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their character and modes of living, their civil 

 institutions, their resources and prospects. 

 But while the author makes an agreeable im- 

 pression of himself, he cannot be said to take 

 a rose-colored view of the Sandwich Islands. 

 Mention should be made of " The Egyptian 

 Sketch -Book," from the practised pen of 

 Charles Godfrey Leland ; and of " Under the 

 Mizzen-mast," an enlarged edition of his very 

 readable " Voyage round the World, by Dr. 

 Nehemiah Adams " and these following : 



New Life in New Lands. Notes of Travel. By 

 Grace Greenwood. 



Lite in San Domingo. By an Actual Settler. With 

 an Introduction, bv K. B. Kimball. 



Benedict's Wanderings in Ireland, Scotland, Italy, 

 and Sicily. By Edward W. Daweon. 



Siam. Bv Rev. George B. Bacon. With Map and 

 numerous Illustrations. 



Florida and South Carolina as Health Besorts. By 

 W. W. Morland, M. D. 



Coal Regions of North America. By James Mac- 

 farlane. 



Appletons' European Guide-Book. Illustrated. 



All over Oregon and Washington. By Mrs. 

 Frances Fuller Victor. 



Zell's Descriptive Hand-Atlas of the World. By 

 Bartholomew and Von Steinvehr. 



Catgkill Mountains. By Charles Rockwell. 



American Sea-side Resorts. By C. L. Morton. 



New England : a Hand-book for Travellers, with 

 the Western and Northern Borders, from New York 

 to Quebec. 



The Arctic Regions, by Sea and Land. By Epcs 

 Sargent. 



Lake George. A Book of To-Day. By S. K. Stod- 

 dard. Ticoiideroga, Past and Present. "Mixed." 

 By the same. 



The undeveloped West: or, Five Years in the 

 Territories. By J. H. Beadle. 



Antiquities of the Orient unveiled; containing 

 Concise Description of the Ruins of King Solomon's 

 Cities, together with those of Forty of the most 

 Ancient and Renowned Cities of the East, including 

 Babylon, Nineveh, Damascus, and Shushan. Illus- 

 trated. By M. Wolcott Redding. 



The Alhambra and the Kremlin. The North and 

 the South of Europe. By Samuel Irenasus Prime, 

 D. D. 60 Illustrations. 



Pen Pictures of Europe. Where and how we 

 went, and what we saw during a Seventeen 

 Months' Tour. By Elizabeth Peake. 



Europe, viewed through American Spectacles. By 

 C. C. Fulton, Editor of the Baltimort American. 



THEOLOGY AND RELIGION. The aggregate 

 number of works in this department of writing 

 was not proportionally less than in preceding 

 years. It exceeds any other, partly because 

 more persons suppose themselves able to treat 

 religions topics and questions successfully than 

 venture on any other, and partly because there 

 are more persons set apart, and to some extent 

 trained, to be teachers of religion, than there 

 are of any other professional calling ; and from 

 teaching in the pulpit to teaching through the 

 press, the transition, in this land and age, is 

 natural and easy. But the past year saw fewer 

 works of marked value than usual come from 

 the press, in the department of theological 

 science or of practical religion. Some works, 

 heretofore noted as in progress, have been con- 

 tinued. The fifth volume of McClintock & 

 Strong's " Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiasti- 



cal Cyclopaedia " has appeared. Lange's "Bibli- 

 cal Commentary," translated and annotated un- 

 der the editorial supervision of Dr. Schaff, is ap- 

 proaching completion, and when completed will 

 be evidence of the success with which biblical 

 scholarship is cultivated in the United States. 

 A second series of Mr. Beecher's " Lectures 

 on Preaching " met with more general favor 

 than the first. It is not likely that he will be 

 able to communicate the secret of his power, 

 but what he does express is very stimulating 

 and suggestive. The commentaries of Dr. 

 Henry Cowles on several books of the Old 

 Testament have met with very general appro- 

 bation, for giving the solid results without the 

 parade of learning, and for the modesty, good 

 sense, and candor, shown in his treatment of 

 controverted points. He has now published a 

 work on the Pentateuch, not in the form of 

 a detailed exposition, but of a series of essays 

 on the most important topics suggested by 

 the books under consideration. "Absolute 

 Religion," by the late Rev. Thomas C. Upham, 

 D. D., LL. D., appeared under the disadvan- 

 tages of posthumous publication. It is an 

 attempt to show that Christianity is the abso- 

 lute religion that its most important truths 

 coincide with the necessary truths testified to 

 by onr religious nature. " Thoughts on the 

 Decalogue," by Dr. Howard Crosby, Chancel- 

 lor of the University of New York, is a small 

 book packed with thought. " The Argument 

 of the Bpok of Job unfolded," by the Rev. 

 William Henry Green, D. D., professor in the 

 Princeton Theological Seminary, gives in mod- 

 erate compass the results of much fruitful study. 

 " The Women of the Arabs," by H. H. Jessup, 

 seventeen years' a missionary in Syria, is an 

 effective account of the degradation of women 

 in the East, and of the means successfully em- 

 ployed for their elevation. It is a singularly 

 interesting book. " The Way, the Truth, and 

 the Life : Lectures to Educated Hindoos, de- 

 livered on his Late Visit to India," by the Rev. 

 Julius H. Seelye, Professor in Amherst Col- 

 lege, is a remarkable production of a remark- 

 able occasion. The following is a pretty full, 

 lint not an exhaustive statement of the religious 

 publications of the year : 



Sisterhoods and Deaconesses at Home and Abroad. 

 By the Rev. H. C. Potter. 



Alone with Jesus. By J. C. Lanphier. 



A Complete Harmony of Daniel and the Apoca- 

 lypse. By Rev. J. Litch. 



Things to Think of. By Rev. H. A. Snwtelle. 



The Land of Shadowing Wings ; or, Tlie Empire 

 of the Sea. 



The New Life Dawning, and Other Discourses. 

 By Bernard H. Nadal, D. D. Edited by Rev. H. A. 

 Bully, M. A. 



Steps to a Living Faith. Being Letters to an In- 

 different Believer. A Tract for Parish Use. By the 

 Rt. Rev. F. D. Huntingdon, D. D. 



Lectures on Theological Encyclopedia and Meth- 

 odology. By John McClintock, D. D.,LL. D. Ed- 

 ited by John T. Short, B. D. 



The Parting Words of Adolphe Monod to his 

 Friends and the Church. Translated from the fifth 

 Paris edition. 



