_Common Scenes Improved by the Rev. James Smith, late of Ilford--Christ Precious--The Temper of Jesus, by Dr. Grosvenor--Gilbert's Last Birth-Day--Christ the only Foundation. Ward and Co._--All fit instruments for much usefulness. _The Condensed Commentary, &c. Ward and Co._--The commencement is promising. We hope to be able to notice this cheap and valuable work more at large in its progress. _Bruce on Sympathy, 2nd Edition._--This respectable book we recommended several years ago, and we heartily do so again. _The British and Foreign Temperance Advocate and Herald. For January. Price Threepence._ _On the Punishment of Death. By John Pell. Hamilton and Co._--This letter to the Marquis of Northampton, dated from Yardley, Hastings, in December last, is very powerfully written on Evangelical principles; and deserves the most profound consideration on the part of our legislators--and indeed of all our countrymen. The object is to prove that the punishment of death is unlawful. _Three Tracts on Public, Secret, and Social Prayer. Jackson and Walford._--When the reader has heard that these tracts were written by Mr. Sheppard, of Frome, he will not want any recommendation. _Educational Magazine, No 1. Simpkin and Marshall._--If this work proceeds as it has commenced, it will throw a flood of light upon the darkness of our own beloved country and of others. _The Scriptural Constitution of Christian Churches. A Discourse delivered November 13th, 1834, at the Ordination of the Rev. J. Penman, A.M., to the Pastorship of the Congregational Church, Tunbridge, Kent. By Thomas James, Woolwich. Westley and Davis._--A very sensible, clear, and candid discourse on a subject always interesting, and peculiarly so at the present time. The author, when referring to 1 Tim. iii. 17, "Let the _elders_ that rule well," &c., remarks: "That the term _elder_ comprehends the office of deacon, is manifest from this:" but we confess it is not manifest to us. We have great satisfaction, however, in copying the following sentence in reference to the deacons: "And they should be sufficient in number to render unnecessary the many expedients to which some churches have resorted, in the appointment of managers, stewards, and committees, which are as unscriptural as the high sounding titles which are given to the multiplied officers of the national church." _James's Anxious Inquirer--Morison's Morning Meditations--Anecdotes (The Young)--Stephen Morell's Family Memorial--Case's Mount Pisgah._--Of these it is sufficient recommendation to say that they are published or republished by 'The Religious Tract Society.' OBITUARY. MR. SAMUEL WARMINGTON.