The Jerusalem Sinner Saved-Come, and Welcome to Christ-Christ a Complete Saviour. By John Bunyan. Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society. pp. 406-12mo.

This volume very appropriately follows the volume of Bunyan's Awakening Works recently issued by the same Society, and noticed in a previous number of the Memorial. When the sinner has been awakened, he should be invited to come to Christ, and we hope that this volume may be instrumental in leading sinners to the Saviour. The preaching of the present day has little of that simplicity, plainness, pungency, pathos and piety, which are strikingly exhibited in Bunyan's sermons. It would be well for us to imitate him in many respects. Not only clergymen, but private christians, and especially unconverted persons may be benefitted by reading this book.

American Education-its Principles and Elements. By E. D. Mansfield. NewYork: A. S. Barnes & Co. pp. 330-12mo.

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This, we should judge, is a valuable work. It is designed particularly for teachThe author considers the philosophy of education in general without pointing out any particular methods of teaching-leaving that to the practical educaHe considers particularly the teacher, and his qualifications, and the utility of different branches of study for both sexes. The work is decidedly in favor of morality and religion, and imparts those principles which are perfectly safe and correct, and which lie at the foundation of all proper education. It will be found very useful, and interesting not only to teachers, but to parents and youth. Christian Melodies. Edited by George B. Cheever, D. D., and J. E. Sweetser. Same Publishers.

This is an excellent collection of hymns, accompanied by appropriate tunes, designed for social and private devotion in the lecture room and in the family. It is certainly very convenient, and almost indispensable in families to have tunes accompanying the hymns. We commend it as just the manual for that purpose. First Lessons in Botany. By Theodore Thinker.-Same Publishers.

This is an excellent little book for schools. It presents the elementary principles of Botany in a simple and attractive form. A large variety of school books will be found at Barnes' Publishing House, No. 51 John street.

Church Chorals, and Choir Studies. By R. S. Willis. New-York: Clark, Austin & Smith.

This work contains, first, a philosophical analysis of religious worship. The author shows what kind of music is devotional, and the reverse. He then discusses the different methods of church music, and commends both choir and congregational singing to be practised according to the nature of the hymns to be sung. Next follows a large number of musical pieces. Some of the music, we should judge, is of a high character, and all of it good. The introductory essay is worth the price of the book. Mr. Willis strongly and very justly advocates the importance of a knowledge of music to clergymen. We believe that every theological student should be instructed in sacred music. It was an important study in the schools of the prophets. We should be glad to have every clergyman see this book.

The Manhattaner in New-Orleans. By A. O. Hall. New-York: J. S. Redfield. This volume consists of sketches written at the "Crescent City," describing the scenery of the country around, various parts of the city, its public houses, the yellow fever excitement, the amusements and frivolities of the place. The author gives a life-like picture of that sickly, frivolous, infidel, wicked city. Many scenes of danger described are highly exciting, and will be read with eagerness. The writer seems to be a jovial man, and enjoyed what he relates. We have received also from the same house a volume entitled Chanticleer, a thanksgiving story of the Peabody family, intended as a Thanksgiving present.

THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS,

MEMOIR OF REV. JOHN PECK.

BY REV. GEORGE EATON, D. D.

SEE ENGRAVING.

A COMPLETE biography of the subject of the present memoir would embrace a history of the Baptist denomination in Central and Western New-York, from its feeblest beginnings up to its present condition of vigorous and expanding prosperity. In reviewing the events of his eminently useful life, we have been struck with the fact, that in almost every public enterprise originated and prosecuted for the extension of the Redeemer's kingdom, in connection with the Baptists of New-York during the present century, he bore a prominent and leading part; and that in all, without exception, his counsels were wise and judicious, his labors unremitted and efficient, and his influence pervading and salutary in the highest degree.

He entered upon his ministry about the beginning of the century, in the centre of this great State, and was permitted by a gracious Providence to continue his labors, with scarcely an interruption, for fifty years. Though for thirty-one years the devoted and beloved pastor of a church whose history under his pastorate is marked by frequent and powerful revivals, his labors and influence from the beginning had no merely local character; but by occasional missionary services, and as a conspicuous actor and officer in various religious enterprises set on foot for the promotion of evangelical truth and piety, were spread more or less over the whole State.

For the last fifteen years of his life, as the General Agent of the State Convention, and then of the American Baptist Home Mission Society, he was enabled to exert a wider and more diffusive influence over the churches, and upon the interests of the denomination generally, than perhaps any other single individual. The life of such a man is intimately and inseparably interwoven with the history of the denomi nation within the sphere of his personal labors, and cannot be fully exhibited except in connection with a general view of the leading events of the latter, of which it forms an essential part. It is not, however, our purpose in this memoir-which must necessarily be confined to a few pages to attempt so grave and responsible a task as the history of the Baptist denomination in the State of New-York for the last half century, with a view to a full exhibition of the life of father John Peck.

Our
purpose is much more humble. It is to give a brief sketch of the
more prominent events of his life, and the features of his character, to
accompany the portrait which graces the, present number of the "Me-
morial" An extended biography of this "good man" and "faithful
minister," is however an important. desideratum in our denominational
literature, and, if properly executed, would be a work of great interest
and public utility. It is hoped that, in due time, such a work-em-
bracing, as it would, a narrative of the great events and movements which
mark the history of the denomination in the State of New-York within
the present century-will be forthcoming. We know of no man whose
character in all his relations, private and public, more deserves to be
"had in everlasting remembrance," and whose example as a man, a
Christian, a preacher, a pastor, and an agent in our great religious and
denominational enterprises, is more worthy of study and imitation. No
one in our ministry of the present time has been called from the con-
flicts of the church militant to the praises of the church triumphant,
to whom the inspired eulogium may with more justice be applied,-“ He
was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith, and much
people was added unto the Lord." To give to the denomination in a
permanent form, fit for preservation and transmission to the coming
generation, a full and accurate portraiture of the life, character, labors,
and influence of John Peck, would require peculiar qualifications in the
author, and he might appropriately exclaim, in commencing the work—

"Some angel guide my pencil while I draw
What nothing else than angel can exceed-
A man on earth devoted to the skies;

Like ships at sea-while in, above the world."

Or, more appropriately, might he pray to be aided and directed by the blessed Spirit of truth and grace, whose work shone so conspicuously in the gracious affections, the godly life, the abundant labors, and the lovely example of the man whose portrait he was attempting to give in all truthfulness and fidelity.

The subject of this sketch was born in the town of Milan, Dutchess County, Sept. 11, 1780. He appears at a very early age to have been the subject of deep religious impressions, though until his eighth year he had never enjoyed the privilege of attending a religious meeting or of ever seeing a preacher of the gospel. He was however favored with the highest of all earthly blessings-a pious mother, who instructed his infant mind in regard to the character of God, and how to pray to him. In his eighth year, his father having removed to Stanford, in the same