ART. XII.-SYNOPSIS OF THE QUARTERLIES.

1.-American Quarterly Reviews.

I. THE CHRISTIAN REVIEW, July, 1860.-1. The Prayers for Infants in the Apostolical Constitutions: 2. Our English Dictionaries: 3. The Early Life and Conversion of Augustine: 4. Evil made Subservient to Good: 5. Roman Orthoëpy: 6. The Defense of Socrates: 7. Rawlinson's Historical Evidences. II. THE NEW ENGLANDER, August, 1860.-1. A Hymn and its Author: 2. Reflex Benefits of the Clerical Office-A Letter from a Country Clergyman to his Desponding Brethren: 3. The New Planets: 4. The Baptists in Connecticut: 5. The Fine Arts: Their Proper Sphere, and the Sources of Excellence therein: 6. The Congregational Polity and a Biblical Theology : 7. Constitutional History of Athenian Democracy: 8. Original Sin: The State of the Question: 9. A Half Century of Foreign Missions: 10. The Princeton Review on Dr. Taylor, and the Edwardean Theology: 11. Dr. Dutton's Discourse Commemorative of Charles Goodyear, the Inventor. III. THE PRESBYTERIAN QUARTERLY REVIEW, July, 1860.-1. AnteRevolutionary History of Episcopacy: 2. Russia: 3. Vincent Ferrara : 4. The General Assembly of 1860: 5. Dr. Bushnell's Sermons: 6. The Position and Mission of our Church: 7. Doctrinal Preaching.

IV. THE UNITED PRESBYTERIAN QUARTERLY REVIEW, July, 1860.1. The Bible and Politics: 2. Commentary on the Gospel of John: 3. The Atonement of Christ: 4. Genealogy of the Saviour: 5. Serpent Fascination: 6. The Rival Dictionaries.

V. THE EVANGelical Review, July, 1860.—1. Melancthon on the Divine Nature 2. The Ministerial Office: 3. Our Want and our Duty: 4. The Prayer-meeting: 5. Baccalaureate Address: 6. Israel under the Second Great Monarchy: 7. Exposition of Revelation ii, 17.

VI. THE MERCERSBURG REVIEW, July, 1860.-1. Goethe: A Dissertation by Doctor Rauch: 2. Infant Salvation: 3. The Closing Chapters of the Book of Job: The Divine Sovereignty: 4. Dogmatic Theology: Its Conception, Sources, and Method: 5. Scientific Discovery in 1859. VII. THE SOUthern Presbyterian Review, July, 1860.-1. The Westminster Review on "Christian Revivals:" 2. The Pastoral Duties of Ruling Elders: 3. 2d Maccabees xii, 39-45, and Purgatory and Prayers for the Dead: 4. A Supernatural Revelation Necessary: 5. The Knowledge of God as obtained from Scripture and from Nature: 6. The General Assembly of 1860.

VIII. BIBLIOTHECA SACRA AND BIBLICAL REPOSITORY, July, 1860.— 1. The Missionary Spirit of the Psalms and Prophets: 2. The Nature of Evangelical Faith: 3. Boardman's Higher Christian Life: 4. Scriptural Evidence of the Deity of Christ: 5. The Theology of Sophocles: 6. The Apostle Paul, a witness for the Resurrection of Jesus: 7. The Modern Greek Language.

IX. THE AMERICAN THEOLOGICAL REVIEW, August, 1860.-1. President Willard's Body of Divinity: 2. Jansenism and the Jansenists: 3. English Lexicography: 4. Moses and the Geologists: 5. The Spiritual in Man the Proper Object of Pulpit Address: 6. Natural History: 7. Kurtz's Church History.

X. THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, July, 1860.-1. New Edition of the Septuagint: 2. Landscape Gardening: 3. Hawks's History of North Carolina: 4. James Gates Percival: 5. Slavery in Rome: 6. Jefferson's Private Character: 7. Margaret Fuller Ossoli: 8. Strauss and the Mythic Theory: 9. Charities of Boston: 10. Influence of Political Economy on Legislation: 11. Recent French Literature: 12. Ugo Foscolo.

XI. QUARTERLY REVIEW OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, SOUTH, July, 1860.-1. Milton and his Recent Critics: 2. Dr. Adam Clarke 3. Philosophy of Representation: 4. Hymns and Hymn Writers: 5. The Greek Tragic Drama: 6. Sasnett's Discussions.

XII. UNIVERSALIST QUARTERLY AND GENERAL REVIEW, July, 1860.— 17. The Religion of Zoroaster: 18. The Development of Language: 19. The Man, Christ Jesus: 20. Did Jesus sanction the Jewish Belief in regard to the Devil? 21. Whittemore's Modern History of Universalism. XIII. THE Freewill BaptisT QUARTERLY, July, 1860.—1. Inspiration: 2. The Two Covenants: 3. The Revival in Ireland: 4. Forces in the Formation of Character: 5. Universalism: 6. Advantages and Disadvantages of a Permanent Pastorate: 7. Webster's and Worcester's Dictionaries. XIV. THE BIBLical RepertorY AND PRINCETON REVIEW, July, 1860.— 1. The Bible its own Witness and Interpreter: 2. The Heathen Inexcusable for their Idolatry: 3. Theories of the Eldership: 4. Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy of the Conditioned: 5. The General Assembly: 6. Presbyterianism.

XV. THE THEOLOGICAL AND LITERARY JOURNAL, July, 1860.-1. Sir William Hamilton's Metaphysics: 2. Memorial of Joel Jones, LL.D.: 3. Theories Erroneously called Science, and Divine Revelation: 4. The Apostasy and the Man of Sin: 5. Darwin on the Origin of Species: 6. Designation and Exposition of the Figures of Isaiah, Chapters liv, lv, lvi, and lvii.

XVI. THE AMERICAN QUARTERLY CHURCH REVIEW, July, 1860.1. The Present State and Prospects of Christianity-No. III: 2. About Dr. Oldham at Greystones: 3. The Church and the Denominations : 4. English Reformation: The Nag's-Head Story: 5. Romish Perverts: Where they come from: 6. Two Letters to the Bishop of Arras: 7. Pews. The ignorance, or something worse, which this review manifests whenever it speaks of Methodist affairs indicates that it may presume on similar qualities in its body of readers. For instance, it says: "The able editor of the 'Advocate and Journal,' Dr. Stevens, a more conservative man, declined a re-election distinctly on the ground of the revolutionary and radical elements which now threaten to rend that large body to fragments. The Methodists have once before split on this subject, the South from the North; and we hear constantly of new sects in that denomination, as one class after another of visionary enthusiasts among them rallies around some new hobby. Schism is their sin, and schism is their punishment."

Its best answer may be found in the following items from the American Theological Review:

"The following statistical table shows the increase of the Episcopal Presbyterian, and Methodist communions from 1800 to 1850:

"The Episcopal Recorder, of Philadelphia, commenting upon this prima facie disparity against their own denomination, suggests, as a cause, three mistakes of Episcopacy-the crippling effect of extra ritualism, the narrow channel through which the missionary power of the Church is exerted, and a prevalent distrust of that Church's Protestantism."

From all which it follows of the Episcopalian sect that narrowness is its sin, and narrowness is its punishment.

This conclusion is confirmed from the following passage on page 220 of this review: "The Church is very small. Compared with the thousands of Christian men and women of various names in the land, her two hundred thousand communicants are but a handful. That truth is forced upon the attention of both her clergy and her laity, at times, in ways that are not at all pleasant, in ways, too, sometimes not at all flattering to their own consciences." That is, the Methodist Episcopal Church is punished for schism by being nearly ten times as large as the Episcopalian body. We have heard of the Broad Church, the Hard Church, the High Church, the Low Church; but our Episcopalian friends are persistently, both in numbers and magnanimity, the SMALL CHURCH.

II.-English Reviews.

1. THE JOURNAL OF SACRED LITERATURE AND BIBLICAL RECORD, July 1860.-1. The Exodus; the Traces thereof Discoverable on the Monuments of Egypt: 2. The Epistle entitled to the Hebrews was written to the Churches of Asia Minor: 3. Analysis of the Emblems of St. John. Rev. xiii.: 4. Authorship of the Acts of the Apostles: 5. Gerar and its Philistine Inhabitants: 6. The Wrath of God: 7. Philosophy and the Knowledge of God: 8. The Church History of John of Ephesus: 9. Kai-Khosru and Ahasuerus.

II. THE LONDON REVIEW, July, 1860.-1. Darwin on the Origin of Species: 2. Slave Politics and Economics: 3. London in the Thirteenth Century 4. Limits of Religious Thought; Mansel and his Critics: 5. Ragged Homes and Ministering Women: 6. Dr. Laycock on Mind and Brain: 7. Memoirs of Bishop Wilson: 8. Domestic Annals of Scotland: 9. General Patrick Gordon : 10. The Oxford Essayists.

III. THE NATIONAL REVIEW, July, 1860.—1. Edmond About: 2. The Natural History of the Ancients: 3. Michelet's Life of Richelieu: 4. The Devils of Loudun: 5. Horace: 6. What is the House of Lords? 7. William Caldwell Roscoe's Poetry: 8. De Biran's Pensées: 9 The Protestant and Catholic Revolt from the Middle-Scheme of Henry VIII.: 10. The Novels of George Eliot: 11. Mr. Gladstone.

IV. THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN EVANGELICAL REVIEW, July, 1860.— 1. The Book of Genesis: 2. The American Board and the Choctaw Mission 3. The First and Second Adam: 4. Edwards on the Atonement: 5. Presbyterian Church Government: 6. The Missionary Conference: 7. John Calvin.

V. The Westminster Review, July, 1860.—1. Strikes; their Tendencies and Remedies: 2. The Mill on the Floss: 3. Rawlinson's Bampton Lectures for 1859: 4. The Post-office Monopoly: 5. Ary Scheffer: 6. The Irish Education Question: 7. Germany; its Strength and Weakness: 8. Thoughts in Aid of Faith: 9. Grievances of Hungarian Catholics: 10. The French Press.

VI. THE CHRISTIAN REMEMBRANCER, July, 1860.-1. The Chronicles of Abingdon 2. The Moral Character of Story Books: 3. Wants of the Church's Missions: 4. Congregationalisın: 5. Notes on Nursing: 6. The First Christian Emperors; De Broglie: 7. Evening Communions: 8. The Roman See and Sardinia.

VII. THE BRITISH QUARTERLY REVIEW, July, 1860.-1. Henry Lord Brougham: 2. Prison Ethics: 3. Victor Hugo; French and English Poetry: 4. The West Indies; Past and Present: 5. Marshman's Life of Havelock: 6. Mansel and his Critics: 7. Church Questions in Australia: 8. Owen's Palæontology: 9. Cambridge University Reform.

This review opens with a magnificent article of near forty pages on Henry Lord Brougham. The great qualities and splendid career of that eminent man are portrayed with much effect. As a thinker and writer on scientific, moral, and metaphysical subjects, his performances have not been equal to his manifest powers. As a parliamentary orator and leader his success has been brilliant. As a philanthropist and a friend of the oppressed his high heroic qualities have won the admiration of the world, and placed him in the noble catalogue of champions of right that have given luster to English history. At all times of his life, even down to the latest newspaper announcements, he has proved himself a thorn in the side of tyranny; nor least among the eulogies that ennoble his name are the mutters and scowls of the panders of oppression in Europe and America.

The article on the West Indies shows the worthlessness of Mr. Trollope's view of emancipation in the Islands. The Review fully confirms the account given by Mr. Bleby in his two articles on the subject in our Quarterly. It may be recommended to the perusal of our pro-slavery friends in this country with whom Mr. Trollope is a welcome authority. Mr. Trollope professedly hates statistics," (being a writer of popular novels,) and very reasonably, for statistics bear hard upon him. The apparent fact is, that either figures lie or Mr. Trollope does. The Reviewer gives some of these disagreeable figures, of which he thus sums the result:

Of these figures the following is a summary, and, we think, satisfactory view:

Jamaica......

In closing the Review says:

DECREASED.
1845-1856

28 per cent. -Pp. 115, 116.

"With Count Montalembert, part of whose speech in the French Chamber of Peers we gladly quote, we affirm that the word of the missionary substituted for the whip of the slave-driver in the government of the black race, is the most delightful spectacle and the most blessed revolution which the nineteenth century has presented to the world.'"-P. 121.

On Lepsius's late work, "The Kings-book of Ancient Egypt," the Review thus discourses:

"We owe an apology to our readers for not having before registered the appearance of Professor Lepsius's long-expected work, the Königsbuch, which is to be regarded as the crowning labor of his zealous, indefatigable, and profound Egyp tological researches, pursued, with such undoubted ability and genius for the difficult task, throughout a long and earnest lifetime. Devotion, like that manifested by this great European scholar, to studies which to all but a few are quite unattractive or even intensely repulsive, but which, in the interest of science, are of such vast moment, cannot be too warmly commended."-P. 245. "We are reminded of our sin of omission in neglecting to announce Professor Lepsius's opus magnum on its first publication, by receiving Dr. Brugsch's extremely valuable History of Egypt, of which, notwithstanding its great merits, we have left ourselves space to say but few words. Dr. Brugsch is the rising Egyptologer. His Demotic Grammar, his splendid work on the Geography of the Egypt of the Pharaohs, and others of his productions, afford ample proof of the assertion."-P. 246.

Brugsch gives us plenty of long inscriptions done, not yet, alas! into English, but what is the next best thing, into readable French. Nor do we hesitate to affirm, that he has thus presented us with a History of Egypt more copious fiftyfold, and just infinitely more authentic and veracious, than could be compiled from all the ancient writers, including Herodotus, Diodorus, Strabo, and Manetho, put together. With these materials before us, so hoar with antiquity, and so rich in facts of the most interesting kind, nothing is wanting. save a reliable chronology, to give an impulse to ethnological research, linguistic science, comparative mythology, and the elucidation of the most ancient records both sacred and profane, such as these pursuits have never received before. One eye of Egyptian history Brugsch has himself supplied by his great geographical work, and we are convinced that the muse of Saïs is not doomed to remain a female Cyclops much longer, for lack of the other. The mysterious vail of Neith, we are not without shrewd presentiment, will be lifted before very long. Something better than the blind guesses we have hitherto had to put up with, as to the position of the hands on the great clock of ages, when these deeply interesting raids of the old Pharaohs, the Tuthmoses, the Ramseses, and the Setis, not only into Mesopotamia, Armenia, Assyria, Asia Minor, Phoenicia, not forgetting Palestine, but into Greece certainly, and perhaps into Italy as well, really took place. A gentleman with whom we have some acquaintance, and who dabbles a little in these matters, will have it that we are on the eve of great discoveries in Egyptian chronology, which will probably, as in other parallel instances, be made simultaneously by independent inquirers in different parts of the world. He tells usand of course we tell our readers, who may believe it or not, as they like-that he has himself lighted upon a hieroglyphical date of the day and year of the Exodus, and that he has identified Solomon's father-in-law with Ramses Miamun II. (Rosellini's Ramses XIV.,) an intensely interesting stele of whose reign Mr. Birch and M. de Rouge have translated."-P. 247.