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JUNKIN, ON THE OATH.

The Oath a Divine Ordinance, and an Element of the Social Constitutic: its Origin, Nature, Ends, Efficacy, Lawfulness, Obligations, Interpreta. tion, Form and Abuses. By REV. D. X. JUNKIN, A.M. Ore neat vol., 12mo, well printed. Price 63 cents.

Contents.-Chap. 1. Introduction-the Importance of the Subject. 2. In the Holy Scriptures only are found the Elementary Principles of Law, and of Right Social Organization-The Provisions made in the Bible for Social Government. 3. The Origin of Oaths-Is it Divine or Human? 4. Nature, End, and Efficacy of Oaths. 5. The Efficacy of the Oath, or how does it accomplish its Ends? 6. Law fulness and Expediency of Oaths. 7. Objections to the Lawfulness of Oaths Answered. 8. Obligation of the Oath. 9. Different kinds of Oaths, and the Interpretation of them. 10. The Form of the Oath. 11. The same Subject continued. 12. Abuses of the Oath. 13 To the Reader.

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LETTERS FROM ITALY.

BY J. T. HEADLEY.

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CONTENTS.-Voyage to Italy-Man Lost Overboard; Gibraltar-Ap. roach to Genoa; First Impressions-Lunatics; Description of Genoa: House-Hunting-Romantic Marriage; Funeral in the Morning-Murder of an American Officer; Carnival-Clara Novello-Persecution of a Painter; Columbus' Manuscripts-Horseback Ride-Death in the Theatre; A Day's Ramble through Genoa; Italian Soirees and Beauty-Marquis of Palavicini; Odd Brokers-A Catholic Miracle; Lord Byron-Marquis di Negro; Soldiers at Mass--Casino-Italian Virtue; Scenes of the Carnival-Cheating the Church; Leghorn--Civita Vecchia--Naples; Pompeii; Ascent of Vesuvius; Ladies of Italy and Ladies of America; Islands about Naples-Virgil's Scenes; A Visit to Salerno-Pæstum; Castellamare-A Storm at Naples; Capua-A Begging Friar-Cenotaph of Cicero-Peasant Girl; Approach to Rome-St. Peter's; Saturday before Easter-Easter Sunday; Illumination of St. Peters-The Girandola; Chanting of the Miserere in the Sistine Chapel; System of Farming in the Papal States; The Coliseum at Midnight; Ruins and Epitaphs; Capitol and Vatican; The Pope-Don Miguel -Mezzofanti; New Mode of Selling Milk-Lake Tartarus-Adrian's Villa -Tivoli; An Improvisatrice-Ascent of St. Peter's; Artist's Fete; Villa Pamphylia-Vespers-Borghesian Villa-The Quirinal-Tasso's Oak-Farewell to St. Peter's; Departure from Rome-Peppery Englishman; Fall of Terni; Perugia-Clitumnus-Battle-Field of Thrasymene; A Man Built in a Wall; American Artists in Florence; Venus di Medici-Titian's Venuses -Death of a Child-An English Family; Stroll through Florence-Dominican Friar; Pisa-Condition of Italian Peasantry-Conversation with a Peasant Girl; King of Sardinia-Censorship of the Press-A Smuggling Priest; Allessandria-Battle-Field of Marengo-Pavia-Milan; Character of the People of Italy.

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