tjtiø abt~.
jl'AusioNa. History of the Reformation in
Europe in the Time of Calvin, by J. H.
Merle D'Aubigne, D. D., author of the
History of the Reformation of the Six-
teenth Century, &c. Vol. 111, France,
Switzerland, Geneva. 12mo. pp.. 462.
New York : R. Carter & Brothers. For
sale at the Presbyterian Book Store, 1334
•Chestnut street.
We welcome the continuation of this
great work, the earlier volumes of which
have done such distinguished service in
disclosing the hitherto unknown and
important beginnings of the Genevan
Reformation. A bright page of heroism
in the cause of civil liberty would have
remained overloaded with the rubbish
of centuries, had not the sure instinct
of a faithful and zealous student of a
religious movement which commanded
his warmest sympathies, discovered and
brought it to light in the early annals of
Geneva. We confess to some surprise
at the pains taken by the author in the
preface to this third volume, in vindi
cating himself from the absurd criticism
of making too much of a little subject.
As if the great achievements of the
Genovese for civil liberty and a pure
Gospel aro not enhanced by the very
insignificance and feebleness of the in
strumentality ! It is just such manifest
works of God—when the wink things
of the world confound the things which
-are mighty, and things which are not
, bring to naught things which are—that
furnish the most interesting subjects for
the Christian historian. No one thinks
.of bringing such a charge against the
recent great works of our countryman,
Motley, on the history of the little
.country of Holland ; and England herself
on this absurd, principle would be an
unworthy subject for Hume, or Smollett,
or Macaulay.
The volume before us is one of the
memorials of the Tercentenary of Cal
vin, celebrated this year by evangelical
Christians in Europe and America. It
was the author, D'Aubigne, who three
_years ago proposed the observance of
the Tercentenary; and this volume
largely, though not exclusively, em
ployed about Calvin, was brought out
previous to the 27th of May. It intro
-duces us to the times of Hostility to the
Reformation in France (1533), the Wri
ting of the Institutes, the Struggles of
the Reformation in Geneva and other
parts of Switzerland, the appearance of
the Waldenses, Entry of the Reformers
into Geneva-and the subsequent strug•
,gles of the Paßigs to maintain their
hold upon the city.
All evangelical Christians, especially
those connected with the Reformed
branches of the church, and who revere
.Calvin as the greatest of uninspired
teachers, will take a deep interest in
this volume and will look eagerly for
its continuation, as promised by the
author.
WARNER. 'Third Maple. I.Bmo. pp. 255.
R. Carter & Bral.
Sybil and Chrysaa. 18 mo. pp. 212. R
Carter & Bros
These are continuations of the series
known as Ellen Montgomery's Book
Book Shelf, by the author of the ‘.f. Wide,
Wide World," The Old Helmet," Bze
They are sweet and simple stories of
child life, redolent of country air and
field odors, conveying lessons of relig
ions truth in an engaging way to the
young reader; adapted, we should say,
and that right skilfully, to the age of
five and seven years; a very difficult
and yet important one to suit with
intellectual and moral nourishment.
They are abundantly illustrated.
For sale at the Presbyterian House;
1334 Chestnut street.
Scuraca. The Burning of Chambersburg,
by Rev. B. S. Schneck, D. D., an eye
witness and a sufferer. With corrobora
tive statements from Rev. James Clark,
Hon. A. K. McClure, J. Hoke, Esq., and
Rev. S. J. Nicholls. Philadelphia; Lind
say & Blakiston. 12mo. pp. 72. Price
60 cents.
A full, specific, and, without doubt,
trustworthy account of the culminating
act, of rebel barbarity in the eastern
part of the theatre of war. Every
important incident of this memorable
transaction is stated; the inhabitants
are vindicated from the charges of
cowardice and disloyalty ascribed to
them; the singular failure of< General
Hunter to secure proper succors is
referred to; the indignation, pity and
shame of some of the rebel officers de
scribed ; the absurdity of the rebel plea
of retaliation is fully exposed, and a
complete list of all the bane(' residences,
with their estimated value, is given.
This, to which the losses of personal
property must be added, would indicate
a total not different from the estimate
already current in the public prints, of
$2,000,000.
Such memorials need to be written
and printed. We very much wish one
descriptive of the western, but more
sanguinary, counterpart of this atrocity,
the sack of Lawrence, were extant.
FANNY FERN. A New Story Book• By
Fanny Fern. Mason Bros., New York.
16mo. pp. 310. Philadelphia: For sale by
J. B. Lippincott & Co.
Varied, entertaining, instructive,
gracefully told and healthful in tone
are these !Jew stories. Crusty old Dr.
Johnson, Wizard Walter Scott, Bona
parte, Byron, Burns, the Brontes and
John Brown, furnish one class of sub
jects, while babies, brute animals, per
sonal incidents, &c., furnish another.
All are charmingly told and must furnish
entertainment to a great and eager
class of story readers, ten years old and
upwards.
The externals of tho volume, including
illustrations, are greatly to the credit of
the publishers, who we believe never
fail in their literary ventures.
PAT PHLETS, MAGAZINES, &c.
We have received the usual list of
October magazines, those particularly
designed for the ladies or the family, as
GODEY'S - LADY'S BOOK; PETERSON'S
LADY'S FRIEND ; ARTHUR'S HOME MAGA
ZINE; all published in this city. Also :
THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY for October,
containing an unusually poor list of
articles. Mrs. Stowe's House and Home
Papers, No. IX, and "Democracy and
the Secession War" are almost the only
exceptions in the list of prose pieces.
The latter article ingeniously unfolds
the polity as distinct from the policy of
the United States Government, show
ing that it is not purely democratic in
any of its loading features, and Out the
exultation of the European foes of
democracy at our firmly expectedfailure
is irrelevant. "If our po!ity has failed,"
says the writer," the inference would
seem fairly to be that constitutionalism
has received a blow and not democracy.
As England is the greatest of constitu
tional countries, our failure, supposing
it to have occurred, tells with force
against her, from whose system we have
drawn so much, and not adversely to
the cause of European democracy, from
whose iirinciples and practice we have
taken little."
THE EDUCATIONAL LITERATURE OF
AMERICA.
An unexpected and highly instrudve
glimpse into the vast extent and variety
of this class of American literature is
afforded in the late number of Child's
Literary Gazette and Circular. Several
weeks ago, the enterprising manager of
this journal announced his purpose to
issue a number especially devoted to
the educational interest of the publish
ing trade, and to circulate it, as widely
as possible, among the teachers of the
country. This happy idea met a most
gratifying response from the school-book
publishers of the country, who for
warded so large a list of advertisements
and put such a multitude of specimens
of their wares upon the editor's table,
as to necessitate the issue of a number
of unusual dimensions. Room had to
be found for fifty pages of advertise
ments and eight double-column pages
of book notices. The phenornonon is
well worth noticing as exhibiting in a
new light, to the general public, the
extent to which common school ednca
tion is carried on in America, and the
broad and profitable field for literary
activity which it presents. The author
of a successful series of books for the
use of common schools in America, is
on a surer road to fortune than the gold
digger of California or the oil speculator
of Pennsylvania. It is no uncomnaon
thing for a hundred thousand copies of
a favorite school book to be sold in a
short time.
The editor, speaking of the fresh
contributions, to educational literature
laid upon his table, says
" The survey of this collected material
gives us a higher opinion than we have
ever before entertained of the ability of
our authors in this department, and of
the taste and enterprise of our publish
ers. We are persuaded that neither in
England, France, nor Germany could
there be accumulated such a rich store
of new school test-books so well pre
pared by the authors and so well manu
factured by the publishers."
The critical notices, which appear to
bej adicioasly and kindly written, though,
necessarily brief, classify the works as
Grammars, Readers and Elocutionary
Works, Spellers, Classical Literature,
French, German, Mathematics, Geogra
phy, History, Natural and 'Mental
Science, Drawing, Physical Education.,
Miscellaneous. We are so irnpressed
with a remark of the critic, suggested
by the paucity of works offered on
mental science, that we cannot forbear
transcribing it here. After noticing the
only work in this line submitted to his
criticism—Locke on the Understanding,
from Hays & Zell, Philadelphia—he
says:
"We regret that it is not in our
power to refer to works upon the laws
of thought and on the operations of the
human mind as illustrated in Logic and
Metaphysics. This is a department of
instruction which has been too much
neglected, and hence our systems of
education are, as we have reason to
fear, becoming too much materialized
by being immersed wholly in sense.
We forget the noble sentence, of an
ancient and forgotten philosopher, in
scribed by Eamilton.on the walls of his
lecture-room " On earth there is nothing
great butt Man, in Man there is nothing
great,but Mind:" - We should be'glad if
PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1864.
we could hereafter report an improve
merit in this direction."
A mark of decided progress in Eng
lish Grammar is the analysis of the sentence
now so generally taught. Of Greene's
series of Grammars, published by Cow
perthwaite in this city, the critic says
" The theory of the author is to regard
a complete sentence not as merely an
assemblage of words, but as a unit, as
the expression of a single thought, and
the problem is to determine the number
and nature of the elem3nts which can
enter into the structure of a sentence as
the vehicle of a thought, and also to
ascertain their various forms and con
ditions. These numbers forms, -and
conditions are by a gradual analysis
reduced to simplicity. Ho would study
grammar, or rather language, through
the structure of sentences, and he has
developed the study of sentences, as
contradistinguished from words, more
fully, perhaps than thc, other gramma
rians have done."
The same general principle is observed
in Dr. Pinneo's series, published by a
Cincinnati firm ; the analytical grammar
of this series is said to have reached a
two hundredth edition. Progress in
the construction of Latin Grammars is
also noted ; a style more simple, at
tractive and philosophical is regarded
as attainable by recent authors. In
England, the Eton Latin Grammar,
respectable .alone for its antiquity, is at
last sentenced to be superseded. The
heads of the chief schools have united
in the preparation of a new grammar,
which will be used at Eton, Harrow,
Westminster, the Charterhouse, and
other foundations, and very probably in
most other schools.
The" Principia Latina" of Dr. William
Smith, one of the most indefatigable
and successful of modern authors in the
lino of text books, is deservedly com
mended as an admirable specimen of
the c,ombination of the older with the
more recent and fashionable mode of
instruction.
In French instruction books there is
a constant succession of novelties. Jean
B. Sue's series, published by Lippincott
& Co., and Knapp's series, by Harpers,
are specially reco mm ended. In German
there is little that is new.
In mathematics, the elaborate and
progressive course of H. N. _Robinson,
L.L. D., has obtained immense popu
larity, 200,000 copies having been sold
in the single year of 1863 I " Its extent
may be imagined when we state that it
includes a Table Book, a Primary
Arithmetic, an Intellectual Arithmetic,
Rudiments of Written Arithmetic, a
Practical Arithmetic, a Higher Arith
metic, a volume of Arithmetical Exam
ples, an Elementary Algebra, a Uni
versity Algebra, a now University Al
gebra, a Geometry and Trigonometry,
a Surveying and Navigation, a Conic
Sections and Analytical Geometry, a
Differential and Integral Calculus, an
Elementary Astronomy, a Univeri:ity .
Astronomy, and a collection of Concise
Mathematical Operations.
In the department of Geography, we
notice a novelty in " Perce's Magnetic
Globes." The peculiarity referred to
in the name consists in a box of small
magnetic objects, representing the races
of men, the varieties of animals and
vegetable life, ships, &c., accompanying
the globe, and which readily adhere
to its surface. Thus the inhabitants
and animal and:vegetable products of
each zone can be brought at once to the
view ot the people. In History, the
only work. mentioned is Jos. J. Reed's
"Outlines of- Universal History," pub
lished by Lippincott, of this city. The
work is in quarto form, subdivided by
centuries, and, presenting in p'arallel
eolumns the contemporary events in
each county during each successive
century. This arrangement of the
writer at once exhibits to the eye, and
impresses on the> mind the synchro
.nou.sne,s of the transactions narrated.
Among the popular text books must
be set:down several in the department
of drawing and writing. Chapman's
American Drawing Book has reached a
sale of 40,000 copies. Sehermerhorn &
Bancroft, of this city, sell annually
nearly 40,000 dozen of Potter & Ham
mond's drawing cards. William Mini
fie, Baltimore, prepares and publishes a
Text Book of G-eometrical Drawing,
which has reached a sixth edition, each
of one thousand copies, and has not
only been introduced into our academies
and colleges here, but it is stated that it
has also been adopted by the Committee
on Art of the British Government and
inserted in its catalogue of approved
books and studies recommended to the
Government and parochial schools
throughout the kingdom.
On Physical Education, the work most
commended is one published by Scher
merhorn & Co.,;' The Handbook of CaUs
thenic,s," &c., by J. Madison Watson.
Trench's Study of Words is also ex
tensively used as a class book in our
advanced schools and colleges. The
sales in this country are reported by
the publishers as having amounted to
30,000 copies, while in England during
the same time, or rather two or three
years longer, the sale has not reached
half that extent. The "crowning• and
consummate work" of all relating to
the words of our language, is the new
edition of Webster's Dictionary, tho
roughly revised and greatly enlarged
and, improved by Drs. Goodrich and
Porter. It is an entirely new work,
from new plates, in the finished typogra
phy of the Riverside Press, every way
superior to the pictorial edition of 1859.
The large and valuable contributions
made to educational literature in the
West, are worthy of special notice.
Cincinnati has become famous as a
centre of the school-book publishing
business. We notice Pinneo's Gram
mars—one of the series having reached
a two hundredth edition. McGuffey's
Eclectic Readers and Spellers are highly
spoken of, three million copies being
reported as sold in 1863 ; a German
Grammati Ray's & Matthews' Arith
metical Series, three of which are said
to have passed to the one thousandth
j edition; E. A. White's Class Book of
Geography; Manual of Gymnastics ;
The Examiner or Teachers Aid, designed
to prepare candidates for examinations ;
all' successful publications, of a single
house in Cincinnati—Messrs. Sargent.
Wilson & Hinkle. Among the suceess
ful Works named are Dr. Cutter's Trea
tises on Anatomy, Physiology and
Hygiene for schools and colleges, several
hundred thousand copies of which have
been sold and used in the schools of the
country since 1847. The circulation of
the Atherican Educational Series, issued
by tlvison; Phinney, Blakeman & Co.,
New. :York, amounts to at least two and
a half millions of copies per annum,.and
t i ke larger number of the works are for
advanced classes. The total money
value of the sales of this last Series is
over a million and a half of dollars.
Over one million of copies , of Town &
Holbrook's Progressive Series, published
by Oliver Ellsworth, of Boston, are
printed yearly.
" And now, says the editor, "as we
lay aside the pen, we frankly confess
that we are burdened with a profound
sense of the inadequacy of our attempt
to do some measure of justice to this
splendid collection of American educa
tional literature. But we cannot re
strain an expression of gratification that
our authors are capable of such pro
ductions, that our publishers are cloth
ing them 'in such attractive forms, and
that our parents and teachers not only
appreciate but' demand - such excellence
in the work both of author and pub-
Usher. And as we remind ourselves
how solemn a thing it is to impress a
thought upon the 'youthful understand
ing, and what a potency of life there is
in books, we must be pardoned the
utterance of -a fervent wish that the
Father of Light and Knowledge will so
guide and bless all these efforts and
instrumentalities that they shall con
tribute efficiently to the advancement
of His , glory and the relief of mania
estate." '
11. S. CHRISTIAN COMMISSION.
Cash acknowledgments for the week
ending September 22, 1864:
Ladies' Chris Corn, San Francisco, Cal.
per P Sather, Treats $2,400; Friends in Ve
nango co, Pa, per Win Reed Plumer, Pa,
$1,000; John McAllister, Jr, Phil, add'l.2oo;
half proceeds of coal donated by Parvin &
Cooke, Phil, per John W Claghorn, Trees,
693; H L Boulton, Caracas, So Am, per Rev
R J Parvin, 100; Ladies' Aid Soc, Reserva
tion, N Y, 100; Ladies' Aid Soc, Janesville,
200—5300, perlitev J 0 Gifford; Citizens of
Pittsfield, N H, per Dr Abel Waris, 45; Rev
S M Ward, Evans Mills, N Y, 15 75, Sab
soh, Brownsville, 8 72—524 50, per. H H Kel
logg, Trees- 1 Sab soh, Brookfield, Ct, per
Rev P H Hollister, 14 25; Penn Pres ch,
Phil, per Win M McLean, 13 25; Frederic
&ruder, East Winston township, Chester co,
Pa, 10; Mrs Mary R Mitchell, Phil, 20; Da
mariscotta Bap Ass'n, Walderboro, Me, per
Henry Kennedy, Traits, 56 27; Proceeds of
a tableau party held at Academia, Pa, per
Mrs R A PattersoniTreas, 16; Proceeds of a
fair held by Bessie'Teall and Jennie Fetch,
Syracuse, N Y, 78 27; Mrs Wm D Stuart,
Phil, 20; H W Stout, Phil, 15; Wm Mint
zer, Pottstown, Pa, add'l 20; Cede-. Lake
Cong'n of the R P ch, Branch co, Mich, per
Rev John French, 11; "Z," 10; Proceeds of
a fair and festival held by the children of
Cazenovia, N Y, per Miss Margaretta Bouts,
50 50; M E Sab sch, Lambertville, N J, per
C Arnitt, 25; Proceeds of a concert given
by the young people of the Centre Pres eh,
Lycoming co, Pa, per J F Hull, 80; F Law
rence, Sheboygan, Wis, 20. The Synod of
lowa, Dayton Assembly, per Rev S S Howe,
26 65; Citizens of Binghampton, N Y, per
Rev W B Westlake, 24 60; Luth Cong'n,
Warsaw, 111, per Rev W Eggerking, 10; 'Rev
R A Mitchell's Cong'n, Charleston, Coles co,
111, 78 75;f1st Bap eh, Glens Falls, N Y. per
Rev D H Cowles, 79 16; Bap Ass'n Dutchess.
N Y, peal Rev T E Vassar, 20 50; Union
Chris Corn, Fabius, N Y, per Mrs E A. Call,
Trees, 67;1 Union Meeting at Middletown
Point, New Jersey, per Ashbury Fountain,
36 53; Laqlies of the Evang'l P E oh, Phila,
per' Mrs : E McGlathery, 81 70; Pupils of
Public School Room, No 4, Wilmington;
Del, per Miss Kate Austin, 66; Ladies Chris
Coin of locust bt M E oh, Harrisburg, Pa,
50; Ladies' Chris Corn, Smithfield, N Y, per
Mrs H B Schuyler, Trees, 83; Mrs J S Ste
yelp, Hoboken, N J, 20; Soldiers' Aid Soe,
Savona, ,Steuben co, N Y, per J C Mallory,
10; Soldiers'. Aid Soc, Steuben, Oneida co,
N Y, per Mrs C H Everett, 30; Israel• Mor
ris, Philada, 50; A' Friend 20; Ist Pres ch,
Wilmington, Del, 43 50; Cash. 25; J McKee
Jr, N Y, 10; B R Jr & Bro, Frankford, 50;
Jas Scott, New. Galilee, Pa, 20; Meeting at
Ballston Spa, N Y, per Sanford Smith,
57 50; Corn Hill M E oh, Utica, N Y, 85; M
E ch, New Hartford, N Y, 38—5123, per
Rev E C Curtis; Collection at Smitlaport, Pa,
per Rev A L Stevens, 5; Miss Ellen M Ma
'tur, Shippensburg, Pa, 2; Jas'Jrozier, Ist
Ass't Serg 39th 11l vols, 5; Maggie Dow,
Bellefontainel
Collected by Mrs Jacob "Geiger, Hamburg,
Berks ;co, Pa, 9; A Friend, Delaware, Ohio,
2; Mrs Howell, Camden, 5; Luth oh, Vale
tic, N Y, per Rev J Magee, 8; Collection at
East f;harleston, Tioga 'Co, Pa, per Rev J
Ingerieh, 2 59; Bear Run, Sab sou, Mahonig
City, Pa, per Geo F Wiggin, 7 20; Walter L
Adama, Hartsville Pa, 500; Luth oh, Spruce
Run, N J, per'Rev P A Strobel, 6; Rev John
Campliell, Tabery, N Y, 5 15; Rev D C
Dutcher, Chaplain 139th N. Y. Vols, 5; Mrs
C Bachan, Cape May, N J, 2; Proceeds, of
a Lectu a at North White Creek; Pa, per
Jas Tho pson, add'', 7. $6,3•81. 78
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. '1(o tal, $811,393 78
JOS. PATTERSON, Treasurer.
I s,
The eekly acknowledgment of Stores
will be nclucied in the acknowledgment of
next w k.
STOR SENT FROM THE CENTRAL OFFICE.
Hosp tal Stores forwarded for distribution
fromGritral Office, Philadelphia, during
the nth of August, 1864 :
3,B7oishirts, 2,985 pairs drawers, 5,060 do
socks; 580 -do slippers, 6,790 handkerchiefs,
115 diming gowns, 50 bed do, 80 coats, 62
vests, 5 pair pants, 43 caps, 26 straw hats,
55 pair shoes, 1,472 do suspenders, 37, col
lars, 66!neck-ties, 530 sheets, 192 quilts and
spread, 1.435 pillows, 670 pillow-cases, 188
blankets:l.2 bed ticks, 240 lbs tea, 255 do
cafe: 115 do cocoa, 1 tub butter, 2 boxes
chee i., 300 lbs dried rusk, 500 do condensed
beef, n cans, 150 do dried beef, 200 do roast
mutt n, in cans, 100 do roast veal, in cans,
1,440 do roast chicken, in cans, 100 do roast
veal, in cans, 1;440 do roast chicken, in
cans, 500, do assorted meats, in cans,-1;390
do b of tea, 1,700 cans condensed milk, 24
do s.rdines, 2,02'5 lb-. corn starch, 1,675 do
fari A- , 800 do sugar, 86 bbls crackers, 18 do
.cak • , 100' loaves of bread, 15 doz eggs, 60
lbs assorted spices, 200 do rice, 12 cans sago,
2,416 do jellies, 1,280 galls assorted pickles,
12 bottles horse radish, 25 do cider vinegar,
70 do raspberry do, 25 do catsup, 20 do
honey, 200 do oat meal, 40 jars tamarinds,
1.200 blackberry root syrup, 1332 blackberry
syrup, 132 do lemon do, 120 do assorted
fruit do, 300 do flavoring extracts, 18 boxes
lemons, 5 do oranges, 1,220 cans tomatoes,
1,815 do assorted fruits, 2,125 do peaches,
4,835 lbs dried apples, 100 do prtmes,l3o do
broma, 200 do dried cnrrants, 465 do do
fruits, assorted, 2 boxes cranberries, 425 bot
tles blackberry brandy, 155 do plain do,
62 do whisky, 1,080 do wine, 284 do porter,
30 do cider, 6,830 do Jamaica ginger, 340 do
Cologne, 56 do'bay rum, 328 do rubi velosi,
1,158 pads, 250 ring pads, 623 arm slings,
200 thumb and finger stalls, 50 boxes of lint,
10,834 rolls of bandagt s, 1,000 lbs of rags,
850 pairs crutches, 50 lbs sponge, 20 eye
shades, 12 do baths, 16 hop do, 34 medi
cated do, 2,395 towels, 517 housewives,
1,387 comfort bags, 186 hop do, 154 lbs soap,
890 combs, 845 fans, 12 quarts ink, 10,350
quires paper, 95,000 envelopes, 2 gross pens,
160 pin cushions 20 papers of pins, 118
mosquito nets, 100 do frames, 150 canes, 1
box pipes, 45 lbs tobacco, 150 canes, 11
chairs, 50 haversacks, 12 slates, 100 slate
pencils, 335 boxes assorted hospital stores,
not included in the above.
GEORGE H. STUART, Chairman,
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gi.tittertisetatnts,
'ARTYRS OF FRANCE.
MARTYRS OF FRANOR ; or, The Witness .of the
Reformed Church of France, from the reign of Francis
I to the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
By Rev. JOHN W. MEARS. Price 40 cents
"The author has undertaken to do what he could to
keep alive the memory and the sirit of the Christian
heroes of the paet. For this purpose he has selected
one of the noblest periods of the church's history, and
with a graphic pen has furnished us with a work of
singular interest. We heartily commend it to all, and
especially to the young, as showing us how martyrs
lived and died, and. what our calm andpeacefiil religions
times and privileges are worth."—Cartstfats Instructor.
"This little book belongs to that class which, for the
sake of our youth arid the supply of the right sort of
books for Sunday schools, we desire to see greatly
multiplied. Many thrilling scenes, including the "Mas
sacre of St. Barthelomew; instances of patient endu
rance, even to martyrdom, and stories of want and
exile welcomed for the love of Christ, lend a more than
fictitious charm to those pages. As Presbyterians, we
feel a special interest in the lives , and characters of
these Huguenots who illustrated so well our ancestral
faith."—Diangetist.
Heroes for the Truth.
HEROES FOR THE TRUTH. By the late Rev. W.
E. Tweedie, D. D. Price 75 cents.
"It is good to read such a book as this: the lives of
brave' champions of the truth, valiant and active for
God and the right. We need such men now and
always, and it is well to have the examples before us
constantly, to strengthen and lead the way. The
Committee does a good - service by sending such books
into the world."—New York Observer.
OUR LAYMEN. Their Responsibilities and Duties.
By a La vyn an. Price b cents.
Will not our laymen read it?
PRESBYTERIAN PUBLICATION COMMITTEE,
Chestnut sheet. Pntladelphia.
LIFE & TIES OF JOHN HESS
2 Volans Revel Bvo. pp. 631-853. Price $6
For Sale by SHELDON & CO., CARTERS,
RANDOLPH, and others, in New York;
also by the Booksellers generally
throughout the Country.
This important and valuable as well as attractive
work, which is in reality, as its full:title imports,—"The
History of the Boherniatt•Reformation of the Fifteenth
Century,"—has been received with almost unexampled
favor by the press. It covers a field hitherto unoccu
pied by any work accessible to the mere English reader
ye( one of the deepest interest to the student of
history. Russ was in some respects the noblest and
purest of the great reformers, while his lofty aims, his
life-long struggle and martyr•death invest his career
with more than the charm of romance.
As the victim of the Council of Constance, we see him
the central figure of a group which might well be de•
scribed as representative Christendom. In the elucida
tion of his career, and in tracing the fate of his fol
lowers down to the period of the Thirty Years' War, the
condition of Papal Europe for more than a century is
depicted. The leading minds of the age are made to
pass before us, and we discern the influences and
causes which produced the Great - Reformation of the
succeeding century, as well as the relation sustained tc
it by the labors and fate of Huss. The work is . orn
that not only challenges the attention of the 'scholar
but " carries the reader on with unabated interest
through the varied and dramatic story."
The New York Bromine , says of it: "The period fur
nished a magnificent range to the historian, and the
hie and martyrdom of Muss, a central figure of unusual
interest around which to group the various and attrac
tive details of the picture. The work of Mr. Gillett
reminds us of the best historical writings of our times.
We hail with real satisfaction the appearance of these
volumes,. and beg to . commend them as especially
appropriate for the increase of a pekoes library at
about his e.eason of the year. The
,pastor who reads
them aright wilt be; with God's blessing, a more spirit
ual man, and a better preacher."
The New York Observer says,: "The author has achieved
a great work, performed - a' Valuable service for Pro
testantism and the world, made a mime for himself
among religious historians, and produced a book that
will• hold a prominent place in the esteem of every
religious scholar."
The '(New York) Methodist, second in literary ability
to no other journal of the denomination it represents,
devotes over two columns to a notice of the work: It
remarks: "Rarely. have we known a task performed
with equal fidelity and success. Mr. Gillett has pro
duced a large, but .nbt a cumbrous work. It is abun
dant in detail without tedious minuteness, . . The
book, however, has other merits besides those of histo
rical accuracy and twerest. The author is more than
a mere compiler. Re has not only scrutinized, but
generalized. He has surveyed the whole field as well
as the separate portions, and he has firmly grasped and
clearly presented the great leading features of the
period and the fundamental ideas involved in the
tn. vement. The work, in short, is a labor of love, well
and faithfully done."
The New- York Evangelist speaks of it as" Ono of the
moss valuable contributions to ecclesiastical history
yet made in this country."
The New York Indeperidentiri: devoting more than a
column to an editorial notice of the work, yemarks:
"Nis researches aro ample,' his materials abundant, his
selections discreet, his style rapid and racy, strong
without rage; without o'erilowitia full. flellas secured,
we judge, a high and permanent place in in our litera
ture
The Christian Incellegeneer seas of it as "An onto
rical and biographical narrative, in method, style, and
elevation of sentiment, every way worthy of his great
theme. Ris description of Bohemia; prior to the ad
vent of Huss, is a master-piece, and reminds one of the
very highest efforts of Bancroft in descriptive compo
sition."
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