The Montreal witness, 26 mars 1856, The Canadian Review and Journal of Literature

[" THE CANADIAN REVIEW LITERARY SUPPLEMENT T AND ae ES Vou.IIL.MONTREAL, MARCH, 1856.O \u201d MONTREAL WITNESS.\u201d No.4 WESTMINSTER REVIEW-\u2014Janvary, 1856.Ant.1.\u2014 German Wit\u2014Heinrich Heine.Heine is a man of exquisite genius, but sadly tinged with the sceptical views which have almost become characteristic of Germany.Ant 2\u2014 Limited Liability Act.An important commercial article on a subject which should be carefully studied in Canada.Art.3.\u20147The House of Savoy.This somewhat tedious article on the reigning house of Piedmont and Savoy, traces back its history to medieval times.We shall not follow the details of the story, but give an extract or two on its present condition, interesting as it is, because its present representative, the King of Sardinia, has made so firm a stand against the Pope, and allied himself with England in the war :\u2014 \u201cIt is impossible to contemplate the great work of sell-regenera- tion, in which Piedmont is now engaged, without feeling a deep interest in a nation whose career has been marked by so singular a degree of good sense an well as good faith.Amid all the difficulties thrown in its way by other powers\u2014 and they have been neither few nor small\u2014the Sardinian government has maintained its position with a calm dignity which bas confounded its enemies and exceeded the expectations of its well-wishers.But Connt Cavour and his coadjutors have still a dangerous navigation before them.They will have to instruct the people, as yet unaccustomed to their privileges, in the wise and temperate use of them : to show them that there are occasions on which to fetter the hands of the Executive government by factious opposition would be to ruin the national cause.On the other hand, they have tc resist the too natural desire to avoid the trouble of convincing prejudiced understandings, by a stretch of arbitrary power; and, added to ail this, they have the external hostility of all the despotic powers of Europe, aided by the epititual arms of Rome.\u201d In view of these dangers, we can commend the rulers of Sardinia to the prayers of all who are interested in the overthrow of the ¢ Man of Sin.\u201d Art.4.\u2014Russia and the Allies.Though peace may shortly be proclaimed, there is still so much of uncertainty about the future that an article like this on the position of the contending parties must command interest and attention.The writer gives forcible expression to the misunderstanding wirich the English people had at the commencement of the war of the power, the aims, the methods of Russia, as well as of the negotiations which begun in 1844, had been carried on through succeeding years, with different ministers, and which gave rise to the celebrated confidential conversations with the English ambassador, in which the late Emperor entered without reserve into the question of the division of the goods of the \u201csick man.\u201d The events of the last two years, however, have effectually opened the eyes of the people, and «the temper produced by these discoveries is one of dissatisfaction and determination ; but not a determination to patch up, at all hazards, an inglorious and treacherous peace.It is a determination rather to look clearly in the face of all difficulties of the present, all dangers of the future, with an unswerving will to overcome them ; to ascertain, therefore, the relative power of England and her friends on the one side, and her opponent on the other.\u201d For the purpose then of counting the cost, a comparison is entered into between Russiaand the Allied Powers, 1st, As to area,\u20142nd, to population,\u20143rd, as to commerce and agricultural resources, and Ath, as to military strength.Ist, With regard to area, Russia far exceeds the Allied Powers, her surface measuring 348,165 square miles, whilst theirs measures only 41,970 square miles.But mere surface, thinly or inadequately inhabited, is, in time of war, an element of weakness rather than of strength.2ad, In respect to population, (which is more important than area,) the Allies exceed Russia by nearly 50 per cent., her population being only 65,183,437, whilst theirs amounts to 96,219,574.\u2014 Or to take European Russis on the one hand, and France and England on the other, we find the comparison to stand 60,122,669 for Russia, and 63,403,490 for France and England.«There is, therefore, on this ground only, no such madness as Mr.Cobden would have us to believe, in going lo war with an empire of sixty millions of inhabitants.\u2019 3rd, With regard to agricultural products, though Russia has the advantage as to gross amount in some particulars, it is yet poioled out that her resources are wasted, by want of proper communication between different provinces, by the very large amount of cattle and sheep roaming abeut in a semi-wild slate, and by the general want of economical aystems of management, by which her productions can be turned to the best account.Aud here it is well observed, that it is not the gross production, but the surplus production which constitutes the riches of a state, and a comparison is instituted very happily in this wise :\u2014 « Two families are engaged in a costly litigation, which will be decided ultimately, if we may take leave to say so, by length of purse.If A is a gentleman with a landed estate, +) ucing him £50,000 & year, and BB has an estate of only £40,000, but consumes £45,000 out of his £50,000 annually, and B only £20,000, it is evident which in the long run will win ; or rather let A, having nothing but his estate, spend within £5,000, the whole annual income of it, and B, though he has a leas landed estate, possesses mines, factories, and ships, which bring him as much more, he can now spend greater sums than A, and sull retain a sufficient annual surplus to wear him out in the litigation.\u201d The commercial test then is the true test of national strength, and with respect to this, we find in comparison, that the commerce of France and England exceeds that of Russia in the proportion of 45 to 8.Tho mercantile marine of Russia, exclusive of ships employed in the coasting trade, (the greater part of which do noi belong to her,) comprises 1,416 vessels, their tonnage being 172,608, and seamen 10,800.\u2018The mercantile marine of England alens comprises 35,960 versels, of a tonnage of 5,043,270, and manned by 266,491 men.\u2014 According to a table showing the proportionate amount ot shipping for each European nation, it appears that that proportion is 45-70 for England, 7-79 for France, and 2-31 for Russia.+ With regard 10 raising means 10 carry on the was, it is shown, that for the five concluding years of the last European struggle, there was raised in England by loan and taxes, from eighty-four to one hundred and eight millions a year, and this, after eighteen previous years of war.The population since that period has increased 50 per cent, yet the total taxation has not as yet reached the amount imposed then, the burden par head of loans and taxes being £4 16s.2d., while at present, with all the enormous expenses of first preparation, it has only reached £3 3s.; and though the debt and taxation of Russia present a far smaller average per head than those of England, yet, as compared with their ability to bear it, the people of Russia are far more heavily tazed than those of England.\u2014 For the share of the population in the trade of Russia is only 9s.per head, and the taxation being 13s.10d.per head ; but the share of the population of Eagland in her trade is £6 4s.per head, yet is the proportion of taxation only £2 9s.2d.It might, therefore, be increased threefold, and yet it would be under the proportion which every Russian has to sustain, while any increase of the latter would cause the burden to be unbearable.4th, With regard to military resources, the advantage at present, in point of numbers, is with Russia.Her army is said to exceed a million of men, while the united armies of France and England cannot be more than about 700,000.But in point of naval strength, the Allies, even before the destruction of the Russian Black Sea fleet, had a force far superior in numbers, and apy deficiency in the numbers of the Allied army, is more than counterbalanced by the quality of their soldiers.* We have now perhaps,\u201d continues the reviewer, said quite enough, ° in order to show generally, that land can bear thiswar.* ®* * Botif we can probably sustain this effort, and prosecute our undertaking to a final issue, are we justified in our undertaking \u2014 justified in persevering in it 7\u2019 This question is very ably discussed ; the whole preliminary ne- golistions as far back as 1844, are briefly gone over, and an opinion expressed, that on the whole, such was the conduct of British ministers, Russia had good reason to be aurprised at the determined stand which, urged by public opinion, they were forced at length to make.The position of the pation, it is said, is that of one for whom his agents have entered into an immoral conuact.The other pany feels aggrieved, but we feel humiliated ; bumiliated by the conduct of our ministers; and since the fulfilment of the bhalf- engagenients they made involves the ruin of a weak ally, and the sealing up the hopes of rational liberty in Europe, \u201c let us scatter to the winds like gossamer threads, all official, and non-official, and semi-official, and personal aud secret understandings, confidences and entanglements, which may feuter our action in the great under taking to which we are called.\u201d © We have gone too far to recede.In tbe Baltic and the Black Sea we hold Russia by the two wrists ; il through any weakness we let go either hand, before she is altogether disarmed, we shall roe it.We cannot expect the Czar\u2014any Czar 10 give up\u2014we muet take from him all which the future securuy, which the peace of the world demands.\u201d* That which lies before England as the duty of to-day must be done well and effectually, even if for the present it be done exclusively.The Tzarate 1s like the Papacy, it never allows that it is in the wrong, never admits that it is defeated ; all its titles are indefeasible, and its designa are never abandoned, only postponed ; and he is the truest patriot who labors among us that the termination of this war may be\u2014if it may be so\u2014speedy, but above ail, satisfao- tory and effectual.\u201d \u2018 Since these words were written, Russia has, we know, humbled herself somewhat; and before our comments appear in priot, it ie possible that peace on satisfactory terms may have been concluded.Sincerely do we hope it may be so,\u2014but if not, (and we are sure from the temper of the people of England it will not unless satie- factory terms are proposed,) it is gratifying to know that we stand ready and able to continue the*contlict until such a peace shall have been conquered.Ant.8.\u2014 Military Education, Art.6.\u2014Athenian Comedy.Art.7.\u2014 Lions and Lion Hunting.¢It is quite clear on comparing the works of Gerard (a famous lion hunter) and Gordon Cumming that the lion of Northern Africa is a far more formidable enemy than the lion of Southern Africa.\u201d Thus writes our reviewer, and from this short but pleasant article, we certainly receive the impression that the lion is indeed a terrible fellow,\u2014as fierce as formidable,-\u2014not afraid of any number of men,\u2014net to be attacked without at least twenty muakets,~\u2014not to be killed even with thirty musket balls, and the nearer to death the more terrible.A very fine descriptivn is given of his roar, which, commencing with low grumblinge, gradually rises higher and louder, till the roar bursts forth like the noise of thunder,\u2014this being repeated five or six times, and olosing with a number of low hoarse cries as if something were sticking in his throat.¢ Nothing,\u201d eays Geran), \u201c\u201c can compare with this awful sound.The loudest bellowing of a furious bull is no more like it than a.pistol shot is like the sound of a thirty-two pounder.\u201d Imagine the terror of this roar \u2018heard in the lonely mountain passes ur.der the silent stars.\u2019 In the department of Contemporary Literature we have some in- tereating notices ; amongst others of a new translation of some portions of the New Tustament by Profsssor Norton, à Unitarian, which the reviewer criticises soraewhat sharply, exposing the errors he has fallen into in translating the Gospel of John.He remarks that any schoolboy leaming Greek might glorify himself over the tn \u2014 \u2014 2 transistors of the Ruglish Bible, by renderings such as \u201c food\u201d instead of \u2018meat; \u2018at\u2019 the root of the tree, instead of \u2018 unto ;?* \u2018without his cloak,\u2019 instead of ¢ naked ;\u2019\u2014aad, after ali, a vast majority of the improved renderings, about which some people make such a fuss, aze of this trumpery description.A second Report of the Parliamentary Commission on the adulteration of food, tends to modify many of the statements of the former report, and to exculpate many, who seemed condemned, as guilty of malpractiess,\u2014a conclusion in which we heartily rejoice.A volume of poetry by a Mr.Doganne, an American, is called a sort of poetical flowered calico of which we feel sure fhat the manu- |facturer can pmduce any quantity to order.On the other hand, Longlellow\u2019s Hiawatha is characterised as a masterly production.A Book by H.D.Thoreau, called Life in The Woods,\u201d published in Boston, and quoted approvingly by the Reviewer, presents to our mind à most insméferable specimen of self-conceit unde: the garb of philosophio stoieism.This precocious young genias (for surely he is young) very coolly tells us it appears to him that men do pot know what life isy and have somewhat hastily concluded hat itis the chief end of man bere io glorify God and enjoy bim for over\u2019\u2014So that be mey lear what iis iss and correct the hastily formed opinion of five thomsand years, our sage rashes, of all other places, to the woods, and commences the life of a philosopher.He does not \u2018 read books, be hoes beans.\u201d On fine days he sits in his sunny doorway the live-long day wrapped in a reverie, unl, by the suo falling in a1 bis-west window, he is reminded of the lapse of time.\u201d On these occasions he grows, he says, like corn in the night.How long this cootinued he does not tell, but apparently he bas given it'up, having, we suppose, solved the grand mystery of life, and learned what realy is the chief end of man.With breathless anxiety we wait for the new revelation ; but lo! he can only repeat a very old swry, viz: that man's voeation here is to do as pleases him best !\u2014a very peor result indeed, of so many long days of reverie.On one peint, however, be is clear.He bas s supreme contempt for the misiaken people who imagine that doing good is part of man\u2019s vocation.He would have us plainly understand hat he is not called to do good.¢ He bas indulged very litle in philao- threpic enterprises.\u201d Doing good ke finds not to \u2018agree wilA his constitution I\u201d We should think not\u2014he is a great deal too idle to attempt it, and a great deal too conceited to succeed if he did at- temp: it He must come down irom his philosophic perch and miogle à little with every-day life ; be must give up 1his idie siting in the sun, and set about some bonest work; above ail, he must pass through the disciplive of suffering, snd learn by experience the value of bumen kindoess.Then, perhaps, be may cease to despise philanthropy, and be qualified to learn something of the iesson of life.~ But even then, he must begin with the very A.B.C.Howsæmoup Worps, for March.New York: Dix & Edwards.$3 per annum.The mest instructive articles in this number are, Christmas in Southern Italy.\u2014The Road in Indis.\u2014 Colours and Eyes.The latter article, treating of colour blindness, is interestiog and of importance.It appears that one male person out of twenty is wrong in lue perception of colours ; and that a liability to mistake red for green, brown, or black, oocurs, on an average, in one person out of fifty.Very few women possess this defective vision :\u2014 * In the more marked cases of colour blindness, sometimes the majority of colours are distinctly appreciated, but theze are at least twu, as red aud greso, or generally four, as red, green, olive, and brown, thai are not distinguished from euch other.Of the three primary colours, yellsw is the one which least frequently escapes .Most colour-blind persons see it pertectly.A pure well illeminated, is in the next degree less likely to pass unperceived ; some oslour-blind persons ptonounce it to te the colour of which they bave the most vivid perception.On the ther hand, combine yellow and blue ino green, and you have the greatest of all stumbling-blecks.Green is, by the colour blind, mistaken commonly for red, often, though not so commonly, for biue, and now and then for yellow.Of the three primary colours red is the distracting one.\u2018F\u2019he oslour-blind identify it very frequently with ureen, sometimes with perfect black.The red ir.purple not being revived, that oslour counts with them as blue, Thered in orange iog undetected, that colour counts with them as yellow.Red and green, then, are the two colours which the colour-blind are least able to appreciate.It is one of the most ondinary cases in connection with colour blindness, thar A or B, seeing a scarlet ver- beaa in full blossom, can detect, at a little distance, no ditference in colour between leaves and flowers, ur can perceive no contrast of colour in ripe cherries and the fohage of the cherry-tree.Yet it so happens that red and geen are the two commonly employed in railway and ship signalling! Of course there is no folly or ignorance imputable to any body in the matter.The colours contrast vividly to ordinary eyes, and when the signals were established tittle was known of colour blindness, nothing of the extraordinary frequency of its occurrence.It simply happens to be an odd coinci- ence, that, considering the matter {rom this point of view, precisely the wrong colours have been chosen.One great railway company, having been made poquainted with the nature and exteut 5 ociour blindness, has already elt it to be necessary to admit no rson to We post of guard or signal-man until his sense of colour as been tested by a regular examination.\u201d The value of coloured signals must, therefore, depend upon the perception of colors on the part of individuals.It has been recommended, that signals should vary in form as well as in color.A precaution which deserves attention, from the general use of coloured lamps on raitways, aad steamboats.Think of an artist using red chalk to represont the foliage of trees ; of a profveser who could not distinguish a railway red signal flag from a green one ; of a Quaker minister selooting scariel cloth for his Sunday coat; of a tailor matching a scarlet livery coat with green strings; and of another tailor patching à derk blue cost with scarlet cloth.- Po ~~ lial ABARAT EA ke \"ollie, patte = a.se = - % ww SHES 14 CANADIAN REVIEW EE a RLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE.\u2014Duinuing axp Sxuoxivg.Que ot the most virulent and wicked of modem articles fina the ta: abstinence movement found p ace in B.ackwood\u2019s Mags 7ine ior January.Happily, it betrays an amount of ignorance which wil ro far towards destroving is venom.It is strange that inte.zent men shoud defend drinking.who can say of it.\u2014 + How frighttal an array Joes it summon up of shattered constitutions, baghited fates, 3:4 shipwrecked souls ; of misery, want, and enme i\u201d.aud who 1turk the practice of drinking so dangerous that it + should be carried on as much as possible un ler the eye of the public.\u201d All that this writer can devise for preventing intemperance is not 10 Jecrease the number of drinking places.but he would, «if ile, have the pubic house keeper a conacientious, respectable mar.who obeys the moral jaw and fears God.believing that such a one will use the influence of his position 10 restrain the excesses of Lis guests.\u201d Imagine a tavern keeper endeavoring, by means of + moral suasion,\u201d to induce his customers to be content with one ortwo gasses! The idea of a God-fearing man peddling out rum, | gin and brandy! There was far more sense in the Irishman*s reply : when asked, on app ving for a tavern license, if he had a certificate | of good moral character, * He did not think much character was | needed 10 keep a tavern.\u201d Hundreds of cases could be found in winch mer and families have commenced the tratlic in alcoholic\u2019 beverages respectable, and have ended in being drunken outcasts | in the community.The moral atmosphere of 8 drinking place is luting : and few places exist where moral character can so readily k corrupted and destroyed.Thete are certain facts upon which the present movements of the temperance people are based : \u2014 ; Firstly.The use of sicoholic beverages ieads in every community io the abuse The comparative sobriety of certain contin- emal countries where weak wines are used, or, if stronger drinks are used.they are sipped, not drank the whole day long, is no ex- cepiron 10 the rule.ln these countries numerous facis can be gatuered to show the demoraiizing tendency of the drinking systema.Secondiv.The number of drinking places is found to bear a relation to the extent of intemperance.Their decrease has been found favorable to sobriety ; their increase has increased intemperance.Thirdiy.Thousands in whom the appetite for strong drink has heen induced, would abstain if the temptation to drink were kept out of their way.But with taverns on every hand, their craving for drink 1s excited.however strong their determination may have been 10 abstain.A gentleman, occupying à respectable place in society, having frequently to meet persons at hotels, cannot, when there, resist the temptation to drink, although so conscious of his danger.that he has besought temperance men to save him.Another gentleman.occupying à high official position in his place of resience, visited a Canadian city on business.As he walked its streets, the numerous drinking places aroused the appetite he had long resisted, and without thought he was at a bar drinking, one jass led to another, and he was drunk for days together.The Raine Law would he a blessing 10 these individuals, to their families, and to thousands in similar circumstances.Fourthly.The traffic leading to vice, misery, and crime, and being dangerous and expensive to the community, and inimical to the private and public interests of the majority, may be prohibited.There is no tyranny in such prohibition.The tyranny ie in a minority taxing society for ihe gratification of an appetite, dangerous 10 its possessor, and leading to the worst consequences in the com- minty, It is objected that a Probibitory Law would lead to smuggling, private distilleries, and private drinking.If this be so, and if men will take such pains to break through the safeguards which societ throws around them, it can be uo reason why all wen should be leit exposed to the dangers and mischiefs of drunkenness.A few private di«tilienes will not do so much harm as the drinking shops do.\u2014 Private dunking ! as though there was no private drinking now.No curtained saloons down back sireels, and no attempts 10 hide from wives and friends by taking bitters and other things to destroy the emeil of drink.Strange that those who so greatly ear private drinking.shoald not be found advocating the Maine Law.For if private drinking be bad.public drinking is ten-fold worse.An attempt 1s made 10 make the poor believe that a Prohibitory Law 1« for them and not for the rich.This is disingenuous, the law prohibits the sale and nothing more.On smoking, the writer in Blackwood says little, probably for the reason (hat little can be said in favur of an aricle which leads to habite uniavourable to economy.cleanliness, and industry.That man should drink and siuoke because it is nature), is not trae, and were it true, wouid be just as uuressonable as that he would be justified in sinning, because it is in accordance with his depraved nature.THE Caxania¥ NaTeranisT ap Geologist, Ottawa: Office of the Ottawa Citizen.Semi-Monthly.$3 per annum.This work is quite an acquisition to Canadian literature.Its will be uccupied with articies on the Geology and Zoology of the British Province, and a record of discoveries in those Sciences.The work 18 to be issued once in two moutis\u2014each number containing 80 pages, forming at the end of the year a volume of 480 ws, well 1Lustrated wills plates and wood-cuts.It is edited by ir.E.Brings, a gentieman whose discoveries and investigations in the Sciences of Geology and Zoulogy have already made him known to ecientific readers.\u201cThe Canadian Naturalist\u201d is designed 10 asaiel Canadians, and especially youth, in acquiring a taste for Natural History, and to diffuse information regarding the fossils and animals of British North America.The work will be published for one year; and if the circulation be sufficiently extensive to warrant its continuance, it will go on.We recommend this magazine to the favorable notice of all, but especiaily to onr young readers.The contents of the first number are: \u20141.An Introduction to Gevlogy\u20142.Names and Classification of Anim 3.Fossiie of the Potsdam Sandsones\u20144.Characteristic Fossils of the Lower Silurian Rocks of Canada\u20145.Stone Lilies of the Trenton Lime- stone\u20146.Fossils of the Upper Silurian Rocks\u20147.Natural History of the Moose Deer\u2014 8.The Northern Reindeer\u20149.The Woodland Caribou.This periodical is got up with more taste than any thing we have seen in Canada.We trust it wili be supported.Harrea®s MaGazisE vox Arar.Contents.\u2014+ Israel Putnam,\u2019 a biography of the revolutionary hero, richly illustrated.\u2014¢ Madeira, Port, and Sherry,\u2019 a description of Funchal, Oporto, and Xeres, with the surrounding country; sketches of the people, the wine trade, &c., illustrated.\u2014¢ A Home in the Cinnamon [sle,\u2019 a description af the wonders of Ceylon, illustrated.-* Paupertown,\u2019 a sketch of the desolating influence of barrooms and drinking.~¢ The Story of Emily Roque.\u2019\u2014¢ Paul Allen\u2019s Wile.'\u2014* How | was discarded.\u201d These kind of articles are, nerally speaking, waste paper, or worse.Little Dorrit.\u201d\u2014- Bickens sppesrs to be writing himself to the dregs.Literary Notices, sud Editorial easy-chair, are both good ; and there are some pleasant pictorial satires on the follies of the times, at the end, together with Fashions for April.Cawanian Musicas Review.Mr.G.T.Graham, of Toronto, formaetly of this city, has issued the Prospectus of a \u201c Musical Review.\u201d It is to issue it monthly at 7s.6d.per annum.The work is to consist of eight pages of Letterpress and four of Music\u2014the Letterpress being devoted to original and selected articles on the various Branches of Music, Correspondence, aud Reviewe nf Musio\u2014LLe laiter so ar- ranzed (bal porties purchasing Music may rely upon being able to \u2018mets of difficulties AND LITERARY SUPPLEMENT TO THE \u2014 The Musica: portion will be chieily devoted to The publiostion ot Meritormus Compositions by Canacian authors.Communications relative te 1he Review should be addressed 10 Mr.Graham, at Tosouto.Huxtens Mepican Se£clarist ann Joranat or Disgasks oF THE Cuxst.New York.Sherman & Co.$1 per annum.The editor of this journal employs inhalation of medicated vapors for lung diseases.The juutual 1s respectably edited, aud contaios a number of practical hunts an the preservation of health, If people could read Dr.Huuter's remarks vu quack medicines, their (sith in those nusttuma would probally be greatly weakened.The number for Febraary contains an stticle on Animal Etfluvia, which goes to show that animal erflavia cenerated (rom decomposing bodies, does not occasion pestilence.-\u2014that there in no proof even of ite being wnjurious to human health.The writer adduces the army ia the Crimea amung other proofs to sustain his theory.Prrxax's Moxtauy, for March.New York: Dix & Edwards.$3 per annum, can be ordered of any Hookseller.Several of the best American writers are contributors to this respectable monthly magazine.If its light sketches want the classic air of Blackwood, its reviews and practical articles are equally, i not mare, vigorous.The leading articles in the present number are Life and Character of St.Augustine.\u2014Macaulay's History of England,\u2014 and Our Sea Coast Defence and Fortification System.Lonnon Quantercy Review ror Janvamv.We have just received from Messrs.Leonard Scott & Co., this excellent Quarterly.Contents:\u2014I Table Talk\u20142.Reformatory Schools\u20143.Menander\u20144.Henry Fielding\u20146.Neology of the Cloister\u20146.Landscape Gardeniog\u20147.The Zoological Gardens\u2014 8 The Results and Prospects of the War.This Review will be noticed at length in a future number.Tu£ NaTionaL Macazine.$2 per annum.We can recommend this magazine as an excellent and instructive one for the family.Its contents are well diversified.It is also, well illustrated with wood cuts.Mr.Pickup is the agent for Canada East.REVIEW OF BOOKS.A CoMMENTARY .oN THE GR£KK T£XT OF THE EPUTLE To THE Couossuaxs.By John Eadie, D.D., L.L.D., Professor of Biblical Literature to the United Presbyterian Church.New York : Carter & Hros.1856.Thia is a reptint of a valuable Scottish work.Dr.Eadie has established for himself a high place among the interpreters of the New Testament, by his erudite and elaboraie cummentaries, on the Epistles to the Ephesians and Colossians.The former was published in 1854; the latier has just issued from the press.We take the opportunity to make a few observations on modern commentaries.A marked change has taken place within the past twenty-five years,/in the modes and plans of commentaries on Scripture.No longer does one commentator auempt to deal with the whole volume of Holy Writ.To write a thorough and satirfactory commentary on the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, is an undertaking beyond the capacity of any one man.Experience has proved this.Such warks as those of Gill, Clarke, Scott, and Benson, are no longer of much service to students, or 10 the clergy.The modern mind demands a more exact and scientific examination of the sacred text, than any author can attempt, while engaged on the whole Bible.The mote approved method, therefore, is the production of separate commentaries on the several books of Scripture, by Divines of competent learning.With this reform, in regard to authorship, is associated another, in the structure and plan of commentaries.Such works are based more stricily than heretofore, on the direct and careful investigation of the Hebrew or Greek text.The lexicon and grammar are lhe sources, whence, (as far a« human studies avail,) the meaning of Scripture is ascertained.The writer does not give us a meaning, of ten nossible meanings, but endeavours to find in the language, with the context in view, the meaning of the Divine Word.In brief, the modern ecnmmentaries most useful to ministers and students, are not discursive, theological, or practical,\u2014but exegetical, endeevaring above all things a sifung examination of the worde and statements of the original (which is the inspired) text.As the work gow before us is Scottish, we must offer one or two remarks ou the commentaries which have been produced in Scotland.Eminent as that country has long been for the high character of the lectures and sermons delivered from her pulpite, she bas by no means, yielded the rich harvest of exegetical and expository works for which we might have looked.The old Scottish commen- tatore, as Ferguson, Hutcheson, Dickson, and Durham, are of a high evaogelic character, but write in the inrxact discursive style of their times.Archbishop Leighton, who, though born in England, was of Scottish descent, has indeed, left to us an exposition, which is, perhaps, the finest specimen in existence of the pious practical commentary.About the end of last century appeared Dr.George Campbell\u2019s work on the Gospels, and Dr.Macknight®s on the Apostolical Epis- ties.These were in high repute among the Moderate clergy of Scotiand,\u2014but sre likely to be soon forgotten, and buried in the same grave with * Blair's Sermons,\u2019 and other once admired productions of the same [rigid school.Dr.Campbells preliminary dissertations, indeed, were highly creditable to his Biblical autainments ; but hus translation, like that of Dr.Macknight, was in a style of ¢ fine English,\u2019 intolerable toa good taste, and vasily less impressive than the old authorised version.During the present century, Mr.Haldane enriched our Theological Literature, by a noble commentary un the Epistle to the Romana; but, it is too polemical, and nat sufficiently critical, to satisfy the modern student.Dr, Chalmers had not an exegetical mind.Dr.Wardlaw, we think, might have excelled in this department of sacred study ; but he did not attempt it.Dr.John Brown has published several very elaborats expositions of parte of the New Testament; but we find them often prolix, and cannot help saying, that they have been lpuded a little beyond their deserts.The best specimens of scholarly and sciantific commentary produced in Scotland, have come, as we judge, from Dr.Fairbairn, and Dr.Eadie.The former of these Divines is one of the Profsssure of the Free Church, at Aberdeen ; the lstier, one of the Professars of the United Presbyterian Church, at Glasgow.They are, as com- select it, on reference to the Review, without any hesitation as to its mentstors, under great obligations to the Germans,\u2014a remark, MONTREAL WITNESS, [Marcn, 1856.a which muy be exiended to all the recent English and American interpreters, with equal truth.it is not denied, that with (he valn- able materials furuished by the Germans, has been mingled no small heap of wearisome rubbish i but the indiscriminate abuse of German exegeais, in which some indalge, must arise either from dense igno- race.pre de peur The church lies under weighty obliga- toa to the lebors of such comm yn use of entators ns Olehausen, Tholuck, Dr.Eadie, perhape, overlonde his pages with citations of the views of previous suthors.In this he seems to imitate Dr.J.A, Alex- auder, whose valuable comueniary on Isaiah, was republished in Glasgow, under Dr.Eadie's editorial care, The reader somatimes wishes to escape from the wearisome delail of expository fancies which are mentioned only to be thrown aside, and might with per feet propriety have been passed without notice.There is, also, in Dr.Eadie\u2019s commentary, an occasional tendency to give a meagre sense to a richly evangelical texi\u2014 somewhat after the manner of Barnes.But the more we examine his volume, the more cause we have to be satisfied.We have long wanted a commentary on the Epistle to the Colossians ; the only valuable contribution by a British Divios to the night understanding of that Book, having been the exposition ui Bishop Davenaut, firet published in Latin in 1627, and now scarce and expensive.Dr.Eadie has furuished us with a learned and satisfactory Introduction, in which the literature of the Epistle ix discussed.Then follows a new translation.In the comineulary, we find a conscientious investigation of the meaning of the inapired text,\u2014a style more lively and elastic than is eommoniy found in such works,\u2014aod an uniformly evangelical spirit, which now and then, with happy effect, overleaps the restraints of mere criticism, and expatiates in glowing language on the great truthe concerning the Saviour, and the salvation taught in the sacred page.We have only to add, that this work is carefully and correctly reprinted.And we commend it to the attention of all who are competent to read and enjoy the New Testament in Greek.Hacoat, Zecuagiag anv Mavacii,\u2014A New Translation with Notes.By the Rev.T.V.Moore, D.D., First Presbyterian Church, Richmond, Va.New York : Carter & Bros.1856.Portions of this work have met our eye in the pages of an American periodical of high repute.We are glad to meet with it in a completed form, and regard it as a valuable contribution to the Ex- egetics of the Old Testament.Ministers, and theological students, are often at a loss for a good commentary on the minor Prophets.The expositions by Calvin have been highly valued, even by those who have dissented from his systematic theology ; but they are not generally accessible.\u2014 The English works, of Henry, Scott, and Adam Clarke, have their respective merits, but are not sufficiently precise and scientific for the wants of modern interpretation.The commentaries of Blayney, and Newcome, published about fitty years ago, are falling into oblivion.The only modern English commentator, who has produced any thing of value on the minor Prophets, is Dr.Henderson, whose attainments as a Hebraist and Philologist, are of a high order.Dr.Moore\u2019s volume on the three Prophets of the Restoration, is not a medley of various interpretations gathered from other sources, but a solid and weil considered book, creditable to the authors scholarship and judgment, Is principal merits, appear to us, to be the following :\u2014 let.An instructive and well written \u201c Introduction,\u2019 in which are placed preliminary discussions of the ¢ prophetic gift,\u2019 the history of the ¢ prophetic office,\u201d and ¢ the restoration from Babylon.\u2019 2nd.A new translation of the Text, arranged and divided so as to give the reader a distinct view of the drift and scope of the Inspired writers.We would not be understood to accept all the renderings of the text which Dr.Moore has adopted, but the translation is clear and judicious, and is all the more pleasant, that il is free from the awkward disruption of the sense, caused by the chapters and verses of the authorised version.3rd.An honest commentary.The Books of Scripture selected by Dr.Moore, contain not a few obscure ani difficult passages, but he has treated them, so far as we have observed, with candor and ability.Homiletic and practical remarks are not given mn the notes, but à series of « Infurences\u2019 is supplied at the end of every section.The doctrinal views inculeated or implied are thoroughly evangelical.We cannot give any fair idea of the character of such a work as this by a detached quotation.We recommend it to the notice and study of ministers, students, and the educated laity.It gives us pleasure to add, that the publishers have issued the volume in a style which does great credit to themselves, and materially assists the intelligent progress of every reader.We are delighted with the large clear type, both of the Hebrew and the English.Harrer's Stony Booxs, No.17, Eurrep ; or, the Blind Boy and his Pictures.New York : Harper & Bros.Price Is, 3d.Can be obtained through any Books lier.Admirable books for the young; attractive in style, beautifully illustrated, and cheerful in their moral tone, we wish them a place in every house.The number before us illustrates the spirit and temper of mind with which the privations and trials of life are to be borne.An Farsest Ministry, TUE Want or Tue Trecs.\u2014 This admirable volume, from the pen of the Rev.J.A.James, has reached a sixth London edition.An Euglish Review says : \u2014« It speake well for the times, in spite of all that is deprensing, that thers should be, for ® work »o substantial, a demand so steady and urgent.\u201d A Catecuiak or Tir CoNsTITUTION AND ORDINANCES OF THE KiNo- Dom or Cunisr, Ry the Rev.William Orme.Price 3d.A brief, yet comprehensive, digest of the principles of the Con- grogational body.Evenino Incxusz.New York: R.Carter & Bros.18mo.130 pp Price 1s.3d.A cheap edition of an excellent series of evening prayers, which we have before noticed and recommended.\u2014 Wercome To Jsaus.By Rev.James Smith.Edinburgh and Toronto.Admirably adapted to place in the hands of those who are yet T.Nelson & Sous, strangers lo Christ, fn March, 1856.) CANADIAN REVIEW A Cainn\u2019s Sxamon axronn Tne Queen.New York: R.Carter & Brothers.Neatly bound, gilt edges.Is.3d, No sermon of modern times, or perhaps, of any time, has awsk- ened s0 much interest an the one before us, one hundred thousand copies have been issued in England.Many sermons pruached before Her Majesty have been published, but the interesting point about Mr.Caird\u2019s sermon is, that st made such a favorable impression on the Queen, and on her Royal Consort ax to leud to à command for itu publication.Apart, however, from the interent which this fact has awakened, there are in the sermon excellencies, which, aside fron wvory other consideration, ought to secure for it an extensive circulation, and a careful perusal, The text in, ¢ Not alothlul in business ; fervent in spirit, serving the Lord.\u201d We will send the sermon by mail, to any part of Canada, on receipt of 1x.3d, REFoRMATION oF JuvesiLe OFFENDERS.Severnl works have recently been issued in England upon this subject, which merit the attention of philanthropists in this Province.Intemperance und vice are producing their fruits in a largely increased number of juvenile offenders\u2014and efforts to reclaim these, and the employment of preventive means, are duties devolving upon the community.The woiks recently published sre :\u2014Van- detkiste\u2019s Duns of London\u2014Reformatory Schools for the children of the perishing and dangerous classes, by Miss Carpenter\u2014Juvenile Delinquents, by Miss Carpenter\u2014and Methray, being an accoum of a reformatory institution in that place, by Mr.Recorder Hall.\u2018The above works are printed in London.Discourses, Preached on various occasions, in the course of Ministerial duty, by the Rev.Robert VicGill.Montreal : Hew Ram- eay.l2mo.p.p.338.5s.This volume of sermons by the late Dr.McGill, was published in 1833, several of them having found a large circulation previously in pamphlet form.The sermons embraced in this volume are,~ 1.The Love of Country.2.The Authority of Law.3.God's Chastisement of Cities, 4.Respect for the Burial Place of the Dead.5.On Graves.6.Death, the Fear of it a Bondage.7.Peace in Christ, 8.The precedent claims of the Spiritual in religion over the external.9.The Religion of Feeling.10.Christ\u2014In Him was Life.11.The Soul\u2014a book.We hope that the copies remaining of these Sermons will speedily be sold.Every purchaser will obtain for himself a volume of excellent profitable reading matter, and will at the same time be conferring a kindness upon the widow of him, who now being dead, yet speaketh.EMBLEMS FROM Epzx.By Rev.James Hamilton, D.D.New York : R.Carier & Bros.18mo.p.p.159.1s.6d.The contents of this volume are, The Tree of Life.\u2014 The Vine.\u2014The Cedar.\u2014The Palm.\u2014 The Garden enclosed.\u2014 Harvest Home.\u2014The Amaranth, or, Immortality.Like all the productions of Mr.Hamilton\u2019s pen, there is a freshness, a vigor, and à spiritual tone about this volume, which will secure for it a careful reading, and we hope a large cireulation.Tne Bere Lau, a Book for the Aged.By the Rev.James Smith.T.Nelson & Sons, Edinburgh and Toronto.A series of meditations, designed to lead the aged Christian to the closer contemplation of \u201cthe things unseen and eternal.\u201d My-|P Smith is the author of a number of excellent religious works of a practical character.We should like to see his little volumes extensively circulated.Summary or PrincirLks of Tine Unitep Paeserrerian Churcn.Price 3d.This summary was prepared by a Committee appointed by the Synod of the United Presbyterian Church in Scotland last year.The Summary of Principles is preceded by an Historical sketch of the Secession and Relief Chuiches dowd to the period of their union, under the designation of the United Presbyterian Church.Tue Gosret in Ezexizr.By Rev.Thomas Guthrie.R.Carter & Bros.12mo.pp.395.5a.\u2018There is a class of persous who believe that the Old Testament comains little of the Gospel of Christ.Even some professing Christians are quite inclined 10 disparage the ancient record of the Divine will in this regard.They love the New Testament most ardently ; but fail to see that beauty in the Old which it actually possesses.For this reason, there has been a growing hostility 10 ¢ Mages and the Prophets,\u201d for some years.[n numerous instances it has ripened into a reckless infidelity that has spent itself 10 anacks upon our common Christianity.To all persons who lack respect for any portion of the Bible we cordially recommend the perusal of this volume.It bears the title of \u201c\u2018 Tux GosPEr 1N EZEKIEL,\u201d and is a most successful effort 10 develope what the title indicates.It ie, written by one of the eloquent aud taleuted Divines of Edinburgh.The author finds in the book of Ezekiel, the \u201ctruth as it is in Jesus.\u201d All the prominent and essential doctrines of the Gospel are here | brought ont from the prophet\u2019s storehouse, and made clear and forcible almost as they are in the New Testament.The author finda here such themes as * God\u2019s Punitive Justice,\u201d \u201cGod\u2019s Motive in Salvation,\u201d © Man an Object of Divine Mercy,\u201d \u201cGod Glorified in: Redemption,\u201d «The Wisdom and Holiness of God Hlustrated in\u2018 Salvation,\u201d \u201c The Merey of God IHlusurated in Salvation,\u201d* © Man\u2018 Justified through the Righteousness of Jesus Christ,*?« Man converted,\u201d \u201cThe Heart of Stone,\u201d * The New Heart.\u201d « The New Life, + The Nature, Necessity, and Power of Prayer,\u201d &c., &e.From this enumeration of topics the reader will perceive that the Old Testament does not lack the true Gospel.Let him read this volume through, and he will not be disposed, if hie has been heruto- fore, to disparage ** Moses and the Prophets\u201d afterwards.We believe that the general circulation of this volume would du\u2019much toward delivering the Old Testament Soriptures from that opprobrium that haa been heaped upon them by modern infidelity.Ve wish that it might be put into the hands of every person who is dioposed to undervalue the ponion of the Bible iv which reference is made The issue ul a work like this in really Providential.We wonder that such a book has not appuared before.But God has a time for all things; sad this is probably the best season for its appearance.Tt must conlound the enemies of the Old Testament.It exposes the! superticial charactor of their acquaintance with the Bible.\u2014 Puritan rs New York : Carvin®s Conaesronpence.\u2014The Rev.Dr.Aubigne has written a letter to The London Record, warmly recommending the recently issued volutnen of the Correspondence of Calvin, whioh Dr.Jules Monuer edits.He regards them as exceedingly valuable, and as As many, probably, as Tux Home Scuoot; on, Hints ox Home Epucation.Norman M\u2018Leod, minister of burgh: Paton & Ritchie.Seldom have wo seen à more interesting work than the little book before un, It is 80 unpretending, so tharoughly practical, so earnest and replete with \u2018good sound common sense, and withal so evan- &elical in ils tone Arf apirst, that we have no hesitation in assigning ita place among the bent and most useful publications of recent times.\u2018The subjects of which it treats are of the greatest importance, affecting not only the happiness of the family circle, but also the wellbeing of suciety at large.The training of the young, when conducted on rational and enlightened principles, has always been, by the Divine blessing, attended with he happiest resuits.This, J By the Rev.Barony Parish, Glasgow.Edin- | revelation teaches and experience confirms ; \u201c Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he shall not depart from it.\u201d The object of ail right training is the formation of right habite.Children must Le taught not only that they ahould be good,\u2014and to do what is right, but thes must also be trained to be and to do what they are thus taught.ithout this, instruction will be of no avail.Nor is this all: their affection must be gained.They must be got to form a hearty liking for that which is sought to grow, on their, part, into: habit.This is an indispensable condition of scccess in| the process of training.\u2019 \u201cWithout it,\u201d says the author, \u201c no moral habits can be formed.: Itis perfecily possible, perhaps, by mere outward authority or force, , to insure the duing of certain acts again and again by the outward, man, but never stall the inner man be thus made to love the right, as well as to do it.The power of doing a thing, and the love of.doing it, are very difterent.The ans, for instance, of reading, writing, &c., may be taught from fear or compulsion, and be acquired, with or without pleasure by the learner; and, in spite of the will, can be retained and practised in after years.But all this will not insure such habits as would necessarily lead the child ever to put pen to paper or read a volume through.The reason is, that no habit of mind can be formed by a rational being, however frequently acts | are repeated, unless these are voluntary.The love of good can alone displace the Jove of evil.This leads toa practical conclusion | 'aken place within the last few years.ND LITERARY SUPPLEMENT TO MONTREAL WITNESS.Max amp nis Money.By the Rev.Dr.Tweedie.This little volume is peculiarly seasonabls in an i when men everywhere appear disposed to make money foe chief good.The great object of the author is to bring men, and especially professing Christians, to feel their responaibiliy as stewards, accountable tor the right use of the wealth which they possess, and to induce them to contribute to the promotion of God's cause, not from mere excitement or impulse, but regularly, and upon aystem.Inthe prosecution of this plan, he does not seek to discourage the spirit of enterprise so charactenstic of our times, but would fain have it Christianized, #0 that the activities of men might not all be expended in secular pursuits, and that they might be rought, as of old, to honour the Lord with their substance, and with the first- fruits of all their increase.\u201d Worldliness and covetousness are shown to be eating into the very core of the Christian Cherch, and the necessity of the pulpit giving forth no uncertain sound on the subject is clearly pointed out.The author, however, does nnt take a desponding view, but gratefully acknowledges, that, while much remains to be done, à great improvement in men's views of money and its uses has taken piace in our day in contrast with former times, insomuch that in a quarter of a century the contributions to the cause of God have been trebled.Man bright examples are giveu of men who, smid the engrotaments 0 business, have nobly and systematically responded to the claims of the heathen at home and abroad, and of suflering humanity, aod who have in this wa made to themselves * friends of the mammon of unrighteousness.The whoie subject is treated in a clear and able manner ; and the various illustrations of the propositions laid down, taken from history, biography, and the oceurrences of the present day, are presented in a pleasing and eloquent style, which render th.- culiarly readable = istrative.Bootch paper.\"the work pe AMERICAN AGKICELTTRAL Pareas.\u2014 We bave regularly on our table all the prominent agricultoral journals published in this country.A great increase in the strength of the press, in this line, has New periodicals have spruny which must never be lost sight of in home education, viz., that the ; Up in various parts of the country, while the old and first-estabiished happiness or cheerfui obedience of the child is essentisi to secure the formation of good habits.Without this, it ma up, but never trained up, in the way in which it shou! go.\u201d In speaking of the education of children during infancy, author seems to think that parents ought to interfere with them as little as possible ; and whea they do that it must be with good common sense, guided by affection.We give his own words : \u2014 ¢ [ have no advice whatever to offer parents as to home education during infancy beyond this,\u2014to interiere wits their children as be forced ® large mouth! |of Orange Judd, Esq.The New England Farmer, the: published in Boston, journals still hoid à prosperous way.The American Agriculturist, issued in ibis city, has just paseed into the hands a monthly, 1s and edited by Simon Brown, Esq.If 1s a {handsome pamphlet, or rather magazine, neatly and copiously iflus- trated.The Magazine of Horticulture, ediied by C.M.Hovey, {comes to us also from Boston.It devotes special attention to Bo.slany.The Ohio Cuitirator, Columbus, the Maine Farmer.Chi- 1 cago, the Massachusetts Ploughman, Boston, are popular and pros- little as possible.There are few things in this world more wonder- perous journals.The Rural Newo- Yorker, of Rochester, is an illus- ful to a thoughtful mind, or more delightful to a benevolent heart, than the joy of children.truth, \u2018In clouds of glory do we come From God who is our home ; Heaven lies about us in our infancy.\u2019 «We need not do anything to make the child happy.naturally happy in itself.soul like suntight, joy shines upon everything without, and is reflected back from all.No poet ever had a more brilliant fancy, no philosopher busier thoughts! It can create to itself an ocean from tis Oneof our greatest poets says, with much Gentleman, of Albany.bas a titie which we hope may be applied From the joy which God sheds within its! rience in the * calli trated agricultural newspaper of wide circulation.The Country to many of its subscribers.ltisa well-known repository of valuable information and suggestion 10 agriculturai men.We believe that 10 make a good newspaper for a farmer, there must be a good farmer to the newspaper; and we add that the conductors of the journals which we have above mentioned, are men who from expe- are fitted to write with à prac- of the field,\u201d tical pen.\u2014 N.Y.Independent.à cup of water, à ship from a bit of straw,and summon out of bits THE Russias EMPIRE; its Resources, &c.By a Looker-On.of paper, or out of nothing, men and women, kings and queens, to obey its commands and contribute to its amusements.It is planning, We have no sympathy with despots, nor with those who deify \u2018them, and cannot feel our good sense complimented by an author's contriving, and eujoying all day long.With all this God has 8éurance that \u2018\u201c progress second only to that of America,\u201d has bern placed it in his own school of providence, and in ten thousand ways, Made by à country, the grossness of whoseæeligions ubservances is too many to number, and too deep to understand.He is educating | second only to that of Popery\u2014by a country where the Bible is pro- this babe, and teaching it lessons innumerable.He is doing so, bibried, where the tillers of the soil are slaves, and slaves to mis- chiefly through what you yourselves are, and by the constant influ- called freemen wha themselves bave no voice in the goveramen: ence which 1s unconsciously exercised in the household by your| Which controls, 1axes, and robs them, where ihe lush talis indis- own personal character, No doubt, a very wise and judicious |criminaiely 09 prince and peasart, on the backs of sturdy malefac- parent can, from its earliest dawn, by more direct efforts, help to |!ors and on the backs of delicate women, and where Siberia awats mould the child gently and lovingly ir.10 many good habits, such as atience, obedience, kindness, &c.\u201d But this requires such tact and fine handling that few are tit for it.Asarule, | believe more harm will be done than good by attempting to apply any formal system of runing and training to s0 tender a plant, beyond \u201cwhat is prompted Ey good common sense, guided by parenial and Christian affection.«If you must, in short.give it something, coofine your generosity to wholesome plain food from your hand, love in abundance from your heart, with as much light, liberty, and air, as every day beneath God's sky can afford ; and it.will educate itself better than you can do.Let these conditions be fulfilled as far as possible, even in one of our vile and horrid streets or lanes, aud the child will thrive betier in soul and body, than when confined like a hot-house lant in a splendid mansion, pampered with luxury, or teased and relted all day long by some injudicious parent or teacher, who insists on raining or teasing it up to become wonderfully clever or wonderfully well-behaved.Watch, control, lead, mould your children from infancy, if you will; but oh! let them be free and joyous! ¢ Check not a child in his merriment ; should not his morning be sunny ©\u201d Let them skip like the lambs on the hill-side, and sing all day long like the larke overhead in the sky! Let them be happy ; and the light of their morning will make their day more bright, aud leave some golden touches on the clouds that may gather round them at evening.\u201d In regard to books, by which parents might indirectly instruct or divert their children on week days, the author sees no valid reason why the old classic story books, such as *¢ Blue Beard,\u201d ¢ Jack the Giant Killer,\u201d « Beauty and the Beast,\u201d shorld not be employed with advantage, instead of banishing them entirely from the children\u2019s library.He could wish music as well as our old Scotch songs, to be taught to children as a means of linking what is noble and refined in sentiment with the imagination and feelings.¢ And why,\u201d he says, * should [ be silent about song as a means of linking pure and lofty sentiments with the imagination and the feelings ?Milton, in his well known Letter on Education, speaking of music, and of * elegant voices, tuned to religious.martial, or civic ditties, adds, which, if wise men and prophets be not extreme! out, have a great power over dispositions and manners, to smoot and make them gentle from rustic harshness and distempered pas sions.\u201d It cannot be denied that musio in families, with or without any instrument but the voice, might be made a source of immense enjoyment, and make the fireside in the evening a scene of greater attraction to children, and a better school for education.\u2018Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings has God ordained praise.\u2019 We advocate, th-refore, the singing of well-selected hymns, which express such sentiments as the young can truly express as well as the old.But we would not exclude from the family circle any song which embodied & feeling right [ora good mange cherish or indulge.Many of our dear oll Scotch songs, embaimed] in the heart and memories of our countrymen throughout the world, with others which commemorate the great and brave deeds of those who have fought for our hearths and homes, should be taught our children, as well as hymns that sing of lofiier and eternal themes.\u201d \u2014 Edinburgh Witness.Tux Wonvers or Sciexce; or, Youxo HlumPurer Davy.The Life of a Buy, Written for boys.By Henry Mavuew, author of 4 The Story of the Peasant Boy Philosopher,\u201d &e.; There is no kind of reading more useful as well as entertaining to the youthtul mind than bivgraphy.The work before us tells the story of the young philosopher in\u2019 a moet *grocable manner.It gives an account of his progress in Natural hilosophy, and conveys much instruction ou that subject.We can think of many little boys of our acquaintance, whose eyes would glisten at sight of the attesclive plates which illustrate the work, and whose hearts would throwing much light upon the views and character of the great Reformer, 1) well aa'upor the important era in whioh he lived.the bold man who dares, even in try breathe, a word savoring of freedom.This is the country between which and republican America an atfioity is sougbl for by those who mistake tne clamor jof a populace for the voice of a people.Even did we share the ¢ looker-on\u2019s™ sentiments, we could not but consider his book a heavy production ; it is not relieved by piquancy of style or incident, but it 1s just to admit that from it considerable information may be gained relative 10 Russia\u2019s public works, and the productive capacity of her vast territory, particularly that portion of her territory which borders on the Pacific.\u2014 4d.and Jouraul.Tux Race ror Fiction.\u2014\u201c1 want a paper that has long stories in it,\u201d said a young lady; and she added, \u201c1 don\u2019t want a paper for anything else.\u201d Poor girl! much to be pitied\u2014and a piuful appearance she will make through life at the present rate.She wanls nothing serious, no acquaintance with the history of ber times, no intellectual \u2014 nothing but newspaper novela! Empty heads they must be that can find room every week for some ten columns of a sham story.Yet these are the heads for which the weekly press toils and groans, throwing off by the ten thousands, its sheets of shallow, insipid, and disgusting fiction ; and for this, an amount of money is paid which a sound literature utterly fails to cotamand.Yes, Christian fathers and mothers buy this vile trash for their sons and daughters, and so minister to their ignorance and destitution of all taste and fitness for life\u2019s duties.Doubtless the periudical press does more than any other one instrumentality, to decide the opinions, habits of thought, and general character of the age.A family will very soon begin 10 show a sympathy with its weekly paper, and rents and child will soon begin assimilating to it in sentiment and feeling ; and as families are, so is the community at large.Blind and stupid, therefore, yea worse, are those parents who tolerate in their houses a class of papers which are good for nothing \u2014mude up of the writings of silly, ignorant scribblers, who would be \u2018at the font\u201d in a town school, much more in a school of good morals.Such are the teachers of half the present generation.\u2014.dlbuny Spectator.Tur Excuisa Bis: History of the Translation of the Holy Seri tures into the English Tongue, with Specimens ot the Early English Versions.This work presents a continuous view of the progress of Bible- translation, in the English language, from the first version by Wick- liffe, in 1350, to the last, made by onder of King James in 1611; iving an account of the successive English versions by Wicklide, Tyndale, Coverdale, Taverner, Cranmer, the Genevan Exiles, the Bishops\u2019.the Douay (Catholic) version, and King James\u2019 Revision, and of the relation of the earlier versions to the one now in common use.Mrs.Conant has had unusual facilities for acquiring information in regard to the subject upon which she treats ; and, from the amount of labor and careful research she has bestowed upon this work, we are confident that it will present a more complete and accurate view of the progress of English Bible-translation than anything yet published.\u2014.N.¥.Chronicle.Tur Preacuen ano tee Kixu; or, Bourdaloue in the Court of Louis XIV.Transiated from the French of L.F.Bungener, with an Introduction.By the Rev.George Potts, D.D.A sort of treatise on pulpié@loquence as it existed in France, at the most brilliant period of its history.It is constructed with great artistio skill, and partakes, perhaps, equally of the didactic and the historical, while it has all the force and charm of a most bewitohing romance.{9 Most of the books notioad on these pages can be procured at beat with joy in the hope of trying some of the experiments there expltined.\u2014_N.¥, Chronicle.the Hitness Offiee, 36 Great St.James Street, Montreal.[a = PENDU \u2014~ ar 2 16 THE NORIAL OF BARRER.BY J.Q, WNTUTES, 1N RATIONAL BBA.Bear him, comrades, to his grave ; Never over ane more brave Shall the prairie grasses weep, In the ages yet Lo come, When the millions in our reom, What we sow in teary, shall reap.Rear him up the icy hill, With the Kansas froven still | As his noble heart, below, And tbe land be came to till With « freeman's thews and will, And kis poor but roofed with emow ! Ope more look of that dead face, Of his murder's gbastly trace! One more kiss, oh, widowed one ! la sour left bands on bis brow, Lift your right hands up, and vow That his work shall vet be done.Patience.friends! The eye of Ged Every path by Murder trod Watches, lidless, day and night; And the dead mas in his shroud, And bis widow, weeping loud, And our hearts, are in his sight.Every deadly threat that swells\u2014 With the roar of gambling bells, Rrery beutal jest and jeer, Every wicked thought sod plan Uf the cruel heart of mas, Though Hut whispered, He can bear! You in suffering, they in crime, Wait the just award of time, Wait the vengeance that is due Not in vain a beart shall break, Not a tear for Freedom's sake Fall unheeded : God is true.While the flag with stars bedeck'd Threstens where it should protect, And tbe law shakes bands with Crime, What is left ye but to wait, Match your patience 10 your fate, And abide the better time ! Patience, friends! Tbe human heart Everywhere shall take your part, Everywhere for you shall pray; On your side are nature's laws, And God's life is in the canse That you suffer for to-day.Well to suffer is divine ; Pass the watchword dows the line, Pass the countersiga, \u2018 EXDCRE,\u201d Not to him wbo rashly dares, But to him wbo nobly bears, Ia the victor's gariand sure.Frozen earth to frosen breast, Lay our alain one down to reat; Lay him down 10 hope and faith, And above tbe broken sod, Once again, to Freedom's God, Pledge yourselves for life oc death ; That the State whose walls ye lay, In your blood and tears to-day, Shalt! be free from bonds of shame : And your goodly iaad untrod By tbe feet of Slavery, shod With corsing as with flame ! Plant the Buckeye on his grave, For the hunter of the slave Iniu shadow cannot rest ; Aud let martyr mound and tree Be your pledge and guaraatee & the freedom of the West! WHITEFRIARS IN KING WILLIAM'S TIME.(From Macaulay's Hutory of England.) Another bill which fared better ought to be noticed as an instance of tho slow but steady progress of civilisation.The ancient immunities enjoyed by seme districts of the capital, of which the largest and the most infamous was Whitefriars, bad produced abuses which could no loages be endured.The Tem- plars on one side of Alsatia, .nd the citizens on the other, bad long been calling on the G ernment and the Legislature to put down so monetrous a nuisance.Yet still, bounded on the west by the great school of English jurisprudence, and on the east by the great mart of English trade, stood this labyrinth of squalid, tottering houses, close packed, every ove, from cellar to cock-loft with outcasts whose life was one long war with society.The best part of the population comsisted of debtors who were in fear of bailiffs.The rest were attorneys struck off the roll, witnesses who carried straw in their shoes ns à sign to inform the public where a false oath might be procured for hali-s.crown, sharpers, receivers of stolen goods, clippers of coin, forgers of bank-notes, and tawdry women, blooming with paint aud braady, who, in their anger, made free use of their nails and their scissors, oo whose sager was less 10 be dreaded than their kindness.ith these wretches the narrow alleys of the sanctuary swarmed.The rattling of dice, the call for more punch and more wine, and the noise of blasphemy and ribald sung never cessed during the whole night.The bencbers of the Inner Templo could bear the scandal and the annoyance no longer.They ordered the gate leading into Whitefriars to be bricked up.The Alsatians mustered in grest force, stacked the workmen, killed one of them, pulled down the wall, knooked down the Bheriff who eame to keep the peace, and carried of bis gold ehain, whieh, no dewbt, was soon in the melting-pot.The riot was not suppreseed till a company of the Foot Guards arrived.This outrage excited enersl indignation.The City, indigoant at the ontrage of red to the Sherif], cried loudly for justice.Yet, so difficult was it to ezecute any process in the dens of Whitefrinrs, that pear two years elapsed before single ringleader was sppre- bended.\u2018The Savoy was another place of the same kind, smaller indesd, and less renowned,-but inhabited by a not less lawless population.An unfortunate tailor, who vanuised to go thither for tho purpose of demanding payment of a debt, was ent upos by the whole mah of cheats, ruffians, sad courtesans.He offered to give a full discharge 10 his debtor and s treat to the rabble, but in vain.He hed violated their franchise; and this crime was not to be pardoned.He was knesked down, ES CANADIAN REVIEX* AND LIFRRARY SUPPLEMENT TO MONTREAL WITNESS.He was dragged naked up and duwn the streets, amidat yells of * A bailift! a badiff 1\u201d Finally he waa compelled to kneel down aud curse his iather and mother.Having performed this ceremony, he was permitted\u2014and the permission was blamed by many of the Savoyards -to limp home without a rag upon \u2018him.\u2018The Bog of Allen, the passes of the Grampians, were wet more unisaie than this small knot ol lanes, surrounded by, 1the niansions of the greatest nobles ofa flourishing and enlight- loned kingdom.At length in 1697, à bill for abolishing the franchises of these places passed both Houses, and received the Royal assent.The Aleutians and Savoyards wera furious.Anonymous lelters, containing menuces of Assussination, were received by Members of Parham nt who hud made thomenlves conspicuous by the zeml with which they had supported the bill; but such threats only strengthened the general conviction that it was high time lo destroy those nests of knnves and ruf- fiane.A lortnight's grace was allowed; and it was made krown that, when that time bad expired, the vermin who had been the curse of London would be unearibed and huuted without mercy.Thero was a tumultuous flight to treland, to France, to the Colonies, to vaults and garrets in loss notorious parts of the capital; and when, on the prescribed ony, the Skerifl\u2019s officers ventured to cross the boundary, they found those streets where, à few weeks before, the cry of \u201c A writ!\u201d would have drawn together a thousand raging bullies and vixens, as quiet as the cloister of a cathedral.incipaxrs ar A BoiLine Srmine.\u20141he next morning I arose early, and, accompanied by my companion, we paid a visit to the largest puis, or boiling spring, called ** Te Tarata.\u201d At the first view its appearance is that of an immense flight ot steps, of a circular form, with water flowing over them, which seamed tu freeze as it tell, assuming the colur of snow, The water here is vf à different character tv that of the Tukupuarangia, being of a bluish, milky bue, and baving a very soft and slightly saline flavor : the change in its temperature I found very striking, lor in some parts it was quite cold, while in others it was warm or bot.On some of the steps there was a very slippery deposit vf a brown ochreous subelaace ; on olbers, a furmation closely resembling a kind of mess, slightly petrified.Ae | ascended [ tound the steps increase in height and width, each containing one or more in the same basin.In one of the largest, my companion and two cr three of the natives who accompanied us entered.This noble bath was nearly fifty feet in length, and in parts too deep to wade through.As | wished to ascend to the higher steps to get a view of the boiling gulf, 1 requested my companion to call his dog, which was following me.In going up ! found the water almost too hot for the naked feet, and, therefore, crept up along the sides where the manuka and fern were growing very lusuriantly, and, strange to say, although ovethangiag the eloamy walter, it felt icy cold to the feet.Op reaching the top of the flight of steps, I found the silicious deposit had formed a level pavement, over which ore or two inches of water, nearly boiling, flowed ; beyond was a amall pool, close to the gulf, which occupied the centre, and sent forth volumes of vapour, completely concealing its form from view.In the middle of the platform was a rocky mound overbanging the chasm, where those who reached it obtained stepping stones had been laid for traveilers to pass over.As I was advancing along these, the poor dog, who bad broken away from its master, ran past me, and finding the water scald his feet, he bounded on with a yell of pain, and, in an instant, plunged into the pool of hot water.The poor animal made a vain attempt 10 escape, it rolled over, and in an instant was dead, and sank to the bottom.Its agonising struggles quite unnerved me ; it was one of the most distressing and painful sights I ever witnessed.I could render no aid, and knew if I had rescued the poor creature, its torments would only bave been prolonged.After seeing it at the boltom of the pool, which bad thus suddenly become its grave, I retraced my steps.| afterwards leasned that two poor children met a similar end some fow years back in a neighboring puia ; the elder one, who was carrying un infant, went to take out a basket of potatoes which bad been cooking in it; when, standing on the verge, the infant struggled in its bearer\u2019s arms, and it is sup.rescue it.T'he place has ever since bean * tabu,\u201d or sacred.4miration, cannot be looked upon without awe : it ie here we see a portion of the grand laboratory of nature, where the here we see how easily soft and impalpable powder can be cemented into solid stone, and the spparently indestructible Rev.Richard Taylor, M.4.obliged to drop his prey.of the perpendicular bank, snd, to secure his line, a strong, email rope, he tied it round hie wrist, and, it is supposed, fell asleep, A large fish came and took his beat, snd by some accident pulled him in.At the end of two days mar and fish were found, both stripped, tarred and festhored.A rope was tied ssnad bis woiet, baths, some ot cold water, others of warm, and some of both a nearer sight of tbe abyss ; to facilitate wbieb, « row of posed, fell in ; the other, without hesitation, jumped after 10 These wonderful works of the Creator, while they sxcite our process of resolving and renewing is constantly going on; rocks be eitber softened and reduced to mud, or sublimed so as to fly off in gas.\u2014New Zealand and its Inhabitants.By the Tue CrocopiLæ.\u2014If the crocodile sees across the river a noli- tary person standing in shallow water, he will dart across like en arrow, 90 rapid in his passage through water, strike unseen the legs of the person, who falls, when the moneter will seize him with his paws, put his victim\u2019s body under bis arm, end go off home to sume deep place, where he will remain under water for many hours, that his prey may be quite dead.It is said that very lew of those will eat animals, the young ones living on fish and on pigeons\u2014the small wild pigeon, which drops on the water and stays there\u2014ss we saw numbers of them do continually in front of the villsges,\u2014but principally on fish, ss do the old ones ; and that only one here and one there, at, perhaps, miles apart in the river, will attack any animal\u2014whether man, or sheep; or goat, or colt.According to the natives, too, he is nice about hin food, and will not eat anything not killed by himself, In some cases it has happened thet a crocodile, carrying off à human being, has been attacked by another.They fight, and the one in The Gght over, neither will touch thé body, which then is carried by the stream on lo some sandbank or island, and recovered by the natives, and besring on it the marks of the crocodile\u2019s claws, but not otherwise mangled.Some of the Nile fish run Lo a great size, to forty pounds in weight, and more.One day a villager was fishing lor large fish from a ledge gotber by the line.The crocodiles, of whish there were plenty dead, but untouched, on a sandbank near the place, and held to- la [Marcn, 1856 pp a in the neighbouwrhood, had touched asither, (he fish and the Gsher.man having been none of their killing.These animals are kept down in numbers by the tortuises.\u2018l\u2019hese cresivres find the eggs in the wand, break them, and destroy the incipient monsters hy sucking thei, Often the parents catch them at it, when they pommel the torlowe soundly ; but the letter gets under hiv shell, and taken the besting patiently, Were it not for this.check on population, and the general fear thar crocodies have of attacking mon, a» well as the disinclisetion which the greater part of them have for any food dut fish, it would be impossible, no say the natives, for human beings to live on the banks of the Nile, in Upper Egypt, so numerous are they, The harmless ones will come out on mud-banks near the shore; but (he mau-eaiers are more wild and shy, and are found nover, or rarely, except on sandbsnks near uninhatiied islands.\u2014 The Wanderer in Arabia, OUKS FUR MINISTERS\u2019 LIBRARIES.\u2014The following List will be found serviceable to Ministers.Some of the works are for sale ut the Witacss Office.Any work can bo procured to order.A discount on the greater part of these books allowed to Ministers : TuwoLoGIvAL.\u2014 Augustine\u2014de civitate Dei, 1 vol, 118 3d ; Augustin- ism and l\u2019elagianism, 1 vol., 5s; Calvin's Institutes, 2 vols, 154 ; 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