liant pictures, the same clearly distinguishable chain of essays on separate topics, and the same intensity of convictions and directness of aim. Lord Macaulay is beyond question the most brilliant and readable, we cannot say the most philosophical or trustworthy, of English historians. The volume has been edited by the historian's sister, Lady Trevelyan, who has printed the manuscript just as the noble author left it, wisely concluding that "the public would prefer his last thoughts should be preserved sacred from any touch but his own." The five concluding pages, containing an account of the last days of William the Third, form a fitting close to his labors. One can hardly help thinking that some of its sentences as he penned them, must have seemed like a foreshadowing of his own approaching end.

This volume is uniform with the others of the duodecimo edition, and, considering the quality of its paper, its printing and binding, is one of the cheapest of books, being sold at forty cents a volume. The present volume contains a complete index to the entire work.

THE REBELLION RECORD.*-A trustworthy and chronological record of events originating in our present great National struggle will have a permanent value. It will be invaluable to the future historian; it furnishes to the contemporary reader what can no where else be found

a thesaurus of undoubted facts and documents. The confused and confusing statements of the newspapers are all carefully sifted, and whatever is found to be true and worth preserving, is here arranged in chronological order a complete diary of the great events now transpiring in our country.

It is issued in weekly numbers at ten cents, or in monthly parts at fifty cents. The monthly edition besides being provided with maps, is illustrated with fine portraits, on steel, of distinguished persons. Part I is graced with an admirable likeness of Gen. Scott, and Part II has likenesses of Fremont and Jefferson Davis. Future numbers will contain those of distinguished officers in the United States army. When numbers sufficient for a volume have been issued, there will be furnished separately a "preliminary outline of causes" of the war, and a concluding number with a title page, contents and index of the volume. Two monthly parts have already been issued.

* The Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, 1860–61. Edited by FRANK MOORE, author of “Diary of the American Revolution." In three divisions, viz: I— Diary of Verified Occurrences. Il-Documents, Narratives, etc. III--Poetry, Anecdotes and Incidents. Part I and II. New York: G. P. Putnam, 532 Broadway.

MISCELLANEOUS.

IRVING'S WORKS.*-Three more volumes of the matchless "National Edition" of Irving have appeared since the publication of our last number. They are the Alhambra, the fifth and last volume of the Life of Washington, and the Crayon Miscellany. The entire appointments of this edition are such as give it a rare completeness. Nor have the public been wanting in their appreciation of its merits. A single bookseller in this city of Rochester sells of it one hundred copies a month. Nothing in our literature can make good the place of Irving in a household collection of books,

WILLSON'S SCHOOL READER.t-Nothing perhaps more clearly exhibits the progress of our ideas and method of popular education than the improvement in our school readers. The time is forever past by, we hope, when our boys and girls are to be doomed to the reading of unintelligible extracts from elaborate speeches, or of fragments of essays from the "Spectator" and the “Rambler.” New school books, we know, are often the product of the meanest and most mercenary of motives. Parents of limited means and more limited knowledge, are often made the victims of a "new book" speculation, to which teachers are sometimes parties, and against which statute law ought to protect the unwary. Whatever may have been Mr. Willson's motive in the preparation of his Readers, he must be admitted to have rendered a real and important service. By a series of five readers, fitted to the successive ages of pupils, he has set before them subjects and styles of writing fitted to engage their attention, instruct their mind, and thus accomplish the real work of education. Science, history and literature are all made to contribute. We recommend Willson's Readers alike for the school-room and the family.

Other notices, and a large amount of Literary and Foreign Intelligence, are necessarily omitted for want of space,

* The Alhambra. Author's revised edition, with illustrations. New York: G. P. Putnam, 532 Broadway. 1861.

Life of George Washington. Vol. V. New York; G. P. Putnam. 1861. The Crayon Miscellany. Author's revised edition, Complete in one volume, New York: G, P. Puinam. For sale in Rochester at Dewey's. School and Family Series.

+ The Fifth Reader of the

By MARCUS WILLSON,

author of Primary History, History of the United States, American History, etc., etc. Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, New York, 1861.

THE

CHRISTIAN REVIEW.

No. CVI.-OCTOBER, 1861.

ARTICLE I.-MÜLLER'S LIFE OF TRUST,

The Life of Trust: being a Narrative of the Lord's Dealings with Geo. Müller, written by himself. Edited and condensed by Rev. H. Lincoln Wayland, Pastor of the Third Baptist Church, Worcester, Mass., with an Introduction by Francis Wayland. Boston: Gould & Lincoln, 1861. pp. 490.

This book has very distinct claims upon our notice as Christian reviewers. The facts which it records are so remarkable, that the character and work of Mr. Müller have come to be popularly known under the title of "The Bristol Wonder." These facts have a direct and vital bearing upon the Christian life, in its most distinctive and practical aspect, as a life of faith. They are recorded and published with the avowed design of correcting a supposed defect in our prevalent Cristianity. The aim of Mr. Müller is nothing less than to effect a complete revolution in our practical theology, and in our daily life. The book comes before the Christian public with a high and influential endorsement. It is recommended to favor by the emphatic and unqualified commendation of one whose name is not only distinguished within our own communion, but deservedly ranks among the most honored in our Ameri can Zion. The book has had, as might naturally be expected, Vol. xxvii-34.

an extensive sale; and is no doubt exerting a wide influence in the Christian community. These, in brief, are some of its chief claims to an extended notice in our pages.*

A brief abstract of Mr. Müller's life and labors will prepare us for a careful examination of the theory which his book is mainly designed to recommend.

George Müller was born at Kroppenstaedt, in Prussia, Sept. 27, 1805. His father, though not a religious man, wished to educate George for the church, and accordingly sent him to a school in Halberstadt, to be prepared for the University. Here he remained from his eleventh till his sixteenth year, making little progress in study, and indulging freely in the youthful vices which were common among his fellows. In his fifteenth year he was confirmed and admitted to the communion. He went through this ceremony, to use his own expression, "without prayer, without true repentance, without faith, without knowledge of the plan of salvation." For several years after this he went on much in the same way, a negligent scholar, a deceitful and wasteful son, and a dishonorable repudiator of dishonorable debts; but all the time a partaker of the communion at the customary semi-annual seasons. In his twentieth year he became a member of the University of Halle; and, as a student of divinity, he was now authorized to preach. He began now to bethink himself more seriously of reforming his vicious life; for he feared if he was not more studious he would never get appointed to a good living, and if he was not more virtuous he would never find a parish willing to receive him as their pastor. These better thoughts, however, did not have sufficient influence over him to prevent him from making a journey of six weeks in Switzerland with forged passports, in company with three other students, while his father thought he was busy with his books at Halle. But this journey was not very expensive to him; for having the good fortune to be chosen paymaster for the party, he managed his stewardship so adroitly that his own outlay was only

* A brief notice of The Life of Trust appeared in the April number of this Review, in the record of recent publications.

about two-thirds as much as that of each of his companions. In some countries such financial talents secure high places in the public service.

Mr. Müller thus describes his religious condition when he was a little past twenty years of age: "I had no Bible (he owned three or four hundred volumes at this time), and had not read in one for years. I went to church but seldom. I had never heard the gospel preached. I had never met with a person who told me that he meant, by the help of God, to live according to the Holy Scriptures. In short, I had not the least idea that there were any persons really different from myself, except in degree." Such was his spiritual state, when, in November, 1825, he was told by a fellow student of a Saturday evening meeting at the house of a Christian, where the services consisted of reading the Bible, singing, praying, and reading a printed sermon. He at once felt a strong desire to go. He went, and was greatly interested and delighted. "I was happy," he says, "though, if I had been asked why I was happy, I could not have clearly explained it.

I have not the least doubt that on that evening the Lord began a work of grace in me, though I obtained joy without any deep sorrow of heart, and with scarcely any knowledge. But that evening was the turning-point in my life." In the course of the following week, he went three or four times to read the Scriptures and pray with this newly found Christian friend, for he could not wait till Saturday came again.

He now abandoned his wicked companions, forsook the tavern, no longer indulged in habitual lying, read the Scriptures, prayed, went to church, and stood on the side of Christ, though laughed at by his fellow students. About two months. after this he was able, as he says, for the first time in his life, to give up himself to God fully and unreservedly; and he now began to enjoy the peace of God which passeth all understanding. About the same period Dr. Tholuck came to Halle as Professor of Divinity, and this brought thither a few Christian students from other Universities, whose society was very helpful to Mr Müller.

In March, 1829, nearly a year after he had completed his