New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-09-26

domtable Wings OF New York TO buckle again
on the old armor Of 1910, and like glorious
result would crown thsir efforts in the Empire
State.
On motion, a vo;e Of thanks was rendered to
the President, 10 which he briefly and appropri.
ately replied,
After which, the Convention having giving nine
hearty cheers for HARRY OF THE WEST, BRADIsH
and FURMAS, adjourned. sine die.
JOHN NJ HoLLEY, President
AUGUSTUS L. BRowS, and others, Secretaries.
! THE HisToRY OF THE REFORMATION OF THE CHURCH OF
ENGLAND: BY GILBERT BURNET, D. D. late Lord
Bishop Of SaIlsbrry-with the Collection OF Records
and copious Index revised and corrected with add
tonal Note. and Preface, by the Rev E. Mares, d.
d. late Professor of Modern History in the University
three elegantly engraved Portraits. In four volumes.
/ D. Appleton Co. $50 Broadway, Publishers
This is Of those great standard works for
which the enterprising Publishers have especially
deserved the thanks of Ecclesiastical students
and of general scholars throughout the land
Ofteaiimes the heart OF the lover of truth and of
true Intellectual progress sinks within him at the
sight of the pernicious trash that is thrown so
broadly before the reading public, and he feels it
impossible that under this influence, the public
taste should rot become depraved the public NOR
ais debauched, and Literature, which should be the
minister of purity and virtue, made the engine OF
all corrurting vice. But the efforts, crowned, we
are confident, with abundan, success, of some of
the principal publishing houses in this city and in
Philadelphia, to bring out, in style BETTING
their worth, the rarer standard werks of English
History and Theology, give ground of encourage
ment and hoPe. To the student either OF civil or
religious history no epoch can be of more i'm
portance than that of the Reformation in Eng
land 1t signalized the overthrow, in one of its
strongest holds, of the Roman power, and gave an
impulse to the human mind the full results Of
which are even now bat partly realized. almost
all freedom of iDquiry-ail liberation in matters
of religion, had its brth-hour then; and without
familiar acquaintance with all its principal
events, but llttle progress can be made in under
standing the nature and ultimate tendencies of the
revolutioA then effected.
The History of Bishop ByRNET is one of the
NEST celebrated and by far the most frequently
quoted of any that has been written Of this great
event. Upon the original publication of the first
volume, it was received in Great Britain with the
loudest and most extravagant encomiums. The
author received the thanks .; both Houses of Par
lament, and requested by them to continue
the work. In continuing it he had the assistance |
of the most learned and eminen; divines OF his
time; aud he cunfesses his Indebtedness for i'm
portant aid to LLOYD, TlLLoTsoN and SHILLING
FLEET three OF the greatest of England's Bish-
ops. Il know says he. in his Preface to the
second volume, - that nothing can more efectually
recommend this work. than to say that it passed
with their hearty appreciation, after they had ex
amncd it with that which their great zeal
for the cause concerned in it, and their goodness
10 the author and freedom with him, obliged
them to use.
The present edition OF this great work has been
edited with laborious care by Dr. Mares who pro-
iesscs 10 Layc corrected important errors into
which the author fell, and to have made ssch i'm
provements in the order OF the work as viii rem
der it far more useful to The reader or historical
student, Preliminary explanations. full and su;i
Client Ia the clear understanding of the author. are
given, ard marginal references are made through
OF; The book . as greatly 20 facilitate and rem
der accurate is consultation. The Whole IS pub
lished ia fcv. large octave voiumes OF six nun
dre,! pages in cact-Prined upon heavy paoer in
large and Clear type 1. contains portraits Of
twenty. four of the rapst celebrated characters Of
the Reformation, aud Is issued in the uniformly
neat style Of the ,4e.l.laown publishers. 1t Will .
OF course find 2 place il eycry theological library
--anl WI, y no ,ae7as, We erus. be confined &c
tha. comparatively linsit=d sphere.
70 Tire MisceIIanieS or DE QgEcEY SIRE about
70 be collected and published IN Philadelphia. No
one who has read the Opium Earer, originally
published in the New Monthly Magazine, aud re-
printed in The New YORKER. need be told that be
is one of the most vigorous and classic writers in
the language He displayed much unnecessary
and discrcGi;able malice in his attacks upon the
reputation of CoLERlDcE but these have been
so fully answered that no friend of the great phi
losopher need take the trouble 10 cherish against
his maigner the slightest anip1osi,y. De GUN
cEY is profound German scholar, though he SYM
pathises far les. with the literature and philosophy
of that land, than CARLYLE. q man of greater
genius. He writes with great vigor and energy
and the volume of his collected essays viii we'll
merit the attention of the general reader.
ILLUSTRATION OF IHE PRINCIPAL EVENTS IL
THE LIFE OF WAsHlSGToN.-Thi is the title Of
work of which we have received the initial num-
Der, which seems to US worthy the attention of the
tasteful admirers Of art I: is 10 De completed in
twelve weekly numbers-each containing four
highly finished steel engra3ings with descriptions
by Mr.. JARED SPARKS, under whose editorial SUI
pervision the work is issued. 1t is printed in the
mos, elegant style and published in the Quario