No. 762.-1 January, 1859.-Third Series, No. 40. CONTENTS. PLATE: DR. JAMES T. BARCLAY, author of the "City of the Great King." 1. Dr. Barclay's Subterranean Jerusalem,. 2. The Half-Brothers, 3. Memoirs of Marie Antoinette,. 4. George Sand on Prince Talleyrand, 5. Hector Garret of Otter, . 6. Annals of the Presbyterian Pulpit, 7. A Subterranean Adventure, 8. Moses and Achilles, 9. Russia, Christian Observer, Dublin University Magazine, Dublin University Magazine, Spectator, PA73 3 12 24 38 42 53 55 59 62 POETRY.-Beyond, 23. Summer Gone, 23. The Seaman's House, 64. The Shadow of Death, 64. A Home Fancy, 64. Andacht, 61. Emer SHORT ARTICLES.-Parisian Journals, 11. The Edge of the Dark, 22. The Devil's Tea Kettle, 22. Meat, 41. Grote, 52. Dickens, 52. Thackeray, 54. son, 63. Alexander Smith, 63. Number of Words Used, 63. BOOKS RECEIVED. THORNDALE; or, the Conflict of Opinions. 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From The Christian Observer for November. SUBTERRANEAN JERUSALEM.* Protestant countrymen, upon the spot. They, too, have their "sides " upon these questions; STEAMERS, well-furnished hotels, and now a and their opposed views in the place itself, in Murray's "Hand Book for Syria," are yearly sight of Zion and Olivet, and of the Temple crowding Jerusalem with English and Ameri- walls, have often sorely embarrassed our can travellers, whereof some go there appar- thoughtful pilgrims in their "marking" and ently for no other reason than because fashion" consideration." More or less, this has alhas lately placed the ancient city within the limits of the "Grand Tour." Very few days are enough to satisfy their languid curiosity; and with no questions, historical or prophetic, statistical or topographical, are they disquieted while they remain. Among them, however, there is also an increasing number of those who are going, in true pilgrim spirit and intention, to Zion, that they may "mark well her bulwarks," and "consider her palaces,"—with whom this is far from being the case. In the measure of the knowledge which they take with them, and of their diligence while they are there, they indeed find much of what they went for. They see words translated into facts: substantial realities take the place in their memory of narrative and of description; and Divine admonitions have been spoken to them afresh, with an emphasis that has fallen with strange and even awful power on their hearts. They think, and they will think always, of their visit to Jerusalem as one of the greatest blessings of their lives. And yet they must acknowledge that even this is not an exception to the law of privilege, and that it bas come to them with many attendant drawbacks and disparagements. Some of these may be imagined from what has lately been obtruded so painfully upon the public notice. But there are others that cannot be escaped, even by those who, occupied with the past and with the future, have no leisure for intermeddling with the humiliating strifes which cast a deeper gloom over the present condition of the city.. And amongst them the travellers we speak of will at once range on the negative side of their pilgrimage account, their perplexity in consequence of the topographical controversies of the place. No two of the authorities who have undertaken to identify "sites," are found to be agreed. This they had learned, indeed, from their " Biblical Researches" at home; and still the knowledge had not prepared them for so much disagreement amongst the Europeans, even their Barclay's City of the Great King." Trübner, Paternoster Row. [Originally published by James Chailen & Son, Philadelphia, and Stanford & Delisser, New York.] ways been the case; but of late years such controversies have been carried forward with unusually heated zeal, in the midst of which, however, at least in the later of these late years, there has at length arisen a prospect of extrication out of the strange bewilderment. For it has been remarked, that these resident partisans have recently, one after the other, been wont to end their impatient protests against "current misconceptions," by the assurance that-" when Dr. Barclay's book appears, the contest will be at an end: his demonstrations will, self-evidently, approve themselves to be the true statement of the case. Such were his advantages, and such the pains he took, that his restoration' of Jerusalem will be accepted, by all future historians and commentators, as being the very city, fully and accurately placed in view, such as it was seen when the events of sacred history were transacted in the midst of and around it." Our informants, moreover, have assured us that he made extensive investigations, such as no other man has ever had an opportunity of making, in the lower subterranean regions of the city, far beneath the ground level that meets the eye. "He will show you not only the Jerusalem which stood on those broad and sloping, and again on those hollow, undulating, surfaces there before you ;-but he will make known, besides, large tracts of that which lay beneath. Caves and vaults and galleries that are there now, just as they were in Bible times, he will set forth in accurately measured survey, and in pictured illustration. Wait, then, and in a few years, you will have these topographical perplexities settled for all time; and you will also have unfolded to you portions of the nether city, just as it was two thousand years ago, of which at present ycu have no conception, seeing that in consequence of Dr. Barclay's good fortune, and enterprise, and unusual accomplishments, it has been fully unveiled to him first and alone among the explorers of Jerusalem, at least in modern times." Such predictions we heard repeatedly on different occasions, in the spring of last year, |