SHORT REVIEW AND NOTICE.

Biblica Hebraica ad optimas Editiones imprimis Everardi van Der Hooght accurate recensa et expressa. Curavit Argumentique Notationem et Indices nec non Clavim masorethicam addidit. CAR. GODOFR. GUILIELMUS THEILE, PROF. LIPSIENSIS. Editio stereotypa. Lips. 1849. 8vo. pp. xx. and 1236.

THIS new edition of the Hebrew Bible is superior to any of its predecessors, as we think, in accuracy. Numerous errors, found to exist in former editions, have been corrected in this; and, considering the nature of the work, it is probably one of the most perfect books that ever passed through the press. We have not, as yet, detected the smallest error in the location of points and accents. It is printed on good, white, and strong paper, and sold in paper covers for about one dollar and sixty-two cents a copy. It is a favorable omen for biblical literature in America, that the Hebrew Bible has been stereotyped in this country, and copies of it can now be furnished as cheap, even, as at Leipsic. Any errors in the American plates can easily be corrected by the help of this new reprint at Leipsic.

CORRECTION.

In our last number, (p. 424,) we mentioned, as an error of Mr. Hildreth, that he said, "Locke maintained that men's souls, 'mortal by generation, are made immortal by Christ's purchase.'" Nemesis is never asleep! It was the critic, the editor, and not the author who was mistaken; for the opinion and the language may be found in Locke's "Reasonableness of Christianity." petimusque vicissim veniam.

Damus

THE EDITOR'S FAREWELL TO THE READERS.

THE Editor wishes to announce that this is the last number of the Massachusetts Quarterly Review; and, in bidding his readers farewell, he would thank the Public for the favor shown to this Journal, and express the hope that his own labors have not been in vain. The Journal, however, has never become what its projectors designed that it should be. The present Editor thought it necessary that certain important political questions should be dis

cussed here, and, finding no other hand ready for that work, has turned his own to it, and thus has left many theological, philosophical, and literary themes untouched, on which he wished to speak. He has often postponed his own articles for those of others, hoping thereby to give greater variety and value to the Journal.

In thus taking leave of the public, he must express his gratitude to those, on both sides of the water, who have favored him with their contributions, some of them, he thinks, of permanent value. He has often regretted that the smallness of the Journal rendered it impossible to insert all the important papers placed in his hands. He wishes also to thank those who, at the beginning, favored him with promises of aid. If they did no more, they at least gave him their sympathy, and encouraged his own hopes, which is a service not to be despised.

In conclusion, he will only add that he hopes some new journal will presently be started here, in the heart of New England, in a more popular form, which will promote the great ideas of our times, by giving them an expression in literature, and so help them to a permanent organization in the life of mankind.

NOTE.

Complete sets and odd numbers of the Review may be had, at the usual price, of Messrs. Crosby & Nichols, 109 Washington Street, Boston.

LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Hilgenfeld, Die clementinischen_Recognitionen und Homilien, nach ihren Ursprung und Inhalt dargestellt. Jena, 1848. 8vo. pp. xII. and 340.

Cæsarii Heisterbachensis Monachi Dialogus Miraculorum. Textum ad 4 Codd. MSS. Editionis principis Fidem accurati recognovit Jos. Strange. Coloniæ, etc. 1850. 8vo. pp. 406.

Bibliotheca mystica et ascetica continens præcipue Auctorum Medii Ævi Opuscula. Coloniæ, etc. 1849-1850. 16mo. Vol. I.—IV. Vol. IV. continens Bellarmini de Ascensione Mentis in Deum, &c. Lib. pp. XXIV. and 390.

De Wette, Eine Idee über das Studium der Theologie, &c. Leip. 1850. 8vo. pp. 32.

Lücke. Dr. W. M. L. de Wette, zur freundschaftlichen Erinnerung. Hamburg. 1850. 8vo. pp. IV. and 39.

Zur Erinnerung, von Professor de Wette. Basil. 1849. 8vo. pp. 38. Schenkel, W. M. L. de Wette und die Bedeutung seiner Theologie fiür unsere Zeit. Schafhausen. 1849. 8vo. pp. 111.

Hagenbach Wilhelm Martin Lehcrecht de Wette, eine akademische Gedächtnitzrede mit Anmerkungen und Beilagen. Leip. 1850. 8vo. pp. VI. and 123. Svenska Folk Sagor och Afventyr Samlade och Utgifna af G. O. Hylten-Gavallius och Geo. Stephens. Stockholm. Delen I. 8vo. pp. VIII. and 501.

Svenska Folkböker.-Sagor, Legender och Afventyr efter äldre Upplagor och andra Källor utgifne, jemte Ofversigt af Svensk Folklasning_fran äldre till närvarande Tid. af P. O. Bäckström. Stockholm. Bandet I. II. pp. IV. and 296 and 274; VIII. and 360.

Svenska Folkets Sagor-Häfder, eller Faderneslandets Historia - i Säg. ner, Folksänger och andra Minnesmärken, Till Läsning för Folket af A. G. Afzelius. Stockholm. 8vo. 5 vols. 8vo. [This work contains the Folk sänger till the year 1523.]

Svenska Folk-Wisor utgifne af G. G. Geijer och A. G. Afzelius. Stockholm. 3 vols.

8vo.

Karte von Syrien und Palästina zu Ritters Erd-Kunde, Band. XIV. und folg. von Carl Zimmerman, Heft I. Palästina und die Sinai Halbinsel. Berlin. 1850. [15 elegant maps, large atlas, folio.]

Latter-Day Pamphlets, edited by Thomas Carlyle, &c. No. VI. Parliaments. 12mo. pp. 50. No. VII. Hudson's Statue. 12mo. pp. 48.

The United States Lawyers' Directory, and Official Bulletin: to which is added the Manual of the American Legal Association. New York. 1850. pp. VIII. 84, 144, and 32.

Thirtieth Annual Report of the Mercantile Library Association of Boston. Boston. 1850. 8vo. pp. 16.

Remarks before the Association for Aged and Indigent Females, at the Opening of their Home, &c. By Henry B. Rogers, &c. Boston. 1850. 8vo. pp. 14.

A Plea for the Poor: a Sermon preached in the Old South Church, before the Howard Benevolent Society. Dec. 25, 1849, being its 17th anniversary. By Rev. Levi Tucker, D. D., &c. Boston. 1850. 8vo. pp. 23.

Old Wine in Old Bottles: a Sermon originally preached at the Church of the Advent, Boston, &c., &c. By Rev. Henry N. Hudson, &c. Boston. 1850. 8vo. pp. 32.

Washington, and the Principles of the Revolution. An Oration delivered before the Municipal Authorities of the City of Boston, at the Celebration of the 74th Anniversary of the Declaration of American Independence, July 4, 1850. By Edwin P. Whipple. Boston. 1850. 8vo. pp. 30.

The Progress of the Intellect, as exemplified in the Religious Development of the Greeks and Hebrews. By Robert William Mackay; in two volumes. London. 1850. 8vo. Vol.. pp. XVI. and 488; Vol. II. pp. XII. and 520. Historical Analysis of Christian Civilization. By Professor De Vericour, Queen's College. Cork, and London. 1850. 8vo. pp. XVI. and 502.

Social Aspects. By John Stores Smith, &c. London. 1850. 8vo. pp. IV. and 258.

A Commentary on the Book of Daniel. By Moses Stuart. Boston. 1850. 8vo. pp. VIII. and 496.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. By Edward Gibbon, with Notes by Rev. H. H. Milman, &c. In six volumes. Vol. VI. 12mo. pp. XVI. and 623.

Hints towards Reforms in Lectures, Addresses, and other Writings. By Horace Greeley, &c. 1850. 12mo. pp. 400.

In Memoriam. By Alfred Tennyson. Boston. 1850. 16mo. pp. 270. Historical and Critical Introduction to the Old Testament. By W. M L. de Wette. Translated and enlarged by Theodore Parker. 2d edition. Boston. 1850. 2 vols. 8vo.

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