FREEWILL BAPTIST QUARTERLY, January, 1866. (Dover, N. H.) 1. The Relation of the Gospel to Man's Intellectual and Practical Life. 2. Unity in Doctrine. 3. Encouragements to Faith. 4. The Religious Enjoyments of Thomas Walsh. 5. Sketch of the Late Rev. A. W. Avery. 6. Rationalism and Revelation. NEW ENGLANDER, January, 1866. (New Haven, Conn.) 1. Country Life in England. 2. Review of Dr. Draper's New Book, "Thoughts on the Future Civil Policy of America." 3. Lord Derby and Professor Arnold on Homer. 4. Expository Preaching. 5. Samuel Fisk. 6. Sabbath School Instruction. 7. Government in the United States. 8. Sheol; Hades; The Invisible State. 9. The Late President Wayland. 10. The Reformation of the South. English Reviews. BRITISH AND FOREIGN EVANGELICAL REVIEW, January, 1866. (London.) 1. Rome and the Romans. 2. Development of the Ancient Catholic Hierarchy. 3. Arithmetical Criticism. 4. Historiography, Ancient and Modern. 5. Unitarian Annals. 6. The Incarnation: Was it Necessary apart from the Existence of Sin? 7. Isaac Taylor. 8. The Culdean Church. 9. The Rev. C. H. Spurgeon. BRITISH QUARTERLY REVIEW, January, 1866. (London.) 1. Richard Cobden. 2. Epidemics. 3. Miss Berry, her Friends and her Times. 4. Sinai. 5. Lord Palmerston. 6. Religion in London. 7. Inductive Theology. 8. The New Parliament. CHRISTIAN REMEMBRANCER, January, 1866. (London.) 1. Mr. Babbage. 2. Female Education. 3. Free Worship and Free Offering. 4. Friendism; its Rise, Progress, and Decline. 5. Miss Berry's Journals and Correspondence. 6. Dr. Pusey's Eirenicon. 7. English Hexameters. 8. Leckey's History of Rationalism. EDINBURGH REVIEW. January, 1866. (New York: reprint.) 1. Modern Fresco Painting. 2. The Youth of Cardinal Mazarin. 3. Public Galleries and Irresponsible Boards. 4. An Economist of the Fourteenth Century. 5. Recent Changes in the Art of War. 6. Boner's Transylvania. 7. Was Shakspeare a Roman Catholic? 8. Corn and Cattle. 9. The Erckmann Chatrian Novels. 10. Mary Tudor, and Brandon, Duke of Suffolk. 11. Extension of the Franchise, LONDON QUARTERLY REVIEW, January, 1866. (New York: reprint.) 1. Livingstone's Zambesi and its Tributaries. 2. Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester. 3. Tennison's Enoch Arden. 4. M. Saint-Beuve. 5. Grote's Plato. 6. Miss Berry's Memoirs. 7. Palgrave's Arabia. 8. Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art. 9. The Coming Session. WESTMINSTER REVIEW, January, 1865. (New York: reprint.) 1. John Stuart Mill on the Philosophy of Sir William Hamilton. 2. Precursors of the French Revolution, Saint-Pierre and D'Argenson. 3. Lord Palmerston. 4. Coleridge's Writings. 5. Physiological Experiments, Vivisection. 6. The Polish Insurrection of 1863. 7. Dr. Livingstone's Recent Travels, German Reviews. STUDIEN UND KRITIKEN. (Essays and Reviews.) Second Number, 1866.— 1. DIESTEL, Bible and Natural Science in the Times of Orthodoxy. 2. WEISS, The Petrine Question. 3. MOLLER, Juan Valdes's Divine Meditations. 4. KOSTLIN, The Marburg Articles and the Relation of Baptism and Faith. 6. PAUL, The Time of the Lord's Supper according to John. Reviews. 1. RITSCHL, Moller's History of Cosmology in the Greek Church until Origen. 2. SACK, Auberlen's Divine Revelation. 3. BECK, Leibbrand's Prayer for the Dead in the Evangelical Church. 4. KRUMMER, Newly-discovered Sources of Hussite History. 5. WEISS, Reply to Schenkel. The history of Italian Protestantism in the sixteenth century has recently derived a new interest from the revival of Protestantism since the establishment of the kingdom of Italy, in 1859. A number of works from and on the leaders of this Protestant movement in Italy at the time of the Reformation have been published. Of the former class the little book on "The Benefit of Christ," which had long been regarded as lost, but was rediscovered in Cambridge, England, in 1855, is best known. It has been published in English, both in England and in the United States, in a German translation by Tischendorf, in a French translation by Bonnet. It is generally ascribed to Aonio Paleario, whose life has been made the subject of a special work by M. Young, (The Life and Times of Aonio Paleario, or a History of the Italian Reformers in the Sixteenth Century, 2 vols. London. 1860.) The substance of another prominent Protestant work of that time is given in the third article of the above number of the Studien. The author, Juan Valdes, was a twin brother of Alonzo Valdes, who, at the court of the Emperor Charles V., defended Erasmus against the wrath of the monks; and, in 1530, accompanied the emperor to Augsburg as "Private Secretary." Juan Valdes, during the time from 1530 to 1540, exercised a powerful influence on a circle of men and women of the highest social position at Naples. His chief work is entitled "One Hundred and Ten Divine Meditations." The Spanish original is lost. An Italian translation, by Vergerio, was published, in 1550, at Basil, by Curione, and has recently been republished at Halle, Germany, by E. Böhmer, (Le Cento e dieci divine considerazioni, Halle, 1860,) who added to it critical notes, and a biographical notice of the two brothers Valdes. Böhmer also ascribes to Juan Valdes a work recently found in the Wolfenbüttel Library, and entitled Lac Spirituale, (published by F. Koldewerg at Brunswick, 1864.) The Wolfenbüttel manuscript gives it as a work of Vergerio. ZEITSCHRIFT FUR DIE HISTORISCHE THEOLOGIE. (Journal of Historic Theology.) Second Number, 1866.—1. Preface by Dr. KAHNIS. 2. Dr. GOLDHORN, Abelard's principal dogmatic works, "Tractatus de Unitate et Trinitate" and " Theologia." 3. The Suabian Confession, (Liber Tubingensis.) Published for the first time from a Wolfenbüttel manuscript by H. HACHFELD. 4. Extracts from the Letters of Balthasar Schuppius. Since the sudden death of Professor Niedner, of Berlin, the HistorioTheological Society of Leipsic has elected Professor Kahnis its president, and editor of its organ, the Journal for Historical Theology. In the preface to the above number, Professor Kahnis informs the members of the Society that their organ is far from being self-supporting, and is every year a loss to the publisher. He hopes for a more active co-operation of the Society to establish their organ on a safe basis. French Reviews. REVUE DES DEUX MONDES.-October 15, 1865.-2. CARO, The Philosophy November 15.-1. E. DE LAVELEYE, Popular Instruction in the Nineteenth December 15.-1. ESQUIROS, England and English Life. Religious Life in the Cities. 3. E. DUVERGIER DE HAURANNE, Eight Months in America. 6. L. DE VOEL CASTEL, Modern Mind in History, with special regard to the work of M. Rosueew St. Hilaire. January 1, 1866.-4. E. DUVERGIER DE HAURANNE, Eight Months in England. 5. JULES SIMON, Co-operative Societies in France and England. 7. E. DE LAVELEYE, Popular Instruction in the Nineteenth Century. England and the English Colonies. January 15.-1. TAINE, Italy and Italian Life. 2. E. PELLETAU, Proudhon and his Complete Works. 6. E. DUVERGIER DE HAURANNE, Eight Months in America. 7. JANET, History of Philosophy and Eclecticism. ART. XI.-QUARTERLY BOOK-TABLE. Religion, Theology, and Biblical Literature. Beginning Life. Chapters for our Young Men on Religion, Study, and Business. By JOHN TULLOCH, D.D., Principal and Primarius Professor of St. Mary's College, St. Andrews, Author of "The Leaders of the Reformation," etc. 12mo., pp. 296. Cincinnati: Poe & Hitchcock. 1866. One of the greatest moral achievements for the Church of the present day is to provide a pure Christian literature for our young men, and then to induce them to read it. Dr. Wiley has in the present volume supplied a noble contribution to this great work. Principal Tulloch is one of the purest and most eloquent religious writers of Britain at the present hour, and the present work exhibits some of the best traits of his lucid pen. It is an excellent guide for the young man in attaining a happy Christian character and life. Let every young man under the influence of our Church obtain this work, or his parent for him, and let him read and reread a portion of it every Sabbath, until it has become a part of his own mind, and he will have possessed himself of a large element of the truest Christian manhood. The work is furnished by our Western Concern with a most attractive material embodiment. Foreign Theological Publications. Vom Zustande nach dem Tode. Biblische Untersuchungen mit Berücksichtigung der einschlägigen alten und neuen Literatur. Von HEINRICH WILH. RINOK, Pastor zu Eberfeld. Ludwigsburg und Basil. 8vo., pp. 382. 2 Auflage, 1866. The above eschatological work was first issued in 1861, and as it has now been called for in a new edition, it seems to have some claim upon a notice in these pages. It treats in different chapters, with various subordinate divisions, of Death and the Intermediate State, of the Resurrection of the Flesh, of the Final Judgment, of Heaven and the State of the Perfected, of Hell and the State of the Damned, and, finally, of the Heavenly Jerusalem. As regards the Intermediate State our author denies the purgatorial view of it which several of the Lutheran theologians of our day teach, preferring the view according to which the regenerate ripen for heaven, and the unregenerate for hell, until the day of judgment, at which time the souls of the righteous will have become morally fitted for the glorified state, while those of the wicked will, by continued FOURTH SERIES, VOL. XVIII.-19 obstinacy and rebellion, have made themselves guilty of the "sin against the Holy Ghost," and therefore liable to the just retribution of eternal punishment. As a natural consequence he does not agree with Richard Rothe, Kern, Kling, Rudloff, Frantz, Stirm, Leibrand, and the Silesian Consistorium of the Evangelical Church of Prussia, in recommending prayers for the dead. On the other hand he holds, with most German divines, that Christ preached to the antediluvians in Hades, and provided for a continued proclamation of his Gospel there to all who should go thither from the heathen world down to the end of time. He also agrees with the Wirtemberg theosophers in ascribing to the dead in the intermediate state the possession of a temporary body. Apart from the "first" and the "general" resurrection he believes in a continually progressing resurrection of individuals, in proof of which he brings us two "authenticated facts." The first is drawn from the life of Oetinger. It seems that Oetinger had a pious friend whose strong faith and power in prayer were very remarkable. More than once his prayers lifted a burden from Oetinger's soul when everything else had failed to bring relief. His name was Rieger, and he was commander of the little military post on the Hohenasberg, at present a state prison. "Now it came to pass," says our author, "that this hero of the Asberg died and was buried in or near the church. About a year later it became necessary to set a pillar exactly where the grave was located. Already they had opened a new grave, to which the remains of the Asberger were to be transferred. The grave-diggers proceed to raise the well-preserved coffin, but find it so remarkably light that from curiosity they open it. Not a trace of the body of the large man! No sooner, however, did Father Oetinger hear of it than he exclaimed: "What? Does that excite your wonder? Have ye never read of the first resurrection? Very well, to this first resurrection our commandant has attained, for his spirit, soul, and body were sanctified wholly and filled with the spirit of grace!" The other instance occurred in the parish of the pious old Father Spleiss at Buch. One Saturday evening, just as the old gentleman was going to church, the sexton, in digging a new grave, lighted upon an old coffin, whose decayed lid was cut through by his spade. "The man bends down to treat it as carefully as possible, and to remove the inclosed remains; not a bone, not a trace · of a corpse is there! Nothing but a milk basin, such as it is the custom to place over the bouquet laid upon the coffins of the unmarried, and this had just fallen through the decayed lid!" Our naive |