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AMERICAN POETS.-GEMS FROM AMERICAN POET'S. ANTHON-CATECHISMS ON THE HOMILIES OF THE By HENRY ANTHON, D. D., Rector of St. Mark's Church, New York. This little volume forms No. 2, of a series of "Tracts on Christian Doctrine and Practice," now in course of publication under the supervision of Rev. Dr. Anthon. AUSTIN.-FRAGMENTS FROM GERMAN PROSE WRITERS. Translated by Sarah Austin, with Biographical Sketches of the Authors. One handsomely printed volume, 12ino. $1 25. ARTHUR.-TIRED OF HOUSE-KEEPING By T. S. Arthur, author of "Insubordination," etc. etc. frontispiece, 37 1-2 cents. One volume, 18mo, Forming one of the series of "Tales for the People and their Children." CONTENTS.-I. Going to House-keeping.-II. First Experiments.-IIL Morning Calls.-IV. First Demonstrations.-V. Trouble with Servants.-VI. A New One.-VII. More Trouble.-VIII. A True Friend.-IX. Another Powerful Demonstration.-X. Breaking up.-XI. Experiments in Boarding and Taking Boarder.-XII. More Sacrifices.-XIII. Extracting Good from Evil.-XIV. Failure of the First Experiments.-XV. The New Boardinghouse.-XVI. Trouble in Earnest.-XVII. Sickness.-XVIII. Another Change.-XIX. Conclusion. BEAVEN.-A HELP TO CATECHISING. For the use of Clergymen, Schools, and Private Families. By James Bea ven, D. D., Professor of Theology at King's College, Toronto. Revised and adapted to the use of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States. By Henry Anthon, D. D., Rector of St. Mark's Church, N. Y. 18mo., paper cover, 6 1-4 cents, $4 per hundred. Forming No. 1 of a series of "Tracts on Christian Doctrine and Practice," now in course ✔ publication under the superintendence of Rev. Dr Anthon BIBLE EXPOSITOR. Confirmation of the Truth of the Holy Scriptures, from the Observations of recent Travellers, illustrating the Manners, Customs, and Places referred to in the Bible. Published under the direction of the Society for the Promo tion of Christian Knowledge, London. Illustrated with 90 cuts. One volume, 12mo., 75 cents. EXTRACT FROM PREFACE. "The Holy Scriptures contain many passages full of importance and beauty, but not generally understood, because they contain allusions to manners and customs, familiar indeed to those to whom they were originally addressed, but imperfectly known to us. In order to obviate this difficulty this volume is now presented to the public, consisting of extracts from the narratives of trave. lers who have recorded the customs of the oriental nations, from whom we learn that some usages were retained among them to this day, such as existed at the times when the Scriptures were written, and that their inanners are in many instances little changed since the patriarchal times. The compiler of this volume trusts that it may be the means, under God's providence, of leading unlearned readers to a more general acquaintance with Eastern customs, and assist them to a clearer perception of the propriety and beauty of the illustrations so often drawn from them in the Bible." BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER; And Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, together with the Psalter or Psalms of David. Illustrated with six steel engravings, rubricated, 18mo. size, in various bindings. Morocco, extra gilt leaves, $2 25. With clasp, do., $3 00. Imitation of Morocco, gilt leaves, $1 50. Plain do., $1 00. Without rubrics, in Morocco, extra, $2 00. Imitation do, $1 25. Sheep, plain, 37 1-2 cents, It may also be had in rich silk velvet binding, mounted with gold, gilt borders, clasp, &c., price $8 00. A very superior edition, printed in large type, from the new authorized edition, is nearly ready. It will be embellished with choice steel engravings from designs by Overbeck. BOONE.-ADVENTURES OF DANIEL BOONE, The Kentucky Rifleman. By the author of "Uncle Philip's Conversations." One volume, 18mo. 37 1-2 cents. Forming one of the series of "A Library for my Young Countrymen." "It is an excellent narrative, written in a plain, familiar style, and sets forth the character and wild adventures of the hero of the Kentucky wilderness in a very attractive light. The boys will all be in an agony to read it."-Com. Adv. BOYS' MANUAL. Comprising a Summary View of the Studies, Accomplishments, and Princi ples of Conduct, best suited for promoting Respectability and Success in Life. 1 vol. 18mo. 50 cents. BRADLEY.-FAMILY AND PARISH SERMONS. Preached at Clapham and Glasbury. By the Rev. Charles Bradley. From the seventh London edition, two volumes in one, 8vo. $1 25. PRACTICAL SERMONS For every Sunday throughout the year and principal holydays. Two volumes of English edition in one 8vo $1.50. The above two volumes may be bound together in one. Price $2 50. The Sermons of this Divine are much admired for their plain, yet chaste and elegant style; they will be found admirably adapted for family reading and preaching, where no pastor is located Recommendations might be given, if space would admit, from several of our Bishops and Clergyalso from Ministers of various denominations. The following are a few of the English and American critical opinions of their merit:"Bradley's style is sententious, pithy, and colloquial. He is simple without being quaint, and he almost holds conversation with his hearers, without descending from the dignity of the acred chair."-Eclectic Review. "We earnestly desire that every pulpit may ever be the vehicle of discourses as judicious and practical, as scriptural and devout, as these."-Christian Observer. "The style is so simple that the most unlearned can understand them; the matter so instruc tive that the best informed can learn something; the spirit so fervent that the most engaged Christian can be animated and warmed by their perusal ' "Christian Witness. BURNET.-THE HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION Of the Church of England, by Gilbert Burnet, D. D., late Lord Bishop of Salisbury-with the Collection of Records and a copious Index, revise. and corrected, with additional Notes and a Preface, by the Rev. E Nares, D. D., late Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford Illustrated with a Frontispiece and twenty-three engraved Portraits, form ing four elegant 8vo. volumes. $800. A cheap edition is printed, containing the History in three vols. without the Records-which form the fourth vol. of the above. Price, in boards, $2 50. To the student either of civil or religious history, no epoch can be of more importance than that of the Reformation in England. The History of Bishop Burnet is one of the most celebrated and by far the most frequently quoted of any that has been written of this great event. Upon the original publication of the first volume. it was received in Great Britain with the loudest and most extravagant encomiums. The author received the thanks of both Houses of Parliament, and was requested by them to continue the work. In continuing it, he had the assistance of the most learned and eminent divines of his time; and he confesses his indebtedness for importan aid to Lloyd, Tillotson, and Stillingfleet, three of the greatest of England's Bishops. The present edition of this great work has been edited with laborious care by Dr. Nares, who professes to have corrected important errors into which the author fell, and to have made such improvements in the order of the work as will render it far more useful to the reader or historical student. Preliminary explanations, full and sufficient to the clear understanding of the author, are given, and marginal references are made throughout the book, so as greatly to facilitate and ender accurate its consultation. It will of course find a place in every theologian's library-and will, by no means, we trust, be confined to that comparatively limited sphere.-N. Y. Tribune. BURNET. AN EXPOSITION OF THE XXXIX ARTICLES Of the Church of England. By Gilbert Burnet, D. D., late Bishop of Salisbury. With an Appendix, containing the Augsburg Confession, Creed of Pope Pius IV., &c. Revised and corrected, with copious Notes and Additional References, by the Rev. James R. Page, A. M. One handsome 8vo. vol$2.00. ume. The editor has given to our clergy and our students in theology an edition of this work, which must necessarily supersede every other, and we feel he deserves well at the hands of the Church, which he has so materially served.-Church of England Quarterly Review. BURNS. THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS Of Robert Burns, with Explanatory and Glossarial Notes, and a Life of the Author, by James Currie, M. D., illustrated with six steel engravings, one volume, 16mo. $1 25. Forming one of the series of "Cabinet Edition of Standard British Poets." This is the most complete American edition of Burns. It contains the whole of the poetry comprised in the edition lately edited by Cunningham, as well as some additional pieces; and such notes have been added as are calculated to illustrate the manners and customs of Scotland, so as to render the whole more intelligible to the English reader. He owes nothing to the poetry of other lands--he is the offspring of the soil: he is as natural to Scotland as the heath is to her hills-his variety is equal to his originality; his humour, his gayety, his tenderness and his pathos, come all in a breath; they come freely, for they come of their own accord; the contrast is never offensive; the comic slides easily into the serious, the serious into the tender, and the tender into the pathetic.-Allan Cunningham. CAMERON. THE FARMER'S DAUGHTER: A Tale of Humble Life, by Mrs. Cameron, author of " Emma and Her Nurse," "the Two Mothers," etc., etc., one volume, 18mo., frontispiece. 37 1-2 cts. We welcome, in this little volume, a valuable addition to the excellent series of "Tales for the People and their Children." The story conveys high moral truths, in a most attractive form -Hunt's Merchant's Mag. CARLYLE. ON HEROES, HERO WORSHIP, "Sartor And the Heroic in History. Six Lectures, reported with Emendations and Additions, by Thomas Carlyle, author of the "French Revolution,' Resartus," &c. Elegantly printed in one vol. 12mo. Second edition. $1. CHILD'S DELIGHT; A Gift for the Young. Edited by a lady. One volume small 4to. Embel. lished with six steel Engravings coloured in the most attractive style. This is the gem of the season. In style of embellishment and originality of matter, it stands WOLO. We cordially recommend the volume to our juvenile friends.-U. S. Gazette. |