Leipzig 812 students, of whom 165 studied theology; Würzburg 772, of whom 89 studied theology. The aggregate numbers in the remaining universities were: Berlin 2171, Munich 1961, Prague 1346, Bonn 1,012, Breslau 864, Tübingen 774, Göttingen 677, Halle 670, Jena 433, Giessen 411, Gratz 399, Königsberg 339, Marburg 315, Münster 302, Innspruck 257, Greifs walde 204, Kiel 141, Rostock 106. A German translation of the Latin My thographers is proposed by Dr. Bunte of Vegesack, near Bremen. We have received the first number, containing "Lactantius Placidus, nebst Beiträgen zur Emendation des Hyginus," (Bremen, 1852, 12mo., pp. 112.) We have barely room to record the receipt of "Oracula Sibyllina, ad fidem codd. quotquot exstant recensuit, prætextis prolegominis illustravit, versione Germanica instruxit, annotationes criticas et indices rerum et verborum locupletissimos adjecit J. H. FRIEDLIEB, D. D." (Lipsiæ, 1852, 8vo., pp. 538); of "C. Cornelii Taciti de vita et moribus C. J. Agricola Liber: ad fidem codd. denuo collat. recensuit et commentariis enarravit J. CAROLUS WEX." (Brunsv., 1852, 8vo., pp. 337); of Beiträge zur Sprach- und Alterthumsforschung aus Jüdischen Quellen, von Dr. MICHAEL SACHS, erstes Heft." (Berlin, 1852, 8vo., pp. 188); and of " Eschyli Trayædia, recensuit G. HERMANN." (Berlin, 1852, 2 vols., 8vo.) The latter is one of the most beautiful specimens of typography we have ever seen, and is adorned with a spirited and admirably executed portrait of the veteran philologist. The fourth volume of Mure's Critical History of the Language and Literature of Ancient Greece comprises historical literature from the rise of prose composition to the death of Herodotus. DR. LEPSIUS has recently published a volume intended more for general readers than the two previous ones. It is entitled, "Letters from Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Peninsula of Sinai." The object of these letters, according to the Athenaeum, was, in the first place, to report the proceedings of the Expedition to those at home who had a right to information respecting it;-and for this reason, perhaps, although partaking of the manner of familiar communications, they say less of the personal fortunes of the traveller than is usual in notes from the Nile. Yet there are few accounts of that region which will give the European reader a better view of its essential features, or that will more clearly inform him of what is remarkable in the present state, and bearing on the past, of its chief monuments. In a correspondence like this, much, of course, is omitted that the wholly unlearned might wish to know; while frequent reference is made to topics with which the studious alone are familiar. But it is pleasing to observe how clearly from these unaffected business-like reports, chiefly occupied as they are with scientific results, there is evolved a picture of the actual face of the land, and something more than an outline of the primeval story which its ruins have been forced to reveal, -sufficient to awaken interest in those ground before. To all who are already in even who have never approached the some degree acquainted with it, the letters will be in a high degree instructive and delightful." AMONG the new works announced as in press and in preparation in Great Britain are the following: Memoir, Journal, and Correspondence of Thomas Moore. Edited by the Right Hon. Lord John Russell. With Portraits and Vignette Illustrations:-Essays on Political and Social Science. Contributed to the Edinburgh and other Reviews. By W. R. Greg, Esq. 2 vols., 8vo.:-The Battle of Leipsic. By the Rev. G. R. Gleig, M. A., Chaplain-General of the Forces. 16mo.:The Australian Colonies; Their Origin and Present Condition. By William Hughes, F. R. G. S., Professor of Geography in the College for Civil Engineers. 16mo. :-The Fourth Volume of Colonel Mure's Critical History of the Language and Literature of Ancient Greece: comprising Historical Literature from the Rise of Prose Composi tion to the Death of Herodotus. 8vo. :Mrs. Jameson's Legends of the Madonna, as represented in the Fine Arts: forming the Third and concluding Series of Sacred and Legendary Art:-Isis: an Egyptian Pilgrimage. By J. A. St. John, Esq., Author of Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece, 2 vols., post Svo. :-The Civil Wars of Rome: A School History. By the Rev. Charles Merivale, B. D. Fep. 8vo. :-The Light of the Forge. By the Rev. William Harrison, M. A., Rector of Birch, Essex :-Goethe's Faust: With English Notes, Critical, Grammatical, and Philological. By Falck Lebahn, Ph. D., Author of Practice in German, &c. 8vo.:-The Principles of Mechanical Philosophy applied to Industrial Mechanics. By Thomas Tate, F. R. A. S. 8vo. :-Sicily, its Scenery and its Antiquities, Greek, Saracenic, and Norman. By W. H. Bartlett, Author of "Walks about Jerusalem," &c. With 31 Steel Engravings and numerous Wood-cuts, in super-royal 8vo. :-An Historical and Statistical Account of New South Wales; including a Visit to the Gold Regions, and a Description of the Mines, &c. By J. D. Lang, M. A., D. D. 3d edition, (three-fourths of the work being entirely new,) bringing down the History of the Colony to the year 1852. 2 vols., post 8vo.; -also, by the same Author, Freedom and Independence for the Golden Lands of Australia; the Right of the Colonies, and the Interest of Britain and of the World. Post 8vo.:-Narrative of a Visit to the Indian Archipelago in H. M. S. "Mæander;" with Portions of the Journals of Sir James Brooke, K. C. B. By Capt. the Hon. Henry Keppel, R. N., 8vo. :-History of the American Revolution. By George Bancroft, Author of "History of the United States," vol. ii., 8vo. :-The Second Part of the Primeval Language. Being the Monuments of Egypt, and their Vestiges of Patriarchal Tradition. By the Rev. Charles Foster, Rector of Stisted, Essex. 8vo. :-Illustrated Journal of a Landscape Painter in Calabria. By Ed. Lear, Author of "Illustrated Journal of a Landscape Painter in Albania," &c. 8vo. AMONG the books in general literature recently announced on the continent of Europe are the following: Briefwechsel zwischen Goethe u. Knebel. (1774-1832.) 2 Bände. Leipzig, 1851. 8vo., 378 und 412 pp. Der Römische Civilprocess und die Actionen in summarischer Darstellung. pp. 564. Dante's Leben und Werke. Kulturgeschichtlich dargestellt von Dr. Frz. X. Wegele, ausserord. Prof. an der Universität zu Jena. Jena, 1852. 8vo., pp. 463. Das deutsche Volk, dargestellt in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart zur Begründung der Zukunft. Leipzig, 1851. 6 Bände, Svo. J. Jak. Wagner's nachgelassene Schriften über Philosophie, herausgegeben von Dr. Ph. L. Adam. 1. Thl.-Auch unter d. Titel: Metaphysik oder das Weltgesetz nebst Ein leitung in die Philosophie, und Abriss der Geschichte der Philosophie. Nach dessen Vorträgen über das "Organ der menschlichen Erkenntniss" und handschriftlichen Nachlass herausgegeben. Ulm, 1852. 8vo., PP. 144. Essai sur les fondements de nos connaissances et sur les caractères de la critique philosophique, par A.A. Cournot, inspecteur général de l'instruction public. 2 vols. Paris, 1852. 8vo., pp. 848. Die Religion und die Philosophie in ihrer weltgeschichtlichen Entwicklung und Stellung zu einander, nach den Urkunden dargelegt von A. Gladisch, Director und Prof. Breslau, 1852. 8vo., pp. 235. Eschyli Tragoediæ. Recensuit Godofredus Hermannus. Vol. I, II. Lipsiæ, 1852. 8vo., pp. 454 und 674. AMERICAN. NEW MAGAZINE.-MESSRS. George P. Putnam & Co. have issued a prospectus for a new Monthly, to partake of the character of the Magazine and Review. All articles admitted into the work are to be liberally paid for. It will be devoted to the interests of literature, science, and art, in their best and pleasantest aspects. It will be open to competent writers for free discussion of such topics as are deemed important and of public interest. The critical department will be wholly independent of the publishers, and, as far as possible, of all personal influence or bias. Wholesome castigation of public abuses will be allowed a fair field, without fear or favour. When a subject needs illustration or pictorial example, such illustrations will be occasionally given; but it is not expected that the success of the work is to depend on what are termed embellishments. Each number will contain one hundred and twentyeight ample pages. Price $3 per annum, or 25 cents per number. Among the writers who will lend their coöperation in this work, the following are mentioned: Irving, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Whipple, Dewey, Bancroft, Bryant, Emerson, and several female writers of repute.-Christian Inquirer. THE METHODIST QUARTERLY REVIEW. APRIL, 1853. ART. I.-THE ECLIPSE OF FAITH. The Eclipse of Faith; or, a Visit to a Religious Sceptic. Boston, 1852. THIS volume is published anonymously; but it is well known to be from the pen of Henry Rogers, author of several papers in the Edinburgh Review. It is one of the few books recently published that are destined to live,-full of thought, direct in its aim, conclusive in its reasoning. Its substratum is fictitious, the dramatis persona being creatures of the imagination; but the superstructure is truth-truth momentous and all-important. In a series of conversations and discussions between the supposed writer of the volume, his nephew Harrington, and Fellowes, a friend of the latter, the various theories of modern infidelity are examined with candour, and their objections to revealed religion shown to be futile and frivolous. The author has done for the disciples of Strauss, Newman, Parker, and the rationalists and spiritualists of the present age, what Butler did, and Paley, and Watson, for the sceptics of former times: he has swept away their subtle cavils, unveiled their sophistries, and shown the pillar of revelation unharmed by their malignity. Harrington is a young man of wealth and education. He has travelled in Germany, and after having been driven about by the conflicting winds of opposing doctrines, is introduced to us as a sceptic of the straitest kind. He believes, religiously, nothing. He doubts, not only whether the Bible be true, but whether it be false. Fellowes, on the other hand, is a spiritualist of the modern school, a disciple of Parker and Francis Newman. He has rejected all religious creeds, has abandoned the Bible as an authoritative revelation of God's will, and claims that spiritual truth is indigenous to the human heart. A few extracts from the first conversation FOURTH SERIES, VOL. V.-11 between these totally dissimilar friends will give the reader an insight into their characters, which are sustained with singular fidelity throughout the volume: "I tell you,' said Harrington, that I believe absolutely no one religious dogma whatever; while yet I would give worlds, if I had them, to set my foot upon a rock. I should even be grateful to any one, who, if he did not give me truth, gave me a phantom of it which I could mistake for reality.' "If you merely meant,' replied Fellowes, that you did not retain any vestige of your early historical and dogmatical Christianity, why I retain just as little of it. I have rejected all creeds, and I have now found what the Scripture calls that peace which passeth all understanding. Though no Christian in the ordinary sense, I am, I hope, something better; and a truer Christian in the spirit than thousands of those in the letter.' "Letter and spirit!' said Harrington, you puzzle me exceedingly: you tell me one moment that you do not believe in historical Christianity at all, either its miracles or dogmas,-these are fables; but in the next, why, no old Puritan could garnish such discourse with a more edifying use of the language of Scripture. I suppose you will next tell me that you understand the spirit of Christianity better even than Paul.' "So I do,' was the reply. Paulo majora canamus: for, after all, he was but half delivered from his Jewish prejudices; and when he quitted the nonsense of the Old Testament-though in fact he never did thoroughly—he evidently believed the fables of the New just as much as the pure truths which lie at the basis of spiritual Christianity. We separate the dross of Christianity from its fine gold.'" In the further progress of this conversation Mr. Fellowes develops himself in the language of the modern spiritualists, and has, pat for his purpose at every turn, a quotation from the writings of his teachers. Indeed, he is the embodiment of Messrs. Newman and Parker; while, with logical acuteness, his antagonist, the avowed sceptic, after satirizing their perpetual usage of Bible phraseology, shows that their fundamental principles are identical with those of Lord Herbert, and the elder and more decent deists of that class. The latter, indeed, in one respect, have the advantage of the neophytes of the present day. "Spiritualism" doubts the immortality of the soul; Herbert and his followers took that for granted; while both agree in rejecting what they style the supernatural narratives of the Old and New Testaments, and treat as gross absurdities the doctrine of the Trinity, the Atonement, the General Resurrection, the Day of Judgment, and the Punishment of the Wicked in a future world. The name of "Deist," however, as well as that of 'Rationalist," is unpleasant to the ears of the gentlemen of the new school. They prefer to be styled "Spiritualists," and while rejecting the Bible as a revelation from God, they claim to be Christians par excellence-Christians, freed from the bondage of "the letter;" and, as such, entitled to feel pity, bordering upon contempt, for those who cannot bask in the sunshine of their "divine philosophy," and are so old-fashioned as to bow submissively to the teachings of the inspired volume. The inspired volume! Alas! has not Mr. Newman denied that there is any such thing? Even so. He claims to have proved that a book-revelation of moral and spiritual truth is an impossibility. The cardinal doctrine of the new school is that God reveals himself to us within, and not from without. In accordance with this sentiment, Fellowes, in the volume before us, directs his friend to "look inwards, that he may see by the direct gaze of the spiritual faculty, bright and clear, those great intuitions of spiritual truth which no book can teach." Admitting for a moment the impossibility of a book-revelation, the sceptic rather poses his illuminated friend by adverting to the fact that, notwithstanding this inward light, the great mass of mankind have a remarkable facility for receiving the erroneous supposition. "It seems strange,' says he, 'that men in general should believe things to be possible when they are impossible.' "It is,' replies Fellowes, because they have confounded what is historical or intellectual with moral and spiritual truth.' "I am afraid that will not excuse their absurdity, because, as you admit, all book-revelation is impossible. But further, supposing men to have made this strange blunder, it only shows that the "moral and spiritual" could not be very clearly revealed within; and no wonder men began to think that perhaps it might come to them from without! When men begin to mistake blue for red, and square for round, and chaff for wheat, I think it is high time that they repair to a doctor outside them to tell them what is the matter with their poor brains. Meantime an external revelation is impossible?' "Certainly.' "But men, however, have somehow perversely believed it very possible, and that in some shape or other it has been given?' "They have, I must admit.' "Unhappy race! thus led on by some fatality, though not by the constitution of their nature, (rather by some inevitable perversion of it,) to believe as possible that which is so plainly impossible. O that it did not involve a contradiction to wish that God would relieve them from such universal and pernicious delusions, by giving them a book-revelation to show them that all bookrevelations are impossible !" The sceptic presses his point, and, with great gravity, says:"Pray permit me to ask, Did you always believe that a book-revelation is impossible "How can you ask the question?' is the candid reply. You know that I was brought up, like yourself, in the reception of the Bible as the only and infallible revelation of God to mankind.' "To what do you owe your emancipation from this grievous and universal error, which still infects, in this or some other shape, the myriads of the human race?' "I think principally to the work of Mr. Newman on "the Soul," and his "Phases of Faith."" "Harrington replies: These have been to you, then, at least, a human book-revelation that a divine book-revelation is impossible-a truth which I |