of their converts-which might be profitably communicated. Again; there are facts respecting the erection of houses of worship--the praise-worthy example of a poor people; or the lasting feuds of a rich people, divided on a question of location; or the impolitic catholicism of a diversity of sects, building a joint-stock house of worship, to end in greater discord. But we need not extend these hints. There

are no doubt many things which might be gathered up from our local religious histories, which if judiciously recorded might be generally beneficial. Thus one church or people might profit by the experience of another. They would all contribute to a sort of common stock of experience from which each might draw supplies of practical wis

dom.

Henry's Exposition.-We have just received the fifth volume (being the first of the New Testament) of this valuable work. The intrinsic excellence of this work has been too long known, and too highly appreciated, to need recommendation. We rejoice that it is presented to the public in a form which will insure it a more extended circulation. The mechanical execution of the volume is such as to do honor to the publishers, Messrs. Towar & Hogan, of Philadelphia.

Rev. Carlos Wilcox.-Proposals have been issued at Hartford, to publish, "Remains of the Rev. Carlos Wilcox, with a Memoir of his Life," The volume will contain a Biographical sketch of the author; the first book of the Age of Benevolence, with some extracts from the unfinished books; a Poem, before the Phi Beta Kappa Society; and fifteen or twenty of his select Sermons; the whole comprising from 400 to 450 pages, octavo.

Sermons of Dr. Payson.-The friends of this lamented divine propose to publish a series of his discourses, with a sketch of his life and character.

Occasional Sermons, by Dr. Beecher, in one vol. 8vo. of about 350 pages, are proposed to be published in January next. The proposals announce, that to those which have recently appeared before the public, will be added others, written and published by the author in the earlier stage of his ministry.

The Works of President Edwards, with a new Memoir of his Life, by the Rev. S. E. Dwight, of New-Haven, will be published the next summer. This edition will comprise all that has been contained in any former edition, together with several published papers not hitherto incorporated with his Works, and a number of valuable MSS. never before published. They will comprise ten volumes octavo.

The American Pastor's Journal.The Rev. Austin Dickinson, of NewYork, proposes to commence a new Periodical, of original plan and character, as soon as adequate pledges of supplies shall be obtained. The work to bear the following title, or something similar, viz :

The American Pastor's Journal: or Original Sketches of real Characters, Conversations, and striking Facts.— Furnished chiefly by CLERGYMEN.

The following sketch of topics to be embraced, may serve to illustrate the plan:

1. Instances of very early piety. 2. Striking results of parental faithfulness, or unfaithfulness; of filial respect or disrespect. 3. Cases of individuals raised from deep obscurity, or wickedness, to eminent usefulness. 4. Remarkable cases of conviction. 5. Cases of great hardness of heart, from resisting convictions. 6. Striking cases of submission and conversion to God. 7. Cases of awful relapse into sin. 8. Cases of strong temptation and trial.

9. Cases of strong faith and confidence in God. 10. Peculiarly manifest interpositions of Providence, in mercy or judgment. 11. Instances of the wrath of man being made to praise God. 12. Cases illustrative of the influence of piety on the intellectual powers. 13. Instances of extraordinary beneficence or covetousness. 14. Death bed scenes, of the Christian, the backslider, the infidel, the universalist, the profane man, or the worldling.

The Editor deems that the existence of such a Periodical may be the means of leading Clergymen, in their pastoral intercourse, to be more observant of character, more discriminating in their views of human nature, and more disposed to record and rescue from oblivion striking conversation and facts.

Ecclesiastical Register of New England.-Henry Davidson, Esq. P. M. of Waldo, Me. is collecting materials for a Register of the Churches and Ministers of the religious denominations, in the New England States. The Register is intended to contain correct information on each of the following particulars:

1. Date of the organization of each church of every denomination, distinguishing them from each other by appropriate letters.

2. Names of the first and of each succeeding settled minister in each church, with the date of their ordination or installation.

3. Date of the dismission or death of such ministers, distinguishing the former from the latter, and adding the age of those who continued in their pastoral office till their decease.

4 Dates of the revivals which have occurred, and number of converts added to each church in consequence.

5. No. of members of each church in 1810.

6. No. of members of each church, January 1, 1828.

7. Name of the College where each minister received his college education.

8. In cases where ministers have been re-settled, the names of the towns will be added, with the time of their re-settlement, if known.

The compiler is aware that there are difficulties in the way of obtaining full and complete information on all the particulars stated above, and he earnestly requests Ministers of the Gospel,

Clerks of Churches, Stewards of Methodist Conferences, and others who feel an interest in the undertaking, to communicate to him in the month of January, 1828, correct information as above, respecting the Churches with which they are connected.

The information received will be placed in the form of a schedule or table, for easy reference; and it is supposed the whole of New England may be thus brought into a pamphlet of 100 pages.

The following abbreviations will be used: O. C. Orthodox Congregationalist. U. Unitarian. B. Baptist. M. Methodist. E. Episcopalian. Uni. Universalist. F. B. Free Will Baptist. C. Christyan. R. C. Roman Catholic. d. dismissed. dec. deceased. t. to. f. from.

The compiler supposes that the greatest prosperity of our churches has been since the year 1810, and that it would be interesting to compare that period with the present.

Library of Useful Knowledge.We have received the first numbers of a London Periodical bearing this title. It is conducted by a society of gentlemen of high respectability for their learning, and rank in public life. The object of the society is to impart useful information to all classes of the community, particularly to such as are unable to avail themselves of experienced teachers, or may prefer learning by themselves: and for this purpose the subjects are stripped of many technicalities, and are exhibited in a simplicity of style, and familiarity of illustration, which brings them within the comprehension of youth, and others of limited education. The plan of the work embraces between two and three hundred numbers; and on the following subjects: Natural, Intellectual, Ethical, and Political Philosophy; the History of Science, of Art, of Nations, and of Individuals. Under the first of these subjects are included the various branches of the Mathematics, the Natural Sciences, and their applications to the business of life. Each treatise consists of thirty-two closely printed octavo pages, with neat engravings on wood, and tables. They are issued at London on the first and fifteenth of each month, and furnished in this country by the earliest arrivals, at twelve

ished at the fertility of the human mind, which has been able to produce such a multitude of ideas as are contained in the piles of ponderous volumes which the eye surveys, without being able to reach the end.

The saloons are in succession, and open wide into each other. In the centre of one saloon is a miniature of the classic mount" Parnassus," beautifully executed by the artist Finton. It represents a round rugged mountain shaded with the emblematic myrtle and laurel trees. On this mountain are numerous small figures in bronze, of the most celebrated poets and eininent learned men who have adorned France, placed at various heights, according to the estimated literary rank of the individual whom each figure is meant to represent. At another end of the building is seen a representation of the sandy deserts of Africa-the Pyramids groves of palm trees-and caravans of travellers all executed in the most exact proportion, according to a scale which is given. Adjoining this is a saloon dedicated to works on geography and astronomy. Here are to be seen the two largest globes in the world celestial and terrestrial. Their size is so great, that, in order to place them, it was necessary to cut two large circular openings in the upper floor; the frame work rests on the ground floor, and the globes are situated in the centre, half in the upper and half in the lower rooms-so that, by merely turning them, they can be seen from either; they are both of the same size, measuring (each) twelve feet in diameter, and about thirty-five feet in circumference.

In the Cabinet of Antiquities are I shown the finest collection in existence of gold, silver, and bronze medals of all ages and nations; a large silver shield, supposed to be that used by Scipio; the brazen chair of King Dagobert; the armour of Francis I.; a beautiful vase, in the shape of a chalice, made of ivory, formed out of the single tooth of an elephant; various and valuable specimens of Egyptian antiquities; several Egyptian mummies; and an Egyptian bird called the Ibis, with its plumage fresh, and in the highest state of preservation, supposed to be upwards of 3000 years old.

The manuscripts occupy five saloons. Thirty thousand volumes of the manuscripts are connected with the history of France; the remaining forty-two

thousand volumes consist of foreign languages, ancient literature, and the correspondence of eminent individuals; amongst them are some letters from Henry VIII. King of England, in his own hand writing, (a very bad hand he wrote;) letters from Henry IV. of France; the manuscripts of Telemachus in the hand writing of Fenelon; an ancient manuscript of Homer; and Petrarch's manuscript of Virgil.

In fact, any description of this splendid institution can give but a very imperfect idea. It would take a week to see it as it ought to be seen; and any person whose taste lies that way, will see it with increased pleasure every time.

This magnificent library is open to the world gratuitously; tables are laid in each saloon for the accommodation of those who want to read; and if you should wish to take notes or extracts to any extent, you are supplied gratui tously also with pens, ink, &c., a grant of money being made annually by the government for this purpose. In each saloon are servants in the king's livery, regularly stationed, and ready to hand you in a moment any work in the entire building you may wish to call for. To the public in general, or to those who go merely to look and lounge through the saloons, it is open only on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays; but to those who wish to read, and to foreigners, it is open every day, (Sundays excepted,) and crowded with persons of every rank and class of life, from the highest to the lowest, following and cultivating the peculiar bent of their genius-many of them, perhaps, destined to enrich, by their future productions, the very fountain from which they are now so freely and so abundantly permitted to draw.

This is not, however, the only library open gratuitously in Paris; there are several others, of which the principal are, "The Royal Library of the Arsenal," containing about one hundred and eighty thousand volumes, rich in historians and poets, chiefly Italian; "The Library of the Pantheon of St. Genevieve," one hundred and twenty thousand volumes; "The Mazarin Library," one hundred thousand volumes; "The Library of the City of Paris," about fifty thousand volumes; besides several others attached to particular institutions.

Literature of the Ionian Islands.-The following description of the improving condition of the literature of these islands is given by one of the natives; and speaks much to the praise of him, through whose benevolent exertions the improvement is making.

When Lord Guilford, says the writer, in 1820, made a tour in these islands, for the purpose of ascertaining the proper method of securing the prosperity of various establishments for public instruction, he found only a small number of schools, and those in a deplorable state. The schools of mutual instruction at the present day are twenty-nine in number, and contain 1733 scholars out of a population of 176,392 persons. The university of the Ionian Islands was not opened till the autumn of 1823. In that year it contained sixteen professors, most of whom were of the first order. Almost all these young professors have studied in the most celebrated universities, at the expense of Lord Guilford; so that we have collected in our university a selection of learned men, whose minds are stored with knowledge acquired in England, Germany, France, and Italy. The following is a list of 13 chairs which are provisionally divided among the professors:-Theology, 3; civil law, 3; medicine, 3; botany, 1; agriculture, 1; chemistry, 1; mathematics, 5; philosophy, 2; rhetoric, 1; Greek literature,

2; English language, and literature, 2; Latin literature, 1; history, 3; archoology, 1; physics, 1.

All the lessons are given in Greek, and the students are beginning to diffuse beyond the precincts of the university, forms of language richer and more elegant than those which are employed in continental Greece. In ten or fifteen years to come, our language will be fixed; then the ridiculous custom will disappear of employing in a Greek city a corrupted Italian jargon, even in Court and the National Assembly. See what we owe to the worthy chancellor of our university, to Lord Guilford alone! But this is not the limit of his benevolence. Whilst government provides at its own expense for the instructian in theology of one hundred young ecclesiastics, who will one day spread instruction in the country, and sustain the enlightened piety of the faithful, his lordship provides, at his own expense, for the instruction of forty youths, destined to be either learned judges, just and honorable merchants, or industrious cultivators. The library, which had no existence two years ago, already contains 30,000 volumes of choice works, of which a great number are the property of our benefactor. We have lately formed a small botanical garden, which promises to become an object of curiosity.

RELIGIOUS.

Review of Tracts published by the American Unitarian Association. First published in the Christian Magazine. 8vo. pp. 62. Boston.

A Sermon, delivered before the Vermont Colonization Society, at Montpelier, Oct. 17, 1827. By Calvin Yale, Pastor of the Congregational Church in Charlotte. 8vo. pp. 16.

Religious Magazine, or Spirit of the Foreign Theological Journals and Reviews. No. 1. 8vo. pp. 16. E. Littell, Philadelphia.

A Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews. In two Volumes. By Moses

Stuart, Associate Professor of Sacred Literature in the Theol. Sem. at Andover. Vol. I. 8vo. pp. 288.

The Apocalypse of St. John, or Prophecy of the Rise, Progress, and Fall of the Church of Rome; the Inquisition; the Revolution of France; the Universal War; and the Final Triumph of Christianity; being a new interpretation. By the Rev. George Croly, A. M. H., R. S. L. New York: Carvills.

The Christian Bishop, approving himself unto God, in reference to the Present State of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America: A Sermon, preached in