very young, upon the most important of all subjects and, to quote one of his own texts, with a slight alteration, "when he is a child, he speaks as a child." He adopts the most simple style of illustration in exhibiting Scriptural truths of the highest character, and leaves an impression distinct and clear upon the most youthful mind with which he deals. He completely displays the fact, that a man may treat upon the highest topics with success, among the most limited minds, if he will adopt language and illustration suited to their capacity and adapted to their own experience. That such a volume as this will become a popular book, we can hardly expect; but it will be valuable for a help to all that large and most important class of persons to whom the education of the young has been entrusted. To their hands the country and the church have committed much, and much is expected of them. To them we would commend the little work before us. It will strike out for them many valuable trains of thought.

A complete Hebrew and English Critical and Pronouncing Dictionary: On a new and improved plan. Containing all the words in the Holy Bible, both Hebrew and Chaldee; with the vowel points, prefixes and affixes, as they stand in the original texts; together with their derivation, literal and etymological meaning, as it occurs in every part of the Bible. Illustrated by numerous citations from the Targums, Talmud, and Cognate dialects. By W. L. Roy, Professor of Oriental Languages, in New-York. To which is added, an English Index of nearly one hundred pages. Second edition. Leavitt & Trow; Newman; Colby, &c.

Such is the title of a work lately issued by the enterprising firm of Leavitt & Trow. We happen to be acquainted with the author, and consider him well qualified for the task, having for the greater part of his life been devoted to the study and teaching of Oriental Literature. The preface is a condensed summary of the advantages, difficulties, and facilities of the study of Hebrew, and shows that kind of acquaintance with the language which a Teacher would naturally possess. It is to be regretted, th it so few of those who

devote themselves to the work of the ministry of the New Testament, make themselves acquainted with the Hebrew. Perhaps while at College they do, nolens volens, acquire something of the Hebrew, but usually this slight smattering is soon abandoned, and the common version of the Old Testament is all which he possesses, who pretends to be a man of God, "thoroughly furnished." But we know no reason why the Hebrew should not be included as a branch of polite literature. There are as many beauties in the Hebrew Classics as in the Greek. In beauty, boldness, variety, and richness of figure, ima. gery, and depth of thought and expression, the Hebrew Poets and Sages stand unrivalled. The Greeks were more philosophical, but not more truly learned, nor wiser. In the knowledge of nature and man, the Greeks never produced a Solomon, and who among their Poets can compete with Isaiah and Jeremiah ? As moral and mental philosophers, we will present Jesus and his Apostles, as competitors for the palm and crown, to the whole civilized world, and they were Hebrew scholars. Whoever wishes to acquire a knowledge of the Hebrew, may now find a very convenient help in this Lexicon.

Memoir of the late Reverend Alexander Proudfit, D. D., with selections from his Diary and Correspondence, and recollections of his life, &c. by his son. By JOHN FORSYTH, D. D., of Newburgh. Harper & Brothers.

This volume is one of more interest than usually attaches to ordinary religious biographies; the passages from the private diary of the deceased, impart a value to it that will at once commend the work to the notice of the Christian reader. Dr. Proudfit was an efficient minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, in Salem; his exemplary character while living earned for him the love and esteem of the wise and good, among a large circle of friends and the public, and his lamented decease, of which this work is designed to be a living memento, has cast a halo round his name and memory that savors of the upper and better world. We commend this pleasant, pious and profitable volume to all religious readers, assured they will be pleased with its contents.