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to his own sketches. In his analysis of the text, or arrangement of the subject, he is not always happy. Let us take, for instance, his sketch on Isa. xxx., 20, 21, which he divides thus: I. The Statement, "This is the way." 1. This way is discovered to us by God himself. 2. It may be described by its several characters. 3. By its oneness. II. The Exhortation. "Walk ye in it." 1. It is the way of truth. 2. Of honesty. 3. Of safety. 4. Of pleasantness and peace. 5. Of true honour. 6. It is the right way. The reader will see that these characteristics of the way should have been given under the first division. Preachers often fall into this

error.

Three Lectures on Mental, Moral, and Reli gious Culture. By WILLIAM DAWSON' Birmingham: Dawson and Co.

PLAIN and practical, but not original or profound. Yet, junior teachers and senior scholars of Sabbath-schools may gather from it many useful hints.

Welsh Sketches. Second Series. By the Author of "Proposals for Christian Union." Darling.

SOME months ago we gave a favourable notice of the First Series. This is not at all inferior to it. For twelvepence we have on good paper, put up in cloth, a very interesting portion of Welsh History, stretching from 1094 to 1327, and including, among many other distinguished personages, Llewellyn the Great.

The Chronological Old Testament. R. B. Blackader.

FROM the prospectus that has been sent to us we should judge that this is likely to be a valuable addition to our biblical works. But as we know not who is the editor, and have not seen the "Chronological New Testament," we must wait the appearance of the volume.

Wellington and War. By NEWMAN HALL, B.A. Snow.

MR. HALL takes a correct view of the subject. He pays due honour to the departed Duke, but reminds us that we are not to imagine that war is a glorious thing because he was a glorious man.

The war with France cost us more than a thousand millions of money, and during it upwards of two millions of person were slain. May our readers fight the good fight of faith, that they may lay hold on eternal life.

Wellington and Victory. By Rev. A. M. BROWN, LL.D. Snow.

THIS is an admirable sermon. The text, Rom. viii. 37. The divisions, I. Man's estimate of successful soldiers; they are conquerors. Men are led away by a military spirit. 1. Because of the outward show connected with military life. 2. The instigations of a worldly ambition. 3. Patriotism, so called. II. God's estimate of faithful Christians; they are 66 more than conquerors." 1. Because the war which they wage is of a better sort than that of conquerors. 2. Because their weapons are better than the weapons of conquerors. 3. The issue of the warfare in which they engage are better than all the consequences of the conflicts of earthly

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OUR Author takes 1 John v. 4, for his text, and thus divides it: I. Our enemy, "the World" which is an enemy, 1. To the Christian's principles. 2. To his pursuits and practices. 3. To his enjoyments. It is a powerful, deceitful, and constant enemy. II. A victory. He who overcometh the world, 1. Is not allured with its smiles. 2. Is not enchanted with its honours. Is not captivated with its pleasures. 4. Is not influenced by its maxims. 5. Is not intimidated with its frowns. III. The means, "Our faith." 1. This shows us the character of our foe. 2. Imparts strength to the soul. 3. Raises the thoughts and affections to things above. This is a plain, substantial, seasonable discourse, and cannot fail to be useful, if extensively circulated, and prayerfully perused.

The Closet Book. By Rev. W. LEASK Blackwood.

WE have here, in a small compass, fourteen chapters on subjects of vital importance, and of universal interest. They are exhibited in Mr. Leask's lucid, forceful, serious, and evangelical style. If devoutly read, the volume will illuminate the head, warm the heart, and improve the life.

The Wesleyan Association. W. B. King. THOSE who wish to become acquainted with the occasion of the dispute between Mr. Carveth, and the denomination in which for many years he was a useful minister, should read his full and accurate report. He has evidently the right side of the question.

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Charges without notice, 157
Charlemagne, 261

Children, dying creatures, 63; ex-

traordinary, 102

Christ, power of, 302

Christianity, 257, 414
Church, 15, 353
Clothing, 427

Cincinnati, Methodism in, 16
Claims of the people, 454

Clarke, Dr. A., 172, 222

Clarke, E. Melinda, 102

Cleanliness and godliness, 297
Close of the day, 333
Cole, John, 37

Companions, 457

Congress of nations, 461
Constantine, 221

Conversions, sudden, 209
Constantius, 274
Conference, 73
Conjugal affection, 185
Cooper, Samuel, 193
Countries, lecture on, 181
Court of review, 255
Creation of man, 132
Conference, Wesleyan, 356
Cumnor, a good work at, 51

D.
Davidson, Margaret M., 432
Dangers, 217

F.

Faithfulness, 419

Female excellence, 361
Filial affection, 149
Finney, C. G., 48

First obtain the blessing, 449
Freedom, 395, 447
Friends, society of, 145, 183
Fust, Sir H. J., 158

G.

Gainsborough, Thomas, 313
Garbutt, Thomas, 35
God, attributes of, 17, 19
Godolphin, Mary, 350
Gottschalk, 231
Gutta percha, 190

H.

Hale, judge, 268
Habit, an offensive, 104
Hale, Sir M., 467
Hampden, John, 232
Hammond, Henry, 157
Handel, 156

Hannah, John, 276
Happy world, a, 466
Hardy, William, 199
Harris, James, 467
Harvest in Canaan, 143
Harvey, William, 231
Health and cleanliness, 103
Heaven, 449

Hedding, Elijah, 277

Kaye, Joshua, 197
Kilkenny, W. de, 350
Kindness, 417

Knox, John, 396

Lavater, 423

L.

Langhorne, John, 156
Last request, 463
Laymen, 396

Late attendants, 166, 209
Leigh, Samuel, 277

Leonidas, 64
Leslie, Charles, 156
LETTERS, ORIGINAL-

J. Bunting to W. Griffith, 70
B. Barton to Mrs. R. Smith, 71
J. Benson to M. Mayer, 112
A. Mather to W. Marriott, 113,
432, 468

B. Barton to B. Smith, 114
J. Wesley to W. Wogan, 155
T. Walsh to M. Bosanquet, 155
W.Thompson toS. Bradburn, 155
C. N. Wawn to J. Reay, 156
J. Valton to M. Mayer, 192
J. Kidd to Mrs. S., 192

B. Barton to Mrs. B. Smith, 192
A. Clarke to a local preacher,

229

T. Stanley to Mrs. H. Moore,
229

J. Stanley to a friend, 230
B. Barton to B. Smith, 230
A. Mather to Merryweather, 275
J. Wesley to A. Clarke, 275
J. Bradford to J. Winscom, 275
J. Winscom to J. Bradford, 275
Normanby to Abp. of York, 314

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Pacific, scenes in, 105
Paradise Lost, 418
Parnynge, Sir R., 314
Passing shadows, 49

Passions, 417

Pemberton, Sir J., 232
Philosopher's prayer, 348
Pitt, W., 33

Plant, its own sower, 187, 269
POETRY-

The Creator, 69; Epitaph on
four children, 113; Epitaph on
three children, 113; Luther at
Worms, 154; Oblation of a sick
child, 154; My Jesus, 191; On
the death of a child, 191; Death-
bed of Watson, 228; Sonnet to
Lyon, 228; We ought to obey
God, 272; On hearing Watson,
272; Lines on A. Clarke, 312;

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Radcliffe, Charles, 74
Raleigh, Sir W., 268
Reading, 458

Redemption, extent of, 88
Repentance, 170
Retirement, 455
REVIEWS-

Lily and Bee, 37

The German Language, 38
Wesleyan Association, 38
The Guardian Angels, 38
Warren's Psalmody, 39
The Good Old Way, 39
We would see Jesus, 39
The Art Journal, 39
Wesleyan Taker Taken, 39
Temple of Education, 39
Memorial of Dr. Philip, 39
Teacher's Class Register, 40
Teacher's Diary, 40
Scripture Lessons, 40
Tracts, 40

Bible Class Magazine, 40
Union Magazine, 40
Democratic Ecclesiasticism, 40
Scripture Illustrated, 40
Rhymes for the People, 40
Revivalism, 40
The Bristol Herald, 40
Wesleyan Juvenile Magazine, 40
Scriptural Natural History, 40
Green's Almanack, 40
Wesley and Methodism, 75
Spanish Protestants, 77
Farrar's Dictionary, 77
Luther, 78

Dictionary of Painters, 78
History of the Church, 78
Casa Guidi Windows, 78
Edward Williams, 79
Lives of the Popes, 79
City of Rome, 79
The New Casket, 79
Child's Companion, 79
The Tried Christian, 79
Religion of Mankind, 79
Memoir of Dr. Gordon, 80
Bible Fruit, 80

All Things are Ready, 80
Various Forms of Religion, 80
Reigns of the Stuarts, 80
Classical Selections, 80
Band of Hope, 80
Woman's Trials, 80
Two Christian Days, 80
Forster's Sermons, 80
Hitchcock's Geology, 118
Welsh Sketches, 118

REVIEWS

Dictionary of Medicine, 118
Money versus Life, 118
Life in Peace, 118

Miracles of our Lord, 118
Dr. Johnson, 119
Counsels of Peace, 119
We Two Meet Again, 119
Lime Blossoms, 119
Missionary Addresses, 119
Address to the General As-

sembly, 119

Letter to Cobden, 119

An English Grammar, 120
Footsteps of our Lord, 120
Essay on Faith, 120

A School Geography, 120
Darkness and Light, 120
Church Rates, 120
The Leisure Hour, 120

Mornings among the Jesuits, 159
Marriage with a Wife's Sister,

159

Constantine the Great, 159
City of London Lectures, 160
Sermons by Wesleyans, 160
Methodism as it is, 160
Our Public Schools, 160
Support of Schools, 160
A School Rate, 160
Domestic Servants, 160
Etymological Dictionary, 160
Melson's Letters, 160

All Lands and all Times, 160
Ancient British Church, 199
James Watt, 199

Head and Heart against Popery,
199

Spiritual Vitality, 200
The American Impostor, 200
The Desolated Valley, 200
Martyrs of the Reformation, 200
Illustrated Exhibitor, 200
Budgett's Life, 200

Footsteps of our Forefathers, 237
Religion and Commerce, 237
Every-day Astronomy, 237
Nineveh, 237

One Hundred Tunes, 238
Works of Bunyan, 238
Ireland's Miseries, 238

Romanism at Home, 239

Bible and the Working-classes,

239

Tales for the Bush, 239
The Christian Life, 239
Foreign Evangelical Review, 239
Universal History, 239
The Great Apostacy, 240
Charlemagne, 240
Palm-trees, 240

The Leisure Hour, 240
The Infant Class, 240
The Mormons, 240
Counsels of Rome, 278
Works of S. Dunn, 279
Wesley the Worthy, 279
Witnesses in Sackcloth, 279
The Orbs of Heaven, 280
The Lost Sheep, 280
The Idol Demolished, 280
Roger Williams, 280
Notes on the Hebrews, 280
The Kingdom of God, 280
Life of E. Russell, 280
Rowland's Letters to Heald, 280
Finney's Lectures, 316
Cosmos, 317

History of the Year, 317
Uncle Tom's Cabin, 317
Pfeiffer's Journey, 318
London Drawing-book, 318
History of Assyria, 318
Church-member's-book, 318

REVIEWS-

London Geography, 318
The Brand of Dominic, 319
Wesleyan Association, 319
The Atoning Lamb, 319
Wesley and Methodism, 319
After Thoughts, 320

The Age and the Church, 320
Smith on Geology, 320
Arctic Searching Expedition,

320

Ancient Christendom, 357
Essays on Infidelity, 358

Sacred History and Biography,
358

Biblical Antiquities, 358

The English Language, 358
Sermons by Katterns, 358
Pascal's Letters, 359

Voyage of the Rattlesnake, 359
Visit to Iceland, 359

Explanation of the Parables, 360
Chronology of Greece, 360
Tyre, 360

Organic Life, 360

Book for the Sea-side, 360
Children of the Bible, 360
Cooke on Purgatory, 360
Letters to G. C. Taylor, 360
Egerton Pascoe, 297

The Teacher's Friend, 397
Map of Palestine, 397
Rival Claims, 397
Alcoholic Liquors, 397
Popular Delusions, 397
Oriental History, 397
Farringdon's Sermon's, 398
Philosophy of Language 398
Sketches of London, 398
Moral Portraits, 398

Cooke on the Holy Spirit, 398
Book-keepers and Clerks, 399
Art and Faith, 399

Manly's Ecclesiography, 399
Israel of the Alps, 400
Treasure-seeker's Daughter, 400
Cyclopædia of Anecdotes, 400
Throne of Iniquity, 400
Lives of the Popes, 438
Dublin, 438

Adonibezek, 438

Morning and Evening, 438

Old Narquois, 438

The Streamlet, 438

The Rifle Club, 438

Primary Sensations, 439

Travels in Tartary, 439

Visit to the Holy Land, 439
Madeira, 439

The White Slave, 439

Rhymed Convictions, 440

Poetry of Childhood, 440

Maclean on the Ministry, 440
Secular Schools, 440
Slavery of America, 440
Taylor's Letter to Carter, 440
Sketches from Life, 471
Wellington, 471

Uncle Tom's Cabin, 471
Two Prize Essays on the Post-
Biblical History of the Jews,
471

Wellingtoniana, 471
Panoramic View of the Red Sea
and Arabia Petrea, 472
Narrative of the United States
Exploring Expedition, 472
Practical English Composition,

472

Dialogues on Pulpit Prepara-
tion, 472

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By B. Waddy, 212

By S. Lear. 96
By J. Fletcher, 96

-xv. 2. By F. Truscott, 327
By J. Fletcher, 170
By R. Lomas, 53

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xii. 32.

-x. 10. By J. Townley, 170

xiv. 16. By H. Moore, 287
Acts ii. 37. By J. Fletcher, 288
-x. 1, 2. By Delta, 289
Rom. viii. 15. By Lambda, 328
2 Cor. iii. 17, 445

Eph. ii. 8,9. By S. Thompson, 97
i. 10. By J. Fletcher, 212
Phil. iii. 8. By J. Hill, 212
iii. 2-4. By W. Croggan, 171
Col. iii. 16. By J. Stephens, 19
1 Tim. iv. 8. By J. Fletcher, 249
Heb. ii. 10. By J. Bunting, 307
James i. 10, 445
1 Pet. i. 16.
iv. 8.

1 John i. 7.

By D. Stoner, 288
By J. Bicknell, 171
By J. Fletcher, 54
iv. 18. By R. Lomas, 18
Rev. xi. 15. By J. Bowers, 367
Servants. 64, 384
Seventeen and sixpence, 128. 164
Shaw, Samuel, 33
Ship launched, 150
Sin found out, 456

Tarragossa, 106
Teachers, 303

T

Temperance, in every No.
TEXTS ILLUSTRATED-

Deut. xxxii. 29, 411; Neh. vi.
3, 22; Prov. xii. 25, 22; xxvi.
3. 296; xxxi. 1, 411; Eccles.
viii. 8, 57; Isa. ii. 18, 296; Jer.
ix. 23, 22; Zech. iii. 2, 296;
Matt. v. 1, 296; v. 44, 296; xii.
50, 296; xxiv. 44, 254; Luke
iv. 22, 26; xi. 27, 254; xv. 17,
295; John vi. 37, 220; xii. 4,
57; xiv. 2, 254; xvi. 19, 254;
Acts xvi. 31, 332; xxiv. 25, 57;
2 Cor. iv. 1-4, 219; v. 17, 296;
Gal. vi. 9. 254; Eph. vi. 2, 296,
332; Phil. iv. 6, 57; Col. iii. 11,
22; 1 Thess. ii. 4, 219; 2 Thess.
iii. 10, 296; 1 Tim. i. 15, 57; vi.
6-8, 22; 2 Tim. i. 12, 253; iv.
8, 57; iv. 13, 254; Heb. x. 34,
219; xi. 6, 57; James ii. 5, 22;
1 Pet. ii. 12, 296; 1 John i. 1,
220; Rev. i. 6, 254; xiv. 13, 332.
Thoresby, J. de, 431
Thoughts for the thoughtful, 34
Time destroyed, 381
Tobacco, 264

U.

Uniformity, evils of, 410

V.

Versailles, 74

W.

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