Notice of Recent Publications [pp. 443-477]

Notices of Recent Publications.
necessary to add that its title-page is fully borne out by its contents,
and that nowhere are the late discoveries in all departments of Physical Science, pure and applied, so readily to be found out.
Twenty-sixth Annual Report of the EBecutive Committee of the Prison
As8sociation of New York, and Accompanying Documents for the year
1870. To which is appended the papers and proceedings of the Na tional Congress on Penitentiary and Reformatory Discipline, held in
Cincinnati, Ohio, October 12-18, 1870. Albany: The Argus Com
pany, Printers. 1871.
This great depository of facts, principles and reasonings in regard
to the proper handling of our criminal population and the best regimen of our prisons, work-houses, and places of correction, deserves and
will receive the attention of philanthropists and sociologists. The
accurate and extended statistics, and judicious recommendations
respecting the New York Prisons are very valuable. But the elaborate papers read before the National Congress at Cincinnati, constituting so large a part of the volume, are still more so. One of these,
on the "Responsibility of Society for its Criminals," by Dr. Bittenger,
was presented to our readers in the January No. of this year, and
attracted wide and deserved attention.
.Maz Kromer; a Story of the Siege of Strasburg, 1870. By the author
of "Jessica's First Prayer," "Alone in London," etc., etc. New
York: Dodd & Mead. 1871.
This story furnishes a thread on which the successive scenes in the
recent great siege of Strasburg are skilfully strung, in a little volume
alike beautiful in its exterior aspect and inward structure; glowing
with the, interest inspired by the graphic pen of the writer, and the
intrinsic interest of the events described.
Sermons for the People. By the Rev. Win. S. Plumer, D. D. American
Tract Society, New York.
The author here gives us thirty-five sermons, short, plain, pithy,
evangelical and practical. Their average length we think will not
exceed from 4 to 5 pages of this journal. They are well adapted
not only for general use, but especially for reading by laymen in
public meeting, on the Sabbath, in the absence of the minister.
The American Tract Society have published an edition of Hanna's
Life of Christ, in which the original five volumes are all now
included in one handsome octavo, neatly executed, and clear readable
type. It is unnecessary to repeat what we have before said of its
merits. We do not doubt that in this economical form of publication
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