University of Virginia Library

AN ADDRESS TO THE YOUNG, ON THE IMPORTANCE
OF RELIGION. By John Foster, author
of Essays on Decision of Character, &c.

This is a good publication, well conceived and admirably
executed, full of important truths and beautifully enforced.

Our readers know, or ought to know John Foster, the Author
of “Essays on Decision of Character,” one of the best
writers that England has produced, suited to be compared in
many things with Robert Hall, he needs no higher praise.—
U. S. Gazette.

This work comprises a series of eloquent and affectionate
exhortations, which, if carefully attended to, will make wise
and good men of all who lay them to heart, and endeavour
to accord with them in life and conversation. The author
has acquired great celebrity by his former writings.—Saturday
Courier.

We are not going to hold a rush-light up to a book of John
Foster's, but only mean to tell what is its intent. It is an
awakening appeal to youth of the refined and educated sort,
upon the subject of their personal religion. There can be no
doubt as to its currency.—The Presbyterian.

John Foster is allowed by men of all parties, political and
religious, to be one of the most original and vigorous thinkers
of the age. His well tried talents, his known freedom
from cant and fanaticism. And the importance of the subject
discussed, strongly commend this Book to the attention
of that interesting class to whom it is addressed. All his
writings are worthy of careful and repeated perusal; but his
essay on “Decision of Character” and this “Address to the
Young,” should be the companions of all young persons who
are desirous of intellectual and moral improvement.

Foster's Address to the Young.—Perhaps no religious
book has issued from the American press which
commanded more general and abundant patronage than
one from the pen of the Rev. Jared Waterbury, called
“Advice to a Young Christian.” Aside from its intrinsic
excellence, it was rendered valuable by the fact that it was
exactly adapted to a particular class of society; and all who
wish to make an impression upon that class, was apprised
by its very title that it was designed to be subservient to such
a purpose. A work of precisely such a character from the
pen of the celebrated Foster, and designed to operate upon a

different class of persons, will be found in the one of which
the caption of this article is the title-page. The name of its
author will supersede the necessity for all eulogium to those
who have not read it, and to those who have, the book will
abundantly commend itself. Permit me to direct to it the
attention of such of your readers as may have careless young
friends, into whose hands they would desire to place a solemn,
affectionate, and fervent appeal on the indispensable
necessity of religion. It is just published by Key and Biddle,
of this city, and can, I presume, be procured at any of
the book-stores. May the great Head of the Church make
it instrumental in the conversion of many souls.—Episcopal
Recorder.

A MOTHER'S FIRST THOUGHTS. By the author
of “Faith's Telescope.”

This is a brief miniature, from an Edinburgh edition.
Its aim is to furnish religious Meditations, Prayers, and
Devotional Poetry for pious mothers. It is most highly
commended in the Edinburgh Presbyterian Review, and in
the Christian Advocate. The author, who is a Lady of
Scotland, unites a deep knowledge of sound theology, with
no ordinary talent for sacred poetry.—The Presbyterian.

“A Mother's First Thoughts,” is a little work of great
merit. It breathes a spirit of pure and fervent piety, and
abounds in sound and salutary instruction. It contains also
some excellent poetry.—Saturday Courier.

A Mother's First Thoughts. By the author of “Faith's
Telescope,” 12 mo. p. 223. Key & Biddle, Philadelphia,
1833. A neat pocket edition which will commend itself to
all parents who have the right direction of the minds of their
children at heart. It is dedicated to religious mothers, “and
may He,” says the author, “who alone can, render it, in
some degree, conducive to their edification.”—Journal of
Belles Lettres.

BRIDGE'S ALGEBRA, 12 mo. In this work the
hitherto abstract and difficult science of Algebra is simplified
and illustrated so as to be attainable by the younger class of
learners, and by those who have not the aid of a teacher. It
is already introduced into the University of Pennsylvania, at
Philadelphia; and the Western University at Pittsburgh

It is also the text book of Gummere's School at Burlington,
and of a great number of the best schools throughout the
United States. It is equally adapted to common schools and
colleges.

Messrs. Key & Biddle have published in a very neat form,
the 1st American, from the 6th London Edition of Bridge's
Algebra; a treatise, which from a cursory examination, we
think superior to any of the text books now in use, for perspicuity,
simplicity of method, and adaptation to the comprehension
of learners. It contains several chapters on Logarithms
and the subjects connected thereto, which, though interesting
and important, are not usually appended to works on the
subject.—Fredericksburg Political Arena.

The publishers take great pleasure in presenting the accompanying
opinion of Profesor Adrain, of the University
of Pennsylvania, who has introduced the work into that
Institution.