with wool," says an old traveler, "from Constantinople to Sidon; in which sacks, as most certainly was told to me, were many Jews' bones put into little chests, but unknown to any of the ship. The Jews, our merchants, told me of them at my return from Jerusalem to Saphet; but earnestly entreated me not to tell it, for fear of preventing them another time." Sometimes a wealthy Jew has been known to import earth from Jerusalem wherewith to line his grave. From that moment she never appears, even in her own house, unvailed. She is never seen abroad in the public streets, except when she goes to church, which is only twice in the year, and then closely vailed. If a stranger enters the house or garden, she instantly conceals herself. With no person, not even her father or brother, is she allowed to exchange a single word; and she speaks to her husband only when they are alone. With the rest of the household she can only communicate by gestures, and by talking on her fingers. This silent reserve, which custom imperatively prescribes, the young wife maintains until she has borne her first child, from which time she becomes gradually emancipated from her constraint: she speaks to her new-born infant; then her mother-in-law is the first person she may address; after a while she is allowed to converse with her own mother, then with her Now she begins to talk with the young girls in the house, but always in a gentle whisper, that none of the male part of the family may hear what is said. The wife, however, is not fully emancipated, her education is not completed, until after the lapse of six years! and even then she can never speak with any strangers of the other sex, nor appear before them unvailed. REV. DR. CUMMING.-There is a whimsicalness about this popular writer which betrays itself increasingly in his publications, and which cannot fail soon to impair their authority, if not their popularity. In his late pamphlet on the "Moslem and his End," he is determined to dispose summarily of the poor Turks, whatever may be the result of their gallant efforts at self-defense, and we may justly add, at self-sisters-in-law, and afterward her own sisters. regeneration. The reverend doctor sees amazing "signs of the times," boding their fate, in even the most frivolous incidents of the day. "It is a fact," he says, "that the fingers of a lady laid lightly on a heavy table, made it, in my presence, spin round, lift its legs, stamp the floor, and throw itself into most extraordinary and unbecoming attitudes." The same case, or a similar one, is on another page attested by Dr. Cumming, who says: "I saw a table, touched lightly by the fingers of a lady, whose muscular powers, I am sure, were not very formidable, rise, leap, and move from side to side in the most extraordinary manner. Faraday, I think, does not explain, and I cannot explain this." Doctor Cumming also describes astronomical signs of the times, thus: "For the last three or four years we have heard of new planets, unexpected comets, brilliant auroras, lunar rainbows, and yet more brilliant and remarkable meteoric appearances. I am not superstitious, but I am not skeptical; I cannot help remembering that signs and sights in the heavens are the phenomena of the last days." SEVERE CUSTOMS.-A very interesting book has been published in London recently, entitled, "Trans-Caucasia Sketches of the Nations and Races between the Black Sea and the Caspian, by Baron Von Hoxthausen." It abounds in entertaining sketches of life and manners. The baron describes a custom among the Armenians, which calls loudly for a "Woman's Rights" reform. "The young unmarried people of both sexes," he says, "enjoy perfect liberty, within the recognized limits of manners and propriety. Custom is here precisely the reverse of what prevails in the surrounding countries: while in the latter the purchase of a wife is the only usual form of contracting a marriage, until which time the girl remains in perfect seclusion; among the Armenians, on the contrary, the young people of both sexes enjoy free social intercourse. The girls go where they like, unvailed and bareheaded; the young men carry on their love-suits freely and openly, and marriages of affection are of common occurrence. But with marriage the scene changes: the word which the young woman pronounces at the altar, in accepting her husband, is the last that is for a long time heard from her lips. IS THE HUMAN STATURE DIMINISHING ?—It is a very common opinion, that in the early ages of the world men in general possessed superior physical properties, and were of a greater size than they are at present; and this notion of diminished stature and strength seems to have been just as prevalent in ancient times as at present. Pliny observes of the human height, that "the whole race of mankind is daily becoming smaller;" an alarming prospect, if it had been true. Homer more than once makes a very disparaging comparison between his own degenerate contemporaries and the heroes of the Trojan war. But all the facts and circumstances which can be brought forward on this subject tend to convince us, that the human form has not degenerated, and that men of the present age are of the same stature as in the beginning of the world. In the first place, though we read, both in sacred and profane history, of giants, yet they were at the time when they lived esteemed as wonders, and far above the ordinary proportions of mankind. All the remains of the human body (as bones, and particularly the teeth) which have been found unchanged in the most ancient urns and burialplaces, demonstrate this point clearly. The oldest coffin in the world is that found in the great pyramid of Egypt; and Mr. Greaves observes that this sarcophagus hardly exceeds the size of our ordinary coffins, being scarcely six feet and a-half long. From looking also at the height of mummies which have been brought to this country, we must conclude that those who inhabited Egypt two or three thousand years ago were not superior in size to the present inhabitants of that country. Lastly, all the facts which we can collect from ancient works of art, from armor, as helmets and breastplates, or from buildings designed for the abode and accommodation of men, concur in strengthening the proofs against any decay in nature. That man is not degenerated in stature in consequence of the effect of civilization is clear; because the inhabitants of savage countries, as the natives of America, Africa, Australia, or the South Sea Islands, do not exceed us in size. IRISH ODDITIES.-A late foreign reviewer discusses the oddities of Irish character. The Irishman, he says, reverses the usual mode of ratiocination, according to which things are valuable in the inverse ratio of their accessibility. He is for the direct ratio. Whatever is easiest to come at, the same is also the best. To the same principle is to be referred the national mode of digging, and the form of the implement employed in the operation. That the Irish spade should be twice the length of the English, and unprovided with any aperture for thrusting the hand into, is only, therefore, not curious, because it saves half the labor. Standing pretty nearly upright, with a cheerful countenance, and in an unconstrained posture, which presents no obstacle either to his conversing freely with his neighbor, or observing the natural beauty of the landscape, the Irish peasant plants his foot on a sort of stirrup provided for the purpose, and turns up the soil "as unconsarnedly as possible." "Sure it saves breaking the back over it." It does so, no doubt; but it also saves breaking the soil to any extent worth mentioning. This, however, is a secondary matter; and it is obvious that this implement, like other institutions of the country, is constructed chiefly with a view to "saving throuble." One thing, in truth, there is, which an Irishman does not worship, and that is material prosperity. Indeed, he has rather a contempt for it, than otherwise. He prefers the idea to the reality. To his imagining, his humble lot is a "bee-eu-tiful" one already, and you can't mend it much by your tinkering. What signifies just poking a stone into the wall here, to make it weather-tight, or pushing another out there, to prevent its being smoke-tight ?What signifies an old hat more or less in the window, or an increased approximation between the different levels of the floor? of which, as at the bottom of the Lacus Asphaltites, and other inland seas, there are always two at least. These things will add not a grain to the sands of gold over which the Pactolus of his imagination wanders. "Sure, it'll do:" nay, the existing structure will not only "do," but is full of "illegant conthrivances," the whole beauty and merit of which would be sacrificed by the threatened innovations. In referring to idiomatic tendencies among them, the critic gives examples of some, which the American reader will notice, have, from some cause-perhaps the great number of Irish among us-affected somewhat our own popular modes of speech. A nocturnal foray against a garden was thus summed up: "There were eight of them in it," that is to say, as afterward appeared, not "in" the garden,-into which, owing to a timely alarm, the thieves were unable to penetrate, but merely "in" the transaction. "On" or "upon" is used, again, in the peculiar sense of "to the detriment of." They've rose the market upon us;" or, " that young man has put a mile upon us," viz., by giving a wrong direction as to the road. Occasional misconceptions of course arise here, for want of due notice being given whether the physical or metaphysical sense of the preposition is intended. Thus, to the inquiry, how a small farmer came to be behindhand with his rent? it was replied, "Why, you see, sir, two cows died upon him in the one year, and that was very bad for him." "And the next year a cow burst upon him, wid eating" (it was fortunately added in explanation) "too much clover." Other preposition usages have a grace and ease perfectly Homeric; thus we recognize the epic To in the favorite expression, "true for ye." Others, again, have a quiet beauty and pathos about them, as in this translation of an epitaph from the original Irish: "Aged 21, Lawrence died from us." Miss Edgeworth endeavors to explain the national proneness to perpetrate "bulls," to a habit of using figurative language. She adduces an instance, that of pronouncing a certain ship the finest "that ever sailed on the face of the earth." Now it is true that in this particular instance the temptation to make a bull lay in the generally recognized figurative expression, "on the face of the earth." Catching at this tempting flourish, and not adjusting the rest of his sentence very accurately to it, the speaker committed a bull incontinently. The same temptation, too, is no doubt the exciting cause of other bulls; some of English growth, such as the well-known denunciation, "Sir, the hand of justice cannot any longer wink at your iniquities." The attempt to combine two incompatible figures does certainly produce the result in question; the Cretan Minotaur is the first Irish bull on record. But there are other varieties found roaming over the pastures of the Green Isle. An Irish bull may be defined as a dilemma,-or syllogismus cornutus, as the logicians speak,-of which both horns are embraced at once:-and this, for aught we know, may be the derivation of the term. It It is two alternatives taken together. Mankind in general are sensible that, in the case of incompatible alternatives presented to the mind, you must reject one of them. The Irishman does not see this. He takes both. Being told that one of Arnott's stoves saves half the fuel, he resolves to get two, and save the whole. Understanding that music is taught at two guineas the first month and one the second, he declares he won't begin till the second. A little consideration would show that these confusions are merely the result of an endeavor to combine two incompatible opinions. The true secret of Irish blundering, with or without metaphor, lies in that zeal for ideas, that vehement partisanship on behalf of the topic of the moment, which appears in so many forms as a national characteristic. In some cases the speaker rises, as it were, with his subject, and after proceeding rationally for some time, puts a colophon of absurdity to a piece of plain common sense. So a young recruit, after soberly describing to his officer his circumstances in other respects, ventures on a final stroke to the effect that, "Indeed he was come of very decent people, for his father and mother were both Kerry men." But more commonly a bull is only a particular and more intense instance of a kind of extravaganza which runs through the whole speech. It is no wonder that he who is ever on the brink of a blunder or a malapropos should fall into one now and then. Take the following string of extravagances, poured forth verbatim not long since by an Irish mendicant, in acknowledgment of some trifling favor: " Long life to your honor, and may ye live till ye 're wondered at, and have a gold watch as big as a forty-pound pot, with a chain as long as the Boyne water!" Even epitaph-writing in Ireland is not free from the national tendency to make the most of things, at the expense of sound sense and possibility. Take the following instance from the half-ruined church of St. Audeon, Dublin: "Underneath lyeth James M——, and all his posteritie." Or this from Christ-church, on a monument of the Earls of Cork: "Here follow the arms of his sons, and of such of the husbands of his daughters as were married." HELOISE.-Lamartine, in his late work, Memoirs of Celebrated Characters, draws the following distinct and beautiful picture of the famous Heloise: "The medallions and the statue which perpetuate her, according to contemporary traditions, and the casts taken after death in her sepulchre, represent a young female, tall in stature, and exquisitely formed. An oval head, slightly depressed toward the temples by the conflict of thought; a high and smooth forehead, where intelligence reveled without impediment, like a ray of light unchecked by an obstructing angle, on the smooth surface of a marble slab; eyes deeply set within their arch, and the balls of which reflected the azure tint of heaven; a small nose, slightly raised towards the nostrils, such as sculpture models from nature in the statues of women immortalized by the feelings of the heart; a mouth, where breathed, between brilliant teeth, the smiles of genius and the tenderness of sympathy; a short chin, slightly dimpled in the middle, as if by the finger of reflection often placed upon the lips; a long, flexible neck, which carried the head as the lotus bears the flower, while undulating with the motion of the wave; falling shoulders, gracefully molded, and blending into the same line with the arms; slender fingers, flowing curls, delicate anatomical articulations, the feet of a goddess upon her pedestal,-such is the statue, by which we may judge of the woman! Let the life, the complexion, the look, the attitude, the youth, the languor, the passion, the paleness, the blush, the thought, the feeling, the accent, the smile, the tears, be restored to the skeleton of this other Inez de Castro, and we shall again look on Heloise," GOLDEN RULES.-Dr. Hempel, in a recent medical work, which we have noticed, gives twelve golden rules for health, which we prefer to all the rest of the good sense of his elaborate volume. Though "golden," we give them to our readers gratuitously: "1. Rise early, and make it a point to retire at ten o'clock: seven hours' sleep should suffice; although less may do in some cases, and in others more may be required. 2. Wash your whole body from head to foot, with cold water, every morning, winter and summer, immediately after leaving the bed; and rub yourself well with a flesh-brush or coarse towel, immediately after washing. "3. Never sleep in a warm room, or in a room that has not been properly ventilated in the day time. "4. Never sit or sleep in a draught of air. This rule is almost universally violated, but a draught of air is generally hurtful, more in one case than in another, and more especially when persons are over-heated or covered with perspiration. "5. Dress according to the season; but be careful not to leave off your winter clothes before the warm weather has fairly set in. This rule should be particularly observed by persons who are subject to sore throat, bronchitis, chronic cough, and such like weak nesses. such as rich pastry, fat, heavy, farinaceous diet, warm bread, spices, mustard, pepper, &c. "6. Avoid all kinds of heavy and indigestible food, "7. Avold all stimulating drinks-brandy, beer, wine: and content yourself with cold water, milk, light and unspiced chocolate, weak black tea, and sirups made of currants, raspberries, strawberries, or other kinds of wholesome and unmedicinal fruit. Never use tobacco in any shape, except for medicinal purposes. "8. Never keep on wet or damp clothes, stockings, &c., and never sleep on damp sheets. "9. Do not expose yourself to keen, sharp winds, and avoid the raw and damp evening air. "10. Live as nearly as possible in the same temperature; keep your room moderately warm, and make it a point never to sit near the fire. 11. Eat your meals at regular hours; eat slowly: chew every monthful well, and do not swallow it until it is properly mixed up with saliva. If possible, take about an hour for each meal, and never eat so much as to leave the table with a sense of repletion and oppres sion. Do not forgot to clean your teeth with a soft tooth-brush after eating, and never indulge in the abominable habit of picking them. "12. Avoid every kind of food or drink which naturally disagrees with you; take a little exercise in the open air every day, but not in any kind of weather; select particularly fine, bracing or balmy weather for a walk or ride; exposure to rainy, windy, raw or damp weather never does anybody any good. "These twelve rules are golden rules, the observance of which can never be impressed with too much care upon the attention of those who are anxious to preserve their health, and to remain free from the many unpleasant feelings which are apt to trouble those who neglect the proper dietetic and hygienic precautions," There is a thirteenth rule of as bright a golden hue as any of these, which the doctor should have added to them as their climax, and that is this-Having settled into the habit of some such good code, dismiss all further concern about it. This is a sine qua nom. There never was a fastidious observer of physiological rules who enjoyed good health. The imagination plays the very mischief with a man's stomach, and can set his pulsations to beating a funeral march incontinently. Get good habits, and then endeavor to practice them without thinking of them; that's the best philosophy of health. No SABBATH.-In a "Prize Essay on the Sabbath," written by a journeyman printer in Scotland-which for singular power of language and beauty of expression has rarely been surpassed there occurs the following passage. Read it, and then reflect for a while what a dreary and desolate page would this life present if the Sabbath was blotted out from our calcu lations: "Yokefellow! think how the abstraction of the Sabbath would hopelessly enslave the working classes, with whom we are identified. Think of labor thus going on in one monotonous and continuous and eternal cycle-limbs forever on the rack, the fingers forever playing, the eye-balls forever straining, the brow forever sweating, the feet forever plodding, the brain forever throbbing, the shoulders forever drooping, the loins forever aching, and the restless mind forever scheming. Think of the beauty it would efface; of the merry heartedness it would extinguish; of the glant strength it would tame; of the resources of nature that it would exhaust; of the aspirations it would crush; of the sickness it would breed; of the projects it would wreck; of the groans it would extort; of the lives it would immolate; and the cheerless graves that it would prematurely dig! See them, toiling and moiling, sweating and fretting, grinding and hewing, weaving and spinning, stewing and gathering, mowing and reaping, gazing and building, digging and planting, unloading and storing, striving and strugglingin the garden and in the field, in the granary and in the barn, in the factory and in the mill, in the warehouse and in the shop, on the mountain and in the ditch, on the road-side and in the wood, in the city and in the country, on the sea and on the shore, on shore, on the earth, in days of brightness and of gloom. What a sad picture would the world present if we had no Sabbath!" DOCTOR ARNOLD, one of the best as well as the greatest minds of our age, said, in speaking of the popular literature needed for this age: "I never wanted religious articles half so much as articles on common subjects, written in a decidedly Christian spirit." There is a deep philosophy in the remark, such as was wont to characterize the large-minded writings Just such reading are we endeavoring to provide in these pages, giving it, at the same time, all the attractions which popular adaptation and pictorial embellishments afford. of the man. WARTBURG CASTLE-THE ASYLUM OF LUTHer. -This famous place, noted for Luther's Dutch bravery in throwing his ink-stand at the supposed apparition of the devil-the marks of the ink being still on the wall-is described in its present condition by a recent traveler :-A small wooden staircase leads to the room where he resided when first conveyed thither, forcibly and in secret, by the devices of his friend, the elector, from the dangers, hidden and open, which at that time threatened his life. He called it his Patmos; and here he wrote several works, and completed a great portion of his translation of the Bible. The room he occupied remains in all its principal features entirely unchanged. Whether a man be a Romanist or Protestant whether he rejoice in the Reformation or hate its memory-its historical importance no one can deny. There is, therefore, a deep feeling of interest awakened in visiting the chamber once occupied by this great man; there is something peculiarly gratifying in handling the furniture once used by him-in sitting down upon his three-legged stool-in looking at his ink-stand -and reclining upon the old, rough, oaken table where he once wrote those words of fire which provoked the greatest religious revolution the world has ever known-and all this at the hand, humanly speaking, of a single monk, who, in those dark and dangerous times, dared to oppose and defy the collective powers of the emperor, and the whole Romish clergy. Luther's chamber is of very small, nay insignificant dimensions. Worm-eaten boards, miserably put together, cover the walls. Two deeply recessed windows, small, and filled in with lead casements, scarcely admit the necessary light, and the tout ensemble is so little inviting, that, in these luxurious days, few Englishmen would think of offering it as a sleeping apartment for a man-servant. The book-case is formed of a simple boarding, and looks like a shifting closet that has been cast aside in the lumber room of some old house. Some Bibles of various dates, and beneath these fragments of the first edition of the Lutheran translation, are here preserved, as also a piece of the beech-tree under which Luther was arrested by the rough, though friendly emissaries of the elector, who brought him hither; and, on the wall, framed and glazed, hangs a quarto leaf in his own firm, angular, and vigorous handwriting. The tree above mentioned, which stood in the neighboring forest. was long known as Luther's beech, till it was at length struck by lightning and destroyed during a violent thunder-storm. Book Notices. More Worlds than One-The Master's House-Methodist Almanac - Declaration of Remarkable Providences Evidences of Christianity Sketches of Western Methodism-This, That, and the OtherSmith's History of Greece-Precious LessonsFriendships of the Bible-Thomas's Farm Implements-Woodward's American Miscellany of Entertaining Knowledge-Life in Judea-Seed Time and Harvest-Guido and Julius. SIR DAVID BREWSTER, the well-known astronomer, has recently issued a volume, entitled More Worlds than one; the Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope of the Christian. It is an elaborate argument for the plurality of worlds inhabited by rational beings; in the course of which the author discusses the religious aspects of the question, and shows unsoundness in the reasoning of Chalmers and others. The argument from analogy is strongly and clearly stated; and the objections drawn from Geology, from the supposed nature of the nebulae, and from the Binary System, are candidly considered. The volume is issued in the usual style of neatness, which marks all the publications of our friends, Carter & Brothers, of this city, bating a little negligence on the part of the proof-reader, who allowed asteriods to stand in his table of contents instead of asteroids. Uncle Tom's Cabin has been the prolific source of a vast amount of trash in the shape of tales and novels, professedly aiming to give an illustration of Southern life and customs. The latest example is a duodecimo, from the press of T. M'Elrath & Co., of this city, entitled The Master's House; a Tale of Southern Life, by Logan. It is a work of pure fiction, of course; and so far as we are able to divine the drift of Mr. Logan, his object is to make it appear that hard as is the lot of a slave on a southern plantation, that of the master is even harder. The book is well printed, and illustrated by pictures, called, on the title-page, "Drawings from Nature," which, we take it, is—a mistake. Carter & Brothers, New-York, have issued another edition of Jay's Morning and Erening Exercises, for July, August, and September-a work that needs not a word of commendation. It is a classic in devotional literature. The Methodist Almanac for 1855 is out-a remarkably attractive manual. Besides the annual calendar, it abounds in important statistical matter, relating to the Methodist Episcopal Church, and American Christianity in general, as well as to national affairs. Its engravings are numerous, and some of them quite unique. It is the best number of this annual yet issued. Carlton & Phillips, NewYork. Drake, of Boston, (one of our best Yankee antiquarians,) has issued, in pamphlet form, The Declaration of Remarkable Providences in the Course of my Life, by old John Dane, of Ipswich, Massachusetts, (A. D. 1682.) There is added, a pedigree of the Dane family, with Notes, &c. Bolton's Hulsean prize essay, on the Evidences of Christianity, issued by Gould & Lincoln, Boston, is one of the most erudite works on the "evidences" in our language. It exhibits them as presented in the writings of the fathers, down to the day of Augustine; classed as follows:-the argument; (1) from antecedent probability; (2) from antiquity; (3) from prophecy; (4) from miracles; (5) from the reasonableness of doctrine; (6) from superior morality; (7) from the success of the gospel. It will undoubtedly take its place as a permanent standard in theological literature. We welcome again the honest and generous face of our old friend "the chief "-J. B. Finley-in the frontispiece of his new volume, Sketches of Western Methodism. His preceding book, so amply quoted by us, will guarantee him many eager readers. The present volume is valuable for two special reasons:-first, for its historical data. Its worth to the Methodist historian cannot be estimated. Most of the leading characters in the history of Western Methodism are portrayed in it. It is valuable, secondly, for its illustrations of Western life. Few men extant are as competent to show what that life was as the venerable Finley. He will hereafter be quoted as a prime authority. No man can write the history of the West without consulting him. But we need not protract our remarks; get the book, good reader, and enjoy a treat. Carlton & Phillips, New-York. This, That, and the Other, is the title of an entertaining volume from the pen of Ellen Louisa Chandler, and published by Phillips, Sampson & Co., Boston. Its sketches of character are skillfully, though elaborately drawn, and the book shows that delicate appreciation of life scenes and personal traits which a woman alone can transfer to paper. Messrs. Harper have published Smith's History of Greece. The author is the well-known editor of "Dictionaries of Greek and Roman Antiquities," and his present volume has taken rank in England as the best compendium of Greek history in the market. It condenses the advantages of Grote. The supplementary chapters on Greek Literature and Art are excellent. Precious Lessons is the title of a pocket volume from the pen of Rev. D. Wise, "containing Cautions, Counsels and Consolations for such of the Disciples of Christ as are seeking to be like their Lord." It is a pithy little book, abounding in the well-known excellences of its author's able pen. Few writers have a happier tact at illustration. Some of his "figures' are devices for the worker in gold. The religious tone of the volume is of the highest order. It is a good presentation book.Magee, Boston. Carlton & Phillips have issued a really superb little volume, entitled, Friendships of the Bible. Such works-on the poets, the mountains, the lands, the lakes, &c., of the Bible-mincing the sacred records into all sorts of literary trash for publishers' speculations, have become drugs in the market. Their rhetorical flummery, too, has sadly abused the simplicity of the original narrative. The present volume is not liable to these objections. The letter-press is very brief and direct-barely sufficient to explain the engravings. The book is, in fine, a series of pictorial illustrations of the Friendships of the Bible. The pictures are uncommonly fine -as good specimens of wood engraving as the country has seen. Thomas's Farm Implements.-This volume on the construction and use of agricultural implements has been issued by the Harpers. Agriculturalists speak of it in the highest terms. The late Mr. Downing said: "We should like to see it hung up in every workshop, tool-room, and farmer's book-shelf in the country." Phillips & Sampson, Boston, have sent us Woodward's American Miscellany of Entertaining Knowledge. It smacks throughout of the author's happy peculiarities, and is abundantly illustrated. An excellent volume for the little folks. Life in Judea, by Maria T. Richards, has been published by the American Baptist Publication Society. It consists of Sketches of Life in the Holy Land, during the first Christian age to the time of the destruction of Jerusalem; graphically rendered, and presenting, with its religious lessons, much information respecting the scenery and history of Judea. Seed Time and Harvest is a neatly-printed little volume, from the press of Gould & Lincoln, Boston. Its author, the Rev. Dr. Tweedie, is a minister of the Free Church of Scotland, to whom the juvenile world is indebted for several other interesting volumes. The work before us is well calculated to impress upon the mind the great truth, that even in this life, "whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap" being made up of brief sketches of the histories of men eminent for virtues on the one hand, or vices on the other. Guido and Julius is the title of a volume from the press of Gould & Lincoln, Boston, a translation from Tholuck, and founded, it is said, upon his early experience as first a skeptic, and then a believer. The book is full of the interest of a personal narrative, told from the heart a good volume for the doubting. Other notices necessarily deferred till our next issue. |