Monthly Record [pp. 236-238]

THE LADIES' REPOSITOR r.
which is "Now!" and earnestly entreats all to
decide at once for Christ. It would be an admirable
little book for distribution in revival services, or to
send to a friend whom you wish to persuade to re pentance.
MISCELLANEO US.
IN PAPER-Oliver Twist. By Charles Dickens.
I2mo. Pp. I72. 25 cents. American Notes. By
Charles Dickens. I2mo. Pp. 104. 15 cents. Great
Expectations. By Charles Dickens. I2mo. Pp. I83.
25 cents. New York: D. Appleton & Co. Cincin nati: R. W. Carroll & Co.-Our American publish ers are determined to give us the works of Dickens
in every imaginable form and style and at all possi ble rates of costliness or cheapness. Here are three
of his works, two of them among the best he has
produced, and one of them of special interest to
Americans, printed in clear type, bound in paper,
and sold for a few cents. Maabel's Progress. By the
author of "Aunt Margaret's Trouble." Paper, 50
cents. Carlyon's Year. By the author of "Lost Sir
Mapingberd." Paper, 25 cents. New York: Harper
& Bros. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co.-These are
Nos. 30i and 303 of the "Library of Select Novels."
Thze Prairie Farmer Annual. Number I. Paper.
Pp. I44. 25 cents. Chicago: Prairie Farmer Co.A very valuable farmer's almanac.
MINUTES, ETC.-Minutes of the Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church for I867.
8vo. Pp. 292. $I.5o. New York: Carlton & Porter. Cincinnati: Poe & Hitchcock.-Every Methodist preacher and many of our laymen ought to
have a copy of this book. Ainutes of thze Calfornia
Annzual Conference and Alinutes of the. Nevada Conference.-It contains Bishop Thomson's admirable
address to the California Conference. Twenty-Fourth
Annual Report of the Indiana Institution for thze Deaf
and Dumb.
MAGAZINES.-VWe have before us the first and
second numbers of "Putnam's Monthly," as it ap pears in its resuscitation after a lapse of several
years. We welcome it as an old and familiar friend.
The publishers have called around them a bright
galaxy of talent, and it will not be long till "Pzut noam's" will be in the fore-front of American maga zines. It is published by G. P. Putnam & Son, 66i
Broadway, New York, at $4 a year. Thze Sabbath at
Home, an Illustrated Religious Magazine for the
Family, is a neat little monthly issue, published by
the American Tract Society, Boston. The Home
AffIonthly, devoted to religion and literature, is edited
by Prof. A. B. Stark, and issued from the Southern
Methodist Publishing House at Nashville, Tenn.
The Unzited States Musical Review, published at $2
per annum by J. L. Peters, New York, will be found
valuable by lovers of the science of music. The
Leonard Scott Publishing Co. issue their prospectus
for the British Periodicals for I868. These periodicals contain the fruits of the scholarship, wit, and
genius of the literary men of Great Britain, and are
alike of great value to the scholar, the professional
man, or the intelligent reader. Their pages abound
with elaborate criticisms, brilliant essays, profound
speculations, and with whatever of interest may be
found in science, literature, morality, and religion.
The Ilerald of Holiness is a monthly issue of sixteen
pages, devoted to this speciality, and well edited by
Rev. A. T. Scott. It is published at Wilmington,
Delaware, at $I.5o a year. Whitney's Musical Guest,
published monthly at Toledo, at $i per annum, is another valuable magazine in the department of music.
ONTHLY yECORD.
METHODIST FREEDMAIEN'S AID SOCIETY.-In locating schools in the South, the Superintendent states
that he has been governed by the following principles. Locating them at the centers of influence,
where the freedmen would cooperate most cheerfully
and furnish the most liberal contributions in their
support, in towns containing the largest number of
ignorant and degraded children, where the Bureau desired and would furnish the most liberal appropriations for their support, and especially in connection
with our missions, where our teachers may supplement the work of the missionary.
It will be noticed that our work is chiefly educational, but it is one that aims at the education of the
heart as well as the intellect. It seeks to lead a
million of children to Christ as well as to' the fountains of intelligence, and we are profoundly thankful
to God for the success that has crowned our teachers'
efforts, and made them scarcely less efficient in teach
ing the doctrines of the Cross than the elements of
science.
During the year ending October 3I, I867, the cash
contributions amounted to $31,915.8I; goods, books,
etc., to $I,2I3.96: total, $33, I34.77. About seven
thousand of the above amount was obtained from the
Bureau, and was expended in repairing our churches
and in the transportation of teachers.
Schools have been established in the following
places in Tennessee: Nashville, one school, with
seven teachers; Memphis, two schools, with five
teachers; Lebanon, Spring Hill, and Murfreesboro,
each with two teachers; Alexandria, Franklin, and
National Cemetery, each with one teacher. In Georgia-Griffin and Lagrange, with two teachers each;
Newman, Oxford, Jonesboro, Palmetto, Grantville,
Hogansville, with one each. In Alabama-Huntsville, one, with two teachers; Bluffton, with one. In
Virginia-Winchester, with two; Washington and
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