“The design of the work is admirable, and we doubt not it is admirably executed, and will promote the best interests of our churches.  We chanced to open at Sermon XVIII., on Christian Education, and were pleased to see the idea of Dr. Bushnell’s celebrated book on ‘Christian Nurture’ illustrated and urged in a sermon by Dr. Putnam, preached two years before Dr. Bushnell’s book made its appearance.”—­Christian Register.

“The tone of these sermons, their living interest, their unpremeditated variety in unity, fit them well for this purpose,—­close personal influence on minds of widely differing views, united in the one great aim of a Christian life.  We shall probably take an early opportunity of making some selections.”—­Christian Inquirer.

“We think the volume is upon the whole one of the best volumes of discourses ever issued from the American press.”—­Boston Daily Atlas.

THE GOSPEL NARRATIVES, their Origin, Peculiarities, and Transmission.  By Rev. HENRY A. MILES. 16mo. pp. 174.  Price, 50 cents.

This work is designed for families and Sunday Schools, and contains a comparison of each Gospel with the education, life, and character of its author, and with the purpose which he had in view in its composition; as also an account of the transmission of the Gospels down to our time, and the evidence of their uncorrupted preservation.

“This volume by Mr. Miles has substantial value.  It is by the circulation and use of such books that Christian knowledge is to be extended, and Christian faith confirmed.  By a thorough study even of this small work in childhood, many persons might have the satisfaction of carrying through life a clear and connected idea of the biographies of Jesus, and of the nature of the external evidence in their favor, instead of remaining in vague uncertainty on the whole subject.  Bringing into a simple and popular form, and small compass, information not hitherto accessible, except to a limited number of persons, the ‘Gospel Narratives’ will be interesting to the general reader, whether youthful or adult.  It must, without doubt, be introduced in all our Sunday Schools, and will rank among the most important manuals.”

NAOMI; or Boston Two Hundred Years Ago.  A Tale of the Quaker Persecution in New England.  By ELIZA BUCKMINSTER LEE, Author of “The Life of Jean Paul.”  Second Edition. 12mo. pp. 324.  Price, 75 cents.

The first edition of this popular book was exhausted within a month after its publication.

“Mrs. Lee has given the public a most agreeable book.  Her style is elevated and earnest.  Her sentiments, of the pure and the true.  The characters are well conceived, and are presented each in strong individuality, and with such apparent truthfulness as almost to leave us in doubt whether they are ‘beings of the mind,’ or were real men and women who bore the parts she assigns them in those dark tragedies that stained this ‘fair heritage of freedom’ in the early days of Massachusetts.”—­Worcester Palladium.