Sermons for Children. By the late Thomas Sadler, Ph.D. (J.
Clarke and Co. 3s. 6d.)—These sermons, twenty-six in number, were preached at Roslyn Hill Chapel, Hampstead. They are excellent specimens of their class, simple, without ornament, each with a point of its own, an easily remembered truth or moral. Among the best are those that take some fragment of knowledge in natural history and apply it to life,—e.g.," A Sermon on Worms," founded on Darwin's book on the subject. Any child that heard this could scarcely fail to go away the wiser and better. He could not, we fancy, wantonly kill one of the creatures of whom he had heard things probably so unexpected. The same lesson—and few are more needed, especially, we imagine, for town children—is more generally enforced in the discourse placed immediately before on "The Lower Animals." A few " hymns " have been added, in which the characteristics of the sermons find a somewhat more artistic expression.
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