THE selections of new matter for these volumes, have been made, principally, from the manuscripts of the Rev. Mr. Clark. It is to be regretted that the one hundred and eighty sermons, lost several years since, have not been recovered, as among them were the celebrated L Trumpet Sermons, which were preached in various places with much profit to the hearers, as well as others valuable for their discrirniatng thought, and happy method of illustration. Among the sermons, not used in these volumes, are many, containing rich trains of thought-but they are too unfinished to be given to the press. They were written under the pressure of pastoral duties, without having received the belle- fit of a revision. Others are only partly written out, having simply topics noticed, to guide the mind of the preacher. Had Mr. Clark written out these, it would have been an easy matter to have made up a third volume of vaIuable sermons. It has been judged desirable to retain the name of Short Sermons.....