which the Utilitarian Female Philosopher has supplied, well contrast with the other tales; being exemplary descriptions of the worth of man when he fills up his appointed station in society, as superior to the merely adventitious circumstances of social existence. They are suitable for youth, especially the CROFTON BOYS, teaching them how to combine the useful and the agreeable, in the most eligible and advantageous manner. The other volume contains two historical narratives— "THE PEASANT" is a concise delineation of country life in France, amid the interest excited by the temporary presence of the nobles. "THE PRINCE" is a portrait of the French Dauphin, son of Louis XVI. of France, combined with brief details of some of the most affecting scenes of the Gallic Revolution of 1789; and is replete with historical and moral instruction.

Mrs. Guizot's YOUNG STUDENT is a tale rich in its moral and exemplary impressiveness, adapted to all scholars and collegians. The state of academical and common society on the European Continent, without doubt, essentially differs from the condition of America in that respect; but the cardinal principles of morals are the same; and in the general application of them the lessons to be learned are identical. There is noble instruction to be derived from the "Young Student," both for warning and encouragement.

MRS. COPLEY'S two volumes, Early Friendship, and especially the Poplar Grove, are rather more imaginative than the tales by Mary Howitt. They subserve, however, very efficiently the same great purpose of amending the dispositions and propensities of the youthful reader; and by illustrating the waywardness of human life, in a different form,

enlarge those views of society by which youth may be admonished and benefited.

MRS. SANDHAM'S " TWIN SISTERS," and MRS. CAMERON'S "FARMER'S DAUGHTER," are very interesting and instructive portraits for junior females; and we know not scarcely how the most amiable social qualities and the most useful domestic habits can be inculcated in the subordinate form with more efficacy, than by such almost breathing and moving personifications of sisterly endearment and enchanting housewifery. Matrons and maidens, grandmothers, and "girls in their teens," all will read these volumes to edification.

Mr. Arthur's tale entitled, "TIRED OF HOUSEKEEPING," is an exact picture from the living examples around us, drawn with all the precision of daguerreotyped reality. Young women who are anticipating marriage, and the wedded ladies just commencing the superintendence of domestic affairs, will learn more household wisdom from Mr. Arthur's paintings of kitchens and parlors, and in a pleasing form, than a seven years' apprenticeship of fire-side disappointment and vexation could teach them.

CAPTAIN MARRYAT has furnished five volumes, comprising a land story and a tale of the sea. "MASTERMAN READY" contains the details of a shipwreck, the deliverance of the family of passengers, and the daily and countless expedients which were adopted in their desolate situation to supply their wants and to secure comfort, with the account of their rescue from the desert rocky island on which they were cast. "SETTLERS IN CANADA" is the land counterpart of Masterman Ready's nautical contrivances. A refined and

well-educated family leave Britain, migrate from Quebec to the upper end of Lake Ontario, “squat” among the encircling Indians, and during a series of years, pass through all the dangers, hardships, and privations of that state of life, prior to the inroads of the present rapidly-changing processes of civilization. There are great truth and forcefulness, with vivid description and exciting scenes, in both these works; and they are rich in wise suggestions to produce industry, fortitude, inflexibility in vanquishing obstacles, and perseverance with the hope of success, and the determination to obtain it. "Masterman Ready" should be a passenger in every ship that goes "down to the sea," and the history of the "Settlers in Canada" should be a hand-book in every farm-house and log-cabin. Sailors may learn new rules of navigation from "Masterman Ready;" and backwoodsmen will find their comfort indefinitely enlarged by taking lessons from the "Settlers in Canada."

The whole first series of "Tales for the People and their Children," will be found to be a very suitable library for youth of both sexes; unfolding, not the aristocratic exterior, but the middle and best portion of modern society, in all truthfulness, and with high moral improvement.

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HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. By GILBERT BURNET, D.D., late Bishopof Salisbury. With a collection of Records, and a copious Index, revised and corrected, with additional Notes and a Preface, by the Rev. E. Nares, D.D. Illustrated with a Frontispiece and 23 Portraits on steel. ing four elegant 8vo vols. of near 600 pages each.

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To the student either of civil or religious history, no epoch can be of more Importance than that of the Reformation in England. It signalized the overthrow, in one of its strongest holds. of the Roman power, and gave an impulse to the human mind, the full results of which are even now but partly realized. Almost all freedom of inquiry-all toleration in matters of religion, had its birth-hour then; and without a familiar acquaintance with all its principal events, but little progress can be made in understanding the nature and ultimate tendencies of the revolution then effected

The History of Bishop BURNET is one of the most celebrated and by far the most frequently quoted of any that has been written of this great event. Upon the original publication of the first volume, it was received in Great Britain with the loudest and most extravagant encomiums. The author received the thanks of both Houses of Parliament, and was requested by them to continue the work. In continuing it he had the assistance of the most learned and eminent divines of his time; and he confesses his in debtedness for important aid to LLOYD, TILLOTSON and STILLINGFLEET, three of the greatest of England's Bishops. "I know," says he, in his Preface to the second volume, "that nothing can more effectually recommend this work, than to say that it passed with their hearty approbation, after they had examined it with that care which their great zeal for the cause con cerned in it, and their goodness to the author and freedom with him, obliged them to use."

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BURNET ON THE XXXIX. ARTIOLES. An Exposition of the Thirty-nine Artices of the Church of England. By GILBERT BURNET, D.D., late Bishop of Salisbury. With an Appendix, containing the Augsburg Confession-Creed of Pope Pius IV. &c. Revised and corrected, with copious Notes and additional References, by the Rev. James R. Page, A.M., of Queen's College, Cambridge. In one handsome 3vo volume. $2 00.

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