preached by Dr. Hopkins at that meeting. It then gives a general view of the Board, in successive chapters. These chapters may properly bear the following titles: The Origin of the Board; Reminiscences in regard to its early History; Its Charter, and the action of the Massachusetts Legislature in regard to it; The Constitution and Membership of the Board; The Relation of the Board to Ecclesiastical Bodies: Its Meetings; Its Prudential Committee, Its Places of Business; Its Correspondence - Library -Cabinet; The Finances of the Board; Its Agencies; Its Relations to Governments; Its Deceased Secretaries; The Founders of the Board.
This Series of Chapters is followed by another on the Missions of the Board. The second Series is divided into chapters on the following themes; The Constitution and Origin of the Missions; The Development of the Missions - Their Laws of Growth,- Their Completion; The Missionaries; The Churches; Schools; Preaching and the Press; Deputations; Literature of the Board and of its Missions; The Field and the Work at the Close of the past half-century.
These Chapters are followed by an Appendix and an Index. The entire volume forms an important contribution to our missionary literature, and is adapted to enkindle a new zeal in the missionary enterprise. It defends sometimes directly, sometimes indirectly, the principles which have controlled the action of the American Board. The policy of the Board will be more clearly understood now, than it has been heretofore.
HISTORY OF LATIN CHRISTIANITY: including that of the Popes to the Pontificate of Nicholas V. By Henry Hart Milman, D. D., Dean of St. Paul's. In eight volumes, 12mo. New York: Sheldon and Company. Boston: Gould and Lincoln. 1860-61.
THE publishers of this work merit the gratitude of every scholar for their enterprise in pressing it forward to its completion, amid the turmoil which prevails throughout the land. They have not been intimidated by the shock of arms; but have now presented to us eight volumes, beautifully printed, of a work which delights and instructs us in the time of war as well as the time of peace. Dr. Milman has many admirable qualifications as an historian; and his present contribution to our historical literature is the most valuable which has yet been made by him. We bespeak an extensive sale for these attractive volumes.
METHOD OF CLASSICAL STUDY: Illustrated by Questions on a few Selections from Latin and Greek Authors. By Samuel H. Taylor, LL. D., Principal of Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. Boston: Brown and Taggard, 25 and 29 Cornhill. pp. 154. 12mo.
THIS Manual presents a few extracts from the classical authors, and appends to each extract a rich variety of questions pertaining to the struc
ture of the words, their relations to each other, their signification, history, etc. The questions are so pertinent and exact, that they will, almost by necessity, arouse and sharpen the intellect of the pupil. They are admirably fitted to awaken his enthusiasm in classical study, and to discipline his mind for all study. A thorough mastery of the analyses in this manual will impart a more healthful tone to the scholarship of a young student, than he can derive from the cursory perusal of a Latin or Greek folio.
Index to the Catalogue of Books in the Upper Hall of the Public Library of the City of Boston. Boston: Press of Geo. C. Rand and Avery, Printers to the City 1861. pp. 902. Royal octavo.
This is a magnificent Index, prepared with singular skill, and published with rare accuracy. It is an admirable model for the Catalogues of Public Libraries, whether in our cities or in our universities. We hope that it will be generally imitated. It has been published under the superintendence of Prof. C. C. Jewett.
Among the volumes of which brief notices have been prepared during the last twelvemonth, but are now necessarily excluded from our pages, we may name the following:
Lectures on Natural History; its relations to Intellect, Taste, Wealth, and Religion. By P. A. Chadbourne, Professor of Natural History in Williams College, and Professor of Natural History and Chemistry in Bowdoin College. New York: A. S. Barnes & Burr, 51 & 53 John St. 1860. 12mo. pp. 160.
Principia Latina; an Introduction to the Latin Language. By Charles D'Urban Morris, M. A., Rector of Trinity School, New York; formerly Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. New York: published by Mason Brothers, 5 and 7 Mercer Street. 1860. 12mo. pp. 295.
A Church History of the First Three Centuries, from the Thirtieth to the Three Hundred and Twenty-third Year of the Christian Era. By Milo Mahan, D.D., S. Mark's in the Bowery, Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the General Theological Seminary of New York. New York: published by Daniel Dana, Jr., 381 Broadway. 1860. 12mo. pp. 428. The Organon of Scripture; or the Inductive Method of Biblical Interpretation. By J. S. Lamar. "The Logic of Science is the Universal Logic, applicable to all Inquiries in which man can engage." - Mill. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. 1860. 12mo. pp. 324. Philosophia Ultima. Charles Woodruff Shields. Philadelphia: J. B.
Lippincott & Co. 1861. 8vo. pp. 96.
Abbot, Ezra, article by, 840.
Abelard and Heloise, a Historical Es-
say, noticed, 216.
Aesthetics, the Idea of the Beautiful
and its Realization in Nuture, Mind,
and Art, noticed, 227.
Anderson's, Dr. Isaac, Memoir, no-
ticed. 244.
Bartlett, Rev. S. C., article by, 724.
Benefits of Christ's Death, The,
noticed, 460.
Brewer, Rev. Fisk P., letter from, 442.
Bronson's Sermons, noticed, 891.
Capito and Bucer's Biography, no-
ticed, 206.
Christian Law of Self-sacrifice, The,
article on, by Rev. Samuel Harris,
D. D., 143; allusion to a German
legend concerning Charlemagne,
143; the ground of the Christian
law of self-sacrifice, 144; it is in-
volved in the supreme and univer-
sal moral law, 144; love as possess-
ing two phases, the receptive and
the imparting, 146; the second
ground of this law, the fact that sin
is essentially egoism or self-ism,
148; the third ground, the fact that
redemption is sacrificial 149; it is
sacrificial as a fact, 149; as a doc-
trine, 151; as a life, 152; this is
true of faith, 152; of works, 154;
this law necessarily evolved from
the essential character of Chris-
tianity, 155; the fourth ground of
the law of self-sacrifice, the con-
stitution of the created universe,
157; the principle or spring of
Christian self-sacrifice, 158; a
man's affections determine the
sources of his happiness, 158;
self-denial transformed into self-in-
dulgence, 161: difference between
asceticism and Christian self-renun-
ciation, 164; practical importance
of the law of self-sacrifice, 165;
the Christian scheme of self-sac-
rifice contrasted with the infidel
scheme of self-sufficiency, 167; as
to faith, 167; as to works, 169; as
to their efficacy in developing the
powers of thought, action, and en-
joyment, 172; contrast of the two
types of civilization and progress
produced by the two, 173; in the
sphere of intellect, 173; in the
sphere of social life, 174; in the
sphere of political life, 175.
Clelland, George M., article by, 410.
Codex Alexandrinus, noticed, 458.
Comprehensive Dictionary of the En-
glish Language, noticed, 246.
Cross in Nature and Nature in the
Cross, The, article on, by Rev.
Edward Hitchcock, LL.D., 253;
the statement of a cross in nature,
not mere poetry, 253; the doctrine
of salvation by the cross, as to its
facts, a matter of pure revelation,
253; the original constitution and
history of the world show it to
have been intended as a theatre
for the work of redemption, 254;
explanatory suggestions, 254; sup-
port of the doctrine from science
and history independent of reve-
lation, 255; the history of the
world, divided into two periods, |
255; the post-Adamic period, 255;
the world, not in a state of retribu-
tion, 256; nor adapted to a per-
fectly holy being, 256; the affirma-
tive arguments; the world adapted
to a fallen being, 258; punishment
follows the violation of law, 258;
still there are indications of mercy,
259; the world, exactly the place
for an exhibition of the work of
redemption, 261; the meaning of
the word redemption, 261; objec-
tion to the doctrine that the world
is in a fallen condition, from the
wisdom and perfection of nature's
laws, 262; from the beneficial
nature of evils, 263; from the fact
that many evils could not be pre-
vented, 264; from the sameness of
these general laws throughout the
universe, 265; from the fact that
at the creation God pronounced
the whole to be good, 265; the
pre-Adamic state of the world,
266; physical evil existed before
the creation of man, 267; physi-
ology, a proof of this, 267; the
proof from geology, 269; the proof
from revelation, 270; proof from
the Bible that the world was cre-
ated to be a theatre for the work
of redemption, 273; Colossians i.
16, from the Ephesians, 273; the
Romans viii., 274; all natural
evils, connected with man's apos-
tasy, 277; all things, so ordered by
God at the creation as to make the
world a theatre for the work of
redemption, 278; the world, cre-
ated for an exhibition of divine
glory in the work of redemption,
279; a complete history of the
work of redemption includes the
pre-Adamite period, 280; suffer-
ing illustrates, rather than dispar-
ages, divine benevolence, 281; the
duty of persuading men to share
in the work of redemption, 282;
the glory of the completion of the
work of redemption, 283.
Dimmick's Commemorative Discourse,
noticed, 247.
Ebrard's Commentary on St. John's
Epistles, noticed, 459.
Editorial Correspondence, 442.
Edwards, Jonathan, article on, 809.
Ellicott's Commentary on Galatians,
noticed, 249.
Emerson, Rev. Ralph, article by, 178.
Emmons' Dr., Works and Memoir,
noticed, 891.
Encyclopedia of the Philological Study
of the Modern Languages, noticed,
Epistola ad Rusticum Apologetica,
article by Rev. Leonard Withing-
ton, D. Ď., 324; answer to the
question: Why am I a Christian ?
324; the gospel, its own best wit-
ness, 325; answer to the question:
Why am I a Calvinist? 326; the
writer's ordination creed, 326; the
system of Paul, not distinguishable
from that of Calvin, 328: Calvin-
ism has done most good in the
world, 329; to be a Calvinist
marks a more ample sweep of
mind, 330; the strongest objec-
tions to Calvinism, comfirmatory
of Calvinism, 330; the question:
Why am I a moderate Calvinist ?
332; not impossible to be a mod-
erate Calvinist, 332; the question:
What is moderate Calvinism? 333;
moderate Calvinsm on the doctrine
of original sin, 335; judgment of
Calvinism, on the verge of the
grave, 336.
Exposition of Zechariah XIV, article
by Prof. John J. Owen, 358; diff-
erence of opinion as to the mean-
ing of the passage, 358; a literal
interpretation, common, 358; and
has been regarded as proof of
Christ's personal reign at Jerusa-
lem, 359; insuperable difficulties
in the way of this interpretation,
361; Dr. Henderson's method of
obviating these difficulties, 361;
impossibility of gathering all the
families of the earth to Jerusalem,
362; the literal interpretation con-
trary to the analogy of faith, 363;
Christ's final coming, his sole com-
ing, 364; interpretation of Rev.
xx. 4, 366; the proper interpre-
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for the effort to prove Jesus a son
of David through Mary, 434:
Jesus, only in a legal sense, the
seed of David according to the
flesh, 436; all Mary's rights in re-
gard to her family, represented in
Joseph her husband, 437; obscu-
rity of the origin of Mary, 439;
may have been of the house of
Judah and of David, 441.
German Treatises on Moral Philoso-
ophy, published during the last
twenty years, noticed, 873.
God's Ownership of the Sea, article
on, by Rev. Leonard Swain,
D. D., 636; the sea, improperly
regarded as a useless waste, 637;
equally indispensable with air to
all vegetable and animal life, 638;
the sea moderates the temperature
of the world, 640; a perpetual
source of health to the world, 643;
it furnishes the great natural path-
ways of the world, 645; an inex-
haustible storehouse of power for
the world, 648; a vast storehouse
of life, 650; the geological use of
the sea, 652; it suggests the being
and brings near to us the sense of
the presence and power of God,
653 man has little or no power
over the sea, 654; the loneliness
of the sea, 656.
H.
Hagenbach's History of Doctrines,
noticed, 890.
Genealogy of Christ, The, article on,
by George M. Clelland, 410; was
Mary descended from David ?
410; the scriptures alone give
light on this question, 411; the
scriptures give little information
beyond what relates to their own
ends, 411; Christ's genealogy as
connecting him with David, 417;
Joseph, a known descendant of
David, 417; Mary, the affianced
spouse of Joseph, 411; command
to Joseph to take Mary to his
house, 417; the levirate marriage,
419; Jesus, known to the Jews as
the son of Joseph and Mary, and
as the son of David, 421; the pre-
ternatural characters of our Lord,
not preached to the Jews, 421;
separate notices of the genealogies
in Matthew and in Luke, 423;
that of Matthew, 424; that of
Luke, 425; the two genealogies
of Christ through Joseph, 426;
views of the early church, 427;
the idea that the genealogy in
Luke is that of Joseph, 429; ob-
jections to this scheme, 430; the
genealogy in Luke is through Ma-
ry, the Lord's mother, 432; the
words, "as was supposed," 432;
no evidence that Mary was the
daughter of Heli, 433; words of
the angel to Moses in Luke i. 30-
34, 433; our Lord as the promised
seed of David, according to the Jonathan Edwards, his Character,
flesh, Acts ii. 30, 433; occasion
Hamilton, Sir W., article on, 94.
Harris, Rev. Samuel, article by, 143.
Haven, Prof. Joseph, article by, 94.
Hengstenberg's Commentary on Ec-
clesiastes, noticed, 457.
Hints on the Formation of Religious
Opinions, noticed, 246.
History of Latin Christianity, noticed,
246, 893.
Hitchcock, Rev. Edward, article by,
Index to the Catalogue of the City
Library of Boston, noticed 894.
Teaching, and Influence, article
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