understand and apply them; and thus to render this interesting and useful science more attractive to the young." Many of those divisions of the science, which belong to the higher department of Algebra, are here omitted: the whole is reduced within a suitable compass for academic and common school instruction, and the principles so clearly stated and illustrated, that we cannot but think it well adapted to the end for which it has been prepared.

11.-Brande's Encyclopædia of Science, Literature and Art. Alison's History of Europe. New-York: Harper & Brothers.

The former of these valuable works is now complete in 12 parts, and will make two large 8vo. volumes, containing a mass of important matter in a compendious form, and suitable as a book of reference on the different branches of human knowledge.

The latter will soon be completed in 16 numbers, and make four 8vo. vols., thus offering to the public one of the most interesting and valuable histories ever prepared. We doubt not the publishers will be abundantly compensated for their laudable enterprise.

12.-Jessy Allan, the Lame Girl: a Story, founded on facts. By Grace Kennedy, Author of "The Decision," "Father Clement," etc. From the ninth Edinburgh Edition. New-York: Robert Carter. Pittsburg: Thomas Carter. 1843. pp. 107. 18mo.

The Authoress of "Decision," and of "Father Clement," is capable of writing an interesting and useful book and although "Jessy Allan" is not equal to either of the others, it is yet admirably well written, and ought to find a place, at least, in every Sunday School Library. It is a tale of sorrow, and yet of joy. It tells the story of a poor girl, cursed with wicked parents, who yet, by the grace of God, was brought an humbled child to the feet of Jesus. She was lamed by a wound from a lump of stone coal, and after many days and nights of suffering, was obliged, at last, to submit to the amputation of one of her legs. Under the operation, she exhibited Christian patience and submission: and although she recovered and lived in health for many months, she afterwards was attacked with disease, which brought her to the grave. Through all her sufferings, she confided in Jesus, was calm and composed, and finally departed in peace to be with Christ.

13. The Saints' Everlasting Rest. By the Rev. Richard Baxter. Abridged by Benjamin Fawcett, A. M. New-York: Robert Carter. Pittsburg: Thomas Carter. 1843. pp. 540.

12mo.

Of Baxter's 'Saints' Everlasting Rest' it were almost a work of supererogation to say any thing to commend it. It is every where known and admired, and he must be an ignorant man indeed who has never heard of it. Such a legacy has seldom been left as the Saints' Rest. How many has it directed to a better portion than they were seeking on earth! How many has it comforted in the hour of affliction! How often has it opened the gates of the upper temple to the Christian, and led him to pant after its pure and sublime worship! One thing we must notice in respect to the execution of the work. It is printed on large, clear type, so as to be suited to the failing vision of the aged, who must soon expect to cross over Jordan

14.-The Cottage Fireside; or the Parish Schoolmaster. By Henry Duncan, D. D. Ruthwell. Author of the Sacred Philosophy of the Seasons, etc. etc. From the fifth Edinburgh edition. New-York: Robert Carter. Pittsburg: Thomas Carter. 1843. pp. 251. 12mo.

"The chief object of THE COTTAGE FIRESIDE is to point out and remedy the common abuses which take place in the education of children, particularly among the Scottish peasantry" -"to convey, in an agreeable form, instruction to parents in the art of education, an impressive lesson to children in the duty of obedience and the happiness of good conduct, and to all, a striking illustration of the importance of regulating the heart and affections."

We think the author has accomplished his purpose, and in the happiest manner. Seldom have we read a book with deeper interest. It is full of touching incidents, narrated with so much simplicity and naturalness, that they tenderly affect the heart, and at the same time inculcate the most important lessons on the subject of education. "A family Picture," in the first chapter, is a graphic representation of scenes which too often occur, from the mistaken tenderness or thoughtless severity of parents, in the management of children. The drowning on the Sabbath, in the third chapter, will bring tears to many eyes; and the angry mother and the murder, in the fourth, will awaken deep emotion and fixed attention.

15.-Lectures on the Epistle of Paul, the Apostle, to the Romans. By Thomas Chalmers, D. D., LL. D. Second Edition. New-York: Robert Carter. Pittsburg: Thomas Carter. 1843. pp. 521. 8vo.

Mr. Carter has completed his reprint of Chalmers's Lectures in numbers, and now offers them to readers in one large volume. We have so recently noticed the work in another form, and the author is so popular, that further remark is unnecessary. Many will differ with the Doctor on some points. Among others, where he concedes that baptism is primarily immersion, and that this was the prevalent mode in apostolic times. Yet, even granting this, we cannot see that immersion is obligatory, as a necessary mode of baptism.

16.-An Ecclesiastical Catechism of the Presbyterian Church, for the use of Families, Bible Classes, and Private Members. By Thomas Smyth. New York, Leavitt & Trow, 1843, pp. 124, 18mo.

This little work has been formerly noticed in the Repository, and we need only add, that the demand for a third edition is evidence of the favor of the public, and their appreciation of Mr. Smyth's labors. The catechism is simple and lucid in style, adapted to the end in view, and likely to be extensively and usefully studied.

17.-Antioch: or Increase of Moral Power in the Church of Christ. By Rev. Pharcellus Church. With an Introductory Essay, by Rev. Baron Stow. Boston: Gould, Kendall & Lincoln. Rochester: Sage & Brother. 1843. pp. 258.

There are, in this book, some admirable lessons, which we should be gratified to see deeply impressed on the minds of our Baptist brethren, as well as on our own: e. g. tenacity of misproved dogmas—sectarianism not moral power, etc.

18.-An Inquiry concerning the Lawfulness of Marriage between parties previously related by Consanguinity or Affinity. Also a Short History of Opinions in different Ages and Countries, and of the action of Ecclesiastical Bodies on that subject, by Rev. William Marshall. New-York: Mark H. Newman. 1843. pp. 212.

We can only say that Mr. Marshall has gone extensively into the subject, and reasoned well.

19.-Bickersteth's Treatise on the Lord's Supper: adapted to the Services of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States. With an Introduction, Notes and an Essay, by G. T. Bedell, D. D. Fifth Edition. New York: Robert Carter. Pittsburg: Thomas Carter.

This work has already passed through so many editions, and met with so much favor from those for whom it is intended, as to need no commendation from us. The author is known to be an evangelical clergyman in the Episcopal church; and although some of the instructions in this volume are especially adapted to members of his own denomination, the most of them are equally suited to all of every name, who call on the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity and truth, and love his ordinances. 20-Second Causes; or Up and Be Doing. By Charlotte Elizabeth. New-York: M. W. Dodd. 1843. pp. 230. 18mo.

This is one of Charlotte Elizabeth's best books. It is written in a forcible style, abounds in scriptural language and illustration, and is evidently adapted to stir up the deep emotions, and give vision to the faith, of the Christian. She would nrge God's people to look away from second causes to the Great First Cause, to rely with confidence on his promises of aid, and to go forth, in his strengsh, to urge the warfare with the powers of darkness. These powers, she thinks, are now mustering themselves for the great battle; a crisis is at hand, yea even now is, which will demand of the followers of Christ an apostolical and a martyr's spirit. She sees Popery advancing, with rapid stride, to the height of temporal and spiritual power in England itself, and fears the day is not far distant, when the "Man of Sin" shall have wended his way into the affections of those in the high places of power. Read and admire.

21.-Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil, M. A. To which is prefixed a View of his Character. By Josiah Pratt, B.D. F. A. S. From the Eleventh London Edition. New-York: R. Carter. Pittsburg: Thomas Carter. 1843. pp. 283. 12mo. Cecil's 'Remains' will be welcomed by many to a place among the books which they love to peruse. Cecil was a striking subject of divine grace, led back from the dark waters of sin to the pure fountain of holiness, through the instru mentality of a pious mother's prayers and admonitions; and he has left behind him in his 'Remains' and 'Sermons' abundant evidence of the loveliness of his spirit, and the strength of his faith.

ARTICLE XII.

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

Russia.

To the University of Dorpat, the Emperor has assigned an annual contribution of 23,370 silver rubles, for the purpose of multiplying the professors and the means of instruction,-three new professors in the medical faculty, one in the judicial, and fourteen in the philosophical, making in the last twenty-eight.-Under the title Historica Russia monumenta ex exterarum gentium archivis atque bibliothecis depromta ab A. C. Turgenevio, there has been published, in Petersburgh, a collection of documents, illustrating the early history of Russia, down to 1580. They are principally excerpts from the archives of the Vatican, and accounts of the Venetian ambassadors.

Germany.

Rauch, the Sculptor, has finished his model for the equestrian statue of Frederick the Great. It is to be cast in bronze, and erected in Berlin.-In Kiel, there has been formed, a society for aiding oppressed Protestants, resident in countries where an opposite faith prevails. It has now ninety-nine members, and has collected a considerable sum of money.-Number of students at Breslau, in the wintersemester, 676; of Professors, 40 ordinary, 10 extraordinary, 26 private docents, 4 lecturers, and 7 other teachers:-at Giessen, 445 students; Göttingen, 691; Heidelberg, 633; Jena, 423; Leipzig, 867 ; Marburg, 271-a great reduction; Tübingen, 847; Wurzburg, 512Hupfeld, of Marburg, is successor of Gesenius, at Halle. Bekkar has published a new edition of the Iliad and Odyssey; Böckh, a metrical translation of the Antigone of Sophocles; Hengstenberg, the 2d vol. of his Com. on the Psalms; Tholuck, one on the Psalms also; Hävernick, on Ezekiel; Dr. M. Baumgarten, a private docent in the University of Kiel, has published a portion of the first part of a theological commentary on the Old Testament. The whole work is to be embraced in four parts; 1, A general introduction and the Pentateuch; 2, Historical Books; 3, Poetic and Didactic Books; 4, Prophets. It is intended to be in respect to the Old Testament, what Olshausen's is for the New, and its completion is looked for with interest.-The state of ecclesiastical matters is yet unsettled in Prussia. Whether Presbytery or Episcopacy will prevail, is uncertain. The tendency is rather towards the latter, and that High Churchism, of course. Tholuck commends the translation of Gladstone's work with a preface.-Julius Müller, of Halle, is increasingly popular. Doubtful whether Hävernick will succeed at Königsberg, and will probably go to Berlin. Uhland is in Leipsic, preparing an important historical work.