Most of our readers will probably remember the memorable remark of Lord Chancellor King, that "if the ancient discipline of the Church were lost, it might be found in all its purity in the Isle of Man." Yet notwithstanding this high eulogium on the character of the saintly Bishop Wilson, it is painful to find that his celebrated work, _Sacra Privata_, has hitherto been most unjustifiably treated and mutilated, as was noticed in our last volume, p. 414. But here we have before us, in a beautifully printed edition of this valuable work, the good bishop _himself_, what he thought, and {98} what he wrote, in his _Private Meditations, Devotions, and Prayers_, now for the first time printed from his original manuscripts preserved in the library of Sion College, London. Much praise is due to the editor for bringing this manuscript before the public, as well as for the careful superintendence of the press; and we sincerely hope he will continue his labours of research in Sion College as well as in other libraries. There are doubtless many of our readers who echo Ben Jonson's wish that Shakspeare had blotted many a line, referring of course to those characteristic of the age, not of the man, which cannot be read aloud. To all such, the announcement that Messrs. Longman have commenced the publication in monthly volumes of a new edition of Bowdler's _Family Shakspeare, in which nothing is added to the original text, but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read in a family_, will be welcome intelligence. The work is handsomely printed in Five-Shilling Volumes, of which the first three are already published. BOOKS RECEIVED.--_Memoirs of James Logan, a distinguished Scholar and Christian Legislator, &c._, by Wilson Armistead. An interesting biography of a friend of William Penn, and one of the most learned of the early emigrants to the American Continent.--_Yule-Tide Stories, a Collection of Scandinavian and North German Popular Tales and Traditions._ The name of the editor, Mr. Benjamin Thorpe, is a sufficient guarantee for the value of this new volume of Bohn's _Antiquarian Library_. In his _Philological Library_, Mr. Bohn has published a new and enlarged edition of Mr. Dawson W. Turner's _Notes on Herodotus_: while in his _Classical Library_ he has given _The Pharsalia of Lucan literally translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes_, by H. T. Riley, B.A.; and has enriched his _Scientific Library_ by the publication of Dr. Chalmers's _Bridgewater Treatise on the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Adaption of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man_, with the author's last corrections, and a Biographical Preface by Dr. Cumming.