the result of this practical study was an irresistible conviction that in its main points the scheme of phrenology, as generally adopted by the school in which Mr. Deville stands so conspicuous, is as undeniably borne out by facts as is the Newtonian system of Astronomy. That it was shamefully abused to the upholding of most unscriptural, nay infidel tenets, was no argument against a demonstrated fact: there never was any truth in nature, science, or even in revelation, of which the devil has not contrived to lay hold, instructing men to wrest it to evil and destructive purposes. We read no books on the subject; attended no lectures; nor, until the last few weeks, inspected any casts. We proceeded con amore, for our own amusement and gratification ; glorifying God also for this development of divine skill in his great and marvellous works; and honestly bearing the testimony both of experimental knowledge and of the perfectly scriptural inferences that we were enabled to draw from the premises laid down.

A little volume has now been forwarded to us, evidently the work of a sound Christian philosopher, which has afforded us no small measure of delight in its perusal. Calm, sober, and consistent, it speaks in a clear argumentative strain, the language alike of pure religion and of plain common sense. Briefly, but comprehensively, the author reviews the objections brought against the science on the ground of its supposed inconsistency with reason and with revelation; not omitting to protest energetically against the mischievous perversions of Mr. Combe and his school. The book is eminently deserving of a fair perusal; which no candid opponent ought to refuse

it: while the Christian who is persuaded of the justice of phrenological views, but perplexed by objections and grieved by abuses, to both of which he would gladly find an antidote, cannot do better than avail himself of this barrister's pleadings in the

cause.

MAYNOOTH COLLEGE; or, the Law affecting the Grant to Maynooth, with the Nature of the Instruction there given, and the Parliamentary Debates thereon. By James Lord, of the Inner Temple, Esq. Barrister at Law. Richards.

ANOTHER barrister, with a larger book and on an infinitely more important subject than the preceding. It is impossible to speak too highly of the faithful spirit in which Mr. Lord has brought forward, and that most ably, at once the legal and political, the moral and the spiritual view of this exciting and momentous question. After stating the law of the case, he has entered very largely into the dreadful tendency of the instructions given at this pestiferous nursery of destruction. Under four heads he shews it to be immoral, anti-social, disloyal, and antiscriptural. The first branch especially exposes the direct sanction given to dishonesty, lying, and perjury, with other evils of the confessional, which, for obvious reasons are more lightly touched on ; heavily as they weigh down the abominable system that bears them, to the very depths of perdition. We also have the evidence of material witnesses before the Educational Society Committee; and a series of debates

on the question of this evil grant in both Houses, from 1807 to 1840-a record of lively interest at this period; and concluding observations. The book is well printed, with the convenience of marginal references to the contents of each page; and the volume, though so full of matter, is of a very moderate size. The preface does its author high honour: he well knows to what this conscientious discharge of a painful duty must expose him, but he does not flinch. If Rome should in our day regain her ascendancy, to promote which so many false Protestants are assiduously labouring, Mr. Lord may expect to furnish a personal example of that tender mercy reserved for heretics, of which he has here given such overwhelming documentary evidence. We trust there is a little band among us ready to be bound, and to die too, for the name of the Lord Jesus and the testimony of his truth, so foully maligned by popery. Against them the devil may yet exercise a permitted power; but the word of promise is certain: "Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life."

A TRIBUTE OF SONG: being Thoughts and Feelings expressed in Verse. By the Rev. W. P. Hutton, M.A. Rector of St. Bridget's, Chester. Hatchards.

SOME very sweet breathings of a devotional spirit, an elegant mind, and a really poetical taste. The object of their publication is not that which personal vanity aims at, but to assist a charitable institution, 'Refuge for the Destitute,' about to be opened in the privileged city of Chester. This, of course, in

creases the pleasure we feel in noticing what we should have no hesitation in recommending on its own merits. Some of the poems are lovely, and all are truly pleasing.

BRIEF RECOLLECTIONS OF EBENEZER WARDLAW, born at Glasgow, 14th March, 1826; died 23d January, 1836, aged Ten Years. Mucklehose.

THE paternal biographer of this little boy seems in some doubt as to whether he has done well in giving his' Recollections' to the world. We think he has conferred a benefit; for there is a great deal of sensible and Christian remark intermingled in the unaffected narrative that may do much good. Had the child lived, we entertain no doubt of his having fully justified, by his life and character, the plan by which he was trained in the way he should go; and under the heavy trial of such bereavement the parents can rejoice in a very confident assurance that their loss has been his great gain. That exquisite book, 'The Infant Brothers,' has been an extensive blessing to parents and children; and the judicious mode in which Mr. Brown brought before the public his unequalled Memoir of Abner and David, has been followed, though on a much narrower scale, by Mr. Wardlaw. What a glorious galaxy of redeemed little children surrounds the throne of God and the Lamb!

ANTI-POPERY; or Popery unreasonable, unscriptural, and novel. By John Rogers. A new edition, altered and amended. Simpkin and Co.

SOME time since, Mr. Rogers published a volume under the singular title of Antipopopriestian; purporting to be the first of a series of which the object was 'to liberate and purify Christianity from Popery, Politikirkality, and Priestrule.' We neither relished the project nor admired the commencing volume, containing, as it did, a great deal of irrelevant and, to our view, objectionable matter: but this being entirely done away with in the present reprint, which is confined to a legitimate, sledge-hammer assault upon Popery, we are bound to admit that there is a good deal of sound sense and pungent reasoning, supported by plain facts, brought to bear upon the great enemy of scriptural truth. We hope Mr. Rogers has abandoned the ulterior object, and will content himself with occupying this broadly Protestant ground, without turning his arms against his friends, seeing how many are our general foes. We do not acquiesce in all his emendations of our mother tongue; but we respect the talent displayed and honourably devoted to the cause of truth. We go along with him most cordially in his views of Popery, whether bred at Rome or Oxford; and his idea of dating Socialism from the day when the devils got into the swine is unhappily no less just than it is original. The author has read much and to good purpose in the records and fulminations of Rome, and turns his information to good account against her. Fastidiousness may be offended, and