water Treatise on the Animal and Vegetable Kingdom." A new edition, revised and enlarged, by Prof. Barnas Sears, Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education, assisted by several Literary Gentlemen. 1 vol. 12mo. In the preparation of this American edition, Dr. Sears has made some important alterations. "The greatest fault," he says of the English work, “is that of incorporating so many objectionable words and phrases which ought never to meet the eye or tempt the tongue. Judged from his own point of view, the author must be pronounced successful in the execution of his design; but the design itself is faulty from its superfluity, embracing, as it does, words that had better be suppressed. Indeed, it is not easy to discover any advantage arising from so copious a collection of vulgar words and phrases, except to the few who, as professed authors, have frequent occasion to represent the language of low life, whom we do not undertake to aid. It was, therefore, thought advisable, in issuing an American edition, to omit all words of this character; and, as the greater part of the phrases are either low or trivial, and as the residue are of doubtful utility, they have all been dropped. Only those complex terms have been retained, which are frequently employed in the place of single words. Of the large number of unusual words, borrowed mostly from the Latin, and unknown to our purest and best writers, only a few, and such as are without any equivalents in the language, have been allowed a place in the present edition. The purely foreign words which intermingled with the English throughout the work, have been placed at the end and defined.” "In the preparation of the edition now offered to the public, the editor has received important assistance from William Russell, Esq., Principal of the Normal Institute, at Lancaster, and Professor S. S. Greene, Superintendent of the Public Schools of Providence, R. I. The former with pencil in hand, carefully examined the whole work twice; the latter went through it once in the same way. As there is no absolute standard by which one can pass judgment upon words with reference to their admission into such a collection as this, it is to be expected that different persons, influenced by their individual tastes and associations, will judge differently. Whether the editor and his literary advisers have always judged wisely in this respect, it is not their province to decide. In the nice matter of drawing a line of distinction between vulgarisms and what is merely familiar and common, and between words resting on no good authority, and those that are only unusual or scientific, or of but recent currency, it is hoped that the united opinion of three individuals of different pursuits and mental habits, will diminish the chances of any great deviations from the right course." It is needless for us to express our opinion of Roget's admirable Thesaurus. We gave a brief recommendation of it in No. 40, pp. 838, 839 of the Bibliotheca Sacra.

Gould and Lincoln will also publish, as early as the first of March, the following scientific works: Annual of Scientific Discovery for 1854; or Year Book of Facts in Science and Art. Exhibiting the most important Discoveries and Improvements in Mechanics, Useful Arts, Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, Astronomy, Meteorology, Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy,

Geology, Geography, Antiquities, etc.; together with a list of recent Scientific Publications, a classified list of Patents, Obituaries of eminent Scientific Men, an Index of Important Papers in Scientific Journals, Reports, etc. Edited by David A. Wells, A. M. With a Likeness of Edward Hitchcock, LL. D., President of Amherst College. 12mo.

Comparative Anatomy of the Animal Kingdom. By Profs. C. Th. Von Siebold and Stannius. Translated from the German, and Edited with Notes and Additions, recording the recent progress of the science, by Waldo I. Burnett, M. D., Boston. Two vols. 8vo. Vol. I. Anatomy of the Invertebrata.

The following religious works are likewise in process of publication by Gould and Lincoln: First Lines of Christian Theology; in the Form of a Syllabus, prepared for the use of students. By Rev. John Pye Smith. Edited by Rev. W. Farley. 1 vol. 8vo.

Glad Tidings; or, The Gospel of Peace. A Series of Daily Meditations for Christian Disciples. By Rev. W. R. Tweedie, D. D. 16mo.

The Mission of the Comforter. With copious Notes. By Julius Charles Hare. With the Notes translated by an American editor. 12mo.

Among the works which have recently been published by the house of Gould and Lincoln, is the following, entitled: Noah and his Times; embracing the Considerations of various inquiries relative to the Antediluvian and earlier Postdiluvian Periods; with Discussions of several of the leading questions of the present day. By the Rev. J. Munson Olmsted, M. A. pp. 418. 12mo. The volume is well fitted for popular use.

Our readers are aware, that several months since, Gould and Lincoln published a work which is written with great power, and has been received with great favor, entitled: The Preacher and the King; or, Bourdaloue in the Court of Louis XIV.; being an Account of the Pulpit Eloquence of that Distinguished Era. Translated from the French of L. Bungener, Paris, twelfth edition. With an Introduction by the Rev. George Potts, D. D., Pastor of the University Place Presbyterian Church, New York. 12mo. pp. 338. More recently, they have published another work from the same author, entitled: The Priest and the Huguenot; or, Persecution in the Age of Louis XV. Part I. A Sermon at Court. Part II. A Sermon in the City. Part III. A Sermon in the Desert. In 2 vols. 12mo. pp. 408 and 480. This last named work, as well as the first, is written with rare vivacity, and is fitted to attract general interest.

Little, Brown and Co., of Boston, are now engaged in publishing a complete edition of the English Poets, edited by Prof. F. J. Child of Harvard College. The size and style of the volumes will be those of Pickering's Aldine Poets. The typography of those already published is beautiful. Few English books are more charming to the eye. This enterprise of Little and Brown is an honor to the American press. The Collection will be pub→ lished in about a hundred and twenty volumes, and will include all that is of greatest value in the whole range of English Poetry, from Chaucer to Wordsworth. Particular care will be given to the republication of Chaucer and the English and Scotch Ballad Poetry; and every needful aid in the

form of biographical, historical or critical notices, glossaries, etc., will be given to the reader. The whole series of volumes will be enriched by val. uable notes from the pen of Prof. Child. We do not know any other edition of the English Poets, which combines so many excellences. Each separate work may be purchased by itself, and the price of a single volume is seventyfive cents. The following are now ready: Butler, 2 vols.; Collins, 1 vol.; Cowper, 3 vols.; Dryden, 5 vols.; Goldsmith, 1 vol.; Gray, 1 vol.; Milton, 3 vols.; Parnell, 1 vol.; Pope, 3 vols.; Prior, 2 vols.; Thomson, 2 vols.; Swift, 3 vols.

It is known to our readers that Little, Brown and Co. are engaged extensively in the publication of English works in connection with mercantile houses in Great Britain. Among the books soon to be sent forth from their press are Hume's Essays and Philosophical Works; Plutarch's Lives; The Translation called Dryden's, Corrected from the Greek and Revised by A. H. Clough, sometime Fellow and Tutor of Ariel College, Oxford, and late Professor of English Language and Literature at University College, London. Both of these works are in large octavo and are exquisite specimens of typography, in the style of Horner's Memoirs, noticed in another part of this No. The Life and Adventures of the renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha; Junius Discovered, by Frederic Griffin; Lyell's Manual of Geology, and also his Principles of Geology; Jeremy Taylor's Whole Works, in ten vols. octavo; Lord John Russell's Memoirs of Thomas Moore, in eight vols. octavo; Lord Mahon's History of England in seven vols. octavo, form a part of this series of works, some of which are already published and the remainder may be soon expected.

Little, Brown and Co. are also publishing Prof. Pierce's Analytical Mechanics, which will form an admirable quarto volume of about 600 pages.

An interesting volume has been published recently by T. R. Marvin and S. K. Whipple and Co. of Boston, entitled: Memoirs of John Codman, D. D., by William Allen, D. D., late President of Bowdoin College, with Reminiscences by Joshua Bates, D. D., late President of Middlebury College. To these Biographical Sketches, are added six sermons of Dr. Codman. The whole volume contains 408 octavo pages. It is a valuable work, not merely as perpetuating the memory of a judicious pastor, but also as illustrating the Ecclesiastical History of New England.

There is another work, which ought to have been previously noticed in our Review, as a valuable contribution to Ecclesiastical literature. It is a volume exhibiting much research, and explaining many customs and terms not generally understood. For a book of definitions it is uncommonly interesting. It is entitled: A Dictionary of Congregational Usages and Principles according to Ancient and Modern Authors; to which are added Brief Notices of some of the Principal Writers, Assemblies and Treatises referred to in the Compilation. By Rev. Preston Cummings. pp. 432. 12mo. A third edition of this work has been recently published by S. K. Whipple and Co. of Boston. It is singular that a work of this kind had never been published before.

CONTENTS OF NO. XLII.

Page.

217

Article.

I. HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY AND ETHNOGRAPHY,

Translated from Rougemont's Essai d'une Géographie de l'Homme,
by E. C. Tracy, Windsor, Vt.

II. GOD'S POSITIVE MORAL GOVERNMENT OVER MORAL
AGENTS, ADDITIONAL TO THAT WHICH IS MERELY
NATURAL,

By Rev. Samuel D. Cochrane, Paterson, N. J.

IL THE APOCRYPHAĻ Books of the OLD TESTAMENT,

AND THE REASONS FOR THEIR EXCLUSION FROM

THE CANON OF SCRIPTURE,

By C. E. Stowe, D. D., Professor at Andover.

I. The Apocryphal Books of the Old Testament,

II. Debates and Decisions in the Council of Trent, .

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280

III. These Books never had the Sanction of Christ or of his
Apostles, or of any of the Writers of the New Testa-

ment,

IV. These Books formed no part of the original Hebrew
Canon, and were not written till after Inspiration had
ceased and the Canon was closed,

V. These Books were rejected with singular unanimity by
the Early Christian Churches and the best of the
Church Fathers,

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IV. THE RELATION OF DAVID'S FAMILY TO THE MESSIAH, 306 By E. P. Barrows, Jr., Professor at Andover.

V. EXCURSION TO THE LAKES EAST OF DAMASCUS, 329
By Rev. J. L. Porter, Missionary at Damascus.
EXCURSION TO KESWEH,

342

VI. THE NATURE AND INFLUENCE OF THE HISTORIC

SPIRIT,

345

An Inaugural Discourse, by William G. T. Shedd, Professor at Andover.