our next door neighbours stands in the way of our enlightenment. Having given this caution, with an assurance that the half has not yet been told them concerning Judah, we give a hearty commendation with the little book to our friends, hoping to see it soon doubled in size and importance. The lion, the great lion, is about to be stirred up; and men shall see him as he is, not as sign-painters represent him.

THE WORKING-MAN'S WIFE. By the Author of "the Family Book."-Religious Tract Society.

HERE is a treasury of cottage wisdom, and good management, and household arrangement; and all on the very highest and holiest principles, powerfully enforced. We know no rank of life in which this little volume would not be serviceable though principally to the class indicated in its title-page. It ought to be given as a prize in schools, to the elder girls; and as an acceptable, marriage-gift to every humble bride.

LAODICEA; or religious declension. Its nature, indications, causes, consequences, and remedies. An Essay, by David Everard Ford, Author of " Decapolis," Chorazin," ," "Damascus," &c.-Simpkin and

Co.

99.66

We have noticed, as they issued from the press, Mr. Ford's preceding Essays, and have not withheld from them the acknowledgment of many excellences, because the Author neither is a Churchman nora Calvinist.

We now, in like manner desire to notice his latest production; and if it be, as he seems to intend it should be, the last of its class, we shall regret the circumstance; for his writings are, in our estimation, really valuable. We all want rousing, and stirring up to work; and it is the tendency of these Essays so to affect us. "Laodicea" is on a very solemn subject, and one that the Great Apostle of the Gentiles did not fail to press earnestly on the churches. Mr. Ford has executed his task faithfully, ably, and impressively; mingling encouragement with warning, and leaving the backslider without excuse. heartily wish that this class of writers was greatly enlarged.

We

THE LORD'S SUPPER. Second edition.-Baisler.

We made some passing remarks on this little tract incidentally, when reviewing a larger book, some little time since: we now wish to make further mention of it. The author's object has been to strip the ordinance of the Lord's supper of the additions made by man to a divine institute, and to dispel the cloud of mystery in which their imaginations have wrapped what is in itself beautifully simple and comprehensible. He takes it as he finds it in its original appointment by the Lord himself, and in its recorded mode of acceptation and celebration among the first disciples; thus shewing what it is not, by fairly exhibiting what it is. Looking at the volumes written on the subject, in the way of explanation, preparation, &c., for this blessed ordinance; and at the fearful heresies built on an overweening appre

hension of its importance as a sacrament; and of the very meaning of that much-abused term, we cannot but attach a high value to this very plain and scriptural little tract. With the Mass-book of Rome, the "Office" of the Episcopal church in Scotland, and the treatises of English high-churchmen among ourselves on the one hand, and on the other the simple word of God, we have long felt that much was to be retraced ere we could ourselves duly approximate to the latter; and we trust that the doctrine set forth in the tract now before us will ever be recognized as that which the scriptures inculcate : an infallible canon of the Church of Christ.

THE PROTESTANT.

THIS is as it should be,' said my uncle, as he glanced, for the twentieth time perhaps, on the carefully-preserved record of the French king's reception; which he had fairly cut out, or rather separated, from the other part of the newspaper containing it. 'After all, my dear; and at this very advanced stage of the march of liberalism, and all other incongruous marches, the spirit of the English people is a loyal, king-loving spirit. It cheers me to recognize this in such vigorous life among them.

'Do you think, uncle, that the pacific monarch ever feels as safe and comfortable in large, mixed assemblages of his own subjects, as he did in the heart of an English throng, as motley as could well be brought together?'

'No; how can he? He looks upon the children of those who perpetrated the horrors of the revolution he looks on some, yea, many, his contemporaries, whose youthful hands were dyed in the blood of that horrible era. Family recollections not to be smothered, press heavily upon him, and every street in his grand capital must be to so thinking a mind as his, an eloquent remembrancer of events that must be forgotten ere the thrill of emotion, of secret terror, can cease to vibrate in his heart, who looks on their long narrow lines. "Woe to the rebellious

city-the bloody city!" the curse of God is there, abiding on it. Blasphemy, in one or the other form, as openly denying the Most High in the scornful vaunt of infidelity, or as insulting and outraging Him by gross idolatry, maintains its empire there. To be the crowned monarch of France, what could bribe me? Nothing, nothing under heaven!'

'Yet are those people our fellow-men, our fellowsinners, and equally as ourselves would be welcomed, washed, saved, if but they would turn unto the Lord, and accept at his hand what he is so willing to give.'

'But they will not come to Him that they may have life.'

And is not that equally true of the very great majority of those among whom the French king, with reason, felt himself so safe and satisfied?'

'Too certainly it is: but then, though personal religion be, alas! at a low ebb, and the instances in which it exists at all, in any vitality, are few and far between, still religion, pure, undefiled, scriptural religion, is the professed foundation of all our public laws and institutions; and it is only, my dear, when contemplating the character of such a people as those of France, that we can rightly estimate the power and value of a reflected gospel, in its operation on the bulk of mankind. For nearly three centuries we and our fathers have dwelt under the outspread banner of the LORD; and when any attempt was made to furl or to force from us that glorious standard, you know how the people of England have rallied round it, and, by the divine blessing, preserved it from every sacrilegious grasp. If but the Lord permit an enemy to succeed in depriv