1. Of Christ's Divinity.

2. Of thine own acquittal.

3. The doctrine of the resurrection.

As a fair specimen of the preacher's style take the conclusion of his sermon on the Church of Christ :

"Is there not something you can do? It is all very well to talk about what you have done; but what are you doing now? I know what it is with some of you; you shined brightly once, but your candle has not been snuffed lately, and so it does not shine so well. May God take away some of the worldly cares and snuff the candles a little! You know there were snuffers and snuffer-trays provided in the temple for all the candles, but no extinguishers; and if there should be a poor candle here this morning, with a terrife snuff, that has not given a light for a long while, you will have no extinguisher from me, but I hope you will always have a snuffing, I thought the first time when I came to the lamps this morning it would be to snuff them. That has been the intention of my sermon -to snuff you a little-to set you to work for Jesus Christ. O Zion, shake thyself from the dust! O Christian, raise thyself from thy slumbers! Warrior, put on thy armor! Soldier, grasp thy sword! The Captain sounds the alarm of war. O sluggard! why sleepest thou? O heir of heaven, has not Jesus done so much for thee, that thou shouldst live to him? O beloved brethren, purchased with redeeming mercies, girt about with loving-kindness and with tenderness,

'Now for a shout of sacred joy,'

and after that, to the battle! The little seed has grown to this: who knoweth what it shall be? Only let us together strive, without variance. Let us labor for Jesus. Never did men have so fair an opportunity, for the last hundred years. "There is a time that, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.' Shall you take it at the flood? Over the bar, at the harbor's mouth! ship of heaven, let thy sails be out; let not thy canvas be furled; and the wind will blow us across the seas of difficulty that lie before us. O that the latter day might have its dawning even in this despised habitation! O my God! from this place cause the first wave to spring, which shall move another, and then another, till the last great wave shall sweep over the sands of time, and dash against the rocks of eternity, echoing as it falls, Halleluiah! Halleluiah! Halleluiah! the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth!"

We can imagine this to have been far more effective in the delivery than it can be, by any possibility, in the perusal. Indeed, there can be no doubt that much of Mr. Spurgeon's popularity depends upon his elocution-the tones of his voice, his gestures, his juvenile appearance, and his manifest earnestness. Immense multitudes throng to hear him whenever he preaches, and sinners are awakened under every

sermon. He tells us that he has " ascertained upward of twenty cases of conversion as the result of one discourse, to say nothing of those instances of a saving change wrought on his hearers, which will be unknown, until the world to come has made its important and unexpected revelation." We must give a specimen or two of his appeals to sinners. Here is one from a sermon on Christ crucified:

"Know thou this, moreover, O man, that one day, in the halls of Satan, down in hell, I perhaps may see thee among those myriad spirits who revolve forever in a perpetual circle with their hands upon their hearts. If thine hand be transparent, and thy flesh transparent, I shall look through thy hand and flesh, and see thy heart within. And how shall I see it? Set in a case of fire-in a case of fire! And there thou shalt revolve forever with the worm gnawing within thy heart, which ne'er shall die--a case of fire around thy neverdying, ever-tortured heart. Good God! let not these men still reject and despise Christ; but let this be the time when they shall be called."

Here is the conclusion of a discourse entitled "Thoughts on the last battle." The appeal to Gabriel is not original, but was, in the delivery, no doubt startling:

"As the Lord liveth, sinner, thou standest on a single plank over the mouth of hell, and that plank is rotten. Thou hangest over the pit by a solitary rope, and the strands of that rope are breaking. Thou art like that man of old, whom Dionysius placed at the head of the table; before him was a dainty feast, but the man ate not, for directly over his head was a sword suspended by a hair. So art thou, sinner. Let thy cup be full, let thy pleasures be high, let thy soul be elevated, seept thou that sword? The next time thou sittest in the theater, look up and see that sword; the next time thou art in a tavern, look at that sword; when next in thy business thou scornest the rules of God's Gospel, look at that sword. Though thou seest it not, it is there. Even now, ye may hear God saying to Gabriel, Gabriel, that man is sitting in his seat in the hall; he is hearing, but it is as though he heard not; unsheathe thy blade; let the glittering sword cut through that hair; let the weapon fall upon him, and divide his soul and body. Stop, thou Gabriel, stop! Save the man a little while. Give him yet an hour, that he may repent. O, let him not die. True, he has been here these ten or a dozen of nights, and he has listened without a tear; but stop, and peradventure he may repent yet. Jesus backs up my entreaty, and he cries, Spare him yet another year, till I dig about him and dung him, and though he now cumbers the ground, he may yet bring forth fruit, that he may not be hewn down and cast into the fire.' I thank thee, O God; thou wilt not cut him down to-night; but to-morrow may be his last day. Ye may never see the sun rise, though you have seen it set. Take heed. Hear the word of God's Gospel, and depart with God's blessing. "Whosoever believeth on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ shall be saved.' 'He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved.' 'He is able to save to the uttermost, all that come unto him.' Whosoever cometh unto him, he will in no wise cast out.' Let every one that heareth say, 'Come; whosoever is athirst, let him come and take of the water of life freely.""

Mr. Spurgeon is a Baptist, and rather hyperCalvinistic in his doctrinal peculiarities. He proclaims them with all frankness, but is not, we think, always very happy in their elucidation. In one of his sermons he says:

"Unto us who are called. I received a note this week asking me to explain that word, called; because in one passage it says, Many are called, but few are chosen, while in another it appears that all who are called must be chosen. Now, let me observe that there are two calls. As my old friend, John Bunyan, says, the hen has two calls, the common cluck, which she gives daily and hourly, and the special one, which she means for her little chickens. So there is a general call, a call made to every man; every man hears it. Many are called by it; all you are called this morning in that sense, but very few are chosen. The other is a special call, the children's call. You know how the

bell sounds over the workshop, to call the men to work -that is a general call. A father goes out to the door and calls out, John, it is dinner-time'-that is the special call. Many are called with the general call, but they are not chosen; the special call is for the children only, and that is what is meant in the text, 'Unto us who are called, both Jews and Greeks, the power of God and the wisdom of God.' That call is always a special one. While I stand here and call men, nobody comes; while I proach to sinners universally, no good is done; it is like the sheet lightning you sometimes see on the summer's evening, beautiful, grand; but whoever heard of anything being struck by it? But the special call is the forked flash from heaven; it strikes somewhere; it is the arrow sent in between the joints of the harness."

Mr. Spurgeon has some squeamishness, however, about the doctrine of reprobation. He prefers a softer phrase, "preterition"-"God's wondrous preterition." Herein he reminds us

of the poet's nice distinction:

"He did not do the deed,

Somo have more mildly raved;
He did not damn them, but decreed
They never should be saved."

But listen to Spurgeon:

"It is said, "Whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him.' You know what is sometimes meant by the world'-those whom God in his wondrous sovereignty passed over when he chose his people: the preterite ones; those passed over in God's wondrous preterition-not the reprobates who were condemned to damnation by some awful decree; but those passed over by God, when he chose out his elect. These cannot receive the Spirit."

The "modern Whitefield" is very severe upon the Arminians. He classes them with Puseyites and papists. Sometimes he ridicules them, but his satirical touches are harmless, pardonable when we remember his youth and inexperience. In a sermon on the Personality of the Holy Ghost he gives utterance to a wish that, if sin. cere, we suppose might have been gratified. Perhaps it is only a rhetorical flourish:

"But before closing this point, there is one little word that pleases me very much, that is forever.' You knew I should not miss that; you were certain I could not let it go without observation. Abide with

you forever.' I wish I could get an Arminian here to finish my sermon. I fancy I see him taking that word 'forever.' He would say, 'for-forever;' he would have to stammer and stutter; for he could never get it out all at once. He might stand and pull it about, and at last he would have to say, 'The translation is wrong.' And then I suppose the poor man would have to prove that the original was wrong too. Ah! but blessed be God, we can read it-He shall abide with you forever. Once give me the Holy Ghost, and I shall never lose him till forever' has run out; till eternity has spun its everlasting rounds."

The Martyr of Sumatra is the title of a wellwritten memoir of Henry Lyman, a young man who was sent out as a missionary by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, and who was put to death by the Battahs in Sumatra. He was a devoted soldier of the cross, and gave promise of doing great things for Christ far off among the Gentiles. The great Head of the Church, however, had higher work for him, and permitted him to be hurried home by the hand of violence on the 28th of June, 1834. He was but twenty-four years of age. "God buries his workmen, but carries on his work." (Carter & Brothers, 12mo., pp. 437.)

Notes on the Gospels, Critical and Explanatory, incorporating with the Notes, on a new plan, the most approved Harmony of the four Gospels, by Melanchton W. Jacobus, professor of Biblical

Literature in the Western Theological Seminary at Alleghany City, Pa. Of these notes we have seen those only on the Gospel of Saint John, which are printed in a neat duodecimo volume of three hundred and fifty pages. They are full, plain, and practical. The author, having availed himself of the labors of his predecessors, and drawn upon his own resources, more especially his personal observations in the Holy Land, has succeeded in preparing a volume worthy of his own reputation as an eminent Biblical scholar, and well-deserving a place in every family library. (Carter & Brothers.)

T. B. Peterson, of Philadelphia, is publishing in beautiful style the fictitious writings of Charles Dickens. We have The Pickwick Pupers, with forty-eight illustrations, in two well-printed volumes; and, in the same style, Nicholas Nickleby, also in two volumes, and embellished with thirty-nine illustrations on steel, from designs by Phiz and Cruikshank. This is beyond comparison the best American edition of these well-known fictions, and it is the intention of the publisher to print the other works of the author in the same style.

Africa's Mountain Valley; or, the Church in Regent's Town, West Africa. By the author of " Ministering Children." (Robert Carter & Brothers.) Augustine Johnson was born in Germany, but emigrated to England when a young man, where he married and earned a scanty living as a day laborer. He was converted through the instrumentality of a Moravian minister, and sent as an assistant missionary to Sierra Leone. In this neat little volume we have an

account of his labors, his sacrifices, and his success in the Lord's vineyard. 'Tis a pleasing tribute to his memory, well written, and full of hopefulness for the benighted land in which Johnson was permitted to toil but for the short period of seven years. We commend it to all friends of the missionary enterprise, and especially to those who pray for Africa's regeneration.

One of the best books of the season for the young of both sexes is, Tales of Sweden and the Norsemen, from the press of Carter & Brothers. The stories are eleven in number, well told, patriotic, and full of interest. The volume is embellished with several engravings.

The same publishers have reprinted from the English edition Walter Binning, the Adopted Son; or, Illustrations of the Lord's Prayer, a little volume well calculated to impress moral truths upon the reader, and to inculcate the duties of Christianity.

Of new books for Sunday Schools we have also from the press of Carlton & Porter, The Inquisition in Spain and other Countrics, a wellwritten historical narrative; The Little Water Cress Sellers, an English story; and The Sunday Shop, a tale designed to illustrate the duty of keeping holy the Sabbath day.

Our acknowledgments are also due to the Baptist Publication Society for an interesting original tale entitled Jennie White; or, the Lovely Fruits of Early Piety. It is worthy of a place in every Sunday-school library.

THE first and tenth volumes of the "Life and Works of John Adams," edited by Charles Francis Adams, have just been issued. They complete the series. Of the writings of our revolutionary worthies, none have been presented to the public with as much ability, care, and good faith, as those of John Adams. John Quincy Adams began to prepare them for the press, and wrote the earlier part of his father's biography; but the main portion of the labor devolved on Charles Francis Adams, who has devoted to it several years, and has set an example of thorough research and sound judgment which cannot be too highly commended. We understand that, in consequence of the unexpectedly large amount of material, of a public nature, which Mr. Adams has deemed it necessary to include in these ten volumes, much of the more private and familiar correspondence of his illustrious grandfather, addressed to his family and most intimate friends, is reserved for two or three additional volumes, to be issued in the same style, as soon as they can conveniently be prepared. These will be remarkably interesting as exhibitions of character and manners.

The long announced concluding volumes of the "Life of Alexander Hamilton," by John C. Hamilton, which, it is understood, have been delayed that the author might have access to the writings of his father's great rival in the federal party, will be published immediately.

We have now in print the works of Washington, in twelve volumes; of Hamilton, (exclusive of "The Federalist,") in seven; of Jefferson, (very incomplete,) in nine; of Adams, in ten; and of Franklin, in ten. Those of three of their cotemporaries-Samuel Adams, John Jay, and James Madison-are also demanded. The papers of Adams are mostly in the possession of Mr. Bancroft, who contemplates, we believe, their publication. Of Jay's, we apprehend that the public will get no more at present than are included in the excellent memoir by Judge Jay, of Bedford. Congress, at an enormous expense, published three volumes of "The Madison Papers," which are now entirely out of print; and Mr. M'Guire, of Washington, has had printed, for private circulation, a handsome quarto volume of the correspondence of the Sage of Montpelier.

The fourth volume of Irving's "Life of Washington" is nearly finished. The work was at first announced to be completed in three volumes, but no one who has read the portion of it already published, will regret that it is to be extended to five. It must be admitted that Mr. Irving has thus far executed this crowning labor of his life in a most admirable manner.

stores, and the distinguished historian is now busily occupied in Philadelphia with the proofs of the other three, which will follow as fast as he can superintend the press.

The "Private Correspondence" of Daniel Webster, in two octavo volumes, uniform with Mr. Everett's edition of his works, will appear next month.

A Revolutionary biography is in preparation, which will attract more than a common degree of attention. It is a "Life of Baron Steuben," by Mr. Frederic Kapp, one of the most accomplished German citizens of New-York, who has investigated with great care the subject of our indebtedness to Germany during the war for independence, as well as the history of the Hessian contributions to the British army during the same period.

Prince Alexander Labanoff, of St. Petersburgh, is such an intense admirer of the unfortunate Mary Stuart, that he has passed great part of his life in studying her history, and in collecting materials connected with it. About twelve years ago he published seven volumes of her letters, and recently he has brought out a Notice, in two hundred and twenty-six pages, of the numerous portraits of her which he possesses, and which he has got together after infinite pains and expense. These portraits are one hundred and thirty-six in number, namely, twelve paintings and one hundred and forty-four lithographs or engravings. He also possesses twenty-nine engravings of events in which the queen figured, and a great many portraits of cotemporary statesmen and sovereigns.

Colonel Benton, since the Missouri election, has been busily engaged upon his "Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856," to be completed in fifteen volumes, octavo, double columns. It will embrace all that is essential of what is now to be found only in a hundred volumes, some of which are very rare as well as expensive and cumbersome.

Some hitherto unpublished letters of Mr. Jefferson have just been brought out by Mr. J. W. Randolph, of Richmond, in the "Early History of the University of Virginia," a volume of nearly seven hundred pages, containing the correspondence of Mr. Jefferson with Mr. Joseph C. Cabell, Mr. Jefferson's Bill for a Complete System of Education, &c.

The literary world will be delighted to know that we are at length to have a good translation of Plutarch. Mr. A. H. Clough, one of the best Grecians of our day, and a capital English writer, has been engaged upon the work many years, and it will be issued in Boston this fall, in four large volumes.

the purchaser as to the legal and legitimate possession of these manuscripts, as well as to the authenticity of them." It added, that they did not form part of those which were stolen from the palace of the Tuileries, when it was invaded by the mob in the revolution of February, 1848.

Mrs. Farnham, author of "Life in Prairie Land," has written a new work, under the title of "Life in California, as Noticed and Noted by a Lady," which is now going through the press in this city.

The Hon. Mr. Clemens, of Alabama, has in press "Bernard Lile, a Historical Romance, embracing the Periods of the Texan Revolution and the Mexican War."

Alois Pokhorny." It is in five volumes, and contains five hundred folio and thirty quarto engravings of the plants of the Austrian Empire, all of them perfect fac-similes of the originals, and executed in the best style of modern art. The plan by which the beautiful and exact copies of these plants, with their leaves, flowers, and roots, is thus effected, is simply this: the plant is placed upon a sheet of pure lead, which is very soft, and on it is laid a copper sheet of erfully together, so as to impress the print of similar size; both sheets are then pressed powthe plant on the lead. The electrotyping process is then applied, and the plate is printed.

The London Athenæum has recently had sent to it a number of American novels to notice, Triumph;" "The Good Time Coming;" "The among which were "Zoe; or, the Quadroon's

Old Homestead;" and "Wolfsden." On all it

is very severe, but more especially on the first; over which "triumph," the editor says, he has 'groaned in spirit;" and concludes by add

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The "Songs of Summer," from the pen of our contributor, R. H. Stoddard, some of which appeared in Putnam's Monthly, have just been issued in a neat volume.

There will be few illustrated works especially designed for the holidays, but there is one announced of unusual magnificence, "The Court of Napoleon, or Society under the First Empire, with Portraits of its Beauties, Wits, and Heroines," by Frank B. Goodrich. This will be in quarto, in the style of "The Republican Court," and it is stated that the first edition will cost over $30,000.

A new edition of "The Republican Court,' revised and enlarged, with several additional portraits, engraved in the most admirable manner, will be published during the present month.

Mr. W. S. Chase, of Paris, is now engaged preparing an article on American Literature, for "L'Encyclopedie du XIX. Siecle," and calls on American publishers to send him such works as they would wish to have noticed.

A treaty for the mutual protection of literary and artistic property, between France and the city of Hamburgh, has recently been promulgated by the French government.

Colonel H. Yorkum, a graduate of West Point, and formerly of the army, but now a member of the Texas bar, has written a "History of Texas, from its First Settlement to the Annexation," which is on the eve of publication in two large octavo volumes.

The Smithsonian Institution at Washington, has received from the government of Austria a unique work, called Physiotypia Plantarum Austriacarum; or, "The Natural Self-printing Process, in its application to the vascular plants of the Austrian Empire, with especial regard to the nervations and the surface organs of the plants, by Constantine Von Ettinghansen and

The fourth part of the Dutch translation of Macaulay's "History of England" has just appeared at the Hague.

Mr. Everett is preparing a third volume of his learned and brilliant "Orations and Speeches." The two volumes issued in 1850 contain each

about seven hundred large octavo pages, and the new one will probably be of the same size. It will doubtless contain his historical discourse pronounced last year at Dorchester; his eulogium upon Washington, and his recent noble performance at Albany, on the history, condition, and prospects of astronomical science.

William Tell.-Some new materials for the history of William Tell and his times, have just been discovered in Zurich. They were found in "the Oldest White Book," (das aelteste weisse Buch,) written in the fifteenth century, which contains, besides copies of the oldest federal letters, a short chronicle of the earliest history of "the Three Cantons," and the story of William Tell of an earlier date than that of Melchior Russ. This is most probably the source of Gilg Tschudy's version, which he made use of and embel

lished.

Bad Poetry.-Out of one hundred and fiftysix poems in the French language, forwarded for competition for two prizes given by Monsieur de Decker of Brussels, the jury could not find one worthy of either first or second class reward: it was, however, insisted that their business was not to find out the really good, but the comparatively good, or rather the least bad. A Monsieur Hymans proved the successful competitor.

The Rev. W. R. Gordon, D.D., a writer of very decided abilities, has in press "A Threefold Test of Modern Spiritualism." This gentleman is absurd enough to treat this nonsense as a species of diabolism. It is no longer, we think, denied by any one that certain very curious physical phenomena, such as table-moving, &c., are of every day occurrence; but to suppose that

such things are done through a supernatural agency, is ridiculously absurd. Indeed, it is generally admitted that "Spiritualism" is the creed of tricksters and fools. The undoubted facts of rapping, tipping, &c., separated from all the juggleries in this line practiced by mountebanks, are deserving of serious consideration; and it may well be doubted whether the recent convention of men of science at Albany did not err in declining to appoint a committee to report on the subject at a future meeting.

Herder's literary remains are about to be given to the public; they consist of unpublished letters of Herder, and his correspondence with Göthe, Schiller, Klopstock, Lens, Jean Paul, Claudius, Lavater, Jacobi, Mendelssohn, and several other distinguished men.

Mr. David Paul Brown, of Philadelphia, has nearly completed the printing of "The Forum," two large octavos of gossip and criticism of the Pennsylvania bench and bar, from the earliest

period. There is an abundance of rich material for such a work in New-York.

The Rev. W. H. Milburn, the blind Methodist clergyman, who was recently chaplain to the House of Representatives, and is known as one of our most brilliant lecturers, has in press "The Rifle, the Ax, and the Saddle-Bags," a medley of American character and manners.

Dr. Doran, whose "Knights and Their Days," "Habits and Men," &c., have been widely popular, has sent to his American publisher the advance sheets of a new work entitled "Monarchs Retired from Business."

and author of a well-known life of Dr. Arnold, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, canon of Canterbury, has written two octavos, on "Sinai and Palestine, in connection with their History," which English critics with one accord pronounce the most masterly work yet produced on the lands of the Bible. It will be republished in this city this month.

Monuments in America.-Monuments to our great men are in process of erection all over the country-from Bunker Hill to the battle-ground of New-Orleans. About three years since a grand celebration of the departure of the May Flower from Delft Haven, on the 1st of August, 1620, was holden at Plymouth, and the steps initiatory to the erection of a monument to the Pilgrim Fathers were taken at that time. We now learn that the trustees of the fund raised for this purpose have accepted a design by Mr. Harnmatt Billings, a Boston architect. The design is thus described:

"The design for the national monument to the forefathers, to be erected at Plymouth, consists of an octagon pedestal, on which stands a statue of Faith. From the four smaller faces of the pedestal project buttresses, upon which are seated figures emblematic of Morality, Education, Law, and Liberty. Below them, in panels, are also reliefs of the Departure from Delft Haven,''the Siguing of the Social Compact in the Cabin of the Mayflower, the Landing at Plymouth,' and 'the First Treaty with the Indians.' Upon the four larger faces of the main pedestal are large panels, to contain records of the principal events in the history of the Pilgrims, with the names of those who came over in the Mayflower, and below are smaller panels for records connected with the society and the building of the monument. Within the pedestal is a chamber with a stairway leading to the platform, upon which stands the figure of Faith, from which may be seen all the places of interest connected with the history of the forefathers. The whole monument will be about one hundred and fifty feet high and eighty feet at the base. The statue of Faith will be seventy feet high, and the sitting figures thirty-eight feet high, thus making it in magnitude the greatest work of the kind in the world, while as a work of art it will be a subject of pride to every American citizen."

Recent French newspapers give an account of the finding of some Roman remains in excavating for a railway station at Narbonne. The most remarkable of them are a statue in white marble of Silenus, and six inscriptions, three of them in Hebrew, three funereal ones in Latin.

One of the latter is of a man named Dometius, who is recorded to have died under the Consulate of Basileus Mavortius, who flourished in the first half of the sixth century, and who is remarkable from having possessed the copy of Horace from which the most ancient manuscript of the poet's works now existing was copied.

The State of Virginia has ordered from Crawford a statue of Washington, which is finished, and which will be brought to Norfolk by one of our national ships. The grounds in front of the President's house are ornamented with an equestrian statue of Jackson, and the battle-field of New Orleans has been similarly decorated. King's Mountain, the Thermopyle of the Revolution, has its monument-the captors of Major André have a suitable memorial on the heights of Tarrytown-a pillar commemorates the gallant deeds of the Minute Men on the plains of Lexington- -a monument marks the spot in Concord where the first British soldier fell in the Revolution, and the city of New-York has appropriated twenty-three thousand dollars for a monument to one of her bravest sons, Major General Worth. These and many more are recent works, and give bright promise for the future.

Highly interesting archæological discoveries have been made lately in Jerusalem. An immense quantity of earth has been wheeled away from the "Via Dolorosa," and excavations made to a considerable depth below the natural level. In the course of these operations the workmen came to several chambers formed of solid square blocks of stone, and ornamented with Mosaic floors. A grotto has been exposed, hewn out of the living rock, with five columns supporting the roof. It is supposed, from traces found in it, to have served as a place of worship to the