of the drift of philosophic thought since ford, is one of the ablest preachers of the an eminent Swiss theologian, which is widely cir. Democritus. day. His sermons are far from commonplace, culating in this country. The twenty-eight "studies" which compose the volume are in the form of short sermons on New Testament texts, originally prepared for one of the religious papers as comments on the Sunday school lesson. They furnish good reading for the devotional hour. The Blessed Company of all Faithful People. By Harriet McEwen Kimball. [A. D. F. Randolph & Co. 50 cents.] This booklet of sixtyseven pages contains twenty-four religious poems, truly devout and truly poetical, which is more than can be said of much that bears the name. ations and inaccuracies. There is a sweetness They are keyed to church themes and seasons, but have no theological or ecclesiastical exaggerabout many of them like that of Miss Waring's writings. The little volume is prettily and inexpensively published, and would be very suitable for an Easter gift. Mr. Charles Dickens, the son of his father, has supplemented his ingenious and useful Dictionary of London with an equally ingenious and usefamous stream from Oxford to the Nore with ful Dictionary of the Thames, following that great minuteness of description, and with all that freshness and novelty of method which entitles the work to call itself "an unconventional handbook." There are maps, and the little book altogether is one which no tourist in England can well afford to be without. [Macmillan & Co. 50 cents.] Contemporary Portraits. By E. de Pressensé, D. D. [A. D. F. Randolph & Co. $2.00.] While Protestantism seems to be dying away in Northern Germany, where the great majority of the people sympathize with its teachings, it continues to fight bravely, and with good results, in France, where its adherents are an insignificant minority. The present volume of the Rev. Mr. Pressensé, himself a leading Protestant, is of interest chiefly for the information it gives about the present condition of French Protestantism. In the long chapter on Adolphe Monod, the author describes the career and opinions of the most eminent of recent French clergymen; who was born in 1802, the son of the French pastor in Copenhagen by a Danish Roberts Brothers have brought out a new mother, and who studied theology at Geneva. (tenth) edition of Alger's History of the DocAnother long chapter in Mr. de Pressensé's trine of a Future Life, a work which has bevolume is given to Alexandre Vinet, a cler-gun to have a history of its own, as it degyman who, on account of his literary writ- serves. The work was first published some ings, is not unknown to the general public. twenty years ago, though not without diffiAs illustrating the character of French Pro-culty; but once published it has taken a testantism, his career is almost as worthy of place among the standard authorities which study as is Monod's, and this part of Mr. de no scholar, especially of religious truth, can Pressense's book is, in our opinion, much do without. Its bibliography, by Dr. Ezra the more important. While the author Abbot, is one of the great performances in always writes correctly and clearly, there is its peculiar line. Here are given the titles, an absence of life in his pages which de- often annotated, of about 5,000 books relatprives them of much literary value, and ing to the nature, origin, and destiny of the when he gets off what is specially his soul. To the original treatise the author ground, he seems to us, as in the chapter on has added six new chapters which discuss the "Culturkampf," superficial and unfair. the subject in its most recent aspects. The For general interest, the article on "Strauss work is one, we doubt not, which has been and Voltaire" is the best the volume con- doing, and will continue to do, a silent but powerful service in modifying current opinions, and reducing much that is crude and The Pastor. By Rt. Rev. G. T. Bedell. exaggerated to a rational standard. [$3.50.] [J. B. Lippincott & Co., $2.00.] This is by far the best work on pastoral theology for A book to delight a boy's heart is The Men of been gathered into the volume entitled Bye ministers of the Episcopal Church, and in the Backwoods, a thick 12mo of nearly five hunimportant respects the best for ministers of dred pages, wherein Mr. Ascott R. Hope, an Eng-Words. As a rule they are illustrative of provany church, with which we are acquainted. lish writer of just reputation in his field, has erbs and adages; some of them have an historiMuch that is formal and technical in it limits woven into a spirited narrative a mass of facts, its use, of course, to members of the partic-legends, and romances gathered from the field of ular communion to which its respected American history at about the time of the Revoauthor belongs; but its large wisdom, its lution. He hovers on the outskirts of that conpractical tone, and the fervent piety which flict, however, rather than enters into it, taking vitalizes its pages adapt it to the wants of all who have the care of human souls. Bishop Bedell is known as a "Low Churchman," and his lowness and lowliness appear in his treatise in many ways. His spirit is uniformly admirable, and his views on preaching, on the pastoral care, and on all the details of the minister's life and service, are rendered weighty by the experiences of a long and highly honored career. No minister of any denomination can read this work without being instructed and stimulated in a marked degree. tains. Sermons Parochial and Occasional, by J. B. Mozley, D.D. [E. P. Dutton & Co. $1.75.] Dr. Mozley, who is Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Ox his readers off into the edge of what was then the great West, along the line of the Alleghanies, Volume II of The Bible Commentary is out, carrying this useful work into and through the fourth Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles. A learned introduction to the first book is furnished by Canon Westcott, who also supplies the commentary and critical notes. The similar service for the second part is rendered by Canon Cook. It is a compact and useful work. 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In Cambridge, March 15, Louisa Wentworth, infant daughter of Thomas Wentworth and Mary Thacher Higginson. of February, Edward Chapman, of the firm of Chapman Chapman. At Hitchin, England, announced the last NEWS AND NOTES. - Mr. J. W. Bouton, 706 Broadway, New York, is the American agent for Bigmore and Wyman's Bibliography of Printing, published by Quaritch, London; a beautiful piece of work, of which only 250 copies have been printed, with illustrations, at £2 12s. 6d. -Two translations of Gautier's Capitaine Fracasse are on their way to the American public, one through the Putnams, the other through Henry Holt & Co. They are by different translators, and we shall pretty soon have an opportunity of seeing which is the best. - A little His volumes are entertainingly written, and are match their set of Buckle's Works. – W. H. Lawrence, bookseller and newsdealer, of Milwaukee, Wis., has removed his business to Denver, Col. 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It is illustrated with full- They are not primarily designed for text-books, -New books of note in Paris are La Question page engravings of characteristic scenes, and fills but for the general reader. The same company du Divorce, by Alexandre Dumas, a handsome an octavo of 386 pages. The translation is by also announces a new and lengthy novel, Thump's volume of 400 pages, and a vigorous and elegant Mrs. Cashel Hoey. - The Old Régime, by the Client, by Charles D. Knight, whose scene is discussion of one of the burning questions of the author of Old Paris, is in two handsome vol- largely laid in London. The writer is evidently day in France, as well as in other parts of the umes that attract by their rich and novel covers an admirer of Dickens. They have also in world; A Côté du Bonheur, an anonymous story (blue, brocaded with white, and ornamented with preparation a strongly orthodox work, The Ages which introduces some exciting phases of the the gilt fleur de lis), and quite confirm the pleas To Come, by Rev. Dr. Adkins, who discusses at Franco-German war; Pendant la Pluie, by Alant impression given by their appearance. They length the future state, judgment, and the resurphonse Karr, a series of twenty-nine articles on a are illustrated with portraits reproduced by the rection. variety of current topics; Le Chateau des Epines, Woodbury-type process, which gives the effect of by Louis Uhlbach, a collection of essays on a fine photograph, and is said to be permanent. social topics; Croquis, a collection of short The frontispieces, reproducing a portrait of stories by Henry Greville; and Notes d'un Louis XV, by Vanloo, and one of Marie Antoi"Globe Trotter," by M. E. D'Audriffet, an amus-nette, are especially charming. The work ing account of "a trot" from Paris to Tokio and dresses history in attractive guise, and is largely back. -Macmillan & Co. have a number of fresh based upon French works of which no English -Charles Scribner's Sons announce two books importations. Hints to Housewives, by Mrs. for April: one, a volume of travel, by Mrs. different styles, Gothic, Greek, classical, or - literature, which is to be a feature of the year, - D. Appleton & Co. are putting into type The Life and Writings of Henry Thomas Buckle, by Alfred Henry Huth, of which we give an extract elsewhere; a single-volume edition, to -Great interest has always been felt in this country, among readers of devotional tastes, in the late Frances Ridley Havergal. All personal details of herself she kept from the public as far as possible while she lived; but now that she is gone, her sister is to edit a memoir of her, which A. D. F. Randolph & Co., of New York, will publish next month. 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