travel to Grenada in the same diligence with Matamoros, and being interested in his case, afterward visited him and Alhama in prison. Sir Robert has twice brought their case before the House of Commons, and on April 30 an influential meeting was held at London, under the presidency of the Earl of Shaftesbury, for the purpose of calling on the English government to interfere so as to put a stop to the religious persecution of the Spanish Protestants; but Lord Russell, notwithstanding his sympathies with their cause, did not seem disposed to make any official application on the subject to the Spanish government. In the meanwhile it is gratifying to hear that the liberal democratic party of Spain are cordially sympathizing with the friends of religious and civil freedom in Europe and America, that they are making greater efforts than ever before for securing to their own country the privileges of religious liberty, and that they are confident of a speedy success.

TURKEY.

THE GREEK CHURCH.-The Bulgarian question still awaits its final solution. The expectations of the Roman missionaries, who hoped that they would draw over the entire people to their Church, have not been realized. The only Bulgarian bishop who at first favored a union with Rome, hesitated when the final step was to be taken, and the number of Bulgarians who really have gone over seems to be very small. The shrewdest and most active among the Roman missionaries in Turkey, Mr. Boré, has headed a Bulgarian deputation to Rome, which was to announce the submission of the entire nation to the Pope as an event likely to take place shortly. One of the clerical members of the deputation has been appointed by the Pope patriarch of the United Bulgarians, and the nucleus of a United Bulgarian Church having thus been formed, it may be expected that the endeavors

for gaining the entire nation for the cause of the union will be redoubled.

The great majority of the nation, however, persevere in their efforts to secure the independence of all the Bulgarian Churches from the oppressive rule of the Greek Patriarch, and the formation of a Free Bulgarian Church. A memorial signed by two bishops, six other ecclesiastics, and twenty-seven of the leading men of the nation, has been addressed to the members of the Evangelical Alliance of Constantinople, asking for their kind offices in behoof of the objects for which the Bulgarians are seeking. The Evangelical Alliance has warmly recommended the matter to the representatives of the seven Protestant countries, part of whom, at least, have promised to exert themselves in favor of the just rights of the Bulgarians. The Patriarch of Constantinople, supported by the influence of Russia, has obtained from the Porte a decree of banishment for the Bulgarian bishops, but the execution of the decree has been prevented in time. The Turkish government has, demands of the Bulgarians, as to conon the contrary, so far yielded to the sent to the calling of a convention of delegates from all parts of Bulgaria, to test the sentiments of the people at large in regard to their relations to the

Greek Patriarch.

PROTESTANTISM.-The Protestant missions among the Mussulmans have been steadily going on, but threatening clouds are beginning to rise upon the horizon. The Porte intends to organize a decided opposition against what they consider the encroachments of the Bible into their nationality. Their plan seems to be this: to make diligent search for the New Testament and Bibles in Turkish, and for their owners and readers; to confiscate the books; to frighten or punish (according to the degree of culpability) the individuals; and to exile those who have really made defection.

ENGLAND.

Rev. Donald M'Donald, of Scotland, is the author of an able work, entitled, Creation and the Fall. More lately he has published a second work, from the press of T. & T. Clark, entitled an Introduction to the Pentateuch. It maintains ably the Mosaic authorship and historical authority of the Five Books.

Dr. A. P. Stanley (author of Sinai and Palestine and Life of Arnold) has published Lectures on the History of the Eastern Church, with an Introduction on the Study of Ecclesiastical History. Stanley is Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the University of Oxford.

Dr. Tulloch has published a volume, entitled, English Puritanism and its Leaders. The characters he portrays are Cromwell, Milton, Baxter, and Bunyan.

Bagster & Co. publish A Methodization of the Hebrew Verb, on an original plan, for the use of learners.

The Genetic Cycle in Organic Nature; or, The Succession of Forms in the Propagation of Plants and Animals. By George Ogilvie, Regius Professor in Aberdeen University, is published by Longman & Co. Professor Ogilvie is author of a previous work, entitled, Master-Builder's Plan in Typical Forms of Animals.

The Introduction of Christianity into Britain; an argument in favor of St. Paul's having visited the extreme Boundaries of the West. By Rev. B. W. Saville, A. M.

The first and second volumes of Lord Stanhope's Life of the Younger Pitt have appeared. The biographies hith

erto of this, as of most other British

statesmen, are very incomplete. Lord Stanhope has had access to documents hitherto unused, and his work, though unsatisfactory, is a great improvement upon its predecessors.

Bohn has published the first volume of the Letters and Works of Lady Mary Montague. By Lord Wharncliffe. It is a third edition with additions.

Murray advertises as "just ready," The Gorilla Country; Explorations and

Adventures in Equatorial Africa, with Accounts of the Cannibals and other Savage Tribes, and of the chase of the Gorilla, the Nest-building Ape, Chimpanzee, Hippopotamus, etc. By M. Paul Du Chaillu. With map and eighty illustrations. This work is awaited with high expectation by scientific men and the public generally.

A Life of Professor Porson, by the Rev. John Selby Walton, with a portrait, is promised by Longman & Co.

A Life of Edward Irving, in two volumes, by Mrs. Oliphant, is in preparation from Hurst & Blackett's press.

Professor Owen has published the Posthumous Papers of Dr. John Hunter, with an "Introductory Lecture on the Hunterian Collection of Fossil Remains."

Of Darwin's Work on Species six thousand copies have been sold in England. He has issued a new edition, with various additions and corrections. Prefixed is an "Historical Sketch of the recent Progress of Opinion on the Origin of Species."

The Oxford Essays and Reviews have called out the following publications:

The Dangers and Safeguards of Modern Theology, by the Bishop of London.

Scripture and Science not at Variance; with Remarks on the Historical Character, Plenary Inspiration, and surpassing importance of the Earlier Chapters of Genesis. By John H. Pratt, M. A., Archdeacon of Calcutta.

"Essays and Reviews anticipated. Extracts from a work published in the year 1825, and attributed to the Lord Bishop of St. David's.

The "Essays and Reviews" and the People of England; a popular Refutation of the principal Propositions of the Essayists. With an appendix, containing the protest of the bishops and clergy, the proceedings in convocation, and all the documents and letters connected with the subject.

lief, by the late James Shergold Boone. Sermons, chiefly on the Theory of BeThis volume is highly commended "to the higher class of minds" by the Literary Churchman, as specially adapted to "the present crisis."

Dr. Temple (one of the authors of Essays and Reviews, and successor to Dr. Arnold at Rugby) has published Sermons preached in Rugby School Chapel in 1858, 1859, 1860. From M'Millan's press.

Henry Calderwood has published at the press of M'Millan & Co., a second edition of his Philosophy of the Infinite; a treatise on Man's Knowledge of the Infinite Being in answer to Sir William Hamilton and Mr. Mansel. To this edition are added an answer to Sir Willliam Hamilton's letter to the author, and a Review of Mr. Mansel's Limits of Religious Thought. Mr. Calderwood is a clear thinker and often an eloquent writer. His work is abundantly worthy of republication in this country.

The Westminster Review notices, unfavorably to the institution it describes, The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom, by Rev. W. M. Mitchell, of Toronto, C. W. The same Review speaks with earnest contempt of "Negroes and Negro Slavery; the first an inferior race, the latter its normal condition; by J. H. Van Evrie, M. D., New York." It commends "Secession, Concession, or Self-Possession- Which? a letter addressed by a citizen of Massachusetts to Charles Sumner; published by Walker & Wise, Boston."

The London Athenæum says: "The first number of a new German Quarterly Review of English Theological Inquiry and Criticism' has appeared at Gotha, from the press of Herr Perthes. The work is conducted by Dr. Heidenheim, who resides, we believe, in England, and is a minister of the English Church. The purpose of the conductor is, not merely to discuss for the benefit of German theologians the development of doctrine in the Church to which he has attached himself, but to lay before German scholars the results of English enterprise and travel, so far as these tend to illustrate the Scripture records. Some of the inedited treasures of the British Museum are to appear in this Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift."

The Athenæum furnishes the following item of Egyptological intelligence: "M. Mariette is said to have made a new and important discovery in the ru

British Museum are in possession of similar tablets, but they are not near so complete as the one lately discovered, which is to find its place in the new Museum in Egypt. This tablet of Memphis will determine the Egyptian dynasties of the ante-pyramidical period."

GERMANY.

Professor A. Wuttke, of Berlin, has commenced the publication of a new Manual of Christian Ethics, (Handbuch der Christlichen Sittenlehre, Berlin, 1861,) the first volume of which has just appeared, while the second is announced to be published before the close of the year. The author has already favorably distinguished himself among the younger theological scholars of Germany by a work on paganism, and by a number of contributions to the leading evangelical journals of his country. With regard to the character of his new work, he announces that it will neither be so specu lative as some of its predecessors, nor exclusively biblical; but that he has endeavored to give a manual of ethical theology, wholly resting on the basis of the Sacred Scriptures, and wrought into a scientific system, not through a foreign philosophy, but, as he calls it, through a self-development of the spirit of the Bible. A long introduction contains, besides other valuable discussions, a history of ethics in paganism, Judaism, and Christianity.

"The Essence of the Christian Sermon according to the Prototype of the Apostolic Sermon (Das Wesen der Christlichen Predigt, etc., Gotha, 1861) is the title of an important homiletic work by Rev. Mr. Beyer. The author divides his subject into three books: in the first he treats of "the sermon as the word of God;" in the second, of "the sermon as the word of God to the congregation;" and in the third, of "the word of God to the congregation as the expression of Christian personality." Throughout the subject is discussed, as the author announces, 'with particular reference to the principal tendencies of modern thebution to the same branch of theology ology." Simultaneously another contriis published by Rev. Mr. Kirsch, under the title, The Popular Sermon, (Die

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The many admirers of the exegetical works of Professor Hengstenberg will

be glad to learn that this veteran theologian has published the first volume of a new commentary on the Gospel of John. Though it is the almost unanimous opinion of theologians that Dr. Hengstenberg has been hitherto, in his writtings on the New Testament, much less successful than in those on the Old, a new commentary by him on one of the Gospels will be hailed everywhere as an exegetical publication of great importance.

Another exegetical publication has been commenced by Professor Wieseler, of Kiel, under the title, An Investigation of the Epistle to the Hebrews, in particular its Author and its Readers, (Eine Untersuchung über den Hebraeerbrief, etc., Kiel, 1861.) In the first part, which has appeared, the author shares the opinion of those who regard Barnabas as the author. The second part is to appear toward the close of the present year.

The great collective work on the Lives and the Writings of the Fathers of the Reformed Church, which has been in course of publication for several years, and of which we gave an account in the April number of the Methodist Quarterly Review, has met with so great a success as to encourage the publisher to make arrangements for the publication of a similar work on the Lutheran Church. The prospectus mentions the names of Dr. Lehnerdt, formerly Professor of Theology at Berlin, and now Superintendent-General of the province of Saxony; Dr. Schmidt, of the University of Strasburg; Dr. Uhlhorn, formerly of the University of Göttingen, and other distinguished theologians, as the editors. The first volume, containing the Life and Select Writings of Melancthon, by Dr. Schmidt, (Philipp Melanchthon. Leben und ausgewählte Schriften. Elberfeld, 1861,) has just appeared.

Simultaneously with it another work on 'The Lives of the Fathers of the Lu theran Church," (Das Leben der Altväter der Lutherischen Kirche. Leipsic, 1861,) has been commenced by Rev. Mr. Meurer. According to the prospectus it is to contain nine volumes, and will include a greater number of biographies than the first-named work, which will limit itself to the biographies of the founders of the Church. The latter work is intended for all classes of readers, while the volumes of the former collection will aspire to a rank among the

most thorough and erudite historical works of Germany.

On the history of the Hussites new information of great importance is given in "The Reign of George of Podebrad," by Max Jordan, (Das Königthum Georg's von Podebrad. Leipsic, 1861.) George of Podebrad, who, in 1458, was unanimously elected king of Bohemia, and died in 1471, was a zealous patron of the Hussites, who at that time were so conspicuous as the standard-bearers of the reformatory movements in the Roman Catholic Church. The author has had access to a large number of important documents which have never before been made use of. He represents his book as a contribution to the development of the modern state in opposition to the all-controlling supremacy of the Roman Catholic Churcli of the Middle Ages.

The third number of the Studien und Kritiken begins with some introductory remarks by the learned editor, Dr. Ullmann, respecting his resignation as President of the Supreme Ecclesiastical Board of the State Church of Baden. (This event is more fully referred to in the "Foreign Religious Intelligence" department of this number.) Dr. Ullmann promises to devote henceforth a much larger portion of his time than before to the editing of his celebrated quarterly. One of the next numbers of the "Studien" is to bring from his pen "Reminiscences of Dr. Umbreit," his departed friend and associate editor of the "Studien."

The number contains three longer articles, (Abhandlungen) viz.: 1. Lübker, An Introduction to a Theology of Classic Antiquity. 2. Piper, Lost and Discovered Monuments and Manuscripts. 3. Gerlach, The Imprisonment and Conversion of Manasseh. The first article is particularly valuable. The author, who, by a Dictionary of Classical Antiquity, and a number of other works, has gained the reputation of being one of the best classical scholars of Germany, discusses in an interesting and thorough manner the theological views of the Greeks concerning God, sin, eternity. The article quotes and reviews nearly the whole German and French literature bearing on the subject, and for this bibliographical completeness alone ought to be read by every one who wishes to obtain reliable information of the religion of the Greeks and Romans. In the second article, by

Professor Piper, of Berlin, many interesting contributions to Christian archæology are given. We noticed, in particular, a highly interesting description of a Greek table-picture, which represents in a series of scenes the entire history of the celebrated image of Christ, which the Saviour himself is said, according to an early tradition, to have sent to Abgarus, king of Edessa.

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FRANCE.

The "Cours Complet de Patrologie," published at Paris by Abbé Migne, has been recently completed. It is one of the grandest literary enterprises which the Christian world has ever seen since

the invention of the art of printing, and,

as such, well deserves a more extended notice. All the former great collective works of Roman Catholic literature, as the Acta Sanctorum of the Bollandists, the Collections of Councils by Labbé and Mansi, the former collections of the Church fathers, the works of Cardinal Mai are nothing compared with it. The "Cours de Patrologie" of Abbé Migne comprises all the extant works and fragments of the ancient ecclesiastical writers in no less than three hundred and twen

de Muralt.

The number of the religious quarterlies of Germany (a complete list of which we gave in the April number of the Methodist Quarterly Review, p. 330) has recently received an addition by the establishment of a Deutsche Vierteljahrschrift für Englisch-Theologische Forschung, under the editorship of Dr. Heidenheim, in London. As the title indicates, the principal object of this journal will be to make the German theologians and the German Churches better acquainted with the contents and the spirit of the theological literature of England and America. The first number contains the following articles: 1. Researches on the Samaritans, by Dr. Heidenheim. 2. Mormonism, by Dr. Overbeck. 3. On the Phenician Inscriptions of the British Museum. 4. Epistle of Meshalmah ben Ab Sechuah's to the Samaritans. 5. The Journals of England and their Theleogical Tendencies, together with a review of seven theological works of England.

The gifted but fanatical High Lutheran Professor Vilmar, of Marburg, has commenced the publication of a new religious monthly called Pastoral-Theologische Blätter. The character of the editor warrants that the readers will find in it the most elegant German, a clear and forcible style, some powerful thoughts and sentences, and the most ultra de

red and seventeen of which contain the Latin writers of the first twelve centuries from Tertullian to Innocent III., while the Greek writers from Barnabas to Photius are given in the other one hundred and nine volumes. All the volumes have been stereotyped, in order to enable the publisher to furnish at any time complete sets, and the purchaser to replace any volume that may have been lost.

The work is to be immediately followed by a number of "indexes," which are to comprise twelve volumes. For their compilation fifty persons have been engaged during five years, at an aggregate expense of about 500,000 francs. Each of the three hundred and twentysix volumes is to be analyzed in these indexes two hundred and ten times. By means of these "indexes" it will be possible to refer at once to any of the ecclesiastical writers concerning each one of the doctrines of the Roman Church. Others refer to all the passages concerning music, geometry, and other sciences. By far the most valuable of the indexes, however, is the one which quotes for every single verse of the Bible, from the first of Genesis to the last of the Revelation, all the passages of the fathers which comment on it or refer to it. One of the most remarkable features in connection with this immense work is, that it has been carried through without any direct support from the government or other community. The