homeward voyage, was burnt at sea; and together with all the rest of his property, many valuable papers were lost. He has, nevertheless brought before us a very interesting detail; especially in relation to the Siamese, and the Chinamen; and we feel that in recommending the volume we are helping to awaken a warmer feeling on behalf of a most accessible and hopeful class of our fellow-creatures. No one can read the book without being struck by the ripeness of the field, unto which so few labourers have yet been sent. May the Author obtain his heart's desire, by being made instrumental in bringing it under more abundant cultivation !

SERMONS preached in the parish church of St. George's, Bloomsbury. By the Rev. Robert William Dibdin, A.M. Minister of West Street Episcopal Chapel, St. Giles.-Nisbet and Co.

THE style of these sermons is very popular, simple, energetic, and always bearing on the one grand point of bringing all into subjection to Christ. We like them much: they are calculated to edify the most simple, being wholly free from any affectation of fine writing; and exhibiting the excellent author's heartfelt desire, in all simplicity and godly sincerity, to "Preach the WORD."

THE BAPTISMS OF SCRIPTURE UNFOLDED. In two parts. By Sarah Bull.-Aylott.

SOME truth, mixed up with too much error to allow

of our recommending the work. It is one of the signs of the times, and an evil sign too, that men should be wasting so much thought, and so many hours of their uncertain lives, on matters where they are only called on to obey in faith, a plain commandment. The lady who here engages in the controversy, while scriptural enough in some points, dwells upon what we regard as a most dangerous doctrine, and which, to avoid misrepresentation, we will give in her own words; and will moreover give the whole paragraph unbroken.

"When we enter into covenant with God by baptism, we have not performed our duty, but only entered upon it. We must not only enter into covenant, but keep the covenant unbroken. We must perform all the conditions it requires of us, otherwise we cannot expect to reap the blessings it promises to us. If all those who entered into covenant with God by baptism were diligent in performing the conditions of the covenant, no one would presume to say baptism and regeneration were totally unconnected, and different from each other; for every baptised person would be regenerate, born anew, dead to the world, and alive to God, which are the CONDITIONS required of him. It is in the neglect of these conditions that baptism loses its effects; and having lost its effect in so many of our fellow-christians in name and profession, those whose faith is but weak in external ordinances, even when commanded by God himself, declare that baptism must be totally different from regeneration, because so many baptized persons are not only unregenerate but immoral and profane. Baptism does not regenerate persons, but prepares them for regeneration."

We leave our readers to compare this view with scripture; and we think that they will find it hard to reconcile the two.

SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSONS ON THE PARABLES, intended principally for the use of parents and teachers. Second edition. By a Lady-Whittaker.

A GOOD little book. The author is a staunch churchwoman, frequently quoting the prayer-book to show its harmony with the bible, but never for a moment placing the word of man on a par with the word of God; or, by the light of vain reason prying into things unseen. Wisely modest, she has here given an excellent help to others engaged in the work of usefulness that she feelingly describes as having been so blessed to herself.

ANNA THE LEECH-VENDER: a narrative of filial love. By OʻGlanbiecht. From the German, by Mrs. Clarke.-Wertheim.

We have got among the small books, in which we love to involve ourselves as holiday-time draws nigh. Now, this is as pretty a tale without any romance, as we can well meet with. The heroine is living now; a simple, pious, devoted daughter of worthy parents. The character of the old man is beautifully drawn.

RHYMES FOR A ROYAL NURSERY.-Painter.

IF these rhymes do find their way into the royal nursery, we should be glad. They are very pretty, and the sentiments better than we shall expect to find under the imprimatur of probable tutors and tutoresses in that most interesting and important establishment, May the divine blessing rest on the royal babes! and may such lessons of piety, Protestantism, and tender humanity to animals as this little bijou inculcates, be conveyed to their infant minds !

THE JEW, in this and other days.-Religious Tract Society.

MARVELLOUS is the progress of inquiry and of information on this heart-stirring topic! Here we have a small square book for the young, widely different from any that have preceded it, bearing on the nation of Israel. A frontispiece representing the interior of a great London Synagogue; a place from which pious people, not long ago, would haye taught their children to avert their eyes, as from a popish mass-house; if not with greater horror; much information as to synagogue-worship; and other matters appertaining to the Hebrew people; both among us and in foreign lands; a good many nice illustrations, very well executed; and a spirit of kindness breathing throughout, highly worthy of imitation. Still we look for a great advance in this revived branch of literature; for truly our dazzled eyes, when turned in the direction of the Jew, see

him but as a tree walking. Thick mists have still to be purged away.

The compiler of this little volume has taken the former part of his description from a work which he has had to purify in no small measure; for it was as atrocious a libel on the Jewish people as ever disgraced the Gentile press. Nothing of this is retained here; but the picture drawn is of the very lowest class of Jews, leaving unnoticed the large body of gentlemen who move in every sphere of society, up to the highest; and who come not within the outline given of what is called the Jewish population; though the highest among them will fervently hail the lowest as his brethren and in some situations as his superior. We have seen among the Cohanim, or descendants of Aaron, men in very poor habiliments though shrouded by the broad talith, occupying the highest place, near the Ark, while the whole congregation, including hundreds of wealthy and accomplished gentlemen, bowed to receive the blessing which they, the sons of Aaron, pronounce, according to Numbers vi. 23-26.

Again, in point of spiritual things, we find the testimony of Mr. Margoliouth repeatedly quoted, against which the Jews themselves indignantly protest, and not without reason. Justice is not fully rendered them, because, as we before remarked, Gentiles do not yet clearly see what Israel in our day is: but ere long it will be better understood. What is reported in this little book of the Karaite Jews, (page 109) is strictly true of the greater number of even the Rabbinnical Jews among ourselves; only that our inveterate habit of going to old books rather than to living men for information concerning