Few publications of like character have ever been received with a greater degree of favor, than the volume of sermons by Rev. Alexander McKenzie, D.D., of Shepard Memorial Church, Cambridge, Mass., published under the above title by D. Lothrop & Co. The following expressions of opinion in letters to the publishers, are indicative of the general sentiment concerning them. Rev. Geo. L. Prentiss, D.D., Professor of Sacred Rhetoric in Union Theological Seminary, New York City, says: "The _Cambridge Sermons_ have both refreshed and edified me in a high degree. They are full of spiritual power and light and sweetness. I have read them with real delight." Rev. Edward B. Coe, D.D., pastor of the Brick Presbyterian Church, New York City, writes: "It is a volume which it will do any man good to read, as a broad, fresh, eminently spiritual presentation of Christian truth. Coming from under the shadow of a great university, these sermons are not scholastic, but in the best sense popular and practical. They show unusual felicity of statement and illustration, and are thoroughly _alive_, with a keen sensibility to the thoughts and the wants of living men. Quickening and suggestive to the mind, they have the rarer power of touching chords of feeling which few preachers reach." Rev. Cephas B. Crane, pastor of the First Baptist Church, Boston, says: "The excellence of these sermons is manifold. They are such sermons as the distinguished preacher is in the habit of giving to his people, sermons for instruction and help, and not exceptional sermons for conspicuous occasions. "They are structural; but the beams and braces are out of sight. They are living things supported and shaped by their skeletons, not caged in them. Remarkable for scope and freedom and boldness, they are guided in all their movement by the spirit of the Sacred Word. They both stimulate thought and invigorate faith. Fresh and fragrant and breezy, one delights himself in them as in a garden in a June morning. From their exquisite diction one might almost infer the graceful elocution of their author. They are sermons to which the reader will often return." (12mo, $1.50.) A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. The following brief extracts from the large number of favorable notices of this valuable book show the great cordiality with which it has been received. "We have nothing as good."--_N.Y. Independent._ "The most attractive."--_Boston Literary World._ "Nothing better."--_Boston Transcript._ "Valuable as a book of reference."--_Pittsfield Eagle._ "Its accuracy will stand."--_Boston Transcript._ "Easy and readable style."--_Boston Journal._ "Graceful style ... Marvellously full ... Animation of the book is a still greater marvel."--_N.Y. Independent._ "Will be read in all sections of the country with equal interest and esteem."--_The South._