liberalism shocked at his plain-dealing: but what tongue can utter, or what heart can conceive language too strong to denounce the abominations of that awful apostacy?

ECCLESIA; a volume of Poems: by the Rev. R. S. Hawker, M. A., Vicar of Morwenstow, Cornwall ; Author of Pompeii,' the Oxford prize poem for 1827. Oxford: Combe.

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We know not whether the reverend author avowedly or conscientiously embraces the whole sweep of Puseyite peculiarity: we should hope not; but there is a very strong savour of it in many of these poems, not the less palpable because occasion is taken in an early page to give a slap at the 'gross and sensuous notion of a carnal presence introduced by the Romish innovators of the eleventh century.' Indeed, the poem to which that note is appended, prepared us for something akin to the little Lyra Apostolica,' and as we proceed, the next lay presents us with the Virgin Mary as a sinless character! "The Signals of Levi,' which follows, is very beautiful. What we have in the succeeding one is rather questionable, and prompts a prayer for the dead. Thus, occurring at intervals, and clothed in graceful verse, appears some sentiment that is not Protestant, always tending to an undue elevation of what our Tractarian Doctors call The Church, which is evidently not the church spoken of by St. Paul, whatever it may be. We tremble at any approach to these notions: they have a charm for some minds that will work its way

farther than was, perhaps, anticipated by the individuals concerned. Men may begin by being poetically heterodox for the sake of effect, and go on to the very acme of doctrinal and practical heterodoxy before they are aware. Therefore it is that we desire to guard every avenue for the readers' sakes, if not for those of the writers. Popery usually makes its approaches by means of the senses: music, painting, sculpture, flowery eloquence, assisted by dresses and decorations in the true theatrical style. We think it is stealing upon us, in one of its forms, by the aid of poetry and other branches of elegant literature: and therefore we repeat again and again the injunction, "Watch."

A TREATISE ON THE SACRAMENT OF THE LORD'S SUPPER. By the Rev. Daniel Bagot, B.D., Minister of St. James' Chapel, Edinburgh, and Chaplain to the Right Hon. the Earl of Kilmorey. Johnstone.

A SHORT treatise, written with all the energy and perspicuity that characterize Mr. Bagot's former writings. He attaches high importance to the sacrament of the Lord's supper, without running into the extremes that some of his brethren have been

betrayed into. We read the book with pleasure, and we hope with profit; appreciating the sound views and earnest, affectionate zeal of its estimable author.

THE PROTESTANT.

PERSUADED as every Protestant must be, that the foundations of our faith are endangered by the sapping and mining process carried on for several years past, by the Tractarian party at Oxford and their numerous followers throughout the land, it is matter of unbounded thankfulness to God that by a broader and bolder step than we were prepared for, the enemy has placed himself within full view of the church.

'I cannot but hope,' remarked my uncle, that the word is now about to be fulfilled, which says, "They shall proceed no farther, for their folly shall be manifested unto all men." Yet when I consider that an evident sifting is going on, and that it must be continued so long as chaff remains among the wheat, I dread the possible result of this audacious stride over the clear boundary of our church, into what is unquestionably the territory of Popery.'

'It certainly will facilitate the separation of which you speak, sir; and as many of Mr. Newman's followers will no doubt go along with him even to the footstool of the Vatican, perhaps the party will gain in strength what it loses in numbers. Some will surely hesitate at this point, who have ventured hitherto in the track of their leader; but it is certain that no faint-hearted auxiliaries would prove of any value in what seems to be a determined campaign

against the truth. Tell me, uncle, do you really consider this to have been an unintentional over-stepping of the boundary line in question?'

'I have regarded it as such; but you rather startle me by your query. It is certain that the publication of Froude's book placed these men far in advance of the position that they previously occupied; and it was considered a happy error by those who wish to see this awful delusion removed from the church. Yet no indication was given on the other side of regret for having proceeded so far: they quietly held the ground so boldly taken, and rested there until their followers had become not only reconciled to it, but habituated to defend it as their proper post. At the time it occasioned great excitement, which its authors were far from seeking to allay; indeed they took advantage of a second publication to avow and to justify, and to outgo what we charged them with as an unwary betrayal of more than they intended to confess. It cannot be denied that Mr. Newman has shewn himself fully purposed to follow up with equal pertinacity the startling movement that he has now made; and it may be as you suggest; it may be a deliberate, a preconcerted move, in full accordance with the plan of this destructive game, played in and against our church.'

'I cannot but think so, indeed; for I have all along viewed this portentous visitation as a direct judgment from God, provoked by our national unfaithfulness to him. Had Popery been only let loose against us from without, advancing and encroaching as we see it actually does, thrusting up its mass-houses under the public eye, and uttering its vaunts with the dragon's well-known voice, to insult the public ear-had

this been so, we must have acknowledged the hand of retribution, of which we were long and loudly forewarned. But there is something excessively dreadful in seeing the mystery of abomination hatched in the very bosom of our Protestant church; rearing its head in the sanctuary of Protestant truth, and greeting, in the terms of acknowledged brotherhood, the enemy encamped around.'

"That which is crushed breaketh forth into a viper," said my uncle thoughtfully. The honest but tardy interference of the University on this occasion may have crushed the shell wherein the venomous beast lay coiled; but alas! it was fullformed, ready to break forth, and receives as a welcome boon the liberty to unwreathe its knotted folds, and sharpen its fang for the expected prey.'

'It is by such bold and sudden leaps that mischief usually advances, after due preparation, secretly made; and surely twelve years of open triumph on the part of avowed Romanists, with unequivocal countenance and encouragement shewn to them, from the throne down to the lowest department in the state; with seven years of diligent, though more secret working in the nominally Protestant Universities of the land, during which period the disciples of these pestilent errors have gradually swelled the ranks of our appointed ministers, and taken up positions to act with union and effect whenever called on to avow themselves-surely this has been prelude enough to prepare us for almost any schism that can now rend the church, and throw a mighty portion of it into the jaws of Antichrist.'

'Ay, but not one of the least of the Lord's little flock shall be so separated from this fold!

No, let