'Oitores Cabit. or Publisher!, wit! confer a favor by mentioning 1, 0 ,•ks sent to this Department. he prices of all The third vo lume Of TIIACKERAY'S NISCEL LANTEB in the tasteful Household Edition of Fields. osp , od & Co., has appeared. It is made up ~f b o th his earliest and his latest writings. ‘.l.be Book of Snobs," " Men's Wives," &e., „ Tre co ntributed to Punch prior to the composi ion of the works that created his fame, while • Denis Duval," remains unfinished because Mr. Thaekeray died while writing it. These miscel lanies are like all his productions, mildly cynical, Pickens paints the blackest of black, or the whitest of white. Thaokeray paints all brown. 512. Sold by the Lippincotts. The same publishers have published in paper covers a work which does not rank among Thackeray's permanent productions, but which did good service as a satire upon the taste for heroic scoundrelistn introduced by Disraeli and Buiwer. It is CATHERINE: A STORY BY IKEY ;:lor,omoNs, ESQ It is founded on a mur ler narrated in the " l'ewgate Calendar," and is .t well sustained an 4 effective satire. The pub- fishers, have omitted the actual story of the murder and execution, as no longer necessary. The sons of great men are proverbially insig nificant, probably because their mothers were so. he daughters of men of genius often inherit le fine powers of their fathers. This is finely lustrated by the writings of 'Miss Anna Isabella lackeray, of which Fields, Osgood & Co., are published a household edition. They are very much pleasanter reading than anything from the pen of her father, while they do not evince the possession of as great intellectual power. No reader of "A Village on the Cliff," Five Old Friends" and "The Story of • Eliza beth," will fail to elass them among the most 'elightful and charming of.stories. They evince - . an extensive knowledge of the best side of French life, rarely found in English authors. Two vol umes. Pp. 277, 282. Price $2. For sale as Dr. Hartwig's POLAR WORLD is quite an it lustrated encyclopedia of what modern discovery has told us of the lands that lie around either Pole. The author, While not an original explor er, has digested with German thoroughness and patience the worki'of ancient and modern trav ellers; he giv,es in , brief space the results, of their explorations; sometimes he tells the story of their labori: He has dOne his work well, and has given us a.whole library of books in his jingle volume, a volume which will have for the young the interest of a fairytale, and for the, old the value of a soieutifietreatise.• The to markablereeenelkyartal 4 deraraboevi , nes, meteoric phenomena, of our colder regions are all fully depicted. The American transla tor has added a fine series of one hundred and sixty-three authentic illustrations, selected from live works of authoritative value, and has ap pended two chapters—one giving the latest in formation in regard to Alaska, another condens ing Captain Hall's recent experiences among the Innuits. The publishers—Harper& Bros.—have ably sustained both gentlemen in the production of a very handsome volume. Pp.. 486, Bvo. For a]e as above. Sohn S. 0. Abbott, the Hagiologist of St. Napoleon, is a 'very entertaining writer, if not trustworthy on all themes. His last book- isTHE ROMANCE OF SPANISH HISTORY, and indeed is as full a " History of Spain' as most ,readers will care to peruse.: The important points of her chronicles, from the days when Iberian, Cartha ginian and Roman'straggled for her possession, down through the . periods of Gothic, Mohamme dan and French invasion ;are graphically given, and the last chapter tells the story of the still incomplete Revolution. Twenty-three good il lustrations add to the interest of the book. harper & Brothers. Pp. 462. For sale as above. Messrs. Robert Carter and Bros. reissue PAUL THE PREACHER, a practical exposition of his discourses and speeches as recorded in the Acts of the Apostles. The author, Dr. John Eadie, of the U. P. Church of Scotland, is widely known as the compiler of the best and most popular edition of " Cruden's Concordance," and the Professor of Biblical Literature in the The ological Seminary of his Church. This volume shows him as a vigorous and thoughtful preacher, with a good degree of insight into the greater preacher upon whose foundation he builds. He has avoided all minute criticism and technical exegesis, in this honest and hearty attempt to explain and apply, in a popular_ and practical shape, the : spoken words of the apostle. Pp. 462. 24m0. From the same house we have TILE SHEPHERD OF ISRAEL, a series of sermons in illustration of the Inner 'Life, by Rev. Duncan. MacGregor of Dundee, Scotland. They are of a very plain and popular east. Tile seritencesare short and clear; the division s goo 4; the. style varied with quota tious in prose and .poetry. That they are not long may be judged from the fact that we have sixteen sermons in 339 pages of small 16mo. Size, in large clear print.' The fifteenth is de v9ted to British and Arneripin Revivals, men tioning Mr. Hammond and other t ',f wise winners of souls." The last is a tribute to..the memory of that peerless knight of the mission field, Rev W. C. Burns. The fourth volume_ of " Chase and Stuart's Classical Series" contains THE WORKS OF HO RACE, edited with explanatory notes by Prof. Thomas Chase of Haverford College. The text has been edited with care from the best editions and MSS. ; the prefatory matter (biography and prosody) is terse, yet ample; and the criti cal notes are for the most part very satisfactory. We would rather have had the rendering of difftyult phrases and sentences given in English of a more lyric terseness than that which Prof. Chase has employed. Pp. 429, 16mo. Price $1.50. Published by Eldredge Bro., 16-19 S. Vlth St., who announce that the books of this series have been adopted in more than a thou sand schools. Dr. George H. Napheys of this city, a stand ard writer on medical topics, has written a judi• cious and reliable book. on THE PHYSICAL LIFE OF WOMAN. We say reliable, because it has received the approval of Surgeon-General ; 11,am mond, Dr. Harvey L. Boyd, of Baltimore, Dr. John Gri,scona, of New York,. and Dr. S. W. Butler, of The Medical and Surgical Reporter. That the subject has been handled judiciously may be inferred from the approval extended by several of our city pa - stors, educators, liteiary men, and journals, as also Henry,Ward.,Beeeher, Horace Bushnell, Mark Hopkins and others. Bushnell says : "It is written, with much deli cacy and a careful respect, at all points, to the great interests of morality." Beecher , writes : " It is to be hoped, now that these delicate topics have been so modestly and plainly treated, that yours will supersede, the scores of ill-considered and often mischievous': treatises." We, think the book deserves all :the commendation it has re ceived, We, rejoice to find Dr. Napheys, writing in a Christian spirit on important points of medical jurisprudence, such as divorce and fceticide. Pp. 252. Price $1 50.. Published by George Maclean, 719 Sansom St., who has had' to issue a second edition within two weeks after the appear ance of the first. • Rev. Senior Harvard, of this city, has written and published a pamphlet of 146 pages, entitled THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM; which he de fines as "a kingdom not of this world ; not, in this world; but to come in the Heavenly Country of the Resurrection from the Dead, and of the, Restitution of All Things." .By a method of interpretation which seems to us thoroughly Jew ish and carnal, the author arrives at the conclu sion that the kingdom. of heaven can have no existence until after the destruction of our earth by physical fire at the. Second Advent of Christ. Qn.page 70 he impugns the teachings of the Westminster Confession on this subject. Price 75 cents. - Published at the office of. The Epis .4alian. JUVENILES, From Skelly & Co. we have "'FARMER BURT'S SEED, a, True Story," showing the wide influence lbr good, both in this and the other world's in terests, of a pure and kindly life. The school master is an original character. 18mo. pp. 216. SOC.-ANNIE AND TILLY (Mary A. Dennison's Saturday Afternoon Series —Martidn) is a 'suc cession of brief, vivacious, we might say gushing stories,,strung upon a slight thread of charita ble purpose to a poor cripple; all touched with a trifle of impossible sentiment, or rapture which will be attractive to most readers. lBmo. pp. 180. 6004-FRANK FIELDING, or Debts and Difficulties, by Agnes Veitch, is a well-planned and ably-written story, detailing the bitter, ex periences of a young man who had the doubtful virtue of generosity without justice. The early beginnings of his sad habit are carefully exposed, and the happy change, with the agreeable sur prise at the close and the part given to the truth and Spirit of God in the results, make it a very complete and effective hoook for the older juvenile readers. 18mo. pp. 142. Martien. 60 cents. BARBARA ST. JOHN, by P. B. Chamberlain (Phila.: J. C. Garrigues & Co.) illustrates in a story of , varied interest and much merit, the error of choosing anything but the service of the Master as a life-work. Ruble's character is strongly marked and 'well sustained. The fierce glow of her ambition and its . cure make a pro found and healthful impression. The humbler services of the Home Missionary are set in an honorable light. The whole effect of the book upon the older class of readers will be good Handsomely printed and bound. 16mo. 'pp. 383. JANET'S Two HOMES (Mrs. J. Hamilton Thom as, Phila.) contrasts Janet's life in a garret and, as a match-seller, with that in a c6mfortable Christian ho'rlie. Lacking in force and action. 18nio. pp. 197.--JOTTINOS FROM THE DIARY OF THE. SUN (Hoyt) is limited to the common place sights of earth, told with no remarkable de gree of ioint or power. Tom HARDING is one of the " Sunny Hour" Series, by Nellie Eyster. They are stories of Pennsylvania scenes and Pennsylvania boys. Tom Harding, a Harrisburg boy, goes South in a United States steamer.; and the admirable nar rative and descriptive powers of the writer are employed on the novel sights her hero meets. The firmness of his Christian principles is well illustrated. A good book, with great variety of entertaining matter, handsomely got up by Duf field Ashmead. 16mo. pp. 368. BESSIE AT SonooL, the fifth . of the Bessie Series, owesits, existence to the eager inquiries PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1869. for more, from the delighted readers of the other four. We do not wonder at this unwillingness to give up a character so fresh, so quaint, so original. A true child, but one of Christ's little ones; sot firm in principle, so simple, so truthful as to be the teacher, unintentionally, of older ones. The writer, Joanna H. Matthews, is do ing a work of unspeakable value for the younger class of readers. Another volume, " Bessie's Travels," will close the series. 16mo. pp. 357. $1.25. Carters. PERIODICALS AND REVIEWS. THE LONDON QUARTERLY for October Opens with a learned but highly interesting disquisi tion on Islam, from the pen of the author of " The, Talmud," which drew so much attention a few months ago. Next a fair article on Isaac Barrow. " Higher and Lower Animals" shows the difficulty of drawing sharp distinctions and of making either Structure or Function exclu. sively the ground of classification. ‘" The Byron Mystery" takes up warmly the defense of the poet. While it seems completely to destroy the value of Mrs. Stowe's testimony, it speaks se riously of " the fair fame" of the poet—as if .the admitted adultery and fornication of which be, was guilty, go for nothing when it is found that incest is not ,to be added to the catalogue. The reviewer also speaks of tak,ing Don Juan " out of', quarantine" by this defence. Prove Byron to be an angel of light, if you can ; true modesty will always bar the door of quarantine upon that scandalous, prodnetion. The Water Supply of London" is an elaborate defence, both as re spects quantity and quality, of the Thames as a source upon Which the London of the present and the future may depend. Is it written in the interests of the existing water companies, who would be ruined by a charge? " Lord Lytton's Horace " furnishes occasion for a fresh, readable, scholarly notice of the Latin poet, and a eulo gium upon the English version. We are in formed that more than a score of versions of the Odes entire, have appeared in. England in the last five years. " ; The Reconstruction of the. Irish Church " is written under a fear that the process will be too radical and result in dividing the Irish , utterly from the English Episcopal ( 7 1 hunt', ".Sacerdotal Celibacy" is a review of our townsman, H. C. Lea's standard work on the subject, which is in the main commended by the reviewer as it deserves. The article is timely, in view of the absurd movement among the extreme Ritualists for the celibacy of the clergy of the Church, of England. "The Past and Future of the Conservative Policy" is a surrender, for the present, of all aspirations for office, on the part of the, Tories. New York : Leonard Scott Publication Co.; Phila.: For sale by W. B. Zie ber. $4 a year. The Westminster Review for October opens with an elaborate article on " The Quakers," defining their peculiar views and expressing the hope that the present Rationalistic movement among them in Lancashire will succeed. " The Works of Arthur Hugh Clough," a dyspeptic genius who died in 1859, are reviewed with eulogy, and the growth of theological dyspepsia since his death exulted in. "The Water Supply of Lon don" shows that we of Philadelphia are not alone in certain troubles.,.," Sunday Liberty" is what` might be expected. - The Afghan Tribes on our Trans-Indus Frontier" is worth the Czar's perusal, before he begins his march from Bok hara to Hindostan. " The Natural History of Morals" is a reply to, the Introduction to Leckey's last book, and is an attempted refutation of the intuitive theory of. Plato, Coleridge, Leckey, etc. "The Albert Life Insurance Company," shows that underhand dealing in Insurance Companies is not Confined to New Jersey. " Com pulsory education" is a reply to an . Anglican clergyman, who, like most of his order, orposes the measure. The last long article is the second of • a series on the " Social Evil," and thli . propo sal to bring it under State inspection and regula tion in England. The writer opposes this, and the present article' is mainly quotations from a "Report to the Privy Council" against the mea sure, ,on the ground of the enormous outlays needed, " which would, in the eyes of very large numbers of .persons, be to the last degree odious and immoral," as obliging them " to contribute to the cost of giving an artificial security to their neighbor's looseness of life." The short reviews are as miscellaneous and spicy as usual.• LITERARY ITEMS. The London Post of. Nov. 2, is informed that Dr. Lushington's continued silence on the Byron mystery is in.no respect attributable to 'his age or state of health, his intellect being remarkably clear and vigorous for his age ;, nor does he shun allusions to the topic, although he declines to state whether Lady Byron did or did not make the specific charge in question. —Two literary worker's, of - great usefulness and small fame, died last month in London. O n e wa =John Bruce, formerly editor of The Gentle .. m'an's Magazine, and editor Of some of the most valuable publications of the Camden Society. The other was,Alexander Ramsay, the principal assistant of Mr. Charles Knight in his English Cyclopmdia" and other works, and in his youth sub-editor of the famous old Penny Magazine. —One of the curiosities of the month is a poem by Father Hyacinthe, printed in French in Putnam's Magazine for' December, with an English rhymed , translation, by Lucy Fountain. It is entitled " Recollections of Childhood," and was written whoa Father Hyacinthe was sixteen years old. —Richard Hildreth, the careful historian of the United States, died very poor and broken by literary drudgery, in Florence, in 1863, some '56 years old. His wife died soon after, of cholera, in Naples.. A gentleman from Cleveland, travel ling in Italy last summer, heard the sad facts and learned that not even the simplest monu ment, had been erected to the memory of the historian. He immediately wrote to Harper and Brothers, relating the facts, and in reply came a check for a generous amount to cover all the ex penses for a fitting tombstone. Hiram Powers, hearing of the circumstances, volunteered to supenntend the work, and before, leaving Italy the Clevelander had the Satisfaction of seeing in the. beautiful Protestant: cemetery of Florence, where the.graive of Elizabeth Barrett Browning is marked by a handsome monument bearing her name as the only inscription, another monument, chase and simple, over the grave of Richard Hildreth, bearing tho brief record of his name and the date of his death. So says the Cleve land Herald. Bioinitary kttmo. —The American Board has occupied another station in Bulgaria, Samokove, a town of 12,000 inhabitants. Mr. Locke writes, Aug. 3d : The mass of the people (Bulgartans) are very much stirred by our coming.. Anathemas have been pronounced upon us; every one is forbidden to have anything to do with us, in any way. But the - Turks and Jews are very friendly indeed. The Turkish Governor has been to see us twice; each time shaking hands with all . of us. He has interested himself in getting a house for us, offering to rent us a large one adjoining his own. To day his wife came, and spent over an hour taking, a lesson on her sewing-machine. They had' got it out of order, and begged us to see if we could right it for them. One of the greatest curses of the place is the use of wine and whiskey. Two or three weeks since, the . head men of the Bulgarians enacted a law, that on Sabbath morn big, two able bodied men, with stout staves, should visit all the wine-shops and send home all of the priests whom they might find there • a reform proceeding from the people to those who should be leaders in such matters; and on one Sabbath these two men were seen going from shop to shop. —The district in Central Turkey, north of Mt Taurus; in the track of Paul's journeys, has recently been = explored by Mr. Montgomery, of the American Board's Mission at Marash, south of the mountain. He speaks of a large and almost countless number of Greek villages in the region explored. What to hope respecting the future of these Greek Christians, since they are not nationally Greeks, but only members of the Greek Church, he does' not know. The fact that one of the Protestants here is from that commu nion,- and that two other men avow themselves convinced Ofthe truth, but are kept back through fear of peisecutien, may be an indication that their case is not utterly hopeless. • —Mr. Jessup; of Beirut,Teports some very re markable facts, indicative of outward progress as the result, of, the efforts of. Missionaries in. Syria. They are, such as a steam flour-mill at Acre, a steam saw-mill at - the mouth of the Orontes, a lively trade in kerosene and lamps, with a native improvement to adapt the lamps to use of the poor; all in the hands of Protestants. —The Greeks in a certain district in Syria, having quarrelled among themselves, cast about for an agent - to whom they could intrust the care of their funds. They copld not trust the priest, nor the sheik, nor any one of the old men, and at length, by unanimous Consent, they requested the Rev. Mr. Ford i the American missionary, to take charge of the revenues the Greek church! A few years .since, the, Governor of Lebanon, and the British Consul-General requested an Ameri can missionary to 'take the charge of the Druze College in Lebanon, which is supported by the ecclesiastical revenues of the Druze nation. —Rev. Samuel Jessup sends good' news from Hums, where there has been more or less difficulty, The brethren have elected an evangelistic com-s mittee ,to send two persons to some neighboring village every Sunday. They have reorganized their missionary society, 'and all have become paying Members, giving their contributions weeldy. They have appointed their deacon mis sionary to Harnath, and pay half his salary and expenses. They have asked for a 'native pastor. —A young Armenian convert of Mosul was invited by the Protestants there to become their poster, but he replied that he did not know enough, and must have an education. So he left his wife and children with his father, sold his house and what little property he had in order to raise funds, came to Beirut and entered the college there. —The American Board received in September $27,604 in donations and $4,517 in legacies. Not a little of this was designed for the previous year's account. The receipts of the Presbyterian Board for the same period, were $10,662. —Of course the leacti n againtt, Romish despo tism in Spain, has brought into view the atheistic tendenCies that had previously lain dor mant. One of the deputies, in a . discussion of the religious question, after denouncing Romalism proceeded to expound • what he called his new ideal which denies the existence of .a God and a life to come. A missionary, Mr. Vifle,:a, is " sorry to say that this new idea is coming into fashion now among the young republicans. They think it very suitable to deny God and every thing. A Spaniard laughed at me the other day, when speaking to him about the salvation of his soul, and he said in a nic,cking way, Do you really believe there is a God and a life to come ? I don't. We know better. We now have liberty, ,and we can 'see the truth. Religion was very good once but it is old'. The Bible and such things, are of no use to us now; we are too far, advanced. We have the new 'idea now.' I answered, Friend; you do not yet know what the Bible is; and as for your new idea, why, it is, as old as history. If you will look at the 14th Psalin, which was written by David about 300,0 years ago; you will see your new idea mentioned: ' The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.' He was rather annoyed to find the new idea was not so new after all." —The Mehtre Caste, in Northern India, be longing to the Sikhs, have become widely inter ested in Christlanity, through the labors of the late Rev. J. H. Orbison, until recently connected with the. Lodiana mission, now deceased. They had been in, the habit of meeting, together once .a week, to discuss the relative claims of Hindooism and Christianity upon them, and had called upon Mr. O. to meet with and aid them in their search for truth, which 'he did. Several of them, have asked for baptism and are on probation. An old blind man of this caste, however, astonished the missionary with the depth of his knowlean and experience, and' was,received. He was ° driven out of doors by his family. It was a dark, stormy ; rainy night, and the 'homeless old man dressed in a shirt or gown reaching, scarcely to his knees,, spent it inthe dirty filthy street., For two days he begged his bread, and slept in the verandah of a school house before his condition was found out by the Christians. He came to the missionary on the third day, and scemed•really to be rejoicing in Ids tribulation. He did not come begging, but professed his belief that Christ would take care of him. An inquirer took him into his house, and cared for him for a few days, and the native church supplied him with food and clothes. This treatment of the old man aroused the chief men of the caste, who called the caste together, and by a resolution compelled the old man's wife and sons to take care of him. They have since ceased to trouble him. —Girdari, a servant in the missionary families of the Lodiana mission, was formerly a Sikh Guru of the Mehtre caste, and was so popular that he obtain ed about six thousand (6000)disciples,who believed it to be a great privilege, to be permitted to wor ship the clay upon which their Guru stood. This man began to question the truth of Sikhism and Hindooism and to inquire into the truth of Christianity about eight years ago. For about two years he has professed to his disciples his belief in Jesus as the only Saviour from sin, and that Jesus Christ is the " Nakalunic avatar," i. e., the immacu'ate manifestation of the Deity in accordance with one of the most popular of the pretended' prophecies of Nanak, the great leader of the Hindu sect, called the Sikh. According to this prophecy, a time was to come when there would be an immaculate manifestation of the Deity. This manifestation is called the " Naka lank avatar." The person in whom the Deity would then be revealed would be perfectly holy and sinless, he would be rejected by the great majority of men. and would meet with a violent death. The religion which he should establish...would, however, notwithstanding the opposition of his enemies, be extended over the whole world, would abolish caste and all ol'the peculiarly exclusive customs of the Hindus, etc. Girdari believes that Jesus fulfills all the conditions of this prophecy, except, that Jesus lived and died twelve or thirteen centuries before Nanak was born. He has convinced a consider able number of his disciples of the reasonableness of his own opinions, and has interested many in regard to the claims of Jesus to be the expected " Nakalunk avatar." TxE American Presbyterian For 1869-70. TERMS. In Advance, per Annum, $2.50 After Thirty Days, 3.00 Ilome MlSsionaries, 2.00 Three Months for Nothing. In order to introthice the paper to those as yet unacquainted with it, we will give a copy from this date, till Dec. 31st, 1870, for $2.50 in ad- Your own Paper for-Nothing Any Subscriber not in arrears, sending us two new names and $5, will be credited for one year on his own account. If in arrears, he will be credited at the rate of $2.50 a year. One-half of the Money Returned! Fifty per cent. of the money sent for new sub scribers at full rates will be returned in books at publishers' prices, from the Catalogues of The Presbyterian Publication Committee, C. Scribner & Co. (Lange's Commentaries, &e.) Harper & Bros. (McClintock's Cyclo - jedia, &c.) Robert Carter & Brothers. American Tract Society, Boston. lite - Freight and Charges prepaid by ourselves. Webster U.nabridged, Eight new Subscribers and $2O Freight extra. wzr - Only those procuring the new subscribers are .entitled to these Premiums. • CLUBBING WITH MAGAZINES. New Subscribers to our paper and to these Maga dan have both for one year at the following Ant. Presb., and Presbyterian Monthly. 82.50. .. " Sunday at Home. (Boston). 3.00. if{ " Bourg at Home. 3.50. " " Onthrie's Sunday Magazine. , 3.75. " 66 LittelPs Living Age. 7.50. . Remit by postage orders, checks, drafts, or registered letterS; otherwise we cannot be respon sible for losses of money. ' Address, JOHN. W. MEARS, 1334 Chestnut Street, Phila. ,4 A, IMPORTERS, -(4/21if 0:10, acturers & Dole and Rd Check 1 4kt tuttat rbis amen we, offer a large, varied and well seleeted Sty at reduced prices No. 43 ,Strawberry Street, Mist ; Street ,vest 48.!Fpn.d, PENtLAIIMPUtA.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers