We have no sympathy with Mr. Sands in his effort to depreciate classic training. The regularity of construction in the Greek and Latin languages make them admirable for mental discipline, and contact with the beautiful forms of the old mythology and the wonderful creations of ancient genius relieve from that dryness and hardness inevitable from a mere mathematical discipline. The present collegiate curriculum is excellently adapted to a symmetrical development of intellect. The practical question is, how it shall best be taught. Here seem to arise interminable difficulties. That talent for instruction which interests youth will fit its possessor for eminence at the bar, in the senate, in the pulpit. Few gifted persons will sacrifice the glittering temptations to wealth and fame, and devote themselves to a secluded, thankless, and undervalued vocation. Teaching is, perhaps, the very noblest profession, as it certainly forms the basis of the entire mental character. But the man who lays the foundation is beneath the earth, while the man who erects the superstructure is in the air, and the more attractive pursuit will always have the most shining talent. Either the Church or the State, or both, by magnificent endowments and generous encour agement, should lift to its true place the vocation of the teacher. China is in this respect an example to Christendom.

INTRODUCTION TO THE GREEK LANGUAGE. A Compendious Grammar of Attic Greek. With Copious Exercises. By CHARLES D. MORris, M. A., late Rector of Trinity School, New York, and formerly Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. New York: J. F. Huntington & Co., Broome Street. 1869. ELEMENTS OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE. Taken from the Greek Grammar of JAMES HADLEY, Professor in Yale College. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 90, 92, and 94 Grand Street, New York.

ALON'S GERMAN HANDWRITING. Being a Companion to Every German Grammar and Reader. With Notes. By W. GRAUERT. New York: E. Sterger. 1869.

MANUAL OF THE GERMAN LANGUAGE. By W. GRAUERT, A. M. First Part. New York: E. Sterger. 1869.

PARSER AND ANnalyzer for BeGINNERS. With Diagrams and Suggestive Pictures. By FRANCIS A. MARCH, Professor of the English Language and Comparative Philology in Lafayette College, Author of "Method of Philological Study of the English Language," "Comparative Grammar of the Anglo-Saxon Language," etc. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1869.

A GREEK GRAMMAR FOR BEGINNERS. BY WILLIAM HENRY Waddell. Professor of Ancient Languages in the University of Georgia. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers. 1869.

Here are six volumes prepared with the greatest industry and care, to assist pupils in attaining a knowledge of the Greek, German, and English languages. The methods of instruction are so various, and the excellence of any particular plan so merely a matter of experiment and so exceedingly dependent on the individualities of the teacher, that we hesitate to recommend any Grammar which we have not tested in the recitation-room. We do, however, most sin

cerely sympathize with the learned labors of the authors who have prepared these volumes, and wish them all the practical success they most truly deserve. PROTESTANT GEMS OF THE PRAYER-BOOK. BY REV. J. PLEASONTON DU HAMEL. Diocese of Delaware. Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen, & Haffelinger. 1869.

The Protestantism of our Prayer-book is certainly here demonstrated. That man would seem blind who does not regard it as a perpetual witness against Roman error. Its pure gems flash in the light of eternal truth. But will the author receive all it inculcates? Does he accept the Preface to its Ordinal? Does he approve its Baptismal Service? Does he indorse its Communion Office? Does he not recognize Catholic jewels as well as Protestant gems? If so, we cordially sympathize with his Churchmanship. We should prefer, however, the entire system of the Prayer-book, instead of fragmentary parts. ASPECTS OF HUMANITY, brokenly mirrored in the Ever-swelling Current of Human Speech. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. 1869.

This book presents to Nature indeed a mirror, but one which is broken and disjointed, and which, therefore, from its fragmentary edges reflects rays rather dazzling the eye into confusion than assisting its vision.

MORNING LIGHT, or Waking Thoughts for Every Day in the Year. Published under the Direction of the Tract Committee. London: Society for promoting Christian Knowledge. Sold at the Depositaries, 77 Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, 4 Royal Exchange, 48 Picadilly, and by all Booksellers.

Quotations from the Holy Scripture and Standard Hymns, properly arranged, cannot but be edifying to all Christians.

THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAISE, with Music for the Book of Common Prayer. For the Use of Congregations and Sunday Schools. By the REV. J. S. B. HODGES, S. T. D., Rector of Grace Church, Newark, N. J. New York: F. J. Huntington & Co., Broome Street. Edition B.

An extract from the Preface of this volume will explain its purpose, and supply our own defect of musical judgment. "As an aid to the devout, hearty, and harmonious worship of the Church, this little book is set forth. It has been compiled at the suggestion and urgent solicitation of others, and its design is simply to help congregational worship. It contains scarcely anything which actual experience has not proved to be practically useful.”

THE PROMISE OF SHILOH, or Christ's Temporal Sovereignty upon Earth. When will it be fulfilled? By JOSEPH LORD, M. A., of the Boston Bar. Boston E. P. Dutton & Co., 135 Washington Street. New York: James Inglis & Co., 26 Cooper Institute.

It is certainly pleasing to see a cultivated Christian lawyer pause in the midst of his professional engagements, and devote himself to the exposition of the Scripture. The practical pursuits of the bar are favorable to a sound exegesis. Yet with all his learning and advantages, Mr. Lord has not persuaded us to embrace his theory. Believing that miracles and prophecy are the Divine signatures of our

revelation, we think it hazardous to transfer into the hazy regions of the future a prediction accepted by orthodox theologians as relating to the past, and therefore esteemed one of the pillars which support the Bible. HYMNS, ANCIENT AND MODERN, for Use in the Services of the Church, with accompanying Tunes, compiled and arranged under the Musical Editorship of WILLIAM HENRY MONK, Organist and Director of the Choir of King's College, London. New York: Pott & Amery, Cooper Institute, Fourth Avenue. 1869.

This collection of Hymns is unquestionably arranged on the principles of the Church, and we believe embodies the spirit of the Church, and will greatly assist the worship of the Church. There are stanzas, which like expressions in our Communion Office and the words of our Lord Himself, may be perverted and abused. The action of our recent General Convention will, however, fix their interpretation. Dr. Adams, of Nashotah, first introduced a resolution sanctioning their use by any Clergyman with the consent of his Bishop. Dr. Howe, of Philadelphia, presented the report of the Committee, in which they were also recommended. The resolution finally adopted by both

Houses is as follows:

"That it be and is hereby declared lawful, until a revisal and enlargement of the collection of hymns now set forth for use in this Church shall have been made and duly authorized, that in any Diocese, in addition to those already allowed, hymns from the volume entitled 'Hymns for Church and Home,' or from that entitled 'Hymns, Ancient and Modern,' may be licensed for use by the Bishop of the same."

THE OFFICE AND WORK OF THE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY. By JAMES M. HOPPIN, Professor of Homiletics and Pastoral Theology in Yale College. New York: Sheldon & Co., 498 and 500 Broadway. 1869.

There is an inherent difficulty in all theological instruction. It implies severe discipline and sound learning to comprehend the evidences and doctrines of Christianity in their proportions, and to declare with profit and power requires the laborious habits of the student, and, in the long process necessary, there are contracted the reserve of the student and the dreaminess of the scholar. The young lawyer and physician, after leaving college, are at once brought into living contact with living men. On the contrary, the aspirant to the clerical office passes within the walls of a theological seminary, where, at the period when developing manhood yearns for the warm life of the world, he finds himself in a state of increased isolation, shut up amid books and scholars, and he is apt to emerge, after years of study, with less knowledge of humanity than when he entered. He is thus better fitted for the work of his library than the work of his Parish. He is better acquainted with doctrines than men. He can preach truth, but cannot persuade to her embrace. The great problem then, to be solved in theological training, is to unite theory and practice; sufficient learning with successful wisdom; the culture of the student and the sympathies of the man. In the rush and roughness of our bold American life, this is especially necessary. The clergymen, intellectually disciplined and developed and furnished, to reach the people, must understand the people, and be identified with the people. Our American Church must never depart from her conservative veneration for the

Past, and yet must be in intense sympathy with the Present, if she would conquer the Future. How almost impossible to combine qualities which seem antagonistic! No men are better acquainted with the obstacles to efficient theological training than true theological professors. The difficulty is not in our instructors, but in human nature. Now one of the excellences of Mr. Hoppin's book is a regard to what we have indicated. From its Presbyterian views of the sacred office we entirely dissent. Its argument here is most impotent. Nor is the work characterized by any special learning or originality: but it does abound in excellent suggestions as regards the cultivation of Christian sympathies in the heart of the minister. He remarks in his preface:

"That kind of preparation has been, perhaps, too much neglected heretofore in our seminaries, which have laid themselves open to the charge of rearing scholars, rather than pastors, but it is the pastoral work which is the true test of ministerial character. I have endeavored to set forth a high ideal of this character, that though no aureole surrounds the head of the true Christian pastor and preacher, as in old pictures, yet that sanctity and truth should crown his head with heavenly light; and that to the work of saving souls from the power of sin, through the preaching of the Cross, the rarest faculties of heart and mind and spirit may be devoted. If the counsels herein contained shall in the slightest degree tend to produce those strong, hardy, cross-bearing, cheerful, hopeful, wise, loving, and single-minded pastors who are willing to labor among the poor as well as among the rich and the educated, who are willing to go anywhere and to do anything which is required for the highest good of men, such pastors, in fine, as Christ would bless as the spiritual guides of his people into a nobler life in Him, that result would be the greatest reward I could ask.

BIOGRAPHY OF OLD TESTAMENT CHARACTERS. For the Use of Sunday Schools. By Mrs. D. C. Weston, Author of "Calvary Catechism," "Catechism on the Church," etc., etc. New York: Church Book Society, 1869. 18mo, pp. 124.

We are glad to welcome another book of instruction for Sunday Schools, from the pen of Mrs. Weston. As an author, or rather as an authoress, as Mrs. Hale insists on our saying, Mrs. Weston has fairly established her reputation as one of our very best and most useful writers. The influence of a popular book for the instruction of the young in the elements of Christianity - and there are such elements is incalculable. Mrs Weston knows what those elements are, and she knows how to teach them without being prolix or stupid. Many a bright eyed little boy has learned to hate the Catechism all his life on account of the associations thrown around it in the Sunday-school.

The book before us is just what its title indicates, nothing more and nothing less. It contains sixty-one lessons on the leading characters in Old Testament history. The questions are simple and direct, and are calculated to recall the prominent events in the lives of the persons whose names are preserved in that portion of the sacred record. What are the practical truths to be learned from the varied history of those persons, is left for the living teacher to deduce and enforce.

AN ESSAY UPON FORCE IN NATURE, AND ITS EFFECTS UPON MATTER. Cincinnati Robert Clarke & Co., Publishers. 1869.

It is a sublime conception that all the separate powers of the universe are but manifestations of one central, supreme, all-pervading force. What skepticism

has suggested, religion may accept, resolving motion into the will of God. We have in the pamphlet of Mr. Skinner some most curious and ingenious and original speculations on this subject, which deserve thoughtful consideration. He regards planetary movements as caused by the effects of force on matter, not in matter, and whether referred to attraction, repulsion, cold, heat, electricity, magnetism, weight, to have essentially the same origin. We conclude our notice by his own statement:

"It is thought the consideration of effects of force in nature must lead us to the conclusion, that matter is but the subject and transmitter of force imparted by one final intelligent will."

THE LITANY OF THE LIFE OF JESUS. For Sunday-school or General Devotion. Albany: S. R. Gray, Publisher. 1869.

THE NORRISES. A Tale of Radford Village. London: Society for promoting Christian Knowledge, 77 Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, 4 Royal Exchange, 48 Piccadilly, and by all Booksellers.

RUPERT OF THE RHINE. The History of a Brave Prince. By MARY C. BUSHE. London: Society for promoting Christian Knowledge, 77 Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, 4 Royal Exchange, 48 Piccadilly, and by all Booksellers.

VANNY CROFT. By the Author of "Contraband Christmas," "Story of a Stamp," etc., etc. New York: Pott & Amery, Cooper Union, Fourth AveLondon: Joseph Masters, Aldersgate Street. 1869.

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THE AMERICAN SPELLER. A Guide to the Orthography of the English Language, conformed to the Standard of the Revised Edition of Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language. By HENRY N. DAY, Author of Logic," "Art of Discourse," "Art of Composition," "Rhetorical Praxis,” "Introduction to the Study of English Literature." New York: Charles Scribner & Co. 1869.

THE BRITISH SUCCESSION IN RHYMES. For the Use of Children. Baltimore: Published by George Lycett, No. 35 Charles Street. 1869.

WHITE LIES. A Nove, by CHARLES READE. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1869.

PEG WOFFINGTON, CHRISTIE JOHNSTONE, AND OTHER STORIES. By CHARLES READE. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1869.

LOVE ME LITTLE, Love me LONG. BY CHARLES READE. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1869.

FOUND DEAD. By the Author of "A Beggar on Horseback," etc. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1869.

WRECKED IN PORT. A Novel. By EDMUND YATES. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1869.

A BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK. By the Author of "Found Dead." New York Harper & Brothers.

1869.