Sermons on the Acts of the Apostles. By John Hampden
Gurney, M.A., &c. (Rivingtons.)—A posthumous volume of sermons by the late Rector of St. Mary's, Marylebone. It is accompanied by a preface, in which the Dean of Canterbury pays an enthusiastic tribute to Mr. Gurney's excellence as a preacher.
The author of Parvula begs us to state that the last line of the second verse, extracted by us last week in the " Current Literature," should run, "Ere evening 'twill have perished," instead of "In evening," as printed in our extract.
We have received from the 'London Stereoscopic and Photographic' Company (54 Cheapside, and 110 Regent street) a very good carte de visite of the Bishop of Natal.
We have also received an indifferently illustrated edition of Mr. Wilkie Collins's After Dark (Smith, Elder, and Co.); the twelfth volume of the reprint of De Quincey's Works (A. and C. Black) ; a neat little Almanack for 1863, issued by the Royal Insurance Company ; the twenty-fifth number of Chesson and Woodhall's Miscellany (Bombay), and the thirteenth of Dummy's Hibernian Sixpenny Magazine (Dublin), in neither of which is there anything to which it would be kind to direct special attention ; the first part of The Family Prayer Book (Cassell and Co.), a collection of morning and evening prayers for every day in. the year ; a pamphlet in praise of New Granada (Bally and Co.), com- piled by Mr. J. D. Powles, Chairman of the Committee of Spanish American Bondholders, for the encouragement of those happy holders of New Granada Bonasawho have been compelled by the Government of that republic to accept payment in land for a large portion of their claims; another, compiled by Mr. W. Sandford, of Bath, on the Cotton Supply from the Ottoman Empire (Taylor); and one entitled Air and Water (Davies), which is an animated disquisition by Mr. H. B. Condy on the merits of the very useful disinfecting fluid of which he is the inventor.
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