sisted by Revs. L. S. Everett and M. H. Smith, is published semi-monthly, on a superroyal sheet, fine paper, octavo, convenient for binding, at one doliar per annum in advance, to which twenty-five cents will be added for every three months' delay in payment. The volume commences in May. One half of the Universalist is devoted to the cause indicated by its title, the same as other periodicals; the other half has lately been devoted more particularly to the ladies. Hence the prospectus announces that the title "Ladies' Repository" will be added to that of Univer. salist, at the commencement of the next volume. Several valuable correspondents are engaged to write for this paper. Its columns are rendered quite interesting, and we wish it an extensive patronage.' Our Book Table. The Quarterly for July presents the following table of contents: The Credibility and Inspiration of the New Testament, by Rev. Dr. Fisher-a paper that doubtless goes far to elicit the remark of an evangelical paper in a notice of this number, that the Quarterly "stands up squarely for Christ and the Bible;" The Time of Job, by Rev. W. R French, which adduces reasons for assigning a much later date for this book than is generally supposed; The Septuagint, by Rev. W. E. Manley; The Moravian Missions, by Rev. J. H. Chapin; Punishment, by Rev. E. R. Sanborn; The Historical Exposition of the Epistle to the Romans, by Prof. O. Cone,-a criticism with especial reference to the theory of Baur on the subject; The Vestry and its Uses, by Rev. J. G. Adams,- a suggestive and practical article; Universalism a Practical Power, by Rev. J. O. Skinner,-a critical review of a book bearing that title, published some years since by Rev. Dr. Brooks; and lastly a brief paper by way of preface to some "Contributions to the History of Universalism." by Rev. Dr. Sawyer. The Editor's department considers in its opening paper "The Hebrew Constitution on National Education." This is followed by an account of The Discovery of a new Manu. script of the Pentateuch, and of Antiquarian Discoveries, with the usual notes of the Religious World and Contemporary Literature. In the Oct. No. we are promised reviews of Mountford's "Miracles, Past and Present," of Mulford's work on "The Foun dation of Civil Order and Political Life in the United States," and of Williamson's "Rudiments of Theological and Moral Science." -- - Mr. Hepworth has well-named the six extemporaneous sermons to young men which he has gathered into a volume," Rocks and Shoals." They point out with an accuracy often painful, the dangers and temptations which beset young men in the over-stimulated life of the city. They unfold a chart on which all these perils are distinctly marked. And that is something; but to most of those for whom the sermons were preached, doubtless all this was known before. The greater question remains, whether they also point out the way by which these dangers may be avoided; whether they teach aught of the science of navigation for the frail bark launched on this treacherous sea? Here it seems to us Mr. Hepworth's book is lamentably deficient. It does not go deep enough, it lacks vitality and conviction. For instance, in the chapter on "Snares", after revealing all the horrible pitfalls that lie at the very opening of life's career, he has but this to say of God's help for the soul. "Last of all, in order to make this life serene, you must connect yourself with some religious organization. . . Within these walls you are safe. They are a fortress unto you. Come here, go anywhere; only attach yourself to that Christian faith which has been the blessing of your mother and the stay of your father and of all the gener ations of the past." Does not that savor of popish absolution? Does Mr. Hepworth mean to say "within these walls you are safe," when he must know that every day men fall from the very bosom of the church into the lowest deeps of sin and shame? He would probably be the last man to submit that salvation is of the church, but that is certainly what his words imply. Much of this criticism might be made. The Unitarian indifference to beliefs every where shows itself. "It is every man's bounden duty to find out what church he agrees with most nearly, and then to worship at its altar." . . "I do not care to what denomination you belong.” .." If I ur. derstand this matter aright, these sectarian limitations are mere matters of convenience." A strange statement this latter seems to us from one who must be cognizant of the absolute principles underlying these sectarian limitations, and the solemnity of conviction that leads a man to whichever represents to him the truth. These are but special instances in what seems to us a loose, shallow, and inadequate style of treatment of the whole subject. Much is to be forgiven in the style of the book from the fact that the sermons are printed as extemporaneously delivered, but is this way of making a book to be quite forgiven? especially when by more thought and care the author could have done so much better justice to himself and so much more good to those he has aimed to serve? Then rather confusedly going back to the early Oriental remains, the treatise brings the sketch of Arabian, Persian, Indian and Chinese architecture up to a coeval time. It then takes up the history of churches and cathedrals with all their notable examples. Afterward came the great schools of the middle ages, the Gothic, Italian and French Renaissance, embracing the later cathedrals, modern Roman palaces, the leaning tower and greatest of all, St. Peter's; and in the French school the great palaces of Fontainbleau and the Louvre. The French part of the work closes with a chapter on the decadence of architecture; the English editor has added a chapter on English architecture, with sketches of Stoneherge, Melrose and Westminster Abbeys, Pontefract Castle and Holyrood Palace, which adds not a little to the interest of the work. Books of the Month. PASSAGES FROM THE EEGLISH NOTE-BOOKS OF NATHAN- PUT YOURSELF IN HIS PLACE. Author's Edition. By WONDERS OF ARCHITECTURE. From the French of M. Literary and Artistic. -The Illustrated Library of Wonders has as its latest volume, a treatise on the "Wonders of Architecture." Like the volumes which have preceded it the present one aims to be nothing more than a popular and comprehensive sketch of the subject considered. Beginning with the monuments of the earliest known achievments in architecture, those of Celtic origin, it follows the history down to our own day, omitting nothing that may be ranked among the wonders of architecture, and finding space for some brief sketch of the civilizations to which they belong. One gets a good idea of the gradual development of architecture in passing from the old Druidical pillars, tables and grottos, to the scarcely less rude Pelasges and Etruscan monuments, thence to the Pyramids and vast monumental remains of ancient Egypt; then to the rude splendor of Asiatic architecture, culminating in that wonder of the ancient world, the temple at Jerusalem. The next and larger portion of the book employs itself with the Greek and Roman schools of architecture, and the great monuments of each. Among the Greek are not only the wonders of Athens, the Acropolis and Parthenon, but Greek remains in Italy and Asia, such as the temples of Pæstum and the temple of Diana at Ephesus. The chapter on ancient Rome takes up the Forum, members of our ministry. The monument is the Capitol, Coliseum and Pantheon, the arches of Titus and Constantine, the Baths of Caracalla and the Trajan Column. A whole chapter is devoted to Roman works in the provinces. - The citizens of Cambridge dedicated, on the 12th inst., a new soldier's monument, which is pronounced by the daily papers, we know not how truthfully, to be the finest memorial yet erected to perpetuate the names and deeds of those who lost their lives in the war for the union. It was designed for the city by Messrs. Cyrus and Darius Cobb, and erected under their super vision and that of the architect, Mr. T. W. Silloway; and the mention which it so richly deserves will have an added interest in the fact that all these men were at one time thus described: "It is sixty feet in height, and its harmonious proportions please the eye, from whichever direction it is seen. A series of steps lead to the platform, twenty-five feet square. On this is the base, thirteen feet square and eight feet high, from which project four heavy buttresses, on the sides of which are entered the bronze tablets containing the names of soldiers and sailors to whose memory the structure is raised, which tablets, cast by the Metallic Compression Casting Company, possess a beauty and distinctness such as we have not before seen in bronze work of this description. On the front face between the buttresses is the dedicatory tablet. Two massive plinths come next in course, upon which stands an arcade ten and a-half feet square, designed to receive a central group at some future time. This arcade is of the Corinthian order, and forms a beautiful feature of the monument. From its pediments rises a pedestal fifteen feet in height, with the four arms of the service, and the City, State, National, and Grand Army shields cut in bas relief with boldness and effect. This is surmounted by a colossal statue of a soldier, of great majesty, which affords a fitting crown to the structure. It is a white granite of great clearness and brilliancy." The chairman of the building committee, in delivering up the monument to the city, suggested that the statue of Governor Andrew be placed in the arcade as a fitting completion of the structure. -The Woman's Journal quotes the fol lowing exquisite verse from the posthumous poems of Miss Williams, recently deceased in England, as worthy of Mrs. Browning. "Is it so, O Christ in heaven! that the highest suffer most? That the strongest wander furthest and more hopelessly are lost? That the mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain, man at eight years of age in the impetuous current of the Ohio, and at seventeen in the vast and tranquil waters of the Mississippi; later, a woodman, with axe and arm felling the immemorial trees to open the way to unexplored regions for his tribe of wandering workers; reading no other book than the Bible, the book of great sorrows and great hopes, dictated often by prophets to the sound of fetters they dragged through Nineveh and Babylon; a child of Nature, in a word, by one of those miracles only comprehensible among free peoples, he fought for the country, and was raised by his fellowcitizens to the Congress at Washington, and by the nation to the Presidency of the Republic; and when the evil grew more virulent, when those States were dissolved, when the slaveholders uttered their war cry and the slaves their groans of despair-the woodcutter, the boatman, the son of the great West, the descendant of Quakers, humblest of the humble before, his conscience, greatest of the great before history, ascends the capitol, the greatest moral height of our time, and strong and serene with his conscience and his thought, before him a veteran army, hostile Europe behind him, England favoring the South, France encouraging reaction in Mexico, in his hands the riven country, he arms two millions of men, gathers a half million of horses, sends his artillery twelve hundred miles in a week from the banks of the Potomac to the shores of Tennessee; fights more than six hundred battles; renews before Richmond the deeds of Alexander, of Cæsar; and, after having emancipated three million slaves,that nothing might be wanting, he dies in the very moment of victory-like Christ, like Socrates, like all redeemers, at the foot of his work. His work! Sublime achievement! over which humanity shall And the anguish of the singer makes the sweetness of eternally shed its tears, and God his bene the strain!" Current Events. .The tribute to Lincoln just given by the republican Deputy Castellar, in the Spanish Cortes, in his speech on the question of Emancipation, is worthy of more than a brief newspaper record. Among its many eloquent paragraphs we single the one in which he sketches Lincoln's career: "I have often contemplated and described his life. Born in a cabin of Kentucky, of parents who could hardly read; born a new Moses in the solitude of the desert where are forged all great and obstinate thoughts, monotonous like the desert, and, like the desert, sublime; growing up among those primeval forests, which, with their fragrance, send a cloud of incense, and, with their murmurs, a cloud of prayers to heaven; a boat dictions." .... All eyes turn anxiously toward Europe, where precipitate and immediate war seem inevitable. The pretexts for this out break are too petty and trivial to call even for discussion; the true cause is evidently the growing jealousy of two rising nations, each afraid of the other's influence and power. It is simply a war of despots with no principle whatever at stake. Judging from the late European wars, the conflict will be brief, the more so, let us hope, since all Christian nations must deprecate it from the beginging. We must perforce believe that God makes the wrath of man to praise Him, but and the treasure wasted with no good to to human judgment the blood will be shed come for humanity. AN ENTIRELY NEW EDITION. The Publishing House has just issued a New Edition of this popular Hymn Book. The type is larger, the page is larger, and the book contains a greater number of pages. The publication of this new edition affords our societies and people an opportunity to furnish themselves with new books. Send orders to UNIVERSALIST PUBLISHING HOUSE, VESTRY HARMONIES. The New Conference Hymn and Tune Book, by Rev. J. G. Adams, is published and ready for delivery. It is printed upon fine paper, and neatly bound in cloth. It contains one hundred and thirty-one tunes, and two hundred and fifty-six hymns. It has been under the eye of a large number of competent and interested brethren, and has received the benefit of their suggestions and criticisms. No efforts have been spared to make it a superior book, and a standard one among our people. Price, 50 cents. "It will, we think, meet with a demand in several respects. First of all, it is the first book of the kind that comes in convenient shape, with the single exception of the one sent out many years ago by the Rev. A. C. Thomas. It is in the usual form of a book. Again, it has the advantage of tolerably large type, the music and the hymns coming on the same page. Every page has music in part, and hymns in part. We are sure the new book will be a favorite. 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"The Publishing House has just issued the sixth and closing volume of this truly excellent and valuable work; a work that does equal honor to the author's patient research, his extensive reading, sound judgment and accurate scholarship." 66 And so, at last, we have a Commentary on the entire New Testament written from the stand point of our faith; a commentary which honestly and faithfully seeks to ascertain the true character of the doctrines, the precepts and the work of Jesus: the nature and authority of his revelations respecting the character, the purposes, and providences of God, and the duty and destiny of Man: the exact value of the words and phrases he employed, and the meaning which they conveyed to the minds of the people among whom he lived, and to whom he addressed his teachings; and the conditions, religious, social and political in which Christianity had its birth, and out of which it grew up into the mighty power which, confessedly, it is now, slowly but surely revolutionizing and renovating the world, and bringing it nearer and nearer to, that new and heavenly life, into which it is the mission of Christ to lift every human soul." 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