Some of our readers, like ourselves, will remember the time when this publication was a little, wizened, feeble affair. It has now grown into becoming the foremost of the combinations of art, colour, and literary skill, specially addressed to the young. The volume for 1877 is fit for any drawing-room in the country, and almost makes us envy the children the joy they will experience at its reception. No uncle or aunt could. make a better investment of a halfcrown at Christmas than in its purchase.-SKETCHES OF COUNTRY LIFE AFTER BIRKET FOSTER. Price 1s. 4d. CHRISTMAS WISHES AND PROMISES FOR THE NEW YEAR. Price 1s. Religious Tract Society, 56, Paternosterrow. The former of these two packets contains a dozen chromo-lithographs of rural life and industry; and the latter is a collection of Christmas and New Year's Cards, as far superior in their artistic merit as they are in the consecrated language they contain to the ordinary missives which modern usage has adopted.THE COTTAGER AND ARTIZAN. 1877. London: Religious Tract Society. Price 1s. 6d. Full of profitable reading and pleasant pictures. Would that all the cottages in the land could be supplied with such wholesome spiritual fare. CHRISTMAS CAROLS. Music and Words. Staff Notation and Tonic Sol-fa. 1d. each. London: Religious Tract Society. Twenty-one carols, in the old and new modes of notation. Old and young will rejoice in these appropriate songs for Christmastide. News of the Churches. NEW CHAPELS OPENED. Grimsby, November 6th. Llanidloes, October 23rd. INVITATIONS ACCEPTED. Bird, Rev. A. (Oxford), Penzance. Cruickshank, Rev. J. (Prescot, Devon), Crewkerne. Sones, Rev. E. G. (Croak, Durham), Haddenham. Stephens, Rev. J. M. (Sheffield), Newcastle-on-Tyne. RECOGNITION SERVICES. Bexley Heath, Rev. G. Smith, October 16th. Cothill, Abingdon, Rev. S. Case, October 24th. Milnsbridge, Huddersfield, Rev. R. Speed, November 8th. DEATHS. Barnett, Rev. J., Blaby, Leicestershire, November 7th, aged 80. P.S.-Our readers will be glad to learn that Mr. Birrell's Memoir of Dr. Brock will be published in a few days by Messrs. Nisbet; price six shillings. We hope this book will be among the many Christmas presents which we trust all our ministers will receive. NEWS OF THE CHURCHES 48, 96, 144, 192, 240, 296, 336, 384, 432, 480, 528, 570 41, 90, 134, 186, 230, 284, 332, 377, 425, 475, 519, 562 28, 83 374 London: YATES & ALEXANDER, Printers, Chancery Buildings, Chancery Lane. |