to work at once; to draw up a prospectus, and form a society. Mr. Solly had nothing whatever to do with the drawing up of the first prospectus. It was drawn up by an episcopal clergyman at our own dictation—a clergyman who knew of our scheme long before we met Mr. Solly. After the prospectus was printed, at our own cost, and Mr. Solly had received a copy, he suggested certain modifications, which we adopted, and upon which the society was afterwards formed. Fourthly: Mr. Solly would suggest that when he met us his plans were identical with our own. There was not the slightest resemblance. He wished to establish a local institute, not club at all. There was nothing original in this; local clubs had already been established. Our plan was the formation of a national institution in order to establish workingmens' clubs in every part of the kingdom. These are very serious mistakes for a historian to make. We know too much of Mr. Solly to suppose even for a moment that he is capable of intentional misrepresention. His imagination must be more active than his memory. The following is the true sketch of the origin of the Institution. It was started in order to check intemperance, and to counteract the baneful influence of public houses. We considered public houses were social necessities; working men required them, and our plan was to erect public houses in every part of the kingdom, which should supply the working man with food, literature, recreation, and means for co-operating with his neighbours in efforts to raise himself, and improve his condition. From these public houses, however, we should exclude all alcoholic drinks. We proposed to accomplish this object by raising an annual income of £100,000 a-year, which would be partly lent and partly given to local societies, to help them to establish and to support their own clubs. We believe that had proper efforts been employed, the sum could have been easily raised. Even our own denomination raises nearly this amount every year to convert the heathen. And could not all the sects combined yield an equal sum to help its working population? This, in brief, was our scheme-the scheme we propounded when we first met Mr. Solly-the scheme in whose importance and practicability we still believe the scheme embodied in the first prospectus, and to which we ourselves obtained the adhesion of the Rev. Dr. Guthrie, Canon Jenkins, Canon Robinson, &c.-the scheme which was discussed at the first meeting at the Law Amendment Society's Rooms, when Lord Brougham presided, and when we were voted into his place, when his engagements compelled him to vacate the chair before the business was concluded. What has become of this grand scheme? Mr. Solly has cut it down to a thing so small, that its income is not sufficient to pay the secretary's salary. We fully believe and heartily hope that men may yet arise who will take the original prospectus up, and work out the national good it contemplated.

THINGS NEW AND OLD; or, a Storehouse of Illustrations. By Jons SPENCER; with preface by Thomas Fuller. To which is added a Treasury of Similes, by Robert Caudray. Edited, with an introduction, by J. G. Pilkington, M.A. London: Richard Dickinson, 92, Farringdon Street.

Bur few preachers comparatively are blest with an imagination suiciently strong and active to create such figures as shall strike a truth home to the common hearts of men, and those who are thus gifted ar* in danger, in this age of iron and rattle, of losing all the poetry of their nature; and yet our own experience, as well as the example of the Heavenly Teacher, who taught in parables, convinces us that suitable figures and metaphors are all-important in the ministry of spiritual truth. This book is in truth a "storehouse of illustrations." Anecdotes, similes, metaphors, allegories, most of a very telling kind, are here in rich variety, each flashing its light upon some great truth. The work is not a mere reprint; it has been carefully edited. The subjects are arranged in alphabetical order, and there are copious and elaborate indices by which reference to the subjects, as well as to the headings, has been provided. The introduction, though short, abounds with useful remarks, is very suggestive and able. Many of the puragraphs that make up this work are amongst the finest productions of genius. They are the offspring of mental royalty, and are truly majestic in their bearing. If rightly used they would carry a truth to souls with a power and grandeur all subduing. Ministers, of course, must have this book, and the sooner they make use of it the better for the congregations of Christendom. We tender to the publisher our grateful acknowledgment for bringing such a work, in such a form, and at such a price, within the reach of the public teachers of religion.

THE SAINT'S HAPPINESS, together with the several Steps Leading Thereunto. Delivered in divers Lectures on the Beatitudes, being part of Christ's Sermon on the Mount, contained in the Fifth of Matthew. By JEREMIAH BURROUGHS. Edinburgh: James Nichol. "IF all the Episcopalians," said Richard Baxter, "had been like Archbishop Usher, and all the Presbyterians like Stephen Martin, and a" the Independents like Jeremiah Burroughs, the breaches of the Church would soon have been healed." But little is known of the history of this man. He was born in 1599, studied and took his degree ai Emanuel College, Cambridge, after which he became colleague with the Rev. Edmund Calamy, at Bury St. Edmunds. In the year 1631 he became rector of Tibbitsshall, in the county of Norfolk, but upon the publication of the articles and injunctions in 1636, he was suspended and deprived of his living. He was chosen one of the

Assembly of Divines, and united with his brethren, the Revs. Thomas Goodwin, Philip Nye, William Bridge, Sydrach Simpson, in publishing their apologetic narration. He died in the forty-seventh year of his age. He was a man of learning, candour, and modesty, and of an exemplary and irreproachable life. Those who have read his exposition of Hosea will not need us to indicate the character of the present work. This volume contains, besides the work of Jeremiah Burroughs, a work of Nehemiah Rogers, M.A., which is entitled "A Strange Vineyard in Palestina." The work is a fair specimen of the exposition of the doctrinal Puritans. It is clear throughout, and occasionally eloquent.

DEMONOLOGIA SACRA; or, a Treatise on Satan's Temptations. By RICHARD GILPIN, M.D. Edited with a Memoir. By the Rev. Alexander Balloch Grosart, Liverpool. Edinburgh: James Nichol.

THE memoir of the author, written by Mr. Grosart, is worth the price of the book. It is full of useful information, and abounds with striking remarks and fruitful suggestions. We accept his judgment of the work; it is a remarkable work, by a remarkable man. "It will be found-as an early writer says of another-matter-full,' and nevertheless suggestive rather than exhaustive—that is, you have many rich lodes of the ore of thought opened, but many others indicated, not worked; clear and keen of insight into the deepest places of the deepest things discussed; wide in its out-look, yet concentrated in its in-look; sagacious and wise in its general conclusions, and passionate as compassionate in its warnings, remonstrances, and counsels; full of faith in all 'written' in The Word, and pathetically credulous in accepting testimony when a given fact (alleged) is fitted to back an appeal; curious and quaint in its lore; intense and anxious in its trackings of sin without and within; pre-Raphaelite in the vivid fidelity of its portrayals of Satanic guiles, and guises that are always disguises; and above all, tenderly experimental in its consolation to the tried and troubled. The third part is an exposition of the Temptation of our Lord, which may bear comparison for thoroughness and power with any extant."

THE NATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA. A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge. By Writers of Eminence in Literature, Science, and Art. Vols. X. and XI. London: William Mackenzie, 22, Paternoster Row.

We have frequently called the attention of our readers, in articles somewhat lengthy for us, to this noble work. The two volumes now before us are marked by all the characteristic excellences of previous

volumes. On every subject, and it touches on almost every subject that comes within the range of thought, its articles, though brief, are clear, full, and in many cases exhaustive. The last volume that has appeared (Vol. XI.) brings us down to the word SPECIFIC. We suppose another volume, or two, will complete the undertaking; and, when completed, no work extant will be so accessible as to price, and so valuable as to usefulness to the reading men of England. It will bear comparison with the best encyclopædias in our language. It is, indeed, a Dictionary of Universal Knowledge.

THE CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE AND REVIEW. Edited by Rev. EDWARD GARBETT, M.A. October Number. London: William Hunt & Co, 23, Holles Street, Cavendish Square.

We have to apologise to the able editor of this serial for not having sooner noticed the many numbers that have been sent to us. We have only space to say that we heartily hail the advent of the "Christian Advocate," and wish it a long and prosperous life. The articles we have read, we much admire, on account of their vigour of thought, catholicity of spirit, honesty of purpose, and scholarly style. The article in the present number on "Ritualistic Interpretations" has greatly delighted us. Would that our ritualistic bishops and all the lovers of ecclesiastical finery and attitudinations would study it.

MEDITATIONS ON SCRIPTURAL SUBJECTS. BY REV. HENRY CRESSWILL. London: John Snow & Co., 2, Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row. THIS little work is left to tell its own tale. It has neither preface nor introduction. He who presents us with a rose need give us no prefatory description of its structure, its hues, or its fragrance. The gem of flowers carries its introduction with it. It is thus with such a work as this. Although rich in thought, it is not a book for the intellect, and, therefore, not for criticism. It is for the heart, and feeling must be the interpreter and the judge. It is the wine that strengthens man's heart, the fragrance that floats about Paradise.

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"By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith."-Hebrews xi. 7.

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OAH was the son of that second Lamech, who was the tenth in descent from 'Adam. father was a devout man, and his heart was heavy and sad on account of the curse that seemed to rest upon the earth. The birth of his son, which took place six hundred years before the deluge, broke as a cheering ray upon the dark and troubled atmosphere of his spirit. He called his name Noah, which signifies rest, saying, "This shall comfort us for our work and labour of our hands because of the ground which Jehovah hath cursed." After this joyous event in the home of Lamech, five hundred long years roll away before we hear anything of Noah himself, and then all that is said of him is that he "begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth." We are authorized, however, to infer that, during the whole of these five centuries, his conduct realized the high hopes of his father on the day of his birth, for we are told that "Noah found favour in the eyes of the

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