the Temple of Bel; repairs to minor temples; the rebuilding of the walls; the introduction of water into the city; the erection of fortifications and outer walls; the adorning of the gates; the building of the new palace, (the Kasr;) the statement that the work was begun on the new moon of Shamalu, and completed on the 15th day, (query, in a subsequent year?) and the formation of the hanging gardens, with stones like mountains, (not themselves like mountains.) The close adherence of Berosus to this statement satisfies Colonel Rawlinson that the Chaldean historian must have had this document before him when he drew up the notice of Nebuchadnezzar's works in Babylon, which is handed down to us by Josephus. This is in fact an epitome of the inscription in the East India House. In one passage, that of the admission of water from outside into the city, the slab agrees exactly with the ancient Armenian version of the passage published at Venice, the Greek original in that part being hopelessly corrupt. The incredible statement that Nebuchadnezzar completed his palace in fifteen days is justified by the inscription, though it may be understood diversely. The only part of the statement transmitted by Josephus not found in the inscriptions is that in which Nebuchadnezzar is stated to have made the celebrated hanging gardens for the purpose of pleasing his Median queen, which the colonel is of opinion Josephus might have mentioned as a probable inference, or with a view to conRect Nebuchadnezzar with the Medes. The examination of this document has raised Berosus greatly in the colonel's opinion as an accurate compiler; and he is consequently induced to accept his chronology without hesitation. A St. Petersburgh journal states that a learned Mongol, named Dorschi, has, after many researches, succeeded in clearing up the mystery which has long hung over the birthplace of Genghis Khan. This famous warrior was, it seems, born on Russian territory, not far from the fortress of Tchendant, on the right bank of the Amour, 50° north latitude, and 132° east longitude. A SKULL THAT HAD A TONGUE.-When Dr. John Donne, the famous poet and divine of the reign of James I., attained possession of his first living, he took a walk into the churchyard, where the sexton was at the time digging a grave, and in the course of his labor threw up a skull. This skull the doctor took into his hands and found a rusty headless nail sticking in the temple of it, which he drew out secretly, and wrapped it in the corner of his handkerchief. He then demanded of the grave-digger whether he knew whose skull that was. He said it was a man's who kept a brandy-shop; an honest, drunken fellow, who one night having taken two quarts, was found dead in his bed next morning. "Had he a wife?" "Yes." "What character does she bear?" good one: only the neighbors reflect on her because she married the day after her husband was buried." This was enough for the doctor, who, under the pretense of visiting his parishioners, called on the woman: he asked her several questions, and among others what sick "A very ness her husband died of. She giving him the same account he had before received, he suddenly opened the handkerchief, and cried in an authoritative voice, "Woman, do you know this nail ?" She was struck with horror at the unexpected demand, instantly owned the fact, and was brought to trial and executed. Truly might one say, with even more point than Hamlet, that the skull had a tongue in it. Per HEART WORK.-We are not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts. We have certain work to do for our bread, and that is to be done strenuously; other work to do for our delight, and that is to be done heartily. Neither is to be done by halves and shifts, but with a will; and what is not worth the effort is not to be done at all. haps all that we have to do is meant for nothing more than an exercise of the heart and the will, and is useless in itself; but, at all events, the little use it has may well be spared, if it is not worth putting our hands and our strength to. Dr. Arnold believed that while men held before them the shield of Christianity, all progress was safe. He allows that the advance of civilization destroys much that is noble, and throws over the mass of human society an atmosphere somewhat dull and hard; yet it is only, he says, by the peculiar trials of civilization, no less than by its peculiar advantages, that the utmost virtue of human nature can be matured. not. FANNY FERN.-The Literary Gazette gives a frank verdict on Fanny Fern's late book. "Ruth Hall," it says, "tells the story of the struggles and successes of an authoress; and it will, of course, be taken as a passage of autobiography, whether it is so acknowledged by the writer or The curious public who long ago settled the question, Who is Fanny Fern?' will begin anew to discuss her history and her relations, and will busily trace out likenesses and analogies between the story and the real life. How much of it is fact and how much fancy, we neither know nor care; but we are sure it must have been a bitter experience of life that could lead to such a book, which sneers at religion, sees no kindliness in humanity, and admits not the strong instincts of natural affection. makes some pitiful disclosures, unwittingly, perhaps, of a heart that has lost all trust in God and confidence in man-that has been soured by misfortune and angered by unkindness. We do not see how the book is going to make anybody either happier or better, and we cannot but think it sad to see a woman who has so much genius using it to no better purpose." Some of our American authoresses are fast writing down the character of American female literature. A more deplorable exhibition of a bad heart in woman could hardly be given than that presented in Ruth Hall. It KOSSUTH AND MAZZINI.-Both these remarkable men are about to put forth a part of their restless energy through the press. Kossuth is preparing for the press a collection of his letters from Turkey, which will probably contain some curious pieces of secret history. A revised edition of the great Magyar's speeches on the THE RIGHT PRONUNCIATION.-The correct pronunciation of the word Niagara has become quite a quæstio vexata. A Mr. Fraser, in discussing the subject in the London "Notes and Queries," says that "the Huron pronunciation, and unquestionably the more musical, was Niagára;" and asks, "Have the Yankees thrown back the accent to the antepenult?" Hereupon a Yankee, dating from Hartford, Conn., replies, "That the Yankees are in no wise responsible for a change of accent. What the Huron pronunciation' might have been is uncertain, as the word had no place in the Huron vocabulary. It is a contracted form of the Iroquois name, Oniagarah; or, as it was sometimes written in old authors, Oghniaga and Oneagorah. Ak, in the Iroquois, denotes an upright rock;' ara, a 'path at a gorge.' The former word, and perhaps the latter, helped to make up the original botryoïdal name; though the syllable ar (as Schoolcraft suggests) may denote rocks,' like the tar in 'Ontario,' and dar in 'Cadaracqui.' (Schoolcraft's History of the Indian Tribes, &c., Phila., 1854, Part iv, pp. 381, 384.) The collation of various forms of the name which occur in old manuscripts, Indian deeds, &c., affords conclusive evidence that the principal accent did not fall on the vowel of the penult. T. Dongan, (English Governor of New-York,) in a letter to M. de Denonville, Governor of Canada in 1686, writes Ohniagero. (Doc. Hist. of New-York, vol. ii, p. 206.) In his Report to the Committee of Trade, 1687, he twice mentions Oneigra. (Ib. p. 155.) The same year he uses the form Onyegra. The recorded examination of an Indian prisoner, August, 1687, gives Oneageragh. (Ib. pp. 251, 258.) The deed of the Sachems of the Five Nations to George I., September 13, 1726, mentions the falls of Oniagara, or Canaguaraghe. (Id., vol. i, p. 774.) In 1751, I find Niagra and Nigra, in the letters of Lieutenant Lindesay to Colonel (Sir) Wm. Johnson. (Id., vol. ii, pp. 623, 624.) And, finally, in a letter from Robert Livingston, Jun., to Governor De Lancey, written in 1755, Onjagera. (Id., vol. i, p. 811.) Goldsmith's pronunciation (in the oftquoted line from The Traveller) was, perhaps, 'more musical' than the Iroquois; but a Yankee,' before recognizing its authority, would suggest a reference to such of the correspondents of N. & Q.' as have in hand the subject of 'Irish Rhymes.' 46 IRVING'S RESIDENCE.-Voyagers up the Hudson gaze with delight on the simple but beautiful residence of our still best beloved author, reposing quietly with its Gothic outlines on a 'sunny-side" slope of the noble river's shore. A newspaper correspondent thus describes it :-"The house at Sunnyside,' in which Washington Irving resides, is one he built some three years ago. It is built on the site of the Van Tassel House.' In fact the new structure includes a portion of the old walls. At an earlier day it was called Wolfert's Roost-Wolfert Acker being one of the privy councillors of the renowned Peter Stuyvesant. Afterward it came into the possession of the Van Tassels. It was here that the quilting party and dance took place, so graphically described in the Legends of Sleepy Hollow.' It was here that the unfortunate Ichabod Crane and Brow Bows unequivocally met, both being suitors for the hand and heart of Kate Van Tassel. Your readers will recall the amusing incidents of that story, and especially the last appearance of Ichabod Crane. A weather-cock of miserable appearance, is perched on the gable-end of the main building. It was once the ornament of the old Stadt House of New-York, in the time of the old Dutch rule. The house is surrounded by trees-some wild and some planted by Irving. The buildings are nearly covered with vines and creepThe trumpet flower and the ivy-vine are the most conspicuous of them. The ivy, that grows unusually rank, has a peculiar interest. It was brought from Melrose Abbey, near Abbotsford, Scotland, some twenty years ago. It was brought by a Mrs. Trenwick, an intimate friend of Mr. Irving, and planted at Sunnyside' by her own fair hands. This lady was a Miss Jean Jeffrey. Her father was a minister, and it was of this lovely girl, then about seventeen, that Burns wrote two beautiful stanzas, among the gems of his poetry." ers. MISSED from our office a daguerreotype of Dr. Olin, from which our portrait some two years since was taken. If any friend has borrowed it he will please return it immediately. Again--We miss our office files of "Hogg's Edinburgh Instructor." The borrower will please return them forthwith. THE NATIONAL MAGAZINE. OUR BOSTON LETTER. Death of an old Citizen-Lecture on St. Paul-Dr. EmmonsStatues to Franklin and Webster-The Congregational BoardThe American Movement-Literary Items, &c. Ir gives one a startling idea of the changes that have been wrought within the past century to run over the reminiscences of one of our septuagenarian patriarchs. The venerable and well-known Samuel M'Cleary, Esq., for twenty-nine years city clerk-ever since Boston became a city-is dead. He was baptized by Rev. J. Elliott, D. D., in 1780, and was one of the six boys to whom were awarded the first Franklin medals distributed in Boston. He formed one of the happy company of Boston schoolboys who, standing in ranks upon the Common, received Washington upon his entrance into the town, His residence was upon Beacon-street at a time when, in this court end of our city, there were but three houses besides the famous Hancock house. Looking down the hill from his residence, upon the Common, he has seen criminals hung under the great elm. He saw Talleyrand while he was living in Boston, and conversed with Marshals Morean, Grouchy and Bertrand. saw that more distinguished exile, Louis Philippe, He also when he visited the city. He witnessed the launching of old "Ironsides," and from Powder Horn Hill, now embraced within the town of Chelsea, he watched the progress of the memorable sea-fight between the Chesapeake and the Shannon outside of Boston Bay. What changes have transpired immediately around him, and what an eventful era has he witnessed in the history of Europe, during the period of his vivid recollections! The names of the French marshals, after having been long tossed upon the waves of revolution, have passed into history, and the revolutionary king himself, rising upon one billow, descended suddenly beneath another, and once more wandered in exile until his death. And now the ancient clerk, with his multitudinous memories, has passed on into that world where "one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day." Judge Thomas lately delivered an admirable lecture upon the "Life and Writings of St. Paul," before the Mercantile Library. The audience, composed largely of young persons, and always somewhat restive under a serious and elaborate lecture, looked not a little blank upon the announcement of the topic; but the learned and eloquent speaker held them, from the commencement of his address to the close, in increasing interest, by the grace of his manner and the originality of his matter. He humorously remarked upon opening that, perhaps, it might be suggested that the subject was one peculiarly within the province of the pulpit. If this were true, he thought a fair exchange would be no robbery; and while clergymen were seen in possession of places of worldly trust, and had the charge of the state, a layman might be excused in venturing to care for the interests of the faith. He earnestly protested against the habit of bowing Christianity out of the common circle of the human mind. Priceless as was its gift, it was given to all humanity, and for its daily bread. It could be chained to no altar. We might as well put a clasp on the gates of the morning, and dole out the light of common day. It was the great central light of history, and we might as well study astronomy and ignore the sun, as to study history and ignore the gospel. "What," he asked, "was the history of all the Caesars, the Annals of Tacitus, the marvelous learning of Gibbon worth, in comparison with the brief and fragmentary journal of Luke, the beloved physician?" In an eloquent passage he speaks of Paul's visit to Peter at Jerusalem, after his return from Arabia, and just before his first great missionary tour. The cotemporary world, he said, knew nothing of the history of those men. The disciples might have watched them with interest. The Roman soldier on his round might have paused and listened to the voices of prayer and praise from that humble dwelling; but did he dream, think we, that those men were laying the foundations of an empire wider than that of the Caesars, without limits of time and space; and that beneath the tent of the one, or in the net of the other, all nations should yet be gathered? After a most thrilling contrast between the death of Paul and Nero, he closed with this noble sentiment:-"The life of St. Paul was in itself the best practical demonstration of the truth of the religion which it was his mission to teach-a life impossible before the dawnings of Christianity, of which the philosophy of the old world had no conception-a life in which self-denial was gain; poverty riches: the scourge of the Roman lictor the badge of a new chivalry; constant martyrdom the mother of constant peace aud joy; and the angel of death the keeper of the gateway of home." A fine illustration of the truth of this sentiment is given in the January number of the North American. In an article under the singular title of "Finished Lives"-a paper which every young man may read with special profit-the writer attempts to show what by numerous striking personal histories, the truth, that constitutes completeness in human life, and illustrates, it is not length of days, nor immediate success in the particular measures to which the energies of life have been devoted, but an unselfish and noble devotion to the well-being of others, crowned with a pious reverence for the will and approbation of our Maker. In alluding to the ministerial profession for exhibitions of closing hours of the truly venerable Dr. Emmons-a finished lives, he relates an affecting incident in the record which the writer also received from the lips of his now venerable son-in-law, Dr. Ide, of Medway. Said the dying patriarch, "I want to go to heaven. The more I think of it, the more delightful it appears. Sandford, and brother Niles, and brother Spring, and And I want to see who is there; I want to see brother Dr. Hopkins, and Dr. West, and a great many other ministers. I want to see, too, the old prophets and the apostles. What a society there will be in heaven! There we shall see such men as Moses, and Isaiah, and Elijah, and Daniel, and Paul. I want to see Paul more than any other man I can think of. But it is a great thing to be allowed to enter heaven. Perhaps I shall pointed." When the hour came for the old soldier to be shut out. But if I am not saved I shall be disapleave the militant for the triumphant Church, his characteristic words were, "I am ready." The whole number of this stately quarterly is worthy of its place, article should be read. Each paper in the present and full of entertainment and instruction. On Franklin's birth-day the committee, in whose hands was placed the charge of securing the proposed monument to his memory, met at the house of Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, to receive the reports of the subcommittees upon Design and Finance. About $16,000 had been subscribed, which is considered sufficient for the completion of the statue. A few thousand dollars more it was thought desirable to obtain, to meet the expensos incident to mounting it upon its pedestal and preparing a suitable inclosure. Mr. Greenough, the artist, has nearly completed his model for the casting, Winthrop's rooms. a miniature of which in bronze was exhibited in Mr. It will be cast in brass, at Chicopee, where the large statue of De Witt Clinton was so successfully produced in metal some time since. It is to be eight feet in height, and to be mounted, twelve design represents Franklin in the familiar position with feet from the ground, upon a square pedestal. The which he is associated in the mind, from pictorial representations, standing with his hat under his arm, and wearing a coat lined with fur. Before the next birth-day of the venerated sage, the task of the committee will be undoubtedly completed. Of the full-length statue of Webster which Powers is chiseling for the Webster Association in this city, Honorable G. W. Warren writes from Florence to Mr. Everett, that it is rapidly progressing. Webster is represented as standing erect, holding the Constitution of the United States in his right hand, and in his left adhering to the Union. The conception is said to be noble and appropriate, and the name of the sculptor is an abundant assurance of its admirable execution. The Congregational Board, of which several notices have appeared in this Magazine, was established in Society." Its object was, the circulation of tracts and 1829, under the title of the "Doctrinal Tract and Book books "adapted to explain, prove, and vindicate, the peculiar and essential doctrines of the gospel," as held by the Calvinistic Congregationalists, and to preserve and defend their ecclesiastical polity. Up to 1847 their publications were confined to tracts, forty-two of which were prepared, and ten millions in the aggregate were distributed. At this time twenty thousand dollars were devoted by generous members of this denomination, as a permanent fund, to enable them to enter upon a more extended work of publication. The works already issued, and to be followed by others of like value, are of the class that would necessarily be limited in their sale, and therefore not be likely to pass through the presses of the trade, and yet of invaluable worth to the minister and to many private Christians. Quite an extensive clergyman's library has already extraordinarily low price, so that the most limited inbeen published, and is offered, as you remarked, at an comes may admit of its purchase. In addition to this, generous donations have been, and are continually received, for the purpose of distributing these choice fountains of thought among their missionaries and pastors of small Churches and smaller salaries. A noble charity is this, and marked with the characteristics of a far-seeing economy; for in cultivating the mind and heart of a public teacher, who can tell the amount of good that may be accomplished? There can evidently be no better defence of a denomination than a breastwork of its more weighty divines, thrown up around every part of its communion. The last important work published by the Board is one of great general interest, and will undoubtedly have a wide circulation in every community where Now-Englanders are found. It is a republication of Morton's well-known NewEngland Memorial, with General Bradford's History of Plymouth Colony, and Notes by Prince, Hutchinson, and others. The work has been admirably edited by Rev. Sewell Harding, the excellent Secretary of the Board. It makes a noble octavo, and is sold at the very reasonable price of two dollars. It is a treasure-house of instruction and entertainment in relation to old colonial chronicles. Upon the recommendation of Governor Clifford, the Massachusetts Legislature of 1853 impowered Hon. Ephraim M. Wright, Secretary of the Commonwealth, to cause to be printed the old records of "The Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New-England," the first two manuscript volumes of which, by constant reference and the corrosion of the ink, had become nearly obliterated. The Honorable Secretary employed the valuable services of Dr. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, as well known as an antiquarian and patron of the sciences as eminent in his profession, in this important work. Six volumes are now published in a style of inechanical perfection at once an ornament and an honor to the state. They form royal octavos of some six hundred pages. The sixth volume brings the record, down to the period, in 1686, when the colonial government of Massachusetts was superseded by the council under President Dudley. The present Legislature will undoubtedly follow the honorable precedent of their predecessors, and continue the publication of these interesting and valuable annals through the colonial period. There will then remain still another act of respect to our noble New-England history-the printing of the Old Colony records, now filed away, awaiting such a permanent imbodyment in the archives of Plymouth. The new fireproof edifice, in the rear of, and united with, the State House, for the state library, is now rapidly approaching its completion. It will cost the state about two hundred thousand dollars, and if its internal arrangement is effected in accordance with the designs of the trustees, it will form one of the finest library rooms in the country. The late American movement, whatever may be said of the peculiar character of its organization, (and here good men honestly differ,) and however short may be the period of its organic life, (and its termination probably will be as welcome to many as its sudden birth and development were startling.) has already accomplished many invaluable results. Besides setting in operation measures which will undoubtedly wholesomely modify our naturalization laws, and instituting inquiries into the shocking barbarities now practiced upon sick and insane paupers who are systematically sent to this country by many of the petty European powers, it has directed attention to Catholic schools and the progress of Romanism, and without persecution or an exhibition of bigotry defended the Protestant community from a somewhat serious exposure, on the part of their children; for neither the ecclesiastical nor the political power of Romanism is to be feared when our people are intelligently awakened as to its real character and designs. The development of an American esprit de corps has served to rebuke the coquetting of our political parties both with foreigners generally and the united Catholic body specifically. But besides this, the movement has called into lively requisition, some of the most facile pens in the defence of our Reformed faith, and in manly examination of, and opposition to, Romanism. We spoke of Dr. Beecher's work in a previous letter. Rev. Rufus W. Clark, one of our most active and popular clergymen, having delivered a series of ten lectures upon the subject in his pulpit, has consented to their publication for general circulation. They form a portable volume, handsomely published by S. K. Whipple & Co., and offered at a small price. The volume presents nearly all the salient points in the long controversy, and is written in a style so easy and popular, that what might be considered a forbidding subject is made to hold with peculiar interest the attention of the reader. Dr. Adams, whose work upon slavery, honestly put forth to abate the asperity of the controversy between the North and South, has only been like the casting of oil into the fire, rather than upon the troubled waters, has just put forth from the fruitful press of Jewett and Co., another precious volume, corresponding to his "Friends of Christ," and entitled, "Christ a Friend." Pure and classical in style, fresh in its presentation of old and rich truth, evangelical in sentiment, and redolent with a heavenly fragrance, the volume will be prized as one of the few select books that rest near the altar of devotion, and administer consolations in hours of depression, and afford material for reflection in seasons of religious meditation. There is no volume of annual statistics that compares in value with the American Almanac, published by Phillips, Sampson & Co., and we are sorry to learn that its patronage is far from being equal to its deserts. The astronomical calculations are prepared by Mr. Bond, of the Cambridge Observatory. In politics, trade, economical statistics, scientific advances, biographies, it contains invaluable details, carefully arranged. Every professional man, merchant, and mechanic, will receive aid from its fruitful columns. The portable poetical series of Little, Brown & Co., has grown by the addition of the poems of Coleridge, Keats, and Watts, forming five additional volumes of this beautiful library. Hon. George Lunt is the reputed Wesley Brooke, the nom de plume of the author of "Eastford; or Household Sketches," published by Crocker & Brewster. The volume is a quiet New-England tale, with admirably drawn characteristic portraitures of everyday lives in our sober country towns and cities. The book is enjoying a generous patronage. Who is Ida May? If you find out, please relieve an anxious community. James Russell Lowell's double lectures upon poetry, before the Lowell Lyceum, were crowded with interested audiences. Full of old reading and wit, himself a true poet, the ancient and the modern bards fared well in his generous hands. His fourth lecture opened thus amusingly-"One of the laws of the historical Macbeth, declares that fools, minstrels, bards, and all other such idle people, unless they be specially licensed by the king, shall be compelled to seek some craft to win their living,' and the old chronicler adds approvingly-These and such-like laws were used by King Macbeth, through which he governed the realm ten years in good justice.' I do not quote this in order to blacken the memory of that unhappy monarch. The poets commonly contrive to be even with their enemies in the end, and Shakespeare has taken an ample revenge. I cite it only for the phrase unless they be specially licensed by the king,' which points to a fact on which I propose to dwell for a few moments. When Virgil said, Arma virumque cano, Arms and the man I sing,' he defined in the strictest manner the original office of the poet, and the object of the judicious Macbeth's ordinance was to prevent any one from singing the wrong arms and the rival man. Formerly the poet held a recognized place in the body politic, and, if he has been deposed from it, it may be some consolation to think that the fools, whom the Scotch usurper included in his penal statute, have not lost their share in the government of the world yet, nor, if we may trust appearances, are likely to for some time to come. The poet was once what the newspaper is now." The present legislature are considering the question of a Girls' Reform School, the disunion of sentiment in the matter turning upon the expediency of one large institution, rather than an officer with focal rooms, whose duty it shall be to find positions in households for those exposed girls, even paying their board if necessary. Serious objections are thought to rest against a large institution like that provided for boys. The Westborough Boys' Reform School being full, it has been proposed to establish a nautical school, in which such of the boys as may give promise of becoming good sailors may be properly trained. This course has been recommended by his excellency, and meets with general satisfaction. The New-England Society for the Promotion of Manufactures and the Mechanic Arts, numbering among its officers some of the first mercantile names in our community, among other resolutions suggested by the pressure of the times, passed the following-a practical regard for which would alike benefit the private and public economy. Resolved, that we earnestly desire that our people should keep up those habits of plain living and high acting, in which the foundations of New-England society were laid. B. K. P. Book Notices. KEITH & Co., New-York, have issued an important work entitled Positive Medical Agents. We are not a medico, (for which we thank Providence,) and cannot therefore pronounce on the merits of such a production; but our cotemporary of the Christian Advocate and Journal, who is an "old practitioner," though we suppose not an "old fogy" in the art, declares that it is one of the greatest steps forward which medicine has made for many a year. We like much the tone of good sense and practical sagacity which characterizes the book. It is a treatise on the new alkoloid, resinoid and concentrated preparations of indigenous and foreign medical plants. The doctor is manifestly a "progressionist." Juvenile books, notwithstanding the hard times, drop upon our table incessantly. Phillips & Sampson, Boston, have issued Country Life, and Other Stories, by Cousin Mary, the main story consisting of finely-drawn pictures of the District School, Sunday School, MeetingHouse, Thanksgiving Day, &c. The Angel Thildren; or, Stories from Cloud Land, by Charlotte M. Higgins, comprising seven beautiful sketches-not altogether fairy or ideal stories, but enough so, to present the peculiar and absorbing interest of fairy tales. The Cheerful Heart; or, a Silver Lining to every Cloud, a sweet, refreshing story for young and old. The Charm, a dozen or more pretty narratives. All these volumes are illustrated by cuts of unusual excellence—a fact of special merit in children's books. The young eye should be educated by the best possible samples of art. Carlton & Phillips have published a neat little volume of Irish Stories for Thoughtful Readers. The stories have a good moral, and the engravings are numerous and well executed. The juvenile publications of this house are among the best in the nation, especially in their artistic work. The Child's Sabbath-Day Book is one of their finest and cheapest issues. It treats of the observance of the Sabbath in a manner adapted to children, and renders its lessons attractive by its really elegant cuts. The Tempest is the title of another of their small illustrated volumes - an entertaining treatise on the atmosphere and its phenomena, with numerous pictorial illustrations. Fetridge & Co., Boston, have sent us an attractive little volume, consisting of stories, sketches, poems, and paragraphs, entitled the Little Folks' Own. It abounds in engravings on tinted paper, and is such a medley of good things as cannot fail to interest any youngster who puts hands upon it. Higgins & Parkinpine, Philadelphia, have published three discourses delivered by Rev. Dr. F. Hodgson, in Philadelphia, entitled the Calvinistic Doctrines of Predestination Examined and Refuted. Some men have a genius for polemics, as others have for mathematics or poetry. Dr. Hodgson has not only skill and tact at theological dialectics, but an evident pleasure in mastering difficulties, which can come only from an original predisposition of mind. This little volume we hesitate not to pronounce one of the most trenchant polemical works on the subject yet produced by the Arminian party. We commend it especially to the attention of Calvinistic thinkers, as presenting one of the strongest exhibits of the anti-Calvinistic arguments. Gould & Lincoln, Boston, have sent us Oseas; or, The Boy who had his Own Way-one of the "Aimwell Stories." It teaches an important moral in an attractive manner. The illustrations are not as good as usual with this wellknown house; but the typographical execution of the volume makes amends for their defects. Carter & Brothers, New-York, have issued a third edition of The Great Journey; A Pilgrimage through the Valley of Tears to Mount Zion, the City of the Living God; by the author of "The Night Watches," &c. It has a dangerous semblance to Bunyan's immortal allegory; but its successful sale shows that it is not an unsuccessful imitation. There is in fact a great deal of original thought in the volume, its style is winning and its fable skillfully managed, while a sweet spirit pervades its pages, and cannot fail to refresh the heart of the devout reader. The Chart of Life, a new and important work by Rev. James Porter, author of "The True Evangelist," is not like the above, an allegory, though its title would seem to imply it. It is a series of elaborate and skillful essays on the dangers-"the rocks and shoals" of man's moral life. Mr. Porter's former works have been extensively successful; this we consider equal to any of them. It is direct and ener getic in style, and remarkably clear and practical and home-addressed in its counsels. There is sharp analysis as well as sound common-sense in his appreciation of moral questions, such as skepticism, social hinderances, &c. It is the very book for presentation to young Christians. Magee, Boston. One of the best allegorical works on religion, (always excepting from the comparison Bunyan's of course) is Keach's Travels of True Godliness. Keach was a cotemporary of the "Bedford tinker;" he does not, however, imitate him. Bunyan represents the Christian passing through the stages of experimental religion: Keach represents religion itself on a pilgrimage about the world, encountering all sorts of characters-the legalist, the Pharisee, the hypocrite, the old, the young, &c. The work has originality, and shares largely in the peculiar kind of interest which Bunyan has thrown into his narrative. The American Bap tist Publication Society, Philadelphia, has issued a new edition, edited by Rev. Dr. Malcolm. The Light of the Temple is the title of a volume from the pen of the Rev. Dr. Strickland. It is a history of the divine manifestations, in connection with the Jewish State Church down to the last dispersion of the Jews, after the Advent. The narrative is vividly sketched, and affords |