Christian Missions, by the Rev. John Robson, M.A., soundly argued, with special reference to the views of Max Müller in his noted lecture on missions, and to modern theories of the Philosophy of Religion. 5. The Protestant Doctrine of Evangelical Perfection, by Rev. John Rae, M.A. 6. Ultramontanism in France, by Rev. Clement de Faye, Brussels. 7. Tischendorf and Tregelles as editors of the Greek New Testament, by the Rev. William Milligan, D.D., Professor in Aberdeen, one of the British Committee on Revision, who is entirely competent to discuss the respective merits of the German and English critics above named. His article is every way good, and very instructive. He gives, on the whole, the preference to Tregelles, to whose life and labors full justice is done. "Tregelles," he writes, "stands between Lachmann and Tischendorf-not so limited in his aim as the one, and neither so wide in his range of materials, nor so subjective in his use of them, as the other. His position is thus a truer one than either." Dr. Milligan thinks that England is now taking the lead in just criticism of the New Testament text. Scrivener, Westcott, Hort and Lightfoot, are discussing the whole matter on the ground of settled “principles.” "The prestige once enjoyed by us in the high field of sacred criticism, but long lost, becomes ours again." We should like to make, did our space permit, extracts from several of these articles. That on Evangelical Perfection, by Rev. John Rae, is clear and discriminating. He gives a fair statement of the Romanist and Methodist views, and also of those of the German Professor Ritschl, who insists too sharply on the distinction between legal and evangelical perfection. Mr. Rae, while differing from him, agrees on one important point, that "our perfection under the gospel consists in making of ourselves a whole after our kind; "this is "sulastantially identical with the doctrine of the old divines, that it consisted in a perfectio partium, in our being an organic unity, wasting nothing essential to our nature as Christians, though having, it may be, nothing in its fullest development." This perfectio partium is in distinction from the perfectio graduum. Mr. Rae sums up thus: Love to God and love to man, then, are one and the same principle; and this principle of love, which is only possible for one reconciled through Christ, is the characteristic and the power of the new life. It is the single trunk from which all the branches and foliage of that life spread. By its means, too, we perceive the essential unity which exists between legal perfection and evangelical, which, in Ritschl's system, seem put too far out of all relation with one another. The law is the multifarious expression of love in all its many-sided applications. Love is the fulfilling of the law, and he is evangel. ically perfect whose life, amid many short-comings and failures, is still ruled by this principle of love, which is the spirit that dictates and transfuses the law. He may fall into many sins, and betray many imperfections, but if he understands this principle clearly, and strives earnestly to obey it, he is pursuing the end of his being, and exhibiting the essential character of Christian perfection. The Theological Review, edited by Charles Beard. January. 1. P. H. Wicksteed on Hilgenfeld's Introduction to the New Testament. 2. Dr. John Gordon, Review of Dale on the Atonement. 3. Wm. Binns, Methodism since Wesley. 4. C. Keegan Paul, Life of Bishop Gray. 5. Alexander Gordon, Hook's Life of Archbishop Laud. 6. F. R. Conder, The Central Ideas of Semitic and of Aryan Faith. Dickinson's Theological Quarterly, January, has thirteen articles from American Reviews, etc. Among them are President Woolsey on the Equilibrium between Physical and Moral Truth, Dr. Peabody, The Sovereignty of Law: Dr. T. M. Post, The Incarnation; Prof. T. Dwight on the Fourth Gospel; Hon. J. D. Baldwin, the Early British and Irish Churches; Rev. A. J. Lyman, Opportunities of Culture in the Christian Ministry; Rev. W. D. Wilton, The Origin of Man and his Civilization; a translation of Kurtz on the Nature of Angels, etc. Journal of Mental Science, edited by Drs. Maudsley and Clouston. January. I Thos. Laycock, Reflex, Automatic, and Unconscious Cerebration. 2. H. C. Major the Brain of the Chackma Baboon. 3. W. L. Lindsay, Mind in Plants. 4. Clouston on Skae's Classification of Mental Disease. 5. D. Yellowlees, Piea of Irisanity in Cases of Murder-case of Tierney. Mr. George Long's Decline of the Roman Republic, is completed by the publication of the fifth volume. It is distinguished for thoroughness and impartiality, and a constant use of the original authorities. A new and important work on Michael Angelo, by Mr. Heath Wilson, of Florence, is announced by Murray. It is based on the Italian work by Signor Gotti, but gives the results of elaborate studies by the author..... As showing the drift of speculation, Mr. Frederic Harrison's two essays on the Religious and Conservative Aspects of Positivism, in the Contemporary Review (Nov. and Dec. 1875), are worthy of note. Mr. Harrison is one of the editors and translators of the new English edition of Comte's Positive Philosophy. Positivism is to him the most religious and conservative of creeds and tendencies. It alone, he thinks, can preserve mankind from atheism and materialism. “Progress,” he says: "is only the development of order." Religion, Philosophy, and Action are the three great "faculties" of humanity. These give us Comte's grand "hypothesis," of the Church, Education, and Society (Polity). All these are indispensable, and all work together. A "collective and organicower" presides over the whole development of mankind. The spiritual conception" of such a being, he says, "is one of the grand conceptions in the progress of civilization, which mankind owes to Theology." The new philosophical quarterly, Mind, Jan., 1876, contains the following articles: Prefatory Words, by the Editor, Prof. G. C. Robertson; Herbert Spencer, the Com parative Psychology of Man; James Sully, Physiological Psychology in Germany; John Venn, Consistency and Real Inference; Henry Sidgwick, the Theory of Evolution in its Application to Practice; Shadworth H. Hodgson, Philosophy and, Science; Philosophy at Oxford, by the Rector of Lincoln College; Early Life of James, Mill, by Prof. Bain; Critical Notices, Reports, Notes, by G. II. Lewes, Prof. Flint, J. G. McKendrick, Prof. T. M. Lindsay, C. 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