MORNING AND EVENING EXERCISES: selected from the published and unpublished Writings of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. Edited by Lyman Abbott, author of "Jesus of Nazareth," "Old Testament Shadows," etc. New York: Harper 1871. 8vo. pp. 560. Small Pica type; bevelled, cloth extra. and Brothers. Price, $2.00. The work is composed, says the compiler, wholly of selections from the published and unpublished writings of Mr. Beecher, made with his approval, and in his own words. The editor's work has been the selection of the passages and the adaptation to them of Scripture and of poetry. The selections are for every morning and evening throughout the year, and the whole forms a choice volume of devotional readings. LIGHT AT EVENING TIME: A Book of Support and Comfort for the Aged. Edited by John Stanford, D.D. New York: Harper and Brothers. 1870. Royal 8vo. pp. 352. Pica type; bevelled ornamental side and back. Price, $2.50. A selection in Prose and Poetry from a wide range of authors, and a great variety of subjects suited to every frame of mind and every experience incident to the decline of life. There is an Index of Authors more than a hundred in number, and one of Subjects. ST. PAUL'S EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS. A Revised Text, with Introduction, Notes, and Dissertations. By J. B. Lightfoot, D.D., Hulsean Professor of Divinity, and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. 8vo. pp. 402. Uniform in style with Ellicott and Henderson. Andover: Warren F Draper. Price, $3.00. This Commentary contains an Introduction to the Epistle, Dissertations, a Critical Greek Text, Critical and Exegetical Notes, and detached Notes or brief Dissertations. The work has been very favorably received in England, having passed to a third edition. In some respects it is considered fully equal to Ellicott's Commentary on the same Epistle. A distinguishing feature of the work is its extended Introduction, detached Notes, and Dissertations. The following are the topics discussed: The Galatian People; the Churches at Galatia; the Date of the Epistle; Genuineness of the Epistle; Character and Contents of the Epistle. Were the Galatians Celts or Teutons? The Brethren of the Lord; St. Paul and the Three. Revised Text and Commentary. St. Paul's sojourn in Arabia; St. Paul's first visit to Jerusalem; the name and office of an Apostle; various readings in ii. 5; the later visit of St. Paul to Jerusalem; Patristic accounts of the collision at Antioch; the interpretation of Deut. xxi. 23; the words denoting "Faith"; the faith of Abraham; St. Paul's infirmity in the flesh; the various readings in iv. 25; the meaning of Hagar in iv. 25; Philo's Allegory of Hagar and Sarah; the various readings in v. 1. Patristic Commentaries on this Epistle. Index. THE SCRIPTURE DOCTRINE OF THE PERSON OF CHRIST. Freely translated from the German of W. F. Gess., with many Additions, by J. A. Reubelt, D.D., Professor in Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. 12mo. pp. 656. Andover: Warren F. Draper. Price, $2.00. The important Christological work of Professor Gess, unlike anything on that subject now accessible to English readers has been translated by Professor Reubelt, and is now just published, at Andover. The work is written from a strictly Biblical stand-point, and every position reached in it that may be found, on a fuller examination, to be contrary to the teachings of the New Testament is recalled beforehand. At the same time no difficulty is avoided. "What think ye of Christ?" is virtually the theme discussed in the book. While it is neither controversial nor apologetic, it attacks the positions of negative criticism with effect, compelling the adversaries to leave them, and to seek new and more tenable ones. CLASSICAL STUDY: Its Usefulness illustrated by Selections from the Writings of Eminent Scholars. Edited, with an Introduction, by SAMUEL H. TAYLOR, LL.D., Principal of Phillips Academy. 12mo. pp. 415. Cloth extra, Price, $2.00. Professor J. R. Boise, of the University of Chicago, thus writes in the March number of the Illinois Teacher: "The selection of essays made by Dr. Taylor is eminently judicious, and presents the views of many leading writers, both in Europe and in this country. The Introduction, containing about thirty pages, gives, first, a concise and clear sketch of the history of the controversy on the value of classical studies; and then, several reasons why the highest benefits of classical study are seldom reached in this country. On this latter point, we know of no one better qualified by education and long experience as a teacher to speak wisely. This collection of essays reminds us of one feature in the whole controversy with which we have often been struck: the readiness of classical men to concede an honorable position to scientific studies. There have been few exceptions to this rule; whereas, scientific men have not unfrequently demanded for their favorite pursuits the entire field, to the exclusion of everything else; at least, to the entire exclusion of the ancient languages... To all who desire the best collection of essays in our language on classical study, the work of Dr. Taylor will be very welcome. It should have a conspicuous place in every school-library, and in the private library of every educator in our land." In another connection Prof. Boise adds: "Not the least valuable part of the volume is the Introduction, in which Dr. Taylor so ably, clearly, and fairly balances the arguments on the two sides. The conception of the entire work was a happy thought, and is carried out with that good judgment which I long ago learned to expect from him." Dr. McCosh, President of Princeton College writes: "I value exceedingly your admirable work. The selection seems to me to be judicious, and the general impression left by the perusal is excellent. The work is fitted to do much good. wish it were known in Great Britain, where there is a strong anti-classical reaction." Professor Goodwin, of Harvard University, in a note to the Author, thus expresses his appreciation of the work: "You have done an excellent and a most timely service; and I am sure it will do good in counteracting much of the ignorant and nonsensical talk which we hear about the classics. The most ignorant form in which the opposition to the classics appears is when it uses such essays as those of Farrar's as arguments against our system of classical study in America; as if it could be affected by such arguments, even allowing them to be good over against the English system." Professor George B. Jewett, in a letter to Dr. Taylor, speaks of the work thus: "Most effectually have you, by your own pen and by the writings of others, met and refuted, in this volume the numerous objections to classical study which that groundless prejudice is constantly reiterating; most nobly have you illustrated the value of the pursuit. At first the plan of your work seemed to me to involve much of unavoidable repetition, without securing a corresponding depth of impression. But a careful reading of the book has convinced me of the peculiar excellence of your plan, and, in fact, that it leaves nothing to be regretted, unless, perhaps, that the space occupied by your own pen is so greatly disproportionate to that which you have awarded to others. So far is the book from becoming wearisome by its repetitions, that it is quite kaleidoscopic in the variety and fascination of the views which it presents. It must carry conviction to all who will read it candidly, and who are capable of appreciating its multiform proofs and illustrations. It cannot fail to give a fresh impulse to the cause it so ably advocates. It will serve as a repository of facts and arguments from which inexhaustible supplies may be drawn for the defense and vindication of this sorely abused department of study. For furnishing this storehouse you are entitled to the thanks of all who are striving to promote the interest of sound learning." 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"We are glad that our friend, Dr. Taylor, the learned and eminent Principal of what we conceive to be, on the whole, the best training school in New England, has thought it wise to bring together into a comely volume, a series of more than twenty testimonies and arguments, from some of the ablest thinkers of the age, in favor of the thorough critical and continuous study of the Greek and Roman classics-prefaced by an apt and convincing discussion of his own. Dr. Taylor thus has gathered together some of the ripest thoughts and most valuable suggestions of Mr. Principal Jones, Prof. Thiersch, Hugh S. Legaré, Dr. Whewell, John Stuart Mill, Prof. Noah Porter, Joseph Payne, Prof. B. B. Edwards, Prof. John Conington, Wm Howard Gardiner, Esq., Prof. Pillans, Dr. Geo. B. Loring, Prof. Sellar, Pres. McCosh, Prof. E. D. Sanborn, Prof Masson, Hon. P. H. Sears, Pres. Felton, Pres. Brown, Prof. D'Arcy W. Thompson, Prof. Goldwin Smith, and Prof. L. Campbell. There is a charm in being able to note so readily the different moving of so many minds upon one such subject as this; as well as great significance and force in the verdict in which such a jury agree." - Congregationalist. WARREN F. DRAPER, Publisher, ANDOVER, MASS. HEBREW GRAMMAR. The Elements of the Hebrew Language By Rev. A. D. JONES, A.M. 8vo. pp. 163. Price, $1.75. "The elements of the language are here presented and unfolded in a form so simple and striking, that they cannot fail to be apprehended with a reasonable degree of application. A number of appropriate exercises, selected from different portions of the Old Testament Scriptures, are also given, which furnish ample opportunity for a practical application of the principles previously laid down. The whole is closed with a Clavis to the selections from the Scriptures previously given. The plan of the work is admirable, and happily executed."- Reformed Church Messenger. "The object of the author was to supply a proper elementary book for beginners in the study of Hebrew, and thus prepare the way for the ponderous, complicated, philosophical grammars now in use; and which are more appreciated and useful after the general principles and facts of the language have been mastered. We are much pleased with the manner in which the author has accomplished this work for our younger brethren in the ministry."- Methodist Protestant. "Mr. Jones has rendered good service to the cause of education. He says that it is just as easy for young students at school to acquire an elementary knowledge of Hebrew as of Greek and Latin, and that there is no reason arising from the difficulty or disagreeableness of the language why it should not to the same extent enter into the curriculum of early school study. He has accordingly prepared a work which corresponds in general method with the elementary Greek and Latin text-books in current use. He, of course, avoids the refinements of the subject, but by a simple and progressive series of exercises, and by a perfectly plain exposition of the syntax, the student is enabled to take up Hebrew just as he would the initia Latina, and just as easily." — Publisher's Circular. GUERICKE'S CHURCH HISTORY. Translated by W. G. T. SHEDD, Brown Professor in Andover Theological Seminary. 8vo. pp. $3.00. This volume includes the period of the ANCIENT CHURCH (the first six centuries A.C.), or the Apostolic and Patristic Church. "We regard Professor Shedd's version, now under notice, as a happy specimen of the TRANSFUSION, rather than a TRANSLATION, which many of the German treatises should receive. The style of his version is far superior to that of the original."— Bibliotheca Sacra. GUERICKE'S CHURCH HISTORY. A History of the Mediaval Church. 8vo. pp. 168. Price, $1.50. "This portion of Guericke's Church History continues the account down to A.D. 1073, when Hildebrand ascended the Papal chair as Gregory VII. "It includes the Persian and Mohammedan persecution, the spread of Christianity in England, Germany, and Asia, with Christian missions in Northern Europe and among the Sclaves, and the great schism between East and West, together with the Monothelite controversy, and those about Adoption, about Images, about Predestination, and the Sacraments; with suitable interspersed sketches of church-life and worship. The fact that a thin octavo of less than 170 pages can be made to include so much, will not surprise those who are familiar, through the previous volume, with Guericke's compactness as a historian, while it may encourage the study of those who sink down in despair before a thick book, not to say a shelf full of them."— Congregationalist and Recorder. "It is full of scenes and characters of rare interest to the Christian and the scholar. Guericke stands in the first rank of writers upon the history of the Church; and the translator, whose reputation as an eminent scholar is well known, has entered upon his work with evident zeal, and acquitted himself with eminent success. Many of the most momentous doctrinal controversies belong, more or less, to this period, and the account of them will be read with interest." - Lutheran and Missionary. THE SHADOW OF CHRISTIANITY, or the Genesis of the Christian State. A Treatise for the Times. By PROF. LEONARD MARSH, of Burlington, Vt. 12mo. pp. 167. Price, $1.25. "One of the topics treated is the characteristic distinction between the Pagan and the Christian civilizations...... Another point which the author discusses in an original way is, the method by which the doctrines of Christ gain ground among men. The spiritual nature of these doctrines is very clearly and forcibly brought out. The clergy will do well to heed this Lay Sermon. It is a good concio ad clerum, and will help to brush away a good many crude notions that sometimes get utterance from the pulpit. But not a few readers of the book will be most struck by the chapter in which the author treats of the relations of Capital to Labor; showing how they are founded on the necessary relations of man to nature. ..... Other topics discussed are: The True Form of Church Organization, as required by the Idea of the Church and the nature of the Christian Religion; the Relation of the Fine Arts to Morals, and especially the Influence on Society and Government of Christianity, as compared with mere climatic and other physical conditions; or the moulding power of moral forces as compared with forces chemical and mechanical."— Burlington Daily Times. "The Shadow of Christianity" is the title of a very able treatise, by an unknown author, recently published. We can heartily commend the book. Is is large and comprehensive in thought, clear in argument and style. 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