Treatise on Greek Metres, by Rev. W. Linwood; A Translation of the Bhagavadgita, with Notes on the Hindoo Philosophy, by J. C. Thompson; A Cyclopædia of History, in the form of Chronological Tables; Eadie's Analytical Concordance to the Bible; and Bell's Cyclopædia of Christian Missions.

By permission of Parliament, a document of considerable interest has been printed, being conferences among the English bishops upon the alteration of the Liturgy, at the close of the seventeenth century. The shortening of the morning lessons, the omission of the absolution in the service for the sick, the declaration of regeneration in the baptismal service, are among the points discussed.

The sixth volume of the new edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica has a memoir of Bishop Butler, by the Rev. Henry Rogers.-The "Charges" of the Rt. Rev. John Kaye, D. D., author of the work on the "Council of Nice," and Treatises on Tertullian, Justin, &c., are to be collected and published in one volume. The Memoirs of the Life of Jas. Montgomery, including Selections from his Correspondence and Conversations, by John Holland and James Everett, is announced.-F. A. Neale, Islamism; its Rise and Progress. 2 8vo.-W. Erskine, History of India under the two first Sovereigns of the House of Taimur, Báber and Humáyun. 2 8vo.Ennemoser's History of Magic, translated by the Howitts. 2 vols. 5s. ea. Bohn's Library.-E. E. Crowe, author of the History of France, "History of the Reign of Louis XVIII. and Charles X." 2 8vo. Bentley.— History of Russia from the earliest Period, from Karamsin, Tooke, Segur and other Sources. By Walter K. Kelly. 2 8vo. Bohn's Library.-Vinet's "History of French Literature in the eighteenth Century," has been translated, and is published by the Clarks, Edinburgh.-"Memoirs and Correspondence of the Countess of Blessington" are in preparation, and will probably form three volumes.-"Hannibal's Passage of the Alps." By Robert Ellis, B. D., Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. 188 pp. This decides in favour of Mont Cenis.-W. D. Cooley, "Claudius Ptolemy and the Nile, and the Authenticity of the Mountains of the Moon." 8vo. 113 pp 4s.-Professor Creasy, "History of the Ottoman Turks, from the Foundation of the Empire to the Present Time." Based upon Von Hammer. 8vo.

The Journal of Sacred Literature for October, contains Articles on Milman's History of Latin Christianity; on the Historical Origin of the Passover, by Miss Fanny Corbaux; on the Resurrection of Jesus, from the German of Luebkert; on Inspiration and Infallibility; on the Question whether the Last Supper was a Paschal Feast; on the Treading under Foot of the Holy City, (Rev. xi. 2.)

Works on the Bible and Commentaries. The Bible Hand-Book; an Introduction to the Study of the Sacred Scriptures, by Joseph Clagus, D. D., Member of the Royal Asiatic Society. This closely printed vol. of 670 pages is published by the Religious Tract Society. It is a convenient and condensed manual, after the style of Horne's Introduction, and will be a useful guide in the study of the Bible.-Israel in Egypt: or, the Books of VOL. III.-33

Genesis and Exodus illustrated by existing monuments. 480 pp. 12 mo. -The Treasury Harmony of the Four Evangelists; after Greswell's "Harmonia Evangelica." Compiled by Robert Mimpriss, 2 vols. in one. 920 pp. A new edition.-A. Barry, Introduction to the Old Testament, in preparation.

A new edition of the Septuagint, from the Alexandrine text, is to be published by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; to be executed at Cambridge, edited by Mr. Field, who has also edited part of the originals of Chrysostom in the "Lib. of the Fathers." The Gentlemen's Magazine has been exposing the blunders of the present edition of this Society, which includes the Apocrypha, just as Rome, and puts Susanna at the beginning, and Bel and the Dragon at the end, of the Book of Daniel. The same Magazine has also exposed the Oxford Septuagint, as being as bad or yet worse.

Dr. John Mason Good's "Book of Psalms" is to appear in a new edition, edited by Rev. E. Henderson, D. D.-The Holy Bible, translated from the Latin Vulgate, with notes, by the late Rev. George Leo Haydock. 4to. 60s.-J. T. Wheeler, Popular Abridgment of Old Testament History, and of New Testament History; reduced from his valuable "Analysis" of the same. 2s. 6d. each.-Dr. Giles, Christian Records and Historical Inquiry concerning Age, Authorship and Authenticity of New Testament. 8vo. 9s.

Jesus tempted in the Wilderness. Three Discourses. By Adolphe Monod.-J. Robertson, Clavis Pentateuchi, edited by J. Gorle. A new edition.

Philosophy. The first and second volumes of the new edition of Dugald Stewart's Works, edited by Sir Wm. Hamilton, are out. The first contains his "Dissertation on the Progress of metaphysical, ethical and political Philosophy in Europe, since the Revival of Letters," originally published in the Supplement to the "Encyclopædia Britannica," with additions, consisting of the concluding chapter to Part III., and extensive annotations. The editor is to give a life of Dugald Stewart.

"A New System of the Universe." 2s. 6d. London. Horelston & Stoneman.

"Solution of the Great Scientific Problem-What is Heat, Light, Electricity, Magnetism, and Chemical Affinity."

J. F. Ferriers, Prof. at St. Andrew's, Scotland, "The Theory of Being and Knowing: Institutes of Metaphysics." 8vo.

Calderwood," Philosophy of the Infinite: Review of the theories of Cousin and Sir Wm. Hamilton."

Dr. Murray, "Logical Science considered as an educational Element." Inaugural Address. 2s.

"Memoirs of a Metaphysician," by Francis Drake, edited by R. H. Sharp, author of "Beginning of a New School of Metaphysics."

J. Devey, "Logic, or the Science of Inference," a Popular Manual: in Bohn's Library.

"The Works of Philo Judaeus," Vol. I., in Bohn's Library, translated by C. D. Yonge: this vol. contains treatises on the Mosaic Cosmogony, and the early Jewish Records.

Theology. R. P. Blakeney, "Romish Parties, or False Pretensions of Rome to Unity;" and "Protestant Catechism, or Popery Refuted."-M. H. Seymour, Evenings with the Romanists, with an Introduction on the Moral Results of the Romish System. 8vo. 524 pp. 8s. 6d.-W. Lee, Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures, Eight Lectures before the University of Dublin. 8vo. 14s.-The Church: an Explanation of the Meaning contained in the Bible. By William Atkinson. 2. 8vo.-Dr. Thomas Tusten, Bishop of Ely, is preparing a new edition of his Reply to Dr. Wiseman on the Roman Catholic Doctrine of the Eucharist.-Exposition of the XXXIX Articles, from the Writings of the older Dinnes, in preparation by W. B. Hopkins.

The new volume of the Congregational Lectures, the thirteenth, by Dr. Alliott, now in the press, is entitled "Psychology in its Relation to Investigations respecting the Religious Life, Natural Theology, and Supernatural Communications from God." With the aid of Psychology it discusses important questions relative to these three subjects.-Rev. A. Strachan, "The Antiquity, literal Meaning, and Authenticity of the Mosaic Narration established."-Rev. James Thomson, "Exposition of Acts of Apostles."-"The future Kingdom of Christ, or Man's Heaven to be in this Earth: a Solution of Calvinistic and other Difficulties in Theology, by distinguishing the saved Nations from the glorified Saints." Rev. D. J. Heath. 2 vols. 8vo.-"Irvingism and Mormonism tested by Scripture." By Rev. Emilius Guars. 2s.-"The Christian Atonement-its Basis, Nature and Bearings. The Principle of Substitution illustrated." Third edition. 5s.

Vol. III. of the Works of John Knox, edited by David Laing, Esq. This edition is to be in 6 vols. It was begun in the Wodrow Society Publications. The new edition of Owen's Works is continued by the publication of his Theologoumena, together with Thirteen Sermons never before published; and the first volume of the Exposition of the Hebrews.-Rev. Wm. Jay's Autobiography, with Reminiscences of distinguished Contemporaries and Correspondence, is published. Edited by Dr. Redford and John Angell James.

The Repentance of Nineveh: a metrical Homily on the Mission of Jonah, by Ephraem Syrus. Also an Exhortation to Repentance. Translated from the Syriac, by Rev. Henry Burgess, (the editor of the Journal of Sacred Literature, and translator of other works of Ephraem).-Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount; by Rev. Wm. M'Intyre, of Maitland, New South Wales. Edinburg.-Robert Knight, A critical Commentary on the Epistle of Paul to the Romans. 8vo.-A new edition of the First Volume of Alford's Greek Testament.-"The Revealed Economy of Heaven and Earth," published in 1852, a striking and able work in which Christ's future reign on earth is denied, is ascribed to Isaac Taylor, by the Church of England Quarterly Review.-Rev. William Trollope, Commentary on the Acts. 2d ed. Edited by Rev. T. A. Buckley.-Charles Cholmondeley, an English Catholic, The Protestant Doctrine of Justification and Scheme of Salvation philosophically confuted, in sixteen Articles. 264 pp. 8vo.

NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS.

I. Sandwich Island Notes. By a Häolé (Foreigner.) Harpers. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co. 493.

New York:

1854. pp.

We have read this book with very great interest, anxious to understand the actual facts in regard to the results of the Missions in the Islands. We cannot say that we think the author unprejudiced, though he is not to be classed with those who make a point of disparaging and discrediting the missionaries. It is, we have no doubt, extremely difficult to give an account of the results of missionary labor in a heathen country, without being misunderstood, and ages of degradation must take a long time to work out of the blood of a nation. We are entirely willing to know the truth in this case from every source, but we cannot doubt that the reader will receive from this book an impression as much below the truth, as he may have received one above it from mistaking our missionary brethren. The author bears warm testimony to the excellence of some of the missionaries; of others, as for example, Rev. Richard Armstrong, we have no doubt he has a wrong impression. The volume is quite pleasant, cheerful and readable, the scenes painted with a good deal of vividness. By far the worst parts of it are the attempts at fine writing, in which there is occasional unwarrantable indulgence.

II. BOOKS INTERESTING TO YOUNG LADIES.

1. Magdalen Hepburn. A Story of the Scottish Reformation. By the author of "Passages in the Life of Mrs. Margaret Maitland," "Adam Graeme," &c. Three volumes in one. New York: Riker, Thorne & Co. 1853. pp. 400.

We do not feel very free in commending anything fictitious, for, although the right plan is selection and not absolute prohibition, yet this rule should be modified by another-no fictions but the best, and not very many of them--fancy being a child that needs a great deal of watching. But we believe we must admit Magdalen Hepburn. Pure in taste, warm in feeling, high in patriotic ardor, sincere in energetic piety, and Presby terian in every fibre, how could we reject it? John Knox is a prominent character, well drawn, and with a loving feeling not often shown to the great Reformer, and for this alone our hearts would warm to the fair authoress. The heroine is a fine, high-souled lady; but the true heroine, the one who is fore-shortened in the manner of one of Scott's living likenesses, is Jean Bowman. She is, so far as we know, unique in books. It will take a good while to bring the world right as to the glorious character of our Presbyterian ancestors, but literature is now tending in the right

direction, and such books as Magdalen Hepburn change healthfully the associations of young people from the toryism and aristocracy of Sir Walter, to liberty and truth. After the reaction in favor of Cromwell we may hope everything.

2. Lady Huntington and her Friends. By Helen C. Knight. American Tract Society.

We wish to hold this book up to our young-lady friends, and beg them to read it. The authoress has grouped, artistically, around the venerable and noble Lady Huntington, Doddridge, Whitefield, Wesley, Romaine, Berridge, Venn, Rowland Hill, and her female friends, some of them nobles of the English realm, who devoted themselves to the cause of religion, and lived in each other's society with much of primitive piety and loveliness. We are perfectly satisfied that every one who reads this book on our recommendation, will thank us for it. The authoress has made much of her materials. We have glimpses of Lord Chesterfield, Horace Walpole, Garrick, and others, who were attracted by the admirable character of Lady Huntington, the genius of the ministers who surrounded her, and the power of the religious movement. It is a most attractive and deeply interesting portion of Church history.

3. Lives of the Queens of Scotland and English Princesses connected with the regal Succession of Great Britain. By Agnes Strickland. Vol. IV. New York: Harpers. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co. 1854. pp. 347.

This volume does not finish the history of Mary Stuart. Darnley is still living at the end of it. Miss Strickland puts in every plea possible for poor Mary, which we feel to be natural, even if we are compelled to pass a severer judgment. These Lives are quite indispensable in every household. They are admirable for reading aloud, around the centre-table.

III. A popular account of the ancient Egyptians. Revised and abridged from his larger Work, by Sir J. Gardner Wilkinson, D. C. L., F. R. S., &c. Two volumes. Illustrated with Five Hundred wood cuts. New York: Harpers. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co. 1854. pp. 419, 436.

This work does not go into the disputed questions. Menes is stated to have ascended the throne "probably between 2000 and 3000" B. C., and the Egyptians were "undoubtedly from Asia." It is what it professes to be, a full and popular account of everything connected with the manners customs, opinions and character of the Egyptians, with plates taken from the monuments. It is very curious, and to the inquisitive must be vastly interesting. Here are the sports, furniture, mode of living, women, religious ceremonies, &c., &c., figured to mind and senses; Egypt unroofed to the moderns. The volumes are of convenient size and fairly printed.