church does hold and We trust he will be briefly too, exhibited what the what the scriptures do teach. strengthened and upheld in his Master's cause; and be the happy means of turning many to righteous ness. LESSONS ON THE GLOBES, on a plan entirely new, in which they are taken together in Illustration of terrestial and celestial phænomena: with original familiar explanations of the ever-varying circumstances of our planet and the solar system generally, and extended notices of several departments of natural science, interspersed with numerous corroborative quotations from the best popular authors. Also an appendix, containing memoranda in verse, rhymes on the con stellations, &c. By T. H. Howe.-Cradock and Co. THE fulness of the title-page leaves us nothing to explain. We like Mr. Howe's plan of a combined study of the globes, and so far as our judgment goes, he has been very successful in the original matter of his book; while the vast number of quotations from first-rate authorities bring into one view a larger and more diversified portion of information than we remember to have seen so collected. Science in the hand of a Christian is a noble thing, and of all sciences how sublime is astronomy ! BIRDS.-Religious Tract Society. A COMPENDIUM of the Nest, the Egg, the Feather, the Song bird, and Instinct of birds, put together in a very neat volume. Many a half-hour's delightful enjoyment we have, laying down the pen, when fatigued, and taking up one of these simple little books. MEMOIR AND REMAINS OF THE REV. HENRY VAUGHAN, B.A. late of Worcester College, Oxford; Vicar of Crickhowel, Brecknockshire, and Minister of Park Chapel, Chelsea.-Seeley and Burnside. AN interesting memoir of a truly good man, prepared in the first instance for private circulation among friends. He was a devoted Christian Minister of that scriptural school that now, alas! in too many of our parishes, is thrust out by another gospel: leaving the poor of the flock to lament, amid the redundancies of man's inventions, 66 a famine of hearing the word of the Lord." A few sermons are added to the memoir, of which the matter is better than the style, the latter being too declamatory: it is a nice book. We have now to notice "THE Catechism of Puseyism. A plain Tract for plain people." Hatchards.-Very much to the purpose and conveying some startling information to those who know little of Puseyism. "IMPORTUNATE Prayer encouraged by the Example of Christ on the Cross." Jackson, and Seeleys.-A handsome little book, for the circulation of which we are very anxious, because the profits are for a most excellent purpose, as may be learned from a small tract entitled "A Plea for Aid towards the enlargement and improvement of St. Peter's Church, Islington," by Frederic Sandoz. The purchasers will not only aid the preaching of the gospel, but also raise a barrier against popish intrusion. AND, just as sending off our last sheet, we have seen, in a pamplet, "A letter to the Right Rev. Richard, Lord Bishop of Oxford: on certain passages in his recent charge. By a Churchman." (Published by Dalton,) the mild, grave, respectful tone of which it puts to shame the intemperate style of many who have advocated the same principles, and proves that the gloved and open palm of quiet truth can smite as home, and leave as indelible a mark as the sharpest clenched knuckles of indignant declamation. It is a masterly appeal to the conscience of a prelate whose recent charge has certainly tended to make sad the heart of the righteous, and to promise the wicked that it shall be well with him. Fairly analyzed by this writer, stripped of its sophistry and brought to the test of fact and experience, that production, over which the Romish press in England has greatly exulted, appears just what it is—a com pound of disingeniousness, and timid submission, if indeed there be no active partizanship apparent on the face of it. We pray God to send every incompetent ruler such faithful, honest, scriptural reprovers as this Churchman! THE PROTESTANT. THE following letter having been transmitted too late in the month for the body of the Magazine, we deem it right to devote the space occupied by our concluding paper to its consideration, rather than, by postponing it to a future Number, to appear careless of a wound unintentionally inflicted on another's feelings. If the writer were in the habit of seeing our periodical, he would know what every reader of it perfectly well knows, that the concluding article is invariably written by the Editor, and in her own person. Ali, therefore, that is said of the "Anonymous Correspondent" belongs to the Editor, who has not only, from the first, avowed this and the reviews as exclusively her own department, but has moreover openly repudiated the custom of "not being responsible for the sentiments of correspondents," and scorned to say or to do behind a mask what she would not dare to do and to say openly. We now insert the letter, the contents of which both pained and surprised us. 'Record Office, 54, Fleet Street, To the Editress of the Christian Lady's Magazine. 'MADAM, 'IN the last Number of your Magazine, appeared an article by an anonymous Correspondent entitled "the Protestant," in which a most unjustifiable attack was made upon my personal character and professional reputation as the Reporter for the Record, which paper, through me, the writer attempts to damage in public estimation. The writer of the said article deliberately but falsely asserts that I was not only guilty of a gross dereliction of duty, but imputes to me a base motive as the principle of action whence that alleged misconduct took its rise. He charges me with a "uniform omission" of a certain class of statements from my report of the last Anniversary Meeting of the "London Society for promoting Christianity among the Jews;" and then proceeds to account for his unfounded accusation by attributing to me 66 a determinate bias" against certain opinions of the speakers. An admirable sample this, both of truth and of charity! The writer of the "Protestant" says,--" most assuredly there was not a speaker on the platform who did not put forward the expectation of the church, the speedy coming of the Lord, to reign over the nations, among whom Israel shall ever be the chief." 'Now let us see how he attempts to sustain his accusation against me :— 1. He says, "The Report of the Society set it forth." 'It is not customary to give more than such an outline of the facts and statistics related in the official reports of societies as will convey to the public in the shortest compass, information as to their state and progress. My report in this instance professes to give only "extracts," and they are of that nature. If it be asked, why omit the sentimental por |