Clittreo ksiwasoN. The Hawaiian Islands; their Progress and Condition under Missionary Labors. By Rufus Anderson, D. D., Foreign Secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. With illustrations. Boston : Gould & Lin coln. Large 12mo. pp. 450, with index. For sale by Smith, English & Co. This volume presents all the facts desirable to be known of that remark able theatre of missionary labors and triumphs, the Sandwich Islands, The careful and painstaking author, Secre tary Anderson, Ts eminently suited to the work of suitably chronicling these facts, having bad intercourse with the missionaries by letter for forty years, and haring spent, last year, four months upon the islands. We have, first, six chapters of preliminary history, reach ing from the discovery of the islands to the visit of the Reverend Secretary; next, an account of the tour itself, covering eight chapters ; third, people of the islands; fourth, the ecclesiastical developement of the Christian commu nity ; fifth, other missions; sixth, pre sent position. The facts are admirably grouped and perspicuously narrated, illustrating the writer's purpose, " to show what God has ben pleased to do on the Hawaiian Islands; through the gospel of his Son and the labors of his Missionary Ser vants." Among the engravings , is a simple chart, revealing, at a glance, the manifold and central relations of the Islands to the great Continent, which form the shores of the Pacific Ocean. Every reader must regret tbat according to all the indications at= pre sent prevailing, the Hawaiian race is• likely; ere long, to exist only in such memorials as the volume before us, the native population having dinnished from 140,315, in 1832, when the ,first official census was taken, to 67,084 In 1860. It must, however, be admitted that some faint hope of the appearande of a better state of things may be drawn from the reduced rate of mortality, which has fallen from 65 per cent. to 5 per cent. per annum. Whatever may be in store for these islands, whether from natural agents or from the labors of "Reformed Catholics," Papists and Mormons, their conversion, as an entire country, from paganism to Christianity , and to Civilization is one of the grand facts of the history of Christ's kingdom on earth, that cannot be obliterated. Pit Tues. The Voice of Blood, in the sphere of Nature and in the Spirit-world. By Rev. Samuel Philips, A. M, pastor of the Reformed Church, Carlisle, Pa.,author of. "Gethsemane and the Cross," "he Chris tian Home" Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston. Svo. pp. 384. Price $2. The solemn significance of blood is recognized as by common instinct, but it is felt with peculiar force by every believer of the Old and New Testaments, and every one who relies upon the sacrifice of Christ for salvation. Mr. Philips has followed up this sentiment, showing, the forms in which it appears, and tho important part it has performed and shall perform within and without the church, among heathen nations, in heaven, at the judgment day, in hell and throughout eternity. One cannot but be surprised at the compass and richness of the subject as exhibited under the thorough and skilful handling of the author. The theme is full of instruction and edification, and must engage every Christian heart. The single purpose. .of the writer, in present ing such a mass of facts, is "to popular ize the theory of the atonement through blood and to present' it in all its his torical and practical aspects, so as to awaken. an interest in it and win the heart to Christ." While cheerfully according to Mr. Philips considerable originality of de sign, and freshness and fullness orhand. ling, leading to an encouraging measure of success in the great aim of his book, we are constrained to, note a faulty diffuseness of style and needless .repeti tion of the thought which, if corrected, would materially add to its value, while diminishing its size and cost. The publishers have left nothing to be wished for in the style in which they have brought out the volume, as, to paper, typography and , press-work. JAcoacs. Notes, Critical and Explanatory, on the Book of Genesis. From the Crea tion to the Covenant. By Melancthon W. Jacobus, Professor of Biblical Litera ture and Exegesis in the Theological Seminary at Allegheny, Pa. New York: R. Carter Bros. 12mo. pp. 304. Fon sale at the Presbyterian Book Store. A great desideratum is here supplied. For a quarter of a century, in which no part of the inspired word has presented a field of inquiry so interesting or so extensively involved in, the researches of natural science, we have bad no new commentary upon the Pentateuch in the English language. The wonder is that the Christian community has so long submitted to this negleo on the part of her, teachers. Prof. Jacobus' work will be wel comed, we are persuaded, much as bread is welcomed by the hungry; they are not over-critical set° quality, and as it only reaches to the end of chapter 18, it is likely there will be a clamor for more. But should the public pause for deliberate inquiry, they will be con firmed in their first estimate of the book. It manfully faces the current objections raised by Colenso and his school of critics, as well as carefully and candidly weighs the questions raised by geology and the opponents of the Unity of the human race ; The introduction contains an instructive general view of these objections, so that the body of the work is left free for the more specific work of the commentator. Tb 6 author adopts the view of the absolute ages of the world found in Augustine and Theo .doret among the fathers, and embraced, ,as he asserts, most commonly among students of the Word at present, to the effect that the vast geologic ago and revolutions belong to the period de scribed by Moses, as" In the beginning," and are not to be made contemporary with the Six Days of Creation. „These days he holds were literal days, with their distinct acts of creation, subsequent to the latest geological era. The author shows commendable ac quaintance with the best extant litera ture on the subject,.yet makes no idle parade of learning, but aims simply to acquaint the student with the mind of the Spirit in the Word. It is ..a noble undertaking, and one that promises to honor the divine author of the Sacred Record. We commend it cordially to Sunday school teachers and others. THE 'MARTYRS OF SPAIN AND THE' LIBERATORS Or HOLLAND. •By •the author of ":The Sehceenberg-Cotta Family." New York : R. Carter & Bros. 16mo. pp. 400; trated. For sale at the Presbyterian Book Store. ;'The`author of the very successful "Chronicles of the Scticenberg-Cotta Family" is still working, with great itapidity, the vein of thought opened in 'that volume. Leading incidents and personages in the heroic times of the church are made the ! !centres of an imaginary by-play of private and do. 'nestle life, from the narrow but com manding loop-holes of which a glimpse of the times and their -phenomena; as they appeared to the every-day ob server, is opened to us. 'An extraor dinary delicacy and tact, a finely - cul tured domestic nature and a warm Christian spirit, present themselves in the pages. One may well at times find himself bewildered by the adroit and elegant interweaving of fact with fancy, and may require: an occasional pause to enable him, to extricate the real history from the narrative. But a little experience will make it easy to draw the lines. The attempt to pro duce a true and vivid impression of the times, of the habits of thought, feeling and intercourse, prevailing at a given crisis in the affairs of the , church, is praiseworthy, and must gain for these periods a new interest in the eyes of the readers. The period covered by this volume is one not familiar to the majority, and yet it is crowded with thrilling inci dents and deserves to be better known. BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG MISSES WARrms.. Casper and his •Friends. By Amy Lothrop. New York: R. Carter &Bros. 18mo. pp. 262; illustrated. For sale at the Presbyterian Book Store. A continuation of the " Ellen Mont gomery's Book Shelf" series, the.earlier numbers of which have, been cordially welcomed in our columns. Casper and his friends are even more interesting than'the other characters of the series, and seem adapted to older children— say of 8 and 10 years. McLson. Sea Drifts. By Mrs. Georgie A: Hulse McLeod. New York : R. Carter '& Bros. 18mo. pp.- 264 ; illustrated. For sale at the Presbyterian Book Store. The incidents of this volume, though simple are told in language of remark able grace, and the lessons inculcated, though not profound, are salutary. A very good. book indeed for schaol girls. PAMPHLETS, MAGAZINES, &c THE EDINBURGH REVIEW for July, 1864, (L. Scott d,. Co., 'New York; for sale by W.; B. Zieber) opens with an article on John Eliot, an English orator and patriot of great distinction and influence with the people:in the time of Charles I. His life, by John Forster,. jest published, brings out many par ticulars ofthat stirring' era, which are skilfully presented by the Reviewer., Much of the material is found own MSS, which have hitherto been regarded as well-nigh undecipherable. Mr. Fprster, however, has overcome all obstacles and given us a valuable addi tion co the history of those times. " The Queen's English" reviews the recent dis cussion on correct speaking and spell ing between Dean Alford and a Mr. Moon ; also a work on the same subject by Henry H. Breen. A number of sensible suggestions on the subject are offered by the Reviewer. " The Result of Post Office ReforM" gives a full view of the improvement in the postal system of England. We learn from this article that the post offices in that country are not' only - agencies for the transfer of PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1864. funds by money orders, from place to place, but have actually grown into Banks of Deposit, in which a total of four million seven hundred thousand pounds' have been placed, of which nearly three and a half millions remain to the credit'of the depositors. Other articles are : " The History of our Lord in Art," " English. Horses," " Public Schools," " Life of Edward Livingston," the American statesman, in which the critic avers, and, wo suppose, believes his statement, that "the master-passion of a prosperous family in the New World is to prove its descent from one of tratlitional nobility or gentility in the old 1" "De Rossi's Christian and Jewish Inscriptions" is a critical ex amination of some of the points raised by the inscriptions in the catacombs of Rome. " Eugenie de Guerin" describes the character of a pious French girl, whose talents were of a high order, and whose Journal and Letters ;received the prize of the French Academy, and have gone, through ten editions in two years. The critic says she is "an Antigone of France, sublimed and ennobled by the Christian faith. . . Her countryn3en have not scrupled to compare her style to that of Pascal himself.' The piety of this article probably was designed to counterbalance the ;"liberalism" of the concluding article of•the number, which it precede& r " The Three Pastorals" a stout defence of the late decision'of the Privy Council and an assault upon the positions of the defenders of ortho doxy in •the Church of England. We long 'ago pointed out the leanings of the Edinburgh, towards the philosophical and critical heresies of the day. Its mana gers ,evidently regard themselves as set for the ,defence of this school, now so rampant in England, and suffer no opportunity to pass without exhibiting their preferences. Indeed, of all the four reublished in this `country, the Quarterly Review is the only , one that can be regarded as. uncompromisingly upon the side of evangelical truth and scriptural authority. BLAOKWOOD'S MAGAZINE for Septem her (same publishers and dealers), eon tains : Chronicles of Carlingford; con_ elusion of the Perpetual Curate. Cor nelius O'Dowd, Part VIII. Rev. Charles Kingsley and Dr. Newman. Tony Butler, Part XII. The Alphabeticals. Letters from the Principalities, No. III: Prince Couza's Coup d'Etat. The City of Gold. THE CONTINENTAL MONTHLY for Oc tober, contains among a number of articles of miscellaneous character, two on the Moon, denying the revolation of that luminary on its axis and account ing for the brilliancy of its, appearance by the supposition that masses of snow and ice eternally cover a large part of its surface. There is an ingenious arti cle on the Scientific Universal Language, by Edward B. Freeland, in which the elements of thought as propounded by logicians are brought into connection with supposed elements of language with a view to eliminating the founda tions of a Universal Language. THE LIVING AGE for October J. 1 , con tains a rich list :.The Judges of England; The Clever Woman of the gamily; Wire-Pulling Politicians—Mr. Thurlow Weed ,(from the London Spectator;) Guizot's Meditations; French Nunneries; RObin Adair; Prof. Ferrier; 'Songs of the Freedmen; Short Articles; Poetry. Price .1P per annum. SOLDIERS AND RELIGION. In these days when,on,so extensive a scale the army of oar country has be come the field of a Christian harvest, it is delightful to find the same • work go ing: on in other parts of the world. We have just read, from the Montreal Wit ness, an interesting report of a farewell supper given by the Young Men's Chris tian Association of that city to the Grenadier Guards, about to return to the old country to be discharged. The religious experiences recounted are so 'confirmatory of, the, value of Christian labor in the army, that we transfer them, without hesitation to our col umns: There was, says the Herald, a very pleasant reunion on Monday night, (Sept. 12,) at the rooms of the Young Men's Christian Association, on the oc casion of the departure of the Guards. The Committee of that active Society` had invited the Christian soldiers of the Garrison, and especially of the de parting regiments, to supper, and the rooms were filled. The greater part of the guests belonged to the Grenadier Guards, a num ber were Fusiliers, and several men of the Artillery came to, bid their fellow-soldiers good-bye. The office-bearers and Committee of the As sociation, interspersed among the sol diers at table, attended to their wants. Atter supper, Mr. Claxton, President of the Young Men's Christian Associa tion, explained that this was not the first social meeting they bad enjoyed with the pious soldiers of the garrison, with whom they also had pleasing com munion and fellowship in prayer-meet ings, and efforts to extend, the kingclorn 'of. their common Lord. It was there fore judged appropriate that they should have this opportunity of bidding each other farewell. He then called upon Mr. Dougall, who said that in Scripture we read of sol diers who crowned Christ with thorns, and buffeted him, and of soldiers of whom Christ said : "I have not found so great faith ; no, not in Israel !" The same classes wore, doubtless, to be found still in the army. There were those who poured contumely on Christ, and those who followed and served him with great faith. In fact, to be a Christian at all in the army, he supposed required great faith. They would soon be among their relations and friends in Britain, and, they would find them in many cases occupying different ground from them selves in teurperance and religion. In. such circumstances, their trials would be great; but he asked them to remem ber tbat it was only those who perse vered to the end that would be saved; and they might by consistent echidna win many over. o the good way. They had been highly esteemed here ; and well• behaved soldiers, who had brought themselves off, had, he believed, readily found employmen tin whatever line they were best fitted for. Now, he wanted them, when they got home, to speak a good word for Canada, and send us the best .class of emigrants,—to tell their friends that there was something here besides bears and savages, and that only those who indulged in liquor were frozen to death in Canadian winters. He wished them a safe and prosperous passage, and bade them farewell. Sergt. Renshaw being called upon, spoke with much feeling, saying the soldiers - present were carrying away more from Montreal than they had brought to it, for they came without Christ and were going away with him. He thanked the Young Men's Christian Association for all their kindness, and, especially for the use of their rooms for prayer-meetings, and he prayed on part ing, that the blessing of God might rest on them and their labors. Private Dicks, who was next called upon, referred to Nkha,t had been said about soldiers who ; obtained honorable discharges, getting the employments that they were, best acquainted with, but that would not be his case. lEfe had been a brewer, but was now a tee totaler, and. would rather sweep cross ings than have anything to do with the liquor trade. Allusion had been made to the voyage, and. he had- been think fi:ig that • unconverted comrades would be having their meetings on ship board for drinking and . love songs, and should not the Christian soldiers have their meetings for singing songs of Zion and tae love of Jesus ? He also expressed earnest thanks to, and good wishes for the Association. The company then sang the hymn beginning, ,‘ Guide me, 0 Thou great Jehovah'! Dr. Evans, of the Artillery said he was happy to see so many of his own corps present to bid the Guards good bye, and exhorted pious soldiers to de vote the time they had formerly spent in taverns to the improvement of their minds. They should read extensively, not religious books merely, though they were the best, especially the Bible, but books, of biography, travels and science. "Improve yourselves in every way," said he, "that is my advice to you." He would give them a parting motto which he had transcribed for them, "On wards, upwards, heavenwards, higher, higher, looking unto Jesus." Sergt.-Major Davies being called upon, said they would need courage to avow their Christianity, for he well knew the trials to which they would'be exposed. When he (Sergt. Davies) was brought to Christ some years ago in London be met a brother sergeant who asked, him sneeringly if he had turned religious. "Yes," he replied, "I have turned re- Jigious." " And are you going to be a Methodist:?" " Yes I am going to be a Methodist." "And you will now be brother Davies I" " Yes, I will 'hence forth be brother Davies." Thus' he had taken his stand at first and had never since been annoyed on account of his re ligion, and he exhorted all to do the same. ✓ Ex-Sergeant Herbert said he had formerly been a non-commissioned offi cer in the Guards, but was now a city missionary. He elt .deeply at parting with his old comrades, many of whom were now brethren in Christ, and some of' them his own spiritual children. They would have trials <in the army, but not so severe as he had. -He was at one:time the only man in the battal ion who would own himself to be a Christian, and he suffered much ridicule and annoyance on that account, but thanks be to God there were ,quite 'a number since they came to Montreal who confessed Christ. He prayed. that they might be kept steadfast through the power of Divine grace. The President here introduced a Per sian gentleman, Mr. Perkins, • son of Rev. Dr. Perkins, missionary at Como: miab, who said he would carry the remembrance of this delightful meeting through life, and counted it a privilege to join in the prayers and good wishes of those present. He said - Christians were one in feeling, aims and language, though of different nationalities and separated by thousands of miles. Doubt les those whom he addressed were proud of their uniform and their country, and a British soldier abroad who should be ashamed to own his country would be, justly despised; but it was more dis graceful for a Christian to be ashamed to own Christ. He hoped they would always stand up for • Jesus wherever their lot was;cast. The hymn " z'ay Brothers will you meet us" WaS then sung, all standing up, and the office-bearers and members of the committee taking the soldiers by the hand. This happy meeting was closed by prayer and the benediction by Rev. 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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 Bohemian 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 tolhe mere English reader . yet one of the deepest interest to the student of history. Huss 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 to it by the labors and fate of Russ. The work is one 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 Ezantine: says of it: "The period fur nished a maenificent range to the historian, and the life and Martyrdom of Huss, a central figure of unusual interest around which to group the various and attrac tive details of the picture. The work of Mr. Gillett retninds 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, ncrease of a pastor's library at about this Eeason of the year. The pastor who reads them aright will 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 name 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 task performed with equal fidelity and success. Mr. Gillett has pro duceita large, but nut 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 interest. The author -is more than a mere compiler. He has not only scrutinized, but . generalized. Re 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 movement. The work, in short, is a labor of love, well -and faithfully done." The New York Evangelist speaks of it as " One of the most valuable contributions to ecclesiastical history yet made in this country." The New York itidependent, in devoting more than a column to an editorial notice of the work, remarks: "His researches are ample, his materials abundant, his selections discreet, his style rapid and racy, strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. lie has secured - , we Judge, a high and permanent place in in our litera ture The Christian intelltaeneer smeaas of it as "An mato rice! and biographical narrative, in method, style, and elevation of sentiment, every way worthy of his great theme. His 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." - SAMUEL WORK, I WILLIAM MeCOUGIL KRAMER & RAHM, Pittsburg. 349.7115170 EOM 07 WORK, McCOUGH & CO NO. 36 SOUTH THIRD STREET, PHILADA. DEALERS IN UNCURRENT BANK NOTES AND COINS. Southern and Western Funds bought oa the most favorable terms. 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