on the other Toplady, &c. to sad extremes of doctrine on points where both parties have "darkened counsel by words without knowledge." Sir Richard, like his biographer, clearly saw the error of Wesley, and proved an able champion on what we consider to be the more scriptural side of the question. Mr. Sidney also gives us a very animated and deeply interesting sketch of the political crisis which first placed the government of this great empire in the hands of William Pitt. Alas! what a pitiable contrast does the present epoch exhibit, while we dwell on the lofty patriotism, the nervous energy, the stern grappling of master minds which marked the period when George the third, in the spirit of a Christian king, trimmed the quivering balance ! We have afterwards extracts from memoranda of a continental tour, with some awful reminiscences concerning the wretch Voltaire. Altogether, Mr. Sidney has produced one of the most agreeable books we remember to have met with.

POLYNESIA; or, Missionary toils and triumphs in the South Seas. A Poem. Snow.

THE title speaks for itself: the author is evidently imbued with the spirit of his subject, and he has succeeded in clothing the purest missionary sentiments, much pleasing description, and heart-touching incident, in very smooth, harmonious versification. The notes' are copious, filling up in prose narrative what the poetry has sketched. The friends of missions will promote the cause so dear to them, by circulating this very nice volume.

TRAVELS IN SOUTH-EASTERN ASIA, embracing Hindoostan, Malaya, Siam, and China, with notices of numerous Missionary stations. And a full account of the Burman Empire. By the Rev. Howard Malcom, of Boston, U. S. In two volumes. Tilt.

THE topics treated of in these volumes defy enumeration. They comprise not alone what relates to missionary work, but history, geography, laws, customs, natural history, botany—in short they lay before the reader the whole internal economy of the countries visited by this active traveller. A multitude of well-executed cuts serve to illustrate the descriptions given; and an elaborate map is prefixed to the work. Altogether we think Mr. Malcom has compressed as much useful matter into his two volumes as the same space could well be made to contain.

One or two things, however, we must demur at: where does the author find a warrant for using the anomalous term, Unitarian Christians?' Unitarianism, or more properly Socinianism, is as far removed from Christianity as any form of heathen worship. True, its professors have more light, but then the light that is within them becoming darkness by the operation of their frightful heresy, how great is that darkness! The poor Pagan who never had the word of salvation within his grasp, is in better case than the nominal Christian who seizes the Bible in order to rend out of it the very life of its soul-the proper deity of Jesus Christ. The Jews who demanded, and the Romans who granted, the shedding of his innocent blood, were less guilty than the men who profess to extinguish his deity. Ba

nished for ever from the believer's lips be the epithet of Unitarian Christianity, even as the believer's heart repudiates the impious lie of Unitarian heresy!

We might also particularize a degree of liberalism towards the Jesuit mission of a former age, founded on ignorance of the facts so ably brought out in Mr. Gough's recent work; and a habit of clothing in scripture phrases common, secular events, and passing remarks. With these reservations, we like the book well, and respect its author. It is very handsomely got up.

THE DISCIPLES IN THE STORM. Being a short and simple Exposition of Matthew xiv. 22-33. By the Rev. Daniel Bagot, B.D., Minister of St. James' Chapel, Edinburgh; and Chaplain to the Right Hon. the Earl of Kilmorey. Johnson, Edinburgh; Nisbet and Co.

WE took occasion last month strongly to recommend two little Catechisms of Mr. Bagot's: we have now to notice a larger publication, though of very moderate dimensions, comprising the sketches of six dis⚫ courses delivered from the pulpit, on the striking incident contained in the passage referred to. These brief outlines, for such they are, savour of the richness of old divinity: they abound with pithy remark, and peculiar condensation of thought. Each concludes with an appropriate poem. We venture to predict that it will be a favourite.

THE HEIRESS. A Tale, founded on Facts.
By E. H. Burns.

AN unpretending little volume, giving the history of a titled heiress of proud, unsanctified character, with the means successfully adopted by a pious aunt and a judicious youthful friend to correct the evil disposition. There is much good sense, and a very devotional feeling to be traced throughout. We are assured too that the tale, in its principal features, is one of fact.

THE FOUNTAIN OF LIFE; or, the Union between Christ and Believers. By the Rev. Thomas Jones of Creaton. Seeley and Burnside.

'LITTLE,' says the venerable author, in his short preface, 'Little can be expected from a man of eightyseven, when the faculties both of body and mind, especially eyes and memory, are fast declining? We, however, were expectant of much; for when a minister is fully a partaker in that blessedness, where, "though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day," we judge that the increased nearness of those eternal things, which are unseen save by the eye of faith, will add earnestness to his appeals, and give greater weight to his pleadings. How rich, how comprehensive, how edifying, was the brief sermon of the aged John, re-iterated when the natural decay of his bodily powers compelled him to confine himself to it-" Little children, love one another."

If Mr. Jones be correct in saying that once more, and for the last time,' he ventures to appear before the public, he may assure himself that the volume which must be regarded as a final bequest, will be held very precious by the church. It contains much that is truly excellent: it is full of solemn exhortation and sweet encouragement. It exhibits Christ as the believer's all, and the believer as being all in Christ, and if it prove the closing note of his ministry on earth, it is also a meet prelude to his song of endless praise in heaven.

THE FAITH AND PATIENCE OF THE SAINTS: Exhibited in the Narrative of the Sufferings and Death of Mons. Isaac Le Febvre, a Protestant of ChatelChignon, in France. [Who was condemned to the galleys, on the Persecution which followed the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and confined fifteen years in a solitary dungeon, where he died.] Written by a French Protestant Pastor, and published at Rotterdam, in 1703. A New Translation. With a Preface by the Rev. John Norman Pearson, M. A. Incumbent of Trinity Church, Tunbridge Wells. Baisler.

THE long title page sufficiently tells the story of the work we have only to add that it is most interesting, and touchingly affecting. No Protestant family ought to be without it. Mr. Pearson has said a great deal in a very brief preface; but he is always doubly effective, when brought into direct collision with the gigantic monster, Popery.