1850.] Notices of Recent Publications. 511 James Munroe & Co. have published, in four pretty cloth-covered volumes," A Trap to Catch a Sunbeam," " Only," "Old Joliffe," and "A Sequel to Old Joliffe," by the same author. These genial little stories have been received with equal favor by children and their parents. They are among the few unexceptionable books whose sentiments, morals, and diction adapt them to their purpose, and convey the best lessons in an attractive form. Crosby & Nichols have republished, from the London edition, an English translation of a Danish drama, entitled King René's Daughter. The interest of this simple tale gathers about a singular, yet not impossible, picture of the fancy, portrayed as an incident of real experience. A child, born blind, is so educated as to be ignorant of her deprivation. The method and effect of this delicate training, with a beautiful delineation of the experiences attending the gift of sight, constitute the drapery of the story. The same publishers have issued second editions of Furness's Prayers, Mountford's Euthanasy, and Bartol's Discourses on the Christian Spirit and Life, with an Introduction not given in the previous edition. Messrs. Ticknor, Reed, & Fields have published, in a most beautiful style of art, a new edition of the Liturgy used in King's Chapel, in this city. The same publishers have issued, in a shape uniform with their many volumes of poetry, the complete poetical works of Professor Longfellow. Two volumes embrace what has been previously published in six. In their present form they will tempt, perhaps, some new readers, and will serve as a more becoming gift to a large variety of persons. The publishers will soon issue an elegantly illustrated edition of Evangeline. Messrs. Phillips, Sampson, & Co. have published, thus far, fourteen numbers of their splendid octavo edition of Shakspeare. The engravings of the heroines of each play continue to be finely executed, and the type and paper used in the work are of the very best character. The notes and illustrations which are introduced are selected most judiciously from the whole mass of such materials which has been accumulated by the commentators. The same publishers have issued the third volume of their li brary edition of Milman's Gibbon. We cannot but commend the style in which this firm issues the occasional pamphlets which now constitute so large a portion of the reading of many persons around us. In this fine style, with bold type, white paper, and open lines, they have published Lamartine on "Atheism among the People," (12mo, pp. 72,) a brilliant, but somewhat rhetorical essay, and a pamphlet entitled "The Origin of the Material Universe; with a Description of the Manner of the Formation of the Earth, and Events connected therewith, from its Existence in a Fluid State to the Time of the Mosaical Narrative (12mo, pp. 84). As this account, however, is not written by an eyewitness of the occurrences which it describes, it must, of course, be read with some allowances. These attempts, of which there have been several of late, from Laplace downwards, are more or less ingenious essays on chemistry, which undertake to account for the creation of every thing, something being given as the material to start with. Messrs. Harper & Brothers, New York, have at length issued an edition of Humboldt's Cosmos, in two very neat volumes. This work, which was recently commended in our pages, ought to find a multitude, not of readers merely, but of students,- for it needs and deserves study. - Mr. Melville's new book, from the same publishers, "White-Jacket: or, The World in a Man-ofWar," though not the most brilliant, is by far the most instructive and valuable of his writings. It describes the whole organization of the interior life of a ship of war, its discipline, incidents, catastrophes, ennui, and excitements, and certainly, to a landsman, seems to be fair and impartial in its moralizings. As to its seamanship, its technology, and its professional merits, we pass no opinion. We have read it with great delight, and, if we are not mistaken, have received from it much information, and many good impressions. INTELLIGENCE. RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. Ordination and Installation. - Mr. FRANCIS C. WILLIAMS, of Brighton, was ordained, on February 27, Pastor of the First Church and Society in North Andover. Introductory Prayer by Rev. Mr. Livermore of East Boston; Selections from Scripture by Rev. W. R. Alger of Roxbury; Sermon by Rev. F. D. Huntington of Boston; Prayer of Ordination by Rev. F. A. Whitney of Brighton; Charge by Rev. Dr. Gannett of Boston; Fellowship of the Churches by Rev. O. B. Frothingham of Salem; Concluding Prayer by Rev. N. Hall of Dorchester. REV. F. H. HEDGE, late of Bangor, was installed, on March 27, as Pastor of the Westminster Congregational Church in Providence, R. I. Introductory Prayer and Reading of the Scriptures by Rev. C. H. Brigham of Taunton; Prayer of Installation by Rev. S. K. Lothrop of Boston; Fellowship of the Churches by Rev. E. B. Hall of Providence; Sermon by Rev. G. W. Burnap of Baltimore; Address to the Society by the late Pastor, Rev. S. Osgood of New York; Concluding Prayer by Rev. C. T. Brooks of Newport, R. I. Barling, John, his Review of Trini- Beard, Rev. J. R., his Illustrations of Bennett, W. C., Lyrics by, 50-52. Bible, Figurative Language of, 390 411. Bible, Historical Geography of, by 170. Boernerianus, The Codex, 39. Brenton, James J., his Voices from Brownson, O. A., his Argument for -247-his changes of opinion, 229 - 233. Brown University, Report upon, 510. Calderon, 152. C. Campbell, Lord, his Lives of the Chief 507. Carpenter, Rev. R. L., his Discourses Century, The Nineteenth, article on, Chalmers, Dr., Biography of, 334. 328. Cheever, Rev. H. T., his Whale and Classes, The Middle, in Great Brit- College, Harvard, Overseers of, 338. reviewed, 53-88- Translations Crosby, Alpheus, his Second Advent, Cunningham, Allan, Lyrics by, 43 - 45. Cunningham, J. D., his History of the D. Dana, R. H., his Poems and Prose VOL. XLVIII. - 4TH S. VOL. XIII. NO. III. on the old Hindoo Religion, The, 13. Hitchcock, Pres., his Lectures on the Holmes, Dr. O. W., his Poems, notic- Humboldt, Alex. Von, his Cosmos, re- Hume's History of England, new Edi- Hungary and Austria, their relations, - I. India, The British Empire in, its Con- Irish Colleges, The, 179. Gannett, Dr. E. S., Sermon by, no- Italy, The Genius of, by Rev. R. ticed, 509. Garcilasso de la Vega, 141. pendium of Ecclesiastical History, noticed, 172. Giles, Rev. Henry, his Lectures and Goldsmith's History of Greece, 294. Greenwood, Grace, her Greenwood Grote, George, his History of Greece, H. Turnbull, noticed, 169. L. Index. Lawence, Archbishop, his criticisms, Longfellow, Prof. H. W., Poems by, Lunt, Rev. W. P., his Lecture before Magyars, the Ancient, 455. Mexico, The War with, the Prize Middleton, H. J., on the Government 505. Moorish Ballads, 133. Mountford, Rev. W., his Martyria and Muzzey, Rev. A. B., his Christian 515 Paul at Ephesus, article on, 434- Peace Movement, The, 377. Pietism and Philosophy, 415. Porter, J. S., his Principles of Textu- R. Reid's Intellectual Powers, 508. Representative Men, by R. W. Emer- Resurrection, the Doctrine of, 302 – Rogers, R. P., his Ordination at Can- Roman Church, Mr. Brownson's Ar- gument for, examined, 227 - 247. S. Saintes, Amand, his History of Ra- tionalism in Germany, noticed, 329. Schleiermacher, 427. Scriptures, Figurative Language in Seymour, Rev. M. H., his Mornings |