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England and the United States:-Agriculture, Manufactures

and Railroads, .

Peace and what next?

Literary Notices,

The Germania and Agricola of Cains Cornelius Tacitus, with notes for Colleges.-Apostolical Constitutions. Translated from the German; by Irah Chase, D. D.-The Philosophy of Christian Perfection, embracing a Psychological statement of some of the principles of Christianity on which the doctrine rests.-Torrey's Neander. General History of the Christian Religion and Church. By Joseph Torrey.-Cleveland's Compendium of English Literature.-Chalmers' Miscellanies.-Schmitz's History of Rome.Hydraulics and Mechanics. In five books. By Thomas Ewbank.-Miscellaneous Essays; by Mark Hopkins, D. D.-A Practical Course of French Grammar, based on Ollendorff's new method, By G, J. Hubert Sanders.-Notes Critical, Explanatory and Practical on the Book of the Prophet Isaiah. By Albert Barnes.-Notices of Pamphlets,

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CONTENTS.

Common Schools and their relations to Higher Seminaries,
Principles in the Art of Landscape,

Memoir of Mrs. Mary E. Van Lennep,

Memoir of Mrs. Mary E. Van Lennep, only daughter of the Rev.
Joel Hawes, D.D., and wife of the Rev. Henry J. Van Lennep,
Missionary in Turkey. By her Mother. Hartford: Belknap and
Hammersly.

Proposed Abolition of Slavery in West Virginia,

Address to the People of West Virginia; showing that slavery is injurious to the public welfare, and that it may be gradually abolished, without detriment to the rights and interests of slaveholders. By a Slaveholder of West Virginia. Lexington: Printed by R. C. Noel. 1847.

Chronology,

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Thoughts on the Riches of the Natural World,

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Dr. Jarvis's Vindication. Church Review for April, 1848.

Our Post-Office,

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Report of the Post-Master General of the United States, for the year end

ing June 30, 1847. Documents accompanying the President's Message,
1st Session, 30th Congress, December, 1847.

Laws and Regulations of the Post-Office Department. 1847.

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The Church-as it was, as it is, as it ought to be,

Church Music,

The French Revolution of 1848,

The Ethics of the Right of Suffrage,
Literary Notices,

The Genius of Scotland; or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Litera-
ture and Religion; by Robert Turnbull.-Religion Teaching by
Example; by Richard W. Dickinson, D.D.-Fundamental Philoso-
phy, or Elements of Primitive Philosophy; being the first Division
of a Complete System of Philosophical Science. From the German
of William Traugott Krug.-Posthumous Influence: A Sermon
occasioned by the death of the Hon. Samuel Hubbard, LL. D.,
Associate Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts;
by Silas Aiken.-A Good Man Lamented: A Sermon preached
in the First Congregational Church, Canandaigua, N. Y., at the
funeral of Walter Hubbell; by the Pastor of the Church, O. E.
Daggett.

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of universal popular education, has already become a national sentiment. The fathers of New England were fortunate, not only in their efforts to found a new empire which should be the home of a free people, but they were fortunate also above all other founders of new states, that they apprehended clearly from the first, the grand features of a policy which must prevail, when their infant institutions should become vigorous and mature. They founded a new and noble empire, and designated the true methods of making that empire immortal. VOL. VI.

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which they had suffered so much, and contended with so much success, would make free, even as they themselves were free, both their descendants and all who should embrace it. They were familiarly acquainted with all the forms and results of European civilization, and they were willing to abandon them in the hope of "a better country." They most highly prized the schools and universities of the old world, for their leading statesmen and pastors had enjoyed all the advantages of those seats of learning, and it was by means of the mental train

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