PRAYER-BOOK AND HOMILY SOCIETY. Just published by T. SEAWARD, for the Society, at 134 Salisbury Square. 2. The whole of the HOMILIES, as TRACTS; in the entire Vo- 3. The HOMILIES, as TRACTS; as also the BOOK of COMMON Subscriptions and Donations will be thankfully received at the Society's This day is published, price 5s. in boards. TWENTY-ONE SERMONS, adapted to Parochial and Domestic Sunderland printed and sold by Reed and Son. Sold also by Baldwin, This day is published, price 5s. MEMOIRS of a WEST-INDIA PLANTER. Published from London: Hamilton, Adams, & Co. and J. Nisbet. This day is published, the third edition, in Two Vols. 8vo., price 28s. boards, Printed for L. B. Seeley and Son; Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy; Hamilton, CONTENTS OF NO. III. REVIEW OF Page Biblical Researches and Travels in Russia; including a Tour in the Crimea, and the Passage of the Caucasus: with Maps and Plates. Letters on the Moral and Religious State of South America. Written during a Residence of nearly seven Years in Buenos Ayres, Chile, History of the Progress and Suppression of the Reformation in Italy in the Sixteenth Century; including a Sketch of the History of the Reformation in the Grisons. By Thomas M'Crie, D.D......... 377 Reflections on the Moral and Spiritual Claims of the Metropolis: a Discourse, delivered at the City Chapel, London, introductory to the Second Series of Lectures to Mechanics, established by the Society for promoting Christian Instruction in London and its Vicinity with an Appendix, further illustrative of the Subject. By John Blackburn, Minister of Claremont Chapel, Pentonville, A brief Review of the Reciprocal Duties of Ministers and People: the Substance of a Sermon, preached at St. James's Church, Guernsey, December 24, 1826, on the Death of the Rev. Peter Maingy, M.A., The Grievance of the Curates of the Church of England under the despotic Power of the Hierarchy: illustrated by Facts. By the Rev. James Ivory Holmes, M. A. Hard Measure; or, cruel Laws in liberal Times: illustrated in an authentic Narrative of the Sufferings endured, and the pecuniary Loss sustained, by the Rev. George Bugg, A.B. in three Dismissals from his Curacies, under the Influence of the "Curates' Act;" "Boast not thyself of to-morrow;" a Sermon on the Death of General Sir Harry Calvert, Baronet, G. C. B. By the Rev. Henry Blunt, M. A., Vicar of Clare, Suffolk; Curate of Chelsea, Middlesex, &c. 396 Dialogue between the Editor and a Friend from the Country Letter to the Editor, on the British and Foreign Bible Society. THE CHRISTIAN REVIEW AND Clerical Magazine. JULY 1827. The Gentleman's Magazine for February 1827 - [Article, Christian Review and Clerical Magazine.] SOME apology is due from us to our readers, for our having omitted to notice, in our last Number, the above attempt at a reply, to the strictures previously made by us, on a former article in the Gentleman's Magazine. The fact is, that in the variety of subjects which demanded attention, this claim on our notice was neglected not, however, our readers may rest assured, from any indisposition on our parts to take such assailants in hand. No. We are avowedly men of strife. We have drawn the sword, and thrown away the scabbard. We are so far from shunning a contest with the literary periodicals of the day, high or low, rich or poor, that it is what of all things we seek. The spirit of the age; the principles of the age; the poor and puny, but corrupt and tainted, literature of the age; the bad taste of the age; the false refinement of the age; the real grossness of the age; the unbelief of the age; the bad theology of the age; the downright ungodliness, irreligion, and blasphemy of the age;these are the things which we are principally bent upon attacking and exposing. And if, in this warfare, we were to leave unassailed the magazines, the reviews, the registers, the periodicals, the newspapers of the age, we should feel that we were leaving our work but half performed. To speak the truth, however, we think scorn to confine ourselves to any single member of the tribe; and have larger designs of aggression and exposure, even against the whole order. The present, therefore, must be regarded as only a temporary measure on our part, till we have time to look about us, and consider how we can best attack and lay open, at once, the whole craft and mystery of the periodical press; under whose tyranny the nation groans, and |