“The Lecture ’On the Best Means of exerting a Moral and Spiritual Influence in Schools,’ no teacher, male or female, possessed of any of the germs of improvement, can read without benefit.”—­Hon. Horace Mann, Secretary of the Board of Education.

DOMESTIC WORSHIP.  By WILLIAM H. FURNESS, Pastor of the First Congregational Unitarian Church in Philadelphia.  Third Edition. 12mo. pp. 272.  Price, 75 cents.

“We are glad to see this book.  It is a work of great and peculiar excellence.  It is not a compilation from other books of devotion; nor is it made up of conventional phrases and Scripture quotations, which have been so long employed as the language of prayer, that they are repeated without thought and without feeling.  It is admirably adapted to the purpose for which it was written; and it may be read again and again with great interest and profit by any one, who desires to enrich his mind with the purest sentiments of devotion, and with the language in which it finds its best expression.  Here we have the genuine utterances of religious sensibility,—­fresh, natural, and original, as they come from a mind of singular fertility and beauty, and a heart overflowing with love to God and love to man.  They seem not like prayers made with hands, to be printed in a book, but real praying, full of spirit and life....  So remarkable is their tone of reality and genuineness, that we cannot bring ourselves to regard them as compositions written for a purpose, but rather as the actual utterances of a pure and elevated soul in reverent and immediate communion with the Infinite Father.”—­Christian Examiner.

LAYS FOR THE SABBATH.  A Collection of Religious Poetry.  Compiled by EMILY TAYLOR.  Revised, with Additions, by JOHN PIERPONT. 16mo. pp. 288.  Price, 75 cents.

“It is simple and unpretending:  and though some of the pieces are probably familiar to most readers, they all breathe a pure and elevated spirit, and here and there is an exquisite effusion of genius, which answers to the holiest wants of the soul.

“Not only great pleasure may be derived from such a volume, but lasting and useful impressions.  Many are keenly alive to the harmony of verse and the fresh outbursts of poetic feeling, who would pore with delight over such a volume, and many might thus be won to high thought and serious reflection.”—­Christian Examiner.

THE YOUNG MAIDEN.  Seventh Edition.  By Rev. A.B.  MUZZEY, Author of “The Young Man’s Friend,” “Sunday School Guide,” etc., etc. 16mo. pp. 264.  Price, 62-1/2 cents.

CONTENTS.—­The Capacities of Woman; Female Influence; Female Education; Home; Society; Love; Single Life; Reasons for Marriage; Conditions of True Marriage; Society of Young Men; First Love; Conduct during Engagement; Trials of Woman and her Solace; Encouragements.

“The sentiments and principles enforced in this book may be safely commended to the attention of women of all ranks.  Its purpose is excellent throughout; and as it is everywhere governed by a just and amiable spirit, we believe it is calculated to do much good.”—­London Atlas.