Thanksgiving. By Frances Power Cobbe. (Triibner and Co.)—A. reprint of
a chapter extracted from a longer work on "Religious Duty," which is now out of print. The world has need to be reminded how much readier it is to ask favours of God than to return thanks for them ; but a philosophical exhortation will scarcely touch those whom the parable of the lepers has left unmoved. We have also received the second edition of Charlie Thornhil4 by Charles Clark (Chapman and Hall), for notices of which see the Spectator of last year, pp. 2127 and 2180; the third volume of the new edition of Noctes Ambrosia= (Blackwood and Sons), with an engraving of Sir John Watson Gordon's portrait of the Ettrick Shepherd; Parts 4 and 5 of the People's Edition of Macau lay's History of England (Longman and Co.); Part 13 of Mr. Watt,s's excellent Dictionary of Chemistry (Longman and Co.), which completes at once the letter " G " and the second volume ; the fifth number of the igvine Journal (Longman and Co.), in which Mr. Charles Eden breaks now ground in a narrative of his ascent of St. Viejo, an extinct volcano in Nicaragua ; the North American Review (Sampson Low, Son, and Co.), for last quarter, the placid solidity of which even civil war has not availed to shake ; a reprint of Viscount Amberley's able paper on Clerical Subscription, from the North British Review; a little pamphlet by Thomas Randle Bennett, M.A., Barrister-at-Law, entitled The Legislation of 1863 (Church Press Company), which gives a con- cise summary of the various acts passed last session; the Rose, Sham- rock, and Thistle Magazine for March (W. Kent and Co.); the Canadian Almanac& (Sampson Low, Son, .and Co.), which is not only a capital almanack, but a complete official handbook and clergy list of the Pro- vince; the Address of Mr. .1. R. Maclean, delivered on his election as President of the Institution of Civil Engineers ; the Boy's Own Magazine, Vol. III., No. 14, an amusing monthly for boys, edited by the publisher (S. O. Beeton) ; the Child's Commentator, Part 5, by the Rev. Ingram Cobbin (Jackson, Walford, and Hodder); A New System of English Stenography, by Dr. Gustav Michaelis (Tritbner and Co.), dedicated to the well-known writer on shorthand, Mr. Pitman, whose systeni, as being more simple, we prefer to that of Dr. Michaelis; Shall I Do This? (Bell and Daldy), a small tract by the Rev. C. J. D'Oyly, setting forth the duty of partaking of the Lord's Supper ; Hymn for Saints' Days and other Hymns, by a Layman (Bell and Daldy), of which the best, we think, is a translation of King Alfred's " Matutinus Altiora ;" Musings and Aspirations upon Our Lord's Prayer, by the Rev. G. Taylor (Boll and Daldy), a selec- tion of extracts from a MS. translation from the French in Mr. Tay- lor's possession, dated 1652, and conceived much in the spirit of Thomas Kempis's famous work ; A Few Words of EzhortatiOn to the Public on the Inspiration of the Old and New Testaments, Spiritualism, and Animal Magnetism (J. Burns); and the Principles of Book-keeping by Double Entry, by Henry Manly (Edward Stanford), which consists of a well- compiled collection of progressive exercises, together with specimens of examination-papers in book-keeping and a glossary of mercantile terms.
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