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necessary to enter upon the question of How a guilty and condemned sinner should be exhorted to take up the word that "shall judge him in the last day." This volume is well and vigorously written; the author hunts the caviller through many of his mazy windings with great point and spirit, and is evidently most anxious to bring souls to the Saviour. We certainly wish she had been more sparing in her tribute to the genius of Sir Walter Scott, so awfully perverted as that genius was to mock at sacred things, and to heap derision on the memory of God's suffering saints. We consider many of his works unfit for the shelves of a Christian parent's library; and therefore can dispense with any commendatory allusion to them: neither would we concede so much to worldly tastes, habits and reasonings as the work before us seems now and then to do. This is, however, matter of opinion. The notes are very copious, and very excellent.

HINTS towards the Improvement of Female Education, in a Brief Analysis of the System pursued in the Edinburgh New National Institution, 23, Charlottesquare. By Mrs. Furlong, an English Lady, Foundress and Directress of the Institution. With a recommendatory Note by the Rev. Dr. Duff, late of Calcutta. Johnstone.

STRONGLY attached as we are to the principle and the practice of home education, as being in every way preferable to all other systems-prepared as we are to unfurl as a banner Cowper's thrilling Tyrocinium, and to combat beneath its folds-we yet feel

that, as parents will send their children from beneath the sheltering roof of home, and as, in some painful cases, it may be for the children's welfare, and to banish them from sights and sounds of evil, we must not make indiscriminate war even on boardingschools, though infinitely preferring to them a rendezvous for daily instruction, where that advantage cannot be enjoyed at home. The institution of which Mrs. Furlong here gives a most interesting analysis, is of the latter description, but admitting also of boarders. We do not hesitate to pronounce it an invaluable acquisition to the ladies, and of course, thanks to the power of female influence, to the whole population of the good city of Edinburgh. We invite our readers to peruse this very excellent and interesting little volume. It will say more for itself than we can say for it.

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SABBATH MUSINGS and Every-day Scenes. the Author of Souvenirs of a Summer in Germany,” "The Lost Farm,' &c. Seeley and Burnside,

THE readers of our Magazine are no strangers to the 'Musings' of M. F. D. Fresh and warm from her own kind heart, spontaneously free as the friendship that dictated the gift, they have so punctually made their appearance on our table, that no anxiety was suffered to exist as to the due filling of the number of pages usually occupied by our kind and dear young friend. Over mountain and bog, across river and sea, they have winged their flight to us; and now we feel a pride in seeing how handsome and substantial-looking a volume these sybil leaves make when

gathered together. It is superfluous to recommend what our readers are so well acquainted with; but we must remark two characteristics of these papers: the scenes that they describe are all real, the feelings that they express are all genuine. We know enough both of the writer and subjects to guarantee this: and apart from the interest which, in every sense of the word, we have in these Musings,' we have always regarded them as among the choicest of the flowers that form our little monthly chaplet.

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WE want to recommend to notice a very sweet piece of music, under the head of The Harp of Erin,' entitled The Pilgrim's Song.' Just as we were about to notice it, some touching particulars reached us, relating to a dear Christian lady, the sister of one of God's most valuable ministers, who was instantaneously called into the presence of her Lord, immediately after singing those beautiful stanzas. We reserve for our next number some memorial of the departed, connected with a fuller notice of the song; of which the profits are intended to aid the work of Scriptural Instruction in Ireland. We will now only say, that it is well worth possessing. It is published by Cocks and Co.

THE PROTESTANT.

'It is but the beginning of sorrows,' said my uncle, as he pensively looked on a field of rich corn, beaten down by the torrents of rain that so darkly usurped the place of autumn's wonted sunshine. It is but the beginning of sorrows: nature weeping over one of earth's fairest territories now doomed to destruction.'

'I wish I could take a different view of the matter, dear uncle but my thoughts are sad as your own.'

'And that is sad indeed. Look where I will," coming events cast their shadows before," until the whole prospect is wrapped into a gloom as deep as that which preceded this transient gleam of sunshine, and which, to judge by yonder horizon, will in another hour blot the sky again with its ominous shade.'

'We all discern the signs of the sky: how strange that the great bulk even of Bible-reading men cannot discern this time!'

"Their blindness cannot long continue. We stand in a most awful position, such as threatens a general crash where all must perish save only the actual church of Christ, the company of the faithful, the spiritual house built on the Rock, and insured by the promise of Christ against the power of the gates of hell. As a humble believer in the Lord Jesus, I fear nothing: I feel my security, and rejoice in it: I know that nothing can separate me from the love of God

which is in Him-but my country, my noble, beautiful, happy native land-how can I look on and not weep with the prophetic Patriot for the hurt of the daughter of my people!'

In silence we pursued our walk, hastened homeward by the gathering clouds: at length I remarked, 'The greatest aggravation of all these evils consists in the consciousness that there is yet a power lodged among us equal to the present emergency; and what seems wanting is the will to exert that power.'

Even so: and the absence of such will is a fearful token of judicial blindness-a paralysis of the mind, threatening to prevail until the crisis shall be past, and nothing remain to us but the privilege, where God gives the grace, of suffering for the truth.' 'Do you apprehend any evil effects from O'Connell's address to the people of England?'

That address is no more O'Connell's than it is yours or mine. Every sentence was framed by some member of that wily body of which he is the tool. I regard it chiefly as a token of the growing confidence in their strong position that enables the apostate priesthood so far to throw off the mask and to reveal their unhallowed purposes. You are aware of that diabolical device of Satan known under the name of Socialism: a system that seems to stand in the extreme of contrast to the superstitions of Popery; yet these extremes approximate so as to act in powerful concert; for the object of their deadly attack is one-even the truth, as it is in Jesus-and they have also a tendency to swell each other's ranks. For, while strong minds, proud in the energy of unsanctified reason are hurried by the degrading mummeries of popery into a junction with the bold blasphe

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