following notice of "The Harmony of the Divine Dispensations," etc., by George Smith, LL.D., F.A.S., etc. London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans. This is one of the most valuable works on theology we have met with for a long time. The views of the author are, many of them, strikingly original. The work abounds with new ideas on the most important and vital parts of Divine truth, and is adapted to shed light on some of the most difficult passages of Scripture. The author works out all his points with great sobriety of judgment, and a constant appeal to the most learned and competent authorities. His object is to show that one uniform system of revelation has prevailed from the beginning to the end, from the narrative of Genesis to the visions of the Apocalypse."

The Atlantic Telegraph, the topic of all pens, tongues, and minds, creates an epoch so marked, that its inauguration must not pass unnoticed in our Quarterly. So powerful yet so silent a revolution! Like the printing-press, the telegraph is one of those achievements in material mechanism that mount into the sphere of moral interests, and work rare results in the realms of thought and the sphere of society. We delight little in external shows and excitements; we have an overpowering tendency to sheer the huzzaing crowd; but for once we profess a sterling sympathy with banners, illuminations, and cheers, to celebrate a victory, not of one foraying army over another, but a victory of our common humanity over the obstacles of crude nature. There is something so simple and unpretending in the personal presence of Oersted, of Morse, and of Field, that it is hard for the popu lar mind to hail them as heroes; yet heroes they are of purer triumphs than the sword can ever win.

The genius of BRADY has brought to an unrivalled practical perfection the kindred art of PHOTOGRAPHY. Stop, visitor of our metropolis, at his magnificent gallery on Broadway, which you will find courteously open to your inspection, enriched with the most perfect specimens of his amazing art. Likenesses the most accurate, taken from the living original, you will there find, of our statesmen, merchants, literati, and clergy. It is a

compendious mode of making magnificent acquaintances.

Of the desiderata yet remaining in this beautiful art, the North British Review thus subjectively speaks:

"Upon looking into the past history of photography, it would be hazardous to predict its future. But though we dare not venture to shorten the arm of science, or limit its grasp, there are certain steps in advance which we may reasonably anticipate. Optical instruments are yet required to represent on a plane the human face, without deforming its lines and magnifying its imperfections. We still require & more sensitive tablet to perpetuate the tender expressions of domestic life, and to fix the bolder lines of intellect and of passion which are displayed in the forum and in the senate. But above all, we long to preserve the life-tints of those we love; to give to the ringlet its auburn, and to the eye its azure; to perpetuate the maiden blush, and to rescue from oblivion even the hectic flush from which we are so soon to part."

Continue your course down Broadway, and a few steps (there is but a step from the æsthetical to the economical) will bring you to WHEELER & WILSON'S exhibition of the wonders of the magic needle. Nor let it be for one moment supposed that an exploit so apparently humble as the solution of the problem of the lock-stitch, or the rotary loop-hook, is unworthy to be mentioned on the same page with the Atlantic telegraph. These simpler inventions may present no oceanwide sublimity; they may occasion no international celebrations; but more gently and tenderly, they spread a unique delight through a million of happy homes. So beautiful, so cunning, so working its rapid exploits with a delicate witchcraft, the SEWING MACHINE does not indeed leave a step between the aesthetical and economical; for in form it may be a parlor ornament, and, in fact, it makes needlework one of the fine arts. Our fair ones say that there is a fascination about the thing that transforms task to amusement. Men might as well peal huzzas and light up illuminations over this invention too, which makes happy the hearts that are to men most dear.