Pite,s Ca*. mar Publishers will confer a favor by mentioning the prices of all books sent to this Department. PASTOR'S VISITING BOOK. Arranged by Rev. W T. Beatty. New York : A. D. F. Randolph Flexible morocco covers. 18mo. 90c. PASTOR ' S REGISTER, for Private Use. Third edition 4to. Arranged and published as above. $2.75. DUPLICATE CERTIFICATE 8008. Arranged and pub lished as above. $1.75. The above is a very valuable series of books for pastors' use, prepared with great care and a wise reference to the pastors' wants, and to the historical interests of the. churches. They are most important helps to all who desire to do their work for the Master with that system which seems ad indispensable element of fidelity. The Cer tificate Book is so arranged that, like the ordi nary check-book, a record of the dismissal may be made upon the broad strip of paper which re mains in the book,after.removing the certificate. If the certificates had extended the length of an entire page, they would, we think, have given satisfaction to a greater number. the Pastor's Register " embraces a record for every part of his ministerial activity, including Sermons, •Bap ctisms,Communicants Received, Marriages, Fune rals,' Pastoral Visits, Miscellaneous Addresses, Annual Summary, and Index of the, Texts, of which the volumes in his library furnish illustra tions. All these departments are fully system atized and handsomely prepared for use with the least possible trouble on the part of the pastor. The Visiting Book is designed for the pocket, and includes an alphabetical list of families, and blanks for individual members of the congrega tion. Ticknor ik'FiOds. The illustrated editions of DICKENS' CHRIST MAS CAROL is, thus far, the gem of the season. The story itself is one of unequalled purity, pa thos, and literary and moral interest, in the range of modern literature ; on the whole, we re gard it as the best thing that Dickens ever pro duced. Its scenes and situations are highly sug gestive to the plastic faculty, and such as to in sure popularity to a reasonably good embodiment in art. When we mention that the drawings are by S. Eytinge, Jr., and the engravings by A. V. S. Anthony, all readers acquainted with the very effective illustrations of the Diamond Edi tion of Dickens' books by the same publishers and artists, will be prepared for a rich treat in this volume, where ,the artists have been allowed the ample range of twenty full page illustrations, besides vignettes, and the finest paper and typo graphy on which to exhibit their. work. It is impossible for us to choose amid excellence so nearly, unvarying. The animation and homeli ness of the scenes in the Cratohit family will perhaps secure the most general admiration. Tiny. Tim's ride (vignette) and the dead Tiny are among the most exquisite specimens of mod ern wood-engraving. The whole volume is a credit, to Boston and American, book-making in every . deprtment. Cloth, $5. Another choice illustrated volume, of an en tirely different character, from the same pub lishers, is the new edition of J. W. Palmer's POETRY OF COMPLIMENT AND COURTSHIP. This is a most 'carefully prepared yolumeembra eing an immense number of pieces from every age of English literature, with a few translations. We have already spoken of the contents of this volume in noticing an earlier edition., ,, Of this, we need merely say, that opportunity has been taken to increase its value by revising the text, and by substituting some poems of more positive merit than others in the first edition, so that readers will have in this volume a very complete and accurate presentation of the mode in which the courtly and amatory spirit of the Anglo- Saxon race expresses itself: The externals of tLe volume are exceedingly elegant. The tinted and finely printed page is surrounded with a red line border, and ten of the finest steel engravings, by the American Bank Note Company, illustrate various characters and scenes of . the poems. These engravings, though small, and more . like medallions, are executed with extraordinary deli cacy and beauty. Cloth, $4. THE FLOWER AND THE STAR, and` other sto ries for children, is a collection of delightful, rambling tales from fairy-land and from dream land, exactly sueh as float through the fancy of the child in reverie; not, however, without some hints - of practical value Beautifully and inge niously illustrated. Same publishers, $1.50. The Quarterly volume of LITTELL'S LIVING AGE, including July, August and September, has just been issued. It is rich in well made selec tions from the best periodical literature of. the day, especially the leading exponents of English opinion. The high character and seasonableness of the articles may be inferred pretty surely from the titles. Who does not wish to know what is being written by masters of the English language at this day, upon such subjects as these : Salem Witchcraft, Apocryphal Gospels, Nitro-Glycerine, The Jesuits in North America, . Pie Culture of Emerson, Projected Expeditious, .to the North Pole, Dr. Livingstone, Faradig 'Discoverer, The Earth a Magnet, Great Solar. Eclipses, The Acquittal of President Johnsen, ReligiouS Dan ger of the. Continent, liettlihw Arnold vs. max Carlyle, and many others of the sort? sidealPAßti.PaPers as those unary:l;444 WS ' icOiali oketohoe, 'worthy of Goldwin Smithriti.:l6/iebk4. THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12 ; 1868. wood, on the Reign of George 11., and all the choicest fiction and poetry of the time. We are sorry to note a brief, ill-humored criticism of Mr. Barnes' volume on the Psalms; the dead fly in the 834 pages of .sweet ointment. Boston: Littell & Gay. CHARLES SCRIBNER & Co. have issued, in very handsome, substantial style, THE Boox OF PUBLIC PRAYER, compiled from the authorized formularies of worship of the Presbyterian Church, as prepared by Calvin, Knox and others. It is a very complete manual of devo tion and worship, furnishing a guide and stimu lus for almost every occasion when the minister would lead the people in drawing, : near to God. In the introduction, a . brief historical view is given of the liturgic activity of the Reformed Church, and the position is taken that, " The adoption of a liturgy is peculiarly consonant with the spirit and usage of the Presbyterian Church." This is a very strong statement, and * one not in accordance with the actual state of things in the most flourishing part of the Presbyterian Church, where liturgies are exceptions of the rarest sort. But we believe there is far less of that enmity to forms of worship which, for three centuries, has owed its strength to the odious associations in which forms were chiefly found, and where they had been pushed to an extravagant length. Prejudices have died away, and most Presbyte rian Churches, while preferring the spontaneous, though less polished voluntary mode, concede to other churches, in their own or in other de nominations, the perfect right to almost any de gree of help they may wish to get from a "book." One of the very best helps, in voluntary service, is the study of such modes of pure devotion as came from thb hearts and heads of the large souled, earnest-minded Reformers. They are to be found in this.book. The volume is strongly bound, and has red edges, being adapted to use as a manual. Penerful Temperance Story. We are much mistaken if " THE FAMILY Doo. TOR, or Mrs. Barry and her Bourbon," just pub lished, anonymously, by HOYT, does not prove one of the most successful books of the season of its class. It is a powerful, deeply moving story, filled, from end to end, with dreadful illustrations of the evil effects of intemperance, brought on by moderate drinking, and especially by the phy sician's indiscriminate prescription of whiskey as a remedy. And direful and thiek-strown as the pictures are, there are, doubtless, multitudes of broken-hearted ones and of disgraced householdi i who could give bitter testimony to their truth. It is not unlike " Rachel Noble's. Experience" in some parts of the plot, and is 'scarcely the work of so practiced a hand as that story, but there is a bolder massing and a freer treatment of the dreadful l facts. , We have no'doubt the book will do good. Its recognition of the great truths of the Gospel is clear, and it is worthy a place in every Sunday School library. PAMPHLETS AND PERIODICALS. BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE for October contains, among other articles, No. VII. of the Historical Sketches of the Reign of George 11. The Reformer, or John Wesley, is the sub ject, and is treated with the same elegance of style and philanthropic Catholicism that. have character4ed and given value to the whole re markable series. "Cornelius O'Dowd" fuinialies the brief and spicy articles ; not quite within the limita of '° gossip, "but a little raised above the conversational tone of polished and intelligent gentlemen. He writes this month on, Will it come off, and Where ? referring to the possible war between France and Prussia; Women's Rights; and a Wholesome Change (improvement in the behaviour of British Naval Seamen abroad ) Religious Equality and Unlimited Formulas dis cusses the serious question of Church and State as now agitated by the liberals in England . . W. W. S. contributes, a long poem,entitled, A Roman Lawyer in Jerusalem—First Century. The law yer is ingeniously described as arguing for the in nocence of Judas in the Betrayal of Christ. The closing article on Rt. Hon. Benjamin D'lsraeli. 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