ART. VII.-SYNOPSIS OF THE QUARTERLIES AND OTHERS OF THE HIGHER PERIODICALS.

American Quarterly Reviews.

BAPTIST QUARTERLY, July, 1876. (Philadelphia.)-1. The Pioneer Baptist Statesman. 2. Unitarianism in New England. 3. The Messiah. 4. James Cudworth. 5. The Fourth Kingdom. 6. As to Roger Williams. 7. A Retrospect in the Life of Tischendorf. 8. The Sick, and the Prayer of Faith. BIBLIOTHECA SACRA, July, 1876. (Andover.)-1. Natural Basis of our Spiritual Language. 2. Baptismal Regeneration; as Supposed to be Taught in the Words of Jesus: "Born of Water and Spirit." John iii, 5. 3. Jonathan Edwards's Last Will, and the Inventory of his Estate. 4. Recent Works Bearing on the Relation of Science to Religion. 5. A Professorship of Missionary Instruction in our Theological Seminaries. 6. An Exposition of the Original Text of Genesis i and ii. 7. Hora Samaritanæ; or, a Collection of Various Readings of the Samaritan Pentateuch compared with the Hebrew and other Ancient Versions. 8. Ministerial Education and Training in the Methodist Episcopal Church.

CHRISTIAN QUARTERLY, July, 1876. (Cincinnati.)-1. Fifty Years of Religious Reformation. 2. The Law of Love. 3. Involution before Evolution. 4. About Law and Sin. 5. The Christ-Whose Son is He? 6. Progress of Ideas. 7. Work and its Conditions. 8. Christianity and Miracles. 9. An Exposition of Revelation VI. 10. Justification by Faith.

CONGREGATIONAL QUARTERLY, July, 1876. (Boston.)-1. Dexter Clary. 2. Congregationalism in Kansas. 3. David Bacon. 4. Vital Statistics of the Congregational Ministers who Died in 1875. 5. Congregational Necrology.

NEW ENGLANDER, July, 1876. (New Haven.)-1. The Educational Force of Mathematics. 2. European Writers on India. 3. Condillac and the Principle of Identity. 4. The Eleusinian Mysteries. 5. A Record of "The Old Dominion." 6. Logos and Cosmos: Nature as Related to Language. 7. The Unity of the Professions. 8. College Athletics. 9. Fifty Years of Home Missions in Illinois.

NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL REGISTER, July, 1876. (Boston.) -1. Memoir of Samuel Adams. 2. Hollis, N. H., in the War of the Revolution. 3. Notes on American History. 4. Letters of Capt. Thomas Mighill of Rowley. 5. Letters and Signers of the Declaration of Independence, Military Men and others during the Revolutionary War. 6. Knox's Diary during his Ticonderoga Expedition. 7. Did the American Colonists desire Independence? 8. Biographical Sketch of Joseph P. Martin, a Revolutionary Soldier. 9. Documents and Letters by Actors in the American Revolution. 10. A Yankee Privateersman in Prison, 1777-79. 11. Sketch of Col. John Allan of Maine. 12. Letter of Capt. John Preble to Col. John Allan. 13. Major-General Henry Knox. 14. Gen. Stark's Horse lost at Bennington. 15. Boston Town Meeting for granting leave to erect Faneuil Hall. 16. Letter of Samuel Paine upon Affairs at Boston in October, 1775. 17. Donations to the People of Boston Suffering under the Port-Bill. 18. Record of the Boston Committee of Correspondence, Inspection and Safety, 1776.

NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, July, 1876. (Boston.)-1. The Proposed Charter for the City of Boston. 2. Italian Popular Tales. 3. Houses of the MoundBuilders. 4. Recent Astronomical Progress. 5. The Life of Alexander Hamilton.

QUARTERLY REVIEW OF THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH, July, 1876. (Gettysburgh.)-1. Union of the Humanity and Divinity of Christ. 2. The Genesis of Christian Society. 3. The Mission among the Jews. 4. Two Common Objections. 5. The Lord's Prayer. 6. Lutheran Church Polity. 7. Home Mission Work in the General Synod. 8. The Care of the Young of the Church. 9. Necessities to Manful Life.

SOUTHERN REVIEW. July, 1876. (Baltimore.)-1. The late William Sparrow, D.D. 2. Martin versus Tappan. 3. Native Races of the Pacific Coast. 4. Mind and Matter. 5. Manners and Customs of Europe. 6. Java and the Javanese. 7. The Triangular Fight. 8. Taxation of Church Property. 9. Thorvaldsen. 10. A Distinction in Mental Science.

On this Quarterly we have three notes to make:

1. The editor furnishes a notice of Dr. Myers's book on Disruption, in which he predicates in the course of eleven lines, "wrath," "wormwood and gall," "theological venom," "sectional hate," "venomous," "bile and bitterness," "animosity," "rave," of the editor of this "Quarterly," and announces that he purposes a full article on our book notices of Dr. Myers. We have simply to say, that as Dr. Myers's book was issued to denounce the proposal to "let by-gones be by-gones," and to induce the Southern delegates to make inadmissible conditions of fraternity, our notices of it were written to defeat that aim and secure the presentation of proposals that would attain fraternity. For all our severities of statement that able but uncalled-for book, without which they would never have been uttered, is responsible. We had again and again assured our Southern brethren that we desired oblivion of all unpleasant recollections; we protested against re-quarreling the quarrel; but we had equally assured them that if they came to us with a bill of indictment, they would get one back worth two of it. Dr. Myers, nevertheless, opened his broadside, and we reversed the battery. Whether our notice had any influence in securing our intended result or not we cannot say, but the result has been secured. Dr. Myers's book was defeated. "Let by-gones be by-gones," which he styled “a farce," is the platform, just as we wished. And now if Dr. Bledsoe is pleased to start up and affix a long discussion to the matter, it is certainly his right. But as our interest in the matter ceased when our end was gained, it is very probable that our paper-cutter will not sever the leaves on which his article is printed.

2. Dr. Bledsoe thinks our eternal salvation is in danger from the fact that we have misrepresented him by never stating that he admitted that the right of secession is closed by the late war as a result of "conquest," and he refers to and quotes from a book of his own a passage to the effect that the war terminates the once-existing right of secession. That book is entitled, “Is Jefferson Davis a Traitor?" The editor promises in this num

ber to send us the book forthwith; but, to prevent all misunderstanding, we here say that it has never been received at this of fice, and has never been seen by the editor of this "Review;" nor have we ever before seen one syllable giving us notice that Dr. Bledsoe held the question of secession to be closed by the right The very fact that he is obliged to furnish it from his book evinces that it could not be furnished from his "Quarterly." The moment has never been when we should not have been glad to know and to say that such was Dr. Bledsoe's ground. And now, to do justice to all sides, we very cheerfully give Dr. Bledsoe's own words:

We did write a book with this title: "Is Davis a Traitor: or was Secession a Constitutional Right previous to the War of 1861?" In the Preface of this work we said: "It is not the design of this book to open the subject of secession. The subjugation of the Southern States, and their acceptance of the terms dictated by the North, may, if the reader please, be considered as having shifted the Federal Government from the basis of compact to that of conquest; and thereby, [as we have since uniformly held and maintained,] extinguished every claim to the right of secession for the future. Not one word in the following pages will at least be found to clash with this supposition or opinion."

No question of moral right can, it is true, be settled by the arbitrament of war; but it is otherwise with questions of constitutional law. Half of the constitutional compacts in Christendom, if not more, have been determined and established by conquest. The Northern theory of the Constitution of 1787, whether tenable or not on the arena of logic, has been definitely established by the war of 1861. The issue was then fought ont; the North conquered; and we have since abandoned, in good faith and forever, the right of secession for the future. Hence, in our humble opinion, it becomes our legislators, and statesmen, and politicians, and people, to acquiesce in this decision of the war; and never more think, speak, or dream of the right of secession. What more can we do? We have surrendered the great point in controversy; we have foresworn, for all future time, the right of secession; and we now proclaim the Northern view of the Constitution as the establised and true one for all law-abiding and peace-loving citizens. Is not this enough? Must we admit, not only that we have been beaten in arms, but also in debate?

Most assuredly that is "enough," so long as every thing else said and done is in consistency with it. Every true Northerner would readily offer his hand to the man who ex animo says that, meeting magnanimity with magnanimity, and asking that per

petual peace shall be established on terms of fraternity and equality. Nor do we ask any admission that our Southern brethren have "been beaten in debate," for abundantly did we declare in our notice of Dr. Myers that we asked no adoption by them of our opinions. Let each side hold its own views of the entire past, and seek for a peaceful present and prosperous future for both. Nor is this by any means the first time that we have said in this "Quarterly" that never was a braver people "beaten " in war than the men of the South.

3. Dr. Bledsoe proposes that we either write, or get some one else to write, an answer to his defense of Mr. Davis. It is Dr. Bledsoe's right to defend his associates in the late struggle. It is equally our right to emphasize the present and future rather than the past. And we express the earnest opinion that the sooner such antagonizing defenses cease, the sooner will the North. feel free to do generous justice to the great abilities and virtues of men like Richard Henry Lee and Stonewall Jackson.

And now we have a word or two to offer to our editorial brethren generally of the Church, South. Not many months ago, during the Kuklux discussion, we called the attention of the "Nashville Advocate" to the fact that, to the best of our knowledge, there had never been one unequivocal condemnation of Kukluxism in a Southern Methodist paper. Slight disapprovals there had been, but so mixed with apologies, and with curses against the Government and the North, that to any Northerner, and to any Kuklux, it would be apparent that the editor held the outrages to be about right, and was himself at heart a Kuklux. We offered to the editor that if any such unequivocal condemnation could be found and forwarded to our office we would, as an act of justice, publish it. None was forwarded. None was forwarded. But there did soon thereafter appear in the "Nashville Advocate " an editorial which, with the disadvantage of appearing to be a consequent of our suggestion, had the advantage of being entirely unequivocal. Soon after the Hamburg massacre there did appear in the Southern and St. Louis Advocates articles unquestionably sincere and likely to be effective. But the following specimen, from the Richmond "Christian Advocate," is one of the kind, above described, that would cheer the heart of a Kuklux:

The homicide in Hamburgh, S. C.. where some colored militia men were killed after surrendering, has met with universal condemnation. The South, however,

is denounced from partisan pulpits and a partisan press for the crime of a few lawless men which all regret and abhor. While we wish prompt and full punishment inflicted upon all bad citizens, we don't forget that the Cotton States are under great provocation to violence. The same irritation from corrupt government would produce an outbreak in the North or West in twenty-four hours.

Now, the effect of all these outbreaks between the two races is destructive to the best interests of the South. They paralyze the prosperity of the South, and consequently of the whole country. They repel the northern immigrant who would otherwise pour his industry into the southern waste places. They drive out northern capital. They turn the national elections into northern victories. The editor of the "Florida Agriculturist" proudly boasts that Florida is the only State in the Union in which real estate is rising in value. For what reasons? She is under the same national government as all the other States. Had she, like Louisiana and Mississippi, indulged in riots, massacres, and general turbulences, led by angry politicians, ecclesiastical and secular, she would have been in the same wretched condition. But she accepted the results of the war, maintained public tranquillity, welcomed the northern immigrant irrespective of hispolitics, turned herself to industrial pursuits, and now she has started on a career of new prosperity. She accepted in good faith the restored government, and she has, consequently, no complaints of oppression by the Government. There is not a Southern State that might not have done the same. Who is to blame? The States themselves; but specially the Southern press, and not least of all the Southern Methodist press. It may be asked, Is not the Government also to blame? Very wrong things, we reply, have in the strifes that have ensued been done by Government agents; but it is the refusal of those States, unlike Florida, to keep the peace which has given rise to these governmental repressions. The Government has dealt rudely with rude opposers. The Government would have been as right in Louisiana as in Florida had Louisiana herself been as right. When the South comes right the Government will be right.

Since most of the above was in print we have received a copy of the Address of the Commissioners of the two Churches to the authorities and members of both. From it we learn the terms on which both Commissions agreed with, as we are informed, perfect unanimity on every point. On the common basis of harmony the following paragraph is explicit :