kindest wishes for its success. We have also been favoured with many important suggestions, as to the mode of conducting the Magazine, and especially as to the means of promoting its immediate and extensive circulation. As our sole object in starting the publication, is to aid the active and zealous members of our churches in their efforts to win souls, we lay a selection from these letters before our readers, hoping that they will as much encourage their exertions, as they have gratified and delighted us.

"I am very glad to find that the circulation of The Church' has reached 17,000. I see no reason why you should not look forward to 100,000; and I am sure that if excellency of matter, and largeness of quantity for the price, will secure subscribers to that amount, your claims are preeminent. I am quite as much pleased with 'THE APPEAL,' and trust it is destined to accomplish great good. Such a Tract was greatly needed-short, pithy, and pointed; just the thing for Loan Tract distribution. It will, I have no doubt, be thankfully received by hundreds of tract distributors, who have lamented the scarcity of suitable addresses in that department of christian effort. I shall feel it at once a duty and pleasure to assist the object in any way I can."

Worstead.

C. T. KEEN.

"I have just seen the first Number of "THE APPEAL.' The idea of publishing such a work was a most happy and important one. It is just the kind of publication wanted for the masses; and, if properly sustained, will no doubt effect much good. You ought to sell at least 100,000 monthly. I shall be happy to do what I can to promote its circulation, and to aid its support. If the leading members of our churches would each take from one to six dozen copies, according to their circumstances, it would furnish them with a cheap and powerful auxiliary to their usefulness, and at once secure a large circulation of the periodical. I trust you will be abundantly encouraged in this new and interesting undertaking."

Worcester.

W. CROWE.

"I give 'THE APPEAL' a very hearty welcome, and sincerely pray that He who has disposed your hearts to make the Ap

"I have just met with a specimen copy of 'THE APPEAL.' It is just the organ we have long felt the want of, and for our own sakes, as well as to sustain your noble efforts, we shall be most happy to do what in us lies to aid the circulation. We dispose of somewhere about a hundred of The Church,' and I should think we might double the number of THE APPEAL.' We are your debtors, brethren, and will do what we can to serve you.". Salisbury.

J. W. TODD.

"I have just seen the first number of THE APPEAL.' Although we have many excellent cheap periodicals, still such a one as THE APPEAL' is much needed. We want some soul-stirring works as appeals to the consciences of careless sinners. Let our members visit each house in their locality monthly, with 'the angel of mercy' in their hands, and I doubt not but God will bless their labour of love. May He in whose cause you are engaged, abundantly bless you in this and every undertaking to advance his glory." Amersham.

JOHN COCKS.

"All heads, all hearts, and all hands, must be at work to circulate' THE APPEAL.' It is just what we wanted. Religious tracts, with all their excellence, have been distributed so long (and I hope will continue to be), that something new, to arrest the sinner on his way to perdition, seemed needful. A few of my friends met to consider the best means of circulating 'THE APPEAL,' when some agreed to take a dozen, some half a dozen, and some less, so that about a hundred were soon ordered. Then I intend to explain all about it from the pulpit, and request those who will take one or more copies, to give their names in the vestry, and some of my active young people will engage to order the whole together, and deliver them every month, taking the money on delivery. It is also understood that they are not taken to be read and laid on the shelf, but expressly to be lent to the unconverted; and lending I recommend in pre

"I have read with considerable interest the first Number of THE APPEAL.' It is, in my opinion, far superior to any Magazine that is published, and peculiarly adapted for that numerous and important class for whom it is written. I have ordered five hundred copies of the first Number, for gratuitous distribution in this locality, and hope to be able to secure for it a large and regular demand. The sale of The Church' with us increases. It is spoken of by all the subscribers as the cheapest and best Magazine of the day."

"I am heartily glad to see that you have resolved to start a Monthly Appeal to the unconverted. Great good may be expected if the members of our churches will prayerfully and diligently work it. Let a church take one hundred monthly, divide their town into districts of 400 houses each, and let ten of their members take ten each of the first number of your 'Appeal,' and deliver them to the first hundred families. On the second week, gather them up and deliver them to the next hundred families; and so on each week. On the arrival of No. 2, ten other members will take No. 1, and deliver in the same way, in another district; and the first ten members will deliver No. 2 in their district, as they had done No. 1; and so on with each number. No. 1 moving on to a new district, and the other numbers following each month. By this plan, each number may be read by thousands of families, at the small expense of four shillings per month. In villages, fifty or twenty-five may be taken and circulated in the same way; and if the distributors meet once a month for prayer, and to detail the results of the distribution, it would be found happy and encouraging no doubt.

Each distributor should also make himself or herself well acquainted with the contents of 'THE APPEAL,' to talk about it, and be well prepared to press the different pieces in 'THE APPEAL' on the attention of all, as they find them adapted to their state and condition before God. May your labours be much blessed to the rousing of our churches from their sloth and ease, to

"I have just seen the first number of 'THE APPEAL.' It appears to me just the thing that is wanted in the present day, as it will afford the teachers and even scholars in our Sunday schools, as well as other members of our churches, the means of becoming more extensively useful. In our Sunday schools, I presume, with but few exceptions, a portion of the funds is appropriated to the purchase of small rewards for children. Could a more appropriate reward be placed in the children's hands than 'THE APPEAL?' It strikes me, that from the nature of the work, the articles are likely to be of such a character as will arrest the attention of unconverted children, as well as adults; and when it is remembered that when presented to a child, it will be carried home to parents and other inmates of the house, the matter is well worthy the attention of Superintendents and Teachers. As far as I am concerned, I shall feel it my duty to aid in circulating it as widely as possible." Oldham.

A. HOLLAND.

this year reached the lowest point yet. Anything, therefore, and everything that is likely to rouse up the churches, or awaken the masses to a concern about eternal things, I hail with pleasure. I have this morning seen the first number of THE APPEAL.' I like it much. Our Christian Instruction Society has unanimously resolved to distribute ONE THOUSAND copies monthly, for the next twelve months. If you can only get the societies generally thus to support it, the work is done. Five hundred churches taking two hundred each, the 100,000 is circulated. O that they would."

"Your idea and purpose I like very much indeed, and am pleased that you do not alter 'The Church' for the purpose of adapting it to the object before you. I sincerely hope that your new effort will be as successful as the former. It will be an excellent thing to give to the unconverted around, and will afford to many an opportunity of urging the question of personal piety on some who cannot be directly addressed. My prayers attend you." EDWARD B. Underhill,

Editor of the Baptist Record.

MEMOIRS OF SIR T. F. BUXTON, BART. WITH SELECTIONS FROM HIS CORRESPONDENCE. EDITED BY HIS SON. pp. 600. London: Murray.

LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE OF ELIZABETH FRY. 2 vols. London: Gilpin.

MEMOIRS OF MISS M. A. GILPIN. London: Gilpin.

MEMORIALS OF THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS. London: Gilpin.

We have placed these four biographies together, because we can honestly recommend them all to our readers. Every christian will be interested by all of them. The friends of negroes and of prisoners will feel additional pleasure in the first and second. We have found it beneficial also to study the fruits of piety in communions

so different to our own outwardly, as those of the Church of England and the Society of Friends, to which latter the three lastmentioned books pertain. Mr. Buxton had, indeed, so little interest in the forms of the Church of England, that he often worshipped with the Friends, and speaks of great benefit from their silent meetings, especially when he had previously studied a chapter of scripture; indeed, a clerical relative undertakes a very needless defence of him for "attaching too little importance to the forms and ceremonial of religion."

Mr. Buxton possessed, preeminently, the "sound mind in a sound body," for which the heathen poet teaches us to pray as the best of gifts. He was a man of very commanding person, strong sense, intense application, great courage, high principle, and

deep piety. He was an Englishman for Englishmen to be proud of; he would have been a martyr amongst early christians, and the bravest among soldiers. No one can read of his courageous division on the Slavery question (chap. xviii.) without feeling that "he dare do all which might become a man." His plunging into the waves to save the drowning sailor, and throwing himself on a mad dog at the hazard of his own life, being horrified lest the dog should get into London and bite many people, are wonderful examples of courage in another way.

Much as we differed from him on the twenty millions compensation to planters' question, it would, indeed, be sinful want of charity to think such a man conceded it from any but the best motives. He at first demanded compensation rather for the negro, and we are persuaded he granted the other to a Whig government and their pet planters, for the same reason as we should give our purse to thieves, namely, to save what he justly deemed of more worth than the money. His piety was kindred with his general character; though humble and cultivated and thoroughly evangelical, it was manly piety. It was chiefly nourished by prolonged prayer and meditations on the Scriptures themselves. For election contests, for severer parliamentary duties, he qualified himself by special study of the word of God and prayer. He called the majority of sermons Bible-and-water, and wanted longer texts and shorter sermons. Oh, for a Commons House of Buxtons ! His christian firmness contrasts finely with the trimming expediency of the merely party ministers; to whom, as liberals, he was nevertheless sincerely attached. We wish we had room to give a full sketch of his life; but it must not be forgotten that it is just the book to put into the hands of Young Men. We know few biographies more adapted to impress on a young man's mind the advantages of decision and energy, combined with piety of a kind which youth will especially admire. The motto from his own pen, prefixed to his life," is the key to all his conduct both as a man of business and a christian. May his own sons be worthy of such a father!

We have left ourselves no room to descant on the other biographies. That of Mrs. Fry is an artless compilation from her correspondence and diaries. We hope to advert to it in another number. The third is a pleasing account of a young Friend who walked closely with God from 14 to 25 years of age, when her Father took her. The "Memorials" are brief narratives, in one volume, of pious Friends, and will certainly be read with pleasure and profit, by those who delight in the records of deep communion with God, and of lives unostentatiously consecrated to Him.

THE RISE AND FALL OF ROME PAPAL. By ROBERT FLEMING. Reprinted from the First Edition in 1701. London: Houlston and Stoneman.

A lecture on the Apocalypse, which in 1701 predicted from that book the humbling of the French monarchy in 1794, and a fearful judgment on the Pope in 1848, will assuredly interest great numbers. The publisher has done right. But whether chapters iv. to xi. of Revelations, were fulfilled in the destruction of the Jewish persecuting power, and xii. to xix., in the overthrow of pagan persecution by the Roman government, is a question too extensive for our pages. According to this view, Fleming is only a lucky guesser; according to the mode of dealing with the Apocalypse common in England, he may have been next to a prophet.

MOTIVES TO THE CULTIVATION OF PIETY. BY JAMES YOUNG. London: Benj. L. Green. pp. 155.

We could certainly wish ourselves and our readers to feel as strongly as the author desires, every Motive he presents to us. His style will please many, and we cannot criticise what is meant so well, and is so likely to do good to numbers. Mr. Young abounds in adjectives;-in what forms, in reality, one long antithetical sentence (p. 16) we counted not less than 38 !

A FEW WORDS TO RELIGIOUS ENQUIRERS AND YOUNG DISCIPLES. BY JABEZ BURNS, D.D. pp. 30.

An excellent little tract for its object.

THE SISTER'S FRIEND. pp. 180.
LOOK UP; OR, GIRLS AND FLOWERS. pp. 180.
MAGIC, PRETENDED MIRACLES, &c. (one of
the Monthly volumes.)

THE NEW TESTAMENT POCKET COMPANION. Compiled from Henry, Scott, Doddridge, Burkitt, and other writers, with numerous Explanatory and Illustrative Notes. pp. 356.

Want of room compels us to place all these volumes together, though only connected by the excellent relationship of being the offspring of the Tract Society. We can honestly recommend all of them. The titles will guide our readers to their general character. The first two will especially interest the young;-the third, every body; the fourth will be valuable from its portableness, and its quality too. PLANS OF THOUGHT FOR VILLAGE PREACHERS. BY A COUNTRY PASTOR. Pp. 192. London: Houlston and Stoneman. This volume contains forty-two sketches

of sermons upon important topics. The matter is thoroughly evangelical, the plans simple, and, in the main, clear; and to those who need help of this kind, these outlines will be found useful.

A GUIDE TO THE GATES OF ZION, FOR THOSE WHO VISIT LONDON. London: Aylott and Jones.

This little work describes the principal preachers of the metropolis, and will, therefore, aid the visitor in selecting one to his taste.

A WORD TO THE MASSES, ON THEIR RIGHT TO THE FRANCHISE, AND THE MEANS OF ATTAINING IT. BY A NORWICH OPERATIVE. London: Houlston & Stoneman.

We recommended the former tract by the Norwich Operative, who is entirely unknown to us, to be given by the men to all masters. We think masters would all do well at the present crisis, to give the present little tract to their men.

MAXIMS FOR THE YOUNG. Sir T. F. Buxton (see page 198) seems to have intended to publish a little work to be called "Maxims for the Young." The following extracts are taken from his rough notes. We commend them to the special attention of our young and thoughtful readers.

"Mankind in general mistake difficulties for impossibilities. That is the difference between those who effect, and those who do not.

"People of weak judgment are the most timid, as horses half blind are most apt to start.

"Burke, in a letter to Miss Shackleton, says:

Thus much in favour of activity and occupation, that the more one has to do, the more one is capable of doing, even beyond our direct task.'

"Plato, 'better to err in acts, than principles.'

"Idleness the greatest prodigality. "Two kinds of idleness,-a listless, and an active.

"If industrious, we should direct our efforts to right ends.

"Possibly it may require as much (industry) to be best billiard-player as to be senior wrangler.

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"The endowments of nature we cannot command, but we can cultivate those given. My experience, that men of great talents are apt to do nothing for want of vigour. "Vigour,-energy,-resolution,- firmness of purpose,-these carry the day.

"Is there one whom difficulties dishearten,-who bends to the storm?- He will do little. Is there one who will conquer? That man never fails.

"Let it be your first study to teach the world that you are not wood and strawsome iron in you.

"Let men know that what you say you will do; that your decision, once made, is final,-no wavering; that, once resolved, you are not to be allured nor intimidated. "Acquire and maintain that character."

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"Eloquence-the most useful talent; one to be acquired, or improved; all the great speakers bad at first.-Huskisson.-How to be acquired.

"Write your speeches,-no inspiration.