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Remarkable Women of Different Nations and Ages. Jewett & Co. The varied interests that attach to personal biography, to heroism, to romance, to religious enthusiasm, to empire, crime, tragedy, art, and war, are all combined in this entertaining volume. The work is not only complete in itself, but it is the beginning of a new enterprise which, in the hands of Mr. Jewett, will doubtless be highly successful,— namely, a Library of Biography, comprising contributions from English and American writers. Among the subjects here included is that of Beatrice Cenci, the treatment of which embraces all that is essential to the horrible story, and is to be put in honorable contrast with the disgusting narrative of Guerrazzi, lately given to the public through an American translation.

Voices from the Silent Land. By MRS. H. DWIGHT WILLIAMS. J. P. Jewett & Co. - Passages of prose and poetry, chiefly from the very best authors in our language, old and new, are here brought together in a book of consolation. what sentimental, and gain a heavy sorrow are not critical. in the present instance will enable the book to bear almost any test that may be put upon it. Of about a hundred and fifty selections very few have not a high literary and spiritual character.

Such collections are apt to be somewelcome only because the moods of But the taste and judgment employed

Lectures on Christian Doctrine. By REV. A. P. PEABODY, D.D. James Munroe & Co.- Perhaps there is no more favorable or just exposition of the form of belief known twenty years ago as Unitarianism than in these Lectures. That they exhibit the Unitarianism of our own day is more than can be said, partly because the name has become more indefinite with time. Nothing need be said of the ability or sincerity of the author. All that he does is done in a reverent spirit, with a strong mind, from excellent motives. His work has contributed much to remove prejudice and soften sectarian animosity. One can hardly be expected to speak of a book distinctively doctrinal without indicating whether he agrees with its conclusions. Yet it avails little to express mere assent or dissent, so long as reasons are not given. It is easy to say that our own statement of the Christian doctrines would be very different from these statements. It is equally true that it is an advantage to the Christian world to have a clear and competent declaration and defence of every prevalent form of theological opinion. This new edition includes a Lecture on the Authority of the Scriptures, not found in the editions hitherto published.

Seven Stormy Sundays. American Unitarian Association. For each Sunday there is a special topic. Under this topic are arranged several congenial pieces from various authors, meditative, practical, devout. Sometimes there is a sermon printed; sometimes part of a sermon. The extracts are in prose and verse. The subjects are "The Rhododendrons," "The Sure Wall," "The Daily Bread," "Forgiveness," "The Children," "The Bible," "Pain." Some of the authors quoted are Tholuck, Bretschneider, Robertson, Coleridge, W. B. O. Peabody, Dr. Arnold, Keble, Schleiermacher, Alford, and

Milnes. The whole has a bright, attractive look, and, though it comes to hand too late for a very thorough examination, promises well.

The Pitts Street Chapel Lectures. J. P. Jewett & Co. - So much publicity has been given to the plan and the printing of these Lectures, that a very brief notice is all that is necessary here. Rev. S. H. Winkley, a Unitarian minister at large, obtained their delivery. The Methodist Episcopal, the Universalist, the Baptist, the Trinitarian Congregationalist, the Episcopal, and the Unitarian sects, and the Practical View of Religion, are all represented and defended by competent preachers. No one of them is quite competent, however, to speak for all his brethren. Probably those who agree in the main with each, would yet find some points of difference. The most thorough piece of work in the volume, as an historical and logical argument, appears to be that of Dr. Randall, who pleads for Episcopacy. The discourses are generally creditable to their several authors, and it is to be hoped that their collective presentation will promote extensively an earnest, unsectarian, evangelical Christianity.

The Roby Family: or, Battling with the World. Robert Carter and Brothers. Sold by Gould and Lincoln. - This is an interesting and pleasing story, leaving a good moral impression, and inculcating religious truth.

One Week at Amer, an American City of the Nineteenth Century. James Munroe & Co. The attempt at versification here made does not strike us favorably.

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Poems by Howard H. Caldwell. Whittemore, Niles, and Hall. Here, handsomely printed and bound, are just as many pleasant poetical pieces as there are hours in the day. Both the text and the notes discover classical culture and good reading. The versification is smooth; the style of expression is at once natural and scholarly; and the sentiment is uniformly pure.

History of the Cross of Christ. By REV. WILLIAM R. ALGER. American Unitarian Association.- An interesting sketch of the uses

and meanings of the Cross before it was hallowed by Christian associations, and also a beautiful and touching, but not always complete, analysis of the spiritual power and the symbolic history of the Cross "On which the Prince of Glory died."

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Doubts concerning the Battle of Bunker's Hill. By CHARLES HUDSON. James Munroe & Co.-A pleasant application of the reductio ad absurdum to the common arguments of that "rational unbelief," which refuses to believe the Gospels because their records contain much that is contrary to the experience of the world, and because their writers sometimes differ in their ways of narrating events. Mr. Hudson applies these sceptical principles to the battle of Bunker's Hill, and succeeds, on these premises, in showing the improbability that such a battle ever took place. The object and method are similar to those of Whately's "Historic Doubts relative to Napoleon Buonaparte."

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The American Educational Year-Book. 1858. Boston: James Robinson & Co.. - An abstract of the educational statistics of the United States, especially of New England; valuable to all teachers and school committees as a sort of literary and scientific directory.

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The Jewish War of FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS. Traill's translation. Edited, with Notes, by ISAAC TAYLOR. John P. Jewett & Co. The writings of Josephus have a fourfold interest; from the nature of his themes, for, as De Quincey says, we are compelled to rely upon him for the most affecting section of ancient history; from his pure, vigorous, and graphic style, which won for him from St. Jerome the name of the Greek Livy; from the incidental confirmation they bring to the historical accuracy of the New Testament, and the aid they afford for its interpretation; and from his personal character as a man of the world with infinite tact and no principle. This edition embraces only a faithful and elegant translation of the Jewish War, "the most important, and the most entertaining, of the writings of Josephus." We recommend this edition as far superior to the common one of Whiston, of whom De Quincey says, but with his usual extravagance," he was a poor Grecian, and, what is worse, he knew very little about English."

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The Land of Promise. By HORATIUS BONAR, D. D. Robert Carter and Brothers. A Scriptural, but also a sentimental, pedantic account of "a Spring Journey from Beersheba to Sidon." Palestine will soon lose its associations of tenderness and beauty, if every traveller who has seen Jerusalem pours out his notes and moral reflections upon the Holy Land. It is to be hoped that the passengers in the Ericsson, who are so soon to spend ten days in Palestine, may have the grace to be silent about what they see and feel.

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PAMPHLETS.

Two Pamphlets, by Rev. Edmund Kell, have been received from the press of Whitfield, London. The first is a Sermon which has deservedly passed through four editions, boldly rebuking the English policy in India, calling for the application of the principles of patriotism, justice, and Christianity to British affairs in the East, and fervently illustrating the position that there is "no greatness in persisting in wrong." The other is a spirited defence of this Sermon against an anonymous reviewer. - A "Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Sermon," preached in Uxbridge by Rev. Samuel Clark, sketches the incidents of his long ministry, sets forth clearly an outline of the religious views he has presented, and affectionately commends his flock and himself to the God of the shepherd and the sheep for the future. The "Eighth Annual Report of the Association for the Relief of Aged and Indigent Females," and the "Fifty-fifth Annual Report of the Massachusetts Baptist Convention," are both acknowledged.