THE BOOK AND ITS STORY. A Charming History of the Bible for the Young, prepared on the occasion of the Jubilee of the British and Foreign Bible Society. By D. N. R. With an Introductory Preface by the Rev. T. PHILLIPS, Jubilee Seçretary. Handsomely printed, in one volume, crown octavo, on fine paper, and illustrated with numerous wood cuts. Cloth $1.00 "This valuable work, containing the 'Story' of that wonderfully-preserved Book-the Bible-should be heartily welcomed by all the Christian families of this land. Interesting and instructive, it attracts the youth, and at the same time furnishes strong food for the man of reflection and mature years. We hope that the publishers will be more than remunerated for the introduction of such a work into the Christian literature of this land."-Inquirer & Courier. "To the man who loves God's Word, and who is desirous of seeing it circulated in all the nations of our earth, this book is an inestimable treasure. It ought to be in every family and congregational library. Its perusal must profit every man who glances over its pages."-Reform Banner. "One of the most important and valuable works we have ever commended. It possesses throughout a powerful interest."-American Courier. "It places before us, in a most attractive form, the history of the Bible itself, and the countries connected with that history from the earliest date, blending with the statements details of a highly instructive character, well calculated to enlighten the mind, and to impress the heart with feelings of reverence for the 'Oracles of the Living God.' We strongly recommend the work as a most pleasing and instructive addition to the family library."-Church Witness. "The work can scarcely fail to be received with as much favour in this country as in England, where it has gone through eleven editions in little longer than a year."-Com. Advertiser. "This book will be sought by Christians of all denominations. It is indeed a most charming history of the Bible."-Daily News. "Great pains seem to have been taken to render the varied contents of the volume as accurate as they are interesting."-Sat. Eve. Post. "This is precisely such a book as should be found in every family. The wood cuts and illustrations are exceedingly valuable. The publishers display great taste in the getting up of the work."-Pres. Banner. "A deeply interesting volume. We shall rejoice to know that a copy of this choice volume is finding its way to every family in the land."-Christian Visitor. "We know of no book for general readers that covers the same ground. It well deserves the popularity it has attained."-Journal & Advocate. "It is a book of remarkable value, has specimens of the text of nearly all the most ancient manuscript copies of the Holy Writings in various languages, and a view of the first public reading of the Scriptures in the Crypt of St. Paul's, London, in the year 1541."-Concordia Intelligencer. THE SIX DAYS OF CREATION. A Series of affectionate Letters from a Father to his Children, developing the progressive advances of Creation during the Six Days; in which the Natural History of Animals, Plants, Minerals, Celestial Objects, &c., and their uses and relations to Man, are treated with particular reference to the illustration of Scriptural Truth. By W. G. RHIND. Illustrated with six beautiful steel plates, and 140 wood cuts. From the last London edition. 1 vol. crown 8vo. Cloth $1.00 "This is an excellent work, full of scientific facts."-Phila. Ledger. "The writer is well known for his scholarship. * ** *Those who are able to appreciate a sterling work on a point so important as the Natural History of the Bible will see that this book must be one of no ordinary merit.”— Presbyterian Banner. "This is a valuable book, replete with hallowed lessons of instruction for the family."-Christian Observer. "A thoroughly evangelical spirit pervades the volume, adapting it to impress the heart, as well as inform the understanding."-Presbyterian. "The subject of Natural History was never presented in a more interesting and attractive form than we find it in this volume."-Phila. Daily News. "It is just such a publication as parents will wish to have by them when they seek to teach their children the meaning of the sacred volume it illustrates."-Boston Atlas. "We cordially commend this beautiful book to all, especially to the young." -N. Y. Observer. "A more valuable or delightful volume than this cannot be put into the hands of youth."-St. John Observer. "We have seldom encountered a more valuable book-one more replete with valuable, truthful, and impressive lessons for the family circle."-City Item. "To children and youth especially, such clear and familiar treatises as this volume contains are valuable as fitting them to appreciate the more elaborate productions that are now finding their way even into our schools. The day of the arrogant antagonism of science against revelation has, we believe, forever gone; it is quite time that the bigoted opposition of narrow-minded religionism should as completely disappear. This desirable consummation, books like that under notice help to procure. The facts and conclusions of genuine science are brought satisfactorily within the reach of moderate capacity, thus conveying a fund of independent knowledge, as well as establishing upon us the hold of divine revelation. *** * The arrangement is orderly and dignified; and the style, from a quiet, unobtrusive ease, rises now and then to a graceful beauty, which lends additional charm to the narrative. The illustrations, both on wood and steel, are well executed. We know of no similar volume richer in attractive and beneficial information."-Lawrence Sentinel. THE OCEAN. By P. H. GOSSE, author of "An Introduction to Geology," "The Canadian Naturalist," etc. With fifty-two illustrations. From the last London edition. 1 vol. 12mo Cloth $1 00 In the above work, the author has described, with minuteness of detail, a few of the many objects of interest more or less directly connected with the Sea, and especially has he endeavoured to lead youthful readers to associate with the phenomena of nature, habitual thoughts of God. A subject so vast as the Ocean might be viewed in a variety of aspects, all of them more or less instructive. The one which has been chosen is that in which it presents itself to the mind of a naturalist, desirous of viewing the Almighty Creator in His works. The selections are made chiefly from Marine Botany, Zoology, Meteorology, the Fisheries, the varying aspects of Island and Coast Scenery, Incidents of Navigation, Atmospheric Phenomena, &c., arranged in the order of geographical distribution, as they might be supposed to present themselves to an observant voyager. "We know of no work better calculated to lead the mind to associate with the various phenomena of nature, habitual thoughts of God. and an awe-inspiring admiration of His manifold works and power."-Sinclair's Monthly Circular. "A very charming book, and one that every parent may be glad to put into the hands of his children, sure that they will be benefited and amused by it; and we fancy there are few parents who might not learn themselves something from its perusal."-Montreal Gazette. "This book is full of instructive and entertaining information. .... One might go to sea for years and not learn as much about the Ocean as he can gather from a few hours' study of this volume. Its moral and religious instruction also forms one of its chief features."-N. Y. Observer. "We take pleasure in recommending this charming volume as a work which blends singularly and felicitously a fund of instruction with the highest interest."-New Orleans Bee. "Full of interest and instruction."-N. Y. Christian Adv. and Journal. "The religious tone of the volume is pure, and the youthful heart, in tracing Mr. Gosse's pages, can scarcely refrain from associating God with the works of His hand."- Western Christian Advocate. "Both in respect to illustrations and style, it deserves a place in every home, as well as in every lyceum library."-Episcopal Recorder. "The author is perfectly at home in the department of natural science to which his book relates; and he has succeeded admirably in making the sea a witness for the benevolence and wisdom of God."-Puritan Recorder. "The volume is adapted to awaken a fresh sense of the vast resources of nature, and to inspire a feeling of religious awe, in the contemplation of the perpetual miracles of creation."-N. Y. Tribune. "This book is a good one to buy for family reading, and would by no means be out of place, in our opinion, in the libraries of our Sunday-schools."-Con gregationalist. "A work of deep interest and full of instruction."-Am. and Com. Advertiser. "A delightful volume of popular science, embracing every variety of information on marine subjects."-N. Y. Com. Adv. "It teaches lessons which are calculated at once to instruct the understanding and improve the heart."-Presbyterian. "Fascinating as a romance, reliable as history, and sterling as a moral essay." -American Courier. "A more instructive book cannot be placed in the hands of young people."Providence Journal. EVENINGS WITH THE PROPHETS: A Series of Memoirs and Meditations. MORTON BROWN, LL.D., Cheltenham. 8vo. Cloth By Rev. A. 1 vol. crown $1.00 "It is one of the clearest, most satisfactory, and best historical reviews of the lives of the Prophets of the Old Testament that has ever appeared."-Boston Atlas. "We have rarely taken up a book anyway connected with the subject of prophecy which has seemed to us so well adapted to interest and edify the great mass of the Christian community as this volume. It is written in an impressive and glowing style, and seems to throw us into immediate intercourse with the illustrious men whose characters and works it commemorates."-Puritan Recorder. "Unlike most religious books of the present day, Evenings with the Prophets is written in such a lively, popular style, that it possesses all the interest of a secular history."-Phil. Daily News. "Not only a readable, but a very pleasant and profitable book. We could wish our readers no better employment and no higher enjoyment, after the toils of the busy day are over, than the perusal of a chapter of this book."Colonial Presbyterian. "Written, as the work has been, by one possessing a clear and vigorous mind, as well as a warm Christian heart, it will commend itself to every intelligent Christian reader."-Penn. Inquirer. "A delightful and instructive volume. The Christian who peruses these papers will find himself in a charmed society."-Michigan Chris. Herald. "It is a work worthy of all commendation."-Am. Spectator. "The work is crowded with impressive suggestions, clothed in graphic and eloquent language."-N. Y. Tribune. "The book is eminently readable and entertaining, and seems to be infinitely preferable for the family, the Sunday-school, or even the study of the general reader, to a formal commentary on that portion of the Scriptures to which the work refers."-North American. "It is a cordial, wholesome book, that bears upon it marks of a genial sincerity, as well as of patient study and liberal scholarship."-Lawrence Sentinel. "This is one of those rare books which afford a pleasant evening's entertainment, which are now printed for a thinking public. Things, called books, are plentiful; but a sensitive mind is shocked with their verbosity, inelegance of language, and moral depravity of sense. In this book, however, we find food for reflection. It lifts the dark veil from many an incident in history, explains to the inquiring mind various matters which it could not before comprehend, and so pleasingly elucidates facts of Scriptural biography, that it is quite impossible to lay it down before completing its entire contents."-Easton Whig. "To the young, who are entering on an earnest examination of the Scriptures in order to the attainment of clear conceptions of the harmony of divine truth, and to those of riper years who are desirous of having their knowledge amplified or confirmed, it will prove an invaluable boon. * ** *The chapters resemble great historic paintings; each prophet stands as the centre, and around him gather the pomp, and circumstance, and grandeur, and desolation, of ancient monarchies, the shadows of Israel's doom, and the rising splendours of Messiah's kingdom."-London Evangelical Magazine. MORNINGS WITH JESUS. A Series of Devotional Readings for the Closet and the $1.25 "The Rev. WM. JAY was the clergyman whom JOHN FOSTER, the celebrated essayist, entitled 'the prince of preachers.' Judging from this volume, the very skeleton of his discourse has more energy than the entire body of some men's pulpit oratory."-Com. Adv. "These Readings breathe a spirit of genuine piety, and their tone is catholic and healthful."-Evening Argus. "Charmingly adapted to private and family reading. The Sunday-school teacher will find it an invaluable assistant."-City Item. "This well-printed volume contains numerous expositions of the sacred Scriptures, marked by the originality and naturalness of manner, the perspicuity and impressiveness of style, the evangelical and experimental savour, the fulness and felicity of illustration, which were characteristic of the discourses of their pious and eloquent author. Clearness of thought, vigour of expression, boldness in the utterance of truth, and earnestness, both of persuasion and denunciation, are traits in which they eminently excel."-N. Amer. "The brief meditations composing the volume are pervaded with some of the best characteristics of Mr. JAY's style, and will not disappoint the devout reader." -Presbyterian. "These meditations are, like every thing from the pen or the lips of WILLIAM JAY, practical, evangelical, apt, and often strikingly beautiful. **** Full of pious and excellent thought, and well fitted to be read in connection with the devotions of either the family or the closet."-Puritan Recorder. "There is a peculiar freshness about these pages which gives them a charm superior to almost any other of the productions of Mr. JAY."-N. Y. Observer. "Christians, who know the worth of evangelical truth, will value it as a volume worthy of being employed to aid their private and family devotions; and, whether beginning the Christian life, or more advanced in the experience of it, will read it with profit and pleasure."-Church Witness. "One great charm that pervades these pages is, that they range through every department of human experience, and show that the Spirit has his appropriate teachings for every condition. They are also eminently fitted to cherish a devotional spirit."-Dr. SPRAGUE. "We recommend it as one of the best of closet companions."-Colonial Presbyterian. "This is a rich gathering together of all the gems of beauty to be found in the writings of the Rev. WILLIAM JAY, centering around the Cross. In it will be found a delightful exercise for each morning in the year, and together forming a complete exposition of Bible truth.”—American Spectator. "These readings are for every morning of the year. They are based upon suitable texts, and occupy each from one to two pages, so that it would be easy to read one each morning at family worship. They are remarkably rich in Christian experience, counsel, and consolation, and expressed in clear, concise, and beautiful language, as are all the writings of this distinguished author. We can most heartily recommend this book for family use."-Canadian Review |