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VHE  TRANSFIGURATION.  An  Expoiitum  of
JUatthew  xvii,  1 — 8.  By  the  Rev,  Daniel  Bagot,  B,D.,
JSfinister  of  Su  James's  Chapel^  Edinburgh,  and
Chaplain  to  the  Right  Hon,  the  Earl  of  Kilmorey,
Johnstone*

Oar  readers  will  be  glad  to  hear  that  the  beaatifal
papers  which  lately,  through  the  kindness  of  their
excellent  author,  appeared  in  our  Magazine,  are  now
published  in  a  very  neat  pocket  volume.
HEBER;  Records  of  the  Poor;  Lays  from  the  Pro^
phets;  and  other  Poems,  By  TKomas  Ragg,  Author
of  The  Incarnation,"  '*  The  Deity/*  "  The  Martyr
of  Verulam,"  "  Sketches  from  Life,"  "  Lyrics  from
the  Pentateuch,"  &c.    Longman  and  Co.
When  we  get  a  new  volume  from  the  pen  of  this
spiritual  Burns,  it  tempts  us  to  enact  little  Jack
Homer:  we  retreat  to  some  snug  cprner,  and  pick
out  the  plums.  Very  numerous  and  sweet  are  those
which  rewarded  our  search  on  the  present  occasion.
Some  of  the  shorter  pieces  are  exquisite :  '*  Gather
ripe  fruits,  O  death ! "  and  '*  Oh,  give  me  back  the
green  fields  where  I  was  wont  to  stray,*'  are  two  of  the
choicest.  **  Heber ''  is  a  series  of  narratives,  of  which
the  preliminary  scene  is  laid  on  the  millennial  earth.
Mr.  Ragg  comes  out  now  as  a  very  decided  Millena-
rian,  and  we  are  glad  of  it.  That  candle  cannot  much
longer  be  kept  under  a  bushel  by  any  device.
