Rebichos. Beads without a String: Brief Thoughts on Many Subjects. By S. W. PARTRIDGE. Crown Svo., clotb, 4s.; gilt, 5s. ; morocco, 8s. S. W. PARTRIDGE and Co. Paternoster-row. THESE Beads are nearly all pearls, and many of them of great price. The book reminds us of Tupper's "Proverbial Philosophy" by its sententious wisdom, but far surpasses that work in richness of evangelical sentiment. Sometimes as quaint as Quarles or Herbert, quite as searching as Adams's "Private Thoughts on Religion" in its keen anatomy of Christian experience; and, without exaggeration, in many parts it equals our greatest English dramatic writer, in its knowledge of, and oneness with, human nature. The blank verse is clear, rhythmical, and, full of nerve and pith. The book has completely laid hold of us, and we can, honestly, strongly recommend it to all. And that is what we can very seldom do with the books which fall into our hands now-a-days. It is eminently adapted, with God's blessing, to inform the head, to strengthen the heart, and move the hand-all to know and love and serve Him. The Christian Union: New York. Edited by HENRY WARD BEECHER.-The best family paper in Christendom. Illustrations of the Bible. THE EAGLE HASTETH TO THE PREY. "As the eagle that hasteth to the prey."-Job ix. 26. "He shall come as an eagle against the House of the Lord."-Hosea viii. 1. (That is, swiftly, and unexpectedly, and destructively.) "They shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat."-Habak. i. 8. "He shall fly as an eagle, and spread his wings over Moab."-Jer. xlviii. 40. (That is, as the birds of prey hover over their prey, ready to swoop down upon it at the opportune moment.) "All the fowls that fly in the midst of Heaven."-Rev. xix. 17. (That is, as the birds of prey that poise themselves in the air ready for the carnage below.) MR. J. GADSBY says: "When returning, R. shot a pigeon, and, as usual, sent the boy to pick it up; but before the boy could reach it, though not more thau thirty yards distant, an eagle darted down and carried it off."-Appendix to Wanderings. "It is certain that eagles can discern their prey from an incredible distance, even long before they can themselves be seen in the air; and having once perceived it, they are swift in hastening unto it.”—Wanderings. It should be remembered that by a wonderful contrivance the birds of prey have their eyes so constructed, that they can see objects or earth when they are far beyond the ken of man, or, as we say, "out of sight." The best illustration we have met with of the habits of eagles and other birds of prey is found in Sir Samuel Baker's "Book of Travels in Africa," and although long, will well repay perusal, as throwing great light upon the vigorous words in the passages of Scripture which we have quoted above |