another, and a soul that is said to be essentially immortal? Immortality is not merely future life, -it is an ever continuing life. The article before us is a good one, and will be acceptable to many; but the more we think on the great hope of the Resurrection, the more we see it a matter for logic to let alone, in reference to confirmations outside of Revelation and the soul itself. The empty tomb of Joseph in the Garden, is more to us than the fullness of the Hall of Magnetism with all its mesmeric doctors, subjects and revelations." The Memoirs of William Wordsworth," is a recent work briefly reviewed by Rev. A. D. Mayo, who admires the work—just as much as we do. "To offer us a mere guide book through Wordsworth's seven volumes of poetry, in place of a faithful and full account of a life so rich in all human experiences as his, we feel to be an insult.”—“To drag the Rev. Christopher Wordsworth' from his prayer-book and preaching, to write the life of one of the greatest men of modern times, is all that the worst critical enemy of the poet could ever have desired."-The articles in this No. close with a review of " Mc Cosh on Divine Government," by Rev. T. s. King. It is an ahle paper, doing full justice to the ability of Mr. Mc Cosh and to his main arguments for the worst view of the world, man and God. We have been much interested in this review, and have marked a number of passages which deserve particular notice. The writer says very justly, "A Christian mind should assume that the system of faith which furnishes the most inspiring conception of God, and which rejoices over every new resolution of moral mystery, and every disclosure of merciful purpose in his rule,even though it is seemingly contradicted by some remaining features of his economy, -is most worthy of confidence. Some such act of a priori trust we must exhibit, if we would have any settled theory of religion and life."

"A tribe of merely syllogistic intellects would never be able to adore an absolute First Cause. And just as the soul drops the measuring-line and hand-lamp of logic, when its surveying processes are finished, and on the pointing of its instincts, leaps from its finite creation to the idea of an Infinite and absolute Mind; so from the preponderance of good in the ordering of the scene and laws of the world, and from the witness of its own aspirations and desires for communion with a Perfect Holiness and Love, it springs to the conception of such perfectness, brings it as his contribution to natural religion, and cleaves to it, by a right superior to the cold methods of science, as the hypothesis of the heart. Here is the great

value of the teachings of Jesus, that they not only give a conception of God, which we cannot reach from the partially discordant facts of nature, but that, by their refining influence, they quicken the spiritual sensibilities that prophesy, independently of nature, a Perfect Goodness as the substratum of nature, and fix the idea of such a being in the soul as a conception to shed light upon the world, and give higher significance to its cheering facts. It is in vain, therefore, that the Calvinist, when he walks through the realm of nature, presses upon our notice the appearances that do not harmonize with our conception of the perfect paternity of God. We reply that we do not derive our ideas of Deity from the physical creation merely, but from nature and our own spirits; that the dispute between conflicting schools in natural religion must always be as to rival hypotheses, and their relative claim to the confidence of mind and heart; and that we will cheerfully leave to the verdict of an advancing science, and an improving moral life, our theory, which lays aside the darker aspects of nature and life, as unresolved phenomena, which may, some day, appear as necessary proportions of the vast order devised by infinite Love, against that which clings to these anomalies as indispensable defences of its principles, and as final proof of some sternness and vindictive quality in the character of God."

The notices of books are discriminating, and may be relied on by those who look to such notices for aid in deciding what new books they shall purchase.

We see that as the October issue of the Quarterly completes a volume, a new volume is announced the first No. to appear in January. We should be glad to aid in any way the enlarging of the list of subscribers.

LONDON LABOR AND LONDON POOR. By Henry Mayhew. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1851. On sale at the store of B. B. Mussey & Co., Cornhill, Boston.

Three Nos. of the second volume of this excellent work have been published, opening with an introduction in which the writer sets forth the import of the facts given in his first volume, and says some wise things concerning Labor and the necessary attraction which can come only from something like a fair remuneration. He describes the Street Sellers of Second Hand articles, giving us quite a variety of views of the lines of traders in the lanes and streets, parading almost every kind of useful articles for the eye of buyer,then dog-sellers, bird-sellers, and birds-nests sellers, and sellers of squirrels, rabbits, and other

creatures,-dealers in minerals, coal, sand,shells, &c., &c. These accounts are illumined by Pictures, and by conversations with persons who open the interior life of this street labor. These conversations furnish some of the strangest passages in the history of man. The third No. of the second volume ends with introducing the Jew to our notice, and when we have the complete view of this character we shall see a picture to be remembered, the like of which literature has not given.

THE YOUNG CHRISTIAN. By Jacob Abbott. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1851. This is a greatly enlarged edition of the well known work of Mr. Abbott, with thirty pictorial illustrations. The Young Christian is written in great clearness of style, with a quiet earnestness, and effectually presents the author's ideas as to the things which make up the complete Christian. He gives many excellent thoughts on the most important of all subjects, and though he vindicates the idea of endless punishment as a Bible truth, we should pity the Universalist who could not read his work to profit. Would to God that Universalists had some books of like practical and spiritual character which they could call their own. Are we never to begin?" The Young

Christian" as issued in this improved edition, is a very handsome book.-On sale at B. B. Mussey & Co.'s, Boston.

ARVINE'S CYCLOPÆDIA OF ANECDOTES. Boston Gould & Lincoln.

The second number of this very interesting work, is published, and judging from what we have read, we regard the work as promising to give a better collection of anecdotal matter than has yet been published. The anecdotes concern Literature and the Fine Arts, and introduce us to writers and actors and artists of all ages and countries. The numbers are published at twenty-five cents each-over eighty pages in each No.

NEW MUSIC at Oliver Ditson's, 118 Washington Street, Boston.

We have received the following new pieces of

Sheet Music Two of the Sonatas of Beethoven, connected with the series now publishing, which will give a complete edition of this great master's sonatas from the latest German editions. - Qui la Voce, from the Opera Il Puritani, as sung by Jenny Lind, with the English words, "It was here in accents sweetest, &c."-Bertha Walzer, by Charles Voss.-The Hour of Parting: a Duett words by Elizabeth Ann White; music arranged by Signor Bellini.-The Bold Soger Boya Quick Step, by T. Bissell; and the beautiful ballad sung by Mr. Braham, In this old Chair my father sat.”

All Mr. Ditson's music is elegantly printed, and whatever is wanted in the line of good music can be found at his establishment.

GOOD WORDS FOR THE LADIES' REPOSITORY.

A friend in New York city, writing to us to visit some schools in which she is interested, says "I might add that I take an increased pleasure in reading the Repository of which I have been a subscriber for the last four years. It comes like a loved friend every month, and should I be compelled to part with earthly goods, my Bible and Repository would be the last that I should cling to; yes, these two are my treasures. May you ever prosper, is the wish of a believer in God's love to all mankind."

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"The Ladies' Repository: For the Home."
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The place of fervent prayer.

'Tis there we train the fairest flowers
Their fragrant sweets to shed,
And there, within the dearest bowers,
Loves, hand in hand, are led.

Our holiest offerings there are laid,
To deck the dear loved home,
And there our heart's affections stayed,
Without desire to roam.

Our Home is crowned with diadems,
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