21-Martyria; A Legend, wherein are contained Homilies, Conversations, and Incidents of the Reign of Edward VI. Wriiten by WILLIAM MOUNTFORD, Clerk. Boston: Crosby & Nichols. This is the first American edition of a very clever English book, to which the Rev. F. D. Huntington has added a somewhat extended introductory essay, in which he takes occasion to commend its high conceptions of duty, its beautiful lessons of morality, faith, forgiveness, prayer, self-denial, and the depth of spiritual meaning, the intellectual insight, the classic gracefulness of the execution, as well as the pure elegance, and often condensed energy of its style, which must claim the admiration of every scholar, and in the highest degree, the studious attention of all who aim to growth in the Christian life. It will, we cannot doubt, be a most acceptable addition to the library of the Unitarian Christian, and may be read with advantage by those who regard sectarianism, in all its forms, as anything but favorable to the progress of practical, living Christianity.

22.-The Shipmaster's Assistant, and Commercial Digest: Containing Information necessary for Merchants, Owners, and Masters of Ships. By JOSEPH BLUNT, Counsellor at Law. New York: Published by the Author.

A most valuable compilation, and indispensable to men engaged in commercial pursuits. Mr. Blunt has contrived to collect and present in a condensed form, the multitude of laws and regulations of commerce and navigation, and reduce them to system, in an octavo volume of about five hundred pages. It embraces the requisite information on the following subjects, viz:-Masters, Mates, Seamen, Owners, Ships, Navigation Laws, Fisheries, Revenue-cutters, Custom-house Laws, Importations, Clearing and Entering Vessels, Drawbacks, Freight, Insurance, Average, Salvage, Bottomry and Respondentia, Factors, Bills of Exchange, Renewals, Weights, Measures, Wreck Fees, Quarantine Fees, Passenger Laws, Pilot Laws, Harbor Regulations, Marine Offences, Slave Trade, Navy, Pensions, Consuls, Tariff of the United States, and Commercial Regulations of foreign nations. This work, although preceded by two editions of a similar character, is in reality almost altogether new. We hope, in a future number, to give this valuable work a more extended notice.

23. The Discourses and Essays of the Rev. J. H. Merle D'Aubigne, author of the "History of the Great Reformation," etc. With an Introduction. By ROBERT BAIRD, D. D. Translated from the French. By CHARLES W. BAIRD. New York: Harper & Brothers.

This wolume contains a collection of discourses and essays, seventeen in all, a few of which have, at one time or another, been translated into English, and published separately, in England or this country, and some in both, either in small volumes or pamphlets; but the majority, we infer, are now for the first time offered to the English reader. They bear, says Dr. Baird, the impress of the same masterly mind which beams forth on every page of the author's inimitable History of the Great Reformation of the Sixteenth Century, and possess one grand characteristic—that of "a glorious baptism into the spirit of that Reformation."

24.-A Year with the Franklins; or, To Suffer and be Strong. By E. JANE COLE. New York: Harper & Brothers.

We are not quite certain that fiction is the most effectual method of imparting the lessons of wis dom and virtue. Perhaps much, however, may be done in this way, by weaving into a "well-told tale" the verities that are daily presenting themselves to the acute observer of human life and character. This little volume, which forms one of a series of very good books of this class, will find many readers among all ages; and will, we can scarcely doubt, afford a degree of innocent amusement, as well as instruction.

25.-Uncle John; or, "It is Too Much Trouble." BY MARY ORME. New York: Harper & Brothers. The writer of this has a pleasant way of telling a story, so as to interest "little folks," and indeed all who retain any portion of the freshness of "early days." The moral may be inferred from the quoted maxim in the title of the story. It is a good one--and the illustrations are well done. 26.—The Life of General Winfield Scott. By E. D. MANSFIELD, Esq. New York: A. S. Barnes & Co. The life of this brave and patriotic officer is identified with a considerable portion of the recent military history of the country. Although his services have not been performed on that large scale which has distinguished many of the bloody and disastrous battle-fields of Europe, and which are opposed to the spirit of the times, they have, notwithstanding, been marked by those features which establish his character as a military commander of sound judgment, promptitude and courage. They extend through the period from the adoption of the American Constitution to the present time. The volume exhibits all the prominent circumstances of his life, from his early youth to his succeeding campaigns upon the frontier-in which he won distinguished honor-together with his more recent labors touching the late border difficulties upon the Canada line, and those growing out of the Maine Boundary Question. As a biographical sketch of the commander-in-chief of the army under the national government, it is a valuable record.

27.-The Little Robbers, and Other Tales: Translated from the French of Madame Guizot. Boston: Waite, Pierce & Co.

These little tales are from the pen of Madame Guizot, who has been peculiarly happy in illustrating moral duty by other volumes of the same kind. The work is very neatly printed, and will repay a perusal.

28-Mitchell's Ancient Geography. Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co.

Few names are more extensively known in our country than that of Mitchell. His Primary Geog raphy and School Geography are familiar to most pupils, in every state of the Union. We are glad to see that he has prepared a work on Ancient Geography, a department in which there has hitherto been a lamentable deficiency in our schools, more especially since we find that he has most admirably performed the task which he undertook. The treatise is clear and full, and illustrated with many very handsome cuts, and the maps are in the very best style. A part of the work is devoted to Sacred Geography. This will make it valuable to the teachers, as well as pupils of Sunday-schools, and to all who study sacred history, and other subjects connected with the Bible. The atlas contains an extensive index, in which the comparison of ancient and modern names is an important feature. 29.-Essays, in a Series of Letters. By JOHN FOSTER, Author of "An Essay on Popular Ignorance." First American, from the eighteenth London Edition. New York: Robert Carter.

This volume from the pen of a sterling writer, contains several essays; one upon the subject of "A Man's writing Memoirs of Himself," and another, which has been long known to the most discriminating portion of the reading community, upon "Decision of Character." This last essay is eminently analytical and profound. He discusses the subject with a seeming comprehension of all its parts, and traces those causes which bear upon the human character with the hand of a master. It will well repay a careful study.

30.-The Genuineness, Authenticity and Inspiration of the Word of God. By the Editor of " Bagster's Comprehensive Bible." New York: Robert Carter.

This work is an able exposition of the ground upon which Christianity rests, a system which is not only a source of human hope in respect to the future, but the adamantine foundation of the general policy of the most civilized nations of modern times. It embraces in separate parts the evidences of the divine origin of the Bible, drawn from various sources-referring as well to their prescriptive sanctity as to their entire scope and spirit, exhibiting a great mass of historic proof upon the subject. 31.-The Old White Meeting-House; or, Reminiscences of a Country Congregation. New York: Robert Carter's Cabinet Library.

32.-A Brief Sketch of the Life of the late Miss Sarah Martin, of Great Yarmouth; with Extracts from Parliamentary Reports on Prisons, or her own Prison Journals, &c. New York: Robert Carter. 33.-The Mount of Olives, and other Lectures on Prayer. By the Rev. JAMES HAMILTON. New York: Robert Carter.

The volumes embraced in "Carter's Cabinet Library," of which the three volumes named above form a part, are deeply imbued with the religious sentiment, and are generally popular with that large class of professed Christians denominated "orthodox" or "evangelical." The series is selected from the most approved theological writers, and the volumes are handsomely printed, and afforded at very moderate prices.

34.-The Autobiography of Edward Gibbon, Esq., illustrated from his Letters, with Occasional Notes and Narratives. By JOHN, LORD SHEFFIELD. Complete in 1 vol. New York: Turner & Hayden. The autobiography of an impartial and truthful man, who has distinguished himself in the world. will ever be read with interest. The historian descends from his stilts, and leaves behind a few simple and apparently faithful annals of his life and times; and a friend (Lord Sheffield) supplies the last twenty years of his life, with his correspondence during that period, which, in a good measure, supplies the deficiency. The curiosity so universally experienced by readers, to know something of their favorite authors, in every department of literature, is thus gratified.

35-Friendless. By a Friend of Youth. New York: C. L. Stickney.

"God helps those who help themselves," the homely aphorism adopted by the author as the motto of the volume, is happily illustrated in the agreeable narrative which follows. The design of our countryman is to enforce upon the young the importance of depending upon their own resources, teaching them to appreciate the faculties with which nature has gifted them for their benefit and use. It is a good book-one which we can cordially recommend to the "people and their children." 36.-The Missionary Enterprise: a Collection of Discourses on Christian Missions, by American Authors. Edited by BARON STOW, Pastor of Baldwin Place Church, Boston. Boston: Gould, Kendall & Lincoln.

This volume embraces a collection of fifteen discourses, by some of the most eminent American divines of the various denominations of Christians, which were scattered in ephemeral forms, but are now gathered up, and added to the increasing stock of missionary literature. The missionary movement is discussed by the different authors in all its bearings. Dr. Wayland, of Brown University, for instance, discourses of" The Moral Dignity of the Missionary Enterprise." Dr. Anderson, of the "Theory of Missions to the Heathen." Dr. Griffin presents the " Arguments for Missions," and Dr. Stone describes the " Bearings of Modern Commerce on the progress of Modern Missions."

Simmonds' Colonial Magazine and Foreign Miscellany, for May, was duly received by the Brittania. It contains, as usual, a mass of information in relation to the colonies, alike important to the merchant and the general reader. It is conducted by P. L. Simmonds, Esq., with singular ability, and is the most intrinsically valuable publication that comes to us across the Atlantic.