DitDr',s Cal its. ger Publishers ‘vill confer a favor by mentioning the prices of all books sent to this Department. THE PREsni"TERIAN PUBLICATION EOM. MITTEE. In the list of new juvenile books issued by this most judicious of publishing houses in this li ne of literature, .we note TEE FREED BOY IN ALABAMA, by Mrs. Anna M. Mitchell, the daughter of the worthy agent of the Freed man's Department of the Home Missionary Com mittee. The career of a colored lad is told, who had been happily freed from a worse than human bondage, and who, in taking up his heavy cross, i. e. abandoning hope of an education in order to obtain a livelihood, is greatly blessed to his asso ciates, to his employer and employer's family, and attains' an honorable position for himself. The story is deeply and delightfully evangelical in tone, and has a natural interest which will attract and reward every class of readers. 18mo. pp. 152. Illustrated. BACK COURT, by the author of the Chinaman in California, shows something of the large sphere for kind Christian effort among the poor of a great city, and its special fitness for woman. pp. 222. Illustrated. HENRY HOYT HE THAT OVEROOMETH ; OR A CONQUERING GOSPEL, by W. E. Boardman, is a somewhat systematic view of Christian experience and ac tivity in their higher stages, designed to stimu late Christians to far greater progress and use fulness than are at present commonly seen in the Church, and thus to confront all forms of oppo sition to the truth with the most convincing of arguments in its defense. The three, topics treated, are :—" Life," " Work," "Results." Fresh and effective illustrations are given at al most every stage of the argument. Some of these are of the most stirring and remarkable character, and the work cannot fail to arrest the at tention of the believer and rouse him to compari. son and inquiry, and, we may hope, tb a real re consecration. 12mo. pp. 303 THE VEIL LIFTED, OR THE ROMANCE AND REALITY OF CONVENT LIFE', is a very sad and very real sort of book. There is no attempt to work up a continuous and entertaining narrative; but chapter after chapter of cases is given, in which the deeply disastrous effect of the delu sion of convent life, and its tendency rather, to enlarge and deepen the aching void of 'the awa kened mind, instead of, filling it, are described, the very calmness , of the anatomy making the picture more impressive. It is designed to aid in rousing Protestant parents to the untold mis chief which is almost certain to follow from pla cing their daughters under the educational con trol of nuns and abbesses. 16mo. pp. 247. UNDER THE CROSS is a volume of selected poetry, suitable for the meditative and the sole towing hours of the Christian. It embodies choice pieces from almost every age, country and tongue of Christendom, forming a fragrant garden of devotional poetry, with an appropriate and beautiful exterior. The names of the authors are given, so far as known. 18mo. pp. 258. THE 'MUSIC GOVERNESS, by "S. 0. - 1)." skill fully describes the poier and working of saving truth upon the minds of several widely different persons and in circumstances of quiet but real interest. The lessons taught to those who would be wise to give comfort and to win souls are good. ISmo. pp 103. nOARD or PUULICATION. THE PRISONERS, by Dr. Breed, is one of the author's best books, and he has written not a few. Bobby Baker, picked up in the city streets by a policeman, becomes the charge of a good Christian couple, whose instructions are woven with the boy!s history in such a manner as to in crease the interest, instead of embarrassing, as is too often the case, the course of the narrative. Pure, evangelical truth is successfully conveyed to the youthful mind, in every part of the vol ume. 18mo. pp. 288. THE LITTLE STREET SWEEPER well illustrates the right and the wrong modes, both followed by well-intentioned people, of reaching and befriend ing the poor. 18mo. pp. 132. THE BITTER DOSE is not a very attractive ti tle for a juvenile book, but the story is a good. one, illustrating the bitterness of covetousness and deceit. Twelve other short stories make up the rest of the volume. 18mo. pp. 216. NATHAN, THE SILVERS3IITH OF JERUSALEM, i 4 a story of domestic life of the Jews from the c)noluding part of the reign of Jehoiakim, and during the Babylonish captivity. Enough range is given to imagination to excite curiosity; the chief object of the writer being to convey in struption in Old Testament history and Jewish antiquities, without dryness and formality. Chil i dren will be interested in the book, though' at some points they will be tempted to exercise their privilege of " skipping." pp. 264. All the above a:e illustrated. HANNAH'S TRIUMPHS, one of the Denison Series, published by Martien, is an extended and complicated story, illustrating the evil of pride as a family chtracteristic, and contrasting with it the quiet power andlnal triumph of Christian tenderness. A book of good. tendency and of not a little power, but scarcely to be ranked among Sabbath School books. 18mo• pp. 374. THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1869. D'AUBIGNE'S REFORMATION The Fifth Volume, second series, of this, the only standard and complete work on the subject in our day, has just been issued by R. Carter & Bros. It carries the history of the Reformation in England, from the formal rupture with Rome to the death of Tyndale (1536), and that in Gen eva down to the flight and return of Calvin to that city. The introduction informs us of the author's purpose to complete the work in one or two volumes more, and discusses questions, raised by European critics, of the correctness of several of his statements, which he confirms by referring to his original authorities. Among the numerous points of interest in the history, is the case of Anne Boleyn, whom our author regard as in great part the victim of Popish hatred, which could not endure her open sympathy with the Re formation, and which was strong enough in the cor rupt court of Henry VIII. to work her downfall. The concluding part of this history, though not of the thrilling interest which marked •its mar vellous commencement, ,and which middle-aged men remember as one of the most vivid expe riences of their youth, is of the highest valtie and attractiveness to the student of the progress of Christ's kingdom on earth. It is needed in a time when nominal Protestants attempt to villify the• greatest movement of modern thought and piety. Its devout spirit, its lively sympathy with the principles of the Reformation, its animated, picturesque, personal style will, give it currency wherever the gospel itself is known. l2mo. pp. 470. Letter from Harper & Brothers. FRANKLIN SQUARE, N. Y., Sept. 7, 1869. Efforts having been made in certain quarters to excite the sympathy / and compassion of the publie-and press ou account of our issuing, from our old plates, a cheaper and better edition of GEORGE ELIOT'S NOVELS than the one pub lished by Messrs. Fields Osgood & Co., we think it proper to say, in explanation, and in reply to the unjust attacks upoh us : That we were the first to publish these Works in this country, and that for the early sheets thereof we have paid from time to time in the aggregate the sum of Five'Thousand Dollars in Gold. HARPER & BROTHERS. LITERARY: ITEMS. —Certain manuscript letters purporting to come from . Newton, Pascal and Galileo, tending to show that the discoveries of the Newtonian theory of gravitation and the theories of Galileo should be ascribed to Blaise Pascal were sold to the Mathematician Chasles, who paid $30,000 for them. Their authenticity was im mediately attacked. At last Chasles disclosed the name of the person who had, as he alleged, discovered the old letters, and watch having been placed upon the suspected individual, he was detected in the act of 'forging the ancient manuscripts. The forger, it is stated, obtained his models of the handwriting from the public libra ries of Paris, and concealed hiinself while at work by forming a barricade of old large folio volumes around his table. —The Italian journals announce the publica tion at Trieste of a translation of Dante's Inferno into Hebrew. The author who has undertaken to render into the language of Ezekiel the solemn accents of the great Florentine, is Chevalier For migine. Many modern works have been trans lated in the same manner from Hamlet to Tele machus. The British Museum possesses a trans lation of The Mysteries of Paris in. Hebrew. —Victor Hugo thinks Swinburne the poet of the age; Swinburne, in reciprocation, 'thinks Victor the poet of 'the ages. (The names of both of these persons, without much aid of imagina tion, remind the reader of an animal not renown ed for cleanly habits). —The late Lady Duff Gordon, the translator of Ranke, Niebuhr, Feuerbach, oltke, and other German works, and the author of remarkable works on Egypt, combined, it is said, more eru dition with great natural ability and considerable classical.attainments than any woman of the pre sent day, excepting, perhaps, the late Mrs. Brown ing and Mrs. Somerville. She inherited the best of the intellect and qualities of her mother, the accomplished Sarah Austin, and her father, the well-known professor of jnrisprudence. Austin's lectures on Jurisprudence are described , as by far the most thorough exposition of the science of law ever written; and the preliminary investigation into "the Province of Jurisprudence" contains the ablest defence of the utilitarian theory of ethics. John Stuart Mill attended these lec tures. --Robert Burns' pew in St. Michael's church, Dumfries, with his initials cut on it with his owu hand, was lately offered for sale at auction, but withdrawn, only five pounds being bid for it. The pew was to be removed. —Garibaldi expected to get $20,000 for his novel, but cannot get an offer of more than $2,000. —A tablet to the memory of John Keble, the authoi of the " Christian Year," is to be placed in Westminster Abbey. —Charles Dickens, Who was left executor to the Rev. Chancy Hare Townsend, a promising young poet in England, 'when he and Macaulay were together at Cambridge, is about publishing an account of his friend's very peculiar religious opinions. —The concluding volumes of " Kinglake's History of the War in the Crimea" cannot ap pear for some time, as the author is going out to the Crimea to study the ground of the battle of Inkerman. ---The concluding two 'volumes of Froude's History of England are announced • in that , coun try —ln journalism we note that Henry W., the son of the late Henry J. Raymond, has been placed on the editorial staff of his father's paper, The. Hew York Times. A new weekly illustrated journal of Feience, called " Nature," was an nounced for October 2d, by Messrs. Macmillans, London, to be edited by J_Norman Lookyer, while Professors Frankland, Brodie, Huxley, Kingsley, Codling, Oliver, Bastian, Charles Dar win, M. A., and others, will be on its staff, w hich in fact unites " all the talent" of the day—that is, in scientific literature.—henry Ahquah, King of Winnebah, on the west coast of Africa, is an nounced as agent for The West African Berald, a newspaper edited and printed by natives —The Hon. John Bigelow has resigned his office as editor of the New York Times. He did not succeed in giving the paper a real journalis tic tone. He is to be succeeded, we hear, by Mr. Frederic Hudson, formerly the managing editor of The Herald. Mr. Hudson Is one of the ablest newspaper writers in the country. , —lsmail Pasha, Viceroy o f E g ypt, is estab lishing an academy in Cairo, which he will eventually convert into a university. Professor Brugsch, of Gottingen, who is famous for his ex tensive knowledge of the history and antiquities of Egypt, has requested leave of absence for some years, in order to comply with the Pasha's invitation to cooperate with him in organizing the Cairo academy. —Victor Cousin had a laundress in whom he took a great deal of interest, having known her since she was an apprentice. He one day said to her : " My dear child,have you ever read any thing by me ?" " No, M. Cousin." " Would you like to read something I have written ?" "Oh, yes M. Cousin." Be went to a bookcage, took out a duodecimo volume, "Le Vrai, le Beau, le Bien," and gave it to the laundress, who went away delighted. At the end of the month she brought, as usual, her bill. M. Cou sin examined it, and said : " Hem! total, 13f. 25c., from which we must deduct 3f. 50c. for the book ion bought t'other day—balance 9f. 25c. Here are 10f.; you may keep the 25c. for your self, my deak." -r-One day a poet read a new play before the Reading Committee of the French .Comedy. It was unanimously refused. The poet went up to M. Sansom, the well-known actor, and said to him : " I have a right to complain of yo'n; you voted against my piece, and yet you slept all the time I was reading it." M. Sansom wittily re plied: " Sir, in literary matters, sleep is an opinion." —A curious fancy this, of a French vrriter, who received, it is said, $6,000 for the manu script of a new novel. A correspondent of Childs' Literary Gazette says : "He sent p the manuscript in a small square oaken bo , with steel edges and lock. Thee oak is varnish d; on .the lid are his initials—G. P., in, black steel. The hinges are made of steel, The box i. lined with wadded gray silk, spangled with .carlet rose buds. The manuscript of the new novel (whose title is L'Education Sentiment le) is in two volumes. They are bound in - g,r silk; on the back of each volume is the authors name in red letters; on the side of each volume are the intitials G. F. embroidered in scarlet sil The work is written on paper made in imit tion of paper of the olden time, namely : ver thick, slightly grained, and yet half-glazed. he au thor has written his story in a most legibl- hand. The titles' of the chapters are written in red ink, and on each page are the initials G. F." —All literary Germany is plamoringlor the publication of Goethe's literary remains; which his grandchildren are accused of wantonly and frivolously secreting against the express' testamen tary, wish of the poet himself. They were to ha\ve been published in 1850. —Victor Hugo accepts the office, tq which he has just been elected, of. President of the League of Peace and Liberty, a Congress meeting at Lausanne, Switzerland, and whose members he , addresses, as his " Fellow Citizens of the United , States of Europe." —M. W. Dodd announces Dr. john'Cum ming's Manual of Bible Evidence for the Peo ple; J. B. Ford & Co. announce the second series of Beecher's Sermons; Harper & Brothers, the third volume of McClintoel & 'Strong,-"s Cyclopedia; Lee & Shepard, Charles Sum ner's Works ; Alaskt, John Todd's Trip, to the Golden Gate, and a long list of ex cellent juveniles; Roberta Brothers, Writings of Madame Swetchine, Ill'u'strated work by Pletsch, for children ; Tibbals & Co., N. 1., W. G. Blackie, D.D,'s Bible and General History. In England, a new work of Catharine Wink worth's is announced—" Palm Leaves ;" Stu dents' Manual of the , History of Ireland (a goOd one is ,hadly needed) ; Faraday's Life and Let ters ; Life of Oliver Cromwell. Biztftlanfints. MR. MULLER'S • ORPHAN HOUSES. The orphanages in connection with the "'Scriptural Knowledge Institution for Home , and Abroad" situated on Ashley Down, Bristol, constitute without doubt the most wonderful work that has been accomplished in modern times. -In 1831, Mr. George Muller, a German refugee, conceived the idea of founding an institution for orphan children. A house was taken in one`of the streets of Bristol, then a second, and ;a third. The institution flourished, and to ac commodate the numerous orphans sent, it was found necessary to erect an asylum. Now, there are no less than five buildings erected, costing more than £llO,OOO. They are of plain, but neat atinhitecture, and will accommodate more than 2,000 children. Hitherto the total sum that has been en trusted to Mr. Muller since the sth of March, 1834, is over £430,000. But perhaps the most wonderful feature in connection with the institution is the fact-that funds have invariably come in as they have been want ed. No individual is asked for a penny. Mr. Muller is a man of faith and prayer, and, looking upon himself as simply a " steward" of the Lord, devotes himself heart and soul to the carrying on of the work entrusted.to him. So retiring is he in his manner, and so taken'up with his gigantic work, that he is • seldom seen in public, never upon the public platform, and consequently his name to those who are not faMiliar with his work is unknown. Children are received at Ash , ley Down Orphanages from all parts of the United Kingdom, while the funds for their support come in from all parts of the civiliz ed world. Mr. Muller has recently issued his " Brief Narrative of the Facts," in which he says: " The almost universal com plaint of religious institutions and societies is the want of funds ; but as to ourselves,we state joyfully to the praise of the Lord, and through Him, our Patron, we have not only bad enough, but have abounded, though the expense of the last three years amount ed altogether to £113,522. With regard to pecuniary supplies, I have, simply in answer to prayer, and without application to any one, obtained for this work £,-130,000." With this money nearly 17 000 children from all parts of Englaipd, Scotland, and Ireland have been taught in the various schools; 95,000 copies of the Bible and New Testanient, and about 30,000 smaller portions of Holy Scriptures, in various languages, have been circulated, as have also 33,000,000 of tracts.—London .Freeman. RECREATION FOR FARMERS. "Humph 1" I hear some farmer say, "what does he mean by recreation for farmers?" 1 will try to tell you what I mean. At the present day it is found that all .classes and conditions of men/are greatly advantaged by an occasional 'relaxation from their daily round of duty, whatever its name or nature. None seem to .be exempt from this law of our being. None can ignore it without se rious loss to person and purse. The loss to a person grows out of the fact that we cannot continue one set of muscles in work, to the neglect of others, without sooner or later overworking the one and im pairing or enervating the other. Persistino in this course tends to deteriorate the whole system. This is in all probability less ttuo of farmers than of people in most other oc cupations. Their necessary labor brings about all their muscular system into use. The extent of the use in their case is just where the evil comes in. Unceasing toil tells upon them to such an extent as to bring on premature old age. We see them bowed over in what should be the prime of life. They lose the buoyancy and elasticity of mind ; they become taciturn in their homes. A. sombre sadness seems to pervade all around. The wife is too often overivorked and par takes of the same spirit. The children grow ing up in such an atmosphere lose interest in home—if they ever had any interest . in it —and look forward with longing eyes to the time when they can escape to the city, the West or the sea. Too much of the emigration from our New England farms has its cause just here. I know of individual cases in which this is true. The homes are not pleasant to them by reason of unceasing work and the want of cheerfulness in the family. The remedy, I think, in a measure, is to be found in farmers findin g out that they can accomplish more, year by year, if they slevote a portion of their time to recuperate their powers by relaxation.' After a*season of relaxation we bring new energy into all we have to do. Work is done with a will. More of cheerfulness accompanies it Dis appointments fail to depress as formerly. Old things have passed away. The future wears a new aspect. "We have renewed our 7oUth as the eagle." I am aware that most farmers will say, "This ; is all very well; but we cannot pos siblybring it round." Just here is where the trouble lies, lam ready to admit. At the same time I would urge you to seek for some way to accomplish it. Take your wife into your counsel, and also the children. You will find that they will enter into a solution of the difficulties.with a will. Yonr combined wisdom will he sure to triumph in the end, because your interest is involved in it. When once the matter has been put to the test, no fear of it ever being dropped. Much of seeming discontent and hardship will dis t appear. Try it.—New England Farmer. VALUE OF METEOROLOGICAL OBSER- YATIONS. An instrument which can accomplish the registration of sunshine • and cloud would furnish information of the utmost value to agriculture and some of the most important indubtrial pursuits of our country. We may illustrate what is here meant by taking one of the most valuable of our farm crops—the hay crop —as our example, though, as will be seen, the remarks apply to all other agri cultural products. On a fertile soil the weight of grass that may be produced de pends on two conditions—the supply of a 'sufficiency of rain, and the furnishing a suf ficiency of sunlight in the eleven weeks be tween the middle of April and the last of Sane. The rain brings into the growing plants the inorganic materials they require from the soil, and of course furnishes their requisite supply of water; the sunlight forms in them their various organic and -nutritive material. Now last year (1869), during the ~pt-riod referred. to, there was a ;copious supply of water, but owing to pro longedcloudy Weather, an insufficient sup ply of light—the grass was ail the time growing,as it were-in.-the shade. When hay ing came, observingsfarmers remarked how nitich longer than they expected it took to cure the grass, that is, to ,get rid of its wa ter, and how great a falling eff there was in the resulting weight of hay. .ICir was this all. The diminished quantity of nitrogen ized material it contained caused it time l e s t , nutritive; a geater weight of it was -re. quired - to fatten cattle, or even to keep them in. good condition. The effect was felt by those interested in raising cattle for sale, and eventually in the quantity and cost of butcher's meat. The object of meteorological observations is to enable us to record the past and pre dict the future state of the weather, and the imperfect manner in which 'this has heretofore been accoMplished, has been mainly due to the unreliable and unsati, factory mode in which such observations have been made. When self-recording ma chinery, such as New York has now in her Central Park, shall have been established in all our large cities, the problem of predict ing the weather will undoubtedly be solved. One most important agency is, however, es sential to this result—it is telegraphic com munication between such various observa tories. A little consideration will show how this, which is at present a vague conception floating in the popular mind, can be carried into effect. Already telegraphic companies, desirous of aiding the progress of science, send over their lines without compensation brief dispatches of the state of the weather and the aspect of the sky. They report, for instance, that at St.. Louis it is cloudy —at Charleston the wind is from the north. They also give the height of the thermome ter. But this information is really of little use. What is wanted is a statement of changes in the weather, with the time of their' beginning and end. Thus if it were stated that a rain-storm began in Raleigh, in North Carolina, at 2 A M.; that a rain storm began in Richnlond, Va., at 11 A. M.; that the same occurrence happened at Washington at 5 P. M.; at Philadelphia at 10 P. M., the inference would be that this was in fact the same rain-storm advancing north-ea , twardly, and that it would reach New York at about three o'clock on the following morning. In like manner if the time.of ending were given at such succes sive stations, its time of ending at others not given might be foretold. If to this in formation were added the quantity of rain that had fallen in succession at each place, the condition of the storm, as to whether it was on the increase or decrease, could be in dicated, and perhaps the point at which it would die out. Now, what is here said by way of illustration in the case of rain, ap plies also to wind-storms, tornadoes, periods of great heat, periods of great cold, and other atmospheric phenomena.—J. W. 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