secured for it extensive support and patronage amongst the protestant community of all classes.

Hora Successivæ ; or Spare Hours of Meditations, upon our Duty to God, to others, and to ourselves. By JOSEPH HENSHAW, D.D. Lord Bishop of Peterborough. Reprinted from the Fifth Edition of 1640, and Edited by WILLIAM TURNBULL, ESQ. Advocate F.S. A. Scot. London: Darling. Edinburgh : Chisholm. And Edinburgh Printing Company. Pp. xviii. 164.

A VALUABLE handbook of spiritual reference, in every respect adapted for the devout and humble Christian. These reprints, we are happy to observe, are multiplying among us, and augur favourably for the advance of the people in sound religious knowledge.

Letters on the importance of Maternal Associations, with Suggestions respecting their Formation. London: Ward & Co. Pp. 44.

AFTER a careful perusal of these letters, we are by no means satisfied that the great results anticipated will follow, and we much doubt the propriety and delicacy of ladies becoming such conspicuous public characters and teachers.

Rules and Exercises on the right Use of the Latin Subjunctive Mood; interspersed with Observations to assist the Learner in the Acquisition of a pure Latin Style. By the Rev. R. B. GREENLAW, M.A. of Worcester College, Oxford. Author of "The true Doctrine of the Latin Subjunc tive Mood." London: Longman & Co. Pp. iv. 186.

WE lately heard a distinguished scholar observe, that Mr. Greenlaw was the only writer, he ever met with, who distinctly comprehended the nature of the Latin Subjunctive Mood; in which opinion we fully concurred before this new work made its appearance. To any person anxious to acquire a pure Latin Style, the author has, by the

present publication, rendered an invaluable service; whilst its compendious form, and the originality of the plan of dividing sentences into their separate clauses, makes it worthy the attention of the more matured scholar.

The Young Scholar's English-Latin Dictionary; being an Abridgement of the Complete English-Latin Dictionary." By the Rev. J. E. RIDDLE, M.A. London: Longman & Co.; and J. Murray. Pp. 463. A MOST Comprehensive and valuable Abridgement; and one which cannot fail to prove highly acceptable to both master and scholar.

The Outlaw; a Drama in Five Acts.

By ROBERT STORY. London:
Simpkin & Co. Pp. viii. 176.

MR. STORY is already favourably known to the public as an able lyric writer; and we congratulate him on this higher flight of his muse, which we have great pleasure in recommending to the favourable notice of our readers, as a work of great promise.

The Doctrine of the Apostolical Succession developed and proved, in a Sermon, preached at the Primary Visitation of the Right Rev. Edward, Lord Bishop of Norwich, in the Parish Church of North Walsham, on Wednesday, July 4th, 1838. By THOMAS S. L VOGAN, M.A. of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, Vicar of Potter Heigham, and Curate of Weston Longville, Norfolk. Pub lished by Request. London: Rivingtons. Oxford: Parker. Norwich: Stacy.

On the very appropriate text, Heb.v.4, "No man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron," Mr. Vogan has founded one of the most able arguments in defence of the apostolic succession that we have hitherto met with. were prepared by his admirable Bampton Lectures for something exceedingly good on this interesting question; but the closeness of the reasoning, fortified by the whole artillery of Scripture,

We

prove him to be an Apollos, mighty in the Scriptures.

One extract we cannot refrain giving, setting at rest as it does the question of the right of laymen to ordain, or choose even their priest.

From the beginning to the end of the Bible, there is not the shadow of a proof that God ever intended a congregation to suppose itself empowered to convey the ministerial commission. There are, indeed, some striking and most instructive facts to the contrary; but we need not now refer to them more particularly. The very titles, however, which are applied in Scripture to the ministers of the gos

pel, carry with them a most compendious and decisive proof of our point. To refer only to those titles, "Ambassadors for Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God:"-it is at once evident that ambassadors cannot derive their power through those to whom they are sent, nor the stewards of the household through the servants over whom they are to rule. And if, in a religious capacity, the people cannot convey this power, still less can they in a political. "The kingdom of Jesus Christ is not of this world," nor can any merely worldly authority empower any man to be a minister of Christ. The rulers of the earth may receive, support, and protect his ministers; and thus commend them the better to the attention of their subjects; but the dispensation of the gospel is a power which they can neither give nor take away.Pp. 13, 14.

America, and the American Church. By the Rev. HENRY CASWALL, M.A. Rector of Christ Church, Madison, Indiana. London : Rivingtons. 1839. 8vo. Pp. xviii. 368.

THE Episcopal Church in North America was reduced to the lowest possible state in consequence of the Revolutionary War: but during the last fifty years, "by a scrupulous avoidance of all intermeddling with the politics of state, and a steady adherence to her own principles, she has silently worked her way into a prominent rank among the religious denominations of

the country,.... and is rapidly increasing in numbers, and growing in public favour. What she lacks in a numerical point of view, she enjoys in the respectability and wealth of her members. The present relative position to the community, and to other sects, is peculiarly advantageous to herself. Compact in her organization, consistent in her principles, unimpeachable as to the charge of meddling with politics, and aloof from the common religious agitations of the country, she is well prepared to endure the shock which the premature and forced attempts at moral and religious reformations have brought upon the American public, and to profit by it. Tired of the religious squabbles, and disgusted with the fanaticism, which have sprung up in so many quarters, to interfere with civil rights, to disturb the public peace, and invade the domestic sanctuary, the more sober and reflecting, according as their relations in society will permit, are turning their eyes to the decent order and quietude of the Episcopal Church, as an inviting place of repose."-A Voice from America to England, pp. 71, 72.

Such is the brief but just tribute of an American layman, to the value of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States, of which Mr. Caswall has given us a detailed and deeply interesting account. This gentleman, we collect from his narrative, is a great-nephew of the late venerable, learned, and pious Bishop Burgess, who went out to America upwards of ten years since, under the auspices of the laborious and indefatigable Bishop Chase, the founder of Kenyon College in the State and Diocese of Ohio, of which College Mr. C. was the first alumnus. Since his ordination to the ministry, he has resided ten years in various parts of the United States, and in the work which we now announce to our readers, he has given precisely such a view as we have long wished to see, respecting the history, discipline, present state, and future prospects of

the Church in that country. His first chapter contains an account of his arrival at New York, and of his journey to Gambia Town, Ohio, where Kenyon College was erected by Bishop Chase, of whose personal history and labours he has given a very pleasing account in the second chapter. The third is devoted to a description of the state of Ohio. In the fourth and fifth chapters we have an analysis of the organization of the Protestant Episcopal Church, which leads to a deeply interesting account of the pious and successful labours of a lay-reader (of course under his bishop's authority,) in planting the Episcopal Church, especially in Ohio. The three following chapters contain the author's travels in various parts of the country, especially in New England. The history of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States, together with a detailed account of the alterations in its liturgy, the missionary operations of the church, churchbuildings, clerical duty and compen

sation, are the subjects of several chapters replete with anecdotes and information. Two chapters are devoted to education, principally among the Episcopalians; another to the different sects found in the American Union, and to the extraneous influences of the Church. The last chapter contains valuable advice to a Clergyman preparing to emigrate from England. We have thus given a rapid outline of Mr. Caswall's handsomely executed work, from which we could have wished to make not a few extracts; but the pressure of other matter does not admit of their insertion. A statistical Appendix, Ecclesiastical Map, (exhibiting the United States divided into Dioceses) and several neatly engraved views, enhance the utility of this volume, which we cordially commend to the perusal of all who are desirous of a candid and faithful account of the Episcopal Church in the American Union; which, we scarcely need remind our readers, is a daughter of the Church of England.