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XIII. Lives of A. HENDERSON and J. GUTHRIE, with Specimens of their Writings. Edinburgh, 1846. 100% &0 to XI This little volume is issued by the Committee of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland, for the publication of the works of Scottish Reformers and Divines, and contains two instructive memoirs. The Life of Henderson was written by the late Dr. M'Crie, and succinctly relates the part taken by its subject in the ecclesiastical struggles of the seventeenth century. He was a bold and faithful man, and was opposed to Nye in the Assembly of Divines. The Memoir of Guthrie, who was executed after the return of the second Charles, is affecting. Both the good men cordially bated Episcopacy and Independency. Their sermons are distinguished by the faults and excellences of their day. The publication of such works is likely to be useful in this period of repose and Christian liberty, echil XIV. An Exposition upon the Prophet Jonah. By GEORGe Abbott, D.D., ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY. 2 vols. 1845. London: Hamilton and Co. The author of the lectures was an eminent divine of the Church of England, who flourished in the reigns of James and Charles the First. He manfully opposed the innovations of Laud, and forbade the proclamation of the monarch to be read in his churches, permitting sports and recreations on the Lord's day. As might be expected, he encountered much trouble and persecution, for his attachment to Puritanism, but he conducted himself with great moderation and firmness, integrity, and liberality. Withal he was a learned and good man; and a strenuous advocate for the Augustinian theology His composition on Jonah, was delivered in a course of thirty lectures, in the year 1599, and was first published in the following year. The character of the lectures may be judged of by his own statement of his design in their composition.' I have laboured,' says he, 'severallysometimes to inform the ignorant, sometimes to comfort the weak, sometimes to settle the doubtful, some other times to encourage on to virtue, and oftentimes to beat down vice, and iniquity, which in this latter age everywhere aboundeth.' This work has stood the test of two centuries, and has been praised by the wise and good of many denominations. It may be studied with great advantage now, as a judicious exposition of a remarkable episode in the Scriptures of the Old Testament. The present edition is enriched with a brief but comprehensive memoir of the author from the pen of Miss Webster. It is well printed and edited, and is entitled to an unqualified recommendation.

XV. Philosophical Lectures. By the REV. W. LEASK. London: J. Snow.

1846.

These four lectures were delivered in Mechanics' Institutes, and embrace the following subjects-The Acquisition of Knowledge-The Claims of Mind-The Province of Reason and Mental Liberty. They are not very profound, but are popular, and well adapted to benefit the persons to whom they were addressed. We think it every way desirable, that our ministers should take their fair share in forming the public mind, through the medium of Literary and Philosophical Institutions, and we cordially thank Mr. Leask for doing his part, and for doing it well. Some Christian men keep aloof from such endeavours, as though they were beneath the sanctity of the ministerial office; and others are kept aloof from the repulsiveness to Christianity, which mere philanthropists sometimes contrive to throw around their proceedings. It is well when circumstances allow our pastors to take part in the work of elevating the people in the lecture-room, and thus benefiting multitudes who will not enter the sanctuary.

XVI. PAMPHLETS.-Amongst the minor publications on our table we must find room to notice with commendation, A Sermon on the Remission of Sins, preached at an episcopal visitation, by the Rev. T. C. Haddon, LL.B. -A Letter to his Holiness the Pope, by the Rev. Dr. Bushnell, is a clever pamphlet, in which the author graphically exhibits Popery as it exists at Rome.-Two Funeral Sermons, by the Rev. D. Katterns, were occasioned by the lamented decease of Mrs. Cox, at Hackney, and are instructive and consolatory.-Spiritual Declension, is a sermon by the Rev. T. Aveling, adapted to convince and reclaim the backslider in heart.-Antidote to the Popish Articles of Faith, is a seasonable reprint of Calvin's reply to the Sorbonne doctors, and is every way worthy of perusal.-A Manual for Pedo-Baptist Churches, is a condensation of the principal arguments for infant baptism, and is, on the whole, well suited to those persons who have no opportunity of perusing larger treatises on the subject.

LISTS OF NEW BOOKS.

RECENT BRITISH PUBLICATIONS.

Barnes, A.: Notes on the Epistle to the Romans. Cobbin's Edition. Tegg and Co.

Bennett, Dr.: Lectures on the Acts of the Apostles. Gladding. Brown, Dr. J.: Comfortable Words for Christian Parents bereaved of Little Children. Edinburgh: Oliphants.

Campbell, Dr., and Richardson, J. W.: Sermons on Self. Snow. Candlish, Dr.: Four Letters to the Rev. E. B. Elliott, on some passages of his Hora Apocalyptica. Edinburgh: J. Johnstone.

Candlish, Dr.: The Principle of Free Enquiry and Private Judgment. J. Johnstone.

Gaskin, J. The Geography of the East made interesting. Dublin :
Herbert, C.: Perils at Sea, &c. Wertheim.

James, J. A.: Christian Fellowship. Tenth Ed, abridged. Hamilton," Adams, and Co.

Phillips, G The Psalms in Hebrew, with a Critical, Exegetical, and Philological Commentary. J. W. Parker.

Smith, G. The Religion of the Ancient Britons.

Thornley, M.: The true End of Education: Edinburgh, T. and T. Clark. Hooper, J.: The Translation, or the Changing of the living Saints. Painter. The Retrospect. Vol. I. Painter.

RECENT CONTINENTAL PUBLICATIONS.

Petri, Dr. L. A.: Gnade und Wahrheit aus den heiligen Evangelien; and, Gnade und Wahrheit aus den heiligen Episteln. Hannover.

Sommer, J. G. Biblische Abhandlungen:-(1.) Erklärung des Sela :— (2.) Vom Reim in der Hebräischen Volkspoesie :-(3.) Die alphabetischen Lieder, von Seiten ihrer Structur und Integrität:-(4.) Rein und Unrein nach dem mosaischen Gesetzte. Bonn.

Tholuck, Dr. A.: Ueber die vornehmsten Glaubensfragen der Zeit. Heft I. Halle.

Ullman, Dr. C. Die Sündlosigkeit Jesu. Fifth Edit. Hamburg. London: Williams and Norgate.

GENERAL INDEX.

ALEXANDER on the Early Prophecies of Isaiah, 321.
Annals of the English Bible, 173.

Apocalypse, Poetry of the, 81.

Animadversions on, 259.

『ན་ Reply to, 347.

Animadversions on the Date of the, 206.
Further Remarks on, 446.

Reply by the Author of the Original Articles, 451.

Arnold, Dr., Neander's View of, 39.

Baptism and Discipleship, Christian, 1.

Bible, People's Dictionary of the, 147.

Remarks on, 226.

Binney's Sermons on the Death of Mr. Guyer, 135.

Canon of the New Testament, 222.

Catacombs, Church in the, 161.

Colleges, A Suggestion on the Management of, 311.

Congregational Lecture, Syllabus of, 313.

2 Corinthians iii. 13-18, Criticism on, 214.

CRITICAL NOTICES-

Abbott's Exposition of Jonah, 487.

Alexander's Switzerland and the Swiss Churches, 483.
Barnes's Notes on the Epistles, 320.
Bickersteth's Family Expositions, 396.

Bonar's Commentary on Leviticus, 486.

Boume's Christ the True Witness, 395.
Brown's Union of Christians, 486.

Bullar's Claims of the Heart, 486.

Burgess' Wesleyan Hymnology, 484.

Carlyle's Moral Phenomena of Germany, 78.

Cheever's Lectures on the Pilgrim's Progress, 239,

Clarkson, Rev. D., Select Works of, 317.

Cobbin's School Hand-Book to the Bible, 397.

Colman's What is Religion? 486.

CRITICAL NOTICES (Continued)—

D'Aubigné's History of the Reformation, 158, 238.

Discourses and Essays, 485.

Dick's Christian Philosopher, 239.

Divine Panoply, 484.

Dodd's Century of Scottish Church History, 319.

Dautrey's Bible in Palestine, 77.

Dymond on War and Christianity, 485.

Gilbert's Modern Atlas, 397.

English Dictionary, 397.

Gillespie's Debates of the Assembly of Divines, 77.
Gray's Exercises in Logic, 397.

Hanserd-Knollys Society, Publications of, 318. A
Hardy's Palace of Fantasy, 79.

Hollis's Christian Discrimination, 485.
Hughes's Benighted Traveller, 79,11 metafo
James's (Rev J. A.) Pastoral Addresses, 320.
Jay's Domestic Minister's Assistant, 77.
Jones, Rev. W., Autobiography of, 158.
King, Rev. D., on the Lord's Supper, 319.
Leask's Philosophical Lectures, 487.