fbito’s
ggy Publishers will confer a fay or by mentioning
the prices of all books sent to this Department.
Travel and Adventure in the Terri
tory of Alaska, by Frederick Whymper,
(Harper & 8r05.,) is, we believe, the first book
on our new N. W . territories, since they came
into our possession. It gives the adventures of
an English traveller, not only in Alaska but in
British Columbia and in Kamschatka, mostly re
gions excluded by their inhospitable climate and
comparative mercantile unimportance from the
knowledge or interest of the civilized world.
The travels in the interior of Vancouver’s Is
land, and upon the banks of the great Alaskan
river Yukon, especially, have the charm of nov
elty. Few are aware of the existence of this
vast stream, two thousand miles long and from
one to three and four miles wide, the frozen Nile
of the North. The extraordinary variations of
the temperature in this part of our territory—from
08 degrees below to 72 above zero, —are anything
but inviting. The traveller seems, however, to
have met all his hardships with the good humor
of one who had counted the cost. His style is
clear and unambitious; not in itself an attrac
tion or an embarrassment. His aim is to
convey information, and, with his numerous en
gravings from drawings made on the spot (some
times at great inconvenience to fingers with the
cold at 30 below zero,) and with fine large maps,
he has made a volume of great value, and of pe
culiar interest and seasonableness. For sale by
J. B. Lippincott & Co. Price $2.50.
Messrs. Fields, Osgood & Co. have continued
their Household Edition of Reade’s works to seven
volumes. The five additional volumes, last re.
ceived, are: White Lies, a tale of the French
Kevolution; fl Love me little, Love me
Long,” in which rash and dishonest speculative
manias are well described and rebuked j Never
too late to Mend, on Prison Discipline; The
Cloister and the Hearth, in which Erasmus
appears as a leading character, and finally Grif
fith Gaunt or Jealousy, a tale of social life,
designed to show the evil of jealousy. With the
verdict against the admissableness of the latter
volume into the accepted circle of sound and
wholesome literature, we heartily agree. It not
only describes what is criminal, pandering to evil
taste almost exactly as minute reports of scanda
lous trials, spread over columns of our daily
journals, do, and with all the advantage of a
vivid and powerful style; but it omits even the
condemnation of the crime it describes. Jeal
ousy it properly enough holds up to reprobation,
but the evil courses to which jealousy drives its
victim are not summoned to the bar of public
opinion, to the courts of justice, and soarcely
before the reader’s own conscience. In this re
spect, Reade has shown a tendency to deteri
oration widely different from the uniform purity of
Dickens, and Thackeray, and especially from Bul
wcr, whose moral tone has decidedly and happily
risen, so that his later works are as pure and en
nobling, as they are masterly. Reade’s latest
book, however, Foul Play, like his earlier ones,
is not disfigured by any such objectionable traits.
The series is very neatly printed and handsomely
bound, and sold at $1 a volume.
Rev. John L. Nevius has given us, through
the Harpers, a new Book on China and the
Chinese, comprising a general description of
the country and its-inhabitants ; its Civilization
and Form of Government, religious and social
institutions, intercourse with other nations, and
present condition and prospects. For this work,
Mr. Nevius’ ten years’ missionary residence in
China has well qualified him. His style is
simple, not pverhurdened with tedious details ;
and his account of Missions in China, of the his
tory of the'country, and of the relations of the
empire to other nations is brought down to the
immediate present. The text of Mr. Burling
ame’s Treaty is in the Appendix. The volume
is abundantly illustrated, and for sale by J. B.
Lippincott & Co. 12m0., pp. 457. Price $1.75.
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Mr. Crittenden’s little book on the Sacra
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lished in response to a call from Judge Allison,
Messrs. Field, Steinmetz, Rood, Miller and oth
ers, who heard its contents from the pulpit, is a
compact and handy volume, tfeating principally
of Baptism, briefly and clearly meeting the ob
jections of immersionists; and in the part refer
ring to the Lord’s Supper, exposing the fallacies
of the Romish doctrine of Transubstantiation.
Those who have not time to refer to the larger
treatises will find Mr. Crittenden’s book very
useful. It does not, save in one or two instances,
propose anything beyond a re-statement of the
arguments current in the controversies referred
to. The style is perspicuous and without osten
tation. We do not observe that any special at
tempt is made to show exactly what the Reformed
doctrine of the Sacraments is, as distinguished,
for example, from the mere symbolism of Zwin
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THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1869.
origin of the phrase “ Sound on the Goose,” and
especially those who have already formed the ac
quaintance of Hans Breitmann, will know ex
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pincott.
Guthrie’s Sunday Magazine for February
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holds rank with perhaps any one of the secular
monthlies in the high literary ability of its con
tributors. Besides the accomplished story-wri
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studies in the Old Testament. “ Forgotten by
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high degree of usefulness which a single woman
with means and mnder pure Christian impulses
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The Medical and Surgical Reporter, a
weekly journal published in this city by Drs. S.
W. Butler and D. G. Brinton, is one of the
ablest and most successful journals of its class.
Its leading editor is an earnest Christian and an
honored church-officer. We, therefore, the more
deeply regret that, following the one-sided ten
dencies which the exclusive study of the mate
rial part of man is so likely to engender, the
boldest and grossest material theories of the day
are defended, and even exceeded,' in a recent
number. For we do not understand that mate
rialism proper has any God, as - it is difficult to
conceive how it should have; while the Medical
and Surgical Reporter more than bints that, by
the Scriptural phrase “ God is Light,” the materi
alism of the Divine nature is taught! No doubt
the Reporter escapes the charge of atheism by
this expedient. But both theism and idealism
revolt from such-supports as the Reporter hon
estly, doubtless, but most strangely thinks it has
discovered for them, in materialism.
This is a good opportunity to remind our read
ers that the great naturalist, Tyndall, in a recent
address before the British Association, declared
that the connection between mind and matter
was not necessary but empirical, and the mode of
connection between them was by us simply un
thinkable. He declared that if for instance we
could see that the sentiment of love was always
accompanied with a spiral movement of the brain
particles to the right, while that of hatred was
indicated by a spiral movement to the left, we
should be still as far as ever from conceiving the
nature of the law which orders it. This opinion of
Prof. Tyndall, who is among the great leaders of
modern physical science in England, makes sheer
nonsense of the German professor’s notion that
“ the brain secretes thought as the liver secretes
bile.” We wish the excellent editor of the Re
porter would favor his readers with that part of
Prof. Tyndall’s address, and if he could see it
to be his editorial duty to arrest rather than ac
celerate the already and naturally powerful ten
dencies of his profession to materialism, he would
in our humble judgment, greatly increase the
moral value of his admirable journal.
ijliscfllaw.ro.
“EOCIE OOBLUM.”
We hope our readers will not be fright
ened by another “ecce,” We have had so
many sensational “ ecces ” for the last few
years, that the very word, as a book-title,
is repellant. But suffer one more, which
we would fain hope will be the last. We
have been reading a duodecimo with the
above title, which in plain English means,
in this instance, “ Parish^Astronomy,” by
a Connecticut Pastor. We were led to pur
chase the book by a single sentence from
Dr. Bushnell, who called it a most “fascina
ting book.” Such a verdict from this pro
found thinker sent us post-haste to the
book-store. We found it a remarkable book
on astronomy —instructive, novel, startling,
“fascinating.”
About twenty years ago Prof. Nichol, of
Glasgow, lectured in Philadelphia, on As
tronomy. That was an epoch in our life.
We can still recall those lectures* and the
impressions made upon us. Dr. Nichol is
distinctly before ns, now as then —the genial
glow of his spirit —the rich, yet delicate ex
uberance of his language—his tremulous
sympathy with every note of bis theme—
the clear telescopic light ho cast upon what
is dark in the distant sky—the choice flow
ers of poesy which he culled and wreathed
aroud the drier corners of his discourse—
and the glow of pious feeling which seemed
to rise from his heart as from a censer of in
cense—all yet live in our memory. We re
member how with entranced interest we
followed him in his sublime excursions
through the heavens. A winged painter,
with bold pinion and bolder pencil, he led us
from world to world, and his wing seemed
to get stronger, and his vision clearer, and
his colors more vivid, the dimmer the region,
and the farther the flight. It was amazing
to witness the impression he made upon the
humblest minds by his lectures—conjointly
by his subject and gorgeous style—his gi
gantic diagrams, and the enthusiasm which
spake through his pallid countenance and
large gray eyes. By his works—“ Mechan
ism of the Heavens”— and “Solar System”
—as well as by his oral lectures, he has done
more than any other man of this century,
to emancipate the science of astronomy from
its mummy confinements, and make it walk
abroad as a free and living thing.
It is true, we had before him a work by
Fontenelle, on the plurality of worlds; Ad
dison, in the Spectator, had prattled like a
child-angel, about the stars; we had “ Her
vey’s Meditations,” and the genius of Chal-,
mers and Taylor helped to popularize the
science of astronomy; but after all Nichol is
the prose lanreat of the stars. Wherever he
went, he left behind him many “ready-made
astronomers,” and we are among them. The
reader may, smile at this, but whilst' we
make no claim to: science in this declaration,
we simply affirm that ever since he was here
we have been able to thank Heaven,for the
stars. Our first feelings of interest, kindled
by Niohol twenty years ago, was beginning
to i wane, through manifold earthly cares,
when the reading of this “ Eece Ccelum ”■
relumed the pale fires on the hearthstone of
our hearts, and we feel once more our first
love and enthusiasm in the study of the
stars.
Our friend, who writes from the garret,
may talk about the pleasures of entomolo
gy, conchology, zoology, botany, and his ro
mantic search in the mud for a hypotheti
cal fragment of a megatherium, but give us
the more spiritual and soul-elevating pleas
ures of astronomy. What field for enthusi
asm can be named in comparison with the
ever-burning stars ? How have these warm
footprints of Omnipotence through the sky
touched the poet’s soul with inspirations of
beauty and sublimity, and reflected to
Christian thought the glory of God ! It. is
true, the stars are no longer invested with
the enchantments of superstition 5 and the
onward march of science has scattered a
thousand beautiful dreams ; but if they
Beem no longer the throne of angels, they
are at least vestibule-lamps in the temple of
the Almighty, and light the way to honor,
glory and immortality. And if they have
lost the false lustre of supernaturalism and
move round their radiant orbs in solemn si
lence, they still reveal to Christian faith the
divine wisdom and glory—
“ Forever singing as they shine —
The hand that made us is divine.”
Many think there jis little use in the study
of the stars, without, an observatory and a
telescope. This is a fallacy. It is very
well for scientific stpdy, and discovery, to
have telescopes, but for all mere mental or
moral ends they are jof little use, especially
for boys and undergraduates. It is true,
Byron, writing from vjenice, after a debauch,
describes himself looking up to the sky and
exclaiming : “ What nothings we are before
the stars,” and adds, that he never felt their
greatnesß, till he looked at them through
Herschell’s telescope,land saw that they
were worlds. Now this is strange, to say
the least. If he had aj heart and an imagi
nation, he might have reen and felt that the
stars were worlds, without looking through
a telescope. It rather narrows the scope of
the imagination, and- divests the stars of
their poetical aspects. The mountain which
the star seems to touch—+the soft evening air
onwhichitseems silently to feed—its seeming
membership, of a constellated family—all
such aspects vanish'in tne glare of telescopic
illumination, and wje lose that mystic sense
of their grandeur and unfathomable beauty.
Except for new piscoVeries, these instru
ments are of littlej.use. There is an older
and nobler astronomy than that' which
names and numberlthe stars, and maps them
down into nautical charts. The true stu
dent gets somethinfc higher and better from
the stars than whaf comes through our mod
ern optic-glasses. tome one has justly said
that the heavens made their best revela
tions before telescopes were invented; the
telescope, he susperas, may shut out more
wisdom than it leti in. Evidently Job,
without the use of t lescopes, had a noble
gleam of astronomic! I insight, when he ex
claimed with a sort < f Archimedian enthu
siasm—“ He hangeth the earth upon noth
ing, and stretchoth opt the North over the
empty place.” Here ,the very germ of the
Copernican hypothesis flashed upon thesoul
of the lonely herdsman, as he lifted his eye
to that oriental night-sky. And manifestly
the shepherd King bf Israel had very good
ideas of astronomy,/without the use of tele
scopes, when, inspired with a profound sense
of the divine glory in the sky, he exclaim
ed —“When Icon&iaer the heavens, the work
of thy fingers, thfe moon and the stars, which
thou hast ordained, what is man!”
We hope, therefore, that no student will
turn away fromjthis fascinating “ Ecce Cce
lum’’—simply tecause he can't mount an
Observatory, or jstara at the heavens through
a telescope. —Lktherkn Observer.
HALBBATZEN UI
We find in the ‘/Foreign Missionary,” for
January, the following very interesting letter
from Mrs. Calderwood, the highly esteemed lady
of the missionary, Rev. W. Calderwood, whose
labors have been|st» greatly blessed'in the recent
conversions in the Mission School under his charge
at Sakaranpur. If furnishes valuable suggestions
in regard to obtaining contributions, and corres
ponds to the system which has been adopted with
so much success ( by the Free Church of Scotland,
and which has resulted in procuring such a large
sum during /the last year. Mrs. C.is a na
tive of Germany, and was (jnnected with the
Basle Society which has sen out to the heathen
so many excellent Missionari :s:
I was about thirteen years old when the Board
of the Basle Mission did not know how to meet
the expenses, of that mission! A famine, a few*
years previous to that timeJ caused the want of
funds. Men enough, but) no money. That
Board commenced the well known Halbbatzen
Union. Yin undoubtedly Heard or read of that
great event! I do not know what you call it, or
what in American coin a half batzen would be
called; hut I believe thatpalf a batzen is in
your money the sixtieth pait of a dollar. The
Society got great numbersjof plain, and there
fore cheap enough, account-books printed and
bound//Each book contained, if I remember
correctly, pages enough' to last for ten Jyears.
Eachipage contained lines t» enroll ten, contribu
tors./ When their nanies wjsre enrolled they had
•to pay the small contribution for ten weeks.
These hooks were sent to pifetors of various con
gregations in cities and villages. These pastors
,would be acting secretaries, who appointed ladies
as collectors. These' ladies Vould, among their
friends and acquaintances, appoint gatherers,
and each gatherer would try to get ten contribu
tors. Each gatherer would collect weekly the
above-named small contribution from the contri
butors every ten weeks, hand,'the then collected
sum to the collectors, who, after having the sums
from all the gatherers collected, handed it over
to the pastor, who, after having from all the col
lectors the money collected! sent the sum to the
mission-house in Basle. f > ' ■
I can assure you that ihe amount of money
collected in the way described was not small.
The debt was soon paid, and not only men hut
money, was at their disposal/ Iy'at that time,
lON—BASLE MISSION.
was but a child, and yet a still younger sister of
mine eommenced to gather money for the mis
sion, Although we felt shy at first, and our
hearts used to beat when we knocked at the
doors of various people’s rooms; yet we succeeded
well, and I had five pages full in my blue book,
viz., fifty subscribers, while my younger sister
had still more. Of course it takes time, and
sometimes the weather was unpleasant, but I do
not remember that I ever returned unhappy, and
probably not more tired than many young girls
return home from places of pleasure and dancing
parties. Ido not hesitate to state that one-half
of my subscribers were common day-laborers,
and one-fourth servant-girls, one-eighth soldiers,
and one-eighth my acquaintances. I knew
mothers of families and day-laborers who spent
their evenings in visiting and gathering money
for the mission cause. And what were the sums
thus gathered compared with the inestimable
amount of good done tot he souls in these pro
vinces. The Methodist missionaries who, about
that time, commenced their work in Germany,
gave us large numbers of tracts, and the Mission
ary and Tract Societies gave us numbers of tracts
and pamphlets, which we weekly distributed.
Thus missions among the heathen and missions
at home went hand in hand, while many who
never read their Bibles, or prayed, or were not
even mere professors of religion, contributed the
small sum, and talked with .us and read our
tracts, commenced to interest themselves in mis
sion operations, and by degrees were led to look
upon themselves, and finally found that there
was but “one thing” needed, and took up their
Bibles to find what they had never before sought
for. Many hearts yearning to do something for
their Saviour found, in this way, an opportunity
to go, as it were, with a message from the Board
of the Mission, from house to house, and after
delivering the message; could speak of messages
sent to them by their Heavenly Master. We
would feel bound to invite the worldly to come
to Jesusto warn the indifferent of the approach
ing day of judgment. We would speak of the
unfathomable oceans of grace in Christ open for
all, and we would tell the burdened and heavy
laden of Christ, the fountain where rest for all
is to found. I cannot help to state that I be
lieve that in this way, more than in any other
way I know of, sympathy with those who work
among the heathen has been awakened and ex
ercised. I venture to say again, that the money
thus collected has done an unspeakable amount
of good among all classes of people.
The rays of the sun shine upon the dust and
the mud, but they are not soiled by them. So
a holy soul, while it remains holy, may mingle
with the vileness of the world, and yet be pure
in itself.
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