apostolic age, in Sabellius or Socinus, Arius or Arminius, whose substantive doctrine, so far as not derived from Scripture, was original, and because original, erroneous. A desire to be the originator of essentially new Christian doctrines has ever been a leading cause of corruption in theology. It is the great practical error, the original sin by which the race fell. Hence the propagators of such original theology must be reputed as in regular succession from that distinguished preacher whose first converts were made in Eden."

II.-English Reviews.

I. THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW, April, 1860.-1. Vedic Religion; 2. Manin, and Venice in 1848-9; 3. The Ethics of War; 4. Plutarch and his Times. 5. Austria and the Government of Hungary; 6. Parliamentary Reform: the Dangers and the Safeguards; 7. Japan; 8. Darwin on the Origin of Species.

II. THE LONDON REVIEW, (WESLEYAN,) April, 1860.-1. Lord Macaulay; 2. Whitby; 3. Ancient Syriac Gospels; 4. Eastern Problems; 5. Frederich Schiller; 6. Morocco; 7. Books and their Bindings; 8. Socrates; 9. Arctic Explorations.

III. THE BRITISH QUARTERLY REVIEW, April, 1860.-1. Lord Macaulay; 2. M'Leod's Eastern Africa; 3. Christian Revivals; 4. Belgium and China; 5. Darwin on the Origin of Species; 6. Lord Dundonald; 7. Brown's Sermons; 8. China and Japan; 9. Italian Nationality.

IV. THE NATIONAL REVIEW, April, 1860.-1. Plutarch's Lives: Clough; 2. The Testimony of Geology to the Age of the Human Race; 3. The Budget and the Treaty in their relation to Political Morality; 4. St. Thomas of Canterbury and his Biographers; 5. Madam Récamier; 6. The Acts of the Apostles; how far Historical? 7. The Reform Bill: its real Bearing and Ultimate Results; 8. Christianity in Japan; 9. Papal Rome; 10. Cerebral Psychology: Bain; 11. Mr. Bright, painted by Himself. V. THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN EVANGELICAL REVIEW, April, 1860.1. Recent Syriac Literature; 2. A Nation's Right to Worship God; 3. Dr. Tyler and his Theology; 4. On the Power of Contrary Choice; 5. The Minister's Wooing; 6. What is Christianity? 7. The Text of Jeremiah; 8. Natural Science and Theology; 9. Principal Tulloch's Leaders of the Reformation.

VI. THE CHRISTIAN REMEMBRANCER, April, 1860.-2. Lord Bacon and the Inductive Philosophy; 2. Neale's Commentary on the Psalms; 3. Mr. Mansel and Mr. Maurice; 4. Daniel Wilson; 5. Irish Revivalism in Relation to the Church of England; 6. On the Remains of Old Babylonian Literature; 7. The Bishop of Oxford's Ordination Addresses; 8. The Trial of the Bishop of Brechin; 9. Liturgical Quotations in the Pauline Epistles. VII. THE JOURNAL OF SACRED LITERATURE AND BIBLICAL RECORD, April, 1860.-1. Sinai, Kadesh, and Mount Hor; or, a Critical Inquiry into the Route of the Exodus; 2. Nimrod and his Dynasty; 3. George Buchanan; 4. The Sisters of Galilee and Bethany; 5. Pauline Authorship of the Hebrews; 6. Remarks on the Book of Esther; 7. Analysis of the Em blems of St. John, Rev. xiii.

VIII. THE NORTH British RevIEW, May, 1860.-1. Redding's Reminis cences-Thomas Campbell: 2. Quakerism-Past and Present: 3. Sir Henry Lawrence: 4. Australian Ethnology: 5. Heine's Poems: 6. Church and State-The Spiritual and the Civil Courts: 7. Origin of Species: 8. The British Lighthouse system: 9. State of Europe.

IX. THE EDINBurgh Review, OR CRITICAL JOURNAL, April, 1860.— 1. Commercial Relations of England and France: 2. Youth of Milton: 3. Expense of Public Education in England: 4. English Local Nomenclature: 5. Civil Correspondence of the Duke of Wellington: 6. De Broglie's Church and Roman Empire. 7. The Alleged Shakspeare Forgeries: 8. Darwin on the Origin of Species: 9. France, Savoy, and Switzerland. X. THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, April, 1860.-1. William Beckford: 2. Money and Credit: 3. Anne Whitney's Poems: 4. The Letters and Times of Basil of Cæsarea: 5. Nichol's Hours with the Evangelists: 6. The Law of Divorce: 7. United States Coast Survey: 8. The Life of John Collins Warren: 9. Darwin on the Origin of Species: 10. Recent French Literature: 11. Isaac Disraeli: 12. Woman's Rights as to Labor and Property.

III.-French Reviews.

I. REVUE DES DEUX MONDES, February 15, 1860.--1. Les Commentaires d'un Soldat-III.-Les Derniers Jours de la Guerre de Crimée; 2. Le Roman de Femme en Angleterre.-Miss Mulock; 3. Les Terres Noires de la Russie, Souvenirs et Scènes de la Vie Rurale et Serve en Ukraine; 4. Rivalité de Charles-Quint et de Francois I.-Le Connétable de Bourbon.-I.-Sa Conjuration avec Charles-Quint et Henri VIII. Contre la France; 5. Etudes Morales-Le Travail et le Salaire des FemmesLes Femmes dans la Fabrique Lyonnaise; 6. Le Programme de la Paix; 7. Episode d'un Voyage d'Agrément, Récit de la Vie Anglo-Hindoue. March 15, 1860.-1. La Jeunesse de Mazarin; 2. L'Homme au Bracelet D'or; 3. La Cavalerie Régulière en Campagne, Souvenirs D'Afrique et de Crimée; 4. Rivalité de Charles-Quint et de Francois I.-Le Connétable de Bourbon-III.-Le Siége de Marseille et la Bataille de Pavie; 5. Un Voyage dans la Nouvelle-Grenade, Paysages de la Nature Tropicale.— III.-Rio-Hacha, les Indiens Goajires et la Sierra-Negra; 6. La Jeunesse de Phidias; 7. Les Statistiques Agricoles de la France; 8. Chronique de la Quinzaine, Histoire Politique et Littéraire.

April 1, 1860.-1. La Ville Noire; 2. Décadence Morale du XVII Siécle.La Brinvilliers; 3. Souvenirs d'un Amiral-La Marine de la Restauration— Les Derniéres Années et le Testament d'un Marin; 4. Léonard de Vinci, d'Après de Nouveaux Documens; 5. Une Nouvelle Théorie d'Histoire Naturelle L'Origine des Espéces; 6. Du Crédit des Chemins de fer at des Moyens d'Achever Le Résau; 7. Les Armes au Feu au xixth Siécle-I.-La Poudre et les Armes Portatives; 8. Le Roman Contemporain-Corruption du Roman de Moeurs.

May 1, 1860.-1. La Ville Noire; 2. Un Voyage dans la Nouvelle-Grenade, Paysages de la Nature Tropicale.-IV.-Les Aruaques et la Sierra-Nevada; 3. Une Reforme Administrative en Afrique.-III.-Des Devoirs Nouveaux du Gouvernement Colonial en Algéire; 4. Le Monde Alpestre et les Hautes Régions du Globe d'Après les Dernières Recherches de la Physique; 5. Guerre de l'Inde.-Episodes Militaires de la vie Anglo-Indienne.

III.-Fin de la Guerre, Reprise de Lucknow, la Chasse aux Rebelles. 6. La Comédie Anglaise sous la Restauration.-I.-Le Public; 7. De la Renaissance des Lettres Ches les Grecs Modernes.-Les Poètes Zalokostas et Orphanidis.

May 15, 1860.-1. Economistes Contemporains.-Richard Cobden et l'Ecole de Manchester, Histoire de la Liberté Commerciale en Angleterre; 2. La Reine du Sabbat, Scenés de la vie des Landes; 3. De la Situation de la France et de la Papautè en Italie; 4. La Comédie Anglaise sous la Restauration.-II.-Les Poétes; 5. La Turquie, son Gouvernement et ses Armées Pendant La Guerre D'Orient.-I.-La Campagne de Armènie; 6. Les Révolutions et les Dictatures de L'Amèrique du Sud En, 1859; 7. La Saison Dramatique.-Décadence du Théatre.

II. REVUE CHRETIENNE, March 15, 1860.-1. La Doctrine Definitive Maine de Biran; 2. Madame Récamier; 3. Les Catacombs de Rome; 4. La Lutte Religieuse in France au Seizième Siècle, à l'Occasion du livre de M. Dargaud. May 15, 1860.-1. La Question Religieuse in Hollande; 2. Les Cours a la Sorbonne et au College de France; 3. Julian L'Apostat; 4. Bulletin Bib liographique.

ART. XIII.-QUARTERLY BOOK-TABLE.

IT is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men, and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors; for books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are.-MILTON.

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I.-Religion, Theology, and Biblical Literature.

(1.) "Christ our Life. The Scriptural Argument for Immortality through Christ alone. By C. F. HUDSON, Author of Debt and Grace, as related to the Doctrine of a Future Life." 12mo., pp. 160. Boston: J. P. Jewett & Co. 1860. The present work of Mr. Hudson's embraces a more explicit statement of his system, a completer Scripture exegesis, and a reply by the way to most of his opponents. It exhibits the same constructive skill, sharp dialectics, copious learning, keen criticism, and general good temper as his former work. His views will probably be accepted by not a few individuals who desire a halfway house between the stern eschatology of Protestant orthodoxy, and the utter effeminacy of Universalism.

Mr. Hudson regards man's soul as not necessarily but conditionally immortal. Immortality is its intentional but forfeitable destiny. Yet he evades materialism by asserting the independent existence of soul, its separate intermediate state, and its final reunion with the body at the resurrection. He eludes the charge of destroying the graduation of future penalty to the degrees of individual guilt by affirming that there are different degrees of misery and protraction in the pangs of the second death, through which the nonentity of soul and body is attained in the destiny of the wicked. Viewed, indeed, in a naturalistic light, Mr. Hudson's doctrine of conditional

immortality bears a curious analogy to Darwin's theory of the sole survivorship of individual species by adjustment to the conditions of existence. We will note a few suggestions.

1. Mr. Hudson's theory is constructed by effecting a systematic change in the definition of a number of words in Scripture and established theology. The ideas which, with singular unanimity, the piety and erudition of the Church through ages have found in Scripture terminology, and realized thereby a concord of systematic meaning in the whole, are abolished and replaced by a set of new ideas. By the same method Theism might be systematically eradicated from the Bible, and Pantheism, or absolute materialistic Atheism, be substituted instead. 2. Adopting in the terms significative of duration the Universalist modes of argument, Mr. H. incurs, we think, the ultimate consequence of abolishing absolute eternity from the Bible. Not for penalty alone can auúvios and didios, and their equivalent phrases, be made to designate the temporary. From our Bibles we shall be obliged to fall back upon our metaphysics for the immortality of the blessed, the stability of heaven, and the eternity of God. By such exegesis the whole system of existence, natural, supernatural, and divine, is air-hung and periodic. The most expressive dialect ever spoken by man, wielded by inspiration, has failed in the New Testament to give us an unequivocal charter of immortality. 3. Mr. Hudson's theory would give us a theology that shall sit more easily upon our sensibilities. But it is a doubtful gift. Upon its acceptance a vast solemnity goes out from our existence. A free and easy laxity, quite taking to the lazy and the licentious, pervades the air. Awful doom for sin is no more, and sin itself is no more so awful a thing. The diminished sinfulness of sin can dispense with an atonement, quite discards a Divine Mediator, and finds the Trinity decidedly useless. Mr. Hudson himself finds and exemplifies these consequences. His own theology is disorganized. His theory is a stupendous step in the direction of no religion at all.

(2.) "A General View of the Rise, Progress, and Corruptions of Christianity. By the Most Rev. RICHARD WHATELY, Archbishop of Dublin. With a Sketch of the Life of the Author, and a Catalogue of his Writings." 12mo., pp. 288. New York: William Gowans. 1860.

This is a republication of one of the six celebrated "Essays appended to the Encyclopedia Britannica," in the writing of which such men as Mackintosh and Dugald Stewart were engaged. The present work contains a biographical sketch of Whately and a list of his publications.

Preparatory to the immediate analysis of the corruptions of Christianity, Whately traces the nature and the steps of the first gradual apostacy from the primitive worship of the true God in the earliest ages of mankind. This furnishes him with some striking types of the apostacy of the Christian ages, as well as some tests for discriminating the corrupt from the pure. Next he traces the peculiar characteristics of the Jewish dispensation, and ascer tains what points exclusively belonged to Judaism as an inferior and preparatory dispensation, and what were to be permanent when the time of reformation should come.

Eliminating from the developing Church the errors exhibited in the Pagan apostacy and the idiosyncracies of Judaism, and taking the positive teachings of the New Testament, we have left us a pure Christianity. The result bears with terrible effect upon the peculiarities of Romanism. The real nature of those boasted "marks of a true Church," spirituality, universality, and unity, appears transparently evident. High-churchism, image and saint worship, Mariolatry, take their ready and settled classification among the corruptions of Christianity.

We cannot quite consent to place Whately in our scanty list of great thinkers and writers. His reputation we have ever considered as quite equal to his value. Yet he is independent and suggestive, and in spite of the plainness of his style and his want of imagination and glow, his writings afford very easy and generally instructive reading. The present is among his best works, and deserves a wide circulation.

(3.) Sermons by Rev. William Morley Punshon. To which is prefixed a Plea for Class-Meetings, and an Introduction by Rev. WILLIAM H. MILBURN. 12mo., pp. 350. New York: Derby & Jackson. 1860.

There is no wondering at the power, nor any dubious searching for its source, in perusing these sermons. Their beauty, force, life, are visible upon the surface of the page, and palpable in any first paragraph you read. Nor are they merely æsthetically excellent. There is the rich evangelic unction, which, while permitting them to stand as grand pulpit orations, secures that they shall reach the recesses of the heart and stir its deepest spiritual emotions. Few original volumes from the press of our day have furnished more admirable specimens of pulpit eloquence.

Mr. Milburn's Introduction furnishes his first impressions of Punshon's preaching, a critique upon his style, and a biography of the preacher from some unmentioned source.

Mr. Punshon was born in 1824, in Doncaster, of a well connected family. He was early placed in a mercantile clerkship; but newspaper politics and parliamentary oratory filled his head. Religious impressions snatched him from a probable political career; and he commenced preaching at eighteen, producing a memorable effect with his first sermon. Describing his pulpit style, Mr. Milburn says:

"Before he has reached his major 'thirdly,' it is all over with your independent consciousness; you have yielded at discretion, and are the prisoner of his feeling. I am half inclined to believe that his own intellect is in the same plight, and that memory acts as the warder of the brain, under writ from the lordly soul. You have thrown criticism to the dogs; your ear has exchanged itself for an eye; the bone and flesh of your forehead become delicately thin, as the lamina of the cornea, and your brain seems endowed with the power of the iris. You enjoy the ecstasy of vision, and as the speaker stops you recover yourself enough to feel that you have had an apocalyptic hour."-Page xii.

"He prepares himself for the rostrum and pulpit with the most scrupulous and exhaustive care. I should say that the greater part of his sermons and lectures are committed to memory, and delivered almost word for word, as they were beforehand composed. His recollection is, therefore, at once quick and tenacious. This plan, while it insures a higher average of public performance, and saves him from many mortifying failures, at the same time shuts him out from the ground of highest power."--Page xiii.