seed, while he neglects the other duties of the husbandman, is more likely to have a crop, than he who performs all these offices, with the greatest possible exactness and diligence, while he neglects to sow the seed.

"RESTORATION OF ISRAEL."

***BUT at that time, a universal perplexity will seize upon all men; the Rulers of all Nations and the hearts of individuals will be quailing for fear: and while on the one hand the heavens will be heaving, and on the other the sea will be roaring, causing vast inundations, and terrible storms and tempests to quicken and heighten the terror of the time; then it is that men's hearts will fail them for fear, and for looking for those things that are coming on the earth.'-Rev. A. Dallas.

Review of Books.

A PASTOR'S MEMORIAL OF EGYPT, the Red Sea, the Wilderness of Sin and Paran, Mount Sinai, Jerusalem, and other principal localities of the Holy Land: Visited in 1842. With brief notes of a route through France, Rome, Naples, Constantinople, and up the Danube. By the Rev. George Fisk, LL.B. Prebendary of Lichfield, Rural Dean and Vicar of Walsall.-Seeleys.

SUCH a visit, made by a truly spiritual Christian and accomplished scholar, and an observing man, recorded too by a ready and eloquent pen, cannot fail of being in the highest degree interesting and instructive. Until within a few years, Palestine was a visionary land, a scene concerning which we had some dreamy notions, an abode of mystery and awe. Occasional visitants, few and far between, afforded outlines for the imagination to fill up, but never laid

the features of the country fully open before us. Recently, we have become so familiarized with them, that we seem (some of us at least) to know every road and street and turning there. Still the subject is ever new, ever increasing in interest and impressiveness, and so it will be, more and more, as the time draws nigh, yea even close at hand, for the Lord to build up Zion and to appear in His glory. May He hasten that day!

Mr. Fisk has travelled over these sacred spots with the Bible in his hand, and has therefore seen them by the true light supplied by God Himself. We are sure that every Christian reader will find his book a delightful guide along that honoured track.

But, in reference to the earlier part of the volume, while doing full justice to the very decided Protestant feeling that glows in every page, we cannot refrain from once more asking, Ho can spirituallyminded believers, lay or clerical, endure to enter the idol-temples where God is blasphemed, and Christianity made an abomination? The reply is, We go to see, that we may the more effectually protest against such things;-But do we enter a gin- palace, or do we frequent the haunts of abandoned profligacy, in order so to protest? Considering how very many and how very powerful are the attractions carefully prepared in the scenery, machinery, dresses, decorations and music of a mass-house, to entrap the youthful, unstable, and imaginative, we do think that experienced Christians ought to shun being seen in the idol's temple, lest their example lead their weak brethren to transgress, even if they do not shrink, on their own account, from the deadly contamination.

We are not theorizing: we lived for five or six

years in the midst of such profane shows, and never, we devoutly bless God for it, were we persuaded once to look upon the awful mockery of sacred things. In this matter, we deeply regret that the truly pious author of a most engaging book, should have detailed the blasphemous farces enacted in St. Peter's at Rome, on Easter Sunday, and at other times. We wish this matter might be fairly discussed in our pages, by abler hands than ours.

THE ENGLISH GOVERNESS.

A Tale of real

life. By R. McCrindell. Authoress of The Schoolgirl in France.-Dalton.

"THE School-girl in France" is a special favorite of ours; and we recognize some of the same descriptive talent in the present volume, which contains much graphic detail respecting Gibraltar and its neighbourhood. We cannot place it on a level with its predecessor: there is much incident in it, rather more romantic than usually consists with real life, and which was probably added to the foundation of fact. It contains both amusement and information, and the principles inculcated are strictly those of the Gospel.

THE MIRACLES OF CHRIST: with explanatory observations and illustrations from modern Travels. Intended for the Young.-Religious Tract Society.

A RUNNING commentary on the Miracles of our Lord, prefaced with a short dissertation on miracles,

and a comparison between those of the New Testament and the lying wonders of such impostors as Mohammed. All extremely well adapted for early youth, and rendered interesting by a good deal of local information.

THE EXPEDIENCY OF RESTORING AT THIS TIME TO THE CHURCH HER SYNODICAL POWERS, considered, in remarks upon the Appendix to the late Charge of His Grace the Archbishop of Dublin. By James Thomas O'Brien, D.D. Bishop of Ossory, Leighlin, and Ferns.—Seeleys.

IT is more than possible that, in the ensuing session of Parliament, this extremely important subject will be brought forward, and fully canvassed. It is, therefore, desirable to have a right view of the question; and we are again to acknowledge ourselves indebted to the Bishop of Ossory, whose spirited "Charge" recently threw into confusion the whole host of Tractarians, and is pretty well known to have been instrumental in dislodging Mr. Newman himself from the position which he so tenaciously held in a pulpit of the University.

The Archbishop of Dublin is labouring to bring about the revival of the "Convocation," or ecclesiastical legislature, which has for a century past been a mere name. His Grace urges the present painfully unsettled state of the Church as a pressing reason for calling together an authoritative assemblage, which should have power to decree and decide, on the ground of our established formularies, where