No milk has been lost during the past season, though the weather has been unprecedently hot. The patrons, by means of taking the cream from unday's milk, have supplied themselves with butter, which, during a part of the season, they c ould not have done if their milk had been taken to the factory every day in the week. They know that they have not only saved the drudgery of taking their milk to the factory on the Sab bath, thus violating its sanctity ; but have been made more comfortable, and have effected better sales, and made more money than other factories hat have been worked seven days in a week, and thus caused the sanctity of the Sabbath to be disturbed by the rolling of vehicles to and from the factory, and by the noise of the engines. In fact, they are so well satisfied by the experiment, that they now greatly wonder why they did not repose the greatest confidence pecuniarily in the declaration of our Saviour : " That the Sabbath was made for man." They fully believe that in every respect those who refrain from making cheese on the Lord's day are every way the gain ers. Too much praise cannot be given to Dea. Wilcox, who has ventured the experiment, and who has so faithfully and wisely managed all the concerns of the factory. The prospect now is, that he will receive increased patronage the coming season. SAMUEL BISSELL, JOEL R. PARMELE, i Committee OSCiAR 0. KELSEY, ii; eo Cat. se' Publishers will confer a favor by mentioning the prioes of all books sent to this Department. Messrs. SCRIBNER, WELFORD & Co., N. Y. : have issued a new , edition of a work of the deep est interest to theologians:—Prebendary LID DON'S BAMPTON LECTURES of 1866, on the DI VINITY OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. These Lectures are addressed to that large class of doubters whp, while averse from the orthodox doctrine of the Godhead of Christ, are ambitious to be preeminently moral, . and there fore lay especial emphasis upon the beauty and perfection of Christ's human character. To this class of minds, in particular, it presents the argu ment from our Lord's selfassertion, or the dilem ma presented by a belief in his human perfection and a denial of his superhuman and divine char acter. It presses such persons to the' " choice between a phantom and a reality, between the implied falsehood and the eternal truth of Chris tianity, between the interest which may cling to a discredited and evanescent memory of the past, and the worship of a living, ever-present, and immaculate Redeemer." It is a work of great and varied learning and it meets and answers the living questions of the time upon one of the few mattcrp of vital interest in theology and in prac tical life. The spirit of the writer is scientific, yet not cold, courteous to opponents, yet keenly alive to the importance of the truth he is defend ing. The book is a real addition to our better theological literature. 12tuo. pp. 535, with two, indexes. Another theological work of great wane is McCraNTom and STRONG'S CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL LITERATURE, the first work of real Cyolopedial proportions in the department of theology in the English language, and resembling the celebrated work of Herzog just completed in Gernian. As will be seen from the subjects embraced in the title, it ranges over every class of topics with which minister, student of the Bible, or inquirer into religious truth would need to be acquainted. In criticism we are instructed about the manu scripts, in exegesis we are introduced to the dif ferent books and their authors, with thorough discussion of the more important persons and events treated of; in Archaeology, the whole field in all its departments,. is covered; in theology the particular doe/trines, are briefly treated, while the different systems are described with sufficient fullness under the names which they bear. Church history is presented in biographical sketches of eminent men of every era, in accounts of various parties, sects, heresies and denominations, and in descriptions of countries where the Church has flourished, and in accounts of missions. It is, also, a guide to the literature of each particular subject treated. The'illustrations are numerous, and for the moat part valuable ; the maps in this volume being an improvement on those of the first. The public, while not unaware of faults in the work, are so well satisfied with its general excellence, that they will be glad to hear that " the sUcceedO n g volumes may be expected as rapidly as they can be carried through the press." This volume embraces the letters C and D., covers 933 pages, doubie , column Bvo., in fine, but very clear type, has nearly 400 maps and illustrations, mid i 8 published and for sale by Harpers, in cloth for $6. Phila : Lippincott. JUVENILES. Messrs. J. P. SHELLY' it Co., continue to add to their excellent list ' of Juveniles. The last two which we have received are 18mo AIe.AY RNE AND HER VRIEND,` pp: 197; .111111,IILY!S LOOKING Gratis, pp. 102, both by Mrs. E' E. BOYD, and designed for nearly the youngest class of readers. They are pritited'in Va . rAe type and are of the best tendency , yet Wit,ho,ut that pithiness and force which leave deep impressions. THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31 ; 1868. PERIODICALS AlkiD PAntrIILETs. Most of the Magazines have been very early with their January issues. Besides others al ready noticed, we mention THE SABBATH AT HOME, the Illustrated Monthly of the Boston AMERICAN TRACT SO CUTE. Many of the articles are of unusual value In this number, the articles illustrative of Bible Lands are continued by the competent hand of Rev. W. L. Gage, perhaps, since the death of our own Robinson, the best Scripture Geographer in America. His articles are ac companied with maps and engravings. " Remi niscences of Legh Richmond " describes the scenes and churches mentioned in the works of this writer on the Isle of Wight, and is illustra ted in the most admirable manner. " Carl Riv ers and what he learned at College," Chap. viii, and ix, shows no small power of description and insight into human nature; "Small Beginnings," is a story of what a faithful teacher may do di rectly for the spiritual good of her pupils. " Abroad or Lilian's New School," by Mrs. 11. E. Brown, takes us travelling to Europe with a little girl. There are other articles, some select ed ; one long one on the " Mother of our Sa viour," bringing in legends, and painters' notions mingled with as much, or rather as little of the truth as we know. Several of the features of the Magazine are good, but we are constrained to ask: Cannot first rate talent be procured for the writing of practical religious articles for our periodical religious literature ? Boston : $2 per annum. HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY, for January, con tains four richly illustrated articles. The SILENT CITY at Greenwood is a fine opening poem, in which a sombre subject is covered, like Greenwood itself, with beauty. " The Buffalo Range " mad " Paul du Chaillu again " give us a large in stalment of wild life. " South Coast Saunterings in England" carries us around the neighborhood of Salisbury, with pen and pencil. There are several other articles of the usual wide variety and popular vein. We are informed in the arti cle on current events, that the recent elections resulted in a Democratic gain in the Senate I BOOKS RECEIVED. CUTLER. The Empty Crib; A Memorial of Little . Georgie, with words of consolation for bereaved parents. By Rev. Theo. L. Cuyler. New York : R. Carter & Bros., 520 Broadway. Phila. : Pres. Pub. Corn., 1334 Chestnut st. WHITNEY. The Last Passover. An account of the closing incidents in the Life upon Earth of Our Lord Jesus Christ; a Verbal Harmony of the Four Gospel Narratives. Arranged by John R. Whitney. Phila.: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfing er 819 and 821 Market street. GOLDEN LINKS, or Thoughts' for The Hours. 8 square 16mo. pp. 144, as above. DILKE. Great Britain, altecorcl of Travel in Eng lish-speaking countries during 1866 and 1867, by. Charles Wentworth Mike. With Maps and Il lustrations. New York: Harper & Bros. 12ino. pp.' 561. grimaar. ARE THERE OTHER. HABITIBLE WORLDS? The question whether other worlds than this are inhabited by intelligent beings is likely to be discussed till time shall end, without receiving any decisive solution. Yet certain interesting discoveries which have been made of late have a curious and instructive bearing upo.). a controversy which attracted much attention a few years since. Dr. Whewell, one of the parties to this controversy, in " The. Plurality of Worlds," maintained the opposite to the common hypothesis, founded upon the most general analogies. An article from St. Paul's, an English magazine, reviews 'his position in the light of recenttesearches, some of the points of which we shall briefly re-state. In maintaining that we have no reason to infer that the other planets of our sys tem are inhabited, Dr. Whewell urged that we knew nothing about their constitution, and probably never should. They might. not possess a single element found in our globe, and he went so far ,as to maintain that Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are but "universe clouds," or, " water and vapor packed into rotating masses," and the asteroids " were specks and shreds of planetary matter." At that time it seemed I improbable enough that we should ever learn anything certain about the physical constitution of bodies so far distant from I us. Yet such knowledge has actually been acquired by spectroscopic analysis. When a ray of light is analyzed by the prism the rainbow colors resulting are found to be crossed by hundreds of distinct lines or markings. Moreover these lines are found to vary in position and character, according to the substance consumed in the flame. Thus iron, copper, zinc, etc., each give dis tinct markings, and the most dtlicate ex periments show them to be invariable. Now when applied to the analysis of the sun's light, this discovery shows, beyond dispute, that iron exists in large quantities in the solar atmosphere. So also sodium, magne sium and calcium, and in lesser quantities copper and zinc, 'and other terrestrial ele ments. The conclusion is inevitable that the constituents of the sun are mach as those of the earth. When this fact is shown of the great center of the system, the con clusion as to the other members is of course greatly strengthened. Thus one difficulty, which Dr. Whewell regarded as insurmoun table, has been partially compassed. But we know more of the planets them selves than Dr. WhewelPthought possible. lie held it doubtful whether they have an atmosphere like that of the earth. The. spectroscope seems to have solvedthe doubt in the case of some of them. As they shine• only by reflected light, it might have been ammed that nothing could be learned of them by this• instrument, for, of course, it is the sun's light we analyze in this case as in' the, other. But in observing gars the, spectrum was found to be crossed by lines only appearing in that , of the sun when near setting,, so that his light passed through a denser strata of our atmosphere, To find whether these lines arose from anything in the earth's atmosphere, the spectroscope was at once applied to the moon, and no thing of the kind was seen. Thus it was shown that Mars has an atmosphere loaded with the very vapors which are found in the earth's. The same has been shown of Venus, Jupiter and Saturn. Dr. Whewell doubted whether even Mars was so like the earth as had been supposed. Careful observation, however, has shown that it has certain unvarying features, re garded as lands and seas, and maps of these have been constructed like those of the earth, and we have names and boundaries for the Martial seas and continents. White caps at the poles of the planet are found to increase and decrease as snow mu-t in those regions with the progress of the seasons of the planet. Changing masses are observed in the atmosphere exactly corresponding to clouds. So we have land, sea, snow, clouds and atmosphere.like the earth in the case of this best known of the planets. Another of Dr. Whewell's objections has also been removed. He claimed that the interior planets would be uninhabitable on account of excessive heat, and the exterior on account of extreme cold. Experiments made by Prof. Tyndall show that the tem perature of a planet will depend very much on its atmospheric envelope. A dense aque ous atmosphere admits the heat readily, but will not radiate it again, while a dry atmos phere will radiate it as readily as it is admitted. Certain-gases have even a greater affect than vapor., Every one knows the effect of the rarification of the earth's at mosphere in high regions, so that the Him alayas shoot up from . tropic heat and bear eternal snows on their summits. Thus the effect of distance from the sun may be mod ified so as to make even the most unfavora bly placed planets inhabitable. Notwith standing all this, and more, that might be said, there remain important differences be tween the earth and other planets, as in the power of gravitation, in the seasons, the length of their years, and others which need not be specified: It is curious and in teresting to remark that the progress of discovery has been to clear away the ob jections urged to the habitability of other planets, but we are not, and probably never will be in this life, any nearer a solution of the question whether intelligent beings are found on these globes. The argument from analogy is not satisfactory, if geology teaches truly, and yet we shall probably have to rest satisfied with this. It is worthy of remark that the spectro scope extends its analysis beyond our own sys tem. From it we learn facts regarding the fixed stars similar to those ascertained of our own sun, only while the sun Eieems closely to resemble the earth, these suns of other systems are shown• to be widely dif ferent. 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