Thrupp-Ackermann-Etheridge, &c. 283 The Bible Handbook; an Introduction to the Study of Sacred Scrip ture. By JOSEPH ANGUS, D.D., Member of the Royal Asiatic Society. Religious Tract Society. This substantial, closely-printed octavo volume is full of well-digested matter, and will prove a true helper to the student, or the thoughtful layman, who shall avail himself of its assistance. The more popular and the more erudite portions of the work are kept so far distinct that they may be taken separately or together. The Leisure Hour, and the Sunday at Home, for 1860. Religious Tract Society. These are handsome volumes, and the contents are excellent. We know of nothing so well adapted to family reading, nothing more fitted to nurture good taste, good affections, good in everything. The illustrations are many of them in the first style of art. Critical Annotations, additional and supplementary, to the New Testament: being a Supplemental Volume to the Ninth Edition of the Greek Testament with English Notes.' By the Rev. J. T. BLOOMFIELD, D.D.—The title of this volume sufficiently explains it object. It consists of some three hundred and fifty pages of closely-printed matter. The First Lines of Christian Theology. By JOHN PYE SMITH, D.D., LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S. Edited by WILLIAM FARRER, LL.B. Second edition. Jackson and Walford.-In this edition of this valuable work some of the longer extracts from authors are given as notes at the foot of the page, to save room. The editor says in the preface: The amendments in the editorial department amount to several hundreds. A few notes have been condensed or cancelled, and 'many others corrected, enlarged, and newly inserted. Some of the 'additions are of considerable extent, and occasionally embody the re'sults of independent investigation.' The indexes, too, have been carefully revised, especially the fourth, which is much enlarged. By Mr. Farrer's labour the book is made to have its place fully abreast with the present state of our theological literature. Biblical Commentary on the Epistles of St. John. By Dr. JOHN H. A. EBRARD. Translated by Rev. W. B. POPE. Commentary on the Sermon on the Mount. By Dr. A. THOLUCK. Translated by R. L. BROWN, M.A. Edinburgh: T. and T. Clarke. The Story of my Mission. By WILLIAM SHAW. Hamilton.Mr. Shaw was General Superintendent of the Wesleyan Mission in South-eastern Africa. He does not publish this work as a book of travels.' 'My remarks,' he writes, will be found to refer chiefly'almost exclusively-to MAN; in his great varieties of race, character, ' and occupation, as he is now found on that portion of the African 'continent.' The visit of Prince Arthur to those regions will, it is hoped, contribute to cement the relations between those countries and England, and to render the sway of England an increasing benefit to the people. Man's Restoration by Reconciliation to God through Christ: with special Reference to the Teaching of George Fox. By WILLIAM BROWN, jun. Bennet. This is an attempt to account for the declining and unsatisfactory state of the Quaker body, by showing wherein the teaching of George Fox, excellent as it was in many respects, was defective. It was not defective in its apprehension of the person and sacrifice of Christ, or of the necessity of belief in Him, but in its answer to the question,' How does belief in this fact bring salvation?' The book is thoughtfully written, and in a friendly temper. The Congregational Pulpit: containing Sermons from the Manuscripts of Nonconformist Ministers of the present Day. By the Rev. T. G. HORTON. Vol. X.-Mr. Horton is a hard worker. His elastic spirit, in continuing this publication to the tenth volume, is highly creditable to him. The soundly evangelical tone of the work is one of its great recommendations. The Doctrine of the Divine Fatherhood in Relation to the Atonement. By JAMES BALDWIN BROWN, B.A. Ward.-A sad piece of wilfulness and assumption from beginning to end. A critic inclined to damage the author very seriously could not desire a better opportunity. Sermons preached in "Marlborough Chapel, London. By J. GAGE PIGG, B.A. Second edition. London: Ward and Co.-A Homebook for Children of all Ages. By J. GAGE PIGG, B.A. London: Ward and Co.-Both these works possess much merit. The Homebook for Children has already reached a sale of nearly 3000, which is itself a recommendation beyond any patronizing words of ours. We have rarely, if ever, met with a book for young persons containing such a variety of useful moral lessons set forth in so winning, and graceful, and unexceptionable a manner. The Sermons of Mr. Pigg have reached a second edition. Of these some had been printed more than once before, and had won for the author an enviable reputation in the circles in which he was known. From the preface to the first edition, we learn that they originally came out in numbers, and were published without particular plan or order; being most of them Sabbath-evening addresses, abounding in appeals to the heart and conscience, which may account for the occasional absence of more direct doctrinal and dogmatic discussion. They are not prolonged homilies, nor tiresome exercitations, nor metaphysical essays. But they are earnest and impressive exhibitions of evangelical truth, and show great skill in blending the essential realities of vital religion with all the details of human life, often in a very eloquent manner. We accordingly anticipate for them not only deserved notice at home, but a large sale in our distant colonies, and especially among our American brethren. It is a great deduction from our pleasure in reading them, to hear of the lamented death of the highly-gifted author, being convinced that, if strength had been accorded to him, he would have shown himself able to furnish other volumes, as much superior to these, as these are superior to most of those which come under our critical inspection. CONTENTS OF N° LXVI. The History of the United Netherlands. From the Death of William the Silent to the Synod of Dort. By JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY, D.C.L. 2. Northufari; or, Rambles in Iceland. By PLINY MILES. 3. Iceland; or the Journal of a Residence in that Island during the Years 1814 and 1815. By Dr. EBENEZER 4. Travels in Iceland. By Sir GEORGE STEWART 5. Journal of a Tour in Iceland in the Summer of 1809. By Sir WILLIAM JACKSON HOOKER, F.L.S. 6. Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North. By Notitia Editionis Codicis Bibliorum Sinaitici Auspiciis Imperatoris Alexandri II. susceptae. Accedit Cata- logus Codicum nuper ex Oriente Petropolin perla- torum. Edidit AENOTH. FRID. CONST. TISCHEN- 2. Facts and Figures relating to Vancouver's Island and British Columbia. By J. DESPARD PEMBERTON. 3. The Canadian Settler's Guide. 4. Narrative of the Canadian Exploring Expeditions. By 5. The Prince of Wales in Canada and the United States. 6. Travels in Canada and through the States of New 6. The Impending Crisis of the South; how to meet it. By H. R. HELPER, of North Carolina. 7. American Compromises. By HARRIET MARTINEAU. 419 VII. 1. Political Poems and Songs relating to English History; composed during the Period from the Accession of Edward III. to that of Richard III. Edited by THOMAS WRIGHT, Esq. Published by Authority under the Direction of the Master of the Rolls. 2. Political Ballads of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Annotated by W. WALKER WILKINS. 3. The Jacobite Songs and Ballads of Scotland. From 1688 to 1746. Edited by CHARLES MACKAY, LL.D. VIII. 1. Treaty of Peace with China. Concluded October, 1860. 2. The Chinese and their Rebellions. By THOMAS TAYLOR MEADOWS, Chinese Interpreter in Her 5. Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's Mission to China and Japan, in the Years 1857, 58, 59. By LAURENCE OLIPHANT, Private Secretary to Lord Elgin. 6. Supplement to the last Edition of M'Culloch's Com- THE BRITISH QUARTERLY REVIEW. APRIL 1, 1861. ART. I.—The History of the United Netherlands. From the Death of William the Silent to the Synod of Dort. By JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY, D.C.L. London: Murray. 1860. WE rejoice to see Mr. Motley again in another phase of the memorable drama of which he has already traced the commencement. Having shown us the rise of the Dutch Republic in a narrative of remarkable merit, he proceeds to describe its complete development in the stern trial of the sixteenth century. The volumes before us are part of a work which will follow the history of the Netherlands from the death of William the Silent to the time when the long struggle of the United Provinces was closed at length by the Peace of Westphalia. They comprise the events of the momentous epoch of 1584-8, when the banded forces of Despotism and Priestcraft rose up against the Republic and England, and the ruin of the Invincible Armada was the first trophy of the arms of Freedom. For a full detail of this great theme Mr. Motley has had the benefit of materials which hitherto had been hidden from the public; and he brings before us a mass of information entirely unknown to preceding writers. The records of the State Paper Offices of England, Holland, Belgium, and France have been liberally opened to him; and he has obtained copies from the archives of Simancas, which contain the Spanish State Papers for the period. With these authorities, he may justly boast that he has had advantages in dealing with his subject which have been withheld from previous historians, and that he alone has obtained the privilege of entering the Cabinets of Philip and Elizabeth, the tent of Parma, and the closet of |