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P. F. Keerl. The first volume, which has appeared, treats of the history of the Creation and the doctrine of the Paradise: the second will discuss the relation of Christ and of the angels to man, and will derive therefrom the details of the doctrine of the image of God in man. It was a chief design of the author, in undertaking this work, to show that all the reliable results of astronomy, geology, and paleontology are in a most remarkable and surprising harmony with the record of primitive history as narrated by the Bible.

4. Other branches of Theology.

A most valuable addition to the Protestant periodical press of Germany will be made in January, 1861, by the establishment of a Journal of Ecclesiastical Law. It will be edited by Dr. Dove, Privatdocent of the University of Berlin, and will count among its contributors many of the most learned and distinguished jurists and professors of law in Germany, as Professor Richter in Berlin, Professor Jacobson in Konigsberg, Professors Herman and Zachariä in Gottingen, Professor Wasserschleben in Giessen, and many others. The new journal will be the only German organ for the discussion of questions of ecclesiastical law; and the celebrity and high position of many of its contributors secures to it

from the start a weighty influence on the ecclesiastical condition of the country. It is therefore very gratifying to know that it will represent and serve the interests of the evangelical party.

One of the ablest works compiled during the present century by Roman Catholic theologians, the "Ecclesiastical Dictionary; or, Cyclopedia of Catholic Theology," (Kirchenlexicon, Freiburg, Dr. Welte, has been recently brought to 1848, sq.,) edited by Dr. Wetzer and a close by the completion of a very copious and valuable general index. The information on Protestant matters is, as usual in works of this class, frequently unreliable and untrue; its articles on Catholic doctrines and history betray throughout the blind partiality of their authors, and, on the whole, it is by far inferior to the excellent Protestant cyclopedia of Dr. Herzog. But, nevertheless, it contains a large number of most valuable articles of permanent value, on account of which it well deserves a place in all larger theological libraries. consists of eleven volumes and one supplement, besides the general index, which gives an alphabetical list of all the proper names occurring in the work. A French translation has been for several years in the course of publication, and likewise approaches its completion.

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ART. X. SYNOPSIS OF THE QUARTERLIES, AND OTHERS OF THE HIGHER PERIODICALS.

American Quarterly Reviews.

PRESBYTERIAN QUARTERLY REVIEW, October, 1860.-1. The Arabs. 2. Russia-Second Article. 3. Schleiermacher. 4. Duties of our Laymen. 5. The New Rule of the American Home Missionary Society. 6. The Fathers of the Harrisburgh Presbytery: I. Rev. Robert Kennedy. II. Rev. Robert Cathcart, D. D.

AMERICAN THEOLOGICAL REVIEW, November, 1860.-1. The Laws of Civilization. 2. Objective Preaching. 3. Unity and Common Origin of the Human Race. 4. State of the Jewish Mind relative to the Scriptures. 5. The Rosetta Stone. 6. The British Government and the Slave-trade. 7. Origin of American Foreign Missions.

FOURTH SERIES, VOL. XIII.-10

FREEWILL BAPTIST QUARTERLY, October, 1860.-1. Moral Character-Its Origin and Difference. 2. The Position of the Methodist Episcopal Church on the Subject of American Slavery. 3. An Effective Ministry. 4. Christian Missions and Civilization. 5. Esthetical Culture. 6. Regeneration. 7. The Book of Job. UNIVERSALIST QUARTERLY AND GENERAL REVIEW, October, 1860.— 23. Legends of King Arthur. 24. The True Method of Evangelism-Itinerancy. 25. The Religion of Zoroaster. 26. The Test of Legitimate Amusements. 27. The Doctrine of the Personality of the Devil historically considered.

CHRISTIAN REVIEW, October, 1860.-1. Are our Necessary Conceptions of God reliable? 2. Notes on the Mystics. 3. On Preaching the Doctrine of Eternal Punishment. 4. Godwin's History of France. 5. Art Education. 6. Missionary Attempts of the Jesuits in Japan. 7. Rational Cosmology.

THEOLOGICAL AND LITERARY JOURNAL, October, 1860.-1. Rawlinson's Bampton Lectures on the Truth of the Scripture Records. 2. Dr. J. A. Alexander on Matthew xxiv. 3. Memorial of Rev. John Richards, D. D. 4. The Fiji Mission. 5. The Revelation, Daniel ii, respecting the Four Great Empires. 6. Designation and Exposition of the Figures in Isaiah, Chapters lviii, lix, and lx.

NEW ENGLANDER, November, 1860.-1. The Divine Humanity of Christ. 2. Frederic Perthes. 3. Agriculture as a Profession; or, Hints about Farming. 4. Modern Warfare: Its Science and Art. 5. Dr. Alexander's Letters. 6. Primitive Evangelization and its Lessons. 7. The General Assembly and Co-operation. 8. The Home Heathen, and How to reach them. 9. Palfrey's History of New England.

AMERICAN QUARTERLY CHURCH REVIEW AND ECCLESIASTICAL
REGISTER, October, 1860.-1. The Present State and Prospects
of Christianity-No. III, Concluded. 2. Green's Biographical
Studies. 3. Church Missionary Position of 1835 and Volun-
taryism. 4. Two Letters to the Bishop of Arras. 5. Dr. Hun-
tington's Sermons and the Trinity. 6. Dr. Craik's Discourse on
the Union. 7. The Free Church System. American Ecclesias-
tical History: Early Journals of General Conventions.

EVANGELICAL REVIEW, October, 1860.-1. Christian Liberty.
2. Testimony of Jesus as to his Possession and Exercise of
Miraculous Power. 3. A Call to the Christian Ministry. 4. The
Pleasures of Taste. 5. Baccalaureate Address. 6. Baptismal
Hymns. 7. The New Heavens and the New Earth.
ing Address before a Christian Association. 9. The Evangelical
Mass and Romish Mass.

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NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, October, 1860.-1. Homer and his Heroines. 2. Climatology. 3. Life and Labors of Thomas Prince. 4. Edmund Waller. 5. Lord Shaftesbury. 6. Second Volume of Palfrey's History of New England. 7. Quarantine and Hygiene. 8. Rush's Occasional Productions. 9. The English Language in America. 10. The Origin of Species. 11. An "Inglorious Milton.”

SOUTHERN PRESBYTERIAN REVIEW, October, 1860.-1. The Protestant Church of France and the Pastors of the Desert. 2. The Resurrection-Body. 3. The Letters of Alexander von Humboldt. 4. Unity and Infallibility of the Church of Rome. 5. The Geological Writings of David N. Lord. 6. The Princeton Review on Theories of the Eldership.

MERCERSBURG REVIEW, October, 1860.-1. The Fall and the Natural World. 2. Strength and Beauty of the Sanctuary. 3. Memoir of Dr. J. W. Alexander. 4. Unlettered Learning; or, a Plea for the Study of Things. 5. The Literature of the Heidelberg Catechism. 6. The Prospects of Christianity in Africa.

PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL QUARTERLY REVIEW AND CHURCH REGISTER, October, 1860.-1. Savonarola, the Prophet of the Reformation in Italy. 2. Popular Geology-Hugh Miller's Geological Works. 3. Science a Witness for the Bible. 4. The Origin and Characteristics of the English Language. 5. Baptismal Regeneration.

QUARTERLY REVIEW OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, SOUTH, October, 1860.-1. Milton and his Recent Critics. 2. Introduction of Children into the Church. 3. Wordsworth. 4. Dr. Alexander's Theory of Moral Agency. 5. The Greek Tragic Drama. 6. Southern Standard of Education. 7. Job's WarHorse.

BIBLIOTHECA SACRA AND BIBLICAL REPOSITORY, October, 1860.— 1. The Religion of Geology. 2. The Aborigines of India. 3. The Resurrection and its Concomitants. 4. Did the Ancient Hebrews believe in the Doctrine of Immortality? 5. Comparative Phonology; or, The Phonetic System of the Indo-European Languages. 6. A Journey to Neapolis and Philippi.

The article on "The Religion of Geology" unfolds, from Professor Hitchcock's last work, some excellent views. But the professor's latest reconciliation of Moses and geology, so far as it is made clear in this article, will obtain few adherents. The professor tells us that he has long felt the impression that Moses truly meant a natural day by that term in his record. Hence, he accepts this as

the meaning. But he modifies the record by two suppositions: 1. To this natural day is affixed in each instance a stupendous symbolic period of which the natural day is the commencement. 2. The days are not truly chronological in their order, but are simply diurnal pictures of creative facts given by Moses in an ideal succession. Such is the theory. But does the professor, or any one else, feel that such was the real meaning of Moses?

We can easily imagine, however, that Moses did not truly know the entire meaning of his own record. We can easily believe, with Professor Whewell, that a narrative written for man in both his unscientific and his scientific age, might be so constructed as to possess apparent and real truth for both ages.

BIBLICAL REPERTORY AND PRINCETON REVIEW, October, 1860.— 1. The Logical Relations of Religion and Natural Science. 2. The Law of Spiritual Growth. 3. Horace Binney's Pamphlets. 4. Reason and Faith. 5. Napoleon III. and the Papacy. 6. Theory of the Eldership.

For the past year or so the pages of the Repertory have presented a very able series of metaphysical articles, dealing with the present aspects of philosophic thought. They are marked by a terseness of style, a clearness of thought, a vigor of analysis, and, according to our standard, a soundness of doctrine very welcome at the present time; and we could wish that they might be furnished in another form for a wider audience than the constituency of the Princeton Quarterly. Among these articles are Sir William Hamilton's "Theory of Perception," Sir William Hamilton's "Philosophy of the Conditioned," and, in the present number, "Reason and Faith."

In this article we have a very accurate estimate of Dr. M'Cosh, and of his late work on the "Intuitions," with a very sharp sifting of the application by Mansel of the Hamiltonian philosophy to the purposes of doctrinal and practical theology. Dr. M'Cosh

is not described as a great or a brilliant, but as a healthful, discriminating, and truthful mind. He develops, not always in the most concise style, but with great clearness, a philosophy accordant with the "universal common-sense of mankind." In the latter part of the article the reviewer detects the lurking errors and the fearful results of the philosophy that would reveal God to us by the light of a blaze of contradictions, and give us a religion made of mere "regulative "-perhaps-falsehoods.

English Reviews.

NATIONAL REVIEW, October, 1860.-1. The Franks and the Gauls. 2. The English Translators of Homer. 3. Builders' Combinations in London and Paris. 4. Russian Literature: Michael Lermontoff. 5. The Middle Ages in England. 6. The Natural History of Ceylon. 7. French Fiction: The Lowest Deep. 8. Baron Ricasoli and his Political Career. 9. Nathaniel Hawthorne. 10. Nature and God.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN EVANGELICAL REVIEW, October, 1860.— 1. Baird's First and Second Adam. 2. Dr. Edward Beecher's Conflict and Concord. 3. Sir W. Hamilton's Theory of Perception. 4. Are the Phenomena of Spiritualism Supernatural? 5. New England Theology. 6. Zwingle and the Doctrine of the Sacraments. 7. Tholuck on the Gospel of St. John. WESTMINSTER REVIEW, October, 1860.-1. Neo-Christianity. 2. The North American Indians. 3. Robert Owen. 4. The Organization of Italy. 5. The Antiquity of the Human Race. 6. Russia-Present and Future. 7. Our National Defenses. 8. W. M. Thackeray as Novelist and Photographer.

QUARTERLY REVIEW, October, 1860.-1. The Brazilian Empire. 2. Deaconesses. 3. Public School Education. 4. Wills and Will-making, Ancient and Modern. 5. Eliot's Novels. 6. Arrest of the Five Members by Charles the First. 7. Iron-Sides and Wooden Walls. 8. Competitive Examinations.

NORTH BRITISH REVIEW, November, 1860.-1. Modern Thought -Its Progress and Consummation. 2. The Disturbances in Syria. 3. Leigh Hunt. 4. The Spanish Republics of South America. 5. The Province of Logic and Recent British Logicians. 6. Lord Macaulay's Place in English Literature. 7. American Humor. 8. Revivals. 9. The Martyrdom of Galileo. 10. The Sicilian Game.

EDINBURGH REVIEW, October, 1860.-1. Recent Geographical Researches. 2. Memoirs of the Master of Sinclair. 3. Max Müller's Ancient Sanskrit Literature. 4. Grotius and the Sources of International Law. 5. The Churches of the Holy Land. 6. The Grand Remonstrance. 7. Scottish County Histories. 8. Brain Difficulties. 9. The United States under Mr. Buchanan.

CHRISTIAN REMEMBRANCER, October, 1860.-1. Oxford British Association Discussions, as related to Spiritual Questions. 2. Bishop Hurd. 3. Oxford-Its Constitutional and Educational Changes. 4. Essays and Reviews. 5. The Kalendars of the Church. 6. Theory of the Mosaic System. 7. Revivalism and Thaumaturgic Psychology.

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