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called The Service of Praise; or, Hymns and Tunes and Scripture
Lessons, arranged for Praise Meetings and Public Worship. It is intended
especially for what are called Praise Meetings, though also adapted to other
-services. It contains hymns and tunes and Scriptural Selections sufficient
for all the Sundays in the year. The arrangement is excellent, and the
selections are made with judgment and taste. Price $1.50.
Dodd & Mead publish Character Sketches, by Norman Macleod, D.D.
This is a collection of short but well-drawn sketches of character of different
types; also, The Old House on Briar Hilt, by Isabella Grant Meredith.
Dodd & Mead publish the Wonderful Lzft, by Hesba Stretton, a simple,
continuous narrative of the earthly life of our Lord, which weaves together
in their proper order the succe~ive incidents in it, as these are found scattered in the several accounts of the evangelists, and have been more caref ully sifted and determined by recent research and criticism.
From the same house also we have The Rent Veit, by Horatius Bonar,
a volume of devout instructions and meditations, in the author's usual
happy vein, on the Access to God opened by the One Mediation between
God and man.
John Murray, of London, and Scribner, Welford & Armstrong, of New
York, have published, at $12.50, a superb and massive volume, entitled
Troy and its Remains: a Narrative of Researches and Discoveries made
on the Site of Ilium and in the Trojan Plain, by Dr. Henry Schliemann,
translated with the author's sanction. Edited by Philip Smith, B. A., with
maps, plans, views, and cuts, representing 500 objects of antiquity, discovered on the site. For a more particular account of the discoveries recorded in tliis book than we have room for now, we refer to the article entitled the "Disentombment of Troy," in this REviEw for July, 1874, commencing on page 349. The great value of the work for all students and
lovers of ancient classics, history, life, manners, morals, and religion, needs
not to be argued here. It will find a place in all libraries which aim to be
well furnished on such subjects.
Besides other advantages, pamphlets like the following will be invaluable
as sources of future history. It contains the Centennial Celebration of
the Planting of the Presbyterian Church of Mount Pleasant, Penn., October
ioth, A. D., i874; together with the Addresses of Rev. James I. Brownson,
D.D.; Rev. John M. Barnett, Rev. John M'Millan, D.D., and the Proceed
ngs and Exercises connected therewith.
Robert Carter & Bros. issue a new and cheap edition of the Discourses
and Sayings of our Lord 7esus Christ, illustrated in a series of expositions by the late John Brown, D.D., of Edinburgh, Scotland. Two volumes
in ()ne; 1,245 pages. Price, $3.50. A book rich in instruction and suggestive exposition of the words of the Great Teacher; a store-house, both in
the way of material and examples for expository~preaching; valuable alike
for ministers and private Christians, and in price quite the cheapest in proportion to its contents among recent issues of its kind.