The Heavenly Home; or, The Employments and Enjoyments of the Saints in Heaven (365 pages. Philadelphia, Lindsay & Blakiston, 1853. Thirteen editions have been published). This work, after showing how the undertones of the heavenly life are discernible in the substructure of the present life, as exhibited both in pagan ideas of future happiness and in Christian foretastes of it, proceeds to discuss the degrees of happiness in heaven, exhibits the harmony of Scripture and astronomy in relation to the heavenly place, discusses the relation of this place to the bliss of the saints, develops at length the doctrine of the glorified body and glorified spirits, enlarges on the beatific vision and heavenly worship, and concludes with a discussion in relation to infants in heaven. These three volumes together constitute one work on the Future Life, and are also published under this title in a uniform edition as well as separately. Union with the Church, the Solemn Duty and the Blessed Privilege of All who would be Saved (127 pages, Philadelphia, Lindsay & Blakiston, 1853. Three editions have been published). The object of this work is to meet the case of that class of persons who are well-meaning and favorably disposed towards Christianity, but who do not go forward to make a profession of religion by union with the church. The objections and difficulties that present themselves before them are removed, and the reasons why union with the church is necessary are presented. The book is not written in the interest of any particular denomination, but is catholic in spirit. The Birds of the Bible (300 pages, 4to. Philadelphia, Lindsay & Blakiston, 1854. Illustrated, two editions). In this work the birds mentioned in the Bible are described; and the passages relating to them illustrated from their nature and habits. A large amount of ancient, quaint, and curious literature concerning birds is interwoven with the descriptions. The Life of Rev. Michael Schlatter; with a Full Account of his Travels and Labors among the Germans in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, and Virginia; including his Services as Chaplain in the French and Indian War, and in the War of the Revolution, 1716 to 1790 (375 pages. Philadelphia, Lindsay & Blakiston. 1857). This is an account of the first German missionary sent to this country by the Reformed Synods of Holland, to organize and provide for the rising German Reformed congregations in the United States. It is, to some extent, also a history of the early German settlements in the Middle States. The Fathers of the Reformed Church in Europe and America (in two volumes. Lancaster, Sprenger & Westhaeffer, 1857-1858), a biographical work, containing the lives of the most prominent reformers on the Reformed side of the Reformation, together with those who labored in the Reformed Church in America from 1726 to 1856. The True Glory of Woman, as Portrayed in the Beautiful Life of the Virgin Mary, Mother of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ (263 pages, Philadelphia, Lindsay & Blakiston, 1858. Three editions). The life of the Virgin Mother of Christ is held up as a model life for woman. In this view she is exhibited in the character of virgin, betrothed, wife, mother, disciple, and saint; after which, the claim that she is entitled to worship is reviewed and combated, and the question of her perpetual virginity discussed, In regard to the character and dignity of the Virgin Mary, the tone of the book throughout is, that while Romanism has unduly exalted her, Protestantisin has fallen short of appreciating her full dignity, exaltation, and honor, as being so intimately and deeply associated with the mystery of the Incarnation. A Plea for the Lord's Portion of a Christian's Wealth, in Life by Gift, at Death by Will (128 pages. Chambersburg, Pa., 1858). Poems (285 pages. Philadelphia, 1860). The Golden Censer; or, Devotions for Young Christians (419 pages. Philadelphia, Lindsay & Blakiston, 1860: three editions). This book contains prayers for the various circumstances of life, together with meditations and counsels. Hymns and Chants; with Offices of Devotion for Use in Sunday Schools, Parochial and Weekday Schools, Seminaries and Colleges, arranged according to the Church-year (384 pages. Lebanon, Pa., published by St. John's Sunday School, 1861, four editions). The Child's Catechism; containing a_Lesson for Every Sunday in the Year, with Prayers and Hymns for Little Children; the whole adapted to the use of Parents and Sunday Schools 0 pages. Chambersburg, Pa., 1861). The Guardian; devoted to the Social, Literary, and Religious Interests of Young Men and Lalies (a monthly magazine, commenced in 1850). Christological Theology. Inaugural Address (75 pages. Philadelphia, S. R. Fisher & Co., 1864), exhibiting the christological principle as the fundamental want of the present age. **Dr. Harbaugh performed the duties of his professorship at Mercersburg till his death, December 28, 1867. His last literary labors included the writing of the lives of all the German Reformed ministers contained in McClintock and Strong's Biblical Cyclopædia, and the revival of the Mercersburg Review at the beginning of 1867. Three years later, a posthumous volume was published by the Reformed Church Publication Board, Philadelphia, entitled Harfe: Gedichte in Pennsylvanisch-Deutscher Mundart. JAMES JACKSON JARVES. Mr. Jarves was born in the city of Boston, August 20, 1818. A delicate constitution interfered with his plans of professional life, and compelled him, on arriving at man's estate, to become a traveller in southern climes. After visiting Brazil, Chili, and Peru, in the years 1837 and 1838, he established himself in the Sandwich Islands, receiving the appointment of United States Consul at Honolulu. He turned his opportunities of observation in this region, interesting in its romantic scenery and contrasts of recently established civilization, to account by the preparation of a History of the Hawaian or Sandwich Islands, published at Boston in ant picture of Parisian interiors, from première to cinquième, the out-door life of street and garden, the humors of café and ball-room. 1843, in an octavo volume. He has present-topic of the gay metropolis. It presents a pleas ed in this book a careful narrative of the early history of the Hawaians, so far as it can be obtained from the scant hints of tradition. With the arrival of Captain Cook, a larger field is of course opened, and various narratives offer picturesque and authentic details. We have the account of Cook's intercourse with the natives fully set forth, with a careful discussion of the vexed question as to how far his unfortunate fate was due to his own imprudence. Mr. Jarves inclines to the opinion that the navigator acted rashly, and with a culpable disregard of the respect entertained by the natives for their rude divinities. The early efforts of American commerce at the island ports follow next in order, with the arrival and rapid success of the missionaries, to whose exertions Mr. Jarves attributes in a great degree the good order and enlightenment now prevalent. A new edition of this work, continuing the narrative to the present time, has been called for from the author. Mr. Jarves published in the same year with his history, a volume of sketches of travel, entitled, Scenes and Scenery in the Sandwich Islands, and a Trip through Central America, 1837-1842. In 1840 he contributed to the Americanization of the islands by establishing the Polynesian newspaper at Honolulu. It became, after a while, the official organ of the government, its editor receiving the title of "Director of the Government Press." He continued in this position until his final departure from the islands, in January, 1848. A recent Hawaian journal gives emphatic testimony to the zeal and efficiency of this early newspaper. After referring to the necessity that then existed for a "newly formed and tongue-tied government" to avail itself of the power of the press, he continues: "Under its first director, J. J. Jarves, talented, witty, and keen, yet unscrupulous withal, a literary Talleyrand, the Government organ convinced or crushed out opposition at home, and succeeded in making itself heard abroad. Those who suffered from its errors will attest that its manly and free-spoken voice, its talents and industry, and its unswerving support of the Hawaiian cause, were, in a moral point of view, worth more to the government then than all the other newmade and still untried institutions together." On his return home, in 1849, Mr. Jarves received the appointment of the king's special commissioner to negotiate treaties with the United States, France, and Great Britain, a significant recognition of his previous services to the Hawaian government. In 1851, he visited Europe on a tour of health and study. His first halt was at Paris, where he remained a year, turning the time to good account by the production of a pleasant work, published in New York by the Harpers, entitled, Parisian Sights seen through American Spectacles. It was reprinted in England, and circulated largely in France, until interdicted by the government, on account of its free comment on the stirring events transpiring in the capital at the time of its composition. The work is illustrated by clever designs on wood, selected from recent French publications on the inexhaustible In 1862, Mr. Jarves removed to Florence, where he passed several years, making frequent excursions in various parts of Italy, and employing his time in the pleasant study of art. In 1855, he published a volume, Italian Lights and Papal Principles, a collection of sketches originally contributed to Harper's Magazine. Another volume, Art Hints, appeared in London in the same year, and was afterwards republished by the Harpers. This work expanded, with the increasing zeal and experience of the author, into Art Studies, a beautifully printed quarto volume of five hundred pages. The volume is principally devoted to a history of Italian art, closing with the career of Michael Angelo and Raphael. The author has turned his rare opportunities of study to excellent account, describing from personal observation the great works of the early fresco painters, on mouldering and rain-stained walls, in quiet old out-of-the-way Italian towns. It is by far the most elaborate work on the subject which has yet been produced in America. It is illustrated by outline drawings from the author's gallery of works by the early Italian masters, collected during his residence in Italy. In 1857, Mr. Jarves published at Boston a volume, entitled The Confessions of an Inquirer, being the first part of a projected reply to the question, "Why and What am I?" This portion is described as "a narrative of educational experiments and conclusions, embracing a wide and varied field of adventure, erratic, and often at war with commonly received opinions, but earnest, sincere, and thoughtful." The same year, Mr. Jarves published Kiana, a Tradition of Hawaii. ** In three recent volumes, Mr. Jarves has continued to present the results of his studies in the fine arts, with the special object of quickThese ening the spirit of art in America. works comprise: Art Idea, being the second part of The Confessions of an Inquirer, 1864; The Art Idea: Sculpture, Painting, and Architecture in America, 1866; and Art Thoughts: the Experiences and Observations of an American Amateur in Europe, 1869 — the latter published as his matured and final convictions. HENRY WARD BEECHER Was born June 24, 1813, in Litchfield, Connecti. cut, where his father, the Rev. Dr. Lyman Beecher, was at the time engaged in his pastoral duties. Henry graduated at Amherst College, Massachusetts, in 1834, and studied divinity at the Lane Theological Seminary, at Cincinnati, of which his father had become president. His first ministerial charge was in 1837, of a Presbyterian congregation at Lawrenceburgh, Indiana, whence he removed to Indianapolis in 1839, where he remained till 1847, when he accepted the pastorate of the Congregational Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, New York. His oratory, ranging from the usual themes of moral and theological discussion over the vast field of social and political reforms, with frequent reference to negro slave- horticultural topics, and has the title, Plain and Another series of papers, originally contributed by Mr. Beecher to the New York Ledger, with the title, "Thoughts as they occur; by One who keeps his Eyes and Ears open," was published, with the title, Eyes and Ears, in Boston, in 1862. Like his other writings, they are of an ingenious, practical turn, teaching the art of profit and en In 1862 Mr. Beecher visited England, and rendered an important service to his country by his eloquent vindication of the policy of the American government in the war which it was maintaining for the preservation of the Union. A collection of his discourses on topics suggested by the times, entitled Freedom and War, was published the following year in Boston. As the war was approaching its conclusion, in April, 1865, Mr. Beecher, at the request of the government, delivered an oration at Fort Sumter, on the anniversary of its fall, and the formal restoration of the national flag by Major Ander Besides these "beauties" of Mr. Beecher's discourses, an extensive series of the sermons has appeared in a regular weekly report of them taken from his lips, morning and evening, at the Plymouth Church, and published, the one in New York, the other in Boston, respectively in the columns of the Independent and the Traveller. There is another volume of Mr. Beecher's writings, made up from a series of early articles contributed to a newspaper in Indiana, the Western Farmer and Guardian. It relates to son. Of Mr. Beecher's many lectures or addresses, few if any have compared in interest with his oration at New York, in January, 1859, at the celebration of the centennial anniversary of the birthday of Robert Burns. It was rather biographical than critical, balancing with a kind but impartial treatment the virtues and failings of the poet's character. Mr. Beecher has edited the Plymouth Collection of Hymns and Tunes, a work largely in use in the churches that practise congregational singing. ** Mr. Beecher in 1867 wrote for the New York Ledger a novel, entitled: Norwood; or, Village Life in New England. Over 370,000 copies of the number containing its first chapters were printed; and the completed work appeared as a volume in the year following. In the attractive character of Dr. Wentworth, the author has full scope to express his philosophic views of life, his poetic love of nature and art, from the standpoint of a cultured and whole-souled representative of humanity. The undertone of the story is essentially religious. It is marked by the large-hearted liberality of spirit so characteristic of its writer, as especially noticeable in the powerful death-scene of an eccentric old sailor, Tommy Taft. A large part of its incidents are related to the struggle of the late war, wherein its hero is engaged from the fall of Sumter to the victory of Gettysburg. The Life of Jesus the Christ: Part 1-Earlier Scenes, of which the introductory Overture of the Angels came out as a holiday instalment in 1869- was published in 1872. It included the period of the Sermon on the Mount and the earlier labors in Galilee. It was undertaken, to use its prefatory words, "in the hope of inspiring a deeper interest in the noble personage of whom these matchless histories, the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, are the authentic memorials. I have endeavored to present scenes that occurred two thousand years ago as they would appear to modern eyes if the events had taken place in our day. The Jesus of the four Evangelists for well nigh two thousand years has exerted a powerful influence upon the heart, the understanding, and the imagination of mankind. It is that JESUS, and not a modern substitute, I have sought to depict, in his life, his social relations, his disposition, and his doctrines." In 1872 Mr. Beecher accepted the "Lyman Beecher Lectureship on Preaching," recently founded in the theological department of Yale College, to give three annual courses of lectures. The first series, reported as delivered, was printed as Yale Lectures on Preaching. It contained a masterly analysis of Preaching, and the qualifications of the Preacher as demanded by the best interests of the present age. The second year was devoted to "a consideration of the social and religious machinery as connected with preaching;" and the third to "and the third to "the method of using Christian doctrines, in their relations to individual dispositions, and to the wants of communities." Plymouth Pulpit, issued since September, 1868, in the form of octavo weekly pamphlets and semi-annual volumes, has contained a series of phonographic reports of Mr. Beecher's sermons, and has had a wide popularity. A volume of Prayers from Plymouth Pulpit, preserved verbatim by a member of this congregation without his pastor's knowledge, was allowed to be printed in 1867. Lecture-Room Talks: a Series of Familiar Discourses on Themes of Christian Experience followed three years later. Two volumes of Sermons by Henry Ward Beecher: Selected from Published and Unpublished Discourses, and Revised by their Author, appeared in 1868 under the editorship of Lyman Abbott. Several volumes of selections from his discourses have also been published: Royal Truths, 1866, reprinted from a series of extracts prepared in England without his knowledge; and Morning and Evening Devotional Exercises, edited by Lyman Abbott, 1870. headed by Demosthenes and Cicero, who have mastered themselves and mankind through great difficulties: Henry Ward was not marked out by the prophecies of partial friends for any brilliant future. He had precisely the organization which often passes for dullness in early boyhood. He had great deficiency in verbal memory, a deficiency marked in him through life; he was excessively sensitive to praise and blame, extremely diffident, and with a power of yearning, undeveloped emotion, which he neither understood nor could express. His utterances were thick and indistinct, partly from bashfulness, and partly from an enlargement of the tonsils of the throat, so that in speaking or reading he was with difficulty understood. In forecasting his horoscope, had any one then taken the trouble to do it, the last success that would ever have been predicted would have been that of an orator. • When Henry is sent with a message,' said a good aunt, ‘I always have to make him say it three times. The first time I have no manner of an idea, no more than if he spoke Choctaw; the second I catch now and then a word; by the third time I begin to understand.' When he was ten years old, he was a stocky, strong, well-grown boy, loyal in duty, trained in unquestioning obedience, inured to patient hard work, inured also to the hearing and discussing of all the great theological problems of Calvinism, which were always reverberating in his hearing; but as to any mechanical culture, in an extremely backward state - a poor writer, a miserable speller, with a thick utterance, and a bashful reticence which seemed like stolid stupidity."* Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher, who contributes frequent articles to The Christian Union, has written one work of fiction, which appeared anonymously in 1859: From Dawn to Daylight: A Simple Story of a Western Home. By a Minister's Wife. Written to relieve the hours of a tedious convalescence, it was published to show laymen how, by considerate kindness and prompt payments, they could strengthen the hands of their pastors. Her Motherly Talks with Young Housekeepers appeared in 1873. The three brothers of Henry Ward Beecher, all of whom are in the ministry, are each known by a work of marked individuality. Charles (born in 1815), by the Autobiography and Correspondence of Lyman Beecher, the father, 1864. Edward (born in 1804), by The Conflict of Ages, 1854, The Concord of Ages, 1858, a work on Baptism, and one on the Papacy; and Thomas K. (born in 1824), by Our Seven Churches : Eight Lectures, designed to discourage sectarianism and promote Christian brotherhood, 1870. From the Autobiography we extract a chapter which strikingly indicates the personal individuality of these various members of the Beecher family. Mr. Beecher has edited The Christian Union since its establishment in 1870. He also contributed an introduction to Una and her Paupers: Memorials of Agnes Elizabeth Jones, 1872. A uniform edition of his copyright works is in preparation, with his Lectures to Young Men as an introductory volume, 1873. It will include a volume of speeches delivered and published in England, in 1863, on the American Question. As the impress of Mr. Beecher on the present age has been chiefly owing to his magnetic FAMILY HISTORY OF THE BEECHERS FROM AUTOBIpower as an orator and preacher-"one keenly sympathetic to all that concerns humanity, thoroughly wide awake to the needs of the Nineteenth century, and in earnest, morally and spiritually profoundly in earnest, although he may tip one of his keenest shafts with a smile"the disabilities of utterance that accompanied his childhood, as narrated by his sister, add another name to the list of great orators, OGRAPHY OF LYMAN BEECHER. Between the widely-scattered children and their home a constant intercourse was maintained by means of correspondence; and, to insure a greater regularity, a system of "circulars" was devised. A large folio sheet was taken at the eastern end * Men of Our Times: art. Henry Ward Beecher, by Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, p. 509. of the line and sent to the next westward, each one adding something, till the full sheet reached the western extreme, and was returned to its starting-point, and vice versa. We have before us one of these interesting letters missive, with the following postmarks and directions upon it: New Orleans, La.; Jacksonville, Ill.; Walnut Hills, Ohio; Indianapolis, Ind. ; Chilicothe, Ohio; Zanesville, Ohio; Batavia, N. Y.; Hartford, Ct. One direction. Rev. Mr. Beecher, served for all except the two extremes. Merely as a specimen of the method, we insert a paragraph or two from each locality. Charles. "Brother George's perfectionism is a curious matter, and lies in a nut-shell. That a Christian can be perfect is evident, else God commands impossibilities. Whether they ever are or not, who can decide? Does a man think himself perfect? Amen. I hope he is not mistaken. So long as he behaves well, let him pass for immaculate. If he does not behave properly, he deceives himself. If you ask, 'Have I attained?' I say, Ask God. The more you try to decide, and the nearer you come to an affirmative, the more probable is it you are deceived. The heart is deceitful: who can know it?" Mrs. Edward Beecher. "We received this yesterday, and I hasten to add my say and pass it along. I suppose that we are to pour our sorrows as well as our joys into each other's bosoms through the medium of these circulars, for we should sympathize with each other in affliction as well as in blessings. Our little daughter (you know she is the only daughter that we have ever had, and therefore very dear to us) we have had much anxiety about, because she was a crying child; but she had improved so much in this respect, and appeared generally so well, that we had dismissed most of our fears till a few weeks ago, when she was a little over seven months. I was dressing her in the morning, when I perceived all at once that she was in a convulsion fit. The pang that shot through my No one can unheart I can not describe to you. derstand it who has not watched for days, and weeks, and months, day and night, the writhings, distortions, and agonies of a beloved object, hoping all the time that death would termi ate its sufferings, and fearing that something worse than death would be the result; and then, by degrees, to have every hope extinguished, and that being, which promised so fair to be a comfort and a blessing, prove a constant source of trouble, care, and perplexity. We have lost, or more than lost, three of our six children, and what the Lord means to do with this fourth we know not." Henry Ward. "There are some signs of better things among my people; more feeling in church and congregation, and more solemn meetings, and in some cases of incipient anxiety -just that state of things that encourages, yet makes me feel most powerless. "I wish, George, you could be here a while and help me. I would, if you were here, have continuous preaching, and believe immense good could be done. I thought it possible you might be able to come. Besides, we have grown almost strangers to each other since you groped off to Rochester, and I would fain have some of our long talks again. As to perfectionism, I am not greatly troubled with the fact of it in myself, or the doctrine of it in you; for I feel sure that if you give yourself time and prayer you will settle down right, whatever the right may be: and I rejoice, on this account, that your judgment has led you to forhear publishing, because, after we have published, if we do not hit exactly right, there is a vehement temptation not to advance, but rather to nurse and defend our published views. The treatises which have had influence in this world from generation to generation are those which have been matured, re-thought, re-cast, delayed. Apples that ripen early are apt to be worm-eaten, and decay early, at any rate; late fruit always keeps best. * * I have seen men by an injudicious effort.run so high up aground that there never was a tide high enough to float them again. They dried, shrunk, and rattled. May God never let you run ashore until it is upon the shores of that land of peace where perplexities shall cease their tormenting flight, and all be joy!" Mrs. Stowe, "Well, George, it seems to be the fashion of the day to address you firstly and prime; and I, setting apart metaphysics, will enter only that interesting department of physics which your gift of flower seeds brings to mind. Many thanks for them, hoping that you and S- will be here to see them in all their glory. I have a fine place laid out for them, and shall proceed with them secundum artem. What is your experience about dahlias? for I was never more puzzled in my life than with the contradictory directions I hear about soil, etc. Some say the richest you can find can't be too rich; and the other day a celebrated gardener of New York advocated dry gravel. What do you think? If you don't write pretty soon it will be too late. I have some roots which might be handsome if they only would be; but last year they brought forth little besides stalks and buds, and some of them run out into single flowers." Catharine. "Where is the eastern circular that started from Hartford, or ought to have started, two months since? I shall recommend that any one that delays a circular over a week shall lose the reading of the return one, as a penalty to make them remember. I shall flit about here this summer till I find where it is best to settle next. Love to you all.” Dr. Beecher. "William, why do you not write to your father? Are you not my first-born son? Did I not carry you over bogs a-fishing. a-straddle of my neck, on my shoulders, and, besides clothing and feeding, whip you often to make a man of you as you are, and would not have been without? and have I not always loved you, and borne you on my heart, as the claims and trials of a first-born demand? Don't you remember studying theology with your father while sawing and splitting wood in that wood-house in Green Street, Boston, near by where you found your wife? "Little do those know who have rented that tenement since how much orthodoxy was developed and imbodied there; and now why should all this fruit of my labors be kept to yourself! Nothing would give me more pleasure, so long have your interests and mine been identified, than to hear often what and how you are, and how things go on all around you. Our prospects at the seminary |