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REVIEWS.-VILLAGE IIYMNS BRIEF SURVEY OF BOOKS. .

nished specimens of their doctrines, and manner of preaching. The selections depend entirely upon the will or fancy of the shorthand writers who attend the chapels for the purpose of taking down what is delivered.

To the members of the Methodist society, the individuals who compose their congregations, and to all such as are attached to the doctrines they inculcate, this promises fair to be an interesting publication. We have not had an opportunity of consulting many of those preachers whose discourses are thus published, as to the fidelity with which their sermons have been reported; but, so far as our observations extend, we have no reason to believe that any one will have much reason to complain of misrepre

sentation.

REVIEW.-Village Hymns for the promotion of Religious Revivals, original and selected. By the Rev. Asahel Nettleton, M.A., Connecticut. 18mo. pp. 600. Westley and Davis, London. 1832. THIS Compilation is of American origin,

where it has been in extensive circulation for several years. By the Rev. Austin Dickinson it has lately been brought across the Atlantic, and under his superintendence an edition now appears in English type.

We are informed in the preface, that about one hundred of these hymns are original; others are collected from American compositions, which have long appeared in other publications; and many are from Watts, Doddridge, Cowper, Newton, and other celebrated authors of our country.

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Why these hymns should appear in immediate association with religious revivals, we are rather at a loss to discover. We have found but few among them that can be said to have any immediate connexion with extraordinary excitements, unless it be the cheerful metre, which, united to a lively tune, may vibrate in unison with that ardent flow of spirits which on such occasions animates the soul. But without looking to any particular outpouring of the Spirit of God, we perceive not why nearly all these hymns may not be used like others, on ordinary occasions, by all who, according to their degree of experience, worship, or desire to worship, God in spirit and in truth.

On hymns bearing the names of Watts, Wesley, and others, well known and appreciated, it will be needless to make any observations. Those of transatlantic origin are highly respectable, and worthy of the company in which they are found. They

breathe a spirit of piety, in language that is zealous but not intemperate, ardent but not enthusiastic, and animated without wild extravagance. Few expressions appear in any, which so overstep the bounds of moderation and prudence, as to compel their authors to ask the aid of hyperbole, to justify the extremes into which they have been hurried. In arrangement and classification, perhaps, some beneficial alterations might be made, but this is a subject of minor consideration. As the volume now stands, it is a neat and valuable collection of hymns.

REVIEW.-The Pilgrim's Progress, from this World to that which is to Come, &c. By John Bunyan. 12mo. pp. 378. Religious Tract Society, London. 1831. To say that this is a new edition, will ex-. cite very little surprise among any of our readers, for most of them know that this book has had more new editions than ever

its author had new coats. It may, perhaps, be doubted, if any other book which England has ever yet produced, has obtained so extensive a circulation as this beautiful allegory; and we may add, that we scarcely know any one more deserving of this popu lar honour.

This edition is neatly got up, has many well-executed and appropriate engravings, with occasional notes in the margin. Externally it is decorated with a gilt label; and few persons need be told, that the Pilgrim's Progress is nearly all gold within.

BRIEF SURVEY OF BOOKS.

1. The Harmonicon, Nos. 46, 47, 48, for October, November, and December, 1831, (Longman, London,) contain, like most of their predecessors, much interesting matter for all the lovers of musical science. The Harmonicon not only displays an intimate acquaintance with the subject of music in general, but concentrates within its pages the present state of this soothing enchantress throughout the civilized world. anecdotes and incidents, both instructive and amusing, are related of individuals whose names are inscribed on the tablets of immortality. The Harmonicon is a highly respectable publication, not likely to be lost on the stream of time.

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2. A Course of Lessons in French Li. terature, &c., selected from the most celebrated French Authors, (Joy, London,) is thus explained in the preface. The first

part contains an interlinear translation, both literal and free in the same line. The second part contains on the opposite pages, a literal translation of each word; and the distinction between the idioms is shown by means of words in italics and parentheses. In the third part, the author has given a free trans lation on opposite pages; and in the fourth part, at the bottom of each page, a translation of the most difficult words and phrases. To the professions thus made, the author has so fully adhered, that his book may be justly considered as a valuable acquisition to all who are learning the French language.

3. Omnipotence, a Poem, by Richard Jarman, (Chappell, London,) has a startling aspect. Young poets, and poets whose genius can scarcely rise to mediocrity, seem hardly aware of the hazard they run, when attempting to scale the mountains of omnipotence, or to drop their plummets into the abysses of infinity. The subject of this poem is so grand, that gigantic powers are demanded to do it justice, and even to meet general expectation. This poem contains some decent lines, but the author's abilities are unequal to the sublime task he has undertaken.

4. Report of the Meetings for the Celebration of the Sunday School Jubilee, Sept. 14, 1831, (Depository, London,) gives a luminous and faithful account of the transactions, both in town and many places in the country, connected with the above memorable event. The total amount of money collected on the occasion, so far as could be ascertained, is stated to be £2,084. 5s. 84d.; but from several places no returns had been received when this report was printed.

5. Nicotiana, or the Smoker's and Snuff-taker's Companion, by Henry James Meller, Esq. (Wilson, London,) is a kind of mongrel humorous composition, which, by a mock attempt to praise smoking, chewing, and snuff-taking, holds up these filthy practices to ridicule and contempt.

6. An Earnest Appeal to every Lover of his Country, on the Necessity of forming Associations in every Town, for providing Allotments of Land for the industrious Poor, (Reife, London,) is founded on genuine philanthropic principles. From the statements given, it appears that experiments have been tried in many places, with great success; and the author seems decidedly of opinion, that an extension of the system would relieve the country. His observations on this important subject are deserving of very serious attention.

7. The Voice of Humanity, No. VI. (Nisbet, London,) has already awakened a strong feeling of compassion towards the

brute creation. Each number of this work brings some new atrocity to light, at which unbrutalized human nature blushes and revolts. Until these numbers made their appearance, no one would have conceived that such monsters in human form were in existence, as its articles bring before the public. But when such miscreants as Bishop and Williams, who have lately expiated their offences on the gallows, can be found to murder their own species, the shrieks and groans of tortured animals will be heard in vain, by those who inflict the torments which extort them.

8. Speech of Mr. William Collins at the the Adjournment of first Public Meeting of the Temperance Society, July 5, 1831, (Bagster, London,) advocates with much ability this noble institution; at which drunkards may sneer, and the keepers of gin-shops rail. It has been proved by melancholy experience, that when an attachment to spirituous liquors unfortunately gains an ascendancy, moderation becomes a word without a meaning. For inveterate habits, abstinence is the only cure. Drunkenness is a demon; and this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.

9. Eminent Piety essential to Eminent Usefulness, a Discourse by Andrew Reed, (Westley, London,) was preached at the anniversary of the London Missionary Society, May 11, 1831; since which time, it has passed through three editions. This circumstance speaks highly in favour of the public confidence placed in the author's talents. The discourse is not unworthy of the patronage which it has obtained; and few, we believe, who either heard it delivered, or have since read it, will say that public confidence has been misapplied.

10. The London Medical Gazette, No. VIII., (Longman, London,) contains many valuable articles on medical science. It is, however, a periodical that must derive its chief support from gentlemen of the profession; among whom, we expect, it will find many friends, as it will enable them to communicate their observations on such occurrences and passing events as may happen to fall under their notice. Such works are calculated to elicit much useful knowledge, of which the afflicted will reap the advantage.

11. A Letter to a Friend, containing a few Heads for consideration on Subjects that trouble the Church, by Charlotte Elizabeth, (Crofts, London,) bears almost exclusively on the wild dreams that visit and disturb Mr. Irving's church. It justly exposes the absurdities connected with "the unknown tongues," which would die

of themselves if people would but let them Naylor's observations are well deserving alone.

12. The Church Revived without the aid of Unknown Tongues; a Sermon preached in the Scots Church, Swallow Street, by Robert Burns. D. D. F. S. A., (Douglas, London,) is an article that bears a strong resemblance to the preceding. It is, however, more argumentative; and indirectly investigates the wild pretensions of these visionaries on more extensive grounds, and points out their unfounded claim to respect by an appeal to the test of scripture. The preface is strong and pointed. The discourse is practical and cautionary, and worthy of being presented to the public from the press.

13. Hymns and Evangelical Songs, by John Bulmer, Fifth Edition, (Woodsworth, London,) comprise some pretty compositions for children; by many of whom, we doubt not, they have been, and will be, read with much advantage.

14. Some Account of Elizabeth Myers, (Baisler, London,) a pious girl, whose life and experience will be rendered useful to such as read it with sincerity. She was taught in Paddington Sunday school, and was an honour to the institution.

15. Anti-Slavery Reporter, Numbers 89, 90, and 91, still continues to "hang on the broken rear of the enemy insulting." Let the advocates for the continuance of slavery read, in number 89, "A view of Jamaica jails," and then, if able, look their honest countrymen in the face without a blush. To these horrible dens, the dungeons of Antigua furnish a suitable counterpart,

16. The Pulpit; Part III. of Vol. XVIII., (Harding, London,) continues, as usual, to support its creditable character. Among the seven sermons which it contains, one on the gift of tongues, by the Rev. Mr. Irving, will be found the most remarkable.

17. The Necessity of Moral Reform, a Sermon, by William Naylor, (Mason, London,) though availing itself of a once degraded, but at present popular term, has little or nothing to do with the great political measure, now agitated with so much intensity of feeling and interest.

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author justly considers, that nothing but timely repentance, and moral reformation, can avert the awful judgments of the Almighty, now impending over our guilty nation with such portentous menaces. These important topics are uniformly enforced throughout this discourse, by reasons that are commanding, motives that are influential, and authority that is divine. Mr.

the deep attention of every serious reader.

18. A Sermon occasioned by the late Brislol Riots, by W. R. Baker, (Hamilton, London,) proceeds upon the broad principle, that ignorance and intemperance are the sources of a nation's calamities, and prepare their common victims for the perpetration of every crime. Hence the author infers the necessity of such early and extended education, as shall imbue the moral powers with right principles of action, and cultivate habits of sobriety and order, as that which can alone prevent a recurrence of the evils which are here deplored. The riots in Bristol he attributes to ignorance and drunkenness, and, by a process of plain reasoning, he traces to the same causes all the awful consequences that may be expected to follow. It is a well-timed discourse, abounding in wholesome advice, and practical observations.

GLEANINGS.

Mechanical Power of Detonating Powders.-Chemistry furnishes us with the means of calling into sudden action forces of a character infinitely more tremendous than that of gunpowder. The terrific violence of the different fulminating compositions is such, that they can only be compared to those untameable animals, whose ferocious strength has hitherto defied all useful management, or rather to spirits evoked by the spells of a magician, manifesting a destructive and unapproachable power, which makes him but too happy to close his book, and break his wand, as the price of escaping unhurt from the storm he has raised. Such powers are not yet subdued to our purposes, whatever they may hereafter be; but, in the expansive force of gases, liberated slowly and manageably from chemical mixtures, we have a host of inferior, yet still most powerful, energies, capable of being employed in a variety of useful ways, according to emergencies.-Herschel's Discourse on Natural Philosophy.

Ferocity in Sport.-Nero compelled a great number of equestrians and senators to fight in the arena, both against one another and with wild beasts. The emperor Commodus exhibited in his own person the gladiatorial art, the rage for which finally became so ungovernable, that not only did men of rank spontaneously mingle in the infamous combats of the arena, but even women so far forgot their sex, and all regard to common decency, as to fight with one another before the assembled populace of Rome. Let this vilifying effect of the gladiatorial shows be adduced as a signal refutation of every modern Pliny, who would maintain that the public mind derives a proper hardihood and manly courage trom an indulgence in cruel and barbarous sports. Ferocity is these very Romans were the most abject slaves.

quite compatible with cowardice and servility; for

Egyptian Ideas of Good Connexions." We conclude this chapter with a remark, truly characteristic of the manners of modern Egypt, and of the feelings which were engrafted upon the minds of the higher class by the long continued sway of the Mamlouks. Before the reign of the present viceroy, it was customary, even among a people rigidly attached to the distinctions of hereditary rank, to reserve their highest respect for the purchased slave whose relations were unknown, and whose bravery, or other personal qualities, had raised him to the first honours in the country. General Revnier mentions, that he has heard even Turkish officers say of persons who occu

pied great posts, He is a man of the best connexions

-he was bought."-Egypt; Edinburgh Cabinet Library.

Presentiment of Death. The army did not lose any officer of rank in the affair of Foz d'Arouce, but the service sustained a loss in Lieut. Heppenstal, a young man who, had he lived, would have been an ornament to the profession for which nature seemed to have destined him. He was known to be one of the bravest men in the army, but, on this occasion, his

usual spirits deserted him. He moved along silent, inattentive, and abstracted: a brisk firing in our front soon roused all his wonted energy, and he advanced with his men apparently cheerful as ever: turning to a brother officer, he said, "You will laugh at what I am going to say; you know I am not afraid to die, but I have a certain feeling that my race is nearly run." "You jest," said his friend. "No, I don't, was the reply; they shook hands, the light troops advanced, and in a few minutes the brave Heppenstal was a corpse. Ilis presentiment was too just; and, though I had heard of instances of the kind before, this was the first that came under my immediate observation. I ran up to the spot where he lay; he was bleeding profusely; his breast was penetrated by two bullets, and a third passed through his forehead. His death was singular, and it appeared as if he was resolved to fulfil the destiny that he had marked out for himself. Our light troops were gradually retreat. ing on their reinforcements, and were within a few paces of the columns of infantry; his men repeatedly called out to him to retire with the rest, but he, either not hearing, or not attending to what they said, remained, with his back against a pine-tree, dealing out death at every shot. Pressed as we were for time, we dug him a deep grave at the foot of the tree where he so gallantly lost his life, and we laid him in it without form or ceremony.-Reminiscences of a Subaltern.

A Raft on the Danube.-The foundation is of the trunks of enormous trees, so firmly attached, that there cannot be the remotest fear of their separation. When the whole cargo of planks is received on board, the surface is covered with them, and there becomes a smooth and level walk of above 150 feet in length, an extremely acceptable change for those who have been long pent in coaches. The proper way of enjoying the excursion is to order a hut of planks to be put together on the raft, for your own exclusive convenience, for your fellow-travellers are chiefly artisans seeking employment; and the common hut, in case of rain or heat, is so crammed with old great coats, hats, cheese, and beer, that the compound of smells is villanous. In your hut, however, and with a dear and cherished friend, take your place on the raft. When this mass of timber, with its animal curiosities, is once loosened from its mooring, and in the middle of the rapid Danube, it glides along swiftly and silently; and then, with heaven's breath upon one's face, may he enjoyed morning and evening views, sunsets, with castles and mountains, that Claude might have painted-Ramble among the Musicians of Germany.

The White-headed or Bald Eagle.-From Wilson's "American Ornithology:"-Elevated on the high dead limb of some gigantic tree that commands a wide view of the neighbouring shore and ocean, he (the eagle) seems calmly to contemplate the motions of the various feathered tribes that pursue their busy avocations below: the snow-white gulls slowly winDowing the air; the busy triuge coursing along the sands; trains of ducks streaming over the surface; silent and watchful cranes, intent and wading; clamorous crows; and all the winged multitudes that subsist by the bounty of this vast liquid magazine of Dature. High over all these, hovers one whose action instantly arrests his whole attention. By his wide curvature of wing, and sudden suspension in air, he knows him to be the fish hawk, settling over some devoted victim of the deep. His eye kindles at the sight, and, balancing himself with half-opened wings, on the branch, he watches the result. Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object of his attention; the roar of its wings reaching the ear as it disappears in the deep, making the surges foam around! At this moment, the eager looks of the eagle are all ardour; and, levelling his neck for flight, he sees the fish hawk once more emerge, struggling with his prey, and mounting in the air with screams of exultation. These are the signals for our hero, who, launching into the air, instantly gives chase, and soon gains on the fish-hawk; each exerts his utmost to mount above the other, displaying in these rencontres the most elegant and sublime aerial evolutions. The unencumbered eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of reaching his opponent, when, with a sudden scream, probably of despair and honest execration, the latter drops his fish; the eagle, poising himself for a moment, as if to take a more certain aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his illgotten booty silently away to the woods.

Fatal Effects of Drunkenness.-By the coroner's return to the Manchester quarter sessions, July, 1831, it appears that thirty-nine men and women in that town and immediate neighbourhood, have died, within the last quarter, from the effects of drinking ardent spirits; and that four carters have lost their lives by careless driving upon the road, when in a state of intoxication.

Upas Poison.-The common train of symptoms is, a trembling of the extremities, restlessness, erection of the hair, affection of the bowels, drooping and faintness, slight spasms and convulsions, hasty breathing, and increasing flow of saliva, spasmodic contractions of the pectoral and abdominal muscles, retching, vomiting, great agony, laborious breathing, violent and repeated convulsions, death. The action of the Upas poison is directed chiefly to the vascular system. The volume of the blood is accumulated in a preternatural degree in the large vessels of the thorax. The circulation appears to be exactly from the extremities, and thrown upon the viscera near its source. The lungs, in particular, are stimulated to excessive exertions. The vital viscera are oppressed by an intolerable load, which produces the symptoms above described, while, in the extremities, a proportionate degree of torpor takes place, accompanied by tremors, shiverings, and convulsions. The natives of Macassar, Borneo, and the Eastern Islands, when they employ this poison, make use of an arrow of bamboo, to the end of which they attach a shark's tooth, which they throw from a blow pipe or sompit. The Upas a pears to affect different quadrupeds with nearly equal force, proportionate, in some degree, to their size and dispo sition. -Memoirs of Sir Stamford Raffles.

The Horrors of War.-We halted for the night near Pyrnes. This little town, and the few wretched inhabitants who had been induced to remain in it under the faithful promises of the French generals, shewed fearful signs of a late visit from a barbarous and merciless foe. Young women were lying in their houses brutally violated; the streets were strewed with broken furniture, intermixed with the putrid carcasses of murdered peasants, mules, and donkeys, and every description of filth, that filled the air with pestilent nausea. The few starved male inhabitants who were stalking amid the wreck of their friends and property, looked like so many skeletons, who had been permitted to leave their graves for the purpose of taking vengeance on their oppressors; and the mangled body of every Frenchman, who was unfortunate or imprudent enough to stray from his column, shewed how religiously they performed their mission. -Kincaid's Adventures in the Rifle Brigade.

Travelling in the Air.-At a recent sitting of the Academy of Sciences in Paris, M. Navier read a paper, in refutation of a work by M. Chabrier, on aerial travelling. M. Navier proves, by inquiries and experiments as to the motion of birds in the air, that, if a man were able to put together at once all the physical power which he has in eight hours. it would not be sufficient to support him with any mechanical apparatus in the air five minutes.-In America, M Genet and his coadjutors, and in France three rivals, Messrs. Dupis Delcourt, Chabrier, and Vallot, are all busily engaged in the construction of machines for travelling in the air, and are all equally sanguine as to the result! Of course, the nature of their respective inventions has not yet transpired.

Puffing books through the medium of a ghost.-A bookseller of Defoe's acquaintance had, in the trade phrase, rather overprinted an edition of " Drelincourt on Death," and complained to Defoe of the loss which was likely to ensue. This experienced bookmaker, with the purpose of recommending the edition, advised his friend to prefix the celebrated narrative of Mrs. Veal's ghost, which he wrote for the occasion, with such an air of truth, that although, in fact, it does not afford a single tittle of evidence, properly so called, it nevertheless was swallowed so eagerly by the people, that Drelincourt's work on death, which the supposed spirit recommended to the perusal of her friend Mrs. Bargrave, instead of sleeping on the bookseller's shelf, moved off by thousands at once; the story, incredible in itself, and unsupported as it was by evidence or inquiry, was received as true, merely from the cunning of the narrator, and the addition of a number of adventitious circumstances, which no man alive could have conceived as having occurred to the mind of a person composing a fiction. -Sir Walter Scott; Family Library, No. XVI.

Coursing defined.-The following definition of harehunting is given by a writer of 1616:-"It is not worthie peece of seruice for fiue or sixe men in the countrey (whose dwellings are foure or fiue miles asunder) to make mad match to meet together on such and such a morning, to hunt or course a hare, where if shee be hunted with hounds, shee will lead them such a dance, that perhaps a horse or two are kill'd, or a man or two spoil'd, or hurt with leaping hedges or ditches, at the least after foure or fiue days preparation, and some ten pounds charge among them, horses and dogs, besides an infinite deale of toyle and trouble, and an innumerable number of oaths and curses; after this great deal of doo, the main purchase can be no more than a poor silly hare, which is but a dry meate, and will take more butter in the basting than the carcase is worth.'

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Imprisonment for Debt.-In Whitecross-street prison there are at this time (Jan. 26, 1832) between five and six hundred persons confined for debt, chiefly small sums. Among these, the case of John Rayland, of Enfield, deserves particular notice. This man, a day labourer, having a wife and three children, and being out of employ, was unable to pay a debt of five pence. He was therefore consigned to Whitecross street prison for ten days, which cost his creditor 13s. 8d., the county 10s., and the parish, to support his family, 10s. more; making, in all, 17. 13. 8d. Surely, such laws ought to be altered; and we are glad to find, that a petition to parliament, for this purpose, has been prepared by Mr. James Wright, to be presented to the house of commons by John Wilks, Esq., and to the house of lords by His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex.

Wholesale Murder of Slaves.-The Fair Rosamond and Black Joke, tenders to the Dryad frigate, have captured three slave vessels, which originally had 1100 slaves on board, but of which they succeeded in taking only 396 to Sierra Leone. It appears that the Fair Rosamond had captured a lugger, with 106 Africans, and shortly afterwards saw the Black Joke in chase of two other luggers; she joined in the pursuit, but the vessels succeeded in getting into the Bonny river, and landed 603 slaves before the tenders could take possession of them. They found on board only 200; but ascertained that the monsters in command of the slaves had thrown overboard 180 slaves, manacled together, four of whom only were picked up, with irons upon them. Such scoundrels as these should be tried for piracy.-Hampshire Telegraph.

Virgil.-Virgil was of a swarthy complexion, tall and athletic, but of a weakly constitution. He was so bashful, that, when people crowded to see him, he would slip into some passage or shop to avoid them. He appeared to have had little regard for the fair sex, and it is on this account that we do not discover in his poems the character of one good woman; nay, he rather refers to them with contempt. His life, however, was as chaste as his style; and those who criticise his poetry, can never find a blemish in his morals. With respect to his fortune, he was affluent; and, as Juvenal remarks, we should have wanted the strongest paintings and the noblest strokes in the Eneid, if Virgil had not been blessed with the comforts and conveniences of life. His studies, sickliness, and the troubles he met with, turned his hair gray before the usual time. He had a hesitation in his speech-his aspect and behaviour were rustic and ungraceful. He was of a thoughtful and melancholy temper, loved retirement and contemplation, and was an enemy to those talkative impertinents, from which no court, not even that of Augustus, could be free.Valpy's Classical Library.

Proofs of Witchcraft.-In the year 1663, an old dame, named Julian Coxe, was convicted, chiefly on the evidence of a huntsman, who declared, on his oath, that he laid his greyhounds on a hare, and, coming up to the spot where he saw them mouth her, there he found, on the other side of a bush, Julian Coxe lying panting and breathless, in such a manner as to convince him that she had been the creature which afforded him the course. The unhappy woman was executed on this evidence.-Sir Walter Sc tt: Family Library, No. XVI.

Literary Notices.
Just Published.

Time's Telescope, for 1832.

Britain's Historical Drama. 8vo. By J. F. Pennie. A Practical Exposition of the Assembly's Catechism. By Henry Belfrage, D. D.

The Christian's Pattern. By Thomas a Kempis. Arithmetical Tables, for the Use of Schools. By James Child.

Another Letter to Everybody, from Somebody else. Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopedia: Porcelain and Glass. American Stories, for Young People. In 3 vols. By Mary Russel Mitford.

The Anatomy of Drunkenness. By Robt. Macnish. Quintus Servinton; a Tale, founded upon Incidents of Real Occurrence. In 3 vols.

Sacred Imagery. By Joseph Fincher, Esq. The Biblical Annual, containing a fourfold Translation of the Book of Ecclesiastes.

Voluntary Nature of Divine Institutions, and Arbitrary Character of the Church of England. By J. Maurice.

XII. of Baines's History of Lancashire:-Views of Scaitcliffe and Rufford Hall ornament this part. XXXIV. of the National Portrait Gallery :-The Duke of York; Thomas Campbell, Esq.; and Admiral Lord Collingwood, appear in this number.

XIII. of Elliot's Views in the East.

Divine Breathings, or Spiritual Meditations. By John Beart.

Village Rhymes.

The Annual Biography and Obituary, 1832, vol. 16. The Harmonicon.

The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment. By Jeremiah Burroughs.

Two Sermons, preached at Plymouth. By Thomas Wood, A.M.

An Essay on the Convulsive Nervous Cholera of Hindostan. By Philanthropos.

The Church Revived without the Aid of Unknown Tongues, a Sermon. By Robert Burns, D.D. F.S.A. The Christian Pastor Visiting his Flock. By John Morison, D.D.

Anti-slavery Reporter, Nos. 91, 92.

Letters on Education. By J. P. Mursell.

An Investigation of the Causes of Commercial Distress.

Remarks on the New Bible Society.

Thoughts on Church Reform. By a True Protestant. An Inquiry into the Effect of the Corn Laws on Great Britain and Ireland.

Moral Paralysis, or The Gambler. By Mrs. Barber. Saturday Evening. By the Anthor of "Natural History of Enthusiasm." In 1 vol. 8vo.

Hints to a Clergyman's Wife: or, Female Parochial Duties practically illustrated, in 1 vol. 12mo.

By the Rev. Robert Philip:-Christian Experience, or, Guide to the Perplexed. Communion with God, or Guide to the Devotional. Eternity Realized, or Guide to the Thoughtful.

Reminiscences of the late Rev. Robert Hall, A.M. with Sermons preached at Cambridge. By J. Greene, formerly of Cambridge, 1 vol. 8vo.

Part 7, and No. 85, of Maund's Botanic Garden; or, Magazine of Hardy Flowering Plants.

The History, Institutions, and Tendencies of the Church of England, examined by Scriptural Authority-being a Reply to a Letter of Vice Admiral Stirling. By J. Schofield, Minister of Chertsey Chapel, Surrey.

The Substance of Four Discourses on the Signs of the Times, practically considered. By J. Redford. The Shaking of the Nations, a Sermon preached at Craven Chapel, Regent Street. By J. Leifchild.

Parts 1 & 2, of a new edition of Christ Alone Exalted; being the complete works of Tobias Crisp, DD. with Notes and Life of the Author. By Dr. Gill,

The Familiar Astrologer. By Raphael, author of the Astrologer of the Nineteenth Century.

A small tract in 18mo. by Joseph John Gurney, of Norwich, entitled "Hints on the Portable Evidences of Christianity."

Modern Pretensions to the Miraculous Gift of Tongues, condemned by Reason and Scripture. By the Rev. T. Greenwood, B.A.

A Concise View of Sacred Literature, in a Chronological Arrangement from the Invention of Alphabetical Characters. to A. D., 1300. By J. B. B. Clarke, M. A.

Narratives of two families exposed to the great Plague of London, A. D. 1665, with Conversation on Religious Preparation for Pestilence. By J.Scott, M.A.

In the Press.

By the Rev. William Jaya Sermon on the "Transitory Character of God's Temporal Blessings;" occasioned by the sudden death of Mrs. C. Taylor, Art in Nature and Science anticipated. Charles Williams.

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The Classical English Vocabulary; intended as a Supplement to the Grammatical and Pronouncing Spelling Book. By Ingram Cobbin, A. M.

By the Book Society; Brook's Ark for all God's Noahs, in a gloomy, stormy Day; uniform with the Unsearchable Riches, Mute Christian, Apples of Gold, &e.

Dyer's Christ's famous Titles, together with Christ's Voice to London, 1665.

Charnock on Providence: cloth, boards.
Fuller's Gospel its own Witness.

Preparing for the Press.

A Pictorial, Geographical, Chronological, and His torical Chart; being a Delineation of the Rise and Progress of the Evangelical or Christian Dispensa tion, from the Birth of John the Baptist to the Ascension of Jesus Christ; having near 200 vignettes in the body, and 42 subjects in the margin. By Mr. R. Mimpriss.

LONDON: PRINTED AT THE CAXTON PRESS, BY H. FISHER, SON, AND CO.

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