t'l - tD(e' 16aInt. ELLICOTT. A Critical and Grammatical Com mentary on the Pastoral Epistles; with a Revised Translation. By Rt. Rev. Chas. J. Ellicott, D.D., Lord Bishop of Glouces ter and Bristol. Andover: Warren F. Draper. Bvo. pp. 265!* For sale by Smith & English. Every new work in exegesis put forth by Bishop - Ellicott, is a real addition to our apparatus of Scripture interpretation. The great meagreness of the English language in original works of truly scientific charac ter in this branch of theology is now re lieved, and Ellicott has contributed largely to the choicest and most purely scientific departments of this work. For critical acu men, profound and comprehensive scholar ship, luminous brevity, sound judgment, and the best English good sense, joined with thorough regard for the sacredness of the text, he must be recognized as at the head of English and American interpreters, and as scarcely surpassed abroad. •r , Bishop ElliCott is not content even with the high degree of merit which was recog nized in his earliest books, but aims in each separate undertaking at improvement. His references to the great English theologians of the seventeenth century, in the elucida tion of the text and his researches into the originals of ancient versions,' particularly the Gothic. and Syriac, give special value to his late commentaries. Great pains have been bestowed by the author upon the re vised , translation which is placed at the close of the volume. While confessing the unripeness of the times for the production, of a new authorized English version of the Scriptures, Bishop Ellicott earnestly urges the necessity of preparing for such a work, and speaks severely- of those who would " cheat" their souls with the thought that the errors of the present version " are either insignificant or imaginary." In the celebrated passage, 1 Tim. ill. 16, Bishop Ellicott reads' 4. BUTLER. St.. Paul in Rome. Lectures de livered in the Legation of the United States of America, in Rome. By Rev. C. M. Butler, D.D., Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the [Prot. Epis.] Divinity School, Philadelphia. Philadelphia : B. Lippincott & Co. 18mo. pp. 295. This course of lectures was delivered to a shifting congregation of tourists, with the laudable purpose of connecting with their sight-seeing, the noble personage of Paul, and the great religious truths centering in his name and especially in his relations to Rollie. Commencing with the Epistle to the Romans, the author exhibits the an tagonism of the Popish pretensions and Popish doctrine to the iacts and teachings of this epistle; he then traces the history of Paul's personal relations to the city, his journey, and what led to it; his intercourse with the Jews in Rome, his liberty to preach in his own hired house; Caesar's household; then spends four lectures on Paul's position towards established cus toms and institutions; gives a chapter to Paul's second imprisonment, and closes with a lecture on the claims of the Church of Rome to sanctity, infallibility and unity, designed as a reply to the positiim taken by Archbishop Manning, in his thronged Lenten and Advent sermons to English and American hearer's in Rome. Certainly it is matter of gratification that testimony so explicit and undisguised to the pure principles of the Gospel as taught by Paul, could be borne under the Very shadow of the Vatican, by the elo quent and faithful representative of the Protestant pulpit of our country. Added to the interest the lectures gain from this fact, is that of the abundant local illustra tion - which the author is in circumstances to give to his text, and which forms an at tractive feature of the work. The picture, drawn with scholarly f'ullness and finish, of the internal condition, habits, sports, and vices of imperial Rome, is one of great in structiveness. But we regret to find Dr. Butler denying to the Church with such em phasis, reiteration, and absoluteness, any pro per direct agency in overthrowing establish edivrongs in the State and society,very much in the fashion of the Southern clergy before the rebellionit is all altered with them now. Christian prudence of course suggeits the proper time for the exercise of such agency, but when the church is universally power ful, and, in fact, leads and gives laws to civilization, her Pauls will not be found entertaining such •lamentably inadequate views of her duty and sphere of action as r' Conservative" clergy may mistakenly derive from the writings of her first. Paul. BEECHER. Autobiography, Correspondence, etc., of' Lyman Beecher, D.D. Edited by Charles Beecher; with illuitrations. In two volumes, 12mo. New York : Harper & Brothers. • This work, so overflowing with manifold elements of interest and popularity, is now complete. It is not possible fairly to cha racterize the truly Christian flavor of geni ality, raciness, and originality, which dis tinguish it among books, as Dr. Beecher's life was distinguished among lives. New England, in her primitive freshness and strength, is well represented here. Great and important controversies on theological, moral, and political arenas, now dying out of memory, are here fought over again. A noble nature, a heroic, stalwart, practical Christianity, a far-seeing vision, enhanced by the gift of a most happy temperament, a vigorous and manly intellect, and a glow ing imagination, here pass, before us, in siting the reader- to imitation, and rebuking THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1865 the contented pettiness, the small philoso phising, the peevish skepticism, the dilet tanteism, and the superficial aesthetics, so fashionable in our day. Nay the large and healthy views and roundabout good ,sense of the fathers not utterly desert their children. MAGAZINES AND PAMPHLETS THE EVANGELICAL REVIEW. Edited by M. Stcever, Professor in Pennsylvania College, January, 1865. Gettysburg, Pa. Contents :—The Reformation the Work of God. Darwin on the Origin of Species. Lutheran Hymnology. Exemplary Piety in the ministry. Condition of the Jews in the e Time of Christ. The Name Jehovah, by Professor Green, of Princeton. Penn sylvania College. Repose as an element of Christian Character, by Rev. Allen Traver. The Israelites borrowing from 'the Egypt ians, by R. Kurtz, D.D. Notices of New Publications. A-valuable number, with a great variety in the articles, mostly of reasonable length, and on subjects of present interest. A high tone of evangelical piety pervades the Re view. The terms, although raised, are still but $3 per annum. THE PHILADELPHIA PHOTOGRAPHER. Feb auary, 1865.. Benerman &Wilson, Seventh and Cherry. The illustration, (photograph,) with its accompanying legend, is full of romantic in terest. We learn from its pages that the Photographoscope Cataptric Lantern, a de scription of which, copied some weeks ago from the Photographer into our columns, created so much interest, is now an article of manufacture and sale in our city, costing sixty dollars. REPORT OP THE GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT of the Philadelphia Branch U. S. Sanitary Commission, to the Execusive Committee, January 1,1.865. THANKSGIVING SERMONS NATIONAL UNION THE TEST OF AMERICAN LOYALTY. An Historical Discourse, Nov. 24, 1864, by George Duffield, Jr., pastor Ist Presbyterian Church, Adrian, Michigan. (Published by request,) Sit denique in scriptum in fronte uniuscujusque, quid de Republica sentiat. Cicero, Catil. 1. XIII: One of the most valuable of late Thanks givingdiscourses. With discrimination and care, and without any mere efferves cence of patriotic feeling, the author traces the original seminal principle of our TJnion in the early colonial times, and shows how the grand idea was eliminated as an entirely novel political creation, distinct from any previous known combinations, and with the conscious rejection of those expedients in_ which rebels and rebel sympathizers pre tend our union actually consists. "The Union," says the preacher, " is the historic, root of the nation: it is its organic life. The Union is our country." TER AMERICAN Cnisis. A Discourse de-. livered on the day of National Thanks giving, Nov. 24,1864, by Sherman B. Can field, D.D., pastor of the Ist Presbyterian Church, Syracuse, N. Y. The following points are ably handed in this patriotic, earnest, and scholarly dis course, based on Joel 3 : 14, " multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision .'4, 1. That it is no new thing for a nation to go through a long and terrible struggle to ward off enormous evils and to gain abet ter moral and political position. 2. That God has been leading us - to decide and to decide aright, questions involving both the being and the well-being of this nation; and 3. That this decision of those momentous questions has been made with such sacri fices, and with such a developement and confirmation of the national conscience, as forbid its reversal. - SERVICES AT THE INSTALLATION of Rev. James P. Bixby, as pastor of the Ist Pres byterian Church, Boston. Bythe Presby tery of Londonderry, Oct. 27, 1864. The Sermon, by Dr. Kirk, is not given ; only the charges to the pastor and the peo"- ple. THE AFRICAN'S RIGHT TO CITIZENSHIP. Philadelphia; James S. Claxton. Unaccountably < this pamphlet has es caped us for some weeks. We owe it a hearty welcome, and regret it was not more prompt. It has all the calmness and ton ,clusiveness of great principle characteriziug its argument. Before the Ithiiriel .spear of its logic, prejudice lOsea its disguise and resumes its true defprmitj. 'the simple _.„ positions maintained by the writer are thus stated i his analysis : ' "The right