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236volume would be laid asidenot wonderful that the man who should havebeen led to undertake the publication of thisBible should be one identified in thought andaspiration with the rising youth of Italy, andwho, more than any man, or any pubhshinghouse in Italy, can command a tremendous circulationfor it ? On every bookstall and kiosque,and at every railway station in the kingdom, youfind the Secolo, and side by side with that popularcolumns, and very full notes below, and a pro­newspaper Edward Sonzogno can place the fusion of illustrations. It is, indeed, a " mar­Bible.vel of cheapness."He has already done this. The first two parts It ia true tbat the edition is that of Martini,of his Bible are out, and I find them wherever and that the notes are his too. As such, boththere is a newspaper shop in this city oi Venice? text and notes contain Romish errors, whichwhere I now am, and I see he says on the cover we could wish effaced. Still, these are notthat it can be got anywhere in Italy, and he has such as to hide from the mind and heart of thealso made arrangements to send it to subscribers reader Him of whom all Scripture testifies,in any part of the world. On the cover he our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. And theprints another recommendation of his work, only distribution of this work will familiarize tbeone or two sentences of which I translate. He Italians with the nature of the Bible, and dosays, ' The Bible is denominated 1 he Book per away with the prejudice so assiduously promotedexcellenza, and also The Book of Books. Noby the priesthood, wbich says that it isother book wns ever considered of such importancean heretical book of the " Protestanti," andin the history of Uterature, nor has given thus it will prepare the way for the circulationsuch an impulse to thought and intelligence in in due time of other and better versions. Maygeneral ; no other book so merits to be an objectthe Word of God in Italy have free courseof profound study.'It is too soon to speak of the success of thisand be glorified, and before it may that sys­enterprise. Bnt, as aU the shops in this city atwhich I have made inquiry have sold a largenumber of copies, some of tbem as many as ahundred and fifty, we may safely say that theproblem of the circulation of the Bible in Italyhas been solved.One other thing worthy ot being noted isMission Monographs.Once more, is it against the sale of the Bible some months ago,it dare not now exercise.I think it only right to say, in closing, thatthe get up of the work is all that its publishersays it is. It is printed on good paper of foliosize, and the type is large and clear. In appearanceit is not unlike those large familyBibles in uae among ourselves, having a fewverses of text at tbe top of each page in twotem of error and ignorance, and superstitionand idolatry, that has so long held the peoplein darkneaa and slavery, be speedily and irrevocablydestroyed.P. 8.—The avidity with which the peopleof Italy are purchasing thia Bible is a marvel,only equalled to its strange publication.Already 50,000 copies of the firstparts havebeen printed, and almost all disposed of.this, the timeliness of this publication. Itcomes immediately after the adoption of the Surely there is a blessed " hunger for thenew Penal Code by the House of Deputies, of Word of God.",—Missionary Becord of ihewhioh I have already written. The pressure United Presbyterian Ghurch, Scotland.that the Church would have brought to bear