Pictures of Animal and Vegetable Life in all Lands. 48 Folio Plates.
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Recreative Instruction. Pictorial Lessons on Form, Comparison, and number, for Children under 7 years of age, with explanations. By Nicholas Bohny. Fifth edition. 26 Oblong folio Plates, price 7s. 6d.
The History of Scottish Poetry, From the Middle Ages to the Close of the Seventeenth Century. By the late DAVID IRVING, LL.D. Edited by John Aitken Carlyle, M.D. With a Memoir and Glossary. Demy 8vo, 16s.
Johnny Gibb of Gushetneuk. 12mo, ornamental boards, price 2s.
Sermons by the Rev. John Ker, D.D., Glasgow.
Ninth Edition. Crown 8vo, price 6s.
“This is a very remarkable volume of sermons. And it is no doubt a most favourable symptom of the healthiness of Christian thought among us, that we are so often able to begin a notice with these words.
“We cannot help wishing that such notice more frequently introduced to our readers a volume of Church of England sermons. Still, looking beyond our pale, we rejoice notwithstanding.
“Mr. Ker has dug boldly and diligently into the vein which Robertson opened; but the result, as compared with that of the first miner, is as the product of skilled machinery set against that of the vigorous unaided arm. There is no roughness, no sense of labour; all comes smoothly and regularly on the page—one thought evoked out of another. As Robertson strikes the rock with his tool, unlooked-for sparkles tempt him on; the workman exults in his discovery; behind each beautiful, strange thought, there is yet another more strange and beautiful still. Whereas, in this work, every beautiful thought has its way prepared, and every strange thought loses its power of starting by the exquisite harmony of its setting. Robertson’s is the glitter of the ore on the bank; Ker’s is the uniform shining of the wrought metal. We have not seen a volume of sermons for many a day which will so thoroughly repay both purchase and perusal and re-perusal. And not the least merit of these sermons is, that they are eminently suggestive.”—Contemporary Review.