Short Notices [pp. 554-564]

Short Notices.
ments of doctrinal truth and practical remarks being given,
simply to help the unlearned reader as to meditation and prayer
after the meaning has been carefully drawn out." This design
the writer has carried out with a good degree of success. His
work exhibits the results of diligent study, and is pervaded by
an evangelical spirit.
Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man. By Thomas Reid, D.D.,
F. R. S.E. Abridged, with notes and illustrations from Sir William
Hamilton and others. Edited by James Walker, D.D., Professor of
Intellectual and Moral Philosophy in Harvard College. Cambridge:
John Bartlett, Bookseller to the University. 1850,'pp. 462.
This is a companion volume to the work by the same editor
noticed. above. This is a very convenient edition of a very
valuable work.
The Principles of Chemistry Illustrated by simple Experiments. By Dr.
Julius Adolph Stockhardt, Professor of the Royal Academy of Agricul ture at Tharand, and Inspector of Medicine in Saxony. Translated by
C. H. Peirce, M. D. Fourth American, from the fifth German edition.
Cambridge: John Bartlett. Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Co. Phila delphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co. 1851, pp. 679.
This work is designed to teach chemistry by experiments
within the means of elementary schools and even private families. No expensive apparatus is required. Professor Horsford
of Harvard, says of this work, that its qualifications as a textbook for schools, leave little, if any thing, to be desired. The
number of editions which it has passed through, both in Germany
and in this country, is a sufficient evidence of the estimation in
which it is held.
Popery fufilling Prophecy. A Sermon preached before the Synod of
Virginia, October 18th, 1850. By B. M. Smith, Pastor of the Stanton
Presbyterian Church. Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication,
265 Chestnut street.
This discourse is founded on 2 Thess. ii. 3-9, and is a very
able and instructive exposition of that important passage.
Have the Churches the Presence of Christ? A Sermon addressed to the
Presbytery of Londonderryat their semi-annual meeting, April 30, 1851.
By Daniel Dana, D.D. Published by the Request of the Presbytery.
Newburyport: Moses H. Sargent, 1851.
The venerable author of this sermon lays down the principle
"that the presence of Christ with his churches will ordinarily
manifest itself in frequent and powerful revivals of religion." It
is from the decrease of these merciful visitations he infers that
there is great reason to lament that Christ is, in so great a degree,
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