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A volume of SERMONS by REV. JOHN KER,
„r (;ias g ow, has been published by Carters, en
titled THE DAY DAWN AND THE RAIN. They
are the production of' a chaste, disciplined, taste
and thoughtful mind, so constructed and en
dowed as to give a wholesome stimulus to all
who come in contact with it. There are few or
no lofty flights of eloquence or startling modes
of putting the truth, but an even flow of fin
ished rhetoric from a fountain of good sense, and
o f independent thought. The trammels of a
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his fresh modes of investigation and statement,
but no alarming departures from " the standards "
are indulged. The striking titles are not decep
tive catch-words, but indications of the freshness
of the author's conceptions. They are such as
" God's Word Suited to Man's Sense of Wonder,"
" God Declining first offers of Service," "Is
man entirely Selfish ?" The volume is got out
in excellent style, in large type, fine paper, bev
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Eldridge & Bro. send us another of " Clarke
& Stuart's Classical Series," being SELECT ORA
TIONS OF MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO. WITH
EXPLANATORY NOTES BY PROF. GEO. CHASE.
Besides the standard four" Against °saline,"
there are ten others in the volume, closing with
his first "Against Verres." We wish that he
had added that in which the world-reirwned
passage occurs—" Romanus arts Sum," which
throws so much light on one crisis in the life of
St. Paul. The selection, however, is a very fine.
one, and much larger than is usual in a,book for
use in schools. The text is the almost immacu
late one of the Tatiehnita Edition of ICayser &
Baiter. The notes are well adapted for the use
of the more advanced 'classes, and are free from
the verbosity and verbal carelessness which mar
Dr. Anthon's Editions. Close attention is given
to niceties of expression and historical allusions,
as is fiiting for students of that grade. A plan
of the Roman Forum and a list of cotemporary
consuls, make it easier to understand his allusions
to time and place. Pp. 334, Mao.
SCRIBNER'S ILLUSTRATED tIBRARY OF WON
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translations of French works, written with char
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picturesque and dramatic in their subject% Nat
ural science has perhaps never so succeessfully
been laid under contribution for the entertain
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merous, brilliant and startling. The books have
had an enormous sale in France." We know not
why the American public should not receive them
with like enthusiam. Price $1.50 per volume.
For sale by Smith, English & Co.
Scribner & Co. have also issued in one large
volume "CONYREA.RE & HOWSON'S standard
work on the LIFE AND EPISTLES OF ST. PAUL."
This is the unabridged edition complete. As
one of the earliest and best applications of mod
ern scholarship and research to the explanation
of the New Testament., combining a thoroughly
reverent with a thoroughly scientific spirit,
it deserves a place in every minister's and
Bible student's library. We are glad to announce
that it may be had in this compact form, with
illustrations and maps complete, at the very low
price of $3. For sale by Smith, English & CO.
PHINEAS FINN ie the latest of Anthony
Trollope's novels, which' are among the best in
moral tone, having matter-of fact, direct, business
like interest in plot, natural in style, and graphic
in description. The present volume is illustra
ted with full page drawings by Millairs. HAR-
PER & BROS.
A. S. BARNES & CO: have published, in stiff
covers, a BRIEF SUMMARY OF AMERICAN HIS
TORY, which will be found useful for study and
for reference.
Messrs. LITTELL & GAY have published, in
their Series of Tales of the Living Age : THE
HOUSE 01' CARDS, by Mrs. Cashel Hoey. Paper
JUVENILES.
THE PUBLICATION COMMITTEE, 1334 Chest
nut St., have issued in elegant uniform style, un
der the title of " BRAVE MEN AND NOBLE
DEEDS," three of their leading publications for
the young : Dr. Gillett's " England Two Hun
dred Years Ago," Dr. Mears' "Beggers of Hol
land and Grandees of Spain," and the Life of
Martin Luther, edited by Miss Whateley. They
are enclosed in a box, and together they make
about one of the best presents for boys which a
parent, teacher, or friend could select from the
Committee's stores.
THE LOST FATTER is a story of a Philadel
phia boy, whose trials from an evil associate, from
the early death of his mother and the departure
of his father to California are worked up with
some surprising coincidences = and providences
into a Sunday-school fiction Of a fair degree of
merit. Publication Committee.
BROOK, STEPPING STONES OVER THE by Mrs.
Mary D. K. Boyd, illustrates the pnwer , of 'Scrip
tural precepts to comfort and strengthen a child
under trial and temptation. The experiences of
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1869.
Effie Clyde, the little heroine, and her uniform
effective influence for good, make up an interes
ting and profitable story, calculated to encourage
the young in efforts to serve the Lord in the
humblest stations. An appropriate book for
servants. J. P. Skelly & Co.
LITTLE MEG'S CHILDREN, by the author of
" Jessica's First Prayer," is republished for the
second time in America—this time by Claxton
of this city. It deserves to be widely read, not
only from the skill with which it is written, but
from its evangelical tone and genuine pathos.
TWELVE NIGHTS IN A HUNTER'S CAMP, edi
ted by WM. BARROWS, is a delightful series of
sketches, the camp-life being that of a party of
western gentlemen seeking recreation, and hav
ing in their number " The General," whose sto
ries of early life and adventure in the West en
tertain his associates for " twelve nights." The
" chaplain," as he calls himself, appears to be the
reporter, and very agreeably he does his work,
giving us a great variety of description, narra , .
tive and adventure, all of which, if not as start
ling as some, has the merit'of truth, naturalness
and good taste. LEE & SHEPARD. $1,25.
JACK THE CONQUEROR, by C.E. Ro,wEN,
skilfully constructed story of the rise of poor,
ragged, neglected Jack, to learning and respect
ability, by steady perseverance in meeting every
sort of difficulti. It is followed by " SYBIL
AND HER LIVE SNOW-BALL,"'in which the loss
of a pet cat' ie made the occasion of profitable
lessons to the sorrowing child. There is an
abundance 'of admirable illustrations, and the
volume is finely—got up. R. CARTER & BROS.
MR. Jot:ix D. BALDWIN, a certain meniber of
th'e American Oriental Society, publishes, through
Messrs. HARPER & BROS., a very ambitious and
really somewhat learned book, on PRE-HlsTortio
NATIONS. Mr. Baldwin is as enthusiastic in his
belief of immeasurable geologic and pre-histo
ric eras, as the freshest and most bewildered
neophyte. The delta of the Mississippi stand's
with him for 150,000, instead of two or three
thousand years. He has little patience for any
one who regards the biblical chrbnology with
more respect than the Chinese, or the fabulous
periods and overlapping dynasties of Manetho
and Berosus. He dogmatises against the dogma
tists ; he lavishes his faith upon myths, while
scolding at those who receive the word of God.
Grote and Maurice are too slow and credulous
for this American fledgeling in archseology. Not
that his book is trifling. It contains the fruit of
much research, And embodies the results of a
great amount of historical investigation. It
shows us with what difficulties the whole subject
of the origin of history is connected. But it
proposes to us to throw away our old convictions
for a handful of the merest guesses. What shall
it profit ? No ! Mr. Baldwin, we are not -ready
for the trade.
Oliver Optic's Weekly Magazine, " OUR BOYS
AND Gums," for April 3a, contains fine steel
portraits of Grant and Colfax, and period, a full
page allegorical picture of the Inauguration, by
Nast. Oliver Optic commences a new story,—,
" On Time ; or, the Young Captain of the limy
ga Steamer." Alice Cary contributes . a poem,—
" Suppose." There is a timely article on " Ve
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all handsomely illustrated, and all to be had for
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ments offered to obtain snbscriptions. Zee &
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WHO FIRST USED THE MARINER'S
- COMPASS?
BY JAMES PARTON.
When I was a school-boy and , studied
geography, I used to wonder sometimes, as
I was poring over a large map of the world,
how it carne to pass that such a country as
Portugal had so many possessions in differ
ent parts of the earth. It is a little king
dom, about as large as our State of In
diana, and contains only about as many
people as the State of New York; and those
people, travellers tell us, are, not very in
dustrious, skillful or enterprising. And yet
the old map which I used tolook at seemed
to be dotted all over with places marked,
" Belongs to Portugal."
It is not so surprising that this small
kingdom, this odd corner of Europe, this
narrow long slice of Spain, should have
gained possession of most of those islands
off the African coast,—the Azores, Madeiras,
and the Cape Verdes,—because they are
not, very far from Portugal, and because
there is no other Christian country from
which they can be so conveniently reached.
[oat of those islands are within seven or
eight hundred miles of its south-western
corner, But away down the African toast,
in what is called Lower Guinea, the land of
ivory, gold dust, and precious gams, we find
a great' region of country belonging to Por
tugal, with a Portuguese townin it, a Portu
guess governor-general, and churches con
ducted by Portuguese priests, in which crowds
of half-naked negroes and mulattoes bow
low before the cross and the image of the
Virgin.
And then, on the other side of Africa,
there is another extensive region, called
Mokambique, which also belongs to Portugal.
Here Portugal has a territory as largo as
the State of Virginia, from which are ex
ported plenty of indigo and rare drugs, fine
woods for furniture, elephants' tusks, the
teeth of the hippopotamus, and the' horraof
the rhinoceros; to say nothing of common
things, such as rice, sugar, spice, coffee, and
coal. Hero again we find a Portuniese
city of considerable size, with great barracks
for soldiers, with storehouses and wharves,
a splendid palace for the governor-general,
a cathedral, and several smaller churches
and convents. In this city, which consists
of palaces for the Portuguese and huts for
the natives, there are a Portuguese bishop,
Portuguese priests, nuns and monks, Portu
guese - judges and courts. The Portuguese
have been so long established in that coun
try that one of their towns has had time to
go to decay. It is called Melinda, and you may
see there the rains of Portuguese churches,
convents, storehouses, wharves and palaces,
which were built three centuries ago.
But this is not all. If you should sail
from the ruined walls and wharves of Me
linda two thousand miles to the westward,
across the ocean, and enter the harbor of
Goa, on the coast of India, you would find
a Portuguese settlement and city that would
fill you with still greater astonishment.
Neither the English, nor the French, nor
the Dutch, have ever built in"that part of
the• world cathedrals or palaces so spleridid
as those With which the Portuguese have
already adorned this city, so far from their
native' land. One church there is decorated
with beautiful paintings tirought from Italy;
and the cathedral is so exceedingly gorgeous,
and so vast in extent, that it would not be
thought out of place in one of the princi
pal cities of Catholic Europe. These build
ings, it is true, are going to decay; but they
show what power the'Portuguese must have
hid in India, *hen they could spend the
revenue of an Indian province upon one
convent or one church. To this day there
is a PortugueSe viceroy resident there,
and a Portuguese archbishop; and there is
also a Portuguese seminary for the education
of priests.
Then there is Macao, a Portuguese city in
China, where again we find amazing evi
dences, in the form of churches, convents
and 'seminaries, of the power once possessed
in this part of the world by the Portuguese.
Indeed, it was at this city of Macao that
Cathoens, the only Portuguese poet known
to the rest of the world, composed the only
famous poem Which that' country has pro
duced. Macao was given by the Emperor of
China to the mighty King of Portugal, in
return for some assistance which the Portu
guese King had rendered him' in driVing
pirates from the Chinese seas.
Why, two hundred years ago, there was
not a head in all the Eastern world that
,
would not bow low,to,the Portugues .uni
form; and millions'of dusky human beings
in Asia and Afriba 'toiled from youth to Old
age "to enrich that small and distant king
dom. In America, too, there is Brazil, a
country containing nearly four millions of
square miles,—larger than the United States,
—which belonged' to Portugal until a few
years ago. Here the Portuguese language
is still spoken, Portuguese laws-and customs
still prevail, *and it is goverted by an em
peror sprung from the royal family of Por
tugal.
used to wonder at these things vdien
had but a slight knowledge of them at
school; but in later years I found out the
reason. I'said in my last number that the
mariner's compass, very much as we have it
wasnow,s invented about the year 1300, and
that I was going on to tell what was done
with it after it was id the hands of navi
gators: • Well, the reason why Portugal, a
little insignificant kingdom, held possessions
so valuable and numerous in those,distant
parts of the world, is simply this: the
Portuguese were, the first to turn the com
pass to account in navigating the ocean.—
Oun Yourio FOLKS for March.
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.NEW. SUNDAY .SCHOOL SONGS,
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WILLIAM B.'BRADBURY;
and have never before been published:
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