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A Series of Practical Discourses, by the Reverend JAMES MAC-

LEAN, is a collection of plain and popular sermons, neither too lax nor too rigid fur hiiinianitv ; and sensibly appealing to the interests and experience of the auditor as an "old man,- besides exhorting him as a regenerated Christian. For family use, this volume will be found very serviceable : a critical divine, perhaps, might object that Mr. M ve Least does not always " stick to his text," but gives to woids, evidently limited by time and circumstances, a wider application than they will in strictness bear.