tbr the trial. Here, for over three weeks, has the writer been endeavoring to imitate Paul. If any or how many have been gained, will be known when that other Book is opened. GOLDEN GATE We are now within sight of this famous en trance from the Pacific to the capacious bay of San Francisco. Our voyage terminates, and we, who have been thus long and compactly together, after forming such hasty, yet intimate acquaint ance, are about to sever and scatter through the land of golden dreams, crushed hopes and sad dened hearts,—few of us likely again to cross each other's pathway in life, or meet again until the last gathering and final adjustment. Such is life, with .its real yet constantly dissolving views. The voyage has been to me one of uninter rupted newness and enjoyment. When safe within the promised goal, the region of wondrous story, sight and incident, and fairly at my pro posed Mission work, you, dear . Doctor, your read ers and myself, will again commune. A. M. STEWART. Pita's Califs. Dar Publishers will confer a favor by mentioning the prices of all books sent to this Department. Rev. John Levington's treatise on SCRIPTURE BAPTISM. has reached a Fourth Edition. It is vigorous in style, popular in tone, gives the corn mon-sense views of the subject in a telling way, and is altogether one of the most readable of con troversial books. It covers the whole ground, both the Mode and Subjects , of Baptism, and contains an appendix, in which' it Michigan op ponent is handled tinsparingly. All is'included in 242 pages, 12uto. For sale at the Methodist Book Store. The same author has also issued, at the same place, a volume entitled POWER WITH GOD AND WITH MEN, designed to show the sources of Christian power—how it is obtained, retained, increased, lost, regained.• • The illustrations are drawn from the. early Christian Church, and from the great religious, movements of the six teenth and eighteenth centuries. The style is fresh and popular, but the volume lacks unity. COUSIN PAUL is a work of Fiction, by '"'Jes sie Glenn," written with a high purpose, but with a faulty exuberance of style and sentiment, which practice may correct. With greater se. verity and regard to good taste, the plot and pur pose of the book would show to real advantage, as they are not without merit. Published by CARLETON, N.Y. PERIODICALS AND PAMPHLETS. THE ATLANTIC for July is, for the most part, a disappointment. "The Dole of Jarl Thorkell," poety, is among the few attractions of the num ber. During a famine in the North, the bloody Scandinavian deities, unsatisfied with ordinary sacrifices, are represented as requiring human blood: The Aesir thirst and hunger And hence our blight and ban; The mouths of the strong gods water For the flesh and blood of man. Amid the dread anticipations caused by this announcement, the song of "the Dream-wife of Thingvalla" is heard proclaiming an utterly dif ferent doctrine : "No wrong by wrong is righted." "The gods are what you make them." "Make dole of skyr and black bread That old and young may live; And look to Frey for favor, When first like Frey you give." • Jan Thorkell takes sides with the singer. He says "Too dear the Aesir's favors Bought with our ohildren's lives; Better die than shame in living Our mothers and our wives. og The full shall give his portion To him who bath most need ; Of curdled skyr and black bread Be daily dole decreed." He broke off from his neck chain Three links a beaten gold; And each man at his bidding Brought gifts for young and old Then mothers nursed their children, And daughters fed their sires, And Health eat down with Plenty, Before the next Yule-fires. The Horg Stones stand in Rydkal, The Doom-ring still remains, But the snows or a thousand winters Have washed away their stains. Christ ruleth now ; the Aesir Have found their twilight dim ; And wiser than she dreamed of old, The Vala sung of Him! " The Great Erie Embroglio" is an explana tion, as full as could be given within the limits of a magazine article, of one of the greatest contests fur supremacy in railroad interests that has ever been known—that between Commodore Vander bilt of the Harlem and N. Y. Central road, and Daniel Drew of the Erie. It is worthy of the study of all who would, gain an insight into the great financial transactions of the age and of New York City. HOURS AT FlomE for July, opens with the address of Horace Bushnell before the Theologi cal School of Chicago: "Training for the Pulpit Manward." In this address, the importance of living, personal interest in the relation of preach er and people, the causes of its absence, and the means of securing it are treated with the usual acuteness, originality and eloquence of the speak er. The causes of the defect, are such as; defi lency in the natural gifts of address ; - bad moral development: sycophancy, jealousy, sensuality, vanity, ill-temper, obstinacy, want , of truth and Heart; interest in the wrong direction, away 'rum true interest in men,—as in abstract ,theo logy, in subjects as distinguished from" men or pe . rsons, as even in mere success, when one lays lulus& out for the post, "running the Church as a mill," &a. A due interest in men .is got by- a living observation of men; by the due explorai THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1868. tion of sin as a psychological and palpable fact before us; by active efforts to do men good; by studying the proofs of God's interest in man in Christ, & in his apostles; by studying the expecta tions raised of man in the Scriptures. The com parison of the minister's relation to the people with the unique provision for supplying Chicago with water, admirably and instructively closes the address. " Christianity and Morality" is translated from a paper forming part of Guizot's third and forthcoming volume on Christianity. " Pawnbrokery in New York" is a graphic pic ture drawn from actual observation of scenes in a leading pawnbroker's establishment in New York. Simpson & Co., the name of the firm given, is no satisfactory clue and is not designed to be, to the exact scene, since there are in the Directory nine persons of that name; in our own city there are five " Nathans" in the same traffic, besides . an auctioneer and others in cognate lines of business of the same name. The writer, how ever, attempts . no explanation of the three gilt balls, the sign of the pawnbrokers' business, we believe the world over. President Woolsey corn— mences a series of articles on " Books, Booksel ling and Libraries in Ancient Rome," full oreu rious and rare informati'on conveyed with 'the usual felicity and perspecuity of the writer. Bigitiaittous. TABER'S PROTESTANT HYMNS. Faber's. Hymns may be divided into, two classes: Protestant and CatholiC. The beauty and fervor of the former seem almost wholly inconsistent with the superstition and. childishness of the latter. That he 'whO wrote "The God of my Childhood," in whiflli occur such stanzas as these: " I could not sleep unless Thy. hand Were underneath my head, That I might kiss it if I, lay Wakeful upon my bed. . " Thou broadenest out with every year Each breadth of life to meet; • I scarce can think thou art the same, • Thou art so much more sweet." . . could have written the weak lines from ".To Our Blessed Lady" which follow seems al .most incredible: "0 turn to Jesus, mother I turn, And call Him by his tendereet 'names; Pray for the holy souls that burn • = This hour amid'the cleansing flarhes.. "In pains beyond all earthly pains, Favorites' of Jesus there they lie Letting the fire wear out the stains, And worshipping God's purity." And yet he did so. But it seems' to na that in his hymns Faber is less a Catholic than a Protestant. The petty conceits and littlenesses of thought in the worship of his Mother Church act like fetters upon his pure and meditative spirit. And only when he deals with genuine Christian experience, such as all true followers of. Jesus; of what ever name have in common, is he true to himself and his genius. Read "Jesus, My God and My Ally" "The Thought of God," " Perfection," ."pistractions• in Prayer," " The Eternal Years"; and then turn to " Hymn to St. Joseph," and " To Our Holy Father and Blessed Founder, St. Philip Neri," closing thus.: " Dear Father Philip! give to us Thy manners, gay and free, Thy patient trust, thy plaint of prayer, Thy deep simplicity. to see the difference. In the depths of his own soul Faber seems to be, what he was born, a Protestant. Read this acknowledgment in the preface to his " Catholic Hymns" : "Every one who has had experience among the English poor knows the influence of Wesley's Hymns and the Olney Collection. Less than moderate literary excellence, a very tame versifica tion—indeed, often the simple recurrence of a rhyme insufficient; the spell seems to lie in that. Catholics even are not unfrequent ly found pouring with a devout and unsus pecting delight over the verses of the Olney Hymns, which the author himself can re member acting like a spell upon him for years, strong enough to be for long a counter in fluence to very grave convictions, and even now to come. back from time to time unbid den to the mind." The spell, doubtless, was deeper than the rhyme; deeper even than Faber thought. Nor, remembering that he was born, and bred, and - lived for thirty years a Protestant, do we wonder at the lines, " Penance not self-imposed can make The whole of life a prayer." In fact, Faber's Protestantism is the life of his hymns. It is not, therefore so re markable that, while his prose-writings have been republished in this country, and are in all Catholic bookstores, Protestant publishers alone have ventured to give an American public a sample of his hymns. In Boston you can find nothing but this Pro testant edition of Bridgeman & Childs,, al ready reviewed in The Independent. A few copies of "Jesus and Mary," includiOg these Protestant hymns, published in, Lon don in 1852, have been in circulation ; but none can now be obtained. It is very significant that the great help ers to Romanism have so largely come from Protestant sources., Orestes A. Brownson, the most vigorous intellect that the Papacy has had in this country, was educated and taught his fearless locricalprocesses by Pro testantism. It is so of Father Hecker, the most intense and adroit prepagandist of Romanism now in the,United States. And here is. Faber, a Protestant pervert—or, to use the corresponding euphemism adopted by Father Hecker; in speaking of " here tics," a non-Protestant—aspiring to furnish for his adopted Church hymns , that should do for Romanists what the hymns of Cow per and Newton, and Doddridge, and Wes ley:have done= for Protestants. These Protestant hymns of Faber are al ready in some of our hymn-books. Though only one is_credited to him in the Sabbath Hymn Book, be has furnished four others namely, H. 240, " 0 gift of gifts I 0 grace of faith 1" taken from the hymn entitled " Conver sion"; H. 912, "0 see how Jesus trusts himself," from the hymn "Jesus is God"; H. 911, "Thy home is with the humble, Lord" and 11. 172, "My God, how wonderful Thou art!" with the exception of the last stanza, which has been appended by the compilers. But the most curious adaptation from Catholic to Protestant uses occurs in 11. 1077, • " Dear Jesus, ever at my side," originally entitled "The Guardian Angel." In the Protestant hymn-book the following verses are omitted, as not calculated for such latitude: "But most of all I feel Thee near, When from the good priest's feet, I go absolved,' in fearless love Fresh toils and cares to meet. "Q,weary not, but love me still, For Mary's sahe,,Thy queen; She ,never tired of me, though I Her worst of eons have been. " Then love• me, love me, angel dear I And I will love Thee more; And help me when my soul is cast T_Tp,oti the eternal shore." AB a leoniperisation, hoWever, for these orniSsions, , the Protestant editor giyes `lis° as a last stanza the following doxology:: " To God the Father glory be, And to his only Son; The same, 0 Holy Ghost to Thee, While Ceaseless ages run!" Not among the least of our obligalicins to Faber is.the inspiration and encouragement given to all friends of Struggling causes by the hymn ".The'Right Must, Win," ,closinff with the 9ft-quoted stanza: " For. right is right, since God is Godi „ And right, the day must, win; , To doubt would be disloyalty, To falter Would be sin":-- lines worthy of Whittier, which is praise enough. , . . 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