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THE BOSTON REVIEW.

NOTICES OF THE PRESS.

FROM a large collection of generous and genial notices of our Review, we cull the following:

"Not the least among the hopeful signs of the times is the appearance of a new, orthodox, manly, Christian, valiant, and good-looking periodical, to be issued once in two months in the city of Boston. . . . The initial number has much of the right kind of thinking and speaking.... We cordially wish for it great success in the high and noble mission on which it goes forth." New York Observer.

"This first number gives good promise." Christian Mirror.

"We have read the principal articles of the first number with great and even unexpected satisfaction. The article on Theodore Parker is a thorough and most powerful exposé of the leading characteristics of that arch unbeliever and insidious worker against the Christian religion. There are few men who could or would write such an article as this. . . . The other articles are able." Boston Recorder.

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"A neater design for the outside title-page of a periodical than is presented on the cover, we have never seen, and the paper and print within correspond. To our great surprise, we like the contents too. . . . The tone is more moderate, the style more racy, and the subjects more varied, than we had anticipated. . . . Go on brethren." Chicago Cong. Herald.

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"Its external appearance is uncommonly neat and tasteful, and its articles are timely and able. . . . Such is the list of its promised contributors, that it will not fail of popularity for want of talent." Hartford Rel. Herald.

"Got up in very beautiful style, . . . a thoroughly orthodox religious Review,... also to contain some lighter literature and philosophy.... It shows ability. ... It will be all spicy no doubt, . . . will have a character, and a pretty decided one. Its utterance will be positive, and to the point. It will give no uncertain sound. We are glad of this, and the public will be glad of it, for they have been hungering for something of the kind for a long time. We welcome it into the literary field, and wish it all success." Boston Journal.

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"Of this second number of a religious periodical, the appearance of which has excited unusual interest, we will only say, it is better than the first number in the general quality and variety of its contents. Superior to the first it could hardly be in respect to certain articles." Boston Courier.

"With the writers there is no lack of earnestness and plain speaking. You cannot doubt what they are at, and they generally work with vigor... Our readers will do well to look at the two numbers of this Review now out." Vermont Chronicle.

"If this bi-monthly proceeds as it has commenced, it will make its mark.... It is a live affair, positive and pointed." Hartford Rel. Herald, March 28.

"The continuance of articles of such ability, and bearing so directly on matters of present interest, will soon secure a good circulation for the work." Recorder.

"Such articles are truly racy and refreshing, and like the hungry 'Oliver,' we want some more." Chicago Cong. Herald, April 11.

"This Review has been vigorously and ably conducted." Boston Transcript, July 16.

"The beginning is certainly good. . . . It is fresh, racy, and original, avoiding stereotyped phrases, while it makes no effort of mere rhetoric. In neither of the numbers thus far published is there a flimsy or a tiresome article. They can be read straight on, from beginning to end, without fatigue, and with genuine pleasure, for their literary merits. The thought seems to us as forcible as the language." Christian [Unitarian] Examiner.

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"We can most confidently and heartily recommend this as an able and attractive Review. . . . While it is solid, its literary attractions are many. It will obtain readers who would be repelled by the philological discussions of some of the older and more formidable erudite quarterlies." St. John's Colonial Presbyterian.

"Like its predecessors, this is a 'live' number of this Review. The articles . . . are pertinent and timely, and deserve to be widely read." Boston Journal, July 26.

"The fourth number of this periodical, just out, more than equals its predecessors. We have observed a steady advance in the work, from the beginning, though each number has contained papers of unusual excellence. In this one there is a greater variety of subjects than usual, and more breadth of treatment. All the articles are interesting, and some evince a critical skill and power calculated to make this Review not only useful but famous." Boston Courier, July 20.

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"The fourth number is very spirited, brilliant, and able, opening with a fine article on the Metes and Bounds of Christian Doctrine. Ruskin s Religious Suggestiveness is well treated. . . . Oliver Wendell Holmes, M. D., is dissected with great ability and skill; and we would gladly transfer the article to our columns, that the views we have so often uttered respecting the loose theology of the free school of Boston literature might be seen in the strong setting of this Review. . . . Eminently readable, the Boston Review will be found sufficiently spicy to suit any delicate taste, and its condiments are quite as wholesome as they are agreeable." N. Y. Observer.

"The September No. [five] of this vigorous Review contains several ably written articles enforcing its peculiar religious views, as well as others of a purely literary character. They are marked by strong thought, original expression, and a graceful rhetoric." Boston Journal.

"We like this periodical more and more. Its articles are short, condensing much into a little space, and are sound and pithy. When we first made its acquaintance, we thought, as it stood square and firm in the old paths, and meant to bring others into them, that possibly it might be dry, opinionative, and denunciatory. But in this we were mistaken. It is fresh, lifelike, vigorous, and reasonably kind. Occasionally, too, some wit crops out in such a way as shows there is much more of the commodity than is used." Hartford Religious Herald.

"The Boston Review for July has a variety of articles, some of them quite racy and fresh. . . . In its crusade upon Parkerism, Unitarianism, Beecherism, and other noted theological isms, it aims to employ the latest intellectual arms, and the most finished arts of its adversaries. It meets error not with logic alone, but with wit, satire, and pungent criticism, which is for the most part very readable. Its antagonists . . . should be thankful that they are dissected with a sharp knife, instead of being hacked with a meat-axe." N. Y. Evangelist.

"We hail the appearance of this work with pleasure. Its principal writers evince the first order of talent and learning, and there is a profitable instruction and intellectual satisfaction in reading, from able living exponents of the contrary side, square, straight-forward, unblinking Orthodoxy. We hold not in much esteem the masked batteries."" Christian Freeman [Universalist.]

"The Boston Review for September is a spirited and able number of this periodical." N. Y. Evangelist.

"This Review is never misty nor equivocal in its theological utterances. It gives forth no uncertain sound. Whether the old paths' be better and safer than the 'new' or not, its clear, clarion voice always shows the traveller the difference between them." Cong. Journal, N. H.