MEMOIR OF SARAH L. HUNTINGTON SMITH. By Rev. E. W. Hooker, D. D.-The American Tract Society have issued a new edition of this much approved and delightful piece of Christian biography. It delineates a rare and beautiful character, in which were exemplified some of the highest attainments of Christian virtue and most attractive graces of private life. The spectacle of affections refined by trials, love strengthened by sacrifices, and the heart purified and exalted by the refining processes of grace, is one which cannot be too much or too ardently admired. We commend the work to the thoughtful perusal of the young Christians of her sex, as a fine model of character, both in relation to principle and experience.

HISTORY OF REVIVALS.-The Tract Society have added this also to the number of sterling religious issues of the press. It is a work of great interest and great moral impressiveness. The offspring of an earnest and powerful excitement, of a strong mind and a devoted heart, it is pervaded with the very life of eloquence, and partakes of the unction and solemnity of the manifested presence of Divinity. It is not only a truthful record of a most marked display of God's power and grace, but abounds in truths and appeals of singular pungency and force, and is adapted as well to move the heart and stir the conscience, as to inform the mind. Its general circulation can hardly fail to produce a decided and salutary influence upon the churches, and promote the same blessed work as that which it records.

THE SACRED PHILOSOPHY OF THE SEASONS. By Rev. Henry Duncan, D. D. R. Carter.-This volume realizes a beautiful thought. It aims to present the proofs of God's being and character, which are suggested by the aspects and phenomena of the spring, and lie in the reproductive powers and processes of nature. The atmosphere, light, heat, the properties of the soil, the phenomena of organized life, the development of seeds and plants, and all the minute and beautiful arrangement of things which proclaim the ever active and beneficent hand of Deity, are the sources of its proof and illustration. It combines minute detail of scientific facts with accurate generalizations and exalted views; while the whole is knit together with a golden thread of sentiment, in which is often the very spirit of poesy, and animated with genuine piety. Instruction and moral impression are firmly blended, and the reader will rise from its perusal with

more exalted views of the Creator's goodness, and with a store of important principles and truths.

THE ARTISTS OF AMERICA.-Baker & Scribner have commenced the publication, in numbers, of a work under this title, edited by C. Edwards Lester. The work is issued in very handsome style, the first number containing a sketch of Washington Allston, and the second of Henry Inman, two of the most distinguished of American painters, both of whom have been lately removed by death. The series promises to be worthy of patronage.

ELIZABETH BENTON.-The Harpers have issued a brief but very impressive tale, from an anonymous source, teaching an important lesson. The perils and temptations to which the seductive pleasures of fashionable life subject the Christian are delineated with great but unexaggerated force; and in the issue of the tale, the invincible might of fair religious principle, and the conservative influence of right early instruction, are finely set forth. The tale is pleasingly told, and the moral sentiment it designs to illustrate, never obscured.

EXPERIMENTAL AND PRACTICAL VIEWS OF THE ATONEMENT. This is the title of a little volume published by M. W. Dodd, from the pen of Rev. Octavius Winslow, formerly of Brooklyn. It attempts to present those aspects of this great doctrine which relate to the feelings and experience of Christians, rather than its didactic and formal exposition. It breathes a very ardent and devoted spirit, and evinces a practical acquaintance with the consolatory and purifying influences of the doctrine, which cannot fail to enlist the sympathies and move the affections, as well as instruct the understanding of the believer.

LIBRARY OF SACRED MUSIC.-A very creditable and promising enterprise, in the musical line, has been begun by Messrs. Wyman & Newell, under this title. It aims to present in monthly numbers choice religious pieces of music, consisting of extracts from the works of the great masters, and other gems of the beautiful art, original and selected. The editors possess excellent qualifications for the editorship of such a work, and from the contents of the first three numbers we are inclined to anticipate a collection of anthems, set-pieces, and other pieces of sacred music of a rare and standard character, and such as have heretofore been wholly inaccessible to the mass of the musical community. Price 25 cents per number. E. H. Wilcox, general agent.