umes, will fail to receive volumes which will do good to himself and his household, and he will exercise the grace, which is "twice blessed," which "blesseth him that gives and him that takes."

Sprinkling the only Mode of Baptism made known in the Scriptures; and the Scripture Warrant for Infant Baptism. By ABSALOM PETERS, D.D. Albany: E. H. Pease & Co. 18mo, pp. 184.

DR. PETERS, formerly the editor of the Biblical Repository, now the much respected pastor of the First Church in Williamstown, Mass., has given to the public in this little volume, a very luminous statement of the commonly received doctrine in regard to the mode and the subjects of baptism. He does not pretend to entire originality in the argument. He acknowledges his obligations to those who have preceded him in the discussion of the same subject, and particularly to Dr. Edward Beecher and Dr. Edwin Hall. One great merit of his book is the clear and convincing manner in which he brings the argument home to the popular apprehension. He makes it plain, not to scholars only, but to all readers of the Bible. There is no other book which we would more readily or confidently put into the hands of a plain man asking for information about the mode or the subjects of baptism.

gambling," "Profaneness and Sabbath-breaking," "Living for pleas ure,' "Vice progressive," and "The Bible the young man's guide." Our readers are well acquainted with Mr. Thompson, and are prepared to receive with favor the volume which he now offers to the public. The book is one which every young man exposed to the temptations of a city, ought to read. Let every parent who sends a son to a shop or counting-house in New York, or Boston, or Philadelphia, or any such place, put a copy of these earnest admonitions into his trunk with his Bible.

The Illustrated Family Christian Almanac, for 1849. Published by the American Tract Society.

THIS is one of the marvels of this marvelous age! We remember, for years, buying Almanacs, at 12 cents each, which had but 12 pages, and those of dingy paper, and miserable print, and containing only the calendar, and a few silly anecdotes. But here, for 6 cents each, or 3 cents by the thousand, is a beautifully printed Almanac, of 60 pages, and 13 handsome illustrations, filled with select reading on almost every topic, and containing, also, statistics of the highest value on various important subjects. And what is more, these statistics are not antiquated, stereotyped statements of what once might have been, but now no longer are facts, but statistics from original sources, and brought up to present dates. This last feature we deem the most valuable of the work; and the Tract Society deserves the highest credit for thus spreading before its numerous friends and patrons, reliable information on topics of so much interest and moment to all. We trust this admirable little work will find its way to hundreds of thousands of readers, conveying not merely the knowledge of the seasons, but the lessons of divine truth.

Cottages and Cottage Life; containing plans for country houses, adapted to the means and wants of the people of the United States; with directions for building and improving; for the laying out and embellishing of grounds; with some sketches of life in this country. By C. W. ELLIOTT. Cincin nati: W. W. Derby & Co., publishers. New York: A. S. Barnes & Co. 1848.

THIS handsome volume must be welcomed by all those who are seek. ing to realize their ideas of a rural paradise-the object of the hopes and plans of so many of the weary devotees of business. There is much beauty in the whole execution of the work-in the drawing, the engraving, and the text, all of which are by one hand. The main body of the book is a series of pictures of country life, woven together in an entertaining story, the scenes of which are associated with the different engravings. The illustrations, of which there are sixteen, give specimens of country houses, varying in costliness from $600 to $20,000. Any of them would be agreeable objects in a landscape, and would help to form the taste of the neigh

borhood.

The author has the eye of a poet, an artist, and a true lover of nature; and his book can not fail to promote a love for those refined pleasures

which it recommends.

It is a timely contribution to the wants which increasing wealth and refinement are creating, and will be instrumental in communicating a degree of the taste in which it was conceived and executed.

Theopneusty, or the Plenary Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures. By S. R. L. GAUSSEN, Professor of Theology in Geneva, Switzerland. Translated by EDWARD NORRIS KIRK. Third American from the second French edition,

enlarged and improved by the author. New York: John S. Taylor.

THE fact that a third edition of this work has been called for in so short a time, is good evidence of its popularity. The author is one of the ablest advocates of that theory of inspiration which he has espoused.

Travels in Peru, during the years 1838-1842-on the Coast, in the Sierra, across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests. By Dr. J. J. VON TSCHUDI. Translated from the German, by THOMASINA Ross. New edition; complete in one volume. New York: George P. Putnam, 155 Broadway. 1848. PP. 354.

The Spaniards and their Country. By RICHARD FORD, author of the Handbook of Spain. New edition; complete in one volume. New York: Geo. P. Putnam. 1848. pp. 349.

already published in the Library of Choice Reading, and are now reissued. The attractiveness of the countries of which they treat, and have been received, authorize us to the very great favor with which they the latest and best books of travels recommend them to our readers, as in these comparatively inaccessible and unknown regions.

BOTH these volumes have been

Posthumous and other Poems. By CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH. New York: M. W. Dodd.

MRS. TONNA was not so successful in verse, as in prose; but the spirit that breathes through all her writings, will secure for them a lasting influence. This little volume presents us with a pleasing variety of pieces, chiefly meditative and devotional.

THE readers of the New Englander have already been informed of the decease of the Rev. Mr. Tyler, the proprietor and principal conductor of this journal. His surviving associates regard it as a duty to their readers and to the memory of their departed friend, to occupy a few of the pages which remained unprinted at the time of his death, with some account of his life.

EDWARD ROYALL TYLER was a New Englander of the old stock. His earliest American ancestor, Thomas Tyler, a sea captain, emigrated from Budleigh in Devonshire, two centuries ago, to Boston in Massachusetts, where he married, and had four sons whose offspring were numerous and respectably connected. William Tyler, Esq., the second son of Thomas, and the great grandfather our deceased friend, was a respected citizen and magis trate of Boston. He was the father of a numerous family, and educated three of his sons at Harvard College. The Hon. Royall Tyler, the third son of William, received a degree at Harvard in 1743, was a member of the Council of Massachusetts under the royal government, and died in 1771, leaving two sons, John Steele Tyler, who was a colonel in the revolutionary war, and Royall Tyler, who distinguished himself as a citizen and a jurist in the state of Vermont.

The last named in this genealogy was the father of Edward R. Tyler. He graduated at Harvard College, with the highest honors, in 1776, and devoted himself to the profession of law. In that profession he established himself first at Guilford, in Vermont. Afterwards he removed to the adjoining town of Brattleboro, where he died highly esteemed more than twenty years ago. He was Chief Justice of Vermont, and was known as an author. His wife, the mother of our deceased associate,

was a daughter of Gen. Joseph Pearse Palmer, and grand-daughter of Gen. Joseph Palmer, whose biog. raphy is given in the third volume of this work. She is still living at Brattleboro, much esteemed and beloved for the excellence of her character. Of their eleven children, the eldest son died at the age of nineteen, when about to graduate at the University of Vermont; and the youngest died in 1831, at the age of thirteen. The third death among the children is that which has just occurred. Of the five surviving sons, two are clergymen in the Protestant Episcopal church, and one in the Presbyterian.

The subject of this notice was born at Guilford, Vermont, on the 3d of August, 1800. He passed the years of childhood there and at Brattleboro. In the expectation of being devoted to business pursuits, he was placed as a clerk in a counting house in the city of New York. But before he had passed out of his minority, that great change took place within him, which wakened him to higher aspirations, and led him into new pursuits. Under the preaching and pastoral care of the Rev. Dr. Spring, his religious character became clear and decided; and he was encouraged to enter upon a course of study with reference to the work of the ministry. After the necessary preparatory studies, he was admitted to the Freshman class in Yale College in 1821, when he had already entered his twenty-second year.

In college he was eminent as a scholar. He was one of the first three in a class of seventy. At the same time he was distinguished for the consistency and manly activity of his religious character. In the last year of his college course, he was the monitor of the Freshmen class, and in that capacity was led to take

a special interest in their moral and spiritual welfare. His kind and earnest efforts to do them good will never be forgotten. Some of his own classmates too, will always remember the conversations in which he endeavored to impress upon their minds the necessity of their being reconciled to God through Christ.

Having taken his degree at the close of his academic course in 1825, he immediately commenced the study of theology, being employed at the same time as a teacher in Cambridgeport, Mass. Early in 1826, he went to Andover, where he resided the greater part of a year, pursuing his theological studies, but without any formal connection with the Seminary. Having been regularly commended to the churches as a candidate for the ministry, he entered upon the work of preaching, about two years after his graduation at Yale College. In December, 1827, he was ordained pastor of the South Congregational Church in Middletown, Conn.

As a pastor, Mr. Tyler soon show ed himself a workman that need not be ashamed. There were some peculiarities in the field which he occupied, which made his work more arduous than that of an ordinary pastor. The church in which he accepted the pastoral office, was formed by secession from several neighboring churches in the progress of the excitement and schisms which attended "the great awakening" of 1740 and the following years. From the beginning, it renounced the peculiar constitution and confederation of Connecticut Congrega tionalism, and insisted upon a strict independency as its inalienable privilege. Its relations, therefore, to neighboring churches had not been such as to give it any external strength. Though eighty years had elapsed since its origin, its growth had been on the whole quite inconsiderable. The settlement of Mr. Tyler was the beginning of a new era in the history of that church.

By the blessing of God upon his labors, it began to prosper outwardly and spiritually. Strengthened by the accession of young and enter. prising men, the society attempted the building of a new house of wor ship; and the building was com pleted partly by the aid which other churches gave in answer to his solicitation. In 1831, the church shared largely in the quickening movement which made that year memorable in so many churches; and he saw the success of his labors and the answer to his prayers.

His ministry at Middletown was interrupted by ill health; and in less than five years from the date of his ordination, he was compelled to resign the pastoral office. Relieved from official responsibility, he was soon encouraged with the promise of returning health; and after a few months he accepted a call from the church in Colebrook, Conn., where he was installed pastor in February, 1833. But his constitutional tendency to disease soon manifested itself again; and in June, 1836, his resignation of that pastoral charge was accepted and ratified.

For some time before his dismis sion from Colebrook, his mind had been much occupied with the ques tions then agitated in relation to slavery. The reaction in some quar. ters against the disorganizing ultraisms of some ill-taught reformers— the outcry of alarm and expostulation which proceeded from the best men at the south-and the zeal with which politicians of all parties emu lated each other in paying homage to slavery as a political powerawakened in many minds a reason. able apprehension as to what might be the permanent effect of all this upon the public opinion of the free states. At such a crisis, Mr. Tyler thought he might do good by labor ing to promote thorough views of the injustice and the anti-Christian character of slavery. In this hope, he accepted an appointment as agent for the American Anti-Slavery So

ciety. He continued in that employment till near the close of the following year. The nature of the service, withdrawing him in a great measure from sedentary occupation, and sending him from place to place, proved favorable to his health; and he began to feel a natural longing for some other employment which would restore him to his companionship with books, and to the enjoy ment of his family and home.

Such an employment he found in the editorial care of the Connecticut Observer, a weekly journal which had been published for some twelve years at Hartford, and which was to some extent under the patronage of the Congregational pastors of Connecticut. He became the editor of the Observer from the first of January, 1838. But in the month of December, just as he was preparing to remove to Hartford, he was brought quite low by an attack of acute disease, from which he had not sufficiently recovered when he hastened to enter on his new employment. The excitement, the unaccustomed labor, the care, and some troubles which he had hardly expected, were more than his enfeebled frame was able to sustain; and the consequence was that his health was permanently impaired. Yet his efforts under all his discour agements were in a high degree acceptable and useful. And when the publication of the Observer was relinquished in 1842, he had "purchased for himself a good degree" in the confidence of the pastors and churches of Connecticut. Some in whose minds his connection with the Anti-Slavery Society had operated to his disadvantage, saw and acknowledged the excellence of the

man.

His influence, so far as it reached, had operated to soften and remove any asperity of feeling between those who differed from each other in regard to the anti-slavery organization and its measures.

At the time when he relinquished the publication of the Connecticut

Observer, the consultations were already in progress which resulted in the establishment of the New Englander. The projectors of the work committed it to his guidance as proprietor and editor; for indeed he had been in their councils from the beginning. He began in circumstances of discouragement. A serious pecuniary loss, which came upon him unexpectedly after he had entered into engagements for the publication of the work, embarrassed his proceedings and depressed his spirits. In spite of all that we could do to lighten his editorial labors and to promote the success of the undertaking, his health failed rapidly till, for a considerable period, his life was despaired of. The force and elasticity of his mind, his judg. ment, his courage, and his power of thought, shared in the infirmity of his body. At last, in the summer of 1846, reduced to an absolute incapacity of pursuing the enterprise, he disposed of a part in the proprietorship of the work, and left his home in New Haven, little expecting ever to enter it again. He went to his mother's house in Brattleboro with only a faint hope that a complete release from all business responsibility, and the invigorating influence of his native air, together with the peculiar remedial treatment of the water-cure establishment in that village, might afford him relief. Beyond his own expectations, and to the grateful surprise of his friends, he recovered, in the course of some three or four months, a degree of health in body and mind which he had not enjoyed for years before. The devout gratitude with which he acknowledged that great deliverance, can not be described in any way so well, as by transcribing here some passages from a letter which he addressed at the time to one of the friends with whom he was associated in the direction of this journal. The letter is dated, "Brattleboro, Sept. 25, 1846."

"As Providence has made you