benefactor of our country in the trying days of the revolution, written expressly for children, and beautifully illustrated with colored lithographs.

LIFE OF DANIEL BOONE.*-This is one of a series of biographies of distinguished Americans that George Canning Hill, Esq., is writing for the young. Few characters are more likely to interest the minds of American boys than the father of the famous "hunters of Kentucky." There is a charm in the name of Daniel Boone almost as great as in that of Robinson Crusoe; and the romance of the story is heightened by the consideration that it is "true."

FRANK WILDMAN'S ADVENTURES ON LAND AND WATER.t-A book for boys, full of adventure, giving the story of a young German who was born in a village upon the Hudson, and enticed on board a slave ship, with the promise that he should see the world. On the first opportunity he effected his escape. But it was only after long wanderings in all parts of the world, and many adventures on land and water, that he succeeded in regaining his home. The book has eight illustrations printed in oil colors.

18mo.

The Florence Stories. Florence and John. By JACOB Abbott. New York: Sheldon & Co. 1860. pp. 252. The Florence Stories. Grimkie. By JACOB ABBOTT. New York: Sheldon & Co. 1860. 18mo. pp. 252.

Youth's Bible Studies. Part IV. The Acts, Epistles, and ReveAmerican Tract Society, New York. PP.

lation. 1860. 18mo.

246.

Emilie, the Peacemaker. By Mrs. THOMAS GEldart. 179. New York: Sheldon & Co.

1859. pp.

*Daniel Boone, the Pioneer of Kentucky. By GEORGE CANNING HILL. New York: Mason Brothers. 1860. 18mo. pp. 262.

+ Frank Wildman's Adventures on Land and Water. By FREDERICK GER

STAECKER,

Sunday Morning Thoughts; or, Great Truths in Plain Words. 1859. 8vo. pp. 216. Sheldon & Co., New York.

Sunday Evening Thoughts; or, Great Truths in Plain Words. 1859. 8vo. pp. 206. Sheldon & Co., New York.

PAMPHLETS RECEIVed.

The Critic Criticised, and Worcester Vindicated; consisting of a Review of an Article in the "Congregationalist" upon the comparative merits of Worcester's and Webster's Quarto Dictionary, together with a reply to the attacks of Messrs. G. & C. Merriam, upon the character of Dr. Worcester and his Dictionaries. 8vo. pp. 67.

The Divine Law in the Physical Being concerning Alcoholic Beverages. By WILLIAM DELOSS LOVE, Pastor of the Spring street Congregational Church, Milwaukee. Delivered at the Church, Sunday, January 23d, 1859. Published by request. 8vo. pp. 20.

An Introductory Lecture delivered before the Law Class of Columbia College, New York. By THEODORE W. DWIGHT, Professor of law, &c., &c., on Monday, November 1st, 1858. Published by request of the College Corporation. 8vo. pp. 55.

Established in Righteousness. A Discourse to the First Church and Society in New Haven, on a day of Public Thanksgiving, Nov. 24, 1859. By LEONARD BACON, Pastor. New Haven: Peck, White & Peck. 8vo. pp. 20.

Slavery Viewed in the Light of the Golden Rule. A Discourse delivered in the Fourth Congregational Church of Norwich, at Greenville, Conn., December 19, 1859. By R. P. STANTON. Norwich. 8vo. pp. 19.

LIST OF BOOKS NOTICED IN THE NEW ENGLANDER OF MAY, 1860.

THE

NEW ENGLANDER.

No. LXXI.

AUGUST, 1860.

ARTICLE I-A HYMN AND ITS AUTHOR-AUGUSTUS L. HILLHOUSE.

SEVERAL of the more recent hymn-books contain a hymn which they refer to "Hillhouse" as its author. The reference is in one sense correct; and yet, as understood by readers generally, and by most of the compilers copying one from another in succession, it is erroneous.

The entire hymn was first published in the Christian Spectator, at New Haven, April, 1822. It is as follows:

VOL. XVIII.

"1. Trembling before thine awful throne,
O Lord! in dust my sins I own:
Justice and mercy for my life
Contend!-0! smile and heal the strife.

"2. The Saviour smiles! upon my soul
New tides of hope tumultuous roll-
His voice proclaims my pardon found,
Seraphic transport wings the sound.

"3. Earth has a joy unknown in heaven-
The new born peace of sin forgiven!
Tears of such pure and deep delight,
Ye angels! never dimm'd your sight.

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"4. Ye saw of old, on chaos rise

The beauteous pillars of the skies:
Ye know where morn exulting springs,
And evening folds her drooping wings.

"5. Bright heralds of th' Eternal Will,
Abroad his errands ye fulfill;

Or, thron'd in floods of beamy day,
Symphonious in his presence play.

"6. Loud is the song-the heavenly plain
Is shaken with the choral strain-
And dying echoes, floating far,
Draw music from each chiming star.

"7. But I amid your quires shall shine,

And all your knowledge shall be mine:
Ye on your harps must lean to hear
A secret chord that mine will bear."

A portion of this exquisite hymn (including only the first three stanzas) was copied by Dr. Nettleton into his Village Hymns, in 1824. The hymn, as a whole, remained unknown (save to those who happened to remember the original publication) till it was inserted entire in the Supplement to Dwight's Psalms and Hymns, which was published at New Haven, in 1833, and which was used for a few years in some of the Connecticut Churches. In 1845 it was inserted, with the omission of the sixth stanza, in the book of Psalms and Hymns prepared and set forth by the General Association of Connecticut. Since that time it has found a place in the Plymouth Collection, in the Congregational Hymn Book, and in the Sabbath Hymn Book. In the first of these it is given entire. In the second, two stanzas, the fourth and fifth, are omitted. In the last, we find the fourth, fifth, and sixth stanzas of the original cut down and patched into one, after this fashion:

"4. Ye know where morn exulting springs,

And evening folds her drooping wings,
Loud is your song: the heavenly plain
Is shaken with the choral strain."

The complete hymn, in its original form, is unsurpassed in the English or any other language. Perhaps it is as near per