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of the devil having ridden rough-shod over them, and indented the hoof of every vice into them?"

"O, those,' laughed Mr. Bouverie, 'are Mr. Jericho and Sir Janus Allpuff, my Lord Oakes's two leading acrobats.""

It may be well to add that Lady Bulwer Lytton has a very handsome income secured to her by the deed of separation. When Sir Edward succeeded to his mother's estate, at Knebworth, worth some fifteen thousand pounds per annum, he very liberally, and wholly without solicitation on her part, trebled the allowance which she had previously received from him. Lady Bulwer Lytton generally resides at Florence, with Mrs. Trollope-your Cincinnati Mrs. Trollope--as her companion, house-mate, friend, and—it is added-anti-husband counselor. Her Ladyship's personal attractions, once so considerable, have disappeared, absorbed in unromantic obesity, and she has now turned "the sharp corner" of her fiftieth year.

The book, as was to be expected, has caused an immense sensation. The publishers have been induced to stop its sale; and as the demand is of course hightened by this proceeding, I learn that a speculative American firm have determined upon reprinting it.

Some late munificent bequests to Mrs. Browning, Mr. Proctor, Mr. Southey, and other celebrities in the world of letters, have caused the public to ask, "Who was John Kenyon?" who, dying, left such legacies to such friends. Mr. Kenyon was a wealthy man, of little genius, of much kindness of heart, and a keen appreciator and hearty encourager of literary merit. He wrote "A Rhymed Plea for Florence," "A Day at Tivoli," and some shorter poems, in all three volumes, which have never attracted attention, except for the author's sake, being, as poetry, respectable and nothing more.

In the Rhymed Plea for Florence, printed in 1833, he claims the broadest freedom for all shades of religiousand irreligious-opinion. His Plea, it seems to me, sometimes claimed too little for true Christianity. What effect it produced, no one pretends to tell. There are in it some good lines. A persecutor for religion's sake he compares with a Roman bandit:

"The point full sharp for deeds of blood and guilt, And our meek Savior carved upon the hilt."

"Pauli Hentzneri, JC. Itinerarium Germaniæ, Galliæ, Angliæ, Italiæ: cum Indice Locorum, Rerum, atque Verborum commemorabilium. Huic libro accessere nova hac editione I. Monita Peregrinatoria duorum doctissimorum virorum; itemque Incerti auctoris Epitome Præcognitorum Historicorum, antehac non edita. Noribergæ, Typis Abrahami Wagenmanni, sumptibus suiipsius et Johan. Guntzelii, anno MDCXXIX."

He arrived in England in 1598. He took ship with his friends at Depa, vulgo Dieppe, and after a boisterous voyage, they landed at Rye. On their arrival they were conducted to a Notarius, who asked their names, and inquired for what object they came to England. After they had satisfied his official inquiries, they were conducted to a Diversorium, and treated to a good dinner, pro regionis more, according to the custom of the country. From Rye they rode to London, passing Flimwolt, Tumbridge, and Chepsted on their way. Arrived in London they were one day introduced into the Presencechamber, and saw the Queen. The walls of the room were covered with precious tapestry, the floor strewed with hay. The Queen had to pass through on going to chapel. It was a Sunday, when all the nobility came to pay their respects.

She is thus minutely described:

"She was said-rumor erat-to be fifty-five years old. Her face was rather long, white, and somewhat wrinkled. Her eyes small, black, and gracious; her nose somewhat bent; her lips compressed; her teeth black-from eating too much sugar. She had earrings of pearls; red hair, but artificial, and wore a small crown. Her breast was uncovered-as is the case with all unmarried ladies in England and round her neck was a chain with precious gems. Her hands were graceful, her fingers long. She was of middle size, but stepped on majestically. She was gracious and kind in her address. The dress she wore was of white silk, with pearls as large as beans. Her cloak was of black silk, with silver lace, and a long train was carried by a Marchioness. As she walked along she spoke most kindly with many people, some of them embassadors. She spoke English, French, and Italian; but she knows also Greek and Latin, and understands Spanish, Scotch, and Dutch. Those whom she addressed bent their knees, and some she lifted up with her hand. To a Bohemian nobleman of the name of Slawata, who

Of belief, or faith, he seems to have entertained queer had brought some letters to the Queen, she gave her

ideas :

"Belief is toil of brain-'tis labor's dower,

Reared painfully thro' frost, and sun, and shower.
And the slow growth of many a ripening hour,
That, like the aloe's blossom, long to come,
Yet comes at last, and bears immortal bloom."

right hand, after taking off her glove, and he kissed it. Wherever she turned her eyes, people fell on their knees. When she came to the door of the chapel, books were handed to her, and the people called out, 'God save the Queen Elizabeth! whereupon the Queen answered, 'I thanke you myn good peupel."

In some things the English of those days were marvel

Mr. Kenyon was a cousin of Mrs. Browning, who dedi- ously like those of the present : cated to him her last book, "Aurora Leigh."

Once in a while some keen-scented antiquary rescues from aperhaps merited-oblivion, some old, musty tome, turning whose pages we get curious glimpses at the manners of the days of lang syne. Such a literary curiosity, just now unearthed, gives us an interesting account of "good Queen Bess," England's virgin Queen. It is a volume of travels, by Paul Hentzner, a German, who of course calls himself Paulus Hentznerus, and who, in the last decade of the sixteenth century, traveled through Germany, France, England, and Italy. Here is the title:

"The English are grave, like the Germans, magnificent at home and abroad. They carry with them a large train of followers and servants. These have silver shields on their left arm, and a pig-tail. The English excel in dancing and music. They are swift and lively, though stouter than the French. They shave the middle portion of the head, but leave the hair untouched on each side. They are good sailors, and famous pirates; clever, perfidious, and thievish. About three hundred are hanged in London every year. At table they are more civil than the French. They eat less bread, but more meat, and they dress it well. They throw much sugar into their

wine. They suffer frequently from leprosy, commonly called the white, which is said to have come to England in the time of the Normans. They are brave in battle, and always conquer their enemies. At home they brook no manner of servitude. They are very fond of noises that fill the ears, as explosions of guns, trumpets, and bells. In London, persons who have got drunk, are wont to mount a church tower, for the sake of exercise, and to ring the bells for several hours. If they see a foreigner who is handsome and strong, they are sorry that he is not an Anglicus-vulgo Englishman."

search for the remains of her husband, and his brave comrades. She says, in her letter to Lord Palmerston, "This final and exhausting search is all I seek in behalf of the first and only martyrs to arctic discovery, in modern times, and it is all I ever intend to ask." This is the "hope deferred which maketh the heart sick.”

An Italian has just discovered a novel and ingenious application of electricity, by which writing may be rapidly and faithfully transcribed at any distance; and pictures may be also accurately copied-the outlines. It is stated that telegraphic communications will be much facilitated by this discovery.

Those who have read the Wandering Jew of Eugene Sue, may remember that in that work the Jesuits are very severely handled. Recently M. Sue had occasion to have some shirts made. This work was intrusted to a young workwoman, a Catholic. Learning of this, her priest forbade her the prosecution of the work, under pain of eternal punishment; and M. Sue was obliged to go elsewhere for shirts.

An extended biography of Sir Joshua Reynolds, the great painter, has just appeared in London. It is dry to the very last degree, consisting in great part of extracts from his journals. How is it that every great man keeps a journal? Does he forebode his greatness, and predetermine its extent by the comparative fullness of the journal? or does sometimes the journal make the man? The materials brought together in this volume will be valuable for some future biographer of Sir Joshua. We learn that although he was eminently calculated to "What is a worm?" is often asked. A good deal, somesucceed in landscape painting, it would appear that he times. That literary old granny, the London Athenæum, only painted three pictures of the sort of any importance. makes a worm the pretext for the following critical abOne of these was purchased at the sale of Lady Tho- surdity. A gentleman named Stewart wrote and pubmond's pictures, by the late Samuel Rogers, for one hun-lished a novel, called Oliver Cromwell, of which the dred and fifty-five guineas, and lately exchanged hands, at the sale of the poet's effects, for four hundred and thirty guineas. He was very industrious. In some years he painted upward of one hundred and twenty portraits, and exhibited as many as seventeen pictures at the Royal Academy. The prices charged by Sir Joshua Reynolds, when he commenced portrait-painting at his house, in St. Martin's Lane, were ten, twenty, and forty guineas for the three usual sizes-a head, half-length, and whole length.

In 1766 Sir Joshua raised the prices of his portraits for the third time, charging one hundred and fifty pounds for a whole length, seventy pounds for a half-length, and thirty pounds for a head. He worked assiduously in his painting-room, to which he repaired at ten o'clock in the morning, receiving sitters till four in the afternoon. His habit was to devote one hour to each sitter; and the pages of his pocket-book prove that he worked with great punctuality and dispatch, often receiving as many as seven sitters in one day.

He is described as never having been so happy as when in his painting-room, and to have often confessed that when he had complied with the invitations of the nobility to spend a few days of relaxation at their countryseats, he always returned home like one who had been kept so long without his natural food.

Rev. R. Maunsell, missionary in New Zealand, writes to London that he has just completed a full translation of the Bible into the Masri, the language of New Zealand. He has been thirteen years engaged upon this important work. Thus day by day light is given to the heathen. It appears that the decision in regard to libelous publications, in England, to which some allusion was made in my last letter-and which made newspaper editors responsible in damages for libelous language used by public speakers, whose remarks were faithfully reported-has excited much discussion in England. It seems, too, that the judges in their decision but faithfully carried out the letter of the law; so that they were not to blame.

Lady Franklin has asked for another expedition, to

Athenæum makes this note :

"Oliver Cromwell; a Story of the Civil War. By Charles Edward Stewart (!) Two vols. Smith, Elder & Co.-We do not mean to imply that Mr. Charles Edward Stewart is a 'pretender,' but we do say that, in novel writing, he is no lawful and rightful king. This is a most dreary creation as the press ever flattened out or vomited forth. Here, for the thousandth time, we have the stock characters, and situations of all such conceptions and misconceptions. As usual, there is Zerubbabel, always in trouble; a royalist colonel, the villain infernal; Margery fair, with a curl in her hair; Manasses, the father, a screw-a bore, rather; then Hubert, the lover, a fool we discover; King Charles, quite the martyr, who tore up the charter; and Milton who proses till every one dozes; then Elijah who prates, and Job who debates, while Statham dilates; and Joshua, and Noah, and Sleek, and a score who each talk for four. Mr. Stewart, no more, or we sleep and we snore."

Ralph Waldo Emerson is now engaged upon what he intends shall be the great work of his life-a volume to be called "The Natural History of Intellect." It will not appear for some time yet. He has just completed the manuscript of a work to be entitled, "The Conduct of Life."

Mr. Charles C. Dana has ready for the press a volume to be called "The Household Book of Poetry." It is a selection from the English, Irish, Scotch, and American poets, from the earliest times to the present. The selections will be ranged under separate heads, of which he makes eight; namely, the poetry of nature, childhood, love, patriotism, comedy, thought, tragedy, and religion. Each piece selected will be inserted entire. Whatever is too long for this purpose will be omitted. The purpose is to furnish in one volume all the most beautiful of the minor poems of the language, and thus enable all lovers of poetry, poor as well as rich, to have a means of readily familiarizing themselves with all the most beautiful household poems. Such an undertaking could not be in better hands. Mr. Dana is a man whose correct literary taste is generally acknowledged.

Items, Literarg, Scientific, and Religious.

DECISION OF THE SUPREME COURT IN THE CASE OF DRED SCOTT.-It is not for us to argue the legal aspects of this decision; but, in common with our fellow-citizens, we may calmly note what it contains, and the results toward which it points. By this decision slavery is incorporated into the Constitution of the United States, and thus ceases to be the creature of local law, or State legislation. In a word, it is no longer a local, but a national institution. It is made the legal condition of all the federal territory of the United States. Congress can not exclude it. The people of the territory can not exclude it. For the ownership of slaves is the vested right of property guaranteed by the Constitution. To nationalize slavery in fact, as it now is in theory, only one step more is needed. That step is an inevitable logical sequence from the one just taken, and will probably be taken as soon as the occasion for it occurs. It is simply that no state government has a right to deprive any citizen of property, which the Constitution of the United States protects him in holding, and, therefore, that all laws of any State, which prohibit any citizen of the United States from holding slaves as property in said state, are unconstitutional and void.

It needs not the ken of a prophet to predict that this will be, not the inauguration of peace in the great controversy, but the beginning of a new era in that controvergy. While slavery was regarded simply as a state institution, wholly outside of the jurisdiction of the Federal Government, and over which that Government

had no control, and for which it had no responsibility, the great body of citizens, even in the free states, felt themselves in no way implicated in the " great evil." But now that slavery is no longer to be regarded as a creature of the state, but of the Federal Government,

the conscience of this great class will be effectually touched.

In this remarkable decision Judge Taney says: "It does not follow that a man, being a citizen of one state, must be recognized as such by every state in the Union. He may be a citizen in one state, and not recognized as such in another." The Constitution of the United States says, "The citizens of each state shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several states.” We leave our readers to harmonize the two.

WESTERN AND EASTERN MISSIONARY COLLECTIONS.The grand aggregate of collections for missionary work during the year was $238,441.92. Of the above, $162,617.72 were paid to the Treasurer at New York, and $75,824.20 to the Assistant Treasurer in Cincinnati. At first glance, this would seem to imply that the west is far behind, if not absolutely delinquent, in the collection of missionary funds. Having heard this statement made repeatedly in private circles, and once or twice gravely hinted on public occasions, we examined this report in relation to the subject. On doing so, we found that the apparent deficiencies in the west, resulted from the fact that seven of the western conferences pay their collections directly to the Treasurer in New York. This led us to a little calculation of the amounts credited to eastern conferences as compared with the western. Leaving

the Oregon and California conferences out of the com-
putation, we obtain the following result:

Credited to eastern conferences..
Credited to western conferences..

Balance in favor of eastern conferences............

.$103,347 72

95,543 20 $7,804 52

Now, what we propose, as a practical result, is, that the western conferences shall this year turn the scale of benevolence in their favor. Indeed, we are not certain but the stewardship of wealth, if not of numbers, requires this of the west. There are some forms of emulation which we do not much admire; but here is one which may be at once noble and generous-Christ-like.

THE METHODIST BOOK CONCERN IN NEW YORK.-The annual statement of the parent Book Concern in New York has been examined by us with unusual interest. It clearly demonstrates that this institution of the Church is still continuing to develop its capacities, and to enlarge the sphere of its operations. Its entire assets are...

.$613.224 44

Liabilities, including debts to the Church South..... 173,132 70
Net capital......
$470,091 74

The aggregate profits are $35,147.18, of which $19,282.44
were exhausted by sundry appropriations and repairs,
leaving a net profit of only $15,864.74.

The amount of sales, which must have become enormous as compared with former years, is not included in the itens of the report. We regret its omission; for in that item we take vastly more interest than in that of

"profit." The latter is but a secondary object of the

Concern; the grand aggregate of religious literature supplied to the people is, by far, the better measure of its

doings. We trust the time is not far distant when the

word "profit" will no longer be a necessity in these publishing interests.

From the report of the Book Committee we learn that "several very important necessary improvements have been made, which greatly add to the attraction and convenience of the establishment." The arrangement of the offices of the Agents and clerks, and also of the salesroom, has been thoroughly remodeled. We congratulate

our brethren on this event.

Of the periodicals the Committee speak in an encouraging manner the Advocate and Journal, Quarterly Review, and National Magazine, are all increasing their subscription lists. In New York, as in Cincinnati, the early period at which the Book Committee holds its annual meeting, is not the most favorable time for reporting the circulation of the periodicals. Yet definite data are to be preferred to indefinite statements.

The Sunday School Advocate has attained the magnificent circulation of 158,000, and is still rising. The tract enterprise seems pretty much in statu quo. The fact is, its local machinery through the country never was in working order, and has speedily gone into very general disuse. This vast interest of the Church ought not to be permitted to fail, even though its foundations have to be laid anew. Despite the opposition to special agencies, we think a tract secretary and editor will be found indispensable.

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guilt as she gazes on the masses of her people; for she does not discover, among the tens of thousands who crowd around her, one scowling brow to charge her with the blood of a slaughtered relative. She does not seek to dazzle by the pomp of processional display, but, divesting herself of the gorgeous trappings of her queenly office, she moves in the midst of her people, presenting to the eye few other claims on their regards than those which admiringly attach to the position of an English

Compared with the population, the above data produce lady. Yet what a reception is hers! She passes through the following results:

Scholars.

Population. Per centage.

Upper Canada............ Lower Canada... 126,677......say 900,000......say 14 This will compare favorably with the state of education in the United States. Many of our states, especially in the south, show a per centage much below either of the above figures. Dr. Ryerson, well known as an eminent Wesleyan preacher, is the chief Superintendent for Upper

.227,864......sny 1,050,000......say 221⁄2

Canada.

RESORT OF ENGLISH FASHIONABLES TO SEVASTOPOL. In our London letter we have a description of the summer excursions of the English gentility. In the summers and autumns of 1854 and 1855, those excursions took a new turn. Then all the attractions of the earth were comprised within the narrow limits of the Black and Baltic Seas. Scenic beauty was regarded as exhibited in its most exquisite development by the British Baltic fleet in line of battle; and the claims of the Swiss Alps and the Connemara Andes, the lakes of Killarney and the lakes of Cumberland, were utterly ignored. The terrible splendors of a flight of Congreve rockets discharged against some Russian fortress, or the watch-fires of the allied troops sparkling along some rocky crest which rose above it, were pronounced infinitely superior, in picturesque effect, to the most magnificent sunrise ever viewed from the summit of Mont Blanc. The ruins of Herculaneum and Pompeii lost their attractions in comparison with those of the battered, captured, and demolished forts of Bomarsund; and Vesuvius itself, though actually in eruption at the time, paled its ineffectual fires before the flood of flame poured forth by the French and English batteries upon Sevastopol. A hundred English yachts,

erstwhile accustomed at that period to whiten the waters of the English Channel, then covered with their snowy canvas those of the Aland Archipelago; and had the Queen's marine excursion in either of those seasons taken the same direction, and a royal levee been announced to be held on board the flag-ship Duke of Wellington, the sound of a signal gun from that leviathan would probably have called around her Majesty an assemblage of the representatives of the Court circle equally numerous with those which ordinarily pay their respects to her on similar occasions in the throne-room of St. James's.

But the war has ended, and its excitement has subsided; though for long years to come many a pilgrimage will be made from England to the hights of the Alma, and the slopes of Inkermann, and the fatal valley where the Light Brigade" charged on death" at Balaklava.

VICTORIA ON HER SUMMER EXCURSION.-An English correspondent, describing the royal family in their progress northward through the realm, says: "No military escort swells the train; no jealous precautions are adopted to shield her from the bullet or the poniard of the assassin. Her glance does not quail in the craven fear of conscious

the land like a sunbeam, shedding light and warmth around her path. The most phlegmatic nature is kindled into temporary enthusiasm by her presence; the destitute cease to remember their poverty in the fervor of their loyal devotion; the distinctions of rank among the crowding masses are blended and forgotten; and the lisping tones of infancy, the full, deep voice of vigorous manhood, and the trembling accents of old age, combine

to give audible utterance to the blessing which swells from every heart upon the head of the most excellent Sovereign that has ever sat upon an earthly throne!"

HON, J. M. CLAYTON'S TESTIMONY FOR CHRIST.In the will of this distinguished statesman, which has been published recently, the very first clause bears the following testimony in favor of the Christian religion: "First. I leave to my friends and relatives, as well as to all others who may think my opinion of any value, this testimonial, that the religion taught in the New Testament is the best that has been offered for our adoption, both for this world and for that which is to come, and that Jesus Christ was the true Messiah, and will remain forever the Redeemer and Savior of fallen man. Let my humble testimony stand in favor of the Christian religion. I am deeply, thoroughly convinced of its truth."

MUMMIES AND MUMMY DUST.-A writer in a London

monthly says that the Egyptian mummies were largely used in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and even later by many of the physicians of Italy, France, and Germany. Naturalists describe a rare specimen of a mummy found in the Canary Island, Teneriffe, whose dust was extensively used by the Spaniards, being mingled with wine, and drank for various nervous disorders,

headaches, etc.

TEACHERS' SALARIES.-The salary of the masters of the Latin, the English High, and girls' High schools of Boston, is $2,400 for the first year's service, with an increase of $100 for each additional year's service till the salary amounts to $2,800. The salary of the submasters of the Latin and English High schools is $2,000 a year; the salary of the usher, and of the sub-masters of the same schools is $1,600. Several of the Unitarian and Congregationalist pastors of Boston churches receive $4,000 a year, which is over one-third more than the headmasters of the High schools receive. The Superintendent of the Cincinnati common schools receives $1,500 a year, as also do the principals of the two High schools-the Woodward and the Hughes. The principal teachers of the Cincinnati common schools receive $1,000 a year; and the first assistants $780 a year. The average salary of the male teachers of the common schools of the state of Ohio is not more than $90 a quarter; that of the female teachers about $50 a quarter. But few teach over three quarters, that is, nine months in the year; so that the annual income of the Ohio male common school teacher is only $270, and of the female teacher $150.

NEW BOOKS.

Literary Notices.

ANNALS OF CHRISTIAN MARTYRDOM. New York: Carlton & Porter. 1857. 12mo., 407 pp.-We take pleasure in recommending this book to a wide circulation. It is a brief but faithful record of what men have suffered in different ages for the cause of Christ. It should be found in every Sunday school and every family library.

BRIEF RECOLLECTIONS OF REV. G. W. WALKER, by Rev. M. P. Gaddis, is now on sale. We wish to add to our former notice, that it is lifelike and truthful in its delineation of the character of a good man, and also that it is accompanied by a real likeness of its subject.

PARLOR DRAMAS; OR, DRAMATIC SCENES FOR HOME AMUSEMENT. By William B. Foule. Boston: Morris Cotton. 1857. 12mo., 312 pp.-The subjects are, Woman's Rights; Country Cousins; The Will; The Fugitive Slave; The Pedant; Love at Sight; William Tell; The Counterplot; The Well of St. Keyne; The Oddity; The Tables Turned; The Double Ghost; The Tea-Party; The Tear; The Jesuit in America.

WORDS OF CHRIST. By Harmon Kingsbury. New York: Calkins & Stiles.-This is a beautiful-not with reference to style, but matter-little volume, embodying all the recorded sayings of Christ.

From our Sunday School Union the following books have been issued:

1. Ellen and Sarah; or, The Samplers, and other stories.

2. Faithful Nicolette; or, The French Nurse. By Mrs. Sarah A. Myers.

3. A Swarm of B's; or, Little Children's Duties Explained, in six charming stories.

VILLAS AND COTTAGES. A Series of Designs Prepared for Execution in the United States. By Calvert Vaux, Architect-late Downing & Vaux-Newburg, on the Hudson. Illustrated by 300 Engravings. New York : Harper & Brothers.—If any man has a house to build, or to improve, we recommend this book to his attention. It often costs no more to build from a good plan, securing convenience, symmetry, and beauty, than from a defective plan. In this work the reader has under his eye a great variety of plans, drawn with a skill that is the fruit of large experience and observation; and an hour's examination puts him in possession of the fruits of that observation, and of all that he needs to perfect his plans for his own convenience. The book also, as an artistic performance, is worthy of all praise.

ABOUT RIGHT AND WRONG has been added to that charming series of Picture Books for the nursery, published by the Harpers, and for sale by H. W. Derby & Co., Cincinnati.

The following new books, from our Book Concern in New York, have just been received, and are on sale:

THE ITINERANT SIDE; or, Pictures of Life in the Itineraney. 12mo., 268 pp.

THE OBJECT OF LIFE; a Narrative, illustrating the In

sufficiency of the World, and the Sufficiency of Christ. 12mo., 357 pp.

PERIODICALS AND PAMPHLETS.

THE annual reports of the Missionary, Sunday School, and Tract Societies, make a sturdy octavo pamphlet of 348 pages. These combined reports are not only convenient for preservation and use, but happily represent the three great combined benevolent enterprises of the Church. We hope no minister will fail to possess himself of these important documents. Their wide circulation among the membership of the Church would promote these benevolent collections immensely.

THE London Quarterly Review for January contains, 1. History and Antiquities of Northamptonshire; 2 Forms and their Portraits; 3. Homer and his Successors in Epic Poetry; 4. Rats; 5. Salmon Fishing. Breeding. and Legislation; 6. Lord Raglan; 7. Life of Sir Charles Napier; 8. Prospects Political and Financial.

Blackwood for February contains, The War in Asia; Scenes in Clerical Life; Ticket of Leave a Letter to Ireneus; The Athelings; From Peru and Bucharest; Letters from a Light-House, No. 1; Lord St. Leonards.

The above are published by L. Scott & Co., of New York city, $3 each a year, or $5 for the two. For the four quarterlies and Blackwood, $10; and the reader will find the money profitably invested.

THE London Quarterly Review is the grand literary organ of the Wesleyans in England. Its articles are rarely, if ever, commonplace, and most of them are of rare ability. We have from the beginning placed this among the first of English reviews. The contents of the January number are, 1. Revelations of the Microscope; 2. Hours with the Mystics; 3. Modern School-Books; 4. Vagnbond Life in Mexico; 5. City and Town Missions; 6. Emerson's English Traits; 7. Trench on New Testament Synonyms; 8. American Agriculture; 9. The PulpitProfessor Butler's Sermons; 10. Gothic Art - John Ruskin; 11. Human Longevity; 12. Our Youth-their Culture and Education; 13. Brief Literary Notices. No less than three of the books here reviewed are American.

THE following pamphlets have been received:

Twelfth Annual Report of the Commissioner of Public Schools, in Rhode Island, made to the General Assembly, at its January Session, A. D. 1857. By Robert Allyn, Commissioner of Public Schools.

Stockton's Book and Journal for March. Philadelphia: T. H. Stockton, publisher. Price, $1 per annum.

An Introductory Lecture to the Class of the Ohio College of Dental Surgery; Session of 1856-7. By C. B. Chapman, A. M., M. D.

Minutes of the Ohio Baptist Convention, at its thirtyfirst Anniversary, held in Columbus, October, 1856.

METHODIST GENERAL BIBLICAL INSTITUTE-Tenth annual catalogue.-Rev. Bishop O. C. Baker, D. D., President; Rev. Drs. S. M. Vail, J. W. Merrill, and D. Patten, professors. Students, 72.

MINUTES OF UPPER IOWA CONFERENCE.

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