no ordinary interest by all well-educated musicians, whether professors

or amateurs.

Whether the highly ingenious views which it propounds will ever be generally reduced to practice, is a question upon which we venture not. to offer an opinion. "Improvements," as the able author observes, are for the young; and to the rising generation" he offers "the improvement here recovered from the ancients."

THE LITTLE TEACHER. By Mrs. Henry Lynch. Author of "Lays of the Sea," "The Family Sepulchre," "Stories from the Gospels," &c., &c. London: Seeleys, Fleet Street, and Hanover Square. 1851.

ALTHOUGH a book for the young, bearing Mrs. Henry Lynch's name upon its title-page, may well be regarded as carrying along with it its own sufficient recommendation, we gladly bear our testimony to the excellence of this little publication. As in this lady's former productions, Scriptural truth is here inculcated in a style, the grace of which must recommend it to the most cultivated taste, while its simplicity is calculated to attract young readers of every grade. We hope that THE LITTLE TEACHER will command the circulation to which its merits entitle it.

EMBLEMS FROM THE FACTORY. No. I. The Manchester Turn-Out. No. II. The Proposal. By the Rev. J. Richardson, B.A., Incumbent of St. Barnabas, Manchester. London: Wertheim and Macintosh. Manchester: H. Whitmore.

WE are glad to have an opportunity of recommending to the notice of our readers the first two of an intended series of Tracts from an able and laborious Manchester clergyman. Nos. I. and II. are well calculated to interest the poorer classes of readers in manufacturing districts; and are particularly suited for cottage distribution in such localities.

THE LIGHTED VALLEY; or, The Closing Scenes of the Life of Abby Bolton. By One of her Sisters. With a Preface by her Grandfather, the Rev. William Jay, of Bath. Second Edition. London : Hamilton, Adams, and Co., 33, Paternoster Row.

AT present we can only say of this book, that it will well repay the most attentive perusal. It is a beautiful and touching memoir of one who died "in the Lord" in the flower of her youth; and its interest is enhanced by the Preface prefixed to it by the Rev. William Jay.

We hope to recur to this work on some future occasion. In the meantime, we would advise our younger readers to make themselves acquainted with the character of one who assuredly found "the valley of the shadow of death,' to be indeed a LIghted Valley.

FAVOURITE SONG BIRDS. No. 8. The Chaffinch. Edited by H. G. Adams. London: W. S. Orr and Co., Amen Corner, Paternoster Row.

We have already recommended this series of Song-Birds to the favourable notice of our readers. In the present number, the Chaffinch is set before us

"As brisk, as merry, and as loved a bird,

As any in the fields and woodlands heard;"

and a portrait of "the low sweet warbler," surrounded by the snows of "the opening year, adorns the title-page. The lovers of natural history in general, and of ornithology in particular, will read with delight Mr. Adams's graceful descriptions of the habits and manners of his "Favourite Song-Birds."

CHRIST IN HIS TEMPTATION; The Believer's Example and Strength. Bath: Binns and Goodwin: London: Whitaker.

THIS is a valuable and highly practical tract. It is very beautifully written; and either directly, or by implication, sets forth, in their fulness and simplicity, the essential doctrines of the Gospel.

MORNING AND EVENING PRAYER. London: Wertheim and Macintosh. THESE prayers and thanksgivings, adapted for domestic worship, are selected from the simple and Scriptural morning and evening services of the "Book of Common Prayer." They are printed, in a very clear type, on a large sheet, which should be mounted on pasteboard, and for cottage use, hung up against the wall of the family apartment. Family-worship, at all times an important duty, is especially so, when, as at present, English Christians of all grades of society are pre-eminently called upon to seek the Divine blessing upon their endeavours to maintain inviolate, and to transmit to their children, the great principles of their religion, in their Scriptural purity and simplicity. We hope, that this "sheet," of which a hundred copies may be procured for less than a hundred pence-will be widely distributed by our friends, among their poorer neighbours.

THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND SUNDAY SCHOLAR'S MAGAZINE for 1850. London: Wertheim and Macintosh, 24, Paternoster Row.

WE have heretofore spoken in commendation of various numbers of this truly useful little Magazine. On looking, however, through the volume for 1850, we see reason to entertain a still higher opinion of it than we had formed from the perusal of occasional numbers. The articles by Hesketh Browne may be especially mentioned as admirable; and much of the poetry would do credit to a periodical of much higher pretensions. In Church of England Sunday Schools, for cottage distribution, or for lending libraries, this volume will be found valuable and interesting.

BABYLON, and the Banks of the Euphrates. London: Religious Tract Society.

THIS most interesting account of "Babylon and the Banks of the Euphrates," forms a volume of the valuable monthly series published by the Religious Tract Society.

A brief quotation may enable our readers to form some idea of the style, as well as of the design, of the work:

Since the commencement of the present century, cities whose foundation dates from the earliest times, known to fame in sacred and profane annals, after ages of abandonment to desolation and silence, have had their sites carefully examined, and have been partially restored to the mind's eye by an investigation of their ruins; while the sites of others have been recovered from oblivion, after having been lost to the world for generations. These are events not merely of antiquarian interest, or valuable as elucidating historical details; but especially important for supplying many striking illustrations of the fulfilment of Scripture prophecy; confirming thereby the integrity and inspiration of that Divine Book which graphically depicts their glory, and registers predictions of their consignment to emptiness and spoliation, uttered at a time when numerous and powerful races were contained in their walls."

We recommend to the notice of our readers, this account of "BABYLON AND THE BANKS OF THE EUPHRATES," as a work more than ordinarily rich in interest and instruction.

THE

ENGLISHWOMAN'S MAGAZINE

AND

Christian Mother's Miscellany.

APRIL, 1851.

THE ESSENTIALS OF CHRISTIANITY THEORETICALLY AND PRACTICALLY CONSIDERED.

BY THE LATE rev. Joseph MILNER, M.A., VICAR OF THE HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, HULL.

PART II.-CHAPTER VI.

THE SPIRIT OF A PILGRIM.

(Continued from page 142.)

AVING, in the former part of this chapter endeavoured to set before the Christian reader some faint view of his prospects in eternity, I am now to consider the use, which, in various particulars, may be made of this view, in the way of defining, with some degree of

accuracy, the Spirit of a PILGRIM.

I. We may hence determine the ULTIMATE END which the believer has in view ;—an end unattainable on this side of eternity; even though he should be favoured with the most spiritual communion with God which can be enjoyed in this life. His END lies beyond the grave; else in vain were he denominated a pilgrim upon earth. Here, he has no continuing city; he seeks one to come.* What are the highest

NEW SERIES.-NO. LXIV.

Heb. xiii. 14.

enjoyments of the love of Christ attained even by the most holy men, on earth, in comparison with the bliss of the meanest of their brethren when safely arrived at home? Here, the cross is to be borne; the warfare is to be carried on; and every spiritual movement of the soul has its determined adversary, always in full opposition, and continually preventing the perfect accomplishment of every intention of the inward man. "To will," exclaimed St. Paul, “is present with me; but how to perform that which is good, I find not."* In heaven, however, as we have seen, every impediment is removed. There, the flesh, the Jesus will world, and the devil will trouble the Christian no more. there, for ever, reign unresisted in his soul. Moreover, the believer's knowledge of Christ, and of the happiness to be found in Him, are, here, far too imperfect to constitute anything like the perfection of wisdom, holiness, and joy. How mean and unworthy are the ideas which children possess of the pursuits and employments of more advanced age! As we advance towards man's estate, we gradually assume a new language, a new train of thought, and, in some sense, a childish new understanding. We must be men before we can put away things. Thus, the Apostle assures us, it will be with the saint when he shall have reached his home;† and the reason is plain. We now see as through a glass-the glass of faith-darkly; or in riddles; but "then face to face." Bold and strong as is that faith, which is now the evidence of things not seen, and which, through the power of the Holy Ghost, performs such glorious exploits, it must be dull and inefficacious, compared with the actual sight which shall bless the glorified saint in the heavenly world.

On these accounts, all that is attainable by a Christian on earth, is called "the earnest of the Spirit." An earnest, as we all know, is in value as nothing, compared with the sum total in due time to be received. It suffices, indeed, to give an idea of its nature; and is a guarantee for the future possession of it; but that is all. I apprehend, that with reference to this subject, a great mistake has prevailed among the people of God in our own times. We have dwelt too much, in proportion, on the spiritual blessings attainable here; too little, on those which belong to the world to come. Thus, instead of being animated by views of heaven, Christians are apt to look forward, only or chiefly, to some fancied moment of heavenly happiness to be enjoyed on earth. The Scriptures, however, set forth, more simply, the next world, as the end to be steadily kept in view, as the harvest of our per• Rom. vii. 18. † 1 Cor. xiii. 11, 12.