"Religion relieves the mind by futurity from the toil of happiness now.

"There is the easy peace, when all want and suffering count as a merit and blessing. There is the hard strife, when we aim at perfection, yet would not lose happiness.

Natural virtue required respect, applause, victory, and what it did was a means to an end; Christianity removed the end into another world, and for glorifying in success substituted humble endeavour.

"It was no doubt a thing impossible that Pagan men coming crudely to the teachings of Christianity should comprehend that this perfection was a whole, real and entire as the statue of the artist; not a case and a mask, as are always the idols of savages.

"It might often need much self-conceit for one of a noble and bountiful spirit, to see that what it deems ingratitude is merely the contrast of its own wealth with the more sterile natures around.

"Truth must be met with smiles; when past she will not be recalled, or if she turns she is sullen and ungracious."

The Pastor preparing his Flock for Confirmation. By Rev. Al. Watson, A.M.This little work is dedicated to the archbishops and bishops in their several dioceses; and it is worthy of their patronage, being a very able exposition of the subject.

On the Choral Service of the AngloCatholic Church.-It appears that the author interested himself much in the promoting the restoration of the choral service in the Temple church; but he considers it to be a great disadvantage to the choral establishment of the Temple church that there is not daily choral service. He thinks there should be rehearsals on Friday and Saturday, and that, to promote the perfect and careful performance of the parts, a few compositions only should be selected, and these should be the choicest examples of our early Anglo-Catholic music. The work contains an account of the origin, antiquity, and services of the Jewish Church from the earliest times-of the same sanctioned by our blessed Saviour, then of the Christian worship, and the parts retained at the Reformation. It then gives an account of the services and anthems, and a very interesting mention of the English composers of the Anglo-Catholic Church in early times, and of their successors to the present day, from White and Tallis to Wesley and Atwood. The author owes himself indebted to the Rev. John Jebb's GENT. MAG, VOL. XXII.

Choral Service, &c., and the Rev. Mr. Latrobe's treatise on the Music of the Church and with their assistance he has composed a very able, judicious, and instructive work, on a subject which we are glad to find is occupying the attention of all who feel, as we do, that the best return of gratitude we can show to those who have given us in our venerable cathedrals the means of forming the finest choirs, is to restore the services to their original beauty; and what is proposed in our cathedrals will doubtless be followed in many of the smaller churches throughout the land.

Sermons on the Liturgy. By J. W. North, M.A.-The author in his preface speaks very modestly of his work; but we think he is the only person who can see "the manifold demerits of his Sermons," though written in the midst of clerical duty and professional exertion. "The single aim (he observes) is to make our congregational service a more intelligent and spiritual service, and to point out the unseasonableness of the objections made to our beautiful form of prayer;" and he' hopes that the attention of some who read these sermons may be drawn to the importance of familiar expositions of the Book of Common Prayer. The tendency of such expositions will be to promote a really sound Church feeling; to secure the attachment of a large body of the people to our venerable Church, not on account of her presumptive authority, nor her apostolic form of discipline, but her own inherent excellence, and her entire agreement with the word of God," &c. The author, in the course of twenty sermons, goes through the great divisions of the Common Prayer, devoting six discourses to the Liturgy, and four to the Communion Service, and ending with a very excellent and emphatic discourse-"The Presence of the Saviour in his Church.' The judiciousness and usefulness of the design is well sustained by the execution, and we think these sermons might be advantageously read in families and distributed amongst the best educated portion of a parish. Whatever tends to sustain the attachment to our Church on reasonable grounds, and with temperate expression as regards that of others, is to be encouraged, and we think also will generally meet with success. The author must excuse our inability to give extracts, which in works of this kind, where to be of any use must be of certain length, is seldom in our power.

Throat and Ear. By James Yearsley, M.R.C.S.E. To show the usefulness of the institution over which Mr. Yearsley presides, it is only necessary to mention that up to December 1843 no less than 3414 persons had been registered as patients in the admission book on account of affections of the ear. This little work appears to us to contain much curious information, and such as will be new to the general reader. It appears that deafness of one ear only is very rare; also, that the great preponderance of ear diseases is on the left side, particularly among sportsmen, since the introduction of the percussion lock. Cold produces far the greater number of cases; one person attributes his to the noise at the battle of Waterloo! There are some curious notes of the tinnitus which often accompanies deafness, and which occasions much misery. The author speaks of his mode of treatment (p. 14), and the advantage of the catheter; also of the excision of enlarged tonsils of the throat, which is a common cause of deafness. "The connexion," says the author, "between the throat and ear has been little thonght of, and is even yet but little recognised by medical men: be it mine to inculcate still more than I have done, the importance of directing their treatment more to the throat than to the ear; and let their treatment be directed to the stomach, as probably the source of the morbid condition of the mucous membrane; and, if local treatment be required,

let it be applied to the throat, and through the Eustachian tube." The whole work, though small, appears to us to abound in the most useful information, the result of extensive practice and judicious inference. He who can cure, or even lessen, so great and common an infirmity as deafness, one that embitters solitary life and precludes social intercourse, may surely be ranked among the benefactors of his race.

Practical Sermons preached in Hanover Chapel, Regent Street. By the Rev. S. D. Hill, A.M.-The author says that "these Sermons are published as they were written, for the use of a congregation. He thinks this will disarm criticism of some of its severity, and if they serve to impress one holy though trite precept, or to che rish one high hope of an anxious spirit, they will amply repay the pains bestowed on their composition." We know no severity of criticism that, if applied to this volume, published with such motives, and spok-n of with such modesty, would not recoil on its author; for the discourses contain much good advice and sound scriptural doctrine in very good language, and such as, if well delivered, would make due impression on the hearers. He who publishes plain and practical sermons must look for his reward, not in the applause of the noisy and clamorous press, but in the silent approbation of his thoughtful and thankful readers.

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