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"In the present number (the 2nd), there are eight articles. The first is a masterly one on the late Rev. Sidney 11 Smith; the second discusses Democracy in America; the third, deeply interesting, is a review of Michelet's History of France; the fourth is an admirable estimate of Emerson's Essays, and there is a very elaborate notice of Protestantism in Germany, and of the Church and State in England."-Liverpool Journal. "We never met with a Review which in so early a stage of its existence gave such evident proofs of permanent vitality, or such confirmed promise of future as well as existing excellence. Every subject is handled in a masterly style, and with full and thorough knowledge; while the force of the writer's arguments, and the point of their illustration reminds us of the early numbers of the Quarterly and the Edinburgh, when the giants of those days - Sidney Smith, Gifford, Henry Brougham (not the lord of that name), Jeffery, Walter Scott, Wilson, and the rest-were in the full vigour of their faculties."-Railway Bell. Just received, price 3s. 6d., No. 130. THE AMERICAN CHRISTIAN EXAMINER, AND RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY. EDITED BY The Rev. Drs. A. LAMSON AND E. S. GANNETT. Book I.-Of Religion in General; or, a Discourse of the Sentiment and its Manifestations. II. The Relation of the Religious Sentiment to God; or, a Discourse of III.-The Relation of the Religious Sentiment to Jesus of Nazareth; or, a Dis course of Christianity. VI.-The Relation of the Religious Sentiment to the Greatest of Books; or, a Discourse of the Bible. V.-The Relation of the Religious Sentiments to the Greatest of Human Institutions; or, a Discourse of the Church. 12 THE WORKS PUBLISHED BY Just Published, in post 8vo, cloth, 10s. 6d. A RETROSPECT OF RELIGIOUS LIFE OF ENGLAND; The object of this work is briefly indicated in the author's own language, as follows: "The idea which possessed my mind, when I first sketched out the plan of this volume, was the desirableness of embracing in a common point of view, the phenomena of the different religious parties, whose unintermitted strife, and sharp contest of manners and opinions, have given such a deep and varied interest to the spiritual history of England, especially during the three centuries which have elapsed since the Reformation. In pursuing this idea, I have tried to discover the governing principle, and understand the characteristic working of each party-to apprehend their mutual relation to show how they have occasionally passed off into each otherand, out of their joint operation, to trace the evolution of a more comprehensive principle, which looks above the narrowness of their respective views, and, allying itself with the essential elements of the Christian faith, may in time, perhaps, devise some method of reconciling an unlimited freedom and variety of the religious life with the friendliness and mutual recognition of universal brotherhood."-PREFACE. "An introductory chapter treats of the relation of the Religious History of England to the general History of the Church; and gives, in a second section, a sketch, very clear and useful, of the external history of religious parties in England. There are three successive chapters devoted to the Church and Puritanism, explaining their origin, progress, characteristics, and varieties of aspect; another chapter contrasts the Church and Puritanism; a fifth is devoted to Free Inquiry, tracing it from its first rise in England, to our own times; and finally," the conclusion gives us the results arrived at by the author himself, from the contemplation of the materials he has set before us. About eighty pages of notes complete the volume. The work is written in a chastely beautiful style, manifests extensive reading, and careful research; is full of thought, and decidedly original in its character. It is marked also by the modesty which usually characterizes true merit."-Inquirer. "It is not often our good fortune to meet with a book so well-conceived, so well-written, and so instructive as this. The author has taken a broad comprehensive survey of the past religious his tory of this kingdom, with the view of showing the elements which are at work in the present century, and which, however one may supersede the other for a time, continue all in existence, and wait but some favourable moment to call them into energy. For the mere historical reader, to whom the narrative of conflicting doctrines is uninteresting unless attended with political collision, this work of Mr. Tayler's will be as valuable as to those of a more "serious" cast. It shows the origin of that religious torpor in the Anglican Church of the last century, which is now looked back upon with abhorrence by the Evangelicals as the age of moral discourses." And it shows the circumstances which gave rise to that remarkable body of men, the English deists, who went into the learning of divinity with the zeal of divines, that they might attack the religion of their country; and who, forming a complete contrast to the light, laughing French infidels who succeeded them and used the results of their labours, approximated more to the Protestantism of modern Germany;-with, however, this important distinction, that the German rationalists are professors with whom theology is a sort of metier, whereas the utterances of such men as Anthony Collins were spontaneous effusions of opinion. These various phases of the national mind, described with the clearness and force of Mr. Tayler, furnish an inexhaustible material for reflection." "Mr. Tayler himself is an Unitarian, and therefore belongs to the third class in his statement of sects; but we exhort our readers, of whatever persuasion, not to let this circumstance dissuade them from the perusal of a work so wise and so useful. Not only does he avoid all that might give offence to the most tender conscience-this would be a mere prudential merit—but he regards all parties in turn from an equitable point of view, is tolerant towards intolerance, and admires zeal and excuses fanaticism, wherever he discerns honesty. Nay, he openly asserts that the religion of mere reason is not the religion to produce a practical effect on a people; and therefore regards his own class only as one element in a better possible church. The clearness and comprehensive grasp with which he marshals his facts are even less admirable than the impartiality, nay, more than that, the general kindliness, with which he reflects upon them."Examiner. JOHN CHAPMAN, 121, NEWGATE STREET. 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