Catholic sources. The latest contribution to this class of literature is a History of the Oratory, well known as one of the most literary organizations of French monks, by the Oratorian, A. Perraud. (L'Oratoire de France. Paris. 1866.) The work is divided into three parts, of which the first traces the history of the Oratory up to the French Revolution; the second is composed of the biographies of the most celebrated Oratorians; and the third is occupied with the re-establishment of the Order in 1852, and its canonical approbation in 1864.

tween their Church and modern civiliza- tions that can be derived from Roman tion. Like all the prominent men of this school, M. de Broglie is an admirer of the institutions of the United States, and one of the most active members of the French Society for the aid of the freedmen. The work on the Church and the Empire in the Fourth Century has, from the publication of the first volume, secured a place among the master works of the historic literature of France, and the first four volumes have already gone through four editions. The two last volumes, (fifth and sixth,) just published, embrace the time from 364 to 395, beginning with the reign of Valens and ending with the death of Theodosius. Among the great names whose history is given in these two volumes are Basil, Augustine, and Theodosius; and among the most notable ecclesiastical events of the period is the Council of Constantinople.

The literature on the Life of Jesus has received a new and very valuable addition by a new work from E. de Pressensé, (Jesus Christ, son Temps, La Vie, son Euvre. Paris. 1866.) The author has long had the reputation of being one of the foremost representatives of the evangelical school in the province of the theological science, not only in France, but in all Europe; and his new work, we doubt not, will rank among the most important works of the almost innumerable literature on this important subject.

Of the Collection of Christian Inscriptions in Gaul, prior to the eighth century, Paris. 1866,) vol. 2, has recently been by E. Leblaud, (Inscriptions Chrétiennes. published.

The History of the Catholic Doctrine during the first three centuries of the Church, and until the Council of Nice, by Bishop Ginoulhiac, of Grenoble, (Histoire du Dogme Catholique. Paris. 1865, 3 vols.,) has appeared in a second edition.

Abbé Freppel has an undisputed claim to be classed among the ablest Roman Catholic writers on ancient church his. tory. In addition to his former valuable works on Les Pères Apostoliques, (1 vol.,) Les Apologistes Chrétiens, (2 vols.,) SaintIrenée, (1 vol.,) Tertullien, (2 vols.,) he has recently published two more installments The Roman Catholic literature of France, of his "Lectures of Sacred Eloquence;" on the restoration of monastic orders on namely, a work on St. Cyprian and the French soil since the beginning of the African Church of the third century, (St. nineteenth century, is very numerous, Cyprien, 1 vol. Paris. 1866,) and another and furnishes, on the whole, the best ma- on Clement of Alexandria, (Clément d'Alterial for a knowledge of these institu-exandrie, 1 vol. Paris. 1866.)

ART. X.-SYNOPSIS OF THE QUARTERLIES, AND OTHERS OF THE HIGHER PERIODICALS.

American Quarterly Reviews.

BIBLICAL REPERTORY AND PRINCETON REVIEW, January, 1866. (Philadelphia.) 1. Sustentation Fund. 2. Common Schools. 3. The Patristic Doctrine on the Eucharist. 4. Horace Mann. 5. Imperfect Rights and Obligations as Related to Church Discipline. 6. Strauss and Schleiermacher. 7. Renan, Strauss, and Schleiermacher.

BIBLIOTHECA SACRA, January, 1866. (Andover, Mass.) 1. Intuitive Ideas, and their Relation to Knowledge. 2. Conversion, Its Nature. 3. Political Economy and the Christian Ministry. 4. The Catholic Apostolic Church.

FREEWILL BAPTIST QUARTERLY, January, 1866. (Dover, N. H.) 1. The Relation of the Gospel to Man's Intellectual and Practical Life. 2. Unity in Doctrine. 3. Encouragements to Faith. 4. The Religious Enjoyments of Thomas Walsh. 5. Sketch of the Late Rev. A. W. Avery. 6. Rationalism and Revelation.

NEW ENGLANDER, January, 1866. (New Haven, Conn.) 1. Country Life in England. 2. Review of Dr. Draper's New Book, "Thoughts on the Future Civil Policy of America." 3. Lord Derby and Professor Arnold on Homer. 4. Expository Preaching. 5. Samuel Fisk. 6. Sabbath School Instruction. 7. Government in the United States. 8. Sheol; Hades; The Invisible State. 9. The Late President Wayland. Reformation of the South.

10. The

English Reviews.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN EVANGELICAL REVIEW, January, 1866. (London.) 1. Rome and the Romans. 2. Development of the Ancient Catholic Hierarchy. 3. Arithmetical Criticism. 4. Historiography, Ancient and Modern. 5. Unitarian Annals. 6. The Incarnation: Was it Necessary apart from the Existence of Sin? 7. Isaac Taylor. 8. The Culdean Church. 9. The Rev. C. H. Spurgeon.

BRITISH QUARTERLY REVIEW, January, 1866. (London.) 1. Richard Cobden. 2. Epidemics. 3. Miss Berry, her Friends and her Times. 4. Sinai. 5. Lord Palmerston. 6. Religion in London. 7. Inductive Theology. 8. The New Parliament.

CHRISTIAN REMEMBRANCER, January, 1866. (London.) 1. Mr. Babbage. 2. Female Education. 3. Free Worship and Free Offering. 4. Friendism; its Rise, Progress, and Decline. 5. Miss Berry's Journals and Correspondence. 6. Dr. Pusey's Eirenicon. 7. English Hexameters. 8. Leckey's History of Rationalism,

EDINBURGH REVIEW. January, 1866. (New York: reprint.) 1. Modern Fresco Painting. 2. The Youth of Cardinal Mazarin. 3. Public Galleries and Irresponsible Boards. 4. An Economist of the Fourteenth Century. 5. Recent Changes in the Art of War. 6. Boner's Transylvania. 7. Was Shakspeare a Roman Catholic? 8. Corn and Cattle. 9. The Erckmann Chatrian Novels. 10. Mary Tudor, and Brandon, Duke of Suffolk. 11. Extension of the Franchise.

LONDON QUARTERLY REVIEW, January, 1866. (New York: reprint.) 1. Livingstone's Zambesi and its Tributaries. 2. Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester. 3. Tennison's Enoch Arden. 4. M. Saint-Beuve. 5. Grote's Plato. 6. Miss Berry's Memoirs. 7. Palgrave's Arabia. 8. Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art. 9. The Coming Session. WESTMINSTER REVIEW, January, 1865. (New York: reprint.) 1. John Stuart Mill on the Philosophy of Sir William Hamilton. 2. Precursors of the French Revolution, Saint-Pierre and D'Argenson. 3. Lord Palmerston. 4. Coleridge's Writings. 5. Physiological Experiments, Vivisection. 6. The Polish Insurrection of 1863. 7. Dr. Livingstone's Recent Travels,

German Reviews.

STUDIEN UND KRITIKEN. (Essays and Reviews.) Second Number, 1866.1. DIESTEL, Bible and Natural Science in the Times of Orthodoxy. 2. WEISS, The Petrine Question. 3. MOLLER, Juan Valdes's Divine Meditations. 4. KOSTLIN, The Marburg Articles and the Relation of Baptism and Faith. 6. PAUL, The Time of the Lord's Supper according to John. Reviews. 1. RITSCHL, Moller's History of Cosmology in the Greek Church until Origen. 2. SACK, Auberlen's Divine Revelation. 3. BECK, Leibbrand's Prayer for the Dead in the Evangelical Church. 4. KRUMMER, Newly-discovered Sources of Hussite History. 5. WEISS, Reply to Schenkel.

The history of Italian Protestantism in the sixteenth century has recently derived a new interest from the revival of Protestantism since the establishment of the kingdom of Italy, in 1859. A number of works from and on the leaders of this Protestant movement in Italy at the time of the Reformation have been published. Of the former class the little book on "The Benefit of Christ," which had long been regarded as lost, but was rediscovered in Cambridge, England, in 1855, is best known. It has been published in English, both in England and in the United States, in a German translation by Tischendorf, in a French translation by Bonnet. It is generally ascribed to Aonio Paleario, whose life has been made the subject of a special work by M. Young, (The Life and Times of Aonio Paleario, or a History of the Italian Reformers in the Sixteenth Century, 2 vols. London. 1860.) The substance of another prominent Protestant work of that time is given in the third article of the above number of the Studien. The author, Juan Valdes, was a twin brother of Alonzo Valdes, who, at the court of the Emperor Charles V., defended Erasmus against the wrath of the monks; and, in 1530, accompanied the emperor to Augsburg as "Private Secretary." Juan Valdes, during the time from 1530 to 1540, exercised to 1540, exercised a powerful influence on a circle of men and women of the highest social position at Naples. His chief work is entitled "One Hundred and Ten Divine Meditations." The Spanish original is lost. An Italian translation, by Vergerio, was published, in 1550, at Basil, by Curione, and has recently been republished at Halle, Germany, by E. Böhmer, (Le Cento e dieci divine considerazioni, Halle, 1860,) who added to it critical notes, and a biographical notice of the two brothers Valdes. Böhmer also ascribes to Juan Valdes a work recently found in the Wolfenbüttel Library, and entitled Lac Spirituale, (published by F. Koldewerg at Brunswick, 1864.) The Wolfenbüttel manuscript gives it as a work of Vergerio.

ZEITSCHRIFT FUR DIE HISTORISCHE THEOLOGIE. (Journal of Historic Theology.) Second Number, 1866.-1. Preface by Dr. KAHNIS. 2. Dr. GOLDHORN, Abelard's principal dogmatic works, Tractatus de Unitate et Trinitate" and "Theologia." 3. The Suabian Confession, (Liber Tubingensis.) Published for the first time from a Wolfenbüttel manuscript by H. HACHFELD. 4. Extracts from the Letters of Balthasar Schuppius.

Since the sudden death of Professor Niedner, of Berlin, the HistorioTheological Society of Leipsic has elected Professor Kahnis its president, and editor of its organ, the Journal for Historical Theology. In the preface to the above number, Professor Kahnis informs the members of the Society that their organ is far from being self-supporting, and is every year a loss to the publisher. He hopes for a more active co-operation of the Society to establish their organ on a safe basis.

French Reviews.

REVUE DES DEUX MONDES.-October 15, 1865.-2. CARO, The Philosophy
of Goethe. Goethe and Spinoza. 3. E. DUVERGIER DE HAURANNE,
Eight Months in America. 6. BERTRAND, D'Alembert, His Life and
His Works. 7. QUINET, The Republic and the Convention.
November 1.-3. D'AVRIL, The Arabic Peninsula during the last Hundred
Years. The Wahabites, The Turks, The Egyptians in the Peninsula,
The Dangers of Arabic Society. 5. CARO, The Philosophy of Goethe.
His Scientific Labors, Goethe and Geoffroy St. Hilaire. 6. E. DUVERGIER
de Hauranne, Eight Months in America. 7. RENAN, The Religious
Exegesis and the French Mind.

November 15.-1. E. DE LAVELEYE, Popular Instruction in the Nineteenth
Century. Popular Instruction in American Schools. 2. CARO, The
Philosophy of Goethe. His Views of God, Nature, and Human Destiny.
4. J. DE LASTEYRIE, Ireland in the Fifth Century, The Origin of
Fenianism. 11. J. DE CAZAUX, The Affairs of La Plata in 1865.
December 1.-2. TAINE, Italy and Italian Life. 3. E. DUVERGIER DE
HAURANNE. The Presidential Election at Chicago. 4. ST. MARC
GIRARDIN, The Origin of the Eastern Question. 5. E. BURNOUF, An
Essay on Religious History, The Origin of Christianity according to
Ernest de Bunsen.

December 15.-1. ESQUIROS, England and English Life. Religious Life in the Cities. 3. E. DUVERGIER DE HAURANNE, Eight Months in America. 6. L. DE VOEL CASTEL, Modern Mind in History, with special regard to the work of M. Rosueew St. Hilaire.

January 1, 1866.-4. E. DUVERGIER DE HAURANNE, Eight Months in England. 5. JULES SIMON, Co-operative Societies in France and England. 7. E. DE LAVELEYE, Popular Instruction in the Nineteenth Century. England and the English Colonies.

January 15.—1. TAINE, Italy and Italian Life. 2. E. PELLETAU, Proudhon and his Complete Works. 6. E. DUVERGIER DE HAURANNE, Eight Months in America. 7. JANET, History of Philosophy and Eclecticism.

ART. XI.-QUARTERLY BOOK-TABLE.

Religion, Theology, and Biblical Literature.

Beginning Life. Chapters for our Young Men on Religion, Study, and Business. By JOHN TULLOCH, D.D., Principal and Primarius Professor of St. Mary's College, St. Andrews, Author of "The Leaders of the Reformation," etc. 12mo., pp. 296. Cincinnati: Poe & Hitchcock. 1866.

One of the greatest moral achievements for the Church of the present day is to provide a pure Christian literature for our young men, and then to induce them to read it. Dr. Wiley has in the present volume supplied a noble contribution to this great work. Principal Tulloch is one of the purest and most eloquent religious writers of Britain at the present hour, and the present work exhibits some of the best traits of his lucid pen. It is an excellent guide for the young man in attaining a happy Christian character and life. Let every young man under the influence of our Church obtain this work, or his parent for him, and let him read and reread a portion of it every Sabbath, until it has become a part of his own mind, and he will have possessed himself of a large element of the truest Christian manhood. The work is furnished by our Western Concern with a most attractive material embodiment.

Foreign Theological Publications.

Vom Zustande nach dem Tode. Biblische Untersuchungen mit Berücksichtigung der einschlägigen alten und neuen Literatur. Von HEINRICH WILH. RINCK, Pastor zu Eberfeld. Ludwigsburg und Basil. 8vo., pp. 382. 2 Auflage, 1866.

The above eschatological work was first issued in 1861, and as it has now been called for in a new edition, it seems to have some claim upon a notice in these pages. It treats in different chapters, with various subordinate divisions, of Death and the Intermediate State, of the Resurrection of the Flesh, of the Final Judgment, of Heaven and the State of the Perfected, of Hell and the State of the Damned, and, finally, of the Heavenly Jerusalem. As regards the Intermediate State our author denies the purgatorial view of it which several of the Lutheran theologians of our day teach, preferring the view according to which the regenerate ripen for heaven, and the unregenerate for hell, until the day of judgment, at which time the souls of the righteous will have become morally fitted for the glorified state, while those of the wicked will, by continued FOURTH SERIES, VOL. XVIII.-19