16 JULY 1864, Page 21

CURRENT LITERATURE.

The Chastening of Love. By Joseph Parker, D.D. (W. P. Nimrao.) —A. tiny volume of extracts from Dr. Parker's writings, each extract being prefaced and concluded by a poem. There is nothing in this very nicely got-up little book to call for hostile comment, but it is rather meat for babes. "He giveth power to the faint. Lot us analyze the language. He giveth;—how suggestive of opulence He giveth power; how suggestive of MIGHT." And so on with elaborate exposi- tions of God's power and bounty, cicc.