Notice of Recent Publications [pp. 443-477]

Notices of Recent Publications.
assault is relentlessly pushed from every side. He leaves the sinner
no chance to take breath out of Christ. We believe it quite time
that the alarming side in preaching should be restored, if the soothing
messages of divine love are to do any good. The present inclination
of men is to be quite at ease in regard to their souls. But they will
never really flee to the great physician till they realize their sickness,
nor be constrained by the love of Christ, until they feel the terrors of
the Lord. We believe it will do them great service, to be plied with
such blood-earnest exhibitions of "the sin of omission," "the sin fulness of original sin," "sin as spiritual slavery," "the exercise of
mercy optional with God," and much more the like, as glow on the
pages of this volume.
Papersfor Home Reading. By John Hall, D.D., Pastor of 5th Avenue
Presbyterian Church, New York. New York: Dodd & Mead.
1871.
This is a collection of editorial contributions to a magazine which
Dr. Hall edited in Ireland, and which have never appeared in this
country. The subjects discussed are "the Means of Home-happiness,
the Perils from Intemperance, Mammon-worship, and neglect of the
Great Salvation: the definite and saving truths of which Christ is the
centre; the facts ot Religious experience; the future of the Soul and
of the Church." Of course they are not meant to be exhaustive discussions. But they are presented in that vivid, pointed, racy, earnest style, of which Dr. Hall is so complete a master, and which never
fail to reach the hearts and consciences of the people. We are confident that they will prove widely useful.
Thoughts on John xvii., with a Revised Version from a Critical Greek
Text, and the Authorized Version Illuminated. By James Inglis,
editor of "The Witness " and " Waymarks in the Wilderness."
New York: J. Inglis & Co., 21 Clinton Place. pp. 127.
This small volume in its mechanical execution is simply an exquisite
work of art. In its binding, paper, and letter-press, it has scarcely, if
ever, been excelled by an issue of the press, whether in this country or
in Europe. Its title, "One with Christ in Glory," wrought into an
illuminated frontispiece, rich and gorgeous, and, at the same time,
chaste, is a fair type of the whole. One half the volume is occupied
with the authorized version illuminated, an entire page being devoted
to a single verse or part of verse. The skill of the designer seenms
never to have failed, but steadily to have improved as he advanced.
It is an attempt, by the use of particular colors, and particular forms
of letters, to trace the various aspects of a truth, as it is woven into
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