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nursing his indolence and destroying his selfdependence with too much help. This should be, but is not always, the golden mean with classical commentators.

Voices of the Heart, by Fanny Fales. Boston: B. B. Mussey & Co., 1853. A small volume of short poems, on a variety of well-chosen themes. Most of those we have read are pervaded by the spirit of genuine poesy. The book has a very neat exterior, and is creditable both to author and publisher. We hope the fair author may find many readers.

The Methodist Quarterly Review.—The October number of this sterling Quarterly has been laid upon our table, but at too late a moment for a full notice. The following are its contents:—

I. The Bacon of the Nineteenth Century. (Second paper.)

II. The Ground of Moral Obligation, by Rev. Israel Chamberlayne.

III. On the Second Epistle of St. Paul to Timothy, by Rev. Dr. Bangs.

IV. Davidson's Biblical Criticism, by James Strong, Esq.

V. The Origin of Evil and the Fall, by Rev. B. H. Nadal.

VI. Anselm of Canterbury.

VII. Miscellanies.

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A most timely and valuable book is before us, entitled China, Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical; to which is appended some account of Ava and the Burmese, Siam, and Anam. It contains a map, and nearly one hundred illustrations. It will be recommendation enough to say, that it is one of the volumes of Bohn's London Illustrated Library. Bangs, Brother, & Co., New-York.

We have experienced a mournful pleasure in examining Tribulation exchanged for Glory, a funeral discourse on the death of the wife of Rev. James M. Freeman, of New-Jersey ConThe ference, preached by Rev. N. Vansant. sermon will long be treasured by her many friends.

We have now received parts eleven and twelve of the fine reprint of Shakspeare, with the manuscript corrections, by Redfield, New-York. Also, the American Journal of Dental Science, edited by Drs. Harris and Blandy, and published by Lindsay & Blakiston, Philadelphia, and Armstrong & Berry, Baltimore; a valuable work we should judge. Also, the District School Journal of Education, of the State of Iowa, edited by R. R. Gilbert, and published by R. Spalding. Also, The Foreign Missionary, published by the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church. An American edition of Household Words is on our table, published by M'Elrath & Barker, 15 Spruce-street, New-York; a good idea. Also, The Annual Reports of the Board of Inspectors and Officers of the Massachusetts State-Prison. Also, The Catalogue of the Wesleyan Female Institute, Staunton, Va., Rev. John Wilson, A. M., Principal; sixty-nine students.

Literary Record.

DURING a late debate in the House of Commons, it was stated that the Catalogue of the Library of the British Museum, now in process of compilation, has already cost a hundred thousand pounds, and is so far from being complete that it cannot be finished in less than forty years. This catalogue already fills twelve thousand folio volumes. When completed it will form "a neat and portable work of thirteen thousand volumes."

Mr. Lockhart, the son-in-law and biographer of Sir Walter Scott, and the editor of the London Quarterly Review, has been compelled by indisposition to cease, for a season, from all literary labor. He is about to seek the benefit of an Italian sky.

The Czar has ordered that in the higher educational establishments, for civilians in Russia, the Greek language shall be taught, with the modern Greek pronunciation.

The endowed schools and colleges of Great Britain possess property to the amount of three hundred and seventy-five millions of dollars. A society has been formed recently for the single purpose of investigating and exposing the abuses in the administration of this vast property.

Miss Mary Legare has made a donation of three thousand dollars to found a Female College at West Point, Iowa, to be under the auspices of the Presbytery of Iowa, and Rev. Salmon Cowles has been appointed its Principal. She makes prospective offers of a liberal character as to future endowments.

Mr. Halliwell, the Shakspearian editor, has published a new tract entitled "Curiosities of Modern Shakspearian Criticism." It is a justification of his manner of editing Shakspeare.

The State of New-York has placed eight thousand five hundred copies of Noah Webster's Quarto American Dictionary in her district

schools.

The Rev. E. E. E. Bragdon, A. M., has accepted a call to a professorship in the Ohio State University, and removed from the city. The The Great Seal of England.-The Great Seal Rev. E. R. Keyes, A. M., succeeds him as pas- wherewith Queen Victoria signifies to her subtor of the Vestry-street (M. E.) Church, New-jects her royal will and pleasure is no wafer York. and sealing-wax affair, such as suffices in this

Republican country, but a solid cake of wax some six inches in diameter by two inches in thickness, and weighing at least three pounds. It is tied to the document of which it forms a part, by two or three yards of ribin. On the seal are various inscriptions and devices, among which is a figure of the queen on horseback.

A National Convention of Librarians was held in New-York in September, for the purpose of devising measures for the management of libraries, and to increase their prosperity and usefulness.

In the Roman Catholic Schedule of Female Education, great stress is laid upon music, dancing, and French. Among the boys at their colleges, the effort is to familiarize the mind with the classics-and that by the oldest and now exploded methods. The mathematics, natural, mental, and moral science play a subordinate part, while our own language and literature, the noblest in the world, are overlooked.

Dr. Wayland has generously presented the copy-right of his new work to the widow of Dr. Judson, and she has already been offered twenty thousand dollars for it, but has been advised by her friends not to sell it.

The remark was once made to Moore, the poet, that it was supposed his verses slipped off his tongue as if by magic, and a passage of great

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was quoted: "Why, sir," Moore replied, "that line cost me hours, days, and weeks of attrition before it would come.'

materials, &c., are estimated at $60,853. Its cash and stock amount to $22,044 15. Its notes and accounts amount to $111,417 26. The liabilities are $16,530 91, leaving as the net capital of the concern, $226,271 78. The profits for the year ending March 31st, 1853, were $10,068 25.

In addition to these two immense establishments, the General Conference has published, much under its immediate supervision, a paper at Pittsburgh, at Buffalo, at Chicago; a Sabbath-school Journal, with an immense circulation, a Quarterly Review, and two Monthlies.

For the various papers thus issued, as well as for all the books published, each traveling and local preacher of the denomination is an author. ized agent.

At the last session of the General Conference, that body determined to make Chicago a base for newspaper and book operations. Accordingly, a branch of the Cincinnati Book Concern was opened some ten months since. On the first of January the Northwestern Christian Advocate was also established. By reports made to the Rock River Conference, we learn that the sales of the first have already amounted to $19,000, and the circulation of the latter has reached four thousand two hundred.

There are in Greece three hundred and thirty

eight primary schools for boys, and forty-nine for girls, attended, the former by thirty-three thousand eight hundred and sixty-four boys, and the latter by six thousand three hundred and twenty-three girls. There are eighty-six secondary ancient Greek schools, with one hundred and fifty-eight teachers, and four thousand three hundred and eighty-three pupils; seven gymnasiums, or superior schools, with forty

The New-York Mercantile Library Association was founded in 1820. Its library of seven hundred volumes was opened in 1821. Since then it has steadily increased, until it now numbers forty thousand volumes. The Astor-professors, and one thousand and seventy-seven place Opera-House has been purchased by the Association, and is to be disemboweled and fitted up for the reception of its handsome library. On the first floor will be the reading-room, sixty-two feet by eighty-five, with all the accommodations of tables and desks, where from three hundred to four hundred persons may read without inconvenience.

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The total assets of the New-York establishment amount to the very large sum of $706,733 05. Its real estate in New-York, buildings, and the requisite materials for printing, binding, &c., amount to $243,947 83. It has invested in public stocks some $49,500. Its present cash assets are given at $16,947.

Its books and sheet-stock on hand is worth $176,130 35. There are due in notes and accounts $210,207 10. The liabilities are only $29,858 56, which, deducted from total assets, leaves the actual capital of the concern $676,874 49. The sales during the past year amounted to $182,757 80. The sum received for periodicals for the same time was $69,890 77, making a total of $252,648 57.

The Cincinnati establishment has a capital of $242,802 69. The value of its real estate is put down at $65,000. Its stock on hand,

pupils; and a university, with thirty-nine professors, and five hundred and ninety students. Besides these, there is a Normal school for the formation of schoolmasters, an ecclesiastical seminary, besides the faculty of theolgy, a poly technic school, a school of agriculture, and other establishments necessary for instruction, such as the National Library, the Botanic Garden, the Astronomical Observatory, and the instruction, $701,573. The state expends, yearly, for public

museums.

Dr. J. Newell, of Harvard, Worcester County, Mass., a descendant of the old English martyr, John Rogers, has in his possession one of the oldest Bibles in this country. It is printed in the Latin tongue, at Geneva, by Petrum Santandreanum, A. D. MDLXXXIII-1583-two hundred and seventy years ago.

caulay's History of England will not be published It is reported that the third volume of Mauntil the latter part of 1854. The story that he is a confirmed opium-eater, is asserted to be a fabrication.

Madame de Staël, one night expatiating on the merits of the French language, and illus trating her meaning by the word "sentiment," which has no exact equivalent in English, Lord Palmerston answered her that we had a phrase which to a nicety expressed the "sentiment of the French-namely, ""Tis all my eye and Betty Martin."

Religious Summary.

THE Marquesas Islands have recently sent one of their chiefs, a man of great energy and strength of character, to the Sandwich Islands, to solicit a visit from some of the missionaries. The people had heard of the mission recently sent to the Micronesian Islands, and determined to throw open their islands to the gospel.

The friends of the Madiai, in England, are busily engaged in raising a thousand pounds, by penny subscriptions; the sum to be applied to the purchase of an annuity for those unfortunate people. Copies of the subscription paper have been sent to this country. The Madiai are still at Geneva, and are gradually recovering their health. The success with which the good providence of God has crowned the efforts made in their favor has encouraged some of the most eminent Christians in Europe to set about establishing a society which shall especially take in hand the cause everywhere of Christians suffering for their faith.

The King of Bavaria, during his recent visit to Rome, received from the Pope a rare relic, declared to be a small piece of the robe of the Virgin Mary, set in a valuable gold frame.

Romanism in Baltimore.-Baltimore is one of the strongholds of the Roman Catholic Church in this country. Yet even there, it has church accommodations for only eleven thousand six hundred persons. Other sects accommodate

over seven times that number.

The total membership of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, consists in round numbers, of whites, 400,000; of colored, 150,000: total, 550,000.

Protestant Christianity is said to be making great progress in Syria, in consequence of the labors of the American Protestant missionaries, and the influence of their schools, publications, and religious services. Copies of the Bible in Arabic have been widely distributed, and may now be seen in most of the villages in the Durse Mountains, where controversial discussions on

religious subjects are very common, particularly among the lower orders of the people. As yet, however, the only Protestant congregation distinctly recognized by the government, is in Hasbeya, at the foot of Mount Hermon, and numbers about two hundred members.

Rev. J. L. Wilson, a returned missionary of the Old School Presbyterian Church, from Africa, recently stated, as among the results of missionary labor in Africa, the gathering of more than one hundred Christian Churches, containing ten thousand hopeful converts; the establishment of a hundred and fifty Christian schools, in which from twelve to fifteen thousand youth were receiving Christian and other instruction. The Bible had been translated, and its truths brought into contact, directly or indirectly, with a million of human minds.

Mr. Seymour has stated, on the authority of an official visitor of the Roman convents, that one-half of the nuns die raving mad before they have reached the age of twenty-five. It is not

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otherwise with their unhappy sisters of Tuscany. A gentleman, whose veracity and whose means of information are unquestionable, informs me that in one of the best managed convents in Florence, three girls have died during the course of the last year, screaming, foaming, and cursing the system to which their youth had been offered up.

The Journal de Bruxelles says, that the Pope has sent the Duke of Brabant a fragment of the wood of the manger which formed the cradle of our Saviour. When this precious relic was presented to His Royal Highness, he is said to have been much affected.

Bishop Boone, of the Episcopal Church, proposes (D. V.) to sail for China toward the close of October, and hopes to carry with him a sufficient reinforcement of fellow-laborers for the mission at Shanghae.

The Dutch Reformed Churches are considering the propriety of dropping the word "Dutch" from the name of their denomination.

Α "devotion train" is organizing at Lyons and Marseilles for a pilgrimage to Jerusalem; the fare to be one thousand francs there and back.

Thomas Scott, now of Chillicothe, Ohio, and better known as Judge Scott, is the oldest living Methodist traveling preacher in the West, and probably in America, and was admitted into the Western Conference in the year 1789. Joshua Wells, now resident somewhere in the vicinity of Baltimore, entered the Western Conference at the same time-a period of some sixty-four years since.

Rev. John Hickling is the oldest of the Wesleyan Methodist preachers in Great Britain. He was ordained by Mr. Wesley over sixty-five years ago, and is now about ninety years old. He made a very feeling and sensible address before the late British Conference.

An exciting controversy is going on at Pittsburgh, with reference to the propriety of permitting omnibuses to continue their trips through the streets on Sunday the same as on other days.

In 1818, the population of England and Wales being then 11,642,683, the number of Sunday schools was 5,463; of scholars, 477,225. In 1851, with a population of 17,927,000, there were 23,984 schools, and 2,407,409 scholars.

The Episcopal Diocese of Virginia has 175 parishes, and only 107 clergymen of all orders; the number of communicants reported is 5,299. The Diocese of Rhode Island has 23 parishes and 28 clergymen, with 2,201 communicants. The Diocese of Western New-York has 125 clergymen, and a missionary fund amounting to $10,000.

The Metropolitan Methodist Church, of Washington city, it is said, will be of stone, three stories in hight, and seventy feet wide by one hundred in length. It will not cost less than fifty thousand dollars, exclusive of the lot.

Miss Martha Whiting, late the accomplished Principal of the Charlestown Female Seminary, who died at Hingham a few days since, has left between five and six thousand dollars to objects of religious benevolence, and from a moderate income gave probably even more than this during her lifetime.

There are now in Kentucky some six or seven Free Churches-having no fellowship with slavery. These have met with opposition and persecution, although this is dayly diminishing. At Favalo, in Sardinia, near the Gulf of Genoa, a very interesting movement is in progress, the result of a single Bible sent there; forty persons, belonging to seven branches of one peasant family, have given themselves to Christ, and are diffusing light amid the surrounding darkness. It is wholly a native work, foreigners having had nothing to do with it.

The danger of touching and tasting has received a melancholy illustration in the case of Rev. Mr. Alder, a prominent Wesleyan minister in England, who has forfeited his membership in the Conference by becoming a drunkard. Three clergymen, of the Established Church of Scotland, have recently been expelled for the

same reason.

The Pope has recently appointed eleven new bishops for the United States.

The subject of Ministerial Education in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, is eliciting much discussion, calling out the ablest minds of that denomination.

Rev. Mr. Van Maasdyk, a Fleming, who labors in Brussels, states that his Church, which eleven years ago had not twenty members, has now one thousand, mostly rescued from the Church of Rome; and members of this Church, in the outskirts of the city, are formed into little groups, for maintaining worship among themselves, and bringing others to the knowledge

of the truth.

At a late monthly meeting of the Board of Managers of the American Bible Society, a grant of $100 was made to the Reformed Church to purchase Arabic Scriptures for their mission in Syria; and an appropriation of $3,000 was made for a new edition of the Armeno-Turkish Scriptures.

The Congregationalist states that a large Protestant bookstore has been opened in Constantinople, in the very heart of the city. On its shelves are found copies of the Scriptures in twelve different languages, and thence have gone forth, during the past year, more than ten thousand copies of the word of God, besides other religious books and tracts in the various languages of that part of the world. worth of the Scriptures in the Ararat dialect have been sent into Russia during the same period.

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Some one thousand six hundred acres of land have recently been purchased in Iowa, on which a colony of monks have settled. Among their peculiar habits may be mentioned that they never mingle with the world, and when they put on a new suit of clothes, that suit is kept on, waking or sleeping, till it falls off, or becomes unfit for wear.

At a meeting of the San Francisco Association, of the Baptist denomination, the California Baptist Education Society was formed. It is expected they will take early measures for the founding of a literary and theological institution, at some suitable place within the bounds of that State.

A German traveler has discovered a race of negroes, near the kingdom of Bambara, that are Jews in their religious rites and observances. Nearly every family have among them the law of Moses, written on parchment; and, although they speak of the prophets, they have none of their writings.

Two missionaries of the Old School Presby terian Church, viz., Rev. Edwin T. Williams, and William Clemens, with their wives, have taken passage in the bark Gem, from New-York, for the Island of Carisco, on the coast of Africa. This is intended to be a point for a new American colony, having a magnificent bay and a healthy climate, with superior advantages for

commerce.

In Northern Oregon, generally, there is a great dearth of moral, religious, and educational institutions. Rev. D. E. Blain, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was recently appointed a missionary to the northern part of the territory.

The erection of a beautiful building is progressing on Fayette-street, in the city of Baltimore, for the use of the American Bible and the Maryland Tract Society. The dimensions are to be forty-eight feet front by seventy-four feet deep, three stories high.

A society has been formed in London "for exploring the ruins of Assyria and Babylonia, with especial reference to Biblical illustration," under the patronage of Prince Albert. The plan is to raise $50,000, and commence operations at once in various parts of Mesopotamia, and to sustain necessary activity during three years; $25,000 is to be expended the first year. A committee of twenty-eight noblemen and literati has been formed to carry the design into execution; and there appears to be no doubt of its success.

A very interesting case has recently been decided in Ireland, in which it was declared by the court that a nun could succeed to an estate as the lawful heir. The case is regarded as important, making void, so far as the law can, the vow of poverty taken by professed nuns. The decision is taken to the British House of Lords on appeal.

A chronological list of the generals of the "Society of Jesus," from St. Ignatius, the founder, to Pere Roothaan, recently deceased, shows that no American, Englishman, or Frenchman, is found among the twenty-one generals who have controlled this Society. Loyola, a Spaniard, was elected 19th of April, 1541.

Only four young men graduated at the late commencement of the Unitarian Divinity School, Cambridge. A few years ago there were two or three times that number.

The Rev. Antoinette L. Brown was recently ordained pastor of the Congregational Church in South Butler, N. Y. The sermon was preached by Rev. Luther Lee, of Syracuse. Gerrit Smith was present, and addressed the congregation.

Arts and Sciences.

A MONUMENT to Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, is soon to be shipped at Leghorn, for Baltimore. It is from the studio of Bartholomew, whose beautiful works are now attracting much attention in Rome.

Mr. Robert Langton, wood engraver and draughtsman, of Cross-street, Manchester, has discovered a method of applying photography to blocks of polished boxwood, such as are ordinarily used in his own art for wood engraving, thus rendering the blocks ready for the application of the engraver's burin. The specimens are exceedingly beautiful; and the discovery will prove of great utility to the arts.

A rich proprietor, who has gained an immense fortune by gas speculation, has proposed to warm all Paris by a concentrated gas of his invention, and he urgently solicits authority to commence with one of the quartiers. No decision has yet been made upon this singular project.

One of the huge granite boulders on the summit of Mount Washington, has been selected and set aside for the apex or crowning-stone of the Washington Monument, and measures will be immediately taken to have this gigantic stone on its way to the national capital.

The effect of the means adopted for checking disease in England, France, and Germany, during the past century, are such, that while formerly one out of every thirty of the population died each year, now the average is one out of every forty-five, reducing by one-half the number of deaths in those countries. In the year 1700, one out of every twenty-five of the population died in each year, in England. In 1801 the proportion was one in thirty-five; in 1811, one in thirty-eight; and in 1848, one in forty-five; so that the chances of life have nearly doubled in England within eighty years. In the middle of the last century the rate for Paris was one in twenty-five; now it is one in thirty-two.

We have been informed that the valuable cabinet of many thousand specimens in Comparative Anatomy, Mineralogy, and other sciences, collected in the course of years by that distinguished savant, Professor Agassiz, has been purchased for the University at Cambridge, at the price, as is rumored, of twelve thousand five hundred dollars; the greater part of which, it is said, was obtained by private subscription. At the sale of the late Duchess (Dowager) of Bedford's property, "The Highland Cabin," a painting by Landseer, was sold for £770; "The Three Dogs," by Landseer, £225; "The Highland Toilet," by Wilkie, £540; A Landscape," by Nesmyth, £400; "Coast Scenery," by Bonnington, £220; "Dead Game," by Landseer, was purchased by Mr. Graves for £1,200, (said to be purchased for Her Majesty ;) The Tower of the Cathedral of St. Rombald," by Roberts, £110; "A River View in Scotland, by Landseer, £198; "The Hermit," by Landseer, £100.

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The Marquis of Tweedals has succeeded perfectly in working plows by steam-power. The distinguished English agriculturist, Mr Meche, in a late article, says, there can be no doubt but that very shortly every agriculturist must use steam-power if he is to stand his ground in the race of agricultural competition.

A singular phenomenon was witnessed during a thunder-storm some weeks since, in the neighborhood of West Fitchburgh. A gentleman, passing under a railroad bridge, was completely surrounded with electrical lights: every nailhead in the bridge being brilliantly illuminated, as well as the buckles on the harness of his horse, while the lightning played silently along the iron bolts of the bridge, contrasting most beautifully with the intense blackness succeeding each flash. He experienced several slight shocks while passing the bridge.

Electro-magnetism has been applied to locks; the principle being to attach a plate of soft iron to the door, which, when shut, is in contact with the poles of an electro-magnet, the fastening and opening of the lock being effected by the forming and breaking of the circuit. Any number of locks throughout the house may be secured or opened at the same time.

A Bostonian has invented a "chronometrical lock," which, fixed to a door, cannot be opened before the time determined on beforehand. It operates by clock-work, and the absence of a key-hole precludes all attempts to pick it.

Mr. Adams communicated to the Royal Society, at the closing meeting of their session in London, that he had discovered that the principle of Laplace's calculations of the secular motion of the moon is positively erroneous. This is a discovery which affects the whole range of lunar astronomy, seeing that all the calculations made on the assumption that the moon really was in the place assigned to her, are wrong.

Mr. J. B. Lindsay, of Dundee, who is at present in Glasgow, propounds a startling theory-that of forming an electric telegraph betwixt Great Britain and America without employing submerged wires, or wires of any kind. At a meeting in the Athenæum Mr. Lindsay illustrated his method. A large trough of saltwater was employed, across which he transmitted the electric current, without any metallic conductor, the water itself being the only medium of communication. Mr. Lindsay explained that he had obtained similar results over a breadth of sixty feet of water. Some calculations have been made in regard to the expense, and Mr. Lindsay computes, according to his present information, that the cost of the necessary battery and land wires to establish a communication between England and America would not exceed £60,000.

The Indian papers announce that the munificent Parsee, Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy, has made over $50,000 to government, for the purpose of endowing a School of Design at Bombay.

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