TITLES OF OTHER BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS RECEIVED.

The Life and Remains of Douglas Jerrold. By his son, BLANCHARd Jerrold. Boston: Ticknor & Fields. 1859. 12mo. pp. 460. Price $1.00. For sale by T. H. Pease, New Haven.

A Common Place Book to the Holy Bible: or, the Scripture's sufficiency practically demonstrated. Wherein the substance of Scripture, respecting doctrine, worship and manners, is reduced to its proper heads; weighty cases are resolved, truths confirmed, and difficult texts illustrated and explained. By the celebrated JOHN LOCKE, Author of the Essay on the Human Understanding, who died in 1734. From the fifth London edition. Revised by Rev. WILLIAM DODD, LL. D., with an enlarged edition. Published by the American Tract Society. New York, 150 Nassau street. Boston, 28 Cornhill.

The Twelfth Annual Report of the American Missionary Association, and the Proceedings at the Annual Meeting, held at Worcester, Massachusetts, September 29th and 30th. 1858.

Congregationalism in Western New York; its Rise, Decline, and Revival; with a notice of Hotchkin's History of Presbyterianism in this State. An Address before the General Association of New York, at its Quarter Century Meeting in Rochester, September 21st, 1858. By JAMES H. DILL, Pastor of the Congregational Church at Spencerport, N. Y. Rochester: 1859. pp. 12.

A Commemorative Discourse on the completion of fifty years from the founding of the Theological Seminary at Andover. By LEONARD BACON, Pastor of the First Church in New Haven, Conn. Andover: W. F. Draper. pp. 46.

A Sermon preached before the First Congregational Church of Bangor, Maine, January 16th, 1859, on the Sabbath following his Installation as Pastor of that Church. By EDWARD W. GILMAN. Bangor: 1859.

pp. 24.

The Fifth Annual Address of the Rector of Christ Church, New Haven, Conn., and Parish Statistics. New Haven. pp. 16.

History of the Presbyterian Church of Geneva. By HUBBARD WINSLOW. Boston Crocker & Brewster. 1859. pp. 40.

Fifth Annual Report of the School Commissioner for the State of Ohio. 1858. Columbus. pp. 213.

A Tract for the Times, on the question, is it right to withhold fellowship from Churches or from Individuals that tolerate or practice Slavery? Read by appointment before the Congregational Ministers' Meeting of New London County, Conn. By Rev. HENRY T. CHEEVER. 1858. pp. 23.

An

A Statistical View of American Agriculture, its Home Resources and Foreign Markets, with Suggestions for the Schedules of the federal census in 1860. Address delivered at New York, before the American Geographical Society on the organization of the Agricultural Section. By JOHN JAY, Esq. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1859.

pp. 81.

The Coast Survey. Reply to the Official Defense of its Cost, Abuses, and Power.

The Merits of the "Sabbath Hymn Book," and of the means which are employ ed to introduce it into the Churches. By a Clergyman of Massachusetts. Boston: Crocker & Brewster. 1859. pp. 23.

Sovereign and Subject: in six Sermons. Preached at Shrewsbury, Mass. By N. W. WILLIAMS. Andover: 1859. pp. 104.

The Metropolitan Catholic Almanac, and Laity's Directory for the United States. 1859. Baltimore: John Murphy & Co. 12mo. pp. 307. Price 25 cents. Fourteenth Annual Report on Public Schools in Rhode Island, made to the General Assembly, at its January Session, 1859. Providence. pp. 44.

By the author of "The Object 18mo. pp. 330.

The Mother's Mission. Sketches from real life. of Life." Boston: Henry Hoyt, 9 Cornhill. 1859. Capt. Russell's Watchword: or, "I'll Try." Boston: Henry Hoyt. 1859. 18mo. pp. 291. For sale by F. T. Jarman.

Pleasant Pathways: or, Persuasives to Early Piety. By DANIEL WISE. New York: Carlton & Porter. 18mo. pp. 285.

Now. By NEWMAN HALL, LL. B., Author of “Come to Jesus," "Follow Jesus," &c. New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, No. 530 Broadway. 1859. The Precious Stones of the Heavenly Foundation. With illustrated selections in Prose and Verse. By AUGUSTa Browne GarreTT. New York: Sheldon & Co. 1859. 12mo. pp. 328.

NOTE TO ARTICLE II IN THE NEW ENGLANDER FOR FEBRUARY.

WE regret to learn that the word "carelessly," applied (p. 35) to the enlargement of Worcester's Select Hymns, in 1834, has been understood as referring to the whole execution of that enlargement, instead of the two hymns to which alone it was meant to apply. These hymns are the 370th and 411th, the originals of which are the 215th Select and the 14th of Dr. Watts's 3d Book. And as regards even these, we are happy to retract the charge implied, inasmuch as we find that the esteemed editor considered them so much more available and suitable for public worship in their altered form, as to warrant their insertion among his additions, while he was precluded by his plan from making any change in the already existing portion of the collection.

SPECIAL NOTICE.

The NAMES OF THE AUTHORS of the Articles in this Number will be found on the fourth page of the Advertiser.

Attention is particularly called, also, to the advertisement of Back Numbers, and of "Imperfect Sets" of the New Englander.

THE

NEW ENGLANDER.

No. LXVII.

AUGUST, 1859.

ARTICLE 1-DISCOURSE COMMEMORATIVE OF PROFESSOR DENISON OLMSTED, LL. D.

[Prof. DENISON OLMSTED, a frequent and valued contributor to the pages of the New Englander, died in New Haven, May 13th, 1859. On Friday, of the following week, May 20th, President Woolsey delivered in the College Chapel the following commemorative Discourse.]

I APPEAR before the academical body, and this respected audience, to-day, as the eldest of the acting colleagues of Prof. OLMSTED, in order to pay an official, but willing tribute to his worth and services. Not thirteen years have elapsed since he stood the fifth, and I the sixth, in the order of seniority upon our catalogue. Of the four elder members of the Faculty, one whom I love to think of, and love to honor, Prof. Kingsley, was called away by death a year after he had resigned his work of half a century in the service of the college; and three others, whom age or infirmities had induced to leave their stations, still survive, to show to the world how

honored is the old age of a scholar, who has built his life upon the foundations of Christian virtue. Prof. Olmsted, the next in this series, presents an example of what has not happened before in our Faculty for more than a generation,—for Prof. Stanley had suspended his labors a long time before his death-he died in the midst of his work, with his armor on, actively engaged in his lectures through the last term, and looking forward, just before his disease attacked him, to instructions during the Summer. He had intended, for a considerable time before his death, to resign his Professorship in the year 1861, when he should have reached the age of seventy. But God's ways are not our ways. The tranquil shade of the evening of life, that harbor from care and toil, where the old man of intellectual resources and Christian hopes can look forward and backward without disturbance, was not allotted to him. He thought of rest on earth, as the aged Christian may; but God did better things for him-he gave him rest in Heaven.

There is a sense of incompleteness, when we speak of the life and character of a friend who has passed away, if we do not ascend to the beginning, if we do not trace the stream from its fountain downwards. What was the boy, what were the influences in the forming years, what were the events which aided or injured the young germ of an immortal soul, every one asks, and asks because there is an intense relish for individual traits in the human soul, and because the training of a mind borrows dignity and importance from the mind itself.

Denison Olmsted, then, was the fourth child of Nathaniel Olmsted, of East Hartford, where he was born the 18th of June, 1791. His father was a descendant of James Olmsted, (or Olmstead,) one of the first settlers of the colony of Connecti cut, who died some four years after the plantation of Hartford, leaving two sons, Nehemiah and Nicholas, and two nephews, Richard and John. These are supposed to be the ancestors of all of the name, many of whom are still living in or around Hartford, while others have scattered thence in various directions. The father of Prof. Olmsted, a farmer in "moderate but comfortable circumstances," lived next door to the house where Prof. Stanley, his beloved pupil and colleague, was

born, and where he went home to die. At East Hartford only the early boyhood of Prof. Olmsted was spent; he had been deprived of his father by death when he was a year old, and in his boyhood was sent to an uncle to assist him on his farm. Meanwhile, when he was about nine years old, his mother married again, and removed with him to Farmington, the residence of her second husband. Here, amid circumstances not the most favorable to his improvement, he had in his mother* a noble guide and friend, of whom every one that I have consulted speaks in terms of the highest respect. This lady lived into extreme old age, beloved and honored by her son, who felt that to her religious training, her high principle and wisdom, he owed a debt which could not be repaid. "Never had a son," writes an aged friend of his, "a more profound reverence, or a tenderer affection for his mother, than he for his; and her character seems to have been his pattern.

The same friend, Rev. Dr. Porter, of Farmington, gives the following account of a portion of his early life, after the removal to that place: "His mother, living out of the village, where the common school was not all that she desired, and obliged to make the most of the means in her hands for his education, procured for him a place in the family of Governor Treadwell, to do such offices as a boy could do, for his board, and to attend the district school. He was then about twelve years old. He was a very lovely, intelligent boy, and soon engaged the affections of the family. Gov. Treadwell, in particular, became interested in him, and poured instruction into his inquisitive mind. One evening he said to him, 'Denison, would you not like to learn to cipher?' Arithmetic was not then taught in our common schools, but only reading, spelling and writing. Denison eagerly seized the opportunity, and spent his evenings in learning arithmetic, under the direction of that great and good man. Several winters successively he spent there and thus." To this we may add, that Mr. Olmsted always held Governor Treadwell in the highest reverence;

* She was born in 1755, and was a daughter of Denison Kingsbury, of Andover, Ct., from whom Prof. Olmsted's Christian name seems to have come.