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Procter and Maclear.-AN ELEMENTARY INTRODUCTION TO THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. Third Edition, re-arranged and supplemented by an Explanation of the Morning and Evening Prayer and the Litany. By the Rev. F. PROCTER and the Rev. G. F. MACLEAR. Third Edition. 2s. 6d.

18mo.

As in the other Class-books of the series, notes have also been subjoined, and references given to larger works, and it is hoped that the volume will be found adapted for use in the higher forms of our Public Schools, and a suitable manual for those preparing for the Oxford and Cambridge local examinations. This new Edition has been considerably altered, and several important additions have been made. Besides a re-arrangement of the work generally, the Historical Portion has been supplemented by an Explanation of the Morning and Evening Prayer and of the Litany.

PSALMS OF DAVID CHRONOLOGICALLY ARRANGED.
BY FOUR FRIENDS. An Amended Version, with Historical
Introduction and Explanatory Notes. Crown 8vo.
IOS. 6d.

To restore the Psalter as far as possible to the order in which the Psalms were written,—to give the division of each Psalm into strophes, of each strophe into the lines which composed it, to amend the errors of translation, is the object of the present Edition. Professor Ewald's works, especially that on the Psalms, have been extensively consulted.

This book has been used with satisfaction by masters for private work in higher classes in schools.

Ramsay. THE CATECHISER'S MANUAL; or, the Church Catechism illustrated and explained, for the use of Clergymen, Schoolmasters, and Teachers. By the Rev. ARTHUR RAMSAY, M.A. Second Edition. 18mo. Is. 6d.

A clear explanation of the Catechism, by way of question and answer.

Simpson.--AN EPITOME OF THE HISTORY OF THE

CHRISTIAN CHURCH. By WILLIAM SIMPSON, M.A.
Fourth Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 35. 6d.

A compendious summary of Church History.

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EDUCATIONAL BOOKS.

Swainson.-A HANDBOOK to BUTLER'S ANALOGY. By

C. A. SWAINSON, D.D., Norrisian Professor of Divinity at
Cambridge. Crown 8vo. Is. 6d.

This manual is designed to serve as a handbook or road-book to the Student in reading the Analogy, to give the Student a sketch or outline map of the country on which he is entering, and to point out to him matters of interest as he passes along.

Westcott.-A GENERAL SURVEY OF THE HISTORY OF THE CANON OF THE NEW TESTAMENT DURING THE FIRST FOUR CENTURIES. By BROOKE FOSS WESTCOTT, B.D., Canon of Peterborough. Second Edition, revised. Crown 8vo. IOS. 6d.

The Author has endeavoured to connect the history of the New Testament Canon with the growth and consolidation of the Church, and to point out the relation existing between the amount of evidence for the authenticity of its component parts, and the whole mass of Christian literature. Such a method of inquiry will convey both the truest notion of the connexion of the written Word with the living Body of Christ, and the surest conviction of its divine authority.

Of this work the Saturday Review writes: "Theological students, and not they only, but the general public, owe a deep debt of gratitude to Mr. Westcott for bringing this subject fairly before them in this candid and comprehensive essay.. As a theological work it is at once perfectly fair and impartial, and imbued with a thoroughly religious spirit; and as a manual it exhibits, in a lucid form and in a narrow compass, the results of extensive research and accurate thought. We cordially recommend it."

INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF THE FOUR GOSPELS. By BROOKE Foss WESTCOTT, B.D. Third Edition. Crown 8vo. IOS. 6d.

This book is intended to be an Introduction to the Study of the Gospels. The author has made it a point carefully to study the researches of the great writers, and consciously to neglect none. There is an elaborate discussion appended "On the Primitive Doctrine of Inspiration."

DIVINITY.

Westcott, Canon-continued.

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A GENERAL VIEW OF THE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH BIBLE. BY BROOKE FOSS WESTCOTT, B.D. Crown 8vo. Ics. 6d. "The first trustworthy account we have had of that unique and marvellous monument of the piety of our ancestors."-DAILY NEWS. THE BIBLE IN THE CHURCH. A Popular Account of the Collection and Reception of the Holy Scriptures in the Christian Churches. Second Edition. By BROOKE Foss Westcott, B.D. 18mo. cloth, 4s. 6d.

The present book is an attempt to answer a request, which has been made from time to time, to place in a simple form, for the use of general readers, the substance of the author's "History of the Canon of the New Testament." An elaborate and comprehensive Introduction is followed by chapters on the Bible of the Apostolic Age; on the Growth of the New Testament; the Apostolic Fathers; the Age of the Apologists: the First Christian Bible; the Bible Proscribed and Restored; the Age of Jerome and Augustine; the Bible of the Middle Ages in the West and in the East, and in the Sixteenth Century. Two appendices on the History of the Old Testament Canon before the Christian Era, and on the Contents of the most ancient MSS. of the Christian Bible, complete the volume.

THE GOSPEL OF THE RESURRECTION.

Thoughts on its

Relation to Reason and History. By BROOKE Foss WESTCOTT,
B.D. New Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 4s. 6d.

This Essay is an endeavour to consider some of the elementary truths of Christianity as a miraculous Revelation from the side of History and Reason. If the arguments which are here adduced are valid, they will go far to prove that the Resurrection, with all that it includes, is the key to the history of man, and the complement of reason.

Wilson.-AN ENGLISH, HEBREW, AND CHALDEE

LEXICON AND CONCORDANCE, to the more Correct Understanding of the English translation of the Old Testament, by reference to the Original Hebrew. By WILLIAM WILSON, D.D., Canon of Winchester, late Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford. Second Edition, carefully Revised. 4to. cloth. 25s. The aim of this work is, that it should be useful to clergymen and all persons engaged in the study of the Bible, even when they do not possess a knowledge of Hebrew; while able Hebrew scholars have borne testimony to the help that they themselves have found in it.

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EDUCATIONAL BOOKS.

BOOKS ON EDUCATION.

Arnold.-A FRENCH ETON;

OR, MIDDLE CLASS

EDUCATION AND THE STATE. BY MATTHEW ARNOLD.
Fcap. 8vo. cloth. 2s. 6d.

"A very interesting dissertation on the system of secondary instruction in France, and on the advisability of copying the system in England.” – SATURDAY REVIEW.

SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES ON THE CONTINENT. 8vo. 10s. 6d.

The Author was in 1865 charged by the Schools Inquiry Commissioners with the task of investigating the system of education for the middle and upper classes in France, Italy, Germany, and Switzerland. In the discharge of this task he was on the continent nearly seven months, and during that time he visited the four countries named, and made a careful study of the matters to which the Commissioners had directed his attention. The present volume contains the report which he made to them. It is here adapted to the use of the general reader.

ESSAYS ON A LIBERAL EDUCATION. Edited by the Rev. F. W. FARRAR, M. A., F. R. S., Assistant Master at Harrow, late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Hon. Fellow of King's College, London. Second Edition. 8vo. cloth.

IOS. 6d. CONTENTS:-History of Classical Education, by Charles S. Parker, M.A.; Theory of Classical Education, by Henry Sedgwick, M.A.;

BOOKS ON EDUCATION.

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Liberal Education in Universities, by John Seeley, M.A.; Teaching by means of Grammar, by E. E. Bowen, M.A.; Greek and Latin VerseComposition, by the Rev. F. W. Farrar; Natural Science in Schools, by J. M. Wilson, M.A., F.G.S.; The Teaching of English, by J. W. Hales, M.A.; Education of the Reasoning Faculties, by W. Johnson, M.A. ; The present Social Results of Classical Education, by Lord Houghton.

The Authors have sought to hasten the expansion and improvement of liberal education by showing in what light some of the most interesting questions of Educational Reform are viewed by men who have had opportunities for forming a judgment respecting them, and several of whom have been for some time engaged in the work of education at our Universities and Schools.

Farrar.-ON SOME DEFECTS IN PUBLIC SCHOOL EDUCATION. A Lecture delivered at the Royal Institution.

With Notes and Appendices. Crown 8vo.

IS.

Jex-Blake.—A VISIT TO SOME AMERICAN SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES. By SOPHIA JEX-BLAKE. Crown Svo. cloth. 6s.

"In the following pages I have endeavoured to give a simple and accurate account of what I saw during a series of visits to some of the Schools and Colleges in the United States. . . . I wish simply to give other teachers an opportunity of seeing through my eyes what they cannot perhaps see for themselves, and to this end I have recorded just such particulars as I should myself care to know."-AUTHOR'S PREFACE.

"Miss Blake gives a living picture of the Schools and Colleges themselves, in which that education is carried on."-PALL MALL GAZETTE.

Thring.-EDUCATION AND SCHOOL. By the Rev. EDWARD

THRING, M.A., Head Master of Uppingham. Second Edition.
Crown 8vo. cloth. 5s. 6d.

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