Protestant feelings of the electors of England; but, if the principles which she has embodied in this interesting tale spread widely amongst us, they will guide us aright in every crisis. The walls of Derry will warn us against the fatal delusion, that Popery will prove henceforth a harmless guest; the zeal of Derry's apprentice-defenders will shame our lukewarmness, who, at so much less sacrifice, are called to contend in the same sacred cause. We would recommend both these books, as likely to prove valuable in lending libraries.

ANECDOTES OF THE CHURCH OF ROME IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. (Baynes.) We commend this little book to the thoughtful perusal of those, on whom popery, as represented in England, represented, alas! even in the works of members of our own church, has begun to exercise a fascinating influence. We ask them, if it be not fair to study every man's character at home?' and then, we beg them to judge how far 'Popery at home' is a system to which they are willing to bow their reason. We believe some of our readers are almost nauseated with books, tracts, and speeches against Popery, but we assure them, there is a cause for the most strenuous efforts Protestants can now use for the diffusion of information on this subject. Our adversaries are awake; their press teems with publications against us: the Propaganda does not stint the means for their diffusion, and they are already beginning to tell on the lower and ignorant classes of our population, as the more refined system of Tractarianism does on the educated class. It has been calculated that, if conversions to Rome continue at their present rate, in forty years two-fifths of the population of England will have joined the apostate church.

THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF THE REV. DR. CHALMERS; BY THE REV. H. DAVIS. (Gilberts.) A fuller memoir of this distinguished man will doubtless before long be given to the Church; meanwhile, the present sketch presents an interesting view of his character and labors. We extract the description of Dr. Chalmers as a parish minister. "In his own densely crowded parish, he gathered round him a body of elders and deacons, inspired with full confidence in his character, and with an enthusiasm as generous and expansive as his own. Every house, every lodgment, however humble, was regularly visited throughout the district, and the collections at the Church-doors were of themselves found adequate to relieve the parish poor, without any stint of benevolence. In fact, his labours, and the labours of his staff in the lanes and alleys of Glasgow, undeterred by vice and squalid misery in every shape, were worthy of the apostolic age :-and the curious strangers, who thronged to his Church and hung upon his eloquence, little thought, perhaps, that the greatest and most sublime of his pulpit productions, whether preached or issued from the press, were but the recreations and leisure occupations, as it were, of a good man spending the sweat and toil of his life in keeping alive the activity of his coadjutors, and in ministering visitations among the poor and the vicious, whom he incessantly strove to rescue both from misery and crime. His heart indeed was with the poor of his people; and his gigantic powers were devoted to their enfranchisement from sin and its sufferings. Sometimes he mingled among the circles of the great, but his thoughts ever reverted with a steady aim to the cottage homes of Scotland, and the artisan's two or three small rooms in the flats of our towns. He was eminently a

home missionary and this was his great characteristic. His attainments, his science, his genius, his life, seemed devoted to that one end-to raise his country by the lever of religion-to be himself pre-eminently a Christian patriot.

MEMOIR OF LADY RACHEL RUSSEL. (Tract Society.) This touching memoir is most skilfully drawn up; we can liken it to nothing but a series of beautifully finished pictures. In one chapter, we have Lady Russel in all the careless freedom of happy domestic life. In another the scene changes, she appears as the Christian heroine, stands beside her husband in his public trial, and supports and comforts him to the last, with a strength that could only have been derived from above. But when the immediate demand for fortitude was over, the heart of the bereaved widow is opened to us, and we can only bless God that a fountain of consolation was opened, deep enough to assuage even sorrows like hers. Lastly we see her, through a long and honored life, sustaining the difficult position of a Christian lady of high rank, desiring to train her children for God, and honouring religion by the wisdom and consistency of her walk. It is one of the cheap Monthly Publications of the society.

THE EARLY DAYS OF FAITH AND LOVE, BY M. A. S. BARBER (Nisbet), is a valuable practical work for young Christians; setting before them both the greatness of their privileges, and the important duties of their high calling. The following striking extract is from the chapter 'On the Assurance of Salvation :' "If a child were being carried out of a burning building by a strong man, would he not have confidence in that arm of strength, which rescued him? Would he catch at the smoking beams and falling timbers, as he

passed for protection? Joseph wept when his brethren doubted his full forgiveness of them (Gen. i. 17), and behold, a greater than Joseph is here!"

We would strongly recommend as a school book, and also for the use of biblical students no longer in the school room, M'LEOD'S GEOGRAPHY OF PALESTINE. (Longman.) It is no dry list of names, but gives a very full description of that land, which should be familiar and dear to us all. The author has had experience in the art of teaching, being head master of the Model School, Chelsea.

THE CHRISTIAN'S PART IN THE APPROACHING GENERAL ELECTION, (Houlston.) which is an appeal to all Christians to make the approaching a subject of special prayer, is printed as a sheet tract on thin paper, and may be procured for circulation at the price of three shillings per hundred. It may thus be circulated largely by post.

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THE PROTESTANT.

"THAT our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner-stones, polished after the similitude of a palace. That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store : that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets that our oxen may be strong to labour: that there be no breaking in, nor going out: that there be no complaining in our streets. Happy is that people that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people whose God is the Lord." Ps. cxliv. 12-14. "They shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig-tree; and none shall make them afraid for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it." Mic. iv. 4. "And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls, playing in the streets thereof." Zech. viii. 5. Here is the beautiful picture of national prosperity, set before us in Scripture; how far does it correspond with the state of the land, whose glory we have so often vaunted? She has been called great, because she has been the land of heroes, and can exult in the names of Wellington and Nelson. Others name her great, as the native land of such men as Newton, Herschell, and Faraday. Others again boast of her manufactures, spread through the remotest lands, and proudly call her the workshop of the world. But all this, much as it is, is not enough for a nation's prosperity, even on the low ground of temporal well-being. Again and again the question recurs, is she a land of