_The Soul's Independence of Death, and God's Sovereignty in Man's Removal. A Sermon occasioned by the Decease of Mr. E. Bliss, aged 22, delivered on Sunday, February 1st, at Shortwood, by Thomas Fox Newman. London, Holdsworth and Ball, 1835._--This is a valuable sermon; containing many striking reflections, conceived with vigour, and expressed with much force. The circumstances under which it was preached evidently exerted a powerful and solemn influence on the mind of the preacher, and he speaks throughout under a deep impression of the infinite importance of eternal things. The unexpected death of so estimable a young man as Mr. Bliss appears to have been, was calculated to excite the liveliest emotions of grief, although there was every thing in his character to allay anxiety respecting himself, and to give the assurance of his having entered, thus early, upon the joys of the blessed. It will afford us sincere pleasure if our brief notice shall aid the circulation of the sermon, and thus contribute to its usefulness. _A Discourse occasioned by the Decease of William Maynard, Esq., preached at the Meeting-house, Union Street, Southwark, Nov. 23rd, 1834. By John Arundel. With the Address delivered at the Interment, Bunhill Fields. Westley and Davis; Jackson and Walford._--A very serious, suitable, evangelical discourse, which could not be heard without great interest, and will not be read, we trust, without profit. _The Parent's Book. A Series of Tales. By Rosa Edwena Gordon, Nos. 1 and 2. Baldwin and Cradock, Paternoster Row._--Very sensible, entertaining, elegant and pathetic; but where is the Saviour, whom every parent should place before the eyes of his children? _The Mother's Magazine. Reprinted from the American Edition, No. 18. J. Paul, Paternoster Row._ _Illustrations of the Bible from Original Paintings, by Westall and Martin, with Descriptions by the Rev. Hobart Caunter, B. D. part 10. Churton, 26, Holles Street._--An admirable work for all our young readers. _Primitive Christianity, &c. By William Cave, D.D. Hatchard._--The introductory essay by Mr. Trollope is very respectable; but we lament to say, that in Dr. Cave's popular work, now reprinted under the especial patronage of her most gracious Majesty the Queen, there are many traditions, fables, and idle ceremonies of human invention, which "primitive Christianity," or the religion of the first Christians, was not encumbered with. But, alas! "in the first ages of the gospel," her fair form was corrupted and defiled. _The Devotional Psalter._ "There is not a page of the book of Psalms in which the pious reader will not find his Saviour, if he reads with a view of finding him." Bishop Horsley.--Oliphant and Sons, Edinburgh. _Bible Lives. By B. H. Draper, 2 Vols. Westley and Davis._--Mr. Draper's entertaining pen could not be better employed than in such a work as this, from which, we trust, hundreds and thousands of young persons will derive both pleasure and profit.