The Sunshine of the Soul. By the Author of Thoughts on the Church Catechism. London: J. & C. Mozley; Masters and Son. 1864. A good little tract, but sorely afflicted with the vice of italics.

The Duty of Fathers concerning the Education of their Children; a Short, Plain Sermon addressed to the Working Classes. By the Rev. T. L. Claughton, M.A., Vicar of Kidderminster, and Honorary Canon of Worcester. Oxford and London: J. H. and J. Parker. 1864. A plainspoken and effective discourse on a subject of urgent and most practical interest.

Christian Work; a Magazine of Religious and Missionary Information. Part VII. London: Published at Good Words Office. 1864. -A periodical of the same stamp, and apparently the same proprietors and staff, as Good Words. When will "Christians" of the denominations to whom such works as these are addressed learn that a mere rabid, blind hostility to Rome is not the first article of the Christian creed? When, too, will they learn the inexpediency of acting on the maxim, for her supposed adhesion to which they so vehemently attack the Romish Church, that "the end justifies the means"? Here, for instance, is a magazine, "of religious and missionary information," thinking it a "Christian work" to lay before their educated-or, which is worse, their half-educated-readers, a verbatim report of the proceedings of a "secret meeting" of the governing body of the Order of Jesuits. Not, be it observed, by any means as a fancy sketch of what the writer or editor would suppose that such a meeting might be; but as an actual occurrence, with reports, balance-sheets, resolutions, all as complete and matter-of-fact as a report of a railway meeting in the Times! Is it wonderful that men long misled by such artifices as these learn, when once their eyes are open, to discredit the whole edifice they sustain? We believe that Roman error has no more effective support than in these exaggerated and indiscriminate—if not, indeed, dishonest-attacks.

Colportage; its History and Relation to Home and Foreign Evangelization, with some Remarks on the Wants and Prospects of our Country. Edited and enlarged, by consent of the author, from an American work by Mrs. William Fison, author of Hints for the Earnest Student, Handbook of the British Association, &c. Inscribed, by permission, to the Right Hon. the Earl of Shaftesbury. London: Wertheim, Macintosh, and Hunt. 1864. Is open to the same objection, and, indeed, carries its rabid hostility to Rome to lengths we hardly remember to have seen equalled. What, for instance, shall we say to such a passage as the following?—

"As to the Irish, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and French, they are substantially what they are in their respective countries, bound hand and foot by a corrupt priesthood and a false faith, the victims of a superannuated and rotten superstition. True, the fetters are less galling than where civil power aids to fasten the rivets of their chains; and the air of freedom they breathe gives them strength to endure the wrongs they cannot or dare not abate. True, also, the system of Papal oppression is softened and modified by the new circumstances in which it is found. Moreover, there are those from among all these nations who have found deliverance from Rome by plunging on the one hand into infidelity, and on the other by fleeing to the cross. But the mass remain in almost unbroken ignorance of saving truth, and in blind submission to a corrupt Church.",

We have long been accustomed to have-as in another part of this same work-Presbyterians, Independents, Baptists, Methodists," and followers of every other description of Protestant or quasiProtestant heresy, held up as model Christians, on the ground of their one bond of union-hostility to Rome; but to speak with at least apparent congratulation of men who have "found deliverance from Rome by plunging into infidelity," is an outbreak of sectarian bitterness as novel and startling as it is horrible.

Critical Essays. By the Rev. T. E. Espin, B.D., Professor of Pastoral Theology, Queen's College, Birmingham; Rector of Hadleigh, Essex, and Rural Dean; late Fellow and Tutor of Lincoln College, Oxford. London: Rivingtons. 1864.-A collection of newspaper and magazine articles on various subjects, hardly, perhaps, of sufficient literary merit to call for reproduction in a permanent form, but by no means without talent, and in parts very forcibly written. One of the best is certainly that on Calvin. The following picture of the state of affairs at Geneva under his restored rule, is very graphic:

"M. Bungener rightly characterizes the result of Calvin's labours as the production of a Protestant Rome,' and admits that some of his measures can scarcely find favour with our more enlarged ideas,' but is too much of the advocate to give a full and fair representation of the spiritual and social despotism under which the light-hearted Genevese now found themselves, The Consistory and its agents extended their inquisitorial interference down to the smallest details even of private life; from the cradle to the grave, from church and market-place to his very dinner-table and his bed-room, the citizen was unceasingly guided and superintended almost in every act and thought. Not only were all the grosser vices repressed with terrible severity, but lighter peccadilloes, youthful indiscretions, and many things deserving rather the name of follies than faults were rigorously treated. Works of fiction, cards, all games of chance, and all dancing and masquerading were utterly prohibited. Holidays and festivals of all kinds were done away with except Sunday, if that, indeed, be an exception which had under penalty to be kept

with strict attendance at sermon and seclusion at home. The number of dishes at dinner and dessert was limited; slashed breeches, jewels, and various of the gayer kinds of silks and stuffs were banned. Bouquets given to brides might not be encircled with gold or precious stones. The bride's dress itself was matter of very careful regulation. It is on record, Une épouse étant sortie Dimanche avec les cheveux plus abattus qu'il ne se doit faire, ce qui est d'un mauvais exemple, et contraire à ce qu'on leur évangélise, on fait mettre en prison sa maîtresse, les deux qui l'ont menée, et celle qui l'a coiffée.'-Registers of Geneva, cited by Dyer, p. 78. The citizens were not to be from home later than nine at night; and were strictly to attend all sermons together with their household, and not to fail being present at the quarterly administration of the Lord's Supper, for so much, neither less nor more, of this means of grace did Calvin ordain his for people. Such are a few specimens of the municipal regulations formed under the control of the Consistory. And they were enforced with unsparing, sometimes frightful cruelty. Imprisonments, public penances, the stocks, fines, and even tortures and death, were dispensed with no sparing hand. A child was beheaded in 1558 for having struck her parents; a youth of sixteen, for having threatened to do so, shared the same fate."

Pentecostal Fear. A Sermon preached in the Parish Church, Cuddesdon, on Tuesday, May 24, 1864, on the Anniversary of the Theological College, by the Rev. John Keeble, M.A., Vicar of Hursley, in the Diocese of Winchester. Oxford and London: J. H. and J. Parker. 1864.-"This sermon," says the Author, "is published not simply in deference to the request of friends who heard it,-of one especially whose wish came with authority,—but also because, so sanctioned, it may possibly help to draw attention to the real issue in the great controversy between the Catholic Church in its several branches on the one side, and the sects and schools, UltraProtestant or Rationalistic, on the other. That issue I take to be, Whether, believe it or not as men please, their standing as Christians be not indeed on holy ground;' whether we be not indeed 'under the cloud,' separated from Egypt and the wilderness and the whole outer world, as the Children of Israel were, only having God infinitely nearer unto us than He was even unto them."

The sermon thus introduced has more especial reference to the two recent decisions of the Privy Council, which are now such a trouble and alarm to us. It should be read and studied by all who feel such alarm, and more especially by all whose office it is to deal with such alarm in the minds of others.

The Anthem of Creation. A Sermon, preached in the Parish Church of Amersham, on the occasion of the Annual Festival of the Church Choral Association of the Amersham Deanery, on Thursday, May 26, 1864. By Edward Bickersteth, D.D., Archdeacon of Buckingham. London: Rivingtons. 1864.—An eloquent discourse, with a special and practical application to those "whose privilege it is to be the leaders in this great and blessed service of praising God."

Private Judgment. London: Wertheim, Macintosh, and Hunt. 1864. Strong in assertion, but not remarkable in the way of argument. Whence, for instance, does the writer "prove" his position that "the office of the Gospel minister is simply prophetic, not sacerdotal or ceremonial?" Is there, for instance, no command to "baptize," or "to bind and to loose?" Or is there here nothing "sacerdotal or ceremonial?"

Good Stories Selected and edited by J. Erskine Clarke, M.A. Vol. I. Nos. I. and II. Jan. and Feb. London: 1864.-Two instructive little stories, pleasantly told.

The Last of the Alabama. Action off Cherbourg, 19th June, 1864, Semmes. This cleverly executed photograph is intended to represent between the Kearsage, Captain Winslow, and the Alabama, Captain the closing scene of a career of romantic adventure rare in modern times. The original painting is the work of Captain Anderson, and is founded upon information provided for the most part by eyewitnesses. We are compelled, however, to notice two slight inaccuracies on points on which much controversy has arisen. The Alabama did not go down with her colours at the peak. They were lowered * "quietly and decorously" as soon as it was found that the fight was hopeless. The Kearsage still keeping up her fire after this signal of surrender, a tablecloth was, we believe, displayed, by Captain Semmes' orders, from the taffrail, and it is perhaps to this circumstance that the mistake is due. The other point is one upon which somewhat more doubt may exist, but we believe we are correct in stating that no boat was lowered from the Kearsage until the Alabama had finally disappeared beneath the waves. In all other respects the photograph is excellent, and we can recommend it as an interesting memento of an unusually interesting event.

The Norwich Spectator. Vol. III. No. VIII. August. 1864.This is a small and unpretending local magazine, published at Norwich, for the small price of fourpence. Its contents are varied and pleasant enough:- -1. St. George the Martyr; 2. The Antiquities of Norfolk; 3. A Dove in the Eagle's Nest; 4. Cervantes and Don Quixote; 5. Local Church Notes. The second article in this list is very well written, and valuable to more than the casual readertouching on many obscure points of national history, and alone well worth the cost of the whole Number. "The Dove" is clearly students. Both are good enough in their way. a woman's story for young ladies; "Don Quixote," for graver

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