of civilization. It will aid those whose faith has been shaken by modern science in reconfirming it, and those who have lost their faith in recovering it. To that end it will review the whole of modern literature and modern life, and show that there is no discord, but harmony, between true science, true progress, and religion. A large number of the prominent scholars of the evangelical school of Germany have promised their contributions. Among those whose names are well known in the United States, we mention Professor Dorner, of Berlin, Professor Ebrard, of Erlangen, Dr. Fabri, author of the work on Materialism, Dr. Harless, President of the Supreme Ecclesiastical Consistory of Munich, Professor Gess, of Göttingen, Prelate Dr. von Kapff, in Stuttgardt, Dr. Kliefoth, of Schwerin, Professor Luthardt, of Leipzic, Professor Van Oosterzee, of Utrecht, Dr. Wichern, in Berlin. A number of Roman Catholic professors of theology have united to establish a new literary organ, for the review of the entire literature from the standpoint of their Church. Professor Reusch, of Bonn, well known as the author of several works on the New Testament, will be the editor. A new posthumous work of the late Professor F. C. Baur, of Tübingen, is announced, giving his "Lectures on the History of Christian Doctrines. (Vorlesungen über die Christliche Dogmenge schichte. Part I. of Vol. I. Leipzic: 1865.) The entire work will consist of three volumes, the first of which will embrace the Doctrines of the ancient Church, the second those of the Church of the middle ages, and the third those of the Church of modern times. Part I. of the first volume, which has been published, extends over the period from the apostolical age to the Synod of Nice. In point of extent and completeness this work of Baur will take rank among the foremost works in this department of German theology. As regards the theological stand-point, the late author was well known as the leader of the negative school of German theologians. Luther's theological views (which many High Lutherans regard as almost as important as the doctrines of the Bible) continue to be the subject of a number of new theological works. Among the most important of this class of works belongs that by Prof. Dieckhoff, of Rostock, on Luther's teachings concerning the power of the Church. (Luther's Lehre von der Kirchlichen Gewalt. Berlin: 1865.) FRANCE. One of the most important recent publications of Protestant France is a new work by Count A. de Gasparin on "The Family, its Duties, Joys, and Sorrows." (La Famille, ses Devoirs, ses Joies, et ses Douleurs. 2 vols. Paris.) The name of the author alone is a guarantee that the new work is one which will be welcomed by all the evangelical Churches of the world. Count Gasparin is one of the most eloquent champions the Christian family has ever found. He declares open war against those enemies of the family who prefer, to its stern and beautiful duties, the cowardly peace of celibacy, which diminishes the existence and frequently extinguishes the tenderness of the heart, while the family inspires devotion, encourages noble works, sympathizes with all that is great and good, calls away from laziness and cowardice. In his description of the Christian family he takes his point of departure from God. It is God whose holy presence purifies it, sanctifies it, sustains it during the hours of sorrow, and awards to it pure and legitimate joys. Nowhere, Count Gasparin shows, the word of Jesus that one thing is necessary proves more true than in the family. The moral distance between a religious family, however poor and devoid of external advantages, and a family having all external advantages in abundance but no faith, is as wide as that between heaven and earth. A work by such an author and on such a subject will undoubtedly, by means of translations, soon be made accessible to all Protestant nations. A new History of the United States, from the establishment of the first colonies to the first presidency of Abraham Lincoln, has recently been published by J. F. Astié, one of the regular contributors of the Revue Chretienne, (Histoire de la Republique des Etats Unis. 2 vols. Paris: 1865.) The work is introduced to the public by an introduction from the pen of Professor Laboulaye. Both Laboulaye and Astié are known as enthusiastic admirers of our American institutions. The author, says Professor Laboulaye in the preface, has undertaken to prove that Christianity is the source of all liberty: that it has not only elevated the charac ter of woman in the family and abolished slavery, but it has emancipated the citizen, destroyed the old privileges, and founded modern democracy....Liberty has a bad reputation in some of the European countries. It is only known by the ruins which it has caused, by the violence which it has produced; but ought this violence, these faults, these crimes, be attributed to liberty or to the men who have used its sacred name to dishonor it? The example of America gives us quite a different notion of liberty, and teaches us to respect and to love it. In this liberty which elevates the souls, enlightens and purifies the spirits and draws the hearts nearer to each other, we see the most perfect fruit of the Gospel. This modern liberty which rests on the co-operation of all, which rejects slavery, and protects minorities and the individual, has only made its appearance in countries which | recognize Christ as their master. Let us recognize the tree by its fruits; let us understand that religious, political, social, individual liberty is the daughter of Christianity; instead of cursing and insulting it, let us try to know it, and perhaps, learning more of its divine beauty, we may finally love and embrace it. We shall introduce it to our hearths, and devote to it our entire lives. That America has done, and who will say that she has not fared well with it. May we be able to follow this example. May the same love and the same faith carry the civilization of the world toward the same future of good will, of peace, and of prosperity. Works conceived and carried out in such a spirit can of course not fail to be effectual apostles of our institutions, both political and religious. ART. XII-SYNOPSIS OF THE QUARTERLIES, AND OTHERS OF THE HIGHER PERIODICALS. American Quarterly Reviews. AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN AND THEOLOGICAL REVIEW, October, 1865. (New York.)-1. Demoniacal Possessions of the New Testament. 2. The Ministering of Christ and Christian Ministering. 3. Analysis and Proof Texts of Julius Muller's System of Theology. 4. The Relation of Christianity to the Present Stage of the World's Progress in Science, Civilization, and the Arts. 5. Slavery and Christianity. 6. Resume of the Geological Argument. BIBLIOTHECA SACRA, October, 1865. (Andover.)-1. What is the True Conception of Christian Worship? 2. New England Theology. 3. Life and Correspondence of Theodore Parker. 4. The Son of God. 5. Frederick Denison Maurice. 6. Editorial Correspondence. 7. Egyptology, Oriental Archæology and Travel. EVANGELICAL QUARTERLY REVIEW, October, 1865. (Gettysburg.)— 1. Church Music. 2. Reminiscences of Deceased Lutheran Ministers. 3. Natural Theology. 4. True Greatness. 5. The Cross. 6. Marriage— Translated from Zeller's Biblisches Worterbuch. 7. Inauguration Addresses. 8. Pilate's Question. 9. "The Laborers are Few." FREEWILL BAPTIST QUARTERLY, October, 1865. (Dover, N. H.)-1. A Good Minister of Jesus. 2. Oneness of the Church of Christ. 3. Woman's Position and Influence. 4. One of the Presumptive Arguments for the Divinity of the Bible. 5. Life and Times of Paul. 6. Dr. Lyman Beecher. NEW ENGLANDER, October, 1865. (New Haven.)-1. The Revival of Letters in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries. 2. Principles of Art. 3. A Divine Actor on the Stage. 4. The Word made Flesh. 5. The Rights of the Nation, and the Duty of Congress. 6. Ought Treason against the Government of the United States to be Punished? English Reviews. BRITISH AND FOREIGN EVANGELICAL REVIEW, October, 1865. (London.)— 1. The Development of the Ancient Catholic Hierarchy. 2. Augustine. 3. Candlish's Cunningham Lectures. 4. Early History of Heathenism. 5. Scripture Songs of the Scottish Church. 6. The Skepticism of Hume. 7. Rome and the Roman Question in 1865. 8. Miscellaneous Intelligence. 9. German Theological Literature. BRITISH QUARTERLY REVIEW, October, 1865. (London.)-1. Matthew Arnold, Poet and Essayist. 2. Frost and Fire. 3. Palgrave's Central and Eastern Arabia. 4. The Judges of England. 5. Mrs. Browning's Poetry. 6. State Policy of Europe in 1865. 7. Lecky's History of Rationalism. 8. Notes on the United States since the War. CHRISTIAN REMEMBRANCER, October, 1865. (London.)—1. Guizot on the Christian Religion. 2. The Early Struggles of the Church of Christ. 3. Theiner's Documents from the Vatican. 4. Palgrave's Arabia and the Arabs. 5. Zeller on the Greek Philosophy. 6. New Translations of Eastern Liturgies. 7. Faith and Life. 8. Gnosticism. 9. Ffoulkes on the Divisions of Christendom. EDINBURGH REVIEW, October, 1865. (New York: Reprint.)-1. Journal and Correspondence of Miss Berry. 2. Life in the Criminal Class. 3. The Rock-cut Temples of India. 4. Life of Carl Maria von Weber. 5. Campbell's Frost and Fire. 6. Posthumous Writings of Alexis de Tocqueville. 7. Palgrave's Arabia. 8. The Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland. 9. Sir Thomas Wyse's Peloponnesus. 10. American Psycho mancy. LONDON QUARTERLY REVIEW, October, 1865. (New York: Reprint.)— 1. Cathedrals of England. 2. The Mariner's Compass. 3. The Resources, Condition, and Prospects of Italy. 4. The Poetry of Praed and Lord Houghton. 5. Blind People. 6. Field Sports of the Ancient Greeks and Romans. 7. The Gallican Church. 8. The Russians in Central Asia. NORTH BRITISH REVIEW, September, 1865. (New York: Reprint.)— 1. Mr. Mill's Examination of Sir W. Hamilton's Philosophy. 2. Burlesque Poetry. 3. Carlyle's History of Frederic the Great. 4. Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, Bart. 5. Mr. Russel on the Salmon. 6. Sensation Novelists: Miss Braddon. 7. "Frost and Fire." WESTMINSTER REVIEW, October, 1865. (New York: Reprint.)—1. Personal Representation. 2. Rationalism in Europe. 3. Capacities of Women. 4. Palgrave's Travels in Arabia. 5. The Holy Roman Empire. 6. The Doctrine of Nationalities and Schleswig-Holstein. 7. Mr. Grote's Plato. 8. Letters from Egypt. German Reviews. ZEITSCHRIFT FUR HISTORICHE THEOLOGIE. (JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL THEOLOLGY.) First Number, 1866.-1. UHLHORN, The Literature of Church Theology, from 1851 to 1860. The above number of the Journal of Historical Theology is more a work than a periodical, for the whole number is occupied by one article, or rather by only the beginning of one article. No reader, however, will regret this want of variety, for the essay of Dr. Uhlhorn is one of the most valuable and interesting contributions to theological literature which has been made for many years. His object is to review all the German, and the more important non-German works which from 1851 to 1860, appeared in the Department of Church History. The works are grouped together in periods; the contents and essential points of each are concisely stated, and the new light which has been obtained from every particular work and from the works of one period, taken together, is clearly pointed out. The first installment of the essay, in this number of the Journal of Historical Theology is restricted to the period of Ancient Church History until Constantine, and it subdivides the literature to be reviewed into seven classes. 1. Literature on the New Testament. 2. The Apostolical Fathers, and the Pseudepigraphs. 3. Gnosticism and Manicheism. 4. Montanism. 5. Patristics and History of Doctrines. 6. The Combat with Paganism. 7. The History of the Period in General. For any one who wishes to acquaint himself with the grave theological controversies which have been carried on from 1851 to 1861, (or rather to 1864, for many of the works from 1861 to 1864 are embraced in this review,) and with their results, this article is absolutely indispensable. For we have as yet no other work, in any language, which in a so thorough and comprehensive manner lays before us the essential results of the literature of the last ten or fifteen years. JAHRBUCHER FUR DEUTSCHE THEOLOGIE. (Yearbooks of German Theology. Third Number, 1865.)-1. STEITZ, The Doctrine of the Greek Church on the Lord's Supper in its Historical Development. 2. PAUL, The Significance of the Resurrection of the Lord for the Faith of the Christian. 3. DISTELMANN, Remarks on 1 Cor. xv, 51. 4. JAHN, Remarks on Rom. viii, 18-23, with special regard to modern commen tators. We have already called attention in former numbers of the Quarterly Review to the very valuable essay of Dr. Steitz on the History of the Doctrine of the Lord's Supper in the Greek Church. In the above number of the "Yearbooks," we have the third instalment of the essay, which sets forth the gradual transition of the "symbolic" view of the Church to the "realistic" in the second half of the fourth century, and examines in particular the pass ages concerning the Lord's Supper in the Apostolical Constitutions, a fragment formerly ascribed to Irenæus, Cyril of Jerusalem, Ephraem the Syrian, Epiphanius, Gregory of Nyssa, Chrysostom and Maruthas. As in the former installments of his articles, Dr. Steitz quotes in full all the passages of the fathers, and thus enables the student to become fully satisfied as to the real views of the Greek fathers, without being under the necessity of turning to the voluminous original. French Reviews. REVUE DES DEUX MONDES.-August 1.-1. AM. THIERRY. The Struggle of Origenism at Rome-Death of Paula. 3. TAILLANDIER, The Poetry and the Poets of 1865. 4. BERNARD, Progress of Physiological Science. August 15.-2. E. DUVERGIER DE HAURANNE, Eight Months in America, at the Close of the War. Letters and Notes of Travel. September 1.-CH. DE REMUSAT, Mahomet and Mahometanism, with reference to the new work on the Koran, by B. Saint Hilaire. 3. E. DuVERGIER DE HAURANNE, Eight Months in America, (second Article: Life at the Watering Places, and the Northern Lakes.) 4. BOISSIER, The Roman Catacombs. 5. MAURY, The Recent Progress of Organic Chemistry. 6. MAZADE, The Crisis of Liberalism in Spain. September 15.-1. ESQUIROS, England and English Life, (twenty-seventh article: Religious Life in the Country: the Presbytery, the Church, and the School.) 5. Duvergier de HAURANNE, Eight Months in America (third article. The Chicago Convention.) October 1.-3. REVILLE, The Pagan Christ of the Third Century-Apollonius of Tyana, with special reference to the works of German Critics. 5. KERATRY, The French Counter-Guerillas in Mexico. REVUE CHRETIENNE, August, 1865.-1. ASTIE, The Beginning of Abolition ism in the United States. 2. PEDEZERT, Marc Aurelius, (third article.) 3. HOLLARD, The Character of Jesus Christ. September 1.-VALCOURT, The Sanitary Condition of the Armies during the Great Cotemporary Wars. 2. DELMAS, An Obstacle to the Realization of a Separation between Church and State in France. 3. BONIFAZ, The Christian Character of Corneille's Polyeucte. ART. XIII.-QUARTERLY BOOK-TABLE. Religion, Theology, and Biblical Literature. Christian Memorials of the War; or, Scenes and Incidents illustrative of Religious Faith and Principle, Patriotism and Bravery, in our Army. By HORATIO B. HACKETT, Professor of Biblical Literature and Interpretation in Newton Theological Institute. Pp. 252. Boston: Gould & Lincoln. These sketches we would not "willingly let die." It must have been a labor of love for the eminent author to gather and arrange them. |