explained in the following passage:-" Mr. Maroncelli handed me a copy of Fourier's theory of the four movements for perusal. The newness and strangeness of the doctrines contained in this volume first stunned me with surprise. But I felt that there was the truth, and that the great question of human destiny was to be studied in that remarkable volume." One is naturally shy of trusting such sudden illuminations on scientific subjects; but in justice to our author it must be stated that he has revolved the "movements" for ten years before publishing the result of his meditations. How he came acquainted with Swedenborg is not told us; but he is very sure that the union of that philosopher's doctrines with those of Fourier constitute the "union of science and religion." As mere outsiders we think the union of the two sects a very natural and appropriate one; how far they will include all science and religion" within their consolidated "interior," is, however, far more uncertain. Those who are curious to know something of the two systems may find pretty clear statements of both in the volume; the writer is by no means destitute of perspicacity; indeed, he only appears to us to see a little too far.

6. The Writings of Cassius Marcellus Clay, including Speeches and Addresses. Edited, with a Preface and Memoir, by Horace Greeley. 8vo., pp. 536. New-York: Harper & Brothers. 1848.

On the whole we regret the publication of this book. The opening pages of it will nullify a great part of the truth which inspires the rest, and deter many from reading further, or, if they do read further, from sympathizing with the writer's aims and spirit. No man, we suppose, will doubt Cassius M. Clay's moral courage, or his honesty of purpose; but this volume will satisfy many that his mind is not a sound, well-disciplined, and well-balanced one.

7. The Church in Earnest. By JOHN ANGELL JAMES. 18mo., pp. 292. Boston: Gould, Kendall, & Lincoln. 1848.

JOHN ANGELL JAMES is one of the spiritual lights of the age. No differences of opinion can prevent us from seeing and acknowledging his entire devotion to the service of the kingdom of Christ on earth, and from admiring his earnest industry in its advancement. His "Earnest Ministry" has roused up many a preacher to a new consciousness of his duties, and to new efforts to perform them; and the work before us is designed to bear the same relation to the church as the former one did to the ministry. After an exposition of the "designs to be accomplished by the church, as regards the present world," the author sets forth the nature of "earnestness in religion;" first, in regard to personal salvation, and then in regard to the salvation of others. Impressive exhortations follow, enforcing earnestness in family religion, and in church fellowship; with an exposition of the causes that operate to repress this religious earnestness, and a statement of certain strong inducements to its cultivation. Clear, fervent, and practical throughout, the work is calculated to do great good among the churches; and we hope it will secure the wide circulation it deserves.

8. The Life and Times of the Rev. Jesse Lee. By LEROY M. LEE, D. D. One vol., 8vo., pp. 517. Richmond: John Early. 1848.

WE regard this work as a most valuable contribution to the literature and history of Methodism. The author has performed his labor con amore; and, as is usual in books undertaken in such a spirit, has done justice to his subject-erring, if at all,

upon the side of excess. We purpose giving an extended review of the work hereafter, and at this time only mean to express our gratification at its appearance, and to commend it to our readers. That we differ with the author on some points, is very certain; not so much, however, as he differs from many of his brethren in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

9. Kings and Queens; or, Life in the Palace; consisting of Historical Sketches of Josephine and Maria Louisa, Louis Philippe, Ferdinand of Austria, Nicholas, Isabella II., Leopold, and Victoria. By JOHN S. C. ABBOTT. 12mo., pp. 312. New-York: Harper & Brothers. 1848.

MR. ABBOTT has selected the most striking incidents in the lives of the personages named on his title-page, and worked them up into graphic and attractive sketches. The interest of each narrative is abundantly sustained; and many facts, not easily accessible, are introduced. A little too much glitter is thrown about royal life; but, on the other hand, royal crimes and misfortunes are depicted in strong colors.

10. Wayland's Elements of Moral Science. Thirty-fifth thousand.

11. Wayland's Elements of Political Economy. Fifteenth thousand. Boston: Gould, Kendall, & Lincoln. 1848.

THE publishers have sent us copies of the late impressions of these established works. We have long known and appreciated them as the best treatises on their respective subjects now before the American public.

12. Thankfulness: a Narrative, comprising Passages from the Diary of the Rev. Allan Temple. By the Rev. CHARLES B. TAYLER. New-York: Harper & Brothers. THIS author has rendered his name famous and familiar with the reading community by his "Records of a Good Man's Life," and other popular volumes. The work before us is an exceedingly pleasant narrative, depicting the career and casualties, as well as the happy quietude and contentedness—or, as our author has it-thankfulness of a most exemplary country pastor in one of the delightful rural retreats of old England, some half a century ago. We commend it to our readers as a quaint and charming book, and one that will revive, and leave impressed upon the mind, a grateful sense of manifold obligations to that beneficent Being who arbitrates events, and blesses their issue for our highest good.

13. Memoir of William G. Crocker, late Missionary in West Africa among the Bassas, including a History of the Bassa Mission. By R. B. MEDBERY. 18mo., pp. 300. Boston: Gould, Kendall, & Lincoln. 1848.

OUR own hearts have been deeply touched in reading this simple record of the life and labors of an humble and devoted Christian missionary. Mr. Crocker, as our readers are probably aware, was a missionary of the Baptist Board, and, in conjunction with Mr. Milne, the founder of the Bassa mission. His labors were great, too great, indeed, for his feeble frame. His whole life and soul were in his work, however, and he almost died in it. This little record cannot but stimulate all who read it to new earnestness in the work of advancing Christ's kingdom on earth.

14. The Czar, his Court and People; including a Tour in Norway and Sweden. By JOHN S. MAXWELL. 1 Vol. 12mo., pp. 368. New-York: Baker & Scribner. 1848. An attractive and novel field is here opened. Mr. Maxwell has made a most entertaining and useful book: he carries the reader along rapidly and pleasantly, and manages

to give him a great deal of useful instruction, while all the time he feels himself amused. The immense power of the northern autocrat is one of the most remarkable and pregnant phenomena of the age; and all who wish light upon the elements of that power, and the mode of its exercise, will find it in this book.

15. Home Influence: a Tale for Mothers and Daughters. 12mo., pp. 412. Harper &

Brothers.

WE learn from the prefatory pages of this new domestic story that its object and aim have been to instill into the minds of daughters the important lessons of attention to the minor services and kindly dispositions which so largely tend to bless and invigorate social life. The amiable author also addresses many valuable suggestions to mothers, which are worthy the most grave attention. The work is beautifully "got up."

16. A Funeral Discourse on the Death of Merritt Caldwell, A. M., Professor of Metaphysics and Political Economy in Dickinson College. By Rev. BERNARD H. NADAL, A. M., Chaplain to the College. New-York: 200 Mulberry-street. 1848.

To the truth of the portraiture in this sermon we can bear personal testimony. Mr. Nadal has formed a most just conception of the character of our late eminent and beloved friend, and has expressed it with great clearness and propriety. The style of the sermon is chaste and vigorous-utterly destitute of extravagance, but often rising into pure and manly eloquence.

17. Dr. Chalmers' Sabbath Scripture Readings. Harper & Brothers. THIS work forms the fourth volume of the posthumous writings of this distinguished scholar and divine. These "Sabbath Readings" were originally the private record of devout meditations of their author, not intended for the public, but simply for his own private use. This volume of devotional readings is devoted to the New Testament; and we cannot but think they will be regarded as the most important, deeply interesting, and valuable, of the series.

18. Antichrist: or the Spirit of Sect and Schism. By JOHN W. NEVIN, President of Marshall College. New-York: John S. Taylor. 1848.

THAT we differ from Dr. Nevin almost toto cœlo in regard to church questions, is no reason why we should not acknowledge him as a profound thinker and an earnest man. He grapples with great questions vigorously and directly: he is no trimmer, no juste-milieu man, but an able, thoughtful, honest, and fearless Christian teacher. We We hope to be able to give a general and careful review of his writings hereafter, and shall feel, in doing it, that we are dealing with a man and a scholar.

19. The Planetary and Stellar Worlds: a Popular Exposition of the Great Discoveries and Theories of Modern Astronomy. By O. M. MITCHELL, A. M., Director of the Cincinnati Observatory. 12mo., pp. 336. New-York: Baker & Scribner. 1848. PROFESSOR MITCHELL'S reputation as a lecturer has lost nothing by the publication of this book. It presents in a clear and attractive style an outline of the triumphs of the human mind in that grandest field of its achievements-the planetary and stellar worlds. A better introduction to the study of astronomy could not be desired.

20. The Battle of Buena Vista.
18mo., pp. 238.
THIS is the best and clearest account of the battle of Buena Vista that has yet
been published. Captain Carleton has great power of description, but inclines
rather to overdo his points. When will the world learn that battles and bloodshed
are not the means of progress?

By JAMES HENRY CARLETON, Captain 1st Dragoons.
New-York: Harper & Brothers. 1848.

21. Man and his Motives. By GEORGE MOORE, M. D. 12mo., pp. 300. Harper & Brothers. 1848.

We presume most of our readers are already familiar with the previous volumes of this popular author. Dr. Moore has evinced a better method of treating the class of topics which he proposed to himself in his "Power of the Soul over the Body," and the "Use of the Body in Relation to the Mind," than any other writer with whom we are acquainted. He is more lucid, less metaphysical, and his pages are more generally interesting, instructive, and suggestive of thought to the reader. If any one will read but one of his works deliberately through, we are convinced his other volumes will speedily be in requisition.

22. A Reply to Professor Stuart and President Nott on the Wine Question, in a Letter to Gen. J. S. Smith, President of the New-York State Temperance Society. By the Rev. JAMES LILLIE, M. D., Pastor of the Presbyterian Church, Carlisle, Pa. Philadelphia: Grigg & Elliott. New-York: R. Carter.

DR. LILLIE disputes the criticism by which Professor Stuart and Dr. Nott maintain that there are two kinds of wine spoken of in the Old Testament, the one being invariably spoken of as good, the other as evil. Without giving an opinion upon the merits of the question, (simply because we do not know enough on the subject to give a well-grounded one,) we cannot but see that Dr. L. shows great acuteness and skill in sustaining his views. He avows himself a total-abstinence man on the ground of Christian expediency, and thinks that wrong interpretations of Scripture to favor temperance must ultimately react against the cause. In this we fully agree with him. If Professor Stuart's view is wrong, it ought to be abandoned. The pamphlet deserves an answer, and a strong one, from those who are concerned to maintain the views which it opposes.

23. A First Book in Spanish: or, a Practical Introduction to the Study of the Spanish Language, containing Full Instructions in Pronunciation, a Grammar; Exercises on the Ollendorff Method of Constant Imitation and Repetition; Reading Lessons, and a Vocabulary. By JOSEPH Salkeld, A. M., author of “A Compendium of Classical Antiquities," &c. New-York: Harper & Brothers. 1848.

FEW teachers of languages are now ignorant of the advantages which the method of instruction known as Ollendorff's affords. The work before us makes use of all the good points of that method, and, at the same time, embodies a large amount of grammatical knowledge in a practical and perspicuous form. So far as we know, it is the best book extant for the elementary study of the Spanish language.

24. The Marriage Ring; or how to make Home happy: from the writings of J. A. JAMES. 25. The Family Altar; or the Duty, Benefits, &c., of Family Worship.

26. The Silent Comforter: a Companion for the Sick-room. By Louisa P. HOPKINS. 27. The Young Communicant.

FOUR beautiful little volumes with the above titles have been sent us by Messrs. Gould, Kendall, & Lincoln, a house which is always getting up good books, and gets

them up in beautiful style. These little manuals are just of a kind and size to be useful, portable, and popular.

28. Notes on the Acts of The Apostles;, designed for Sunday Schools, Bible Classes, and Private Reading. By Rev. BRADFORD K. PEIRCE. 12mo., pp. 371. New-York: Lane & Scott. 1848.

WE were too long dependent on others for Notes upon the Scriptures adapted to the use of Sunday schools and Bible classes. Barnes' were very well adapted to their object, but by no means to Methodist use. Mr. Longking's Notes have supplied us amply on the Gospels, and the work before us does the same thing for the Acts. We hope it will not be long before our schools and younger friends will be supplied with proper helps for the study of the whole New Testament prepared by our own writers.

We have received Peirce's Notes too late to give the work a close examination, but have looked it over sufficiently to understand its general plan, and to see that it avoids the extremes of giving too much or too little commentary on particular passages. The style of the annotations is excellent-clear, brief, and to the point; indeed, there is nothing left to be desired in this respect. The work will have a vast sale, we have no doubt.

29. Modern French Literature, by L. RAYMOND DE VERICOUR. Revised, with Notes, &c. By WM. STAUGHTON CHASE, A. M. 1 vol., 12mo. Boston: Gould, Kendall & Lincoln. 1848.

THIS work forms part of Chambers' Edinburgh People's Library, and has had a very wide circulation in Great Britain. Mr. Chase has done a good work in introducing it to the American public; and his Notes on Lamartine, Louis Blanc, and other literary men whose names have become famous in the late revolution, add greatly to its value. The design of the book is to give a "clear and succinct outline of the intellectual progress of France in the nineteenth century;" and especially to correct the false views of modern French literature which have become so prevalent in the English mind from the popularity of a certain set of writers, who have in no respect been entitled to give tone to the literature of the time. It gives sketches of the prominent philosophers, historians, poets, &c., of the century, and reveals an intellectual wealth in recent French literature of which many of our readers doubtless have no conception. It is an indispensable book for every good library.

30. Cyclopædia of Moral and Religious Anecdotes. By Rev. K. ARVINE, A. M., Pastor of the Providence Church, New-York. With an Introduction by Rev. George B. Cheever, D. D. To be completed in eight numbers. Nos. 1 to 6. New-York: Leavitt, Trow & Co. 1848.

THIS collection comprises several thousand facts, incidents, narrative, &c., embracing "the best of the kind in most former collections, and some hundreds in addition, original and selected." Besides the extent of the collection, it has the new and peculiar merit of a classification and arrangement; which make it, instead of a mere confused gathering of facts, a series of apt illustrations under appropriate heads, any one of which can be readily referred to by means of an index. No books are so attractive to children as those of this class: the Percy Anecdotes have numbered readers, old and young, by many thousands, and we have no doubt that this work will have as great a run, especially among the religious public. It deserves it.