The North American Review, The Ameeican Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany.

Devoted to free and Catholic enquiry, and to the Transcendental and Spiritual Philosophy of the Age. New Series, published quarterly, price 2s.

Published quarterly, price 6s.

Edited by the Rev. George Putnam and George E. Ellis. Published every alternate month, price 3s. 6s.

Men Works.

CHRISTIAN ASPECTS OF FAITH AND DUTY. Discourses by JOHN JAMES TAYLER, B.A. Post 8vo, cloth. Nearly ready.

THE CREED OF CHRISTENDOM; Its Foundation, and Superstructure. By William Rathbone Greg. 8vo, cloth, 10s. 6d

LOCAL SELF-GOVEENMENT AND CENTRALIZATION: The characteristics of each, and its Practical Tendencies as affecting social, moral, and political welfare and progress; including comprehensive outlines of the British Constitution. By J. Toulmin Smith. Post 8vo, cloth.

NEW YORK—Continued

THE COTTON AND COMMERCE OF INDIA Considered in relation to the Interests of Great Britain; with Remarks on Railway Communication in the Bombay Presidency. By John Chapman Founder and late Manager of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway Company. 8vo, cloth, 12s.

“Promises to be one of the most useful treatises that have been furnished on this important subject...It is distinguished by a close and logical style, coupled with an accuracy of detail which will, in a great measure, render it a text-book.” —Times, Jan. 22, 1851.

“This book will go far to forestall the inquiries to be instituted by Mr. Alexander Mackay for the Manchester Chamber of Commerce....Mr. Chapman examinee the subject in detail and gives ample reasons for his deductions...His work is marked, too, by sound good sense, akin to the highest wisdom of the statesman. The author has given to the public the most complete book we have for some time met with on any subject.”—Economist.

“Mr. Chapman’s great practical knowledge and experience of the subjects upon which he treats has enabled him to collect an amount of information, founded upon facts, such as we believe has never before been laid before the public. The all-important questions of supply, production, and prices of cotton in India, as well as the commercial and financial questions connected with it, are most ably treated.”—Morning Chronicle.

“Written by an intelligent, painstaking, and well-informed gentleman....Nothing can be more correct than his views, so far as they extend, his survey and character of districts, his conclusions as to the supply the earth can yield, and his assertion that the cost of transit is with Indian cotton the first and ruling element of price.”—Daily News.

“Mr. Chapman’s work is only appreciable in the fulness of its value and merits by those who are interested in one or other branch of his subject. Full of data for reasoning, replete with facts to which the most implicit credit may be attached, and free from any political bias, the volume is that rara, if not incognita aris, a truthful blue book, a volume of statistics not cooked up to meet a theory or defend a practice,”—Britanna.

“A most valuable volume.”—Home News

“The arrangement is clear, and the treatment of the subject in all class masterly.”—Indian News.

“An extremely valuable work, and will, we have no doubt, claim a large share of public attention Irom the large amount of information it contains, and the careful conscientious manner in which the investigation of the subject has been conducted.”—Anti-Slavery Reporter.

“This is a comprehensive, practical, careful, and temperate investigation,” &c.—Indian Mail.

SOCIAL STATICS; or, the Conditions essential to Human Happiness Specified, and the First of them Developed. By Herbert Spencer. 8vo, cloth, 125.

“It is the most eloquent, the most interesting, the most clearly expressed and logically reasoned work, with views the most original, that has appeared in the science of social polity.“—Literary Gazette.

“The anthor of the present work is no ordinary thinker, and no ordinary writer; and he gives, in language that sparkles with beauties and reasoning, at once novel and elaborate, precise and logical, a very comprehensive and complete exposition of the rights of men in society. The book will mark an epoch in the literature of scientific morality.”—Economist.

“We remember no work on ethucs, since that of Spnoza, to be compared with it in the simplicity of its premises, and the logical rigour with which a complete system of scientific ethics is evolved from them. This is high praise, but we give it deliberately.”—Leader.

“A very interesting and beautifully logical work.”—Nonconformist.

LETTERS ON THE LAWS OF MAN’S NATURE and Development. By H. G. Atkinson and Harriet Martineau. Post 8vo, cloth, 9s.

“A curious and valuable contribution to psychological science, and we regard it with interest, as containing the best and fullest development of the new theories of mesmerism, clairvoyance, and the kindred hypotheses. The book is replete with profound reflections thrown out incidentally, is distinguished by a peculiar elegance of style, and in the hands of a calm and philosophical theologian may serve as a useful precis of the most formidable difficulties he has to contend against in the present day.”—Weekly News.

“A book from the reasonings and conclusions of which we are bound to express our entire dissent, but to which it is impossible to deny the rare merit of strictest honesty of purpose, as an investigation into a subject of the highest importance, upon which the wisest of us is almost entirely ignorant, begun with a sincere desire to penetrate the mystery and ascertain the truth, pursued with a brave resolve to shrink from no results to which that inquiry might lead, and to state them, whatever reception they might have from the world.”—Critic.

NEW YORK—Continued.

HEBREW RECORDS: An Historical Enquiry concerning the Age, Authorship, and Authenticity of the Old Testament. By the Rev. Dr Giles. Demy 8vo, cloth, price 10s. 6d.

“There are evidences of extensive reading, of long and severe study, of much talent and scholarship in Rabbinical lore.”—Weekly Dispatch.

LECTURES ON SOCIAL SCIENCE, and the Organization of Labour. By James Hole. Demy 8vo, stiff cover, price 2s. 6d.

THE SIEGE OF DAMASCUS; A Historical Novel. By James Nisbet. In 3 vole, post 8vo, 1l. 11s. 6d.

THE BISHOP’S WIFE: A Tale of the Papacy. Translated from the German of LEOPOLD SCHEFER. With a Historical Notice of the Life and Times of Hildebrand (Pope Gregory VII.), to which it relates. By Mrs. J. R. Stodart. Fcap. 8vo, 4s.

“To restore the so-called purity and extend the power of the Church was the great object of Hildebrand’s long and active life, and one of the means he employed was to enforce the celibacy of the Clergy, and compel those who were mamed (of whom at that time there were many) to repudiate their wives, and disgrace them and their offspring. On an incident supposed to have originated from enforcing his decree, mingled with an incident in the Pope’s life, Leopold Schefer has founded the present tale...Though it might have been acceptable at all times as an Historical Novel, referring to a very interesting period in the progress of society, and to a very interesting event of that period, it is doubly acceptable now, and will have a wide circulation.”—Economist.

“We have here a vindication of one of the first and dearest rights of man and of manhood, by an exhibition of the consequences of its violation...The story is as simple as possible, and, to our taste, It cannot be too simple, if it serves to bring out the characterization —a requirement which, in this case, it perfectly satiasfis....The Historical Sketch is extremely interesting, and possesses a character of ‘thoroughness’ and mastery of the subject which we often look for in vain in works of far greater pretension. Like the translation itself, it is written in a remarkably pure and felicitous style.”—Edinburgh Courant.

“This able and elegant translation of a popular German work is apt to the times....It has sturring and even thrilling incidents; and of more than equal value with the book (itself, is Mrs. Stodart’s own full and well-written ‘Historical Notice’ of the times and events to which it relates.”—Scotsman.

“A tale of great temporary Interest...There is shown throughout considerable power of realization of character, and the work depends for its primary interest upon its extreme dissimilarity to present modes of life and principles of action, and to the recalling of what may be truly called the iron age. There is occasionally a grotesque vividness of imagery which is new to most English readers.”—North British Mail

“There is a peculiar vividness about the manner in which the topographical features of Rome are preserved; and to those who are familiar with the localities, a perusal of the ‘Bishop’s Wife’ will be almost like a fresh visit to the City of the Seven Hills....The historical dissertation possesses an interest far beyond that which frequently belongs to works of much greater pretensions; and as it has reference to a period anterior to that which is treated by Ranke, it will probably have the additional charm of freshness to many readers.”—Edinburgh Witness

NORICA; or, Tales of Nurnberg from the Olden Time. After a Manuscript of the 16th Century. Translated from the German of August Hager. Fcd. 8vo. in the Press.

NEW YORK—Continued.

THE PROGRESS OF THE INTELLECT, as exemplified in the Religious Developments of the Greeks and Hebrews. By R. W. Mackay, M.A. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth, price 24s

“Mr. Mackay brings forward in support of his views an amount of erudition which will prove formidable to his antagonists. Most of the best German editions of the Greek and Latin classics seem to be perfectly familiar to the author, who knows well how to wield such ponderous materials.....The account of the theosophy of Aristotle, given in the first volume, is evidently the production of a master of the subject.”—Athenaum.

“‘The Progress of the Intellect’ is incomparably the most important contribution yet made by any English writer to views first broadly put forth by rationalistic German theologians. He has widened their basis—given them freer scope and larger aims—supported them by stores of as various and accumulated learning, and imparted to them all the dignity which can be derived from a sober and weighty style of writing, and from processes of thought to which imagination and reason contribute in almost equal degrees. This is unusual praise; but it is due to unusual powers; and to be offered to Mr. Mackay quite apart from any agreement in the tendency or object of his treatise. We will not even say that we have read it with sufficient care or critical guidance to be entitled to offer an opinion on the soundness of its criticism or reasoning, or on the truth or falsehood of its particular conclusions, or, indeed, on anything but its manifest labour and patience, the rare and indisputable monuments of knowledge which we find in it, and the surprising range of method it includes—logical, philosophical, and imaginative. Not many books have at any time been published with such irresistible claims to attention in these respects; in our own day we remember none.”—Examiner.

“Over the vast area of cloud-land, bounded on one side by the wars of the Christians, and on the other by the last book of the Odyssey, he has thrown the penetrating electric light of modern science, and found a meaning for every fable and every phantom by which the mysterious region is haunted.”—Atlas.

“All the views are justified by authorities. The work embraces many important subjects included in and suggested by the religious theories of the Greeks and Hebrews: and from this minute accuracy will be a storehouse for arguments and facts for those disposed to attack the theories, if not for those who have an interest in depending them. For a book so full of learning it is remarkably well written.”—Economist.

“The work before us exhibits an industry of research which reminds us of Cudworth, and for which, in recent literature, we must seek a parallel in Germany rather than in England, while its philosophy and aims are at once lofty and practical. Scattered through its more abstruse disquisitions are found passages of pre-eminent beauty—gems into which are absorbed the finest rays of intelligence and feeling. We believe Mr. Mackay’s work is unique in its kind .... The analysis and history of the theory of mediation, from its earliest mythical embodiments, are admirable, both from their panoramic breadth and their richness in illustrative details. We can only recommend the reader to resort himself to this treasury of mingled thought and learning,”—Westminster Reverse, Jan. 1, 1851.

A HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF CHRISTIAN CIVILIZATION. By L. Raymond de Vericour. In 1 vol. post 8vo, cloth, price 10s. 6d.

“It is succinct, clearly-written, and may be called a manual of European history.”—Econmist.

“A useful book of historical reference, being well filled with facts and dates.”—Westminster Review.

RELIGIOUS SCEPTICISM AND INFIDELITY: their History, Cause, Cure, and Mission. By John Alfred Langford. Post 8vo, cloth, 5s.

SOCIAL ASPECTS. By John Stores Smith, author of “Mirabean, a Life History.” Post 8vo, cloth, price 6s.

“This work is the production of a thoughtful mind, and of an ardent and earnest spirit, and is well deserving of a perusal in extenso by all those who reflect on so solemn and important a theme as the future desting of their native country.”—Morning Chronicle.