Sacred Philosophy of the Seasons, by Rev. Henry Duncan, D.D.-Mr. Robert Carter, 58 Canal street, has just published another of these delightful volumes, which completes the series. The present volume treats of Autumn, and besides containing various details of autumnal appearances, produce, &c., is largely and judiciously occupied with the general results of that remarkable system which pervades animated nature. The wisdom and goodness of this system consists in its admirable adaption to the circumstances and condition of fallen man. The problem, observes the author, has been said to be, "matter being given to construct a world," but more truly the problem was, human nature being given, to construct a system by which the bodily and mental faculties should be developed and carried forward to perfection, and mind should be exhibited meanwhile in all its various phases. In the arrangements and operations of Providence, this problem has been solved. Man is subjected to wants in order to stimulate his dormant powers; and while nature, yielding to his judicious labors, is made to supply these wants, new wants are created, and the stimulus to continued exertion is increased. Again nature is propitious, and again new wants arise; and thus man is urged forward from improvement to improvement in an increasing ratio and interminable series.

This work, now completed, forms a treasury of facts of the highest interest, applied with tact and judgment to the author's purpose. The style is eminently pleasing, and the deep devotional feeling pervading the whole can scarcely fail to communicate a healthful glow to the heart of the reader.

Works of the Puritan Divines.—Wiley & Putnam, New York.-The third volume of a uniform series of works which are being reproduced in England and the United States, embraces a Memoir of Rev. John Howe, one of the choice spirits of the 17th century, and a collection of several of his most remarkable discourses and essays. The character of this great and good man's writings is happily too well known in this country to need our praise. We hope to hear that this series of publications is sustained by the reflecting and the serious,

The Evils suffered by American Women and American Children: the Causes and the Remedy, in an Address by Miss C. E. Beecher. Also an Address to the Protestant Clergy of the United States. Just published by the Messrs. Harper, New York. This publication is designed to call attention to the great want of the means of common education to the children of this country, and to secure associated effort in fitting and sending forth to all parts of the country not provided for, suitable female teachers, under the direction of the Society for Promoting National Education, located at Cincinnati. Miss B. presents an array of startling facts illustrative of our destitution even in such a State as New York, and her plan for meeting the exigency, while it promises well for the rising generation, suggests a practicable method of affording dignified and useful employment to multitudes of worthy females, who are now scarcely able to keep body and soul together by the proceeds of long and toilsome labors with the needle. It is computed that there are in the city of New York alone, 10,000 females compelled to live by their needles, many of whom receive but about a shilling a day. By the scheme of education proposed, thousands of these females would, before long, be qualified for, and engaged in, the honorable work of teaching the young in every American village and neighborhood. This book deserves the attention of philanthropists and patriots, and especially of American ladies.

Temper and Temperament; or Varieties of Character. By Mrs. Ellis, author of Women of England. New York: Harper & Brothers. Mrs. Ellis has many readers and admirers, and this volume will increase the number. The design of the story is excellent. In its delineations of character, it aims to show its varieties and the peculiar requirements of different dispositions. But temperament may be modified and temper improved by early religious culture, and it is the object of Mrs. Ellis to enforce the importance of all those lessons of wisdom that grow out of the subject; not the least of which is that charity that endureth, hopeth, believeth all things,