tions, as unsurpassed by any thing he has yet written, in exquisite
beauty of finish, in the skillful blending of the tragic and comic, and
in the singular life-like reality with which the wildest traditions of
the Puritanic age are combined with the every-day incidents of modern
society.

Harper and Brothers have published a translation of _Buttmann's Greek
Grammar_, by Professor EDWARD ROBINSON, from the eighteenth German
edition, containing additions and improvements by ALEXANDER BUTTMANN,
the son of the original author. Since the publication of the thirteenth
edition in 1829, which was the last that the author lived to complete,
gradual changes have been introduced into the Grammar, especially in the
department of syntax, which has been expanded and re-written, with the
aid of the extensive investigations of the last twenty years. The
translation bears the same impress of diligence, accuracy, and
philological tact, which is never looked for in vain in the productions
of the indefatigable and distinguished author.

_Ecclesiastical Manual_, by LUTHER LEE (published at the Wesleyan
Methodist Book Room), is a brief treatise on the nature of Church
Government, defending the right of visible church organization against
prevailing latitudinarian and transcendental views on the one hand, and
maintaining liberal principles of polity against the high claims of
Episcopacy and the assumptions of the clergy on the other. The argument
is conducted with candor and moderation, though not without spirit, and
may be studied to advantage by all who would understand the points at
issue.

_William Penn, An Historical Biography_, by WILLIAM HEPWORTH DIXON
(published by Blanchard and Lea), is a new and complete life of the
founder of Pennsylvania, derived from contemporary papers that have been
brought to light within a recent period, and from original and
unpublished documents. The view given by the author, of the religious
system of Fox and Penn, as coinciding with the principles of republican
freedom, is a reproduction of the admirable exhibition of Quakerism
presented by Bancroft in his History of the United States. In the
Appendix, the charges against William Penn by Macaulay are submitted to
a rigid examination; the evidence on the subject is skillfully and
thoroughly sifted; and the strongest case made out for the accused
against the insinuations of the ingenious and eloquent historian. With
his warm sympathies in favor of the s