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SERMONS AND EPISCOPAL CHARGES. By the Right Rev. Henry U. Onderdonk, D. D. Philadelphia: Printed for the author. C. Sherman, Printer. 1851. 2 vols. 8vo. Pp. 444, 416.

The circumstances under which these volumes are

given to the public-so grateful to the true Christianhave been made known to our readers. Their perusal will show the reasonableness and propriety of the terms "valuable instruction,' and "high gratification," applied by the eminent clergymen and laymen of the Diocese of Pennsylvania who asked for the publication, as indicating the effect of the Sermons and Charges, when delivered. Their perusal by intelligent Christians cannot but produce the same effect. Few volumes, perhaps, are to be found in our language better adapted to soundly instructive private and family reading. From a thorough perusal of the greater number of the Sermons, we should say that, with a chaste and strong simplicity of style, they are characterized by peculiarly clear elucidations of Scripture; sound, judicious, and satisfactory conclusions from the passages thus explained, fortified by farther scripture tests; and cogent practical applications, adapted, with wise discrimination, and accurate knowledge of the human heart, to the varieties of individual and social condition; and all hallowed and energized by evangelical and catholic principles, and evin cing a vigorous and well stored mind, and great earnestness of purpose.

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pervades every page. The graces of a Christian cha racter, and their benign influence upon the daily life of those whose hearts have been brought into subjeetion to them, are well contrasted with the narrowminded selfishness which results from too much devoand unpretending, and occasionally lively. tion to the fashions of the world. The style is simple MOUNT HOPE; or Philid, King of the Wampanoags: an Historical Romance, by G. H. Hollister. NewYork: Harper & Brothers. 1851.

The scene of this Romance is laid during the pe. riod of King Philip's War. Among the characters introduced to the reader, are King Philip, Governor Winslow, and other functionaries. Many of the barbarities and cruelties of savage warfare are depicted in these pages.

THE BOOK OF ORATORY. A new collection of extracts in prose, poetry, and dialogue, for the use of colleges, academies, and schools. By Edward C. Marshall, M. A., late instructor in a military school at West Point, in Geneva College, and in the NewYork University. New-York: D. Appleton & Co.

1851.

The above work is composed of selections from American and English Orators, Divines, and Poets. Among them, we find many extracts from speeches and addresses of our own statesmen, upon subjects which, at the present time, command the attention and interest of the country. This is an excellent feature in the book, for while it presents to the pupils models of spi-style and eloquence, it at the same time inculcates a knowledge of historical events occurring in our own day and generation, and stimulates the student to seek for still farther information on these subjects. The extracts appear to be made with judgment, and the book will prove a valuable acquisition to schools and colleges.

It would be injustice not to express our obligations to Mr. Sherman, the printer, for the very creditable manner in which he has done his part. The volumes are truly pleasant to the sight, as well as good for ritual food; and in the nearly 500 pages which we have carefully read, we remember to have met with but one typographical blemish, and that a trifling one. Such a printer deserves patronage.

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PHILOSOPHY OF THE PLAN OF SALVATION. Book for the Times. By an American Citizen. Boston: Gould & Lincoln. 12mo. pp. 239. 1851. We have prepared a somewhat extended notice of this volume, which we find too long for the present number; and therefore postpone it until the next. ROSE DOUGLASS; or the Autobiography of a Minister's Daughter By 8. R. W. New-York: D. Appleton & Co. Philadelphia: Geo. S. Appleton.

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Some other book notices are unavoidably postponed to our next number.

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TO CORRESPONDENTS.-The following communications have been received:-" Renovation," "Christian Festivals," "Evening Hymn," "The Spirit of God," &c. The crowded state of our columns have rendered it impossible to insert the above and some others, this month. "A Trip to the West" is also unavoidably postponed; it shall appear in our next

CALENDAR FOR JUNE.

1. Sunday after Ascension Day.

8. WHITSUNDAY. [Proper Psalms instead of the Psalms for the Day.]

9. Monday in Whitsun Week.

10. Tuesday in Whitsun Week.

11. St. Barnabas the Apostle, Ember Day. 13. Ember Day.

14. Ember Day.

15. TRINITY SUNDAY.

22. First Sunday after Trinity.

24. The Nativity of St. John the Baptist.

29. Second Sunday after Trinity. St. Peter the Apostle.

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