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London, England, 1853-03-30 00:00:00

Observations on India. John Chapman.

The author of this volume has been a resident
in India for many years. He gi'res us a descrip-
tion of his journey, and accounts of the inhabi-
tants, country, politics, and climate. He considers
the natives should be brought forward to occupy
situations of trust and importance, as one race is
unfitted to rule another, and gives a number of
the curious customs and habits of the dwellers on
the banks of the Ganges.

The Traveller's Library. Nos. 36, 37, 38, and 39.
These interesting and informing little serials pre-
sent us with a variety of contents. In the first is
an essay on Swift and Richardson, by Lord Jeffrey,
reprinted from the Edinburgh Review. The next
is a translation, by Lady Duff Gordon, of Professor
Ranke's " Ferdinand 1.," and " Maximilian II."of
Austria, being an essay on the political and religi-
gious state of Germany immediately after the Re-
formation. In the two concluding numbers men-
tioned above, we meet with Alexander Dumas's
" Memoirs of a Maitre D'Armes, or Eighteen
Months at St. Petersburgh," translated by the
Marquis of Ormoitde. It must be gratifying to
those who desiderate cheap literature to find so
much presented to them as is here the case.

Cwn Dhu, and other Poems. Effingham Wilson.
A pleasing and simple little volume of poems,
containing a variety of tales and lyrics, which, if
not possessed of much striking originality, are
agreeable and entertaining.

Lays of the Future. By William Leask. Partridge

and Oakey.

This little volume is on somewhat ambitious sub-
jects—such as light, mystery, the state of the world,
&c. The preface says—" That there is a good time
coming is believed by some, rather hoped than be-
lieved by others, and absolutely despaired of by
multitudes." The author is one of the more hope-
ful class. Two of the best poems are the Church
of the present and of the future.

Ten Sermons of Religion. By Theodore Parker,
Minister of the Twenty-eighth Congregational
Church of Boston. John Chapman.

These sermons comprise a variety of subjects.
In the preface the author remarks that he has been
repeatedly asked to publish a little volume which
might come home to his readers in the details of
every-day life. A great deal of sound observation
is to be met with here, and solemn truths are en-
forced which are common to every religion, and in
which all varying sects must agree. These reflec-
tions are very good.

"Some of you are young men and maidens. You
look forward to be husbands and wives—to be fathers
and mothers—one day. Some of you seek to be rich,
some honoured. Is it not well to seek to have for your-
self a noble, manly character—to be religious men and
women, with a liberal development of mind and consci-
ence, heart and soul. You will meet with losses, trials,

disappointments, in your business—in your friends and
families, and in yourselves many a joy will also smile on
you. You may use the sunny sky and its failing wea-
ther alike to help your religious growth. Your time,
young men, what life and manhood you may make of
that ! Some of you are old men—your heads white with
manifold experience, and life is written in storied hiero-
glyphics on cheeks and brow. Venerable faces, I hope
to learn from you. Let me ask you, if, while you have
been doing your works, have been gathering riches and
tasting the joys of time—have been son, husband, father,
friend—you have also greatened, deepened, heightened,
your manly character, and gained the greatest riches—
the wealth of a religious soul, incorruptible and unde-
filed, the joys that cannot fade away ?"