The Recreation. A Gift Book for Young Readers.

Edinburgh: John Murgins.

With Engravings.

THIS is a very favourite book with our young people, and-why should we not confess the fact?—not altogether unacceptable to ourselves. It is a fascinating companion during a leisure half hour, and may serve, not altogether unprofitably, to while away some of the gloomy moments of winter. The present volume contains the usual variety of topics, and will be found fully equal to its predecessors.

The Vocation of the Scholar. By Johan Gottlieb Fitche. Translated from the German, by William Smith. London: John Chapman. 1847.

An elegant and spirited translation of a work, replete with the characteristic subtlety and boldness of the German genius, without much of its imagination. Those moralists, who have more confidence in the wisdom of this world than in that which cometh from above,' will doubtless find in 'The Vocation of the Scholar' a publication exactly to their taste; nor will a work, which so strongly exemplifies the difficulties with which the most powerful minds incumber themselves, when, disregarding revelation, they endeavour to work out the problem of social improvement, be read without deep interest and pity by the Christian philosopher. It is the production of an earnest, profound, and philanthropic mind, and contains many noble and exalted sentiments; but it declares man to be the end of his own existence; and is an evident attempt to make him virtuous without religion, and happy without God.

The Triumph of Henry VIII. over the Usurpations of the Church, and the Consequences of the Royal Supremacy; a Paper read to the Philosophical Institute, September 25th, 1846. By George Offor, Esq. Published at the unanimous request of the President and Members. London: Henry Campkin.

In a series of very curious and extraordinary extracts from blackletter testimony, Mr. Offor has given, under the above title, an original and deeply interesting, though succinct, history of the rise and overthrow of the papal abomination in this country. Sentiments, however, opposed to the observance of the Lord's-day, and the maintenance of the Christian ministry, disfigure the work. These, with one or two instances of careless writing, will, in the next edition, demand the author's attention. If he cannot conscientiously expunge them, it is due, at least, to the public, that he should examine, much more closely than he seems to have done, the testimony of Scripture respecting them. With these exceptions we give the work our hearty commendation.

Memoir of the Rev. Samuel Dyer, Sixteen Years Missionary to the Chinese. By Ewen Davies, author of China and her Spiritual Claims.' pp. 303. London: John Snow. 1816.

THE publication of wisely written accounts of missionary lives and labours are calculated to sustain and direct the missionary spirit in our churches. Mr. Dyer deserved this honor, and the description of his course furnished by Mr. Davies, is as instructive and interesting as that of any we have seen. We trust this record of his worth will meet with the acceptance which it richly merits from the Christian public.

The Lads of the Factory; with Friendly Hints on their Duties and Dangers. Religious Tract Society.

THE design of this little work is to teach and enforce moral and religious lessons by example. The class whose welfare is contemplated is a very important and very exposed one. The instruction here communicated, in the form of 'scenes and characters from real life,' possesses general adaptation to their circumstances and wants.

A Brief Commentary on the First Epistle of St. Paul to the Thessalonians. By the Rev. Alexander S. Patterson, Glasgow. pp. 126. Edinburgh T. & T. Clark. London: Hamilton & Co.

WE see no particular reason for the publication of this work. It is just such an one as any evangelical minister or layman might write. The sentiments are sound, the style is simple, the tendency, to promote piety, but these, we imagine, are not sufficient qualifications for theological works in the present day, and least of all for commentaries.

Literary Intelligence.

Just Published.

An Earnest Ministry the Want of the Times. By John Angell James. 3rd Edition.

The Convict. A Tale. By G. P. R. James, Esq. In 3 vols.

Athanase. A Dramatic Poem. By Edwin F. Roberts.

The Recreation. A Gift-book for Young Readers.

Religious Liberty and the Church in Chains; being an attempt to set forth the grounds upon which a number of the Clergy are at present associated to obtain a restoration of corrective discipline in the English Church. By James Bradby Sweet, M.A., Perpetual Curate of Woodville, Leicester. Oxford Protestant Magazine. No. IX.

The Philosophy of Geology. By A. C. G. Jobert. 2nd Edition.
The Modern Orator. By C. J. Fox. Part IX.

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Edited by W. Smith, LL.D. Part XXII. Photius-Pompeius.

The Young Man's Aid to Improvement, Success, and True Happiness. By Mentor.

Four Lectures on the Contrasts of Ancient and Modern History, delivered at Manchester Athenæum. By F. N. Newman.

The Protestant Dissenters' Almanack for 1848, being Bissextile or Leap Year.

A Voice from the Millions. Reasons for appealing to the Middle Classes on behalf of their Unenfranchised Brethren. By a Norwich Operative. Posthumous Works of the Rev. Thomas Chalmers, D.D. Edited by the Rev. William Hanna, LL.D. Vol. I.

Caldwell's Musical Journal. Part. V.

North British Review. No. XV.

The National Cyclopædia of Useful Knowledge. shire-Bokhara.

Part X.-Berwick

History of England during the Thirty Years' Peace. No. VII.
The Pictorial Bible. Part IX.

The Story without an End. From the German of Carove. By Sarah Austin. Illustrated by William Harvey, Esq.

The Children's Year. By Mary Howitt.

School Music; comprehending the Child's Own Tune Book for Sunday Schools, with a large and varied selection of Tunes for Day Schools. Arranged for Three Voices. By George Hogarth, Esq., author of "The History of Music," &c., and edited by John Curwen.

The Christian in Palestine; or, Scenes of Sacred History. Illustrated from sketches taken on the spot. By W. H. Bartlett. With Explanatory Descriptions. By Henry Stebbing, D.D. Parts XIII-XX.

History of Rome, for Young Persons. By Mrs. Hamilton Gray. Dedicated to her Child. 2 Vols. Vol. I.

Cathedral Rhymes: suggested by Passages in the Liturgy and Lessons. By the author of "Recollections of Childhood," &c.

The Grace of God the Cause of Ministerial Excellence and Usefulness. A Sermon occasioned by the lamented Death of the Rev. John Ely. Preached at Queen Street Chapel, Leeds, 24th October, 1847; together with the Address delivered at the interment, on Friday, October 15th. By Thomas Scales.

Honor; or, the Story of the Brave Caspar and the Fair Annerl. By Clemens Brentano. With an Introduction and a Biographical Notice of the Author. By T. W. Appele. Translated from the German.

On the Relations of Free Knowledge to Moral Sentiment. A Lecture, delivered in University College, London, on the 13th of October, 1847, as introductory to the Session of 1847-8. By Francis W. Newman, Professor of Latin, &c.

A Series of Discourses on Practical and Doctrinal Subjects. By Rev. William Dow, A.M.

An Essay on the Diseases of the Jaws, and their Treatment. By Leonard Koecker. New Edition, with copious Notes and an Appendix containing Tables of upwards of Three Hundred Cases. By J. B. Mitchell, M.D.

Criticisms. By John W. Lester, Christ's College, Cambridge.

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