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The Mysteries of the Kingdom ; A Series of Sketches
expository of Our Blessed Saviour's Parables. By the
Rev. Joseph Baylee, A.M. Liverpool: Edwd. Howell.
The Rev. Mr. Baylee having delivered a series of ser-
mona expository of the parables, he has now favoured the
religious public by allowing them to be published from the
short-hand writer's notes, under the modest title of
sketches. These sermons were delivered extempore, and
lave all that impressiveness. of sentiment and feeling
which spontaneously arises from an earnest, but necessarily
rapid consideration of divine truth and teaching; but
coupled with that, and of far greater moment, they impart
views and principles the result of years of patient prayerful
thought. This, the first issue of the series, contains two
parts, or sermons—one on " Parabolic Teaching," and the
other on " The Sower." The sketches do not profess to
be elaborate expositions of the parables, but they are in
truth admirable in style and excellent in their teaching.
The series, when complete, cannot fail, in the words of the
Rev. author, to tend "to the edification of souls, in the
setting forth of divine truth."

Remunerative Price the Desideratum, not Cheapness. By
James Harvey, late Vice-President of the Anti-Mono-
poly Association of Liverpool, &c. London : Effing-

tarn Wilson

One of the most perplexing and puzzling questions of
the day is that of monetary reform. Few understand it
thoroughly, and the most part of these few have a direct
interest in confusing instead of elucidating it. The public
ought to feel grateful to any gentleman who will try to
expound its complications. Mr. James Harvey makes
the attempt, and offers his views in a pamphlet compiled
from letters written by him lately, and published in a
contemporary. He sets out by boldly abjuring the poli-
tical faith of free trade, which he once professed, and by
rowing himself a convert to Protectionist principles, that
Is, provided the Protectionists will adopt an expansive
currency system. Whether the Protectionist party can
accept him as a brother on this condition, remains to be
sen. Mr. Harvey's broad doctrine is, that the true prin-
ciple of protection can never be carried out unless the
entire policy of Sir Robert Peel, commercial, financial,
colonial, and monetary, be reversed ; and that a paper
currency is the agent by which alone this reversal can be
effected. Gold, he asserts, is a barbarous instrument, fit
only for eastern nations and rude times—the tyrant of
commerce, instead of its servant, Mr. Harvey does not
attempt to dogmatise on any single absolute plan, but he
suggests three modes for issuing paper money abundantly.
We must refer those who desire to know them to the
pamphlet itself. The scope of the brochure is to demon-
strate that, under a paper money system similar to that
which we had during the last war, but improved, the pros-
perity of the country would be increased to an extent as
yet hardly contemplated.

Church of England Quarterly Review. London, Painter.
The first paper in this valuable periodical is devoted to
the consideration of the " Coming Crisis," and to an
examination of the light thrown upon it in the prophetic
book of Holy Scripture, especially the last book of the
sacred canon called the Apocalypse. Having shown that,
notwithstanding the external symptoms of peace and
prosperity of which we boast, men's minds are uneasy,
and a grave apprehension exists. that the whole world is
on the verge of a great calamity, and that we are entering
on a crisis the issues of which none can tell, the writer
proceeds to inquire into the revelations which God has
given us, not, as he truly observes, to satisfy human Cu.
riosity, but to sustain and guide the faith of the Church.
He regards the Rev. E. B. Elliott's " Horse ApoFttlyp_
ticT" as the standard work on the Apocalypse, which he
thinks contains more information on the subject than any
other book, and a generally right application of the, sym.
bols. Slack's " Mihistry of the Beautiful," and ' yac-
kay's " Egeria ; or the Spirit of Nature," furnish a
theme for an essay on poetry and philosophy, which the
readers of this review will find most entertaining. . The
lately published memoirs of Edward Coppleston, Bishop
of Llandaff, and of the Rev. Edward Bickersteth, rector
of Watton, Herts, are cleverly reviewed and condensed,
and the salient points in the lives of these divines are

placed vividly before the reader. The "Martyrs of the
Reformation," " Despotism and Romanism;" "The
Confessional;" and "The Church of England and the
Church of Rome;" are subjects well handled, and which
have only to be named to awaken a due -sense of their
deep interest.