authority. The plan is so excellent, the discipline is so admirable, and the blessing vouchsafed so abundant, that we could almost envy the author his feelings in contemplating such a work. One suggestion we would however make: the language of the addresses would be improved by simplifying. It it above the comprehension of men so ignorant as those for whom it is intended. We hint this, for the benefit of such as may adopt the plan, and read the addresses to their men. Beyond this we can say nothing but that the book is a national blessing, and its author a most gifted, most favoured man.

THE JESUITS; their principles and acts. By Edward Dalton. Secretary to the Protestant Association.-Dalton.

We cannot too highly commend, or too earnestly recommend this valuable little compendium of a history that is being again enacted around us and among us. All English society is now leavened, her church poisoned, the foundations of her very existence as a nation rotted away, by the craft and subtlety of this truly devilish device. Mr. Dalton has briefly but accurately narrated its rise and progress -its death and resuscitation; and if we be not warned against the arts of the Jesuits, and prepared for the desperate conflict into which they are hurrying us, the fault is not his. We do not believe there is a village in the empire so obscure as to have no emissary of this vile body lurking among its population they assume all disguises, from the devout

high Churchman who takes the rubric for his rule of faith, to the fierce partizan of political dissent, who publicly tramples that rubric, with all the godly prayers, and all the abundance of scripture accompanying it, under his feet: from the pious enthusiast who professes to surrender his all in the cause of Christ and the gospel, to the obscure vendor of every abomination that Socialism itself can bring forth to view. Whatever tends to division, to revolution, to anarchy and destruction, we are warranted to conclude, from the testimony of universal history, has some connecting link with this master-mischief. Whether in the silvery tones of ecclesiastical seduction it gradually papalizes the unguarded college youth, or in the furious brawling of a Sunday repealmeeting stirs up the heated blood of the artisan to deeds of crime, it is in its element-does its proper work-and proves itself the direst scourge ever twisted to chastise a guilty land. We hope our readers will possess themselves of this book. They will not regret the time spent over its pages.

SKETCHES ILLUSTRATIVE OF IMPORTANT PERIODS IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD. To which are prefixed observations on the moral and religious uses of history. By Mary Milner, Author of "The Life of Dean Milner," and "The Christian Mother."-Parker.

We had the pleasure of announcing the intended appearance of this work; and now proclaim its arrival. Mrs. Milner has selected Alexander the Great,

Attilla, Mohammed, Charlemagne, the Crusades, and Leo X, for her subjects, and has treated them with much ability. To enable the serious student to trace the movements of Providence, and to discern the hand of the Almighty directing all events, is the object; and a great deal of interesting information is contained in the work.

JERUSALEM; As it was, and as it is; or its history and present state. Translated from the German, by Sophia Taylor, with a commendatory preface, by the Rev. A. M'Caul, D.D. Rector of St. James', Duke's Place.-Wertheim.

How can any thing be otherwise than interesting that relates to Jerusalem! That one point to which the eye of faith may turn, and sparkle in the hope of a speedy deliverance to the groaning earth. "When the Lord doth build up Zion He shall appear in His glory." This is a little book, full of information of the past and present; but we read with angry impatience recitals of the disgusting mummeries with which various sects, courteously called christians by the Author, pollute the holy city; and sicken over the description of mass-houses, and other idolatrous temples, built on particular spots, of which, however, we have the comfort of believing the traditions to be wholly fictitious. The mosque of Omar is indeed an abomination of desolation standing on the most holy place; but the so-called church of the holy sepulchre is a worse abomination of a greater desolation than Islamism.

We hope all Christian parents will point out this fact to their children, when placing the book in their hands. With such explanation it will be a most instructive little work.

M'GAVIN on 66 THE END OF CONTROVERSY," being strictures on Dr. Milner's work in support of Popish errors, entitled, "The end of religious controversy." By William M'Gavin, Esq.-Religious Tract Society.

VERY small in size; very weighty in matter. A masterly exposure of the most insidious of modern Popish works. We need to have our book-shelves well stored with such simple, comprehensible elucidations of the Mystery of Iniquity; and this is a very convincing one.

Another excellent little volume, uniform in size and appearance, published by the same Society, is entitled "A sketch of Popery." We recommend them both for wide circulation. The establishment of reading-rooms, and lending-libraries for the diffusion of knowledge (whether useful or useless is not determined here,) offers an excellent opportunity for doing good to the humbler reading classes, by presenting to them such works as these.

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THE PROTESTANT

So much for their Reverences!' said my uncle, his lip curled with the deepest expression of scorn that ever I saw upon it; I never doubted that I should, in the course of nature, live to see the unmasking of the gang; for when such an enormous crime is perpetrated against Christ, in his church, and against a confiding people, it is usual for the Lord to visit upon the same generation their misdeeds—to compel those who planted the tree to taste of its bitter, bitter fruit. But really such a full, unequivocal, vaunting proclamation of treason, positive treason against the crown of England-of wholesale, unmitigated, unvarnished perjury, on the part of the entire Popish priesthood in Ireland, as this man Higgins has authoritatively put forth, I hardly anticipated seeing. By all means record it—some will read it in your pages who have rebuked you for uncharitable feelings towards these "surpliced ruffians," as they have been rightly called; some, perhaps, who threw cold water on your zealous, practical protest in 1829, and would have shamed you from the unlady-like course of drawing up petitions, and of meddling in what they erroneously termed political affairs, by circulating information in the villages around, on the nature of the deed about to be committed by our miserable legislators. Come, transcribe at least a part of this right reverend speech.'