in the same Review on Idealism, with reference to the scheme of Arthur Collier. In 1846, Hamilton published an edition of Reid's Works, with numerous foot notes and several important dissertations. The printing however began as early as 1838, and the notes and dissertations were prepared at different times in the interval between 1838 and the date of publication. The edition, however, is still incomplete; indeed, it ends with a half-finished sentence in the dissertation on "The Theory of Mental Reproduction," and, unless the author should do it, we know not who will be bold enough to finish" the half told tale." In 1852, Hamilton published a collection of his writings, in which, in philosophy, he has included only the articles from the Edingburgh Review, above mentioned, although he has added in an Appendix dissertations on "the Conditions of the Thinkable," and on "Learned Ignorance." Appleton's edition contains all the notes and dissertations in Reid, and the reviews and the two appendices above mentioned-which latter, however, make up only about one fourth part of the volume. It contains only his Metaphysical writings. Harpers' edition is a reprint of the Collected Works of Hamilton, as prepared by himself. It does not contain the Notes and Dissertations in Reid. The two edi tions, therefore, have only about one hundred pages in common.

Hamilton has been the great name in English philosophy for about a quarter of a century, and it is quite amusing to observe what a large number of writers have suddenly awoke to a consciousness of his merit.

We notice that Mr. Wight speaks of Hamilton's defense of Reid's doctrine against Sir Thomas Brown-an oversight, for Dr. Thomas Brown. We also correct a remarkable misprint on page 174, in the sentence, the words conception, concept, notion should not be limited to the thought of what cannot be represented in the imagination, as the thought suggested by the general term."-Read, should be limited.

The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. With an introductory Essay upon his Philosophical and Theological Opinions. Edited by Professor SHED. In. Seven Volumes. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers. Nos. 329 and 331. Pearl street, Franklin Square. 1853.

This edition must be regarded as the standard edition of the Works of Coleridge. The editor and the publishers have done a good service in presenting it to the community of letters. Coleridge will ever hold a position in literature and philos ophy, peculiar, and provocative of frequent discussion. He may not attain permanently to that high place which the admiration of his followers would raise him, but he has written much that no age will willingly let die. Of course, no good library can be without his works.

Lives of the Brothers Humboldt, Alexander and William. Translated and arranged from the German of Klencke & Schlesier. By JULIETTE BAUER. With Portraits. New York: Harper & Brothers. Published 1853.

This volume contains the only memoirs, accessible to the great bulk of readers, of two of the most remarkable men of Germany. They are written in a peculiarly German way, which possibly may repel some, but will be intensely interesting, we are certain, to the great majority of readers. We have found them most delightful reading.

Civil Wars and the Monarchy of France, in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Cen
turies. A History of France, principally during that period. By LEOPOLD
RANKE, Author of a History of the Popes in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth
Centuries. Translated by M. A. Garvey. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1853.
This work supplies an acknowledged deficiency in English literature. We have
long needed a reliable account of this most important period of French history.
Men and Things as I saw them in Europe. By KIRWAN. New York: Harper &
Brothers. 1853.

Whoever begins this book will read it through, and when they have done so, they will thank the author for having written it. We need not say what kind of things Kirwan would be most likely to look at in Europe, and especially in Rome.

A Manual of Greek Literature, from the earliest authentic periods to the close of the Byzantine Era. By CHARLES ANTHON, LL. D., Professor of the Greek and Latin language in Columbia College, Rector of the Grammar School. New York: Harper & Brothers.

We have looked into several portions of this work and have always found Dr. Anthon's usual fullness of learning, though necessarily expressed in a condensed form. The student will find this a very convenient book to have by him for reference, and will be benefited by frequently consulting it.

Discoveries among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon; with Travels in Armenia, Kurdistan, and the Desert. Being the result of a second expedition undertaken for the Trustees of the British Museum. By AUSTEN H. LAYARD, M. P. With Maps, Plans, and Illustrations. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers. 1853. pp. 586.

In our last number, we expressed our opinion of the value of Mr. Layard's researches in connection with Mr. Putnam's edition of the work. The above mentioned volume is a reprint of the same work, from the press of the Harpers. It is said, there are laws in all sorts of Communities: we believe there are laws regulating the great subject of Reprinting—but they are unwritten, and we have never been able to penetrate their mysteries. For the most part we observe every thing goes on peacefully within this domain, but occasionally we hear of rumors of wars, and sometimes of actual warfare. But as between the Houses of York and Lancaster, we choose not to interfere. We will therefore only say of the volume before us that it is well printed, and illustrated with numerous wood cuts and accompanied with maps.

The Missionary of Kilmany; being a Memoir of Alexander Paterson, with Notices of Robert Edie. By Rev. JOHN BAILLIE, Author of "Memoir of Rev. W. H. Hewitson." New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, No. 285 Broadway. 1853. pp. 253.

Concerning these Memoirs, we need only quote the testimony of Dr. Chalmers, with respect to the subject of them. "His labors have been more blest than those of any man I know."

Water from the Well-Spring, for the Sabbath Hours of Afflicted Believers: Being a complete course of morning and evening meditations for every Sunday in the year. By EDWARD HENRY BICKERSTETH, M. A. New York: Robert Carter & Brothers. 1853. pp. 253.

The title fully gives the plan of this work; and it gives us pleasure to say that the contents of it are not unworthy of the name of Bickersteth. The author is the son of the well known clergyman of that name.

Abbeokuta: or Sunrise within the Tropics. An outline of the origin and progress of the Yoruba Mission. By Miss TUCKER, author of the "Rainbow in the North." New York: Robert Carter & Brothers. 1853. pp. 278.

We have heretofore noticed Miss Tucker's earlier volume, containing an account of successful missionary labors in the northern parts of British America. We now pass in her company to the Tropics, to behold an equally successful enterprise on the continent of Africa. The reader will find this volume most intensely interesting. The publishers have given two useful maps, together with several illustrative wood cuts.

The Law and the Testimony. By the author of "The Wide, Wide World." New York: Robert Carter & Brothers. 1853. pp. 840.

The plan of this work may be stated as follows: it is a classification of the teachings of the Bible, arranged under a definite number of heads, in the language of the Bible. The books and chapters are quoted in the order in which they are arranged in the common version. The scholar must reject some of the passages brought forward as proof-texts, but we incline to think the work will be of valuable service to the bulk of Christian readers.

The Word of Life; a living Ministry, and a living Church: A Sermon preached in Meadville, Pa., before the graduating class of the Meadville Theological School, June 30, 1853. By Rev. F. D. HUNTINGTON of Boston, Mass. Boston: Crosby, Nichols & Co. 1853.

This is a beautiful, eloquent and vigorous discourse. But force, beauty and eloquence are not its chief merits. It breathes the spirit of Christ, and accords with the essential features of the gospel of Christ. But we will let it speak for itself:

"First, in order to apprehend what the life of the Christian Church, or of the Christian soul, is, we must apprehend the life of its Head. He is, "that word" made flesh.

"Now, inasmuch as the true vitality of the Church consists in the fact that its chief functions are reconciling functions, and as the Church's complete consummation will be the complete reconciliation of human society, so it finds its supreme sanction in the reconciling, or literally the atoning, character of its Head. God is in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself.' Those words are the key to all the Gospel, to all Christian history, to all Christian experience. They hold in them the power of that life which has so far energized Christendom, and is to redeem and sanctify the world.

"Stated in its theological relations, I hold this truth to stand thus. For reconciliation between finite and infinite, there must be a reconciler combining both in his person. Here, precisely, is the grand, redemptive synthesis, effected in Christ. Bridging over, by the mystery of his nature, -a mystery whose very claim on our faith consists in its transcending the definitions of science; since faith, of course, never properly begins till we have got to the limit of science,-bridging over the gulf that yawned between the perpetual frailty of man and the perfection of God,-he is the vinculum that binds up the spiritual organism of the world, dislocated and bruised by sin. If Christ were mere and very man, he could not mediate between God and man. Here is the eternal, inherent necessity of the mystery of the Incarnation, reaching back before Abraham was, into the bosom of the everlasting Father; and there deriving the purchase-power to lift humanity to heaven. The vital point of the whole Christian system is the inspiring contact it establishes between the life of God and the life of man, by a mediating Christ; a Christ qualified to mediate, by bringing over the forces of the Almighty Spirit to reinvigorate the wasted spirituality of the race, to restore and comfort the individual soul that will receive him. Here is the only corner-stone for a Church,-a personal, divine Christ. Any plan of theology that misses this is defective at the core. Pride of speculation, ambitious will-worships, theories of self-culture, philosophies of intuitions, moral respectabilities, never reach the disordered spot, nor meet the practical want of souls in earnest. Under the real stress and strain of life, what the penitent soul cries out for is that heavenly mediation, that unites and reconciles the two opposing elements of utter imperfection in the performances of human nature, and the immaculate holiness of the Judge of all.

"If you ask whence comes the need of this reconciliation, I answer it comes from the need every man is under of passing over from the mere natural life, which is the life he is born with, into the spiritual life, which is simply the inward reception of Christ by faith, and which saves him, i. e. makes a Christian of him. Of that new birth, Jesus himself explicitly asserts the universal necessity. The natural life has for its ruling principle, selfishness; and, however decent or even lovely to the eye, it is never holy. Being mixed as to its good and evil elements, it has no security against perdition. The regenerate or holy life may begin so early as to open along with the powers of consciousness, and grow up with the growing faculties, thus blending with and sanctifying the natural; but it is a distinct process. It cannot begin too early nor too suddenly: to create its beginning, in accordance with the laws and promised help of the Holy Spirit, is the office of preaching. But it is a new life when it comes; it is the reception, into a sinning and enfeebled humanity, of the quickening and supernatural life of Christ the Reconciler, who comes into the world quite as much to impart to us of God, as to be the perfect pattern of a man. In accordance with this view, sin being a universal taint, error, guilt of the race, the renewed life must begin with a Prodigal's confession, and be baptized with a Magdalen's tears. Saintship always rears its most beautiful proportions on the lowly ground of that humility. The full burst of rapture from the lips of the redeemed is an august crescendo from the sobs of the penitent; and every Gloria in Excelsis, from the Church triumphant, swells up from a heart-broken Miserere.

We wish this discourse could be placed in the hands of every theological student in the land.

BOOKS RECEIVED.

In addition to the works already noticed, we have received from D. Appleton & Co. "Praktische Englische Grammatik;" and "Comings' Class Book of Physiology," both of which are valuable books.

We have also received from the Harpers, Thackeray's "English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century;" the fourth volume of Lamartine's "Restoration of Monarchy in France;" Gerstoecker's Journey round the World;"" Yusef or a Crusade in the East, by J. Ross Browne;" Hildreth's" Theory of Politics," and " Cranford.”

We have also received from Carter & Brothers, Hethrington's "History of the Westminster Assembly," and "Brown on the Sufferings and Glory of the Messiah,"

We have also on hand from Scribner, West's “ Analysis of the Holy Bible;" from J. P. Jewett & Co. Schaufler's "Meditations;" from Philips, Sampson & Co., through T. H. Pease, Beecher's "Conflict of Ages," and Wayland's "Memoir of Judson.”

Notices of these works have been prepared, some of which will appear in our next number. We are also obliged to postpone a Review of Silliman's Travels.

INDEX OF VOLUME XI.

A.

Adams, John. His Diary and Autobiog.
raphy. The Works of John Adams,
second President of the United States,
with a Life of the Author, Notes and
Illustrations, by his grandson, Charles
Francis Adams, reviewed, 222. An ac-
count of the diary and autobiography,
223. His early and college life, 225.
Teaches, and studies law at Worcester,
226. Early life as lawyer, 232. The
lawyers and politicians of his acquaint-
ance. The Episcopal and Congrega-
tional clergy, and their course, as to
public events, 234.
Adams' reputa-

tion since his death, 247.

Austria, Reforms in, under Joseph II.
Dr. Edward Vehse's work, reviewed,
395. The state of Austria before Jo-
seph's accession, 396. His character
when he took the throne, 398. His at-
tempted reforms, 399-410.

B.

Books received, 160, 328, 480, 645.
British Eloquence, Select, by Goodrich,
noticed, 157.

C.

China, Early Christianity in, 481-509.
Coleman's Ancient Christianity exempli-
fied, 155.

Congregational Convention. Proceedings

Calhoun's Works, noticed, 642.
College and Church. The connection be-
tween the New England Colleges
and the growth and prosperity of the
Church, illustrated by facts, 595.
Church Review. Its Theology. Art. V.
New England Theology, reviewed, 261.
The theology and logic of the reviewer
considered, 261. Test of the life of a
Church, the ability to throw off heresy ;
this test applied to King's Chapel, Bos-
ton, 262, to the Churches of the East,
265, to the Western or Roman Catho-
lic Church, 266, to the Church of Eng-
land, 270. The reviewer's position on
the doctrine of original sin, 275.
Church Review and New England Theol
ogy. Article in Church Review on
New England Theology, reviewed, 92.
Church kept free or recovered from er
rors by Episcopacy, this controverted,
95. The Church in the early centuries
did not deal effectually with heresy,

98. Origin of Unitarianism in New
England, 105. Design and use of in-
fant baptism to remit original sin, this
controverted, 106.

Church and its Ministry. Report of a
Committee on the subject of salaries and
parsonages, reviewed, 112. Inadequate
salaries, 114. Few Parsonages, impor-
tance of, 117. Inadequate supply of
ministers, and becoming more so, 123.
Causes of this, 126.

D.

of the Convention at Albany, review-
ed, 72. Causes of the Convention, 72.
Growing confidence in Congregational-
ism, for the West as well as the East,
74. How administrated at the West,
75. Charges against Western Congre-
gationalists, 76. Oberlin, 77. Plan of
Union, its obvious defects, 79. Action
of Presbyterian Church respecting it,
83. Changes wrought by it in Presby
terianism, 85. The American Home
Missionary Society, complaints against Editorial Profession, 210. The modern
it, 89. Church Building Fund, 91. newspaper, 211. Newspapers of New

Discontented Classes. Hints towards Re-
forms, by Horace Greeley, reviewed,

539. The character of these classses
examined, 540. The remedy for the
evils they suffer and engender, 547.
Downing. His Cottage Residences, and
his Rural Essays, noticed, 474.

E.

Great Men-their influence, their work Lyell's Elements of Geology, noticed, 642.