JANUARY NUMBER.

PAGE.

ing After Dinner-Dr. Edward Young-What is Sunshine
Made of? Country Church-Yards-Ise versus Ize—Eng-
lish Orthography.

MIRROR OF APOTHEGM, WIT, REPARTEE, AND ANECDOTE..............

Sable Sermonizing-Dwight and Putnam-Following the

Hounds-Dr. M'Neil and Drunkenness-Candor-The

Orphan's Reply-A Metaphysician-The Moon-Stanley

and Brougham-A Rose and its Thorns-Ben Jonson and

the Lord-Retort Courteous-Gray Head and Gray

Beard-Church-Rates and the Quaker-Bangor Grave-

yard-A Natural Mistake-The Worth of Elders-One

Letter-Humbug.

EDITOR'S TABLE.....

The New Volume-Articles in this Number-Our Engrav-

ings: The New Cover; St. Louis; Bishop Janes; Title-

Page-Articles Declined-Excerpta from Correspond-

ence-Miscellany: The Best Sign of a Call to the Minis-

try; The Woof of Scandal-Stray Gems-Another Word

to the Friends of the Repository.

FEBRUARY NUMBER.

61

63

Literary Women of America-Mrs. Lydia H. Sigourney-

What there is in History...

70

To my Wife, on the Anniversary of my Birthday, by A. Hill 71

The Skater, by G. M. Kellogg, M. D....

71

Immortality our Portion, by M. Mitchell..

39

I'll Risk It, by Rev. M. N. Olmsted.

72

The Young Departed, by John Ocheltree, M. D..

Reminiscence of John Wesley....

40

40

Training a Child-A Beautiful Incident....
Talking to the Flowers, by W. S. Peterson.....
The Mother to her Dead Child, by James Pummill..
Truth and Poetry, by W. H. Barnes.........
Traits and Anecdotes of the Horse..
SCRIPTURE CABINET.......

41

Little Amy-A German Tale-or, the Beauty and Reward

41

of Doing Good

79

Expediency of the Savior's Departing-I Must Walk with

God-What Religion is-The Bible a Garden-The Anchor

of the Soul-Feeling after God-Drinking the Dust of the

Golden Calf; or, the Debasement of Idolatry-" Dinna

Gang the Same Way"-John Ryland's Exposition of the

Story of the Syro-Phoenician Woman-The Handful of

Grain-Redeem the Time-The Hand that Saves us-

Panting after Christ.

The Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost; or, the Unpar-

donable Sin.

Christian Influence, by Mrs. Bithia B. Leavitt..

Now

98

.104

55

ITEMS. LITERARY, SCIENTIFIC, AND RELIGIOUS...

Ministerial Support in Chio-California Catholic Schools-
Presbyterians in the United States-Education in Bos-
ton-Oldest Church-Bank of England Notes-Distilla-
tion in the United States-Farms and Farmers--Cincin-
nati Sunday Schools-Cooking Cod-Liver-The Olives of
Gethsemane-University of Northern Pennsylvania-
Property in Utah-Colored Glass-Schoolmasters' Wages-
Sums for Smokers-Astronomy's Conquests in 1854-Sta-
tistics for the People-Paper-The African Institution in
Paris Researches in Palestine-The Wonders of Photog
raphy-Children in Bavaria-An Honored Institution.
LITERARY NOTICES....

New Books: The Autobiography of Rev. William Jay-
History of the Constitution of the United States-Arma-
geddon-Wood's Illustrated Natural History-The Bible
Reading-Book-Wisdom, Wit, and Whims of Distinguished
Ancient Philosophers-Tender Grass for Little Lambs-
Paley's Evidences of Christianity-Jeannie Morrison-
Mary Dundas-The Brother and Sister-The City Side-
Life in the Clearings versus the Bush-Merton Merri-
valle-Pearson on Infidelity-Christianity Demonstrated
by Facts. Periodicals and Pamphlets: The Edinburgh Re-
view-The London Quarterly Magazine-The Westmin-
ster Review-The American Railway Guide-Blackwood's
Magazine-Minutes of the Cincinnati Annual Confer-
ence Minutes of the South-Eastern Indiana Confer-
ence-Michigan Annual Conference-The Twenty-ninth
Annual Catalogue of the Wesleyan Academy-The New-
bury Seminary and Collegiate Institute-The Fort Wayne
Female College and Fort Wayne Collegiate Institute-
Discourse on the Occasion of the Death of Miss Emily P.
Wilkinson-Moore's Rural New Yorker-The Home Jour-
nal-The Methodist Almanac.

NOTES AND QUERIES......

Is Salt Good for any Thing?-What is "Lie Tea?"-Sleep-

58

60

The Slanderer....

How Prayer is Answered..

SCRIPTURE CABINET..

On Typical and Allegorical Explanations of Scripture-

An Exposition of Isaiah xviii, 4; or, God considering

what he will do for his People-The Test and the Evi-

dence of the Reality of Faith-Special Providence-Love

to Christ and Love of Christ-Walking with God-Rai-

ment of Needlework.

EDITORIAL SKETCH AND REVIEW....

The World a Workshop.

ITEMS, LITERARY, SCIENTIFIC, AND RELIGIOUS...

Middleton & Co.'s Lithographing Establishment-A Mag-

nificent Bookstore-Paper-Making-Increase in the Meth-

odist Episcopal Church-Missionary Appropriations-Pub-

lications of the Methodist Episcopal Church South-

Unitarians in the United States-Old School Presbyteri-

anism-Dr. Hawes's Church-Romish Support of Missions.

LITERARY NOTICES..

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.119

...121

New Books: History of the Great Secession from the

Methodist Episcopal Church-Past Meridian-Pictorial

Gatherings-The Child's Sabbath Day Book-Little Frank

Harley-Greatness in Little Things-Fanny Gray-Even-

ings with My Children-Precious Lessons from the Lips

of Jesus-The Chart of Life-The Great Journey-Agnes-

Caroline. Periodicals and Pamphlets: The North British

Review The American Phonetic Journal-Minutes of
the North Indiana Annual Conference-Minutes of the

....112

.112

...113

..129

..131

My Little Sister, by Mrs. M. A. Bigelow.

PAGE.

North-Western Indiana Annual Conference-Catalogue

of the Wesleyan University-Catalogue of the Genesee

College.

NOTES AND QUERIES..

The Importance of Making a Note-The Authorship of

"The Burial of Sir John Moore"-The New York Tribune

and Times upon the True End of Speech, or Talleyrand's

Motto-Misquotations-The Origin of the word "Grog".

Imitative Words-Comparative Effects of Medicine upon

Master and Slaves.

MIRROR OF APOTHEGM, WIT, REPARTEE, AND ANECDOTE.....

Heathen Notion of Baptism-A Patriarch Located-Hoc

Incipit-Letting out a Coat and Vest-Genius and Tal-

ent-A Hint to the Married-A Reason for Long Ser-

mons-Died of Want-Curious Chinese Proverbs-Shak-

speare on Covetousness-Physical and Moral Courage-

The Perfection of Conversation-Capacity of Being Agree-

able-Longings for Rest-Opinions of Philosophers upon

Beauty-The Criterion of True Beauty-What Shakspeare

says of Beauty-Curing Bashfulness-Two Kinds of Bash-

fulness-A Turkish Parable-Dull of Comprehension-

Napoleon's Respect for the Apostles-Religious Toler-

ance-A Quick Repartee-What we Want-Cicero.

EDITOR'S TABLE...........

.123

..124

Literary Women of America-Our Engravings: Charles-
ton; Mrs. Sigourney's Portrait-Articles Declined-Ex-
cerpta from Correspondence: Criticisms of a Correspond-
ent on Marriage-Miscellany: Quill Pens; Incidents in
the Cincinnati Money Panic; Speak not Harshly; God
of my Mother; Intermediate State of the Dead-Stray
Gems-Our Prospects-Who will be Gleaners?

MARCH NUMBER.

State of Religion, by Bishop Morris............................................

Pictures of Life, by Phoebe Paine........

.126

PAGE.

...189

NOTES AND QUERIES...

Ise versus Ize; Letter from Professor Given-Opening

Up-Title of LL. D.-Curious Notes from an Old Parish

Register in New England-Origin of the Custom for Men

to sit nearest the Pew-Door in Churches-Campbell's

"Angels' Visits "-Origin of the Phrase "By Hook or by

Crook"-Semler's Reply to the Publisher of a Bad Book.

MIRROR OF APOTHEGM, WIT, REPARTEE, AND ANECDOTE............190

Short Sermons-Turning from Nothing to Nothing-The

Horse-Fair Sermon-The Three Hardest Words in the

English Language-Anecdote of Rowland Hill, or Fam-

ily Prayer at a Tavern-The Proud Lady and the Poor

Girl-Eleven Happy Days in a Lifetime-On Attempting

too Much-Slander-The Tribune on our Militia System.

EDITOR'S TABLE...

..191

..137

"The Son of Man had not where to lay his Head," by Eliza-

beth G. Barber....

Twilight Reveries, by Mrs. Harriet E. Francis..

Life, by Mrs. M. A. Bigelow..

...208

.208

.....138

"Come Out of That," from Eliza Cook

..209

Alton Locke, by G. M. Kellogg, M. D...

.138

Robert, Duke of Normandy, by E. L. Bicknell..

...211

To Nelly

...138

Christian Influence, by Mrs. Bithia B. Leavitt..

.139

The Opening of Spring, by E. C. Howe, M. D....

My Pocket Bible, by Bishop Morris..

.211

...212

Passing Away, by W. Oscar Pierce.....

Reason and Instinct...

Crowns of Rejoicing....

...150

Hearts of Oak-Generosity of Sailors-from the Excelsior...216

The Mother's Dream, by Kate Harrington..

....150

Missionary Sewing Societies, by Rev. L. A. Eddy..

..218

Friendship, by H. N. Powers

..150

April, by Mrs. M. C. Bowman..

.220

New Books: Alice Cary's Poems-Stories of England-

Stories of Ancient Rome-Stories from the History of

France-Stories from the History of Italy-Stories from

the History of Spain-Stories from the History of Swe-

den-Stories from the History of Mexico-Stories of the

Norsemen-Sketches of Missionary Life-The Prodigal-

Paris, Ancient and Modern-Rambles at the South-The

Tempest-The Two Fortunes-Three Days on the Ohio

River-Here and There-Humanity in the City-Peter

Parley's Popular Biography-The Pictorial Catechism-

Cornell's Primary Geography-First Thoughts-The iiis-

tory and Poetry of Finger Rings. Periodicals and Pum-

phlets: The Methodist Newspaper Press-A Lecture on

Roman Catholicism-The Gospel Ministry-Oneida Con-

ference Seminary.

What the Bible is and does-What is it to "Walk with

God?"-Christian, where's your Shield?" He Careth for

You"-"They shall Mount up with Wings as Eagles"—

The Great Preparation-Instant Answer to Prayer-How

to Close the Day.

EDITORIAL DISQUISITION..

The Bloody Sweat.

ITEMS, LITERARY, SCIENTIFIC, AND RELIGIOUS..

Death of Bishop Capers-Pewed Churches-The Demerara

Bell-Bird-Muskets and Missions-Japanese Religion-

The Great Respiratory Apparatus-Baptist Newspapers

and Colleges-Operations of the American Tract Society-

Eastern and Greek Churches-Marriage in England-In-

teresting Statistics-Disasters of the Year-A Water-Cir-

cled Bedstead-Change of Names-English People's Col-

leges-Southern Methodist Book Concern and Publishing

Interest-Ohio Conference Memoirs-Dr. Beaumont-

The Burnett Treatises, Great Britain.

LITERARY NOTICES...

.246

.249

New Books: The Female Prose Writers of America-Full

Proof of the Ministry-Elements of Mental Science-

Memoirs of the Emperor Napoleon-A Year of the War-

The Way from Sin to Sanctification, Holiness, and Heaven.

Periodicals and Pamphlets: The Edinburgh Review-The

Westminster Review-Blackwood's Magazine-Indiana

Hospital for the Insane-First Annual Report of the

Board of Missions of the United Brethren-Fourth An-

nual Report of the Young Men's Missionary Society of

The Second Presbyterian Church of Cincinnati-Cincin-

nati House of Refuge-University of Michigan-Law-

rence University-Fort Edward Institute-Rest for the

Soul in God-Christian Sanctification.

.251

The Unpardonable Sin-Sundry Queries Proposed-Origin

of Popular Vulgarisms-" Mind Your P's and Q's"-Origin

of the Word Jargon-Where will Man Spend Eternity?-

The Darkness of the Crucifixion-Carrying the War into

Africa.

MIRROR OF APOTHEGM, WIT, REPARTEE, AND ANECDOTE...........254

"One Excellent Passage "-Crispin and Quirk, or a New

Way to Pay Old Debts-Plaintiff vs. Defendant-Three

Kinds of Men in the World-The Petition of the Letter

H-Petition of the Letter H to the Inhabitants of Kid-

derminster-The Truth unwittingly told-Poetical Sub-

limity-What a Good Wife should be like and not like-

What Selfishness is and does-The Little Troubles-Lack

of Brains.

EDITOR'S TABLE.....

Close of the Number-Our Engravings: "In for it;" Por-

trait of Mrs. Hale-An Erratum-A Word to Correspond-

ents-Articles Declined-Something for the Children:

"You Said that Afore;" The Little Boy and his Learned

Grandfather; The Angels' Fingers pointing at us; The

Little Boy and the Echo-Stray Gems: Memory and Ac-

tion: The Past and the Present; The Future; The Beauty

of Goodness; What you may Write on Infancy; Virtue

and its Worth-Our Course is still Onward.

MAY NUMBER.

.255

Egypt, Assyria, and the Bible, by Professor E. S. Lippitt.....257

The Missionary's Wife..

.262

Sonnet-Luther before the Diet of Worms-by Mary E.

In Memory-On the Death of Otway Curry-by Coates-

Kinney...

Fry.......

.333

263

Woman and Flowers, by Celestia Rice Colby..

.334

Pictures without Frames-from the German-by Charles

The Walum-Olum;" or, Bark Record, by Rev. T. M. Eddy,

Nordhoff.

.337

A. M....

.269

Is Italy Waking up?-Public Libraries of France-Chris-
tian Character of Students in Colleges-Business of the
New York Book Concern-Denominational Wealth-Min-
istry of the Methodist Episcopal Church-Hervey, the
Poet-Montgomery and Southey-The Moravians and
their Operations-Different Days of Worship-Perpetual
Snow in the Alps-Tombs of the British Poets-Pulse-
Recording Machine-Japanese Intelligence-Light under
Water-The New York Press.

LITERARY NOTICES...

New Books: Harper's Statistical Gazetteer-Orators and

Statesmen-Sacred Echoes from the Harp of David-The

Mind of Jesus-Practical Landscape Gardening-Harper's

New Series of Story-Books-The Footsteps of St. Paul-

The Minister's Family. Periodicals and Pamphlets: The

Twenty-Sixth Annual Report of the Missionary Society

of the Methodist Episcopal Church-The Prompter-The

North British Review-London Quarterly-Annual Re-

port of the Benevolent Institutions of the State of Ohio-

Annual Report of the American Colonization Society-

Annual Report of the Ohio Institution for the Education

of the Blind-Catalogue of Amenia Seminary-Annual

Report of the Sunday School Union of the Methodist

Episcopal Church-New York Senatorial Question-Dis-

course on Art-Annual Report of the New York Ophthal-

mic Hospital.

Statistics of Old Age-New York Church Tenure Law-

Excitability of the Skin-Location of Hell-Bran-Stuffed

Trowsers-Dr. Ray-Quarry under Jerusalem-Getting

Mercury out of One's Body-Tobacco-Sunday School

Scholars.

LITERARY NOTICES.....

New Books: A Guide-Book in the Administration of the

Discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church-The Phys-

ical Geography of the Sea-Travels in Europe and the

East-Natural Goodness-The Young Man Advised-Earn-

est Christianity Illustrated-The Bible Defended Against

the Objections of Infidelity-The Peasant-Boy Philoso-

pher-The Summer-Land. Periodicals and Pamphlets:

The Methodist Quarterly-National Magazine-M'Ken-

dree College Catalogue-Cooperstown Seminary and Fe-

male Collegiate Institute-Reply to a Discourse of Pro-

fessor M'Lean on the Final Perseverance of the Saints-

A Sermon on the Death of Hon. John W. Graham.

NOTES AND QUERIES.

380

.381

A Note upon the Deterioration of Words-A Poetical
Charade-Borrowing from the Bible-Lying and Lay-
ing "Follow Suit"-A Couplet-Baptismal Superstition.

MIRROR OF APOTHEGM, WIT, REPARTEE, AND ANECDOTE...........382

False Estimates of Publishers-Charles Lamb in a Fix-

Quarrels among Men of Letters-Personal Familiarity-

Southey Made for a Monk-Intellectual Wealth in Solid

Bars-Silence and Wisdom-Talking vs. Writing-"Kip-

pered" to the Church-Don't go to France unless you

Know the Lingo-Best Sort of Language for the Pulpit-

Retort Courteous-Too Literal

EDITOR'S TABLE....

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Notes upon the Contents-Our Engravings: Lawn-Girt
Hill; The Author of Sunny-Side- Articles Declined-
Miscellany: Auld Lang Syne; On Eating the Show-Bread;