Sickness as a Profession. By HOMER H. MOORE. nati: Cranston & Stowe.

How Practiced by an Expert, and why Abandoned. 12mo, pp. 291. New York: Hunt & Eaton. CincinPrice, cloth, $1.

Dr. Moore, the sturdy thinker, has discovered the secret of much of the sickness that afflicts the human family, and offers in this work a prescription which, taken at any stage of the disease, in many cases, we are confident, will result in a cure. While all mankind are prone to infirmity and are doomed to die, there is an illness which is illusory of which multitudes are the victims, but of which few speedily perish, and for which, not a physician, nor medicine of any kind, is needed, but a common-sense belief in one's health, with suitable exercise and an abundance of nour ishing food. The professional sick imagine themselves to be suffering when not a trace of pain is visible in feature or action, to be on the verge of dissolution when they have every prospect of outliving their neighbors, and are a source of trouble and expense to their friends that should not be imposed upon them. They must be treated, not as they desire, but according to the facts. Emerson's maxim, “Never name sickness," should be immediately taught them. The reader of this book will learn how a lady suffered all the experiences of an illusory sickness and by what means she was restored, and he may also learn "by her experience to avoid her example." We commend it as the best prescription-book for imaginative infirmities issued for many a day.

Simon Jasper. By MARK GUY PEARSE, Author of Daniel Quorm, Mister Horn and his Friends, etc. 12mo, pp. 251. New York: Hunt & Eaton. Cincinnati: Cranston & Stowe. Price, cloth, 90 cents.

A Damsel of the Eighteenth Century; or, Cicely's Choice. By MARY HARRIOTT NORRIS. 12mo, pp. 275. New York: Hunt & Eaton. Cincinnati: Cranston & Stowe. Price, cloth, $1.

Simon Jasper is not one of the least of Mr. Pearse's works. A Damsel of the Eighteenth Century sets forth not only the characteristics of early English Methodism, but also the fashionable spirit and social usages of the period of the Wesleys.

Seventieth Annual Report of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. For the Year 1888. Pp. 470. New York.

Nineteenth Annual Report of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. For the Year 1888. Pp. 144. Boston.

Seventh Annual Report of the Woman's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. For the Year 1887-1888. Pp. 176.

Twenty-first Annual Report of the Freedmen's Aid and Southern Education Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. For Year ending July 1, 1888. Pp. 96. Cincinnati.

Year-Book of the Sunday-School Union and of the Tract Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. For 1888. Pp. 137. New York.