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 Tneology. 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 Jerusa lem, Ephraem the Syrian, Epiphanius, Gregory of Nyssa, ChryBostom 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.

War is always terrible, and makes fearful havoc of homes, and hearts, and lives; but when before was war accompanied by so much of the power of Christianity as was the War for the Union? Many felt it a religious duty to fight for the Government; and one-seventh of the male members of the Churches are estimated to have volunteered, while many entire Churches were left with hardly a living man, either clergy or laity. The Christian bishop would "take our glorious flag, and nail it just under the cross." Pastors, in some cases, led the men of their flocks to the field. Neither Cromwell's Ironsides nor Havelock's Highlanders furnished greater heroes than were many of the Christian soldiers of our army. Trust in God for success; faith in Jesus inspiring courage in peril and battle; patience in the endurance of sufferings; peace and triumph in death on the field, in the hospital and prison; O! how numerous the instances from the general down to the drummer-boy! Battle-fields and camps have their holy places where the Son of God revealed himself as the Saviour. Armies were supplied and resupplied with copies of the New Testament; soldiers at a halt would take them from their pockets and read a chapter; cabins became Bethels; there were regimental Churches and regimental revivals; and eternity alone can tell how many thousands who left their homes unsaved became Christians in the army. Would that all our commanders had been such men as Foote, Mitchell, Howard, Sanders, and Shaw!

The volume before us contains one hundred and forty-three incidents, illustrating the above with other points, and giving us examples of the intelligence, earnestness, Christian principle and heroism of our brave men. They are only a few of the brightest jewels of our country, and none of them can we afford to lose.

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The Centenary of American Methodism. A Sketch of its History, Theology, Practical System, and Success. Prepared by order of the Centenary Committee of the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, by ABEL STEVENS, LL.D. With a Statement of the Plan of the Centenary Celebration of 1866. By JOHN M'CLINTOCK, D.D. New York: Carlton & Porter. 1865.

Among its other good results our Centenary has called out Dr. Stevens to furnish the Church a miniature of his History of Methodism. Great and beneficial to the Church has been his mission as her historiographer, entitling him to her deepest gratitude and highest honor. He comes at the right period of her age: just early enough to rescue from total loss a great mass of her best reminiscences; just late enough to be able to contemplate her origin in a true historical perspective. It is her vindication and her

representation before the world. While such is the character of his elaborate work, this "diamond edition" was yet needed, compressing the story into sufficiently brief dimensions for the most casual readers, and cheap enough for universal diffusion. So will the entire whole of the Church understand herself. So will she advance in becoming a self-conscious and a most intelligent selfactive Church.

It is divided into three parts, answering the three questions: What is Methodism? What achievements entitle it to a centennial birthday? What are its capabilities and responsibilities for the future? Answering the first question is a statement of her history, institutes, and doctrines. Answering the second, is a summary of the achievements of Methodism in its own growth and success; in its publishing institutions and published works; in its educational results, its Sunday-schools,, missionary enterprise, patriotism, and miscellaneous aggregates. Answering the third,

is

series of suggestive topics touching our Church progress for coming time, which should be implanted in the mind. of every thinking Methodist and every Methodist who ought to think. While this is an invaluable manual for every Methodist's own use, it is just the pocket-piece to present to every outside inquirer, to every prejudiced depreciator, to every philosophic thinker whose attention has never been but can be awakened to the subject, and who may not have time or interest sufficient for a bulkier volume.

History of Rationalism. Embracing the Present State of Protestant Theology. By Rev. JOHN F. HURST, A.M. With Appendix of Literature. 8vo., pp. 643. New York: Carlton & Porter. 1865.

Mr. Hurst is known to our readers as one of the contributors to the pages of the Quarterly. He is a graduate of Dickinson, who, after a period of residence in Germany, entered the Newark Conference, and has illustrated in his own instance the possibility of happily blending the different characters of scholar, thinker, writer, earnest preacher, and practical pastor. The subject on which he writes has deeply interested his feelings, and its ample discussion has been a labor of love. His reading, as both the ample quotations and the extensive list of works in his Appendix show, has been great, for so brief a period of time. His work, in manuscript, has received the endorsement of some eminent critics, outside our Church, and its publication by our Concern (in connection with. Scribner) will be welcomed by every friend of religious literature. We hesitate not to say that its perusal will richly reward our

ministry by the deep and varied interest of the subject, by the light it sheds upon the present intellectual and religious condition of Europe and America, and by the momentous lessons it furnishes in the great struggle now going on between high divine spiritual truth and the multiform infidelity of the present hour; an infidelity which either as a proud, pretentious transcendentalism would outblaze the luster of Christianity and claim to fling her into dimness and shade; or, as low sensationalism, would, with much scientific pretense, teach us that soul is but matter, that man is but animal, and that God is but cosmos. We should say more upon the work, but we expect a full review from a competent hand.

Illustrative Gatherings for Preachers and Teachers. A Manual of Anecdotes, Facts, Figures, Proverbs, Quotations, etc. Adapted for Christian Teaching. By Rev. G. S. Bowes, B. A. 12mo., pp. 464. Philadelphia: Perkenpinc & Higgins. 1865.

We suppose that many a young preacher may really be aided by books like this; but the preacher who depends upon such aids is the worse for their use. We cannot imagine a Chalmers, a Wayland, an Olin, or a Summerfield leaning on such a sort of reed. But this kind of book is decidedly better than skeletons to be dressed with the investments of life, or those piles of homiletical crusts and scraps which are given in some of our commentaries for the young preacher to transmute into the bread of life. We never tried such a skeleton, or any of those scraps; but we should think them about the most difficult machine or material for sermon manufacturing conceivable. We should as soon think of making a poet with a rhyming dictionary, as a preacher with scraps and skeletons.

These Gatherings, however, have something of the freshness of a live literature. They are a series of choice anecdotes and beautiful sayings. The topics are ranged in alphabetical order. The authors, whose words are quoted, are worthy the compliment. But let no young minister be prevented, by habitual use of such aids, from acquiring a full mind and possessing a full heart; for it is out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

Hours Among the Gospels; or, Wayside Truths from the Life of our Lord. By N. C. BURT, D.D. 12mo., pp. 215. Philadelphia: Lippincott & Co.

1865.

Dr. Burt's volume belongs nearly with the treatises of Paley and Blunt, developing a very effective argument for the truth of the