for 1880, 1881, and 1882, can be had for three guineas. The works now in contemplation are- -Weiss's 'Life of Christ; Dr. Keil's Handbook of Biblical Archæology;' Goebel's 'Parables of Jesus;' Rensch's 'Bible and Nature' and we shall be glad if this early notice inspires many of our readers to procure the New Series of the Foreign Theological Library. A fuller review will shortly appear.

ENQUIRE WITHIN UPON EVERYTHING. Sixty-fifth edition. London: Houlston and Sons, Paternoster Square.

So we have; and have found many things, if not everything. It is a marvellous little volume, and we see no reason why it should not reach to a 650th edition.

THE LIFE ANd Letters of ELIZABETH PRENTISS. By the REV. S. L. PRENTISS, D.D. With steel portrait and five illustrations. London : Hodder and Stoughton, 27, Paternoster Row.

A capital book for those who are stimulated and strengthened by the simple biography of a quiet, humble, earnest Christian life. It is published to realize the desire expressed in the last letter: Much of my experience has cost me a great price, and I wish to use it for comforting and strengthening other souls.'

SANDY'S FAITH. By L. L. ROUSE. Illustrated. London: The Religious Tract Society, 56, Paternoster Row.

A capital story of Scottish life.

THE RESCUE, A STORY OF THE HUGUENOTS. Coloured Illustrations. The same publishers:

Good and a theme we delight to see well treated for children.

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THE OLD WORCESTER JUDGE. By EGLANTIN THORNE. Illustrated. The same publishers.

Good print, suitable for reading aloud in cottage circles at Christmas-time.

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TWILIGHT TALK; OR, EASY LESSONS ON THINGS AROUND US. AGNES GIBERNE. The same publishers. Great truths may be presented,' says the Introduction, 'to a child's mind in simple words and short chapters.' Atoms, Repulsion, Motion and Rest, Attraction, Gravity are treated of. We highly commend this little volume. Mothers should get it, and children would enjoy it, if read a chapter at a time after tea. This is a good beginning. We want more of this kind of writing.

ELSIE'S FOOTPRINTS. By MRS. LUCAS SHADWELL. Illustrated. The same publishers.

A fascinating book for elder children, and one likely to inspire them with love to Christ.

ACROSS THE WATER. BY THOS. PAINE. Illustrated. The same publishers.

Nicely got up, and well written. An excellent gift-book. THE VANGUARD OF THE CHRISTIAN ARMY.

This is a more important volume and gives brief biographies of Schwartz, Carey, Martyn, Judson, Morrison, Milne, Williams, Patteson, Vanderkemp, Moffat, Livingstone, Eliot, Brainerd, and others. Most stimulating as an aid to the cultivation of the missionary spirit. A good prize for schools.

Then we have-BRAVELY BORNE, OR ARCHIE'S CROSS; UNDER THE OLD ROOF; MARGIE'S GIFTS, AND HOW SHE USED THEM; THE SCRIPTURE HALF-HOUR AT MOTHERS' MEETINGS (by the same publishers)— all good in tone and adorned with illustrations.

There is

We heartily congratulate the Religious Tract Society, first in recognising that young people will have story-books, and that if they do not get the best kind, they will secure others of an inferior order. Next that these are not only moral but Christian in their spirit; and last, that they are not goody-goody at all, but good in the best sense. more ability,' too, year by year in the style and treatment of subjects by the authors. The Tract Society are doing a glorious work in stemming the tide of evil literature, and we rejoice in their abounding success. Their enterprise deserves it, and their work is still 'before them.' JAMES BRAITHWAITE, THE SUPERCARGO. By A. S. KINGSTON. With eight full-page illustrations. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 27, Paternoster Row.

A story of startling adventures at sea, in the time of the wars between France and England. It is good in tone and full of thrilling interest, and it will keep any boy anywhere perfectly quiet for three hours, no light boon in any household.

THE HUMAN SYMPATHIES OF CHRIST. By the REV. A. CUNNINGHAM GEIKIE, D.D. London: The Religious Tract Society.

We are always right glad to see another work by Dr. Geikie, he is so thorough, so earnest, and so able. We have here Christ's sympathy with Nature, Christ's love for His mother, Christ's sympathy with children, Christ's friendship, Christ's sympathy with doubters, Christ's sympathy with human suffering, Christ's sympathy with the poor, etc., all suggestively treated and rich in spiritual power. We are sorry to put the volume down.

DICK'S HOLIDAYS AND WHAT HE DID WITH THEM. Edited by James WESTON. London: F. Fisher Unwin.

A capitally illustrated and most charming volume. 'Spring in our Wood; 'Our Garden; By the Sea;' 'Through the Lanes; 'In a Conservatory,' etc. The print is large type. The drawings are artistically done, and the information conveyed is most ably introduced.

WILLIAM PENN, THE FOUNDER OF PENNSYLVANIA. By JOHN STOUGHTON, D.D. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1882.

We are devoutly thankful that the task of writing a popular life of Penn has fallen into the hands of so able a littérateur and so impartial an historian as Dr. Stoughton. That he here presents us with an accurate portrait of the founder of Pennsylvania, those best able to judge will be the first to acknowledge. While, from his profound sympathy with Penn and his intimate knowledge of his times, he has laboured to present a more attractive and finished picture of the man than that which Macaulay dashed in with a few impetuous and ill-natured strokes, he has not fallen into the opposite defect of idealizing his portrait. Penn is placed before us in all the strength and beauty of his gifts and virtues, and in all the weakness of his defects. While pointing out the ambiguous relationships of Penn to James II., Dr. Stoughton does not see in them the evidence of a double-minded man, and therefore refuses to let this one blemish overshadow and destroy all his other good qualities. As for the celebrated affair of the 'Maids of Taunton,' made sonnet of by Macaulay, Dr. Stoughton shows that there is not a particle of evidence to prove that the Penn referred to was William; or that if it was, he accepted the negotiation for the pardon. Upon the whole, Penn stands out against the background of his times as a man of great loyalty to conscience, intense religious fervour, dauntless courage, and profound devotion to the interests of civil and religious liberty. While our author throws much fresh light upon Penn's relationship to America-an historical chapter of

the greatest interest and importance-he is equally successful in tracing Penn's religious life from its inception at the Grammar School, Chigwell, to the close of his life. Incidentally we are presented with an exceedingly graphic and realistic picture of the religious condition of England with special reference to the rise and progress of Quakerism. Written in an easy, graceful style, accurate in its facts, and full of vivid historic touches, Dr. Stoughton's Life of William Penn' cannot fail to be widely read and highly valued.

DROPS AND ROCKS._ By E. R. CONDER, D.D. Hodder and Stoughton, 27, Paternoster Row.

These are the best Talks with Children' that we have met with for many a day. If any of our friends want some inspiration for Sundayschool addresses, they will find it here. It is not a common but a very rare faculty to be able to interest the young. Dr. Conder has evidently succeeded in this illustrated volume.

THOUGHTS FOR THE WEARY AND THE SORROWFUL. BY ALEXANDER RALEIGH. Edited by MARY RALEIGH. Edinburgh: A. and C. Black.

This comforting and companionable little volume has just come to hand as we are going to press. It will be most precious to all who have come under the charm of the late Dr. Raleigh's past writings. Mrs. Raleigh, in the preface, says: 'Comfort, indeed, does not often come by argument, or by abstract thinking. Rather it makes its way by symbol, by subtle touches of sympathy, and by words which reveal the Father's heart to His desolate children. With reverent affection for the author of this volume we commend it heartily to weary hearts everywhere.

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AIM above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.— Thoreau.

UNCLASP thy conscience before God, show thy wounds to Him, and of Him ask a medicine.-St. Chrysostom.

THE ennobling difference between one man and another-between one animal and another-is precisely in this, that one feels more than another.

THE treasuries of true kings are the streets of their cities; and the gold they gather, which for others is as mire of the streets, changes itself for them and their people into a crystalline pavement.