of inspiration, we looked for the philosophical calmness of conscious mental power and of complete mastery of the theme. Probably the esteemed author published too soon. Had he kept the manuscript beside him till his thoughts had acquired ripeness, it would have been far better. As it is, the work is a valuable contribution to the full treatment of a most difficult subject.

The Mystery; or, Evil and Good. By Rev. John Young, LL. D. This is the production of an able and acute thinker, pervaded by a philosophy which we approve. The points touched upon are very abstruse, having already engaged some of the highest intellects. We believe that the author throws some light upon them. His book is for thinkers in theology, not common-place or shallow-minded men. To such it will prove suggestive; and perhaps as satisfactory as the great subject will allow.

Signs of the Times: Letters to Ernst Moritz Arndt on the Dangers to Religious Liberty in the Present State of the World. By C. C. J. Bunsen, D. D., D. C. L., D. Ph.; translated from the German by Susanna Winkworth. These Letters contain the pleadings of an eloquent and nobleminded man on behalf of religious freedom, especially in Germany, and may be safely recommended to the perusal of all who are favorable to the progress of humanity and truth. Many will learn here, for the first time, the peculiar relations of church and state in Prussia at the present time, and the nature of the Union question,' which is now the question of the day there. Miss Winkworth has performed the duties of translator in a manner which could hardly be exceeded, adding here and there a brief explanatory note. Her name is a sufficient guarantee for excellence of rendering from the German.

Cyclopædia of Biblical Literature. Edited by John Kitto, D. D. A new edition, revised by Rev. H. Burgess, Ph. D., LL. D. 2 vols. Something will be said, in a forthcoming Number of the Bib. Sacra, respecting the merits of this new edition of Kitto's Cyclopædia. In the mean time it may be stated, that the old edition is better than the new. The present editor has most unwarrantably interfered with living writers, making them responsible for petty criticisms and opinions which they would at once repudiate. His incompetency for the task of revision is abundantly shown by the mistakes of fact and reference, which are left untouched. But the subject will be resumed.

A Dissertation on Sacred Chronology. By the Rev. N. Rouse. Here the author undertakes a hopeless task, viz. to prove that the creation of man took place 5833 years before Christ. Like every attempt to uphold the Septuagint chronology, it is an entire failure.

The Light of Prophecy: Lectures delivered during Lent, 1856. By twelve clergymen. With a preface by Rev. E. Hoare, M. A. These Lectures evince no ability in the exposition of Scripture, and throw no light on the meaning of the prophecies.

The Primitive Doctrine of Baptismal Regeneration. By Rev. J. B. Mozley, B. D. The present volume shows learning, research, talent, and

good writing. Mr. Mozley undoubtedly possesses ability of no common order for the elucidation of a subject like the one before us. His acquaintance with the true meaning of Scripture, however, is less than his acquaintance with the Fathers of the Christian church. And his knowledge of the Fathers, as far as he allows us to see it, is rather one-sided. He is a theolo gian against whose opinions one requires to be on his guard.

The True Faith of a Christian. By Rev. C. I. D'Oyly, A. M. This is an exposition of the Apostles' Creed for the use of the people. It professes to be simple; but in aiming to be so, the exposition is unsuccessful and unsatisfactory in regard to the parts that most need explanation.

Sermons on Christian Practice. By Henry Alford, B. D. These are good discourses, that may be safely recommended to the perusal of all who wish to be instructed and edified.

History of the Church in the Firs: Three Centuries. By Rev. J.I. Blunt, B. D. Here church history is looked at and described by the aid of HighChurch spectacles. The author shows a good acquaintance with the Fathers, though by no means a profound or extensive knowledge of them. There is little philosophical spirit in the History. Hence we attach small value to the book.

Lamps of the Temple. This is a new edition of a little work published some years ago anonymously. It professes to describe living popular preachers. The writer tries to be smart and slashing in style. His great aim is to make striking sentences to furnish sketches that will take with the public. And he has partly succeeded. But there is much bad taste in the conception and execution. The whole is overdone; and the volume cannot be considered in a higher light than one of the catch-penny things that issue from the press so abundantly. It is a bad symptom that it has reached another edition.

A new translation of the Apocalypse. By J. H. Goodwin. This translation is very carefully made from the Greek, and very correctly. It is preceded by a brief introduction, in which the writer indicates his method of interpreting the book. That interpretation does not commend itself to our mind, being based on the early date of the Apocalypse, against which ancient evidence preponderates.

Warburtonian Lectures, preached in Lincoln's Inn Chapel, on the Christian Church Institution and Declension into Apostasy, etc. By Rev. E. B. Elliott. A great deal of heavy, lumbering, unscriptural writing is to be found in this dull volume.

Christian Faith and the Atonement: Sermons preached before the University of Oxford, in reference to the Views published by Mr. Jowett and others. With a Preface by the Rev. the Vice-Chancellor. The preachers are six, including the Bishop of Oxford and Dr. Pusey. They are evidently alarmed at the heretical sentiments of Professor Jowett on the atonement.

Epitaphs for Country Church-Yards. Collected and arranged by A. J. C. Hare.

A Geological Map of Europe, exhibiting the Different Systems of Rocks according to the Latest Researches, and from inedited materials. By Sir R. I. Murchison and James Nicol. Constructed by A. Keith Johnson. Admirable in design and execution.

Old Truths and Modern Progress. By Robert Slack, M. D.

Guizot's Richard Cromwell and the Restoration of Charles the Second. Translated. 2 vols. This book needs no commendation.

Memoir of Mrs. Fitzherbert; with an Account of her Marriage with His royal Highness the Prince of Wales, afterwards King George the Fourth. By the Hon. Charles Langdale.

Memoirs of John Kitto, D. D., F. S. A. Compiled chiefly from his Letters and Journals. By J. E. Ryland, M. A. These are the records of a worthy, able, and good man, who manfully pursued knowledge under many difficulties. The book is highly interesting; and may teach a useful lesson to aspiring young men. Peace to the ashes of John Kitto, who was a true and heroic man, whom God took early unto himself from sufferings great and acutely felt.

On Acquaintance with God; in twelve Lectures. By J. H. Hinton. Calm, thoughtful, well reasoned, and well written lectures.

A Cyclopædia of Biography. Edited by Charles Knight. Part I. As far as one can judge from a part, the present biographical work will be an excellent one. It promises to be the best in the language. Men of the Time. This is a second edition; but enlarged to about double the size of the first. The volume is quite trashy, pervaded by no principle of selection. It is, in fact, a mere ad captandum work, made to sell; not written for any high purpose, and containing numberless inaccuracies. Yet it is a new edition!

Millennial Studies; or the Kingdom and Advent of Christ. By Rev. W. P. Lyon, B. A. These studies' are useless. They want vigor of conception and composition. The writer floats on the surface of prophetical exposition, unable to go deeper. He has the right side of the question; but he will commend it only to weak minds.

The History of a Man. Edited by George Gilfillan. This is a curious book. The man described is evidently George Gilfillan himself; for the fiction is flimsily disguised. It would appear that the editor has a very high opinion of him whose history he edits. The work is one which we cannot admire or praise. In conception and execution it shows qualities which we are averse to name, so much do we dislike them. Better far, for the editor, that he had never written such a thing as this. It must lower him immensely in the eyes of those who have taste and modesty.

Essays reprinted from Reviews by David Masson. These essays relate, chiefly, to the English poets.

Hours with the Mystics. By R. A. Vaughan, B. A. 2 vols.

The Political Future of England. By Count Montalembert, of the French Academy. Of this clever book a translation has been published by Murray, which appears to have been made by Croker of the Quarterly Re

view; or at least under his eye. This translation does not represent the original fairly. It is, in fact, very unjust to the author, by its omissions and garblings. Hence it has been severely exposed in Fraser's Magazine, to which the publisher has replied, but with great damage to his own credit.

Macaulay's Essay on Croker's Edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson. With Mrs. Piozzi's Anecdotes of Dr. Johnson. This is a reprint from an old Number of the Edinburgh Review. It should not have been issued, because the spirit of the review is bad, and because, in a later edition of Boswell's Johnson, Croker corrected various errors. Hence some changes, at least, do not apply now. We are glad to see that Blackwood's Magazine has shown that many of the accusations made by Macaulay against Croker are unfounded. We hope that the historian has had nothing to do with the reprint; but that it is the speculation of the money-loving publishers treading upon his popular name. For his own sake, he should disclaim all concern with the reprint.

Oxford Essays for 1856. The volume contains seven essays on different subjects. The most interesting and the best appears to us that on National Education, by Rev. F. Temple, M. A.

The Iliad of Homer, faithfully translated into unrhymed Metre. By F. W. Newman. A very unsuccessfully executed translation.

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Edited by Dr. Wm. Smith. Vol. I. The work is to be completed, in another volume, in the course of the year 1856. It needs no commendation of ours.

The Microscope and its Revelations. By W. B. Carpenter, M. D. An interesting and excellent volume.

Principles and Maxims of Jurisprudence. By J. G. Phillimore, Q. C., M. P.

Elements of Chemistry, Theoretical and Practical. By W. A. Miller, M. D. Two parts or volumes have appeared. A third completes the book, which we strongly recommend.

Scottish Heroes in the Days of Wallace and Bruce. By the Rev. A. Low. 2 vols. A worthless book.

Nomos: an Attempt to demonstrate a Central Law in Nature. Only an attempt.

Pneuma; or, the Wandering Soul. A Parable in Rhyme and Outline. By Rev. W. Calvert, M. A. Useless and nonsensical.

The Chinese and their Rebellions, viewed in Connection with their Philosophy, Ethics, Legislation, and Administration; with an Essay on Civilization. By T. T. Meadows.

Classical Scholarship and Classical Learning considered with especial reference to Competitive Tests and University Teaching. By Rev. Dr. Donaldson. A very able and conclusively written book.

Ruskin's 4th volume of Modern Painters is published. It has all the faults and beauties of its predecessors, but in a greater degree. The former, however, greatly predominate. The reflecting public will not long endure such paradoxes and arrogance.

History of the Ottoman Turks, from the Foundation of their Empire to the Present Time. 2d and concluding volume. By Professor Creasy. This might have been made a standard history by the writer, had he not been in so great haste. As it is, the execution is good. But it is obvious that the desire to bring it out immediately, has had an unfavorable effect on the work.

The Illustrated Handbook of Architecture. By James Ferguson. 2 volumes. This work contains a digest of the history and principles of architecture. It is one of considerable pretensions; and, in some respects, of creditable performance. Yet it is only of second-rate excellence and interest. Its defects and blemishes are numerous. Industriously praised as it has been, in newspapers and ephemeral publications, it will not stand the test of criticism.

History of the Romans under the Empire. By Rev. Charles Merivale, B. D. The 4th and 5th volumes, comprising Augustus and the Claudian Caesars. This history, which progresses as rapidly as the public could have expected, is of first-rate excellence. Mr. Merivale unites in himself all the qualifications of an able historian, and is producing a book which posterity cannot willingly let die.

History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. By J. A. Froude, M. A. Vols. I. and II. This is no common-place or ordinary work. The author is admirably fitted for his task, and has executed it with consummate skill. We consider the style equal to Hallam's.

Memoirs left in Manuscript by Sir Robert Peel, Bart. Published by his literary executors. Vol. I. On the Roman Catholic Relief Bill, 1828-29. An Inquiry into Speculative and Experimental Science. By A. Vera. Contributions to the Cause of Education. By James Pillans, Esq. The Harmony of the Divine Dispensations. By George Smith. A perfunctory book.

Murray's Official Handbook of Church and State. This is a very useful directory.

Handbook for Young Painters. By C. R. Leslie.

The Fall of Man: a Poem on Creation. By John Collins. Cantos IV. and V. Not worth publishing.

A Manual of Moral Philosophy. By Dr. E. R. Humphreys. A useless

book.

The Primary Principles of Reasoning. Revised and approved by the Archbishop of Dublin. By Robert Boyd Kidd, B. A. This work appears to us valueless, notwithstanding the Archbishop's approval.

Memorials and Correspondence of Charles James Fox. 4th and concluding volume. Edited by Lord John Russell.

Portion of the Journal kept by Thomas Raikes, Esq. from 1831 to 1847. Vols. I. and II. Not worth publication.

Memoirs, Journal, and Correspondence of Thomas Moore. Edited by Lord John Russell. The 7th and 8th volumes conclude the work, which has been wretchedly edited by Russell. The internal value of such books is exceedingly small.