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In One handsome imperial octavo Volume, printed in a bold and legible type, with references at the commencement of each Prayer to portions of Scripture to be read; bound in cloth, with gilt edges, price 21s.

THE

FAMILY PRAYER-BOOK;

CONTAINING PRAYERS FOR

EVERY MORNING AND EVENING THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.

With Additional Prayers for Special Occasions,

BY THE REV. J. MORISON, D.D.

"The plan appears to me a very admirable one; and the execution of the work, if I may presume to say so, seems every way worthy of the design; and, from what I know of your other writings, I feel convinced that, while the whole will breathe a truly evangelical spirit, every thing sectarian will be omitted, I shall feel a pleasure in recommending it to those among

my flock who may be in need of such an aid for the holy and happy services of the Family Altar."

"Streatham."

Hem Blut

"The Prayers are admirably calculated to excite the best feelings of the renewed mind-to elevate and purify the affections, and to bring the soul into closer union and fellowship with God. Open where you may, you will find assistance in your devout meditations. Trusting to the blessing of God, I recommend this work to the religious public in general."

"Huddersfield."

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I.

Boothroyd, D. D.

"I learn that the excellent compositions of this nature, of Mr. Jay and Mr. Fletcher, have been extensively useful, and obtained a great circulation. It is no slight praise to say, that your work, in my view, is inferior to neither, and for justness of sentiment, propriety of expression, and comprehensiveness of meaning, is likely tohave few equals." "13, Piccadilly."

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"I am much pleased with the nature, style, and piety of the Family Prayers.' It appears to me eminently calculated for usefulness. Would that every household laid to heart and put into practice the excellent hints on family

religion contained in the preliminary dissertation.

"Surrey Chapel-house."

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"Dr. Morison's Book of Prayers is, in my humble judgment, a very valuable one. The style is chaste d perspicuous; the thoughts comprehen

sive and scriptural; and the spirit warm, free, heavenly. May God make it useful!"

"Fetter Lane."

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"I have read several of the prayers in your forth-coming Manual; and my impression, from the specimens thus afforded me, is, that they are eminently adapted for usefulness. Family religion is a thing of so much importance, that I rejoice in every judicious effort made for its promotion; and, on this account, I hail your intended publication with peculiar delight."

he Raffle.

"So far as I have been able to peruse this work of Dr. Morison, for augmenting the blessing of of family worship, it appears to me well adapted to its design.

The prince in his palace, and the poor shepherd in his mountain
cabin, are supplied with incitements and assistances, especially to
their social devotions, which are of the most valuable character.
"Homerton.

"The design of Dr. Morison's work on family religion is one of the greatest importance, and its execution is characterised by so great a degree of sound judgment and fervent piety, as to make it exceedingly desirable that the use of it should be in every way encouraged among the class of persons for whom it is intended.

"Notting Hill.

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"Judging from the specimens which I have seen-the Prayers themselves appear to possess, im an eminent degree, the qualities requisite in such composures.... They happily biend the sweet atleetions of domestic life with the more expansive feelings of Christian philanthropy... They are the roughly free of all sectarian verrerness. Christian heads of tamines who do need them, may use them without apprehension, and with much benefit; while others, by the perusal of them, may improve their spirit of devotion, and enrich their resources of extemporaneous worship."

"Glasgow.

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THE TURKISH EMPIRE ILLUSTRATED.

Now publishing, to be completed in not exceeding 24 Monthly Parts, each Part price 2s. containing 4 large and highly-finished Engravings, and 8 or 12 pages of letter-press,

FISHER'S

CONSTANTINOPLE

AND ITS ENVIRONS;
With the Scenery of

THE SEVEN CHURCHES OF ASIA MINOR

Illustrated.

Comprising the Bosphorus, the Waterfalls and Passes of the Great Balkan Mountains, Sea of Marmora, the Hellespont, Mount Olympus, Brousa, Plains of Troy, Plains of the Meander, Sardis, Ephesus, Pergamos, Thyatira, Laodicea, Philadelphia, and Smyrna.

IN A SERIES OF DRAWINGS

Taken during a Nine Months' Residence, by THOMAS ALLOM, Esq.: with an Historical Account of Constantinople, and Descriptions of the Plates by the Rev. ROBERT WALSH, LL.D., Chaplain to the British Embassy at the Ottoman Porte; and Author of "Narrative of a Residence at Constantinople," &c. &c.

The associations connected with Constantinople-its spirit-stirring history, which, from the earliest times down to the present day, is full of exciting materials-whether we dwell upon the past, contemplate the changes in progress, or speculate upon the future are so intimately blended with the interests of the whole civilized world throughout all ages, that, were it but a heap of stones, no one, gifted with a mind for which historical recollections possess a single charm, could regard it with indifference.

In addition to Constantinople and its Environs, this work will comprise Views of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor. These awe-inspiring scenes, so strongly attesting the truth of the Gospel, and the fulfilment of prophecies which doomed the lukewarm votaries of Christianity to dispersion, and their once crowded temples to neglect, cannot fail to excite the highest degree of interest in every bosom warmed with a spark of religious feeling. On the score of novelty, they will also have paramount claims upon public attention.

To secure such Drawings as would not only faithfully portray the landscape portion of these interesting localities, but, in addition, the habits, manners, religious peculiarities, customs and costumes, that so strikingly distinguish the Osmanli from every other native of Europe, the publishers engaged the services of Mr. ALLOM, whose reputation as an artist has already advanced him to a high rank in his profession. His figures are always happily grouped, and introduced for some object of instruction: and as no part of Europe is less known than "the land of those who bend the knee at Mecca," so, none can more advantageously be placed before the public in expressive scenic representation than the Turkish Empire. The Drawings, on their arrival in London, were exhibited at " The Graphic Society" and "Artists' Conversazione," and excited universal admiration.

For the literary part, the valuable assistance of the Rev. R. WALSH, LL.D. has been procured, who is peculiarly qualified for the task assigned him, from the prominent situation he held as an attaché of the British Embassy at the Ottoman Porte, and by the able and popular manner in which he has already written upon Constantinople. The whole, thus embellished and illustrated, bids fair, the proprietors trust, to become a standard work, alike valuable as a pictorial and historical record of scenes and times which can never fail to excite inquiry and stimulate research, and, in continuation with the Illustrations of Fisher's "Syria and the Holy Land," already published, will constitute one beautiful and uniform delineation of

"This clime of the East, this land of the Sun."

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"If beauty and fidelity of graphic illustration, fulness and discrimination in historical and descriptive narration, and cheapness in price, will insure extensive patronage and popularity, Fisher's Constantinople' must be pre-eminently successful. Combining, as it does, the most exquisite productions of the draftsman. Mr. Allom, and engravers of the first skill, with the literary essays of such a traveller and scholar as Dr. Walsh, the reader and purchaser may safely calculate on seeing a work replete with the excellencies of art and literature."-Gentleman's Mag.

In a quarto volume, tastefully bound in cloth, with gilt edges, and embellished with numerous plates, price 23s.

FOX'S CHRISTIAN MARTYROLOGY,

EDITED BY THE REV. ADAM CLARKE, LL.D.

Including accounts, with pictorial representations, of the Ten Great Persecutions under the Roman Emperors; and a minute narrative of

THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE INQUISITION.

In uniform volumes, neatly bound in cloth, 6s. each,

THE SELECT LIBRARY

COMPRISING

NARRATIVE OF A RESIDENCE IN THE SOCIETY AND SANDWICH ISLANDS, during a period of eight years. By the Rev. W. ELLIS, formerly Missionary in the South Sea Islands, and now Foreign Secretary of the London Missionary Society. 4 Vols. 24s.

"The most interesting work, in all its parts, we have ever perused."—Quarterly Review.

2. STEWART'S VISIT TO THE SOUTH SEAS; including Notices of Brazil, Peru, Manilla, Cape of Good Hope, and St. Helena. Edited by WILLIAM ELLIS. Cloth, 6s.

3. MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE, WRITINGS, AND CHARACTER of the late JOHN MASON GOOD, M.D. By OLINTHUS GREGORY, LL.D. Cloth, 6s.

4. EVIDENCES OF CHRISTIANITY; in their EXTERNAL Published under the DIVISION. By CHARLES P. M'IlVANE, D.D. Bishop of Ohio. superintendence of OLINTHUS GREGORY, LL.D. Cloth, 6s.

5. LIVES OF EMINENT MISSIONARIES. BY JOHN CARNE, Esq. 2 Vols. Cloth, 12s.

"Mr. Carne has recently published a Life of Eliot, &c., which shows so much of heart and good feeling, as well as of diligent research, that we are sure it will be very popular. We hope he means to give us a complete Missionary Plutarch."-Quarterly Review.

6. LIVES OF EMINENT ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSIONARIES. BY JOHN CARNE, Esq. Forming a 3d Vol. to Lives of Eminent Missionaries. Cloth, 6s.

The 5th edition, carefully revised and enlarged by the Author a few months prior to his death, with a Portrait, bound in cloth, price 10s. 6d.

AN ORIGINAL ESSAY ON THE

IMMATERIALITY & IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL BY SAMUEL DREW, M.A.

"His work on the soul is truly wonderful, and nothing like it was ever published."-Professor Kidd, in a Letter to Mr. J. H. Drew.

"His master-piece of metaphysical argument is contained in his Essay on the Soul, from which he has been styled the English Plato."-Christian Remembrancer.

2d Edition, with considerable additions and improvements, and a Portrait, price 12s.

THE LIFE OF SAMUEL DREW, M. A.

BY HIS ELDEST SON.

"Incident, anecdote, or sentiment, is in every page; and the piety, not enthusiasm, but religious philosophy, that runs throughout, gives a charm to the whole."-Christian Advocate.

UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF THE LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

This day is published, in two volumes octavo, price 25s., illustrated with Maps and Plates,

THE HISTORY OF MADAGASCAR.

Comprising Descriptions of the Country and its Productions, the Superstitions, Manners, Customs, Traditions, Mythology, and Language of its Inhabitants; with Notices of the principal Events that have taken place in the Island since its discovery; including the Progress of the Christian Mission established in 1818, and an authentic Account of the recent Martyrdom and Persecution of the Native Christians in the Island.

Compiled from Original Documents, furnished by the Missionaries and others,
BY THE REV. WILLIAM ELLIS,

Author of "Polynesian Researches," &c.

"The character of insular nations is always distinguished by originality. They generally exhibit more energetic virtues and vices than the inhabitants of continental plains."-M. MALTE BRUN.

The history of Madagascar is, in many respects, highly instructive. It exhibits a branch of that singular and widely-scattered race which inhabits the coasts and the islands of South-eastern Asia; preserving in their language, and many of their customs, unequivocal signs of identity, yet dwelling at a distance from the Malayan archipelago, or the groups of Polynesia, greater than, otherwise, we should have believed it possible for them to reach. It shows an interesting portion of the human family, gradually emerging from a state of ignorance and rudeness, and acquiring the intelligence, comforts, and energy of a civilized state. It farther exhibits a people friendly and hospitable to strangers, until goaded to outrage and violence by ill treatment, or rendered more corrupt than they were before, by the example and efforts of their visiters.

The work will also encourage the philanthropist in his career of undaunted and persevering benevolence, by exhibiting the success with which the iniquitous traffic in human beings has been prohibited in what was once one of the most frequented slave-markets in the world.

Beyond these and other points of deep and lasting interest, these volumes supply a faithful record of the means employed for introducing among five millions of our species a written language, a knowledge of the use of letters, of some of the useful arts of civilized life, and an acquaintance with the sacred truths of Divine Revelation. The measure of visible success which for a time attended these efforts, and the melancholy reverses they have recently experienced, with the fierce and destructive persecution which has lately burst forth, and raged with such fearful violence against the native Christians in Madagascar, have excited deep and general interest throughout our country. An account of this persecution-which continues to rage against them, and from whose numbers, there is reason to fear, additions are still made to the noble army of martyrs who have sealed the testimony with their blood-will be found, in these volumes, recorded with greater explicitness than in the statements hitherto made public.

Every means has been adopted for rendering the work acceptable and useful to all interested in the history and prospects of Madagascar; and it will, it is hoped, not only be found a faithful record of the events it narrates, and the scenes it describes, but excite deep interest, and stimulate to fervent prayer on behalf of the church in the midst of flames, and the nation in the present crisis of its history,-that in Madagascar, and in every other portion of the heathen world, the Gospel may have free course, and be glorified, until the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.

Subscribers' Names received by Rev. W. ELLIS, Mission-House, Blomfield-street, and by Messrs. FISHER & Co., 38, Newgate-street, London.

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In Monthly Parts, Price 2s., every Part embellished with Four Engravings,
THE SHORES AND ISLANDS OF

THE MEDITERRANEAN;

SICILY, AFRICA, CALABRIA, GIBRALTAR, MALTA,
& IONIAN ISLES.

In a series of Views drawn from Nature, by Sir Grenville T. Temple, Bart., W. L. Leitch, Esq., & Lieut. Allen.

With an Analysis of the Mediterranean, and Descriptions of the Plates, BY THE REV. G. N. WRIGHT, M. A.

"The grand object of all travelling is to see the Shores of the Mediterranean; on these shores were the four great empires of the world-the Assyrian, the Persian, the Grecian, and the Roman. All our religion, almost all our laws, almost all that sets us above savages, have come to us from the Shores of the Mediterranean."-SAMUEL JOHNSON.

LIST OF ENGRAVINGS, NOW READY.

Kaligata, Cephalonia.

Cathedral at Palermo, Sicily.
Amphitheatre of El Jem, Africa.
Gibraltar.

Strada St. Giovanni, Malta.
Interior of a Moorish House, Africa.
The Elephant's Square, Sicily.
Corfu.

Shrine of St. Rosalia, Sicily.

The Ruins of Carthage.

Temple and Fountain of Zagwhan,
Africa.

Piazza del Duomo, Messina, Sicily.
Town and Harbour of Bona, Africa.
El Sibhah, or the Salt Lake, Africa.
Benevento, Calabria.

Baptismal Font, Palermo Cathedral,
Sicily.

Bazaar of the Fig Tree, Algiers.
Vestibule of La Ziza, Sicily.
Burj-er-Roos, or the Tower of Skulls,
Africa.

Temples of Juno and Concord, Sicily.
Sylendid Marble Pulpit, Messina Ca-
thedral, Sicily.

Archbishop's Palace, &c., Palermo,

Sicily.

Nefta, the ancient Negata, Africa.
Town and Convent of Piazza, Sicily.
Villa of the Prince of Buttera, Sicily.
&c. &c. &c.

Now Ready, Price 9s. Fourth Edition of

THE WOMEN OF ENGLAND,

THEIR SOCIAL DUTIES AND DOMESTIC HABITS.

BY MRS. ELLIS, LATE SARAH STICKNEY. "We know no volume better calculated to exercise a powerful, lasting, and beneficial influence. If we could have our own way, every family should order a copy of Tиs WOMEN OF ENGLAND.' Husbands, especially young Husbands, should buy it for their Wives; Fathers, for their Daughters; Brothers, for their Sisters.”—METHODIST MAG.

Fisher, Son, & Co., London.

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