to give him a great deal of useful instruction, while all the time he feels himself amused. The immense power of the northern autocrat is one of the most remarkable and pregnant phenomena of the age; and all who wish light upon the elements of that power, and the mode of its exercise, will find it in this book.

15. Home Influence: a Tale for Mothers and Daughters. 12mo., pp. 412. Harper & Brothers.

We learn from the prefatory pages of this new domestic story that its object and aim have been to instill into the minds of daughters the important lessons of attention to the minor services and kindly dispositions which so largely tend to bless and invigorate social life. The amiable author also addresses many valuable suggestions to mothers, which are worthy the most grave attention. The work is beautifully "got up."

16. A Funeral Discourse on the Death of Merritt Caldwell, A. M., Professor of Metaphysics and Political Economy in Dickinson College. By Rev. BERNARD H. NADAL, A. M., Chaplain to the College. New-York: 200 Mulberry-street. 1848.

To the truth of the portraiture in this sermon we can bear personal testimony. Mr. Nadal has formed a most just conception of the character of our late eminent and beloved friend, and has expressed it with great clearness and propriety. The style of the sermon is chaste and vigorous-utterly destitute of extravagance, but often rising into pure and manly eloquence.

17. Dr. Chalmers' Sabbath Scripture Readings. Harper & Brothers. THIS work forms the fourth volume of the posthumous writings of this distinguished scholar and divine. These "Sabbath Readings" were originally the private record of devout meditations of their author, not intended for the public, but simply for his own private use. This volume of devotional readings is devoted to the New Testament; and we cannot but think they will be regarded as the most important, deeply interesting, and valuable, of the series.

18. Antichrist: or the Spirit of Sect and Schism. By JOHN W. NEVIN, President of Marshall College. New-York: John S. Taylor. 1848.

THAT we differ from Dr. Nevin almost toto cœlo in regard to church questions, is no reason why we should not acknowledge him as a profound thinker and an earnest man. He grapples with great questions vigorously and directly: he is no trimmer, no juste-milieu man, but an able, thoughtful, honest, and fearless Christian teacher. We hope to be able to give a general and careful review of his writings hereafter, and shall feel, in doing it, that we are dealing with a man and a scholar.

19. The Planetary and Stellar Worlds: a Popular Exposition of the Great Discoveries and Theories of Modern Astronomy. By O. M. MITCHELL, A. M., Director of the Cincinnati Observatory. 12mo., pp. 336. New-York: Baker & Scribner. 1848. PROFESSOR MITCHELL's reputation as a lecturer has lost nothing by the publication of this book. It presents in a clear and attractive style an outline of the triumphs of the human mind in that grandest field of its achievements—the planetary and stellar worlds. A better introduction to the study of astronomy could not be desired.

20. The Battle of Buena Vista. By James Henry CARLETON, Captain 1st Dragoons. 18mo., pp. 238. New-York: Harper & Brothers. 1848. THIS is the best and clearest account of the battle of Buena Vista that has yet been published. Captain Carleton has great power of description, but inclines rather to overdo his points. When will the world learn that battles and bloodshed are not the means of progress?

21. Man and his Motives. By GEORGE MOORE, M. D. 12mo., pp. 300. Harper & Brothers. 1848.

We presume most of our readers are already familiar with the previous volumes of this popular author. Dr. Moore has evinced a better method of treating the class of topics which he proposed to himself in his "Power of the Soul over the Body," and the "Use of the Body in Relation to the Mind," than any other writer with whom we are acquainted. He is more lucid, less metaphysical, and his pages are more generally interesting, instructive, and suggestive of thought to the reader. If any one will read but one of his works deliberately through, we are convinced his other volumes will speedily be in requisition.

22. A Reply to Professor Stuart and President Nott on the Wine Question, in a Letter to Gen. J. S. Smith, President of the New-York State Temperance Society. By the Rev. JAMES LILLIE, M. D., Pastor of the Presbyterian Church, Carlisle, Pa. Philadelphia: Grigg & Elliott. New-York: R. Carter.

DR. LILLIE disputes the criticism by which Professor Stuart and Dr. Nott maintain that there are two kinds of wine spoken of in the Old Testament, the one being invariably spoken of as good, the other as evil. Without giving an opinion upon the merits of the question, (simply because we do not know enough on the subject to give a well-grounded one,) we cannot but see that Dr. L. shows great acuteness and skill in sustaining his views. He avows himself a total-abstinence man on the ground of Christian expediency, and thinks that wrong interpretations of Scripture to favor temperance must ultimately react against the cause. In this we fully agree with him. If Professor Stuart's view is wrong, it ought to be abandoned. The pamphlet deserves an answer, and a strong one, from those who are concerned to maintain the views which it opposes.

23. A First Book in Spanish: or, a Practical Introduction to the Study of the Spanish Language, containing Full Instructions in Pronunciation, a Grammar; Exercises on the Ollendorff Method of Constant Imitation and Repetition; Reading Lessons, and a Vocabulary. By JOSEPH SALKELD, A. M., author of "A Compendium of Classical Antiquities," &c. New-York: Harper & Brothers. 1848.

FEW teachers of languages are now ignorant of the advantages which the method of instruction known as Ollendorff's affords. The work before us makes use of all the good points of that method, and, at the same time, embodies a large amount of grammatical knowledge in a practical and perspicuous form. So far as we know, it is the best book extant for the elementary study of the Spanish language.

24. The Marriage Ring; or how to make Home happy: from the writings of J. A. JAMES. 25. The Family Altar; or the Duty, Benefits, &c., of Family Worship.

26. The Silent Comforter: a Companion for the Sick-room. By LouÍSA P. HOPKINS. 27. The Young Communicant.

FOUR beautiful little volumes with the above titles have been sent us by Messrs. Gould, Kendall, & Lincoln, a house which is always getting up good books, and gets

them up in beautiful style. These little manuals are just of a kind and size to be useful, portable, and popular.

28. Notes on the Acts of The Apostles; designed for Sunday Schools, Bible Classes, and Private Reading. By Rev. BRADFORD K. PEIRCE. 12mo., pp. 371. New-York: Lane & Scott. 1848.

WE were too long dependent on others for Notes upon the Scriptures adapted to the use of Sunday schools and Bible classes. Barnes' were very well adapted to their object, but by no means to Methodist use. Mr. Longking's Notes have supplied us amply on the Gospels, and the work before us does the same thing for the Acts. We hope it will not be long before our schools and younger friends will be supplied with proper helps for the study of the whole New Testament prepared by our own

writers..

We have received Peirce's Notes too late to give the work a close examination, but have looked it over sufficiently to understand its general plan, and to see that it avoids the extremes of giving too much or too little commentary on particular passages. The style of the annotations is excellent-clear, brief, and to the point; indeed, there is nothing left to be desired in this respect. The work will have a vast sale, we have no doubt.

29. Modern French Literature, by L. RAYMOND DE VERICOUR. Revised, with Notes, &c. By WM. STAUGHTON CHASE, A. M. 1 vol., 12mo. Boston: Gould, Kendall & Lincoln. 1848.

THIS work forms part of Chambers' Edinburgh People's Library, and has had a very wide circulation in Great Britain. Mr. Chase has done a good work in introducing it to the American public; and his Notes on Lamartine, Louis Blanc, and other literary men whose names have become famous in the late revolution, add greatly to its value. The design of the book is to give a "clear and succinct outline of the intellectual progress of France in the nineteenth century;" and especially to correct the false views of modern French literature which have become so prevalent in the English mind from the popularity of a certain set of writers, who have in no respect been entitled to give tone to the literature of the time. It gives sketches of the prominent philosophers, historians, poets, &c., of the century, and reveals an intellectual wealth in recent French literature of which many of our readers doubtless have no conception. It is an indispensable book for every good library.

30. Cyclopædia of Moral and Religious Anecdotes. By Rev. K. ARVINE, A. M., Pastor of the Providence Church, New-York. With an Introduction by Rev. George B. Cheever, D. D. To be completed in eight numbers. Nos. 1 to 6. New-York: Leavitt, Trow & Co. 1848.

THIS Collection comprises several thousand facts, incidents, narrative, &c., embracing "the best of the kind in most former collections, and some hundreds in addition, original and selected." Besides the extent of the collection, it has the new and peculiar merit of a classification and arrangement; which make it, instead of a mere confused gathering of facts, a series of apt illustrations under appropriate heads, any one of which can be readily referred to by means of an index. No books are so attractive to children as those of this class: the Percy Anecdotes have numbered readers, old and young, by many thousands, and we have no doubt that this work will have as great a run, especially among the religious public. It deserves it.