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(34.) "The Methodist Preacher" (Auburn: Derby & Miller, 1852, 8vo., pp. 391) contains twenty-eight sermons, by twenty-three different ministers, among whose names we find those of Fisk, Bangs, Hedding, Durbin, Coles, and others. The sermons were not written for this collection, but have been gathered from various sources.

(35.) "The Christian's Closet Companion, by Rev. J. PUGH," (Louisville, Kentucky: E. Stevenson, 1852, 12mo., pp. 528,) contains a brief exposition of a text of Scripture for every day in the year, somewhat after the plan of Jay's Morning and Evening Exercises. The authors cited belong to every branch of the Evangelical Church in Europe and America; but the greater part of them are among the cherished names of Methodism,-Wesley, Benson, Clarke, Edmondson, Summerfield, &c. Of the utility of manuals of this sort for daily use, there can be no question; and we know of none so likely to be acceptable and useful to Methodists as the one before us.

(36.) WE could hardly bring better news to our youthful readers, (if, indeed, we have any such readers,) than that Mr. JACOB ABBOTT has got to work again upon his series of Historical Narratives. The subject this time is "The History of Romulus." (Harper & Brothers: New-York, 1852, 18mo., pp. 310.) Mr. Abbott gives the legends just as he finds them, without any reference to Niebuhr's destructive labours. He certainly gives a most interesting story; but it is to be feared that his young readers, unwarned that this volume differs from those that have preceded it in being unhistorical, will take it all for true.

(37.) MRS. CONANT finishes her grateful and genial labours in the translation of Neander's Practical Commentaries with "The First Epistle of John, practically explained, by AUGUSTUS NEANDER." (New-York: Lewis Colby, 1852, 12mo., pp. 319.) No modern theologian (except, perhaps, Melancthon) has evinced so many of the characteristics of the Apostle John, as Neander: and so he is specially qualified, by a quicker sympathy than common, to catch the spirit of the beloved Apostle's writings. Mrs. Conant remarks truly, in her preface, that in explaining this Epistle, "Neander found a peculiarly congenial field. There is a noble freedom and assurance in his tread, a glow of feeling, an eloquence of utterance, such as even Neander exhibits nowhere else."

(38.) "Dickens's Household Words" is now reprinted by Mr. T. M'Elrath, (New-York, 17 Spruce-street,) who adds to it a weekly synopsis of news, under the title of "The United States Weekly Register."

(39.) "Kathay, by W. HASTINGS MACAULAY," (New-York: G. P. Putnam & Co., 1852, 12mo., pp. 230,) is a narrative of a cruise in the China Seas, evidently by an unpractised writer, but yet written with a good deal of spirit.

(40.) Japan: an Account, Geographical and Historical, from the earliest period down to the present time, by CHARLES MAC FARLANE, Esq." (New-York: G. P. Putnam & Co., 1852, 12mo., pp. 365.) Just at this time, any reliable information with regard to Japan is acceptable; and therefore we welcome this book, though an imperfect compilation, by an unskilled hand. Mr. Mac Farlane has had access to very valuable sources of information; and gives us many useful statements from Kämpfer and Thunberg, with large extracts from Golownin, and other more recent writers. Such as it is, the book is the best repertory of information on Japan now extant, in a convenient and portable form.

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(41.) "A Latin-English and English-Latin Dictionary for the use of Schools, chiefly from the Lexicons of Freund, Georges, and Kaltschmidt, by CHARLES ANTHON, LL. D." (New-York: Harper & Brothers, 1852, 12mo., pp. 1260.) This work, as is stated in the preface, is mainly an abridgment of Mr. Riddle's translation of Freund's Gesammtwörterbuch der Lateinischen Sprache but additions have been made from many other sources. The English-Latin: part is chiefly reprinted from Kaltschmidt. The work will supply all the wants of beginners in Latin, up to the time when they will need Andrews" Freund; and, of course, for beginners, it is vastly preferable to the latter great work.

(42.) OF the following sermons, pamphlets, serials, &c., we can give nothing but the titles:

The Alleged Failure of Protestantism: a Sermon preached in the Unitarian Church at Washington, February 22, 1852. By Rev. H. W. BELLOWS.

London Labour and the London Poor. By HENRY W. MAYHEW. Part XX. (New-York: Harper & Brothers.)

Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution: or, Illustrations by Pen and Pencil of the History, Scenery, Biography, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence. By B. J. LOSSING. (No. 26.) (New-York: Harper & Brothers.)

Science and the Scriptures: a Discourse before the New-York Alpha of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, delivered at Union College, Schenectady, July 27, 1852. By Rev. BENJAMIN N. MARTIN, A. M.

An Address delivered before the Boston Young Men's Christian Association, on the occasion of their First Anniversary, in Park-street Church, Boston, Tuesday evening, May 25, 1852. By CHAS. THEO. RUSSELL.

Evil-speaking; or, a Bridle for the Unbridled Tongue: a Sermon. By Rev. ISRAEL CHAMBERLAYNE. Delivered before the Preachers' Association of Niagara District, (Genesee Annual Conference of the M. E. Church,) Niagara Falls, August 1, 1848.

The New-London Young Men's Christian Association. Organized July 13, 1852.

FOURTH SERIES, VOL. V.-10

A Discourse on Christ's Mediation, by Rev. JOHN DEMPSTER, D. D., before the members of the Methodist General Biblical Institute, Concord, N. H., 1852. The Home Missionary, October, 1852.

The Southern Lady's Companion.

Catalogue of Newbury Seminary, and the Female Collegiate Institute, Newbury, Vermont, 1851-52.

Catalogue of the Officers and Students of the Rappahannock Academy and Military Institute, for the Academic Year 1851 and 1852.

Catalogue of the Methodist General Biblical Institute, Concord, N. H., 1852. An Address delivered before the Alumni Association of Rutger's College, July 27, 1852. By Rev. ABRAHAM POLHEMUS, of Hopewell, N. Y. Guide to Holiness.

The Foreign Missionary: published for the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church.

Catalogue of the Wesleyan University, 1852.

Address of the Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, held in the City of New-York, in the Sixth Month, 1852, to the Professors of Christianity in the United States, on the Subject of Slavery.

An Address on the Importance of the Sabbath-School Enterprise, delivered near Manilla, Indiana, June 16, 1852. By Prof. J. WHEELER, of the Indiana Asbury University.

The Bible a Perfect Book: an Address delivered before the Bible Society of Pennsylvania College and of the Theological Seminary, April 13, 1852. By Rev. CHARLES PORTERFIELD KRAUTH, Pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, Winchester, Va.

The Baptist Almanac for the Year of our Lord 1853.

ART. X.-LITERARY AND RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

Theological.

EUROPEAN.

SELDOM has good matter been so spoiled in the handling as in "Memoirs of the Lives of Robert Haldane and of his brother James Alexander Haldane, by ALEXANDER HALDANE, Esq." (Lond., 1852, 8vo., pp. 676.) The early history of these two brothers is full of incident: their conversion and their subsequent devotion to the propagation of true religion form one of the most remarkable Christian histories of recent times; but their biographer has contrived, by sheer dint of incapacity, so to overlay the rich material in his hands with platitudes and inanities, as to make the book as wearisome and unreadable as a biography of "the Haldanes" could possibly be. We heartily

wish that some intelligent Presbyterian writer would abridge and rewrite it for American readers. It is a pity that such shining examples of Christian holiness and activity as the lives of these two brothers afford, should be lost to a generation so signally in need of them as the present.

In a former number of this Journal (Oct. 1851, Art. viii) we gave an account of the important MS. brought from Greece in 1842 by M. Mynas, and published at the Clarendon Press under the superintendence of M. Miller. In that article it was, we think, clearly shown that the MS. was the work of Hippolytus, Bishop of Portus. The same

view is more amply maintained in “Hippolytus and his Age: or, the Doctrine and Practice of the Church of Rome under Commodus and Alexander Severus, by the Chevalier BUNSEN." (London, Longmans, 4 vols., Svo.) The first volume is chiefly taken up with ascertaining the authorship of the work, and with the text itself. The Preface vindicates the theology of Germany from the undiscriminating abuse lavished upon it by so many English writers, and assigns it (among other causes) to "that unfortunate isolation from the religious life of the rest of the world, and of Germany in particular, in which English Protestants, with the single exception of JOHN WESLEY, have lived these last two hundred years."

"De Clemente Presbytero Alexandrino Homine, Scriptore, Philosopho, Theologo, liber, quem scripsit H. J. REINKENS, D. D.” (Vratislav., 1851, 8vo., pp. 358.) This is an elaborate treatise, by a Roman Catholic divine, of Breslau, on the life and writings of Clemens Romanus. After a brief sketch of the life of Clement, (pp. 1–22,) the author treats (chap. ii, pp. 23-34) of his writings in general, and then (ch. iii, pp. 38-270) of his several treatises in particular. Then follows (ch. iv, pp. 271-309) an estimate of Clement as a philosopher, and (ch. v, pp. 310-357) his characteristics as a theologian.

It was long known and lamented by the learned that a series of letters by Athanasius on the Christian Festivals had been lost

in the course of ages. Montfauçon thus expresses himself with regard to them in the preface to his edition of the works of Athanasius: "Nulla, opinamur, jactura major, quam Epistolarum έopraσTIKōr aut Festalium... Hei, hei, quam pungit dolor amissi thesauri! quantum ad historiam, ad consuetudines ecclesiarum, ad morum præcepta hinc lucis accederet... Et fortassis adhuc alicubi latent in Oriente, ubi bene multa exstant." His anticipation has been fully met. Those of our readers who have perused that most entertaining book, Curzon's Monasteries of the Levant, know that in the Nitrian valley, about forty miles from Alexandria, are four ancient monasteries,long known to contain valuable manuscripts. In 1837 Curzon visited them, and brought away a specimen of their treasures. In 1839 Archdeacon Tattam, who had been long engaged in Coptic studies with a view to an edition of the Coptic version of the Bible, went to Egypt for the furtherance of these studies, and obtained from the

monks in one of these monasteries-that of St. Mary Deipara- forty-nine manuscripts, some of them of great value, which were soon deposited in the British Museum. Mr. Cureton, the learned editor of the Ignatian Epistles, carefully examined these MSS., and gathered from them and from the accounts of Dr. Tattam and Mr. Curzon, that there were still "lying in obscurity, in the Valley of the Ascetics, at least two hundred volumes, of an antiquity anterior to the close of the ninth century." In 1842 Dr. Tattam again visited the monasteries, at the expense of the British Government, and his efforts were rewarded by more than three hundred additional manuscripts, which arrived in the British Museum in the following year. This, the monks said, constituted their entire collection; but they only, by a pious fraud, kept back about half, to tempt English gold on some future occasion. In 1847 Mr. Auguste Pacho visited the repository, and obtained about two hundred volumes more. Among the treasures of these several importations were the Ignatian Epistles before referred to, and also a number of MSS., which were edited by Mr. Cureton, and published in London, in 1848, under the title of "The Festal Letters of Athanasius, discovered in an ancient Syriac Version." In the preface to this edition of the Syriac text, Mr. Cureton expressed the wish that some scholar might be found in some other country where this branch of literature is more encouraged," who would undertake to present the book in a modern dress. From only one land could this appeal be answered, as it has been in "Die Fest-Briefe des Heiligen Athanasius, aus dem Syrischen übersetzt und durch Anmerkungen erlaütert von F. LARZOW." (Leipzig, 1852, pp. 156.) It may be hoped that we shall now soon have the work done into English.

WE have received Part I. of Dr. Julius Fürst's" Hebräisches u. Chaldäisches Handwörterbuch über d. Alte Testament.” (Leipzig, Tauchnitz.) The whole work is to be completed in six parts of about the size of the present (176 pp.), and is sold at the very low price of 75 cents each part, so that the whole, when completed, will not cost in this country more than $150. The paper and print are the best we have yet seen in a work of this class.

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Hebrews, maintaining the hypothesis that the Epistle was written by Apollos, and designed for the use of Jewish Christians in general, and for those of Corinth in particular. The remaining articles are on Method, and on Sin and Expiation-the last arguing that Regeneration includes Justification.

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August Neander: ein Beitrag zu seiner Characteristik, von Dr. OTTO KRABBE, Professor zu Rostock." (Hamburg, 1852, 8vo., pp. 174.) This work is reprinted from the Zeitblatt für die Lutherische Kirche Mecklenburgs, in which it appeared in a series of articles last year. After a pretty full account (all the notices are meagre) of his childhood, youth, and education, Dr. Krabbe gives a discriminating view of Neander as a teacher and author, going into a careful analysis of his mode of thought and of his various writings. The account of Neander's relations to his pupils and of the many ways in which his love flowed out to them, is very touching. The book is a valuable addition to the material extant for a biography of the great Church historian.

THE second part of Baumgarten's Apostel geschichte (Halle, 1852, 8vo., pp. 338) treats of "the Church among the Gentiles," and carries down the commentary upon the Acts to the 18th chapter.

We have received the first number of Darling's "Cyclopædia Bibliographica," or Library Manual of Theological and General Literature. The work will be of great service to "authors, preachers, students, &c.," to whom it is specially addressed. Could it come up to the promise of the publisher, and "comprise nearly all authors of note, ancient and modern, in Theology, Ecclesiastical History, Moral Philosophy, &c.," it would, indeed, supply a vast want. But the promise is absurd-and the first number is enough to show that it cannot be fulfilled with any such material as Mr. Darling seems to have at command. The attempt to combine "General Literature" with Theology, in a bibliography in two volumes, giving the contents of each volume, is enough to make the whole enterprise break down. What will be accomplished is, we think, about this: the work will furnish a good index to the writings of the chief English Theological writers, and also of the Greek and Latin Fathers. By doing even this, Mr. Darling will lay all theologians and students under very great

obligations to him: and he should have promised no more.-The work will be published in monthly numbers.

WHAT the Pirots and Daniels of the seventeenth century failed to do-to answer Pascal's Provincial Letters-has been attempted by a Jesuit of the nineteenth, incited, no doubt, by the recent revival of attention to Pascal's writings. The title of the adventurous book is "Les Provinciales, et leur Réfutation, par M. l'Abbe MAYNARD." (Paris, 2 vols., 8vo.) M. Maynard gives a new edition of the Provincials, and accompanies it with a comment intended as a refutation. Its procedure is curious-first, in each particular case, to deny Pascal's charges against the Jesuits; then to admit them, and show that the Church is responsible for the conduct of the Jesuits, as the Jesuits are the very closest and most obedient followers of the Church! The book shows that Jesuitism is now just what it was in Pascal's time-only a little

worse.

ONE of the most remarkable and signi ficant books lately published is entitled "Sympathies of the Continent, or Proposals for a new Reformation, by J. B. Vox HIRSCHER, D. D.," translated and edited by Rev. A. C. Coxe. (London, J. W. Parker, 12mo.) The writer is Professor of Theology in the Roman Catholic University of Freiburg, and Dean of the Metropolitan Church in that city. That the Roman Catholic Church sadly needs reforming is what all the world knows; but the significance of the present announcement lies in the fact that it comes from a man of high position, character, and authority in the very bosom of that Church. Dr. Hirscher demands that the prayers shall be translated into the vernacular; that the forms and ceremonies shall be simplified; that the forced celibacy of the clergy shall be abandoned, &c., &c.:-in short, that most of the peculiarities of Romish ecclesiastical discipline shall be We hope the book will be speedily republished in this country.

done away.

"Ueber den Christlichen Bilderkreis, von Dr. F. PIPER," (Berlin, 1852, 8vo., pp. 66,) is a survey of the various forms of Christian art from its earliest period down to the sixteenth century.

TAUCHNITZ, of Leipzig, has printed a very beautiful edition of "the Psalms, Hebrew and English," (18mo., pp. 100)--the texts printed facing each other on opposite pages.

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