leisure for patient inquiry and minute accuracy; which are equally necessary for the general good of the church, but impossible to be fully combined with the other in the same individual. It is less strange that Mr. W. should have fallen into this mistake, than that it should have been reprinted so frequently without any correction.

REVIEWS AND LITERARY NOTICES.

MATTHEW HENRY'S EXPOSITION OF ALL THE BOOKS OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT. Unabridged. Quarto. Sections IV. and V. of the Old Testament, and Section II. of the New Testament. PARTRIDGE AND OAKEY.

DECIDEDLY the cheapest edition ever published of this very valuable Commentary. The complete work is not to exceed the small sum of Thirty-five shillings. To suit the convenience of all classes of purchasers it is published in Penny Numbers, in Parts, containing four Numbers with a cover, for fourpence-halfpenny, and in Sections, containing twenty-two Numbers, with stiff paper covers and cloth backs, for two shillings and sixpence. Thus the means of obtaining a Commentary, which has received more general commendation than any other in the English language, and which, formerly, on account of its price, only a few persons could obtain, is now made available to all persons who are not in the lowest state of indigence. This edition is printed on good paper, with good clear type, is embellished with a large number of illustrative engravings, and is enriched with a considerable number of supplementary notes, chiefly selected from the works of modern writers. Many persons have ordered this excellent work to be sent from our Book-room. We strongly recommend this edition to local preachers and Sundayschool teachers, and to all who want a good and cheap edition of Matthew Henry's Commentary.

REV. ALBERT BARNES' NOTES ON THE NEW TESTAMENT. Reprinted Verbatim from the latest American Editions, with Original Headings and Improved Readings. By the REV. INGRAM COBBIN. Quarto Edition. Sections III., IV., V. PARTRIDGE AND OAKEY.

THIS is the best edition which we have seen of this deservedly highlyesteemed work. As the learned author belongs to the Calvinian class of divines, it is not to be supposed that we agree with him when he treats of predestination and final perseverance; yet, we must say, that his notes generally are very excellent; and contain a large amount of highly valuable information, not given by previous commentators. They abound with judicious verbal criticisms, valuable illustrations from oriental usages, and admirable practical reflections. The whole of the New Testament handsomely got up, is to be purchased for the small charge of twenty-five shillings.

THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH AND COURT OF ROME; from the Establishment of Christianity under Constantine to the Present Time. By the REV. H. C. O'DONNOGHUE, A.M. An improved and enlarged Edition in Two Volumes. Vol. II. 8vo. 358 pp. THORNE, Shebbear; and PARTRIDGE AND OAKEY.

THE first volume of this work was noticed by us, in our January Number for last year, in terms of commendation. The volume now before us describes

the progress of the reformation in Germany, resulting from the astonishing labours of Luther and his coadjutors--the reformation in England, which commenced in the time of the reign of Henry the Eighth-the circumstances which led to the calling of the Council of Trent, and the proceedings connected with the Council-the establishment of the order of the Jesuits-the creation of the infamous awfully cruel tribunal, the Court of the Inquisition, falsely designated, "The Holy Office," its horrible tortures and unparalleled atrocities; brief characteristic notices of the Romish pontiffs down to the year 1830; and other events connected with the history of the Church of Rome, and illustrative of its awful corruptions, gross superstitions, cruel oppressions, and manifold abominations. A very useful work.

MEMORIALS OF EARLY GENIUS; and Achievements in the Pursuit of Knowledge. Royal 18mo. 320 pp. THOMAS NELSON.

EXTRAORDINARILY cheap, instructive, and engaging. It contains memorials of some of the most celebrated philosophers, artists, and poets. Interesting notices are given of Roger Bacon, Galileo, Isaac Newton, Michael Angelo, Raphael, Dante, Milton, Sir Christopher Wren, James Watt, and others. From the title it may possibly be supposed, that the work chiefly consists of accounts of extraordinary feats of juvenility; such, however, is not the case. Most of the persons noticed gave indications of their peculiar genius in their youthful days, but their fame depends upon the works of their mature years. Chatterton, who is one of the subjects of this volume, however, died before he was eighteen. The history of this astonishing youth is full of melancholy interest. This is the second volume of Nelson's new and enlarged series of the British Library. The publishers of such works deserve encouragement.

LARGE TYPE EDITION OF MATTHEW HENRY'S COM-
Part

MENTARY. Unabridged. With Illustrative Engravings.
XI. THOMAS NELSON.

EACH Part contains sixty-four pages, of a size between foolscap and post folio; and is published at one shilling each Part. The eleventh Part brings the work to the xiiith chapter of St. John's Gospel. This edition contains supplementary notes and Scripture references. For those who require a large type this is the edition.

THE CAVES OF THE EARTH; tures, and Incidents. 18mo. 192 pp.

TRACT SOCIETY.

their Natural History, FeaMonthly Series. RELIGIOUS

ACQUAINTANCE with natural curiosities is conducive to the expansion of man's understanding, and the improvement of his heart, by leading to the contemplation of the wonderful works of God. These important benefits are likely to result from the reading of this very interesting work. Its general contents consist of chapters on the structure of caverns; position of caverns; natural history of caverns; grand examples of caverns; ice, mephitic, and osseous caverns; cave dwellers; cave refugees; cavern temples; and sepulchral caves. It is a work full of interest; affording a considerable amount of information carefully collected, admirably arranged, and ably expressed.

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION; Sketches of its History. 18mo. 192 pp. Monthly Series. RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY.

DEEPLY impressive, and highly instructive, are the moral lessons which may be derived from the history of the causes, progress, and results of the

French Revolution. Considering the contiguity of France to our own country, and the various ways in which the happiness of the British Empire may be affected by political occurrences in France, we are specially interested in whatever exemplifies the disposition of the French nation. The events which occurred in France, from 1789 to 1794, were of the most appalling description. Sanguinary atrocities, such as were never before seen, upon so awfully an extended scale, were committed by the blood-thirsty tyrants, who were the pretended friends and advocates of liberty and equality. The work before us narrates with great ability the history of those events which filled all Europe with horror, and occasioned the death of millions of human beings.

SKETCHES OF EMINENT MEDICAL MEN. 18mo. 192 pp. Monthly Series. RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY.

CONTAINING interesting biographical notices of the following eminent medical practitioners. Dr. Hervey, who discovered the circulation of the blood; Dr. T. Sydenham; Dr. H. Boerhave; William Hey, Esq., Surgeon; Dr. T. Bateman; Dr. J. Jenner, the discoverer of vaccination as a preventive of the small pox; Dr. J. Mason Good; Dr. R. Gooch; Sir Wm. Knighton, M.D., the companion of King George the Fourth in his latter days; and Dr. J. Hope. The evidence given in this interesting volume, proves, that most of these eminent men not only professed to have faith in Christ as their Saviour, but also lived in the practice of the duties of Christianity, and that when about to leave the world they experienced the comforting influences of true religion. This, and the other serials before noticed, are published at the small charge of sixpence a volume. They are worthy of a very extended circulation.

LIFE OF SARAH MARTIN, of Great Yarmouth; with Extracts from her Writings and Prison Journal. A new Edition, with additions. 18mo. 140 pp. RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY.

She

USEFULNESS in promoting the temporal and eternal interests of mankind is not confined to either sex, or any condition in life. This is clearly exemplified in the history of Sarah Martin, whose exertions, for the benefit of poor children in work houses, and for persons confined in prison, entitle her memory to equal, if not superior, honour, to that which justly belongs to the memory of the celebrated deceased Mrs. Fry. The latter was placed in comfortable worldly circumstances, the former was obliged, while engaged in active labours for the benefit of others, to work for the means for her own support. Sarah Martin was an orphan at an early age, was brought up by a pious grandmother, and was converted when nineteen years old. The same year she began to visit the workhouse to read and pray with the sick women. afterwards undertook to meet the workhouse children once a week for the purpose of imparting to them religious instruction, and continued in this labour of love for many years. When she was twenty-eight years old she began to visit the jail, in which there was no Divine worship, nor any respect paid to the Lord's-day. After a short time, she undertook to conduct two religious services on the Sabbath for the benefit of the prisoners; and continued these for many years; in addition to visiting the jail at other times to converse with the prisoners, and hear them repeat passages of Scripture. She also benevolently exerted herself to obtain pecuniary assistance for discharged prisoners, that they might have the means of obtaining an honest livelihood.

For many years she supported herself by dress-making. After having thus laboured for about nineteen years,-devoting as much time as she could possibly spare from her business to her labours in the workhouse and jail,-she, in the year 1838, found her business so much diminished, that she resolved to relin

guish it altogether, and to devote herself exclusively to her labours of love; and as, in this year, a school-master and mistress were appointed to the workhouse children, her labours were no longer there required, she devoted herself exclusively to the promotion of the welfare of the prisoners. All she then possessed was between two and three hundred pounds, the interest of which she had for her support. In 1841, she, with much persuasion, consented to accept for her future services twelve pounds a year, which the magistrates, from a sense of the value of her services, had voted to her. She continued her labours until April, 1843, when illness kept her at home, and a few months after she died. The preceding particulars are derived from the very interesting volume now before us. Nearly the whole of its contents were written by Miss Martin. It contains two sermons which she wrote and read to the prisoners; also a funeral sermon which she wrote and desired to have read to them after her death; and several other compositions of her pen. We scarcely need add that it is a deeply interesting work.

CLAIMS OF THE GOSPEL ON THE YOUNG. By the REV. JOEL PARKER, D.D., of Philadelphia. 18mo. 134 pp. RELIGIOUS Tract SOCIETY.

POWERFUL arguments, eloquently expressed, felicitously illustrated, and energetically enforced, are the characteristics of this work. We strongly recommend it to the perusal of the young. It is admirably adapted to arrest the attention of youth, and to impress their minds with the duty of consecrating the morning of their days to the service of God.

MEMOIRS OF MISS SARAH SAUNDERS, with Nine Letters addressed to her during her Last Illness. By JOHN FOSTER. 24mo. 152 pp. RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY.

THE subject of this Memoir was possessed of extraordinary mental powers and intellectual attainments. She had remarkable independence of thought, strength of judgment, inflexibility as to her convictions, and high moral courage to avow and adhere to them. When she was only eighteen years old her health failed, and she was attacked by the fatal disease consumption, which, after an illness of six months, brought her to the grave. During her illness, the celebrated John Foster, with whom she was acquainted, addressed her several letters suited to her state, and with much tenderness directed her attention to her eternal interests. Nine of these letters follow the brief account of her life and death. The letters are beautiful, tender, faithful, instructive, and impressive. It is a delightful little work, which may, with much advantage, be read by all; but especially by young persons who are afflicted.

GREAT TRUTHS, in Simple Words, for little Children. 18mo. 108 pp. RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY.

ADMIRABLY adapted for children; it conveys important, moral, and religious instruction by the use of engaging narratives.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION MAGAZINE. Conducted by the Committee of the Sunday School Union. Vol. IV. 1847. 12mo. 476 pp. SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION.

CONSIDERABLE advantages may be obtained by Sunday-school teachers from the use of this work, which is prepared with special reference to their improvement. It contains a considerable amount of valuable information and important advice. The Essays on, the teacher in the closet, in the school, in

the library, in the family, in the teacher's meeting, in the church, and in the sick-room, are very excellent, and may be frequently read with profit.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHERS' CLASS REGISTER AND DIARY FOR 1848. SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION.

It is desirable that every Sunday-school teacher should possess a copy of this Register and Diary. It contains a list of Scripture lessons arranged for the year; a calendar; ruled pages, for the names and residences of the scholars, for marking their attendance, for keeping accounts of money paid by them for books, notes of sermons, and other memoranda. Such a work needs no other recommendation than its obvious utility. For the accommodation of those teachers who may find it inconvenient to purchase this complete work, the Register, without the Diary—that is, without the pages for notes of sermons, and other memoranda-is published in stiff paper covers.

NOTES ON SCRIPTURE LESSONS FOR JANUARY, 1848. Published by the SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION. 12mo. 12 pp.

THOSE teachers who have not a good commentary to which they can refer, or who have not time carefully to study the portions of Scriptures to be read by their scholars, may derive valuable assistance from these brief judicious notes. We would, however, strongly recommend teachers not to substitute these notes, for their own diligent reading and study of the Scriptures, which they have to explain to their scholars.

THE NATURAL HISTORY OF CREATION. A Lecture by EDWIN LANKESTER, Esq. M.D., Delivered on Behalf of the Young Men's Christian Association. Royal 18mo. 32 pp. BENJAMIN L. GREEN.

It

CONTAINING a short but comprehensive description of Geology. describes, supposed, successive states of the earth, and the progressive orders of animated vegetable, and animal, existences down to the commencement of the human species. A considerable amount of valuable information is here presented in a condensed form. The facts which are here described will be new to a large class of readers, and they are well deserving of their attention. Care is taken to show, that the geological theory which gives to this earth an existence long anterior to the time when man was created, does not, rightly understood, contradict the history of its creation, as given by Moses. This was the first of the winter's series of lectures to be delivered in the metropolis to the Young Men's Association; and which it is intended to publish. The price is very moderate. We heartily wish that the publisher may meet with the encouragement which, in this undertaking, he deserves.

THE GREAT THEME OF THE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY; the Substance of a Sermon preached before the Triennial Conference of the Freewill Baptists at Sutton, Vermont, October 10, 1847, and published by their request. By JABEZ BURNS, D.D. 8vo. 13 pp. HOULSTON AND STONEMAN.

An excellent discourse, founded on 1 Cor. ii. 2. The leading divisions are, "I. Define and illustrate the resolve of the Apostle. II. Enquire if this avowal is capable of vindication.”

THE CHILD'S OWN BOOK. 1847. 32mo. 192 pp. RICHARD DAVIS.

For young children this is a very pleasing and instructive work.