The divines of the Millenarian class will not relish some of Mr. Fairbairn's views in reference to the destiny of the Jews; but, to us, they appear to be all but demonstrative. We refer particularly to Appendix E., Vol. I., which we commend to the attention of those who are not more wedded to their theories than to the word of God. Our author, too, has done noble service, in rescuing much precious truth from the grasp of German rationalists.

We very heartily commend these volumes to the devout and earnest perusal of all real students of the Bible. Mr. Fairbairn is one of the giants of our times.

LECTURES TO YOUNG MEN.-No. II.THE BIBLE: ITS CONFLICTS AND TRIUMPHS. A Lecture at Trevor Chapel, Brompton. By JOHN MORISON, D.D., LL.D.

Ward and Co.

Tuis powerful Lecture exhibits Bible Characteristics-Bible Conflicts-and Bible Triumphs. Under the first, Dr. Morison descants on the grandeur of its Themethe force of its Credentials-the adaptation of its Lessons-and the meliorations the Bible has wrought.

Under the second head, Dr. Morison ably shows that "the Bible has ever been contending with the sin of the world with the unbelief of the world-and with the false religions of the world."

Under the third head, Dr. Morison convincingly argues, "that the Bible still survives is a Triumph-that the sphere of the Bible is wider, at the present moment, than it has ever been in the history of our world, is a signal Triumph—that the Bible has hitherto vanquished all its foes, successively, is a Triumph, in which all its friends may well rejoice--and that the Bible is still the Book of the Age, is a Triumph, which the friends of the Bible may joyfully celebrate."

In illustration of this Triumph, Dr. Morison observes, "That the man who believes the Bible loves it. It has won his heart. It is the book of his daily life.

hallowed combinations for the defence and diffusion of the Bible. Infidelity is indeed at work; but the friends of the Bible are determined to fill the earth with it. They have concentrated a regard upon it, which has never fallen to the lot of any other book; and they are anticipating the time when it will become the book of the world-the light and the glory of the ages to come."

It is most gratifying to learn, that a large congregation of young men, of the middle classes of society, were attentive listeners to this excellent and powerful discourse. We trust that it will be read by many, with deep interest and lasting benefit. II. F. B.

CHERRY AND VIOLET. A Tale of the Great Plague. By the Author of " Mary Powell." 8vo. pp. 312.

Arthur Hall, Virtue and Co.

THIS work is a successful imitation of the olden time, not only in its cast of thought and style of composition, but also in the entire appearance and getting up of the volume. It will be deservedly popular, from its subject and the ability with which it is written, in a very large circle. It has less of the defect of tales than is common, from the circumstance of the exciting facts which it faithfully narrates; and there is a fine vein of rich and beautiful sentiment wrought into the whole texture of the story, which cannot fail to be useful in the highest Some of the scenes depicted, from real life, during the Great Plague, are touching beyond expression. There is a dash both of ecclesiastics and politics in the work-sometimes on what we deem the wrong side of things; but they are so well managed as never to become offensive; and real goodness never fails to have its due meed of praise. Indeed the best characters seem to figure in the opposite direction of the fair author's theories both in politics and religion.

sense.

We can strongly recommend this gifted imitation of the life and manners of the early part of the seventeenth century. It will both instruct and amuse; and is vastly preferable to many of the trashy tales of

DIVINE LOVE; OR, THE MAN OF SORROWS. By M. A. DICKSON. Small 8vo. pp. 208.

Wertheim and Macintosh.

THE design of this most excellent treatise is "to trace, from the cradle to the grave, the incarnate Saviour's holy, benevolent, and self-sacrificing life; and to view his triumphant Resurrection and Ascension, and the exaltation of his manhood to the throne of his eternal Godhead;-to realize Him more familiarly to the mind, as a tender, sympathizing Elder Brother, born for adversity."

Such is the professed design of the work, and we are gratified to be able to say that it has been skilfully and most devoutly executed. It is a work that even the advanced Christian may read with great advantage; and from which many a youthful disciple of "the Man of Sorrows" may derive the most profound and wholesome lessons. It has this great recommendation, that it is so written as to compel the reader to fix his regard on a personal Redeemer, and induce the effort to derive happiness and sacred influence from the consciousness of his personal sympathy. It is for mourners a book in season; and will, we trust, aid many a sorrowing pilgrim to take his harp from the willows, as he looks up to Him "who is touched with the feeling of our infirmities."

We cannot but express a hope that the pious, intelligent author will have the gratification of seeing the work become a great favourite in Christian circles, which

it well deserves to be.

RECORDS OF A RUN THROUGH CONTINENTAL COUNTRIES. BY JAMES GRANT, Author of Random Recollections of the Lords and Commons," &c. 2 vols. 8vo.

Routledge and Co.

THESE Volumes will amply repay a careful perusal; they are both amusing and instructive. The reader is conducted, with no little skill and incident, through

many, Switzerland, Savoy, and France. Mr. Grant is a keen and correct observer of men and things, and describes what he sees to the life, whether it be personal character, social manners, or religious phase. We are happy to say that he is not like too many Protestant travellers, who spend their energy in describing the sensual fascinations of Romish worship, and then write their tamest passages in condemnation of Popery. We are literally sick of such things; and we would hint to such travellers, that they had better stop at home, than sentimentalize, as they do, over the wonderful beauties of Popish worship. Mr. Grant is not of this school; but calls such things by their proper names. He is, in short, an earnest Protestant, who never cants about the meretricious ornaments of "the mother of harlots."

There is more good common sense in these two volumes than in hundreds of the trashy things which issue from the press in our day, as samples of continental travel.

STARS OF THE EAST; or, Prophets and Apostles. By the Rev. JOHN STOUGHTON, Author of "The Lights of the World," "The Palace of Glass, and the Gathering of the People." Small 8vo. pp. 366. Religious Tract Society.

THIS excellent volume would well deserve a careful and elaborate notice; but we prefer briefly characterizing it in our present Number, to neglecting it for another month. It bears strong marks upon it of deep thought and elegantly simple composition; and, with its judicious Introduction, is a most fitting book to put into the hands of young people, who need to be well guarded against the insidious errors of the times. It is one of Mr. Stoughton's best efforts.

THE PILGRIM FATHERS; or, the Founders of New England in the Reign of James the First. By W. H. BARTlett.

Arthur Hall, Virtue, and Co. THIS effort of Mr. Bartlett's exquisite pencil, to illustrate one of the most preg

and benevolent effort, for which the long course of her after-life was so conspicuous. Having heard that a wealthy gentleman at Tutbury had fitted up his barn as a place of worship, Mrs. Glover and her sister went thither and took lodgings there for three months, that they might assist in the diffusion of the truth in that necessitous district. It is worthy of remark that the first sermon preached in this barn, to which the Miss Mansfields were accompanied by its owner as a simple act of courtesy, was made the means of his conversion.

It was about the year 1800 that Mr. Glover paid an official visit, as one of the guardians of the poor of Birmingham, to the little town of Tutbury, for the purpose of seeing the children who had been sent from Birmingham to the cotton mills there. Thus he met with the two Miss Mansfields, and, after a correspondence protracted during an interval of two years, was united to the elder sister in the parish church of Tutbury.

Mr. Giover had become, shortly before his marriage, the purchaser of the Spring Hill property. There he opened a Sunday-school for the children of the neighbourhood. He transformed the apartment which had been designed for a laundry into a little chapel. In this room he was accustomed to preach, assisted from time to time by a few friends connected with St. Mary's Chapel, until his death, which took place in August, 1821.

A memoir of Mr. Glover, which appeared in the EVANGELICAL MAGAZINE for May, 1822, contains a passage from his diary, to which our recent loss imparts a deepened interest. While as yet no alarm.. ing missive in the shape of feebleness or pain had been despatched to warn him of the approach of death, this good man was accustomed to look forward to the time of his departure with a serenity beautifully illustrative of that spiritualmindedness which is "life and peace." He writes on a summer evening, looking through the window into his pleasant garden. There he sees his beloved wife and sister walking and tending their flowers. His full heart overflows with

and intercession. But his thoughts rise from the blessedness of earthly affection to the surpassing glories of the heavenly fellowship. He enumerates, as he writes, the pleasant places which endeared his earthly heritage; the spots hallowed by earthly tenderness; the objects, the scenery, the personages that peopled his daily path, and takes farewell of them all. He feels that these are ties which must be dissolved for a space, to be renewed, or exchanged for others, more pure and less endangered, above. And now, in the death of the last survivor of that pious group, those anticipations and those desires have doubtless found fulfilment beyond all that he could ask or think. The latest lingerer on earth, whose long tarrying here rendered their circle above incomplete, has bidden her farewell also to the things of time, and gone hence to fulfil their joy, to perfect their celestial reunion. We should not forget that what death is to our earthly relationships that life is to our heavenly. Death makes vacant a place in the family below, but it fills one up in the family on high. Life detains from its completeness the gathering of those who have already entered into rest. If we say of life on earth"Oh, why so short? may not those who have gone before, waiting for beloved ones to come up thither, exclaim, "Oh, why so long?" With a single stroke, Death severs a mortal link below, and joins indissolubly an immortal one above.

Mrs. Glover and Miss Mansfield took for many years an active part as Sabbathschool teachers, both at Livery-street Chapel, and subsequently in connexion with the new edifice erected in Steelhouse-lane.

The long-cherished desire of these excellent women was at last gratified when they beheld the religious indifference of their brother, George Storer Mansfield, exchanged for an enlightened and fervent piety.

This gentleman, with the full consent of his sisters, bequeathed the whole of his property for the establishment and maintenance of the College at Spring Hill. To this munificent gift additions were afterwards made by the