ology by Rev. J. Ll. Davies, in a small volume. The Prayers of Rev. John Service, D.D., have been collected. volume of the Encyclopædia Britannica contains notable articles on "Priest" by Prof. W. R. Smith, "Prophet " by Profs. Smith and Harnack, and "Prometheus" by Andrew Lang.Rev. W. W. Roberts, a clergyman educated at Oxford and a near connection, by marriage, of Cardinal Manning, whom he followed into the Roman Catholic Church, was one of the more learned and conscientious Catholic clergy who joined in the movement in 1870 to avert the impending decree of the infallibility of the Pope. He published an essay at that time to show that the papal authority had plainly committed itself to the condemnation of Galileo, and so had unanswerably demonstrated its own fallibility. A greatly enlarged republication of this essay, just made, is of special value for the instructive picture it presents of the disingenuous quibbling of the Ultramontanes. A new history of England to the death of Henry VIII., by F. York Powell, although intended for a school-book, is praised by the Athenæum as combining the accuracy of Bright's History with something of the sympathy and vividness of Green's. In the series of Hibbert Lectures, it is announced that Prof. A. H. Sayce will deliver a course on Babylonian Religion, and Dr. E. Hatch one on Early Christianity, within the next three years. The Westminster and the Edinburgh Reviews are reported to be on the point of changing from quarterly to monthly issues, a change emphatically demanded by the Zeitgeist, if these periodicals are to continue. Rev. P. H. Wicksteed will prepare a memorial volume of his father's essays and discourses. S. Dowell's voluminous History of Taxation is recommended to the peace societies for its melancholy exhibit of the enormous cost of English wars.— Prof. Leone Levi's volume on the Wages and Earnings of the Working Classes is an interesting collection of facts, but very incomplete; and the inferences drawn are not reliable. The minister of the Bunyan Meeting at Bedford, Rev. J. Brown, is the author of another biography of the famous tinker. A volume of college and university sermons by the late Mark Pattison is in preparation.—The Acts of the Apostles, by Rev. Prof. Lumby, is the latest volume in the Cambridge Greek Testament for school use.Thomas Hughes is writing the Life of Peter Cooper. Mr. S. Rowe Bennett, in the August Contemporary, attempts, with indifferent success, to reconcile Spencer, Harrison, and Arnold on the ground of anthropomorphism. The highest knowledge of God, of course, comes through the complete development of man, and he argues that the Perfect Man has been revealed; but a little agnosticism will go a long way in disposing of the last part of the argument. Archdeacon Farrar will be warmly received in America this autumn by tens of thousands of readers of his books, which breathe much of the best religious spirit of the time in England. Another eminent scholar, less distinguished as a preacher than the incumbent of St. Margaret's, Canon Westcott, of Peterborough, will deliver the Bohlen Lectures at Philadelphia in November.—The Macmillans have lately published a neat edition, in something like the "Golden Treasury" style, of Westcott and Hort's Greek Testament, for school use.———— Prof. Brandl, of Prag, is writing a work on Coleridge, in which he hopes to bring out for the first time the poet-philosopher's real relations to the German thinkers of his day. Two or three new biographies by Englishmen are also under way. Mr. H. D. Traill's recent estimate, as compared with James Russell Lowell's, shows that Mr. Morley's choice of a biographer for the English "Men of Letters" Series was unfortunate, to say the least. The late F. D. Maurice's Lectures on the Apocalypse will soon be published.- Ilkley, Ancient and Modern, is a subscription volume, of the order of town histories familiar to Americans, to which Rev. Robert Collyer has lent a loving hand. Mr. J. T. Gibson has translated, in the metre and rhyme of the original, Cervantes' tragedy of Numantia. English critics consider Cervantes' relation as a dramatist to Lope de Vega and Calderon similar to that of Marlowe and Greene to Shakspere. Miss Catherine H. Birney's Life of the Grimké Sisters is a well-written account of a dramatic episode in the anti-slavery contest in our country, and of the subsequent fortunes of two valiant souls in woman's frame. A recent London Inquirer devotes an editorial to the annual report of Rev. Dr. J. F. Clarke's church, which it very properly styles a "model" for other societies to imitate: the influence exerted by this successful working out of a rational and liberal church polity has been very great, and is destined to increase.-Prof. E. A. Fay will have ready in 1886, for the American Dante Society, a complete Concordance to the Divine Comedy. Dr. Von Holst's fourth volume, the second half, of his Constitutional History of the United States, treats of the exciting years 1854-56. Mrs. Ada L. Collier has chosen a novel subject in Lilith, the traditional first wife of Adam, created at the same time with him, expelled from Paradise, and married to Eblis, prince of demons. The author "has made Lilith the heroine of a fanciful poem, in which all the emotions, aspirations, and desires of a modern woman are attributed to this primitive and supremely beautiful creature. In Paradise, she resented Adam's assumption of superiority, and insisted upon equal rights. As Adam would not consent, she left him. In vain an angel pleaded with her not to sacrifice love for freedom. If she could not have equal sway with Adam, she would have nothing to do with him. So, by her own will, she lost Paradise." Mrs. Collier puts the beginning of the woman's rights movement very early; but the subsequent fortune of the unhappy Lilith would make Milton's man's rights doctrine appear the safer course, on the whole, for that rather limited society. A new and cheaper edition of Dr. Martineau's Types of Ethical Theory is in preparation for the American market. The Athenæum pronounces the book "worthy of the author's reputation. Indeed, it is the first work which fully justifies the high position which its author has held as a thinker for nearly two generations; the most admirable exposition of intuitional ethics. that has been given to English readers in the present age;... the most full and acute account of moral truths from the intuitional position that has hitherto been laid before English readers. ... He at the same time gives a most admirable analysis of the mental processes which are gone through in forming moral judgments. . . . Admirable as the subject-matter is, it is fully matched by the excellence of the form in which it is presented. For the first time since Mill's death, we have had given us a philosophic work of high rank, which is written in literary English. There is something almost antiquated in the grace with which Dr. Martineau presents thoughts of very considerable subtlety and complexity." The patriotic American who rejoiced a few years ago to purchase an edition of the Revised New Testament in which the readings preferred by the American Committee were incorporated in the text, while those preferred by the English Committee were relegated to the Appendix, can now procure an edi tion of the Psalms, to which the same courteous process has been applied. Rev. Drs. Hitchcock and Lansing are the editors. -Two stately volumes, issued by J. R. Osgood, in the style of the Memorial History of Boston, contain the Annals of the American Episcopal Church, written by Bishop W. S. Perry, of Iowa, whose work is supplemented by numerous monographs, one of which, by Rev. Phillips Brooks, reviews the last century of the growth of the denomination in Boston. Articles of note in the August Fortnightly are Edwin Arnold's on "Death-and Afterwards," and W. S. Lilly's on the "New Naturalism of M. Zola."- -In the Nineteenth Century, Mr. R. H. Hutton gives an extremely interesting account of the Metaphysical Society of London at one of its meetings where the subject of the reasons for believing in the uniformity of nature was discussed by a notable company of English thinkers. N. P. G. THINGS AT HOME AND ABROAD. The death of Dr. Rufus P. Stebbins is another loss from the ranks of venerable and distinguished men in our ministry. His sudden and happy departure seems to be in keeping with the vigorous energy of his life. We cannot imagine him passing through a lingering illness. Such was his love of work that it would seem as though he must leave this world at once for another as soon as his opportunities of usefulness were over here. His mental and physical vitality was extraordinary for his age. Few men, after having filled so many important posts as he, would have been contented or had the energy to settle down with a young and struggling parish, help build its church, watch it daily that it should not go into debt, visit its parishioners, and report its growing prosperity at conference meetings with all the glee of a new candidate just beginning his parish work. Who that has ever heard him speak will forget the strong and commanding voice that called the attention, the long white hair, the authoritative gestures, the tones descending to the lowest pitch when he asserted what he believed to be true in face of opposition? He loved the old language of the Bible; and, during the war, his Scriptural expressions were singularly impressive and grand in his prayers for ourselves and our nation's enemies. He was somewhat conservative in his opinions, determined in his judgment, but never narrow or superficial in his conclusions. He loved playfully to rebuke the mannerisms of so-called scientific philosophers in their talk about religion; but he had a firm background of Christian logic to stand upon, broader and better than any dogmatism or raillery at opponents. His sound and at the same time liberal methods of interpretation are seen in the series of lectures on the Hebrew prophets, given to his various pupils. Many of these lectures have already appeared on the pages of this Review, and were full of clear insight and fresh thought. His life everywhere was a successful one. He carried himself through college by his own manual labor, was led away from Methodism to our Church through the writings of Dr. Channing, and entered upon a happy parish and Sunday-school work in the town of Leominster, Mass. Then he was called to Meadville College, where for twelve |