The Scripture Doctrine of Christian Perfection Stated and Defended; with a Critical and Historical Examination of the Controversy, both Ancient and Modern: also, Practical Illustrations and Advices: in a The Angels' Lament over Lost Souls, Borrow's Bible in Spain.-Perkins' Residence among the Nestorians.- D'Aubigné's Puseyism Examined.-Rogers' Anti-Popery, or Popery Unreasonable, Unscriptural, and Novel.-Tracy's History of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.-Rauch's Psychology.-Bibliotheca Sacra.—Sears' New Monthly Family Mag- azine.-Edwards' Self-Cultivation.-Alexander's Counsels of the England and China.-British power in India.-Repeal of the union between England and Ireland —Anti-corn law league.-Complete suffrage party.-National education in England.-Christian union.- Reminiscences of Alexander Metcalf Fisher, late Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in Yale College, A Letter to the Honorable Daniel Webster, contained in a Collection of Papers on Political, Literary, and Moral Subjects, by Noah Web- The true issue for the true churchman. A statement of facts in rela- tion to the recent ordination in St. Stephen's Church, New York, A Letter to a parishioner, relative to the recent ordination of Mr. Ar- thur Carey, by Benjamin I. Haight, A. M., Rector of All Saints' A full and true statement of the examination and ordination of Mr. Arthur Carey. Taken from the Churchman of July 8, 15, 22, 29, Dr. Bushnell's Discourse before the Alumni of Yale College.-Frost's Pictorial History of the United States.-Dr. Hopkins' Sermon before the Pastoral Association of Massachusetts.-Dr. Olin's Travels in Egypt, Arabia Petræa, &c.-Congregational Order: the Ancient Platforms of the Congregational Churches of New England, &c.— Mr. Worcester's Discourse: Our Country and our Work.-Cyclo- pædia of Biblical Literature.-The Anabasis of Xenophon.-The Poets of Connecticut.-One Faith: or Bishop Doane vs. Bishop M'Il- vaine, on Oxford Theology.-Looking-Glass for High Churchmen.- Reminiscences of the late Rev. Samuel Hopkins, D. D.-Smeaton's Etymological Manual of the English and French Languages.-His- tory of the Westminster Assembly of Divines.-The Laurel Wreath, THE NEW ENGLANDER. .No. I. JANUARY, 1843. PROSPECTUS. A STRONG desire exists in various quarters, for some periodical, other than a newspaper, which speaking considerately, yet freely and boldly on the topics of the day, may give utterance to the New England way of thinking, and may thus help to concentrate and direct the public sentiment of New England. The earnestness with which this desire has been frequently expressed, has led to some consultations respecting the practicability of commencing and sustaining such a periodical. Under the advice of judicious friends, and in the confidence that the religious and thinking public, whether east or west of the Hudson, who love that evangelical truth and that simple primitive order which give beauty and glory to this heritage of our fathers, will favor the enterprise, the subscriber has resolved on making the attempt. The pledg. es which he has received from gentlemen variously distinguished in the churches, in the republic of letters, and in the walks of civil life, who are expected to aid him with their experienced judgments, and with their practiced pens, are such as authorize him to entertain the strongest hopes that the intellectual and literary character of the work will be not unworthy of its name or of its aim. Vol. I. 1 The periodical now proposed, will not be theological in the technical sense: we have our scientific journals, in theology as in other departments, learned and ponderous. Nor will it be exclusively religious: we have already religious magazines, devotional and practical, of various kinds and names-for the family, for the mother, for the child, for the Sabbath School. Nor again, will it be occupied with any one class of subjects: there are already periodicals enough, and good enough, of that description-some for temperance, and some against slaverysome for foreign missions, and some for home missions-some for the improvement of seamen, and some for the great cause of an educated Christian ministry. The periodical now proposed will enter into no competition with any of these works. It will be simply a magazine expressing the views of free Christian men, on whatever happens to come up for discussion. Nothing that concerns our interests and affections as citizens, our duties as men, or our faith and hope as Christians, will be without the range of topics contemplated by the conductors of the New Englander. Not every thing, but any thing-and especially any thing in ethics, politics, literature or religion, |