His exertions in behalf of the college at Princeton have attracted more of my attention, and elicited my most cordial admiration, beyond anything of the kind in this State for thirty years. The difficulties to be overcome were of no common kind, and the means at his disposal very limited; the skill with which he met the one, and the wisdom and energy with which he drew forth the other, have rarely been exceeded. And I have it from the lips of the most intelligent persons in the village, during my periodical visits, that no person they ever knew could have awakened equal enthusiasm in so good a cause. For myself, I should have looked upon the task of raising half the sum of twenty thousand dollars in such a village, for such a purpose, as altogether impracticable; and yet Dr. Pierson seemed to succeed with perfect ease. The teaching he was, of course, obliged to devolve in great measure upon others. But it has come to my knowledge that he was considered the animating spirit of the whole concern. And it is only necessary to converse with him, from time to time, to become impressed with a sense of his literary attainments, fine taste, genial nature, and earnest, unaffected piety. His loss to the college, should he leave it, will be irreparable, and long will it be before his place will be made good to the general cause of education in the Commonwealth, and in the esteem and affection of His and your friend, etc., B.B. Smith. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 5: The great revival that followed the financial revulsion of 1857.] [Footnote 6: On the slavery question.] THE END. RELIGIOUS WORKS. The Life and Words of Christ. By Cunningham Geikie, D.D. A new and cheap edition, printed from the same stereotype plates as the fine illustrated edition. Complete in one vol., 8vo, 1,258 pages. Cloth, $1.50. This is the only cheap edition of Geikie's Life of Christ that contains the copious notes of the author, the marginal references, and an index. In its present form it is a marvel of cheapness. "A work of the highest rank, breathing the spirit of true faith in Christ."--_Dr. Delitzsch, the Commentator._ "A most valuable addition to sacred literature."--_A.N. Littlejohn, D.D., Bishop of Long Island._ "A great and noble work, rich in information, eloquent and scholarly in style, earnestly devout in feeling."--_London Literary World._ From Death unto Life; Or, Twenty Years of My Ministry. By the Rev. W. Haslam. With Illustrations. 12mo, cloth, $1.50. "The whole narrative is unique--in the origin, methods, and results of a dispensation so extraordinary--and quite worthy the study of Christian ministers in all churches, liturgical or non-liturgical."--_Lutheran Observer._ Scotch Sermons, 1880.