The Press.
London, England, 1858-02-27 00:00:00

THE PRESS, PFBRIJARY 27, 1858.

" their vocation until they are qualified for the task
"by duly acquiring the local patois." As soon as
this knowledge is acquired, street preaching is pro-
secuted, while Chinese translations of the Bible and
Testament are scattered over the country by a judi-
cious system of "native colportage," and established
schools are attended. Mr. Milne does not speak of
the success of these efforts. He regards them more
as the preliminary steps to an ultimate success
among a people whom he frankly acknowledges to be
" godless, atheistic, worldly, sensual, proud, and con-
" ceited ; bard, unitnpressible, indifferent, attached
" to ancient forms, detesting change, deficient in
" principle, wanting in manliness, obsequious, plau-
" Bible, and formal." The task of evangelising such
a people is, we fear, hopeless under the present
feeble efforts and limited means, but " the aid and
influence" of the foreigner may do much within the
next few years.

Hardwicke's Annual Biography for 1857. By
Edward Walford, M.A. London : Hardwicke.
THIS useful little volume contains original and
selected memoirs of some 500 persons of European
distinction who died in the year 1850. The names of
Viscount Hardinge, Dr. Buckland, Mme. Vestris, Sir
John Ross, Paul Delaroche, Chief Justice Jervis,
Prince Paskiewitch, and Count Woronzoff will be
found included. The chief worth of a volume of
this nature is in the " accuracy and impartiality " of
the memoirs given ; hence a voluminous correspon
deuce with the families of the deceased, and the
very natural delay in the appearance of a volume
which chronicles the deeds and services of men and
women who have deserved well of their country.
Besides the peculiar interest the book possesses for
those whose family names appear in its pages, it is a
most ;useful volume of reference. It is cheap,
copious, and correct, and contains every essential
detail that we require.

Every day Life. Chapters f"r the People. Contra
buted by the Rev. C. B. Tayler, M.A., and Others•
London : Seeley!.
As excellent little book, written for the purpose of
conveying social and religious lessons in that easy,
cheerful form of narrative which best suits the rela-
tions of the incidents of every-day life. From birth
and baptism to marriage and happy nights at home,
and to sickness and death, the events
_of " every-day
life " are lightly and happily treated. We commend
the book for the excellence of the sentiments.

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVE D.-:EBRI:111Y 25.
BOOKS.

What You Will. An Irregular Romance.
J. W Parker.
The Clerical Directory for HS& J. Crockford.
The Niaiuie Book for England. Edited by James Biggs.
Waterlow.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic. Vol. I. By John Lothrop
Motley. G. Routledge.
The Commerce of India. By B. A. Irving, M.A.
Smith and Elder.

The Great Indian Crisis :n Fire Minutes' Reading. Allen

•nd Co—Memuranthins on the

of the Bengal

Army. Ditto—Justice fur India. ►3y a Plain Speaker.
Hardwieke—A Narrative of Me Campaign of Me Delhi
Army. Dalton.

The Undergradualed Papers. Whittaker The Irish
Quarterly Review. Simpkin and Alarbhall— Frazer's
Magazine. J. W. Parker.

TIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—It is rumoured that
three more nights will be given in the middle of
March—ending finally Saturday the 20th—in con-
sequence of the great success attending the winter
season, which would have been continued but for
engagements in Edinburgh and Glasgow.
MME. SZARVADY, better known to the musical world
as Mlle. Clauss, gave the first of a series of Lent
concerts on Saturday last, in Pleyel's Saloons,at Paris.
The saloons, though extensive, were completely full,
and the auditory comprised many persons of dis
tinction in both the musical and fashionable worlds.
Mme. Szarvady executed, with M. Maurin, a
"Sonata for piano and violin" by Mozart, and, alone,
a " Fantaisie Chromatique " by Bach, " Promenades
d'un Solitaire "by Heller, a Sonata of Beethoven,
and, lastly, Wiegeniied, by Henselt, a composition
by Chopin, and a march by Alkan. The brilliant
position which Mme. Szarvady has held since the
commencement of her career, occupied amongst
pianists, is known to musical amateurs; but on
Saturday last she literally outstripped herself: even
her most ardent admirers, of whom the number is
great, were astonished at the style of her execution.
It may be said, without exaggeration, that never
were greater agility, greater c.)rrectness, more sou!,
in. a wcrd, so near an approach to perfection, at.
tamed by any public performer. Under her hands
the piano had "charms to soothe even the savage
breast." Loud and long was the applause she drew