By the same author. This Household Edition of Whittier's Poems (pp. 395) is brought out in a neat and compact form, and will be cordially welcomed by that wide circle of friends and readers, to whom the author's works are household treasures. The Pennsylvania Pilgrim, etc., included in this complete edition, has been recently issued in a beautiful volume, with excellent illustrations. The pilgrim is Francis Daniel Pastorius, of Frankfort, a lawyer, and a devout mystic of the school of Spener and the young and fair Elenora von Merlan. Under Penn's influence he came to this country with a company in 1783, and founded Germantown, Pa. He joined the Society of Friends, and was the recognized head of a flourishing community. Mr. Whittier has carefully gathered up the memories of him that still remain, and described the character and the scenes amid which he dwelt, in an attractive narrative poem.

Fifine at the Fair, and other Poems. By ROBERT BROWNING. Boston: Osgood & Co. The warmest admirers of Mr. Browning do not claim for him eminent success, either in the subject or the treatment of the chief poem of this volume. To a cursory reader it seems to be involved in needless obscurities of style, as well as of aim. In times past the author has spoken in noble strains of better themes. Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, Saviour of Society, here reprinted, is conceived in a higher mood, and pervaded by a fine vein of satire. The ballad of Hervé Riel is admirable.

Home; or the Unlost Paradise. By RAY PALMER. New York: Randolph & Co. Dr. Palmer fitly dedicates this volume, published in a dainty style, to the mothers and daughters of our country. He finds the ideal of "the Unlost Paradise" most fully realized in the New England and other like homes of our land. In flowing numbers, and with no slight artistic skill, he describes Home, in all its beautiful and tender relations, adorned by culture, virtue and true piety. It is an attractive picture; and we trust that these beautiful descriptions may help many households to realize more fully the worth and dignity of home life. It may also help to counteract false theories, and the insidious domination of mere wealth and fashion, which so often mar the peace and well-being of the family.

The Sacrifice of Praise. Additional Hymns. This is a collection of nearly a hundred hymns of standard excellence, made by a committee of the First Presbyterian Church of Newark, New Jersey, designed to supplement those contained in the Sacrifice of Praise, issued by a committee of the Brick Church, New York, and noticed in our number for last July. Of course no collection can contain all good hymns and keep within any endurable limits. And of the hymns omitted in any collection some will feel the loss more, others less keenly. But when we find on the first two pages of this supplement, "Let them neglect thy glory, Lord," "Let all the earth their voices raise," "Ye nations round the earth, rejoice," "Loud hallelujahs to the Lord," "Begin, my soul, the exalted lay," "Ye tribes of Adam join," we confess we should find it a welcome addition to the principal collection. We take the opportunity to correct an error in our July notice of the Sacrifice of

Praise, in which we observed that Faber's "O gift of gifts" was omitted. That hymn is found on p. 344, beginning with a verse that has usually been omitted, the first line of which is, "O faith, thou workest miracles."

The Poet at the Breakfast-Table. He talks with his Fellow-Boarders and the Reader. Boston: Osgood & Co. The talks of Dr. Holmes, in this, as in the previous Breakfast-Table books, are shrewd and witty, full of literary allusions, and running on all sorts of subjects. He can extract sun-beams from cucumbers as well as any man of his profession. Here, too, as in his other works, he brings out his leanings towards Darwinianism, and his strong sympathies with "the natural man." Theology, he tells us, professionally, must be studied now-a-days through anthropology (p. 214), but he does not tell us how. On the whole, he prefers the Pharisee to the Publican (p. 394); and seems to have no doubt, though we know not his authority, that the Pharisee " was a fairer dealer, a better husband, and a more charitable person." But, yet, the publican prayed, "God be merciful to me a sinner,” and the Pharisee did not; and our Lord said, "I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other." "Sin," too, says our poet, "like disease, is a vital process. It is a function, and not an entity. It must be studied as a section of anthropology." But a wiser than he has said, that "sin is transgression of the law."

A Progressive Grammar of the English Tongue. By Prof. WM. SWINTON, A. M. Harpers. The special object of this Grammar is to treat the English language on the basis of the results of modern philology. It excludes Orthography and Prosody, and treats in five parts of Etymology, Syntax, Analysis and Construction, and English Composition. There is a manifest improvement on many of the traditional definitions and modes of treatment. It is a compact and careful piece of work, in the right direction.

English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History. Designed as a Manual of Instruction. By HENRY COPPEE, LL.D., President of Lehigh University. Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger. President Coppée's work differs from some other manuals on the subject, in making prominent the historic connections and teachings of English literature. The great authors are connected with great epochs, thus combining literature and history. It is an exceedingly well arranged book, and the right proportions of the different parts are preserved. It will be found much more interesting to the general reader than a mere chronological list or summary of the writers. The whole broad field is marked out and traversed down to the later writers. The author's judgments are in general sound. In the hands of competent teachers, this manual must be of great value as a textbook.

Lectures to Young Men, on Various Important Subjects. By HENRY WARD BEECHER. New York: J. B. Ford & Co. A book of which 60,000 copies have been sold hardly needs commendation. This was Mr. Beecher's first work, and it is now published, with additions, in the Uniform Edition of his works, now in the course of publication. Its success is due to its great

merits, in forewarning young men of the perils and temptations to which It is written in such a captivating style that almost any young man will willingly read it.

they are exposed.

The Dangerous Classes of New York, and Twenty Years' Work among them. By CHARLES LORING BRACE. New York. Wynkoop & Hallenbeck. pp. 448. Mr. Brace is one of the best, because he is one of the most practical, of our philanthropists. By quiet, sensible, devoted Christian work, rescuing the waifs and outcasts, he has done more good, and got more influence, than nine-tenths of our social reformers who think society must be reconstructed on some new basis before anything can be accomplished. This record of his labors is intensely interesting as well as instructive, for he knows how to tell a story. No better or more practical view of "our dangerous classes" has. been given, and none which shows so clearly what must be done for them, and how it ought to be done. It ought to be widely distributed among all who would seek to remedy the terrible evils which prevail in this city,-which prevail, too, not so much from poverty as from vice: for here, as a general rule, poverty comes from vice, rather than vice from poverty.

OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED.

The Personal History of David Copperfield. By CHARLES DICKENS.. With a portrait of the author, and sixty-one illustrations by J. Barnard. Dombey&Son. With fifty-two illustrations, by W. L. Sheppard. Each in cloth $1.50. These are the two latest vols. of the Harpers' excellent and cheap household edition of the works of Dickens, capitally illustrated.

The Eustace Diamonds. A Novel. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE. Fully equal to the average of the author's entertaining novels. Cloth $1.75. Harper & Brothers.

A Woman's Vengeance. A Novel. By JAMES PAYN. Author of "Carlyon's Year," etc. Paper, 50 cents. Harper & Bros.

A Girl's Romance, and Other Stories. By F. W. ROBINSON, Author of "Mattie, a Stray," ""Christie's Faith," etc. Paper, 50 cents. Harpers. For the King. An Historical Novel. By CHARLES GIBBON. Author of "For Lack of Gold," etc. Paper, 50 cents. Harpers. Of this spirited story of the Rebellion of 1745, the British Quarterly says, that it is distinguished for picturesque clearness and simplicity.

Before the Dawn. A Poem; with Introductory Lectures on Prophetic: Symbols; portraying the Last Great Conflicts which result in the Downfall of Papal Domination. By Rev. C. R. BURDICK, M.A. Buffalo Breed, Lent & Co.

Travels in South Africa, compiled and arranged by BAYARD TAYLOR,: is a volume of the Illustrated Library of Travel, Exploration, and Adventure, issued by Scribner, Armstrong & Co. It is made up largely from the accounts of Livingstone, supplemented by those of Moffat, Anderson,, and the Hungarian traveller, Ladislaus Magyar. No writer is more competent for such work than Bayard Taylor. The result is, as we might expect, a volume of great interest and value in regard to parts of the earth hitherto

mostly hidden from us, and populations in the main "alike unknowing and unknown." Another of the same series is on the Wonders of the Yellowstone, edited by JAMES RICHARDSON, containing a full account of this remarkable region, with a map and illustrations. The new volume of Scribner's Illustrated Library of Wonders is on the Wonders of the Moon, translated from the French of Guillemin, and edited by Miss Mitchell of Vassar College, with forty-three engravings. It it admirably adapted for popular reading.

Keel and Saddle: a retrospect of Forty Years of Military and Naval service. By JOSEPH W. REVERE. Osgood & Co.: Boston.

The Atlantic Almanac. Osgood & Co.: Boston. 50 cents. A tastefully illustrated annual, with contributions of unusual literary excellence.

A Memorial Sermon of Rev. S. S. Beman, D.D., LL.D. By Rev. MARVIN R. VINCENT, D.D., Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Troy, N. Y. With an Appendix on the Funeral Services, and extracts from various journals. Dr. Vincent's discourse gives a vivid delineation of the manly character and great services of Dr. Beman, especially of his powers as a preacher and debater.

The Ministry of Song. By FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL. New York: De Witt C. Lent & Co. These poems, by the daughter of an eminent English clergyman, are animated by the love of nature and breathe a deep religious feeling. Their tone is pure and elevating.

We have received the circular of the Evangelical Society of Geneva, Switzerland, Nov. 1872, which is chiefly filled with an excellent address by Professor Pronier, at the opening of the Theological School. It is an eloquent exposition of the position and duties of the Evangelical ministry at the present critical period. The author has promised to be present at the meeting of the Evangelical Alliance in New York, in October next.

Science for the Young. By JACOB ABBOTT. Illustrated. Vol. IV. Force. Harper & Bros. $1.50. The other volumes of this useful series are on Heat, Light, and Water and Land.

Robert Carter and Brothers provide, as usual, excellent books for the young,—which can be confidently recommended for their high moral and religious tone: The Wolf in the Desert; an Old Legend of the House of Arundel, by EMILY SARAH HOLT; Had You been in His Place, by LIZZIE BATES; The Curate's Home, by AGNES GREENE; Tales of the Warrior Judges: a Sunday Book for Boys, by J. R. MACDUFF, D.D., well printed and illustrated; and two of MISS JOANNA H. MATTHEWS' Kitty and Lulu Books, 1. Toutou and Pussy, 2. Kitty's Robins-bright and sparkling. The Carters also publish a new and beautiful edition of BOGAATZKY'S Golden Treasury, a book of devout contemplations for every day in the year; and an interesting Life of JAMES HENDERSON, M.D., Medical Missionary to China.

Pillars in the Temple; or Sketches of Deceased Laymen of the Methodist Episcopal Church, distinguished as Examples of Piety and Usefulness. By Rev. WM. C. SMITH, of the New York Conference. With an Introduction by C. C. North. New York: Carlton & Lanahan.

The Doctor's Daughter. By SOPHIA MAY, author of "Little Prudy Stories." Boston: Lee & Shepard.

The Strange Adventures of a Phaëton. A Novel. By WILLIAM BLACK.. Harper & Bros. No. 387 of " Library of Select Novels." 75 cents.

Premiums Paid to Experience. Incidents in My Business Life. By EDWARD GARRETT. Dodd & Mead. pp. 378. Illustrated. An excellent tale for young persons, inculcating sound moral and religious views of life.

His Level Best and Other Stories. By EDWARD E. HALE. Boston: Osgood & Co. We have space only to announce the publication of this new volume, by an author whose stories have such a high and deserved popularity.. They are both witty and instructive.

The American Sunday School Union has prepared, as usual, some new and attractive volumes for the holiday season: Christmas with the Boys, by the author of "Ruth Allerton;" The Way made Plain, by J. H. Brookes, D.D., an excellent work; and Boys of Englewood, by Clara F. Guernsey, which boys and girls will be sure to read through.

We have received, too late for further notice, the following works, published. by the Harpers: Sermons by T. DEWITT TALMADGE, second series, with a biographical sketch; The Revision of the English Version of the New Testament, comprising the works of Dr. Lightfoot, by TRECH and Bishop ELLICOTT, with an Introduction by Dr. Schaff―a volume of over 600 pages, $3; and The Ocean, Atmosphere, and Life, by ELISEE RECLUS, author of "The Earth," '—a work full of interest, admirably illustrated with 250 maps or figures,, and 27 maps printed in colors. $5.

Notices, in type, of DR. BUSHNELL'S Sermons, and of BLAIKIE'S Four Phases of Morals, and some other books, are necessarily laid over.

ART. XII.-THEOLOGICAL AND LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. GERMANY.

Theclogische Studien und Kritiken. Part IV. 1872. Part I. 1873. Schürer, the High (Chief) Priests in the New Testament; Grimm, the Problem of First Epistle of Peter; Bender, Critical Notes on the Question of Miracles; Zyro on Matth. vi. 11, and on James iv. 5; Sayce, the Conqueror of Samaria. The first part for 1873 opens with a long and valuable essay by J. Gottschick, on the Distinction between the Visible and Invisible Church, vindicating its scriptural truth against some of the high Lutherans. He agrees substantially with Julius Müller's well-known essay on this subject. The Jewish traditions and myths respecting Jesus are carefully collected and collated by Gustav Rösch, in the second article. Michelson, on Certain Similar Passages in the New Testament; Köstlin, on the vexed question of the Year of Luther's Birth-doubtful, but inclining to 1483; Lindner, on Hutten's Work, De Schismate Extinguendo, etc. The place of Dr. Hundeshagen in editing this Review is taken by Dr. J. Köstlin, and Dr. G. Baur of Leipsic is added.