Grimké became the committee of award, but with no better

success.

In this state of things the American Peace Society authorized the publication of the volume before us. In respect to its typographical execution the work is uncommonly attractive-worthy indeed to be presented to "every crowned head in Europe, and to the Executive of every republic in America." The discussions themselves should receive the earnest attention of all in authority. Indeed, it seems to us, that men in the seats of power cannot avoid the conviction, while reading these pages, that they have a solemn duty to discharge to their constituents and the world. The present mode of adjusting national disputes clearly belongs to a barbarous age, and it should have passed away with the wager by battle and the trial by ordeal. It is the design of these essays to point out to the Christian and the philanthropist a more excellent way. It was hardly to be expected that they should give us an accurately detailed system. But the facts and principles which they furnish are exceedingly important. They have prepared the way for further inquiry and discussion, and we look forward with confidence to the dawn of a better day. 12.-A Tribute to the Memory of Fitzhugh Smith, the son of

Gerrit Smith. By the Author of "Thoughts on a New
Order of Missionuries," etc. New-York: Wiley and
Putman. 1840. pp. 300.

The youthful and interesting subject, or rather occasion, of this memoir, died at Utica, in the State of New-York, July, 1836, at about the age of twelve years, in the exercise of a remarkably matured and intelligent faith in Christ. This tribute to his memory is not in the usual form of works produced by such occasions, a mere threading together of the incidents of the life and death of the deceased, but is constructed on a more philosophical plan, and with a higher aim. The starting-point of the author is his conviction that a nobler style of character than is usually seen, or is sought for in the training of youth, is demanded, and that the form of improvement required in the character of our youth, is especially in respect of its MANLINESS. This word then suggests the object and aim of the writer. It is to inculcate the importance and excellence of manliness of character. To this the narrative, the descriptive parts, and the reasoning of the book, all tend, and every thing is professedly excluded which might break in upon the unity of this design. We recommend the book as one of the most interesting and useful of its kind.

13.-Domestic Education: by H. Humphrey, D. D., President of Amherst College. Amherst: J. S. & C. Adams. 1840. pp. 239.

This little volume comes to us as an old friend in a new dress. It embodies the substance of a series of papers, which appeared in the New-York Observer, a few months ago, on Domestic Education. The venerable writer has yielded to a desire, repeatedly and urgently expressed, that he would give to his thoughts on this subject a more convenient and permanent form. He has revised the series and discussed several new and important topics. He has also inserted, by way of appendix, some twenty or thirty pages on Domestic Education from the London Christian Observer, which still farther increases the value of the book. In its present shape it may be entitled the Parent's Manual. It displays a thorough acquaintance with the wants and the perils of childhood and youth, and then, with singular felicity, points out the way to meet the former and repel the latter.

14.-The Poet's Tribute. Poems of William B. Tappan. Boston: D. S. King, and Crocker & Brewster. pp. 325.

1840.

This is indeed the poet's tribute. And, what is far better, it is the Christian poet's tribute. We are often pained at the shyness with which the sons of song approach the cross of Christ. Their notes are sweet and clear and full on every theme but this. The praises of a heathen god, or a modern hero, they can utter loud and long. But point them to Jesus of Nazareth-the scorned-the persecuted-the crucified one -and they are dumb.

Not so with Mr. Tappan. His inspiration is drawn from

-Siloa's brook that flow'd
Fast by the oracle of God.

Most of his pieces are strictly sacred in their character: and we pity the heart which can dwell on some that we might mention, and not be made better.

The poem at the close of the volume, entitled " Missions," was pronounced before the Porter Rhetorical Society at Andover. We heard it then, and we have read it now, with great interest. There is genuine poetry in the production. Had we space, we could cite passages of a high order, both in respect to taste and genius.

15.-Sermons on Different Subjects, delivered in England and America, by Rev. Edward Norris Kirk, A. M., late Pastor of the Fourth Presbyterian Church, Albany, N. Y. With an Introduction, by Samuel Hanson Cox, D. D. New-York, 1840. pp. 316.

This volume is a collection and republication of eleven Sermons and four Addresses, which had before appeared in separate forms in England and this country. They are on the following important and practical topics:-Man's natural enmity to God,-Obligations of Young Men,-Jesus the Great Missionary, The Gospel Ministry,-The Nature and Influence of Maternal Associations,-Sermon to Children,-Practical Love to Christ,-Temperance and Religion,-The traffic in Alcohol, Valedictory Sermon,-Agreement with God, etc.

Though these discourses are by no means deficient in force and cogency of reasoning, there is yet less of systematic argumentation in them, than of warm-hearted and zealous appeal. The reader who has heard Mr. Kirk preach, will perceive that they are written in a style adapted to his rapid and fervid eloquence; and yet, to one unacquainted with the author, they would hardly suggest the idea of that eloquence. They will be read, therefore, with less interest, by strangers, than by those whose memory may enable them to supply, in their thoughts, the manner of the preacher. Yet they are good discourses, worthy of publication, as popular and faithful exhibitions of truth on the topics which they embrace, and as suited to impress the reader with a strong sense of religious obligation.

16. The Museum of Religious Knowledge: designed to illustrate Religious Truth. Edited by Marcus E. Cross. Philadelphia: J. Whetham. New-York: Robert Carter, 1840. pp. 264.

This little volume, which is neatly executed by the publisher, is made up of short and stirring discussions of a variety of interesting topics. The authors from whose writings they are principally selected, are Hon. A. H. Everett, Rev. Drs. Spring, Hawes, Plumer, Smith, Babcock, and Mrs. H. B. Stowe ; and the selections are worthy of the names with which they are accompanied. Several of the pieces are from the editor's own pen. These too, are written in a chaste and attractive style, and are suited to the place which they occupy in a volume designed to allure the minds of busy men and women to the consideration of moral and religious subjects.

17.-Letters from the Old World. By a Lady of New-York.

In

Two Volumes. New-York: Harper & Brothers, 1840. pp. 307, 337.

To the general reader, these Letters will be found second in interest to few of the numerous books of Travels in the "Old World," with which we are "being favored," in these days of increased and rapid intercommunication between the most widely separated countries. They are from the pen of Mrs. Haight, a lady of wealth and leisure, who has given us in these volumes the results of her observations in a tour, under the protection of her husband, and with the best advantages, through Egypt, Syria, Palestine, Asia-Minor, Turkey and Greece. It was not an idle curiosity which allured her away to those ancient lands. It was the longing of an enlightened and cultivated mind to become familiar with the scenes of the earliest times. Such a mind would be likely to find the principal pleasure of travelling abroad, in the instruction to be derived from the new and ever varying objects which present themselves in foreign lands. And we return our hearty thanks to Mrs. Haight that she has consented to share this pleasure with the public by committing these interesting volumes to the press. They are written in a lively, chaste and attractive style, and though they do not pretend to the precise accuracy of scientific observation, they may be relied on for a strict adherence to the truth. They are also characterized by more than an ordinary degree of good sense. The numerous topics and incidents which they exhibit are exceedingly miscellaneous, of course; yet associated, as they are, in locality and in history, with the oldest and grandest events of time, we read them with interest, as, we love to be reminded of the line of our relationship, not only with the realms of classic antiquity, but also with

-"the land Where the patriarchs rest,

Where the bones of the prophets are laid."

18.-The Scripture Doctrine of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, in their relation to God the Father. By

Nathaniel S. Folsom. Boston: James Munroe & Co. 1840. pp. 84.

19.—A Letter to Ezra S. Gannett, of Boston, occasioned by his Tract on Atonement. By Nehemiah Adams, Pastor of Essex-street Church. Boston: James Munroe & Co. 1840. pp. 64.

These two publications, if we mistake not, are worthy of some more extended remarks than we have room to make in

this notice. The Letter of Mr. Adams is written in the best style of controversy, and is especially valuable as containing a clear, satisfactory and popular defence of the Scripture doctrine of the Atonement, and at the same time exhibiting the fact, that this cardinal doctrine of Christianity is rejected, not only by Mr. Gannett, but by "the American Unitarian Association." Considered in connection, these publications will inculcate some important lessons, which we hope to present in a future No. of the Repository.

20.-PRESIDENT BEECHER ON BAPTISM.

On recurring to the article of President Beecher on Baptism, in the Repository for January and April last, our readers will notice that there is some incompleteness in the argument as indicated in the plan, and as also intimated on pp. 366, 368. This was perceived by ourselves on reading the MS., but owing to some delay in Mr. Beecher's correspondence, we had the best reason to suppose that we had received all that he intended to furnish on the subject. We accordingly inserted the part which appeared in the April No., as concluding his discussion. He since informs us that he was disappointed by this announcement, and that he fears the result may be a premature answer to an unfinished discussion.

We have therefore judged it proper, as a caveat against any such premature reply, from any quarter, and as due to Pres. Beecher, here to announce that our pages will be open to a continuance of his discussion in a future No., when he proposes to present a large class of additional facts, which he regards as essential to the full power of his argument, which being moral and cumulative, a comprehensive view of the whole seems necessary to a full perception of the force of its parts.

21.-A NEW WORK ON GEOLOGY.

We are informed by the publishers, J. S. & C. Adams, Amherst, Mass, that they have in the press, and will shortly publish, a work on Geology, by Prof. Hitchcock. The plan of the work, we understand, is novel and original, and that, while it is designed as a text-book for the Professor's own classes in Geology, and also to present to the public a condensed view of the present state of Geological facts, theories and hypotheses, it will also embrace the materials of the author's Synopsis of Geology, to be appended to his final Report on the Geology of Massachusetts, which is also now in the press.