these ideas would be highly unjust. Important as are the subjects successively treated, they will be found to have been handled with great talent and judgment, and (with one or two exceptions, where the ground to be traversed was evidently too extensive) they are presented to the reader in a form, condensed indeed, but not imperfect. A glance at the titles will also dissipate the idea that the benefit of the young alone is aimed at, for whilst they are not forgotten, a wider sphere of usefulness is contemplated, and with great success. Had the excellent Society which issues this series done nothing else, they would yet have conferred a valuable and lasting benefit on the Christian world.

CHOICE SENTENCES; or, Recollections of the Ministry of the late Rev. W. Howels. 16mo. cloth, pp. 136. J. F. Shaw, Southampton Row. THESE are fragments of sayings of a well-known and much-esteemed minister, which will be read with much profit, and furnish many an half-hour's useful thought. Some of the sentences are of unusual power.

THE SUNDAY SCHOLAR'S CHRISTIAN YEAR. By the Rev. Thomas Allbut, Vicar of Dewsbury. 24mo. cloth, pp. 156. Longman and Co.

THIS is a course of religious instruction for one year, embodying the leading subjects provided by the Church for each Sunday and Holy-day. It consists of truths extracted, in turn, from the Collects, Epistles, Gospels, Articles, Services, and Lessons, with Texts to be committed to memory, and Questions for the Teacher. It appears to us a well-arranged series of Lessons, and worthy the attention of our readers.

THE CHILD'S BOOK OF POETRY. 16mo, pp. 172. Religious Tract Society.

THIS is a charming collection of old

friends and new, and if to enjoy them most heartily be childish, we are content to forego our higher appellation; but in truth, the element of simplicity which is too often wanting in very childish poetry, (or prose either) seldom fails, where it does co-exist with real feeling, to awaken the freshness of the human heart. He is little to be envied who has so filled his eye and his ear with the sights aud sounds of active manhood, that the echoes of his own early days can find no entrance.

THE ANNOTATED PARAGRAPH BIBLE. Part I, The Pentateuch. Quarto, pp. 216, Religious Tract Society.

THE Paragraph Bible of the Tract Society is, (we hope) by this time well known to our readers. This edition is in much larger type, and therefore more especially available for home use, as the other is for the pocket. We gladly take this opportunity of correcting an error into which we fell in noticing the Pocket edition of this Paragraph Bible in a former Number. We objected to the insertion of bracketed words and sentences explanatory, as we thought, of the sense. These however, are but various readings of the passages, all previously inserted in the margin of our Authorized Version. We still prefer a marginal position to their being embodied (even with the bracket) in the text, but any objection to the matter itself must, of course, fall to the ground, and would not have been made had not the various readings here supplied been wanting, in some instances, in the Bible with which we compared this.

THE GARLAND, or Poetry for Childhood and Youth. Groombridge and Son, Paternoster Row, 16mo, pp. 144. HERE are many well known and favourite pieces, some for children and others almost too high in standard for such a collection.

8vo., pp. 194. Hamilton, Adams, and Co.

THE valley, as our readers may suppose, is the one through which all of us must one day pass; the light, that sunshine from heaven reflected in the eye of the traveller who sees in that valley a path to his heavenly Father's home. Such was the light that fell on the subject of this little memoir, Miss Abbey Bolton, a granddaughter of the well known Rev. William Jay, of Bath. There is little in the book beyond the happy experience of many an early pilgrim through the dark valley; indeed so little, that one is almost ready to deprecate the intrusion into a family circle thus grieving for a loved and lost one; but the claims of a large circle of friends outweighed, we presume, this consideration, and certainly an hour's profitable reading has thus been placed within the reach of many.

OUTLINES OF SUNDAY SCHOOL ADDRESSES. Green's Sunday School Library, Vol. 6, 16mo., pp. 126. B. L. Green, Paternoster Row. WE have had occasion before, to recommend this Series of Sunday School Books, and we think this volume also likely to be of much service to teachers who know how to use it, for in that lies the chief difficulty. There are some excellent introductory remarks which will help a teacher in attaining the unusual power of delivering a good

Horace Roscoe St. John. Fep. 8vo. pp. 196. Sampson Low, Fleet Street. THIS is necessarily but a brief sketch of the life of the great discoverer, but the leading events are clearly brought out, and the whole written with ability. We could wish that, without obtruding religious sentiments unnecessarily, there had yet been thrown on the nar rative more of that spiritual light in which alone the world's history can be rightly viewed. The destinies of a new world, can hardly, with justice, be so lightly treated.

CHRONOLOGICAL TESTAMENT.

4to. Blackader, Aldine Chambers, and Bagster, Paternoster Row. WE have received a specimen page of the above work, which is now passing through the press. The design is good, and the work will be an useful Biblical help, if well completed.

HINTS FOR THE EARNEST STUDENT; or a Year Book for the Young. Compiled by Mrs. W. Fison. Seeley, Fleet St. fep. 8vo. pp. 484.

THIS book, to use the words of the Authoress, "is more especially intended for those who, in the common acceptation of the word, have completed their education, and are now to be considered

as depending rather on self-culture than the assistance of others, for their future mental progress." There is therefore a very frequent appeal to the judgment combined with affectionate entreaties to the heart. The glory of God is set forth as the end to which our whole lives should be made subservient, and all are reminded that, with this end in view, they have each a definite sphere (be it large or contracted) in which their influence may avail for good. Earnestness and decision of character is, as may be supposed, another main topic of the work, and the Authoress then proceeds to discuss the objects of study, cultivation of taste, fine arts, accomplishments, &c., concluding with a chapter on the importance of an earnest life, as the only preparation for a future state of blessedness. The extracts are copious, as is stated in the preface. The work evinces much deep feeling and sincere desire for usefulness. It might, we venture to think, have been curtailed to advantage; but, for the sake of the spirit in which it is written, it has our hearty commendation.

MEMOIR OF JAMES HALLEY, A.B. Student of Theology. By Rev. W. Arnot, fcp. 8vo. pp. 304. David Bryce, Glasgow: Hamilton and Adams, London.

THE subject of this memoir was entirely

unknown to us, as probably to most of our readers, but we have read the narrative with great interest, and we trust, with profit, though there are no striking incidents in it. Mr. Halley died at Madeira, (in 1841) at the early age of twenty-eight; another of that frightful list of victims to over-exertion in an academical career. But if this sad termination be common, Mr. Halley's genius and acquirements were of a rare degree of excellence. The charm of the book, however, is his piety, humble and unassuming, but deep toned and full of life and energy. None, we think, could read his letters without becoming wiser and better men. The biography is carefully and judiciously edited, but there are one or two remarks on the English Church which might well have been omitted, inasmuch as they are based only on the proceedings of a certain foreign chaplain, whom few would accept as a type of an English Clergyman.

WAYS AND ENDS. 18mo, Wertheim and Macintosh.

THE two ways in which the worldly and the pious respectively run. It is a capital story, very suitable for the Parents of Sunday scholars.

and 16mo.

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