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The Messrs. Harpers deserve the special thanks of all the little folk for these beautifully and profusely illustrated volumes. Sold, in New Haven, by Peck, White & Peck.

AMERICAN HISTORY. BY JACOB ABBOTT. Illustrated with numerous Maps and Engravings. Vol. III. The Southern Colonies. New York: Sheldon & Co. 1861. 12mo., pp. 286.

We are glad to see an effort to popularize the early history of the Southern portion of our country, and by so successful a writer as Jacob Abbott. The disastrous attempts at Colonization during nearly all the sixteenth century, and the causes of their failure; the unfortunate Colonies at Roanoke; the early settlement of Virginia; and the spread of emigration thence into the interior of the country-all this Mr. Abbott describes in his pleasant way, but, unwittingly, following the beaten track of Puritan writers, who still keep alive the old prejudice of the Round-heads against the Cavaliers, Mr. Abbott has done great injustice to the Christian element in those Southern Colonies, and to the devoted Churchmen, who there suffered every thing for Christ's sake. Not an allusion to these noble men escapes Mr. Abbott's pen. It is too late in the day for such unfaithfulness. THE CHURCH MONTHLY. Boston, Mass.

We heartily welcome this new Magazine to our list of Church Periodicals. There is throughout New England, and especially in and about Boston, an earnest spirit of religious enquiry which must be met, as it never yet has been met. It will have an answer of some sort or another. It has led multitudes into rank Infidelity; multitudes of others into open Deism; many into Romanism; some it has led back into the old paths of "orthodox” Puritanism, so called; and a few, who ought to have been and might have been thousands, it has brought into what we hold to be, the true Fold of Christ. No man has felt the beatings of the public heart, of which we speak, more keenly and appreciatingly than Dr. Huntington, and with the aid of the frank and fearless, yet moderate pen of Dr. Randall, the "Church Monthly" can hardly fail to do a noble work. If the Church of GOD is in reality something different from the popular apprehension of it in Massachusetts, THE CHURCH MONTHLY has now its opportunity to state frankly what that something is. The one great idea, so often ignored even by nominal Churchmen, of corporate being and unity, corporate life, corporate duty, corporate responsibility, in other Words, the Church Idea, in distinction from mere Individualism and Sectism, that great idea the Editors of the Church Monthly clearly apprehend. It is a root principle, and never more important in its practical bearings than now. The Editors say; "That among the articles of this doctrine, besides many commonly known and received as orthodox, are these: 1. The corporate nature of a baptized Christian community; 2. The training of the children of such a community into personal faith and righteousness, as the children of ancient covenants and the heirs of God's promises in the redemption; and 3. The sacred character thus given to social phi lanthropy, to civil institutions and to the family." There is nothing of "High" Church, or "Low" Church about this. Thus far every man must go who makes any sort of pretensions to being a Churchman at all, or who regards the Protestant Episcopal Church in this country as anything more or better than a mere sect among sects. In this connection we cannot withhold the expression of our surprise at the simultaneous and severe attacks upon the "Church Monthly," by a certain VOL. XIV.-NO. I.

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class of Church papers among us. We can see but one explanation of such a
greeting, and that explanation our readers can divine as well as ourselves.

LILIAS AND HER COUSINS: Or a Tale of Planter Life in the Old Dominion. New
York: Church Book Society. 1860. 12mo. pp. 367.

They who are not familiar with the domestic institutions of the South, will learn in this well-written story, something of the relations existing between master and servant, and the peculiar Christian duties and virtues growing out of those relations. BLIND LILIAS; Or Fellowship with God. A Tale for the Young. By a Lady. New York: Church Book Society. 1861. 12mo. pp. 408.

A life-like portraiture of a young girl, impetuous, affectionate, and impulsive, trained by the severe discipline of life and the Grace of God into a humble, noble, happy child of God. It is an English Story.

Besides the above volumes lately issued by the Church Book Society, the following new Books have been added to its list.

THE OLD CABINET: or Leigh Thornton's Choice. By HELEN WALL PRESTON. 1861. 12mo. pp. 371.

CHRISTMAS-TIDE and its Customs.

CHRISTMAS-DAY. 1861. 12mo.

By Rev. T. B. MURRAY. 1860. 12mo. pp. 66.
pp. 35.

PEGGY WARD'S CANARIES; or Be Cheerful. 1860. 12mo. pp. 88.

THE HOLY DAYS OF THE CHURCH. By Mrs. MARY E. BRADLEY. 1861. 12mo., pp. 124.
BASIL: The Faithful Boy. 1861. 18mo. pp. 63.

1861. 18mo. pp. 63.

THE FAITHFUL FRIENDS. 1861. 18mo. pp. 61.
DORA AND CHARLIE. 1861. 18mo. pp. 61.
THE ROSE BUDS. By Mrs. D. P. SANFORD.
THE CHURCH PRIMER. 1861. 12mo. pp. 72.
MORAVIAN LIFE; Or an English
Black Forest. Edited by the
Book Society, 762 Broadway.
A special excellence of this book is, that while it throws a charm over the inner
life of a Moravian Settlement, it sets forth one peculiarity in their system of Fe-
male Education, which to us American Churchmen is worthy of attention. And
this is, the blending of innocent and wholesome diversions in their Schools with
the cherishing of the most fervent and devout Christian emotion.
Our own
Church Boarding Schools, so called, with their fashionable frivolities and French
governesses, are nurseries of the most intense worldliness, and only unfit their pu-
pils for the realities and duties of life.

Girl's Account of a Moravian Settlement in the
Author of "Mary Powell." New York: Church
1861. 12mo. pp. 331.

THOUGHTS ON THE SERVICES; Designed as an Introduction to the Liturgy, and an
Aid to its devout Use. By A. CLEVELAND COXE, Rector of Grace Church, Balti-
New York: F. D. Harriman. 1861. 12mo. pp. 370.

more.

Like Keble in his "Christian Year," Dr. Coxe sees and feels the exquisite beauty of our System of Worship: and he has done good service to the Church in aiding those who worship at her altars to engage with the understanding and the heart in the varied Services of the Calendar. The little volume is full of valuable historic information and critical but not captious comment, and the warmth of Christian feeling which pervades it is one of its most capital features. It is already passing through its third edition.

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PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWENTY-SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BISHOP WHITE PRAYER BOOK SOCIETY, with the Annual Report of the Board of Managers, and the Sermon preached before the Society, by the Rt. Rev. GEORGE BURGESS, D. D., Bishop of Maine, in St. Luke's Church, Philadelphia, Oct. 14th, 1860. BISHOP BURGESS, in his Sermon at the Anniversary of this, one of the most useful of all our Church Charities, pursues a train of thought, quite out of the beaten track. He notices the "indirect uses of the Book of Common Prayer." Important as these are in themselves, they strengthen greatly, by necessary consequence, the general argument for Liturgical Worship. The Bishop's noble Sermon will deepen in the hearts of Churchmen an attachment to a Book whose whole tendency is to cherish an intelligent, fervent, chastened piety. The considerations, which he so ably urges, are, withal, timely. For, while the denominations about us are becoming heartily sick of extemporaneous prayers in Public Worship, as ministering either to sensuous emotionalism, or censorious Pharisaism, or a dry and barren formalism, or to shocking irreverence, yet there seems to be a disposition on the part of a few among ourselves to make opportunities to get rid of a Liturgy, as if it were a clog to their exalted spirituality; and then most of all, they are very care. ful to tell of it, as if a great point had been gained. Undoubtedly the Church needs to make use of the social element more than she does, and she will never gain the masses without it; it is one great secret of the strength of both Methodism and Romanism, though in each in a different way; but there is a much greater need to imbue the popular mind and heart with a truer conception of what Religion really is. THE REV. G. H. CLARK'S Sermon on "the Liturgy of the Episcopal Church," in St. John's Church, Savannah, Ga., Nov. 18, 1860.

THE REV. E. H. TRUE's Lecture, on "The Scriptural Authority for a Liturgy," in St. Stephen's Church, Lynn, Mass., on Advent Sunday Evening, 1860.

Mr. True presents forcibly the Scriptural authority for a Liturgy, and Mr. Clark some of the more marked excellences of our own.

AN OFFICE OF DEVOTION for Candidates for Confirmation: Intended for the use of both Individuals and Classes. Prepared by the Rev. J. F. YOUNG, of Trinity Parish, New York. New York: F. D. Harriman. 1861. 18mo. pp. 79. Mr. Young, in the preparation of this little Manual, regards Baptism into Christ. not as an outward ceremony, but as a great reality, in which GOD on His part is altogether in earnest; and he aims to cultivate in the Candidate for Confirmation those spiritual affections and holy purposes requisite to the voluntary assumption of the Baptismal vow. The Devotional Offices are selected from the richest ancient sources, and the portions of Scripture are well chosen. The multiplication of such works by the Clergy is a cheering sign, for it shows that Christian Nurture, on which the hope of the Church so largely rests, is placed on the only true basis. THE REV. Dr. LEONARD BACON's Sketch of the Life and Public Services of JAMES HILLHOUSE, of New Haven, Conn.

It is not too much to say, that our country has raised up few greater, and no nobler men, than JAMES HILLHOUSE. As Representative and Senator in the United States Congress, as Commissioner of the School Fund of Connecticut, and as a public spirited citizen of New Haven, his labors will never be forgotten. Dr. Bacon's Sketch is particularly well done.

THE REV. DR. R. D. HITCHCOCK's Address on "The Laws of Civilization," delivered on several occasions.

As a historical sketch, and as a philosophical statement of the conditions of Civilization, ancient and modern, we have rarely seen so much matter in so brief space.

THE RIGHT REV. BISHOP COBB'S Farewell Message. Bishop Elliott's Address at his Funeral, Obituary Notices, &c. Montgomery, Ala. 1861.

THE REV. W. H. HILL'S Sermon on "the Death of little Children," in Grace Church, Sacramento, Cal., Nov. 4, 1860.

THE REV. S. R. SLACK'S Sermon, from 1. Cor. xv, 10. Published by request. Baltimore. 1860.

THE REV. DR. N. HOPPIN'S Anniversary Sermon in Christ Church, Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 25, 1860.

THE REV. DR. WM. RUDDER'S Address on "The Complete Physician," before the Albany Medical College, Dec. 24, 1860.

We have received the following Sermons, &c., on our present National troubles. THE RT. REV. BISHOP CHASE's Discourse, on "The Present Crisis," in Trinity Church, Claremont, N. H., Jan. 4, 1861.

THE RT. REV. BISHOP ATKINSON'S Sermon, on "The causes of our National Troubles," in St. James' Church, Wilmington, N. C., Jan. 4, 1861.

THE RT. REV. BISHOP CLARK'S Sermon, on "The State of the Country," in Grace Church, Providence, R. I., Nov. 25, 1860.

THE RT. REV. BISHOP MCCOSKRY'S Sermon, on "Trust in God the Strength of a Nation," in St. Paul's Church, Detroit, Mich., Jan. 4, 1861.

THE REV. J. H. ELLIOTT'S Sermon, on "Are these His doings?" in St. Michael's Church, Charleston, S. C., Nov. 21, 1860.

THE REV. L. T. BENNETT'S Sermon on "Our present duties and responsibilities as Christian patriots," in Christ Church, Guilford, Conn., Jan. 4, 1861.

THE REV. A. D. BENEDICT'S Discourse, on "Our Republic, a Brotherhood," in St. John's Church, Delhi, N. Y., Jan. 4, 1861.

THE REV. T. T. GUION's Sermon, on the "Causes of our Troubles," in St. John's Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., Jan. 4, 1861.

THE REV. G. H. CLARK'S Sermon, on "The Union," in St. John's Church, Savannah, Ga., Nov. 28, 1860.

THE REV. J. F. MINES' Sermon, on "Duty our Highest Right," in Grace Church, Bath, Me., Jan. 4, 1861.

THE REV. J. M. MITCHELL'S Sermon, on "The Gospel Remedy," in St. John's Church, Montgomery, Ala., Nov. 18, 1860.

THE REV. DR. RUDDER'S Sermon, on "The Educational powers of our present National Troubles," in St. Paul's Church, Albany, N. Y., Jan. 13, 1861.

THE REV. T. H. STOCKTON'S Address, in the House of Representatives, Jan, 4, 1861 THE REV. H. J. VANDYKE's Sermon, on "The Character and Influences of Abolitionism," in the first Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., Dec. 9, 1860. WILLIAM C. SMEDES' Speech in Apollo Hall, Vicksburg, Miss., on the "Right of a State to secede from the Union." Oct. 27, 1860.

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ECCLESIASTICAL REGISTER.

SUMMARY OF HOME INTELLIGENCE.

Name.

Brown, F. H.

Cannon, J. P.

Clinton, Chas. Wilmot,

Dorsett, C. Palmer,

Douglass, C.

D'Wolf, Erastus,

Eagan, F. Dillon,
Faust, Ambrose I.

Gray, John B.

ORDINATIONS.

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Otey,

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Dec. 30, 1860, Christ, Red Wing, Min.
Odenheimer, Mar. 10, 1861, St. Mary's, Burlington, N J.
Whitehouse, Jan, 20, 1861, Chapel, Robin's Nest, Ill.
Potter, A. Dec. 23, 1860, Atonement, Philadelphia, P.
Whittingham, Dec. 23, Chapel, St. James' Col., Md.
Elliott, Jan. 15, 1861, St. John's, Montgomery, Ala.
Hopkins,
Jan. 10, St. Paul's, Burlington, Vt.

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