He adorns and ennobles the degeneracy he exaggerates. The ruined aqueduct, the broken column, the desolated city, suggest no ideas but of dignity and reverence. No one is ashamed of a misery which bears witness to his grandeur. If we should persuade a laborer that the blood of princes flowed in his veins, we might spoil his contentment with the only lot he had known, but scarcely kill in him the seeds of pride." HENRY HALLAM. ORIGINAL SIMILITUDES. INFIDELITY. Amid the ocean a massive iceberg floats. Its base is sunk far down in the dark deep, and its head is lifted high above the waters. It glitters in the light of the sun with strange beauty and grandeur; but its characteristic is icy coldness; and when gallant ships are struck by it they become total wrecks. Like the iceberg, Infidelity is partly hidden in gloomy depths of mysticism, and partly seen in lofty pride of FAITH, HOPE, AND CHARITY. A tree is sometimes found which grows a certain height in oneness, and thence in twin stems, spreading out goodly branches, and rising skyward. Like this remarkable tree, Faith, firmly rooted in Jesus Christ, waxes strong, and develops Hope and Charity, blessing mankind with benignant influence, and aspiring from earth to heaven. IBID. THE MIND. The operations of the human mind are quicker than the lightning shot from the bow of the thunder. Literary Notices. IBID. [WE hold it to be the duty of an Editor either to give an early notice of the books sent to him for remark, or to return them at once to the Publisher. It is unjust to praise worthless books; it is robbery to retain unnoticed ones.] THE REVIEWER'S CANON. In every work regard the author's end, Since none can compass more than they intend. THE WORKS OF GOODWIN, D.D., WITH PREFACE. By J. C. MILLER, D.D. Vol. I., containing exposition of the first chapter of the Epistle to the Ephesians, Edinboro': J. Nichol. As heartily as any who have formally given in their commendation to the enterprising publisher, do we approve of his brave determina tion to republish the works of the most distinguished Puritan divines; --such as Goodwin, Charnock and Manton, Adams, Thomas Brooks, etc. Taking the volume before us as a specimen, so far as the “getting up" is concerned, it is all that can be desired. The type is most readable, the volume most elegant in appearance, and the price a marvel even in this age of cheap publications. We are not sure, however, that he has in all cases made the best selection of the men who are to write the prefaces and memoirs of the series. It has to be lamented that whilst he has found some who could scarcely have been equalled in their competency for their work, and their power to command the attention of the most advanced Biblical students of the age, he should have fallen even upon one who is notoriously incompetent to criticise the thoughts of metaphysical divines, or to pronounce an accurate judgment upon the great questions of theology. The men who require to peruse these old divines more than any other class, and for whose benefit we presume the republication is chiefly intended, are for the most part, the profoundest thinkers, the most advanced scholars, and broad-minded religionists of the age; though perhaps we may consider them too rationalistic in the methods of interpreting the scripture. But the names of rampant and uncultivated declaimers, as literary sponsors, will we fear repel from the works the very men we should like to see perusing them. Even in the preface to this volume written by Dr. Miller, and on the whole very admirable, there is so much of that narrow pseudo-Evangelical spirit which snarls at what it calls "Negative Theology,' ""Broad Church," etc., as to destroy the moral power of the article to attract the men we long to see welcoming these wonderful productions. We most cordially advise our ministerial readers to enrich their libraries with this magnificent and wondrously cheap edition of the works of the Puritan Divines. HOW TO MAKE THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS. By Rev. Jas. W. CONNOR; with Preface by Prof. HETHERINGTON, LL.D. Edinboro': James Taylor, 21, George Street. London: Nisbet and Co. The title of this tractate we never have liked. There is a selfish policy suggested which we consider foreign, and opposed, to the true spirit of Christianity, which "seeketh not its own." The man who acts from the principle suggested by the title, will neither act virtuously nor wisely; he who seeks the both worlds will assuredly get neither, in the true sense. He who pursues his own happiness as an end, is like a man who pursues his own shadow,-it will ever elude his grasp. "He that seeketh his life shall lose it." He who loses self in the love of the supremely Good, alone is blessed. The author of this production, however, is not the author of the title; nor does he, in any way, sanction the principle we deprecate. We heartily endorse the judgment of Dr. Hetherington, who speaks of it in terms of high commendation. The author has handled it in no common-place fashion. It breathes the genius of a philosopher, as well as the spirit of a Christian. It should be circulated by thousands. MENTAL AND MORAL EXCELLENCE, AND HOW TO ATTAIN IT; Memorials of John Hessel. By JOSHUA PRIESTLY. Fourth Edition. London: Hamilton, Adams and Co. SOME time ago we directed the attention of our readers to the "Memorials of Eliza Hessel," a little work of great literary merit, and fraught with the heart-stirring incidents of a beautiful woman-life and soul up-lifting impulses. We have now the Memoir of her brother, written by the same accomplished author and loving friend of both. The subject of this memoir seems to have been a minister of considerable genius, extensive culture, and great self-consecration to the true, the right, and the divine. He lived a short but a noble life, a teaching life. Mr. Priestly, faithful to the true mission of a biographer, shews his hero, not himself. He brings John Hessel on the stage, retires whilst he acts out his real life before the audience, and when he has played his part, comes forward again and expounds its moral. - CONGREGATIONAL PULPIT. Conducted by Rev. T. G. HORTON. London: Judd and Glass, New Bridge Street, Blackfriars. We are glad to welcome the eleventh volume of our contemporary. The work is too well known to our readers to need us either to characterize or commend it. Could the talented, indefatigable, Catholicminded Editor obtain contributions at all times equal to his own, in freshness of thought, breadth of sympathy, and force of expression, the value of this valuable periodical would be greatly increased. THE CHRISTIAN VERITY: stated in reply to a Unitarian. By WALTER CHAMBERLAIN, M. A. London: Wertheim, Macintosh and Hunt, 24, Paternoster Row. THIS is a work which advocates the other side of many of the views propounded by Unitarians. The author avows himself an earnest believer in all the articles and creeds of the Episcopal Church, and he sets himself to their defence and their advocacy with amazing earnestness, and with no small measure of scholarship and ability. It contains a clear, faithful, and condensed statement of orthodox opinions; but we think had it been less dogmatic in expression, and less controversial in its animus, its power over the Unitarian mind would have been greater. A HOMILY ON Characteristics of Welsh Preaching. "Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression," &c.-Isa. lviii. 1. HE influence of the pulpit in Wales, in telling beneficially upon the masses of the people, originated unquestionably with the founders of Calvinistic Methodism; and properly dates from the time when they labored, which was the middle of the last century. Most of these excellent and energetic men, "of whom the world was not worthy," were originally attached to the Church of England, at whose altar they ministered for a season, and would probably have continued to serve, had not its secularized spirit and morbid dread of innovation denied them range for their enterprising measures. The few dissenting ministers that were to be found at that time were in general formal and dry, and stood much in need of the fire and zeal of such men as Howell Harris, Daniel Rowland, and other kindred spirits. And they caught to a considerable extent the contagion of their holy and kindling enthusiasm. The bold impetuous style of Whitfield's associates was much more agreeable to the temperament of so excitable a people as the Welsh, than the cold lifeless precision which had hitherto marked the pulpit exercises of the early representatives of the present Baptist and Independent ministers of Wales. The indifferent morals of the clergy at that period, and the utter absence, with lamentably few exceptions, of any VOL. X. 20 thing like the gospel from the pulpits of the Establishment, together with the too prevalently cold and, in certain cases, Laodicean temperature of the ministerial exhibitions of even the Nonconformist pulpit, opened a fine field for the energies of these holy, devoted, and impassioned men. And nobly did they respond to the calls of the times. Boldly did they attack every species of iniquity; and by the blessing of heaven upon their efforts they succeeded, in an incredibly short space of time, in turning the Principality "upside down." Various circumstances contributed to give them unexampled power and influence. Their holy life enabled them to speak with authority. Their eloquent and burning discourses were seconded by a life and conversation that spake still more eloquently and influentially. Their self-denial and disinterestedness told mightily in their favor, as the almost extravagant expenditure of their physical strength in journeyings and toils, undertaken solely to promote the interests of others, contrasted impressively with the indolence and self-pleasing of those who had given too many convincing proofs that the fleece was to them an object of far more vital importance than the flock. There were not wanting many other equally striking evidences of their noble contempt of ease and of their generous self-oblivion; whilst the very opposition which they encountered, and the spirit in which it was offered, served only to impart a bolder tone to their denunciations of evil, and a more uncompromising character to their representations of truth. They felt the elevation and confidence attendant on a consciousness of being "endued with power from on high," and they boldly advanced against the fortresses of the foe under the full influence of the persuasion that Providence had called them to accomplish a great work, and that accomplish it they must, or honorably perish in the effort. The sacred enthusiasm which they communicated to others returned to themselves, like the stream to the ocean, and they waxed bold at the sound of their own thunders. On a people like their countrymen, though sunk at the time in ignorance and |