overbearing, so as to weary the hearer, and create resistance to conviction. It is almost unnecessary to add, that to her domestics she approved herself a most kind and indulgent mistress, and that the respect, affection and gratitude they felt for her was manifest during her life by willing services, and filled them at her death with the most heartfelt sorrow.

The remembrance of the love she showed to her family will never be effaced from their hearts. She greatly rejoiced in the union formed by her niece with a gentleman in every respect worthy of her, and in the blessing of God, which in a distinguished degree rests upon their offspring. The happiness of that family constituted one of the greatest comforts she enjoyed in declining years, and having a soul peculiarly fitted for social converse, she spent as much time as her weak state of health would permit in the enjoyment of their society, delighting and edifying them by the sweetness of her conversation and bright example.

Her life was hid with Christ in God, whose child and heir she was. Therefore the world knew her not, because it knoweth him not. 1 John iii. 1. This earth was not her home. Her conversation was in heaven. To her Christ was precious above all. This was her last declaration, and easy and gentle was her passage from death to life eternal, which she now enjoys in the mansions of everlasting bliss and glory!

Review of Books.

THE PROMISED GLORY OF THE CHURCH OF CHRIST ON EARTH. By the Rev. E. Bickersteth.-Seeleys.

AGAIN and again do we bless the Lord for His great mercy in sending to the Church such a messenger as is this "Brother beloved." To us who have traced every step of his progress, as a minister of the Gospel, alike with his lip and pen, the perusal of this volume is delicious beyond even what it must be to such as only take it up like any other good book for the pleasure and edification that is to be expected on such a subject. Mr. Bickersteth's works have been serial; and the testimony that he has thus borne to the truth in ALL its branches, the perfect system of scriptural divinity which he has, like a wise builder, reared upon the one, sure, only foundation, Jesus Christ and Him crucified, crowned with the top

stone, Jesus Christ sitting on the throne of His glory, King of kings and Lord of lords-this system we do hold to be the most perfect that any one uninspired man has ever been privileged to exbibit. His earlier treatises, the Scripture Help, Treatise on Prayer, and on the Lord's Supper, have been wonderfully blessed. Many souls in glory, and many still pursuing their pilgrim-path below, bear a joyful witness that they were not written in vain. As each committed talent was thus put out to profitable usury, the Lord gave more and more, affording him bright glimpses of the glory to be revealed; and while this was even (strange and monstrous to say!) an unwelcome message to the great bulk of the Christian Church, and its proclamation certain to shake the popularity, to lessen for a time the influence of the preacher, our dear Brother faltered not. What the Lord, by the clear light thrown on His own word, told to Edward Bickersteth, that did Edward Bickersteth instantly tell to his hearers from the pulpit, and to the whole world by the press. He has wrought, as an instrument, an amazing work in the Church: and this volume will, we confidently predict, extend and deepen the work, beyond his anticipations. It is a cordial, provided against the hour of temptation, the season of universal tribulation, now at hand; and we counsel our readers to drink freely of it, blessing the goodness of God in placing it within their reach.

A valuable Appendix disposes of some of the leading delusions of Tractarianism in the most scriptural, forcible, and conclusive manner. The whole book is pre-eminently practical.

SKETCHES OF IRISH HISTORY, Antiquities, Religion, Customs, and Manners. By the Author of "Three years in Italy." With an introductory preface, by Charlotte Elizabeth.-Robertson, Dublin; Groombridge, London.

THE privilege afforded us of writing a recommendatory preface, must not debar us from the gratification of making it known to our readers, that such a volume is published, and that it contains a great deal of most interesting matter. The substance, or rather the skeleton of the book appeared in this magazine, but it is greatly enlarged, the outline filled up, and the whole finished off with great care; and illustrated by a map and several engravings. Henry's invasion is the era to which the history reaches in this volume, but we anticipate a continuation, to be brought down to our own times. Considering the disgraceful ignorance prevailing among us on the subject of early Irish history, and the tomes of dry, unreadable matter in which information must be sought, we cannot but rejoice in being able to recommend an elegant volume of really authentic information, culled with great care and persevering research, by the hand of a Christian lady, whose love of her country is thus at once testified and gratified. The eye that may be attracted by the unique nationality of a lettered back, where the Irish grey-hound, the wreathing shamrock, the old round-tower and antique monument, all find room to figure, will not be disappointed in the contents of the book. It is a very pleasing and equally valuable compendium of information MARCH, 1844.

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greatly needed among us; for if there be one subject on which universal ignorance prevails, that subject is IRELAND.

THE METROPOLITAN CHARITIES: being an account of the Charitable, Benevolent and Religious Societies: Hospitals, Dispensaries, Penitentiaries, &c. &c. &c., in London and its immediate Vicinity. Dedicated by special permission, to his Royal Highness Prince Albert.-Low.

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We could not give the whole title-page, which farther tells us, that the book conveys every information that may be useful to the benevolent desirous of assisting, or to the unfortunate requiring the assistance of a Metropolitan charity." This is true; it is a really useful hand-book, small, and of very elegant appearance externally, and complete in its details, where all reasonable brevity is also studied, of every benevolent and religious institution connected with London. We are happy to refer our readers to so useful a guide.

PRINCIPLES OF EDUCATION PRACTICALLY CONSIDERED; with an especial reference to the present state of female education in England. By M. A. Stodart, Author of "Every-day Duties," "Hints on Reading," &c.—Seeleys.

MISS STODART has done a good deal to elevate female