undertaken a series of replies by authors | Churches in the German and Slavonian whose names are not yet announced. The Christian Remembrancer says: "If we have not good preachers it is not for lack of instructors in the art and craft of preaching. Here is a batch of instructors in homiletics, theoretical and practical. 1. Thoughts on Preaching,' by Mr. Daniel Moore. This is a valuable work, and Mr. Moore has earned the right to teach, because he himself is a master in his profession. There is, we think, a confusion in all these writers between the apostolic teaching, or proclaiming, or promulging (npuoσew) the Gospel, and the modern preaching; the former need not be by a sermon at all; and, therefore, the words translated in our version, to 'preach the Gospel,' have little or often nothing to do with the modern pulpit. But his book is the most valuable manual we have on the subject. 2. Hints on Preaching,' (Hatchard,) by Archdeacon Jones, is a good summary of the method adopted by the better class of evangelical preachers. 3. 'Oxford Lectures on Elocution,' by Mr. C. J. Plumtre, (J. H. and J. Parker,) as the title shows, are confined to the art of speaking, the mere mechanical function, but exhibit much thought and practice. They seem to have been well received on their delivery. 4. Sermon Sketches and Essay,' by Dean Close, (Hatchard,) is a set of skeletons, recalling Mr. Simeon's ponderous work. 66 The Christian Remembrancer contains the following: Motley's United Netherlands' (Longmans) is a most valuable work. In picturesque description it nearly rivals Macaulay; and in fairness of view and fullness of materials, it far exceeds that pleasant but superficial historian. The narrative of Leicester in Holland, and the description of England during the Armada days, much as it detracts from the conventional view of Elizabethan statesmanship, has rarely, if ever, been excelled." Provinces," (Die Evangelisch-Lutherische J. Borbis. The author remarks in the Kirche Ungarns. Nördlingen, 1861,) by preface, that a work of tracing the history of the Lutheran Church in Hungary day was still entirely wanting, and that from her first beginning to the present therefore, while yet studying at the university, he was urged on by his professors and fellow-students to undertake the task and supply one of the greatest history. He divides the history of the desiderata in the literature of Church Hungarian Lutheran Church into six periods. for foreign Protestants are the first, The most important of these which reaches from the beginning of the Reformation until the rise of the Reformed Church in Hungary, (1520–1564,) and able events in modern times from the the last three, which record the memorcelebrated edict of Emperor Leopold II. until the despotism established in Hungary by General Haynau, (1790-1850;) from Haynau until the Imperial Patent fruitless attempt to force on the Hunof September 1, 1859, which made the garians a new ecclesiastical constitution; and, lastly, from September, 1859, until the present day. The Hungarian ecclesiastical rights against the attemptChurches have so bravely defended their ed encroachments of Austrian despotism, that many Protestants of foreign record of their recent history. The countries will take a deep interest in a Luthardt, of Leipzic, a distinguished work is introduced by a preface of Prof. theologian of the High Lutheran school. the Prussian embassy at Rome, and now Rev. Dr. Thiele, formerly preacher of court preacher at Brunswick, has announced as soon forthcoming a work on "Rome as the Center of the Roman rare facilities for acquiring a thorough Catholic Church." The author has had knowledge of the subject, and will undoubtedly furnish an important contribution to the copious German literature on Italy. Another work on Rome has merly lecturer on theology at the Univerbeen announced by Dr. Laemmer, forolic priest. His work, entitled "Monusity of Berlin, and now a Roman Cathmenta Vaticana, historiam ecclesiasticum sæculi xvi, illustrantia," will publish for the first time a number of documents from the archives of the Vatican bearing Reformation of the sixteenth century. on the beginning and the progress of the A biography of Primus Truber, the Reformer of Carnia, (P. Truber, der Reformator Krains. Erlangen, 1861,) has been published by Rev. H. C. W. Sil lem. Truber translated the Bible and the writings of the German Reformers into several Slavic dialects spoken in the provinces of Austria and Turkey. Another interesting new biography is that of K. J. Ph. Spitta, one of the best German hymnists of the present century, by Rev. K. R. Münkel. Some of his beautiful hymns have become accessible to the English public through the translation of Miss Winkworth. Among the numerous volumes of sermons which are annually published in Germany, none have met, of late, with so large a sale as those of Pastor Harms, of Hermannsburg, the celebrated founder of the Hermannsburg Missionary Society, the most zealous society of the kind in the Protestant world. Harms is the Spurgeon of Germany; less brilliant, equally impressive, but more unctuous and sanctified. More than forty thousand copies of his sermons have been sold in little over a year. It is said that Harms is doing more to bring back Germany to the faith of Christ than some whole universities. On every Sunday the village inn at Hermannsburg is filled with pastors, professors, and students who come from afar to learn from this humble pastor how to preach the doctrines of a live Christianity. Professor Richter, of Berlin, the standard German writer on all questions concerning the ecclesiastical law of the Protestant Churches of Germany, has published a new work entitled "King Frederic William IV. and the Constitution of the Evangelical Church, (König Friedrich Wilhelm IV. Berlin, 1861.) His intention is to narrate truthfully what King Frederick William has done and has endeavored to do for improving the constitution of the Prussian State Church. The king regarded the constitution of the German Protestant Churches as something provisional, and wished to make it conform more to what he believed to have been the Church constitution in the apostolical age. He commenced himself, in 1845, two essays, in which he developed his views, the use of which was allowed to Professor Richter. Professor Wilhelm Wackernagel, one commence the publication of a highly important work, in four volumes, on the history of German hymnology from the oldest times until the beginning of the seventeenth century. Professor Wackernagel has devoted several years to making preparations for this work, and has been able to make use of sources which have never before been accessible. It is safe to predict that this new work will at once become the standard authority on the subject. A young professor of Roman Catholic theology and philosophy at the University of Munich, Dr. Frohschammer, who has already won, by several works, a great reputation as a vigorous philosophical writer, has been induced by the censures with which his works have met at the hands of Rome to issue a powerful plea for the liberty of science, (Ueber die Freiheit der Wissenschaft. München, 1861.) He discusses, in three divisions, the rights and the liberty of scientific investigation in general; next, the rights and liberty which a Christian and a Roman Catholic writer may expect for his scientific investigations; and in the third section, entitled "Our Position," he speaks on the condition in which Roman Catholic science in Germany is placed by the attitude of the Pope and the bishops toward it. He qualifies this condition as hopeless. A number of distinguished Roman Catholic professors of Germany have, of late, made the same or similar confessions. Among them are Dr. Döllinger, (of whose lectures on the temporal power we have spoken more fully in the department of Foreign Religious Intelligence of this number,) Professor Lutterbeck, of the University of Giessen, who last year published a pamphlet against the Bishop of Mentz, his diocesan, whom he charged with crippling by his measures Roman Catholic literature; Professor Huber, of Munich, whose work on the philosophy of the Church Fathers has been put on the Roman Index; Professor Balzer, of the University of Breslau, who was suspended last year from his chair of dogmatic theology for pronouncing a philosophical opinion which, in the eyes of Rome, is regarded as heretical; and many others. The first volume of a new work on "Divine Revelation" (Die göttliche Offenbarung. Basel, 1861) has been pub of the most distinguished German writ-lished by Professor Auberlen, of the ers on the history of literature, will soon University of Basel, well known as a FOURTH SERIES, VOL. XIII.-43 prominent champion of evangelical Protestantism. We mentioned in the April number of the Methodist Quarterly Review two recent works on the celebrated mediæval philosopher, Scotus Erigena, and already a new one, on the same subject, has appeared, larger and more comprehensive than either of its predecessors. It is entitled, "J. Scotus Erigena: A Contribution to the History of Philosophy and Theology in the Middle Ages," (Munich, 1861,) by J. Huber, Professor at the University of Munich. The exposition of the doctrines of Erigena is mostly given in his own words. The work of Huber is pronounced by the best critics the most thorough work on the subject yet published. FRANCE. One of the greatest benefits which Louis Napoleon has conferred on the Roman Catholic Church of France is the restoration of the Theological Faculty in the Philosophical Halls of the Sorbonne. The proposal to reconstitute so essential a feature of the Academy of Paris was received with favor by the late Archbishop Sibour, of Paris, who being himself a distinguished scholar, and devotedly attached to the principles of the liberal party among the French clergy, professed a great desire to bring about a complete reconciliation in France between men of religion and men of science. The success of this attempt has been considerable. Nearly all the professors of the New Sorbonne occupy an honorable place in the literature of their country. Of two of them, Abbé Bautain and Abbé Maré, (lately promoted to the Episcopal dignity,) we have had occasion to speak in former numbers of the Methodist Quarterly Review. Another of the Professors, Abbé Freppel, has contributed some excellent works to the literature on ancient Church history. The last publication contains his lectures on the Christian Apologists of the second century, (Les Apologistes Chrétiens du 2d Siècle, Paris, two vols., 1861.) His object in this work has been to draw the picture of primitive Christian eloquence, first entering the arena with the advocates of polytheism, or rather, perhaps, it should be said with the upholders of skepticism. In the first three chapters he discusses in an interesting manner the relation of the scholars, the states men, and the masses of the people in the pagan world to rising Christianity, and the method of operation which the advocates of Christianity had consequently to pursue. At the head of these earliest champions of Christendom, Mr. Freppel places Justin Martyr, to the consideration of whose life and works and labors he devotes the whole of his first volume. He gives copious analyses of his works, accompanied with able comments on the doctrines which they lay down and elucidate. The second volume, less interesting than the first, treats of Tatian, Hermas, Athenagoras, Theophilus of Antioch, and other writers of apologetics of the second century, posterior to St. Justin. Abbé Gratry is regarded as one of the best Roman Catholic writers on philosophy now living. He is a member of a newly founded religious order, and a frequent contributor to the Correspondant, the able organ of Montalembert, Lacordaire, Prince Broglie, and other champions of the less ultramontane party among the French Catholics. His last publication, entitled La Philosophie du Credo, (Paris, 1861,) is a popular work on the chief points of the Apostle's Creed-God the Creator, the divinity of Christ, the Trinity, Redemption, the Church, the Sacraments, life eternal-intended for men of the world and men of education, and aiming, by dissipating the prejudices which distort doctrine, to bring back the minds of earnest men to the knowledge of Christianity. We gave in the last number of the Methodist Quarterly Review an account of one of the great literary works published by Abbé Migne. The following is a list of some of the publications which are now appearing or about to appear from the press of the indefatigable Abbé: The edition of the complete works of St. Francois de Sales has now reached its fifth volume, and the two concluding ones are promised within the next three months. A Complete and Universal Collection of Councils, General, National, Provincial, and Synodal, is announced as shortly to appear in eighty volumes, 4to., price five hundred francs. The collection is four times that of Labbe and Cossart, and double that of Mansi and Coletti, whose thirty-one volumes in folio cost one thousand two hundred francs. The works of St. Thomas Aqui nas, twenty-six volumes, (175 francs,) and those of St. Bonaventure, twelve volumes, (75 francs,) are also in preparation. A collection of works on the harmony of Reason and Science with the Catholic Faith, (Accord de la Raison et des Sciences avec la Foi Catholique,) in sixteen volumes, (100 francs,) will contain more than sixty works, in full, collected and translated from various languages, of different epochs, on the above subject and others analagous to it. The Refutation of the Philosophical Systems, (Refutation de tous les Systemes Philosophiques,) by the most accredited works written against each particular system, will embrace six volumes. The chief systems refuted are pantheism, atheism, Materialism, Rationalism, Idealism, progressism, magnetism, etc. The Abbé thinks he has overlooked none, but promises if any one has been forgotten to add it to his list, and "refute it" by a sound work on the subject. Besides these the Abbé has many other publications of a colossal character in contemplation, to which we may refer on another opportunity. "Ce qu'il faut à la France," ("What France needs,") is the title of a pamphlet published by Mr. St. Hilaire, Professor of History at the Sorbonne. The author is a convert from the Roman Catholic Church, and one of the few representatives of evangelical Protestantisin among the leading scholars of France. The religious history of France is summed up in a hundred pages, and divided into five periods: 1. The period of militant piety (the Crusades) from Clovis to St. Louis; 2. The cloisters and the struggle with the Holy See, the triumph of Royalty, and the humbling of the Papacy; 3. The Concordat and the Reformation, from Francis I. to Richelieu; the rejection by France of the Gospel, in choosing which she might have been spared three centuries of faults and misfortunes; 4. Till the death of Louis XIV., the absolute reign of religious despotism; 5. From the death of Louis XIV. to the present day, the reign of infidelity. The author, with great vigor and eloquence, points out to his countrymen the remedy, which, he shows, can only be found in the liberty of the Gospel. ART. X.-SYNOPSIS OF THE QUARTERLIES, AND OTHERS OF THE HIGHER PERIODICALS. American Quarterly Reviews. AMERICAN THEOLOGICAL REVIEW, July, 1861.-1. Slavery among the Ancient Hebrews. 2. Powell on the Evidences. 3. The Unity of the Race. 4. Criticism of New Testament Texts. 5. Renan on Job and Canticles. 6. Fisher's Sermons and Addresses. 7. The Codex Alexandrinus. 8. The Ante-Nicene Trinitarianism. AMERICAN QUARTERLY CHURCH REVIEW, July, 1861.-1. The Ultimate Grounds of Infidelity. 2. Interesting and Curious Facts about Bishops. 3. Cooper and his Novels. 4. Motley's History of the Dutch Republic. 5. Recent Inquiries in Theology examined. 6. Church Missions in New York City. MERCERSBURG REVIEW, July, 1861.-1. Moral Character of Jesus Christ, or the Perfection of Christ's Humanity a Proof of his Divinity. 2. The Divining Rod. 3. Liturgical Worship. 4. Notes on the Agamemnon of Eschylus. 5. Religious Training; or the Gospel Educational System. 6. The National Question. EVANGELICAL REVIEW, July, 1861.-1. German Emigration to North America. 2. Jephthah's Vow. 3. M. Minucii Felicis Octavius. 4. Annotations on Matthew, chap. xxiv. 5. The Races of Men in English History. 6. Beneficiary Education. 7. Theses upon the Church. 8. Our National Crisis. 9. Hymns. BIBLICAL REPERTORY AND PRINCETON REVIEW, July, 1861.-1. The Kingdom of Christ. 2. Knowledge, Faith, and Feeling, in their Mutual Relations. 3. The Subjects of Baptism. 4. Motley's Dutch Republic. 5. Annals of the American Pulpit. 6. The General Assembly. FREEWILL BAPTIST QUARTERLY, July, 1861.-1. The Doctrinal and the Practical in Christianity. 2. The Christian Church and the Poor. 3. Baptism not Immersion. 4. The Power of Personal Character. 5. Moral Happiness. 6. Disagreement of Doctors on the Origin of the Human Species. 7. Dr. Butler's Theology. 8. Conventional Morality. 9. Process of Saving Grace, exemplified in the Religious Experience of Rev. A. Merrill. CHRISTIAN REVIEW, July, 1861.-1. Platonism and Christianity. 2. How did the Anabaptists administer Baptism? 3. Motley's History of the United Netherlands. 4. The Relation of Adam to his Posterity. 5. Interdependence of Christian Doctrines. 6. Sir William Hamilton's Lectures on Logic. 7. The National Crisis. BIBLIOTHECA SACRA AND BIBLICAL REPOSITORY, July, 1861.-1. Was the Apostle Paul the Author of the Epistle to the Hebrews? 2. A Sketch of Hindu Philosophy. 3. Some Remarks on an Expression in Acts xxv, 26.-A Monograph. 4. Method in Sermons. 5. God's Ownership of the Sea. 6. Notices of New Publications. NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, July, 1861.-1. The Public Lands of the United States. 2. Mrs. Jane Turell. 3. The Venerable Bede. 4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Institutes. 5. Life of Major Andre. 6. French Critics and Criticism.-M. Taine. 7. Burial. 8. The Attic Bee. 9. Francis Bacon. 10. Michigan. 11. New Books on Medicine. 12. The Right of Secession. 13. Hugh Latimer. PRESBYTERIAN QUARTERLY REVIEW, July, 1861.-1. The Ter-Centenary of the Meeting of the First General Assembly. 2. Esthetics. 3. The Divine Life in the Church. 4. The General Assembly of 1861. 5. The Rationale of Prayer. 6. The Early History of the Presbyterian Church in Missouri. 7. The State of the Country. 8. The Gorilla Book. 9. Literary and Theological Intelligence. CONGREGATIONAL QUARTERLY, July, 1861.-1. Nathaniel Emmons. 2. English Congregational Institutions. 3. A Lesson from the Past: Clerical Patriotism in New England. 4. Paul's Method of Church Extension. 5. Congregational Churches and Ministers in Windham county, Conn. 6. First Congregational Church, Detroit, Mich. 7. A Historical Document: Illustrating a not yet obsolete aspect of New England Theology. 8. A Hymn of A. D. 1150. 9. A Memorial of Rev. Samuel Austin Worcester. 10. Congregational Churches and Ministers in Portage and Summit Counties, Ohio. 11. The Primitive "Ecclesia." DANVILLE QUARTERLY REVIEW, June, 1861.-1. The Claim of Emanuel Swedenborg to Divine Revelation. 2. The Nature and Import of a Christian Profession. 3. Ulfilas. 4. Cuba, from a Recent View. 5. State of the Country. 6. Bibliography. This is the second number of a new Quarterly established at Danville, Kentucky, under the editorial control of Dr. Robert J. Breckenridge and the other professors of the Danville Theological Seminary, the professors of Center College at Danville, and several ministers, of whom one is Rev. Robert W. Landis, author of "The Immortality of the Soul, and the Final Condition |