A Spiritual Treasury for the Children of God; consisting of a Meditation for each Day in the Year, upon select Texts of Scripture. By William Mason. Selected from his Morning and Evening Meditations. Published by the American Tract Society. pp. 528.

These Meditations were written towards the close of the last century, with "the chief aim to exalt the Lord Jesus, the perfection of his atonement and righteousness, and the glory of his salvation." They are pervaded by an excellent spirit, and have been found exceedingly useful. The selections have been revised by the Tract Society, and published with some changes in obsolete or other defective forms of expression.

Practical Piety; or the Religion of the Heart on the Conduct of the Life. By Hannah More. Published by the American Tract Society. pp. 412.

The date appended to the Preface of this volume is March, 1841. Few books have been more popular or more useful. We have no doubt that the estimable writer is destined to exert a lasting influence upon the Christian world.

The Persecuted Family; a Narrative of the Sufferings of the Covenanters in the Reign of Charles II. "By Robert Pollok, A. M., Author of the Course of Time, etc. NewYork: Robert Carter. 1841. pp. 115.

Helen of the Glen; a Tale of the Scotch Covenanters. By Robert Pollok, Author of the Course of Time, etc. NewYork: Robert Carter. 1841. pp. 113.

"The Persecuted Family" is a thrilling story of those times of cruelty and blood, which have loaded the memory of Charles II. and his minions with eternal disgrace. "Helen of the Glen" belongs to the same dark period; the tale itself however is less replete with the sufferings and the wrongs of the covenanters. Both are real incidents presented in the attractive style of the author.

A Discourse on the Moral Influence of Rail-Roads. By L. F. Dimmick, Pastor of the North Church, Newburyport, Mass. Newburyport: Charles Whipple. 1841. pp. 125.

The first half of this little volume is devoted to "the Perpetuity of the Sabbath." The author next considers "the ways

in which the Sabbath is violated; this leads him to speak of Sabbath trains on rail-roads. Many weighty suggestions are made in connection with this last topic. We should like to see a copy of the book in the hands of every stockholder in Sabbath-breaking rail-road companies.

ARTICLE XI.

RECENT LITERARY INTELLIGence.

Great Britain.

AMONG recent publications we notice Bellamy's New Translation of the Bible, Part VIII.-Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Canticles; Essays on the Christian Ministry, selected from the American Biblical Repository and other American Publications, with a Preface by Dr. Murch, Pres. of Stepney College; D'Aubigné's History of the Reformation in the 16th Century, translated D. D. Scott, Part I.; Ranke's History of the Popes, translated by Mrs. Austin, 2d edition; Keith's Evidence of the Truth of the Christian Religion, 24th edition; The Biblical Cabinet, Vol. XXXII.-Rosenmüller and others on the Messianic Psalms; Dr. Prichard's Researches into the Physical History of Mankind, Vol. III,-containing the History and Ethnography of the Nations of Europe and Asia, to be completed in two volumes.

France.

Dr. Hodge's Commentary on Romans,-translated into French by Rev. Horace Monod of Marseilles, and accompanied by a Preface from the pen of Rev. Adolphus Monod, Professor in the Theological Seminary at Montauban,-is received with general favor by evangelical Christians. A very flattering notice of the work has been published in the Archives du Christianisme; the writer, however, differs from the interpretation of Rom. V., denying the doctrine of imputation as set forth by Dr. Hodge, and affirming its opposition to the sentiments of the early Reformers, of Calvin in particular.Stephens' Incidents of Travel in Central America, etc., has been translated into French.-A poem, entitled: De Tristibus Franciæ, by an unknown author of the 16th century, has recently appeared. The subject is the civil wars by which France was desolated under the three sons of Catharine de

Medicis. Among the recent announcements are Panorama d'Egypte et de Nubie; Renovation philosophique ou Exposé des vrais principes de la philosophie, by Girard de Candemberg; L'Espagne artistique et monumentale, Vol. I., a new publication by a Spanish Society of artists, intended to make known the monumental treasures of that country.

Germany.

In a recent letter to Dr. Robinson, Gesenius expresses his intention to complete his Thesaurus in 1842; he is also preparing a new edition of his Commentary on Isaiah.-A fifth edition of De Wette's Introduction to the Old Test. has appeared at Berlin, much improved and enlarged. We are informed that a font of movable hieroglyphic types has been cast at Leipsic; above 3000 of the characters are already completed. Vol. V. of Neander's History of the Christian Religion and Church is published, extending from Gregory VII. to Boniface VIII.-Dr. J. Chr. Wm. Augusti died April 28th; he had been Prof. of Theology at Jena, Breslau and Bonn successively, and author of an Introduction to the Old Test., Manual of Christian Archeology, and particularly of the Memorabilia from Christian Archeology. Stephens' Încidents of Travel in Central America, etc., has been translated into German.

Etaly.

The Chevalier Visconti has been appointed Professor of Archeology in the French Academy at Rome, in the place of the late Prof. Nibby. From a recent account of the University of Padua, we learn that nearly all the professorships in the four faculties of Theology, Law, Medicine and Philosophy are filled. Dr. Valbusa is Prof. of Hebrew, the Exegesis of the Old Test., etc.; Dr. Agostini of Greek and the Exegesis of the New Test.; Dr. Fannio of Dogmatic Theology; Dr. Piotto of Ecclesiastical History. Intellectual and moral philosophy appears to receive but little attention.

United States.

Wiley & Putnam have Part I. of a Complete Hebrew Concordance, edited by Dr. Nordheimer and Wm. W. Turner, now in press. It is based on the Concordance of Fürst; the etymology and definitions of all the words will be given in English. The work will be published in 10 parts, and contain about 1200 pages, at $1 a part.

INDEX TO VOLUME VI.