Solomon, The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan, Josephus, 4th Maccabees, the Book of Jubilees, The Ascension of Moses, 4th Esdras, The Testments of the Twelve Patriarchs, The Ascension of the Prophet Isaiah; 3. The non-canonical books of Egyptian origin, that is, The Septuagint, The Sibylline Books, 3d Esdras, 3d Maccabees, Philo; 4. Later Jewish Literature, as, Talmud, Later Targums, Midrashim, Sopar, Jezirah, Seder Olam, Apochryphal Gospels, and the like. The second section is devoted to a connected exposition of the religious views then prevailing in regard to God, the Logos, the Holy Spirit, Angels and Demons, Anthropology, the Messiah, Eschatology. The subject is one of such vital importance, in view of the attempts made to show that Christianity is a mere development of elements at work in the age at which it arose, that we bid a hearty welcome to every new essay to throw light on it.

CHRISTIANITY IN HARMONY WITH CULTURE.-The less said about this book the better. It is a wretched hash a resurrection of vulgar rationalism. The harmony which Schenkel establishes between Christianity and modern culture is one-sided, consisting in an emasculation of the former. We warn our readers against this and all the books of the socalled liberal party in Germany, save as emetics for unbelief, to be prescribed to sincere inquirers and real thinkers. This first volume treats of religion and the Bible.

COMPARATIVE SYMBOLICS.-A cheap reprint, convenient, attractive in form, of Winer's Comparative Exhibition of the principal doctrines held by the various confessions, including the Romish and Greek churches, the Lutheran and Reformed, Arminianism, the Quakers, and Socinians. It is an invaluable book on the subject.

GOD AND NATURE. The aim of Dr. Ulrici's work is to show that natural science itself, impartially and accurately considered, necessitates our assuming that God is the creative originator of nature. His point of view will be seen from the following words: "Nature and the knowledge thereof is the touchstone both of religious ideas and of philosophical inquiry into

1 Christenthum und Kirche im Einklang mit der Cultur entwickelung. Zwanzig Betrachtungen von Dr. Daniel Schenkel. Erste Abtheilung: Religion und Bibel. Wiesbaden: Kreidel; London: Asher and Co.,Trübner and Co. 1867. Price, 1 thaler, 10 sgr.

2 Comparative Darstellung des Lehrbegriffs der verschiedenen christlichen Kirchenparteien nebst vollständigen Belegen aus den symbolischen Schriften derselben. Von Dr. G. B. Winer. Berlin: Schlawitz; London: Asher and Co., Trübner and Co. 1866. Price, 1 thaler.

8 Gott und die Natur. Von. Dr. Hermann Ulrici. 2d ed. 8vo. pp. 770. Leipzig: Weigel; London: Asher and Co., Trübner and Co. 1866. Price, 3 thalers, 24 sgr.

the ultimate grounds of being and happening. If the belief in God rests on truth, every new step in advance taken by natural science must needs confirm, strengthen, and throw additional light on the belief. For if there is a God in the religious sense of the term, nature is his first and oldest revelation. I have applied this touchstone as sharply and exactly as I was able, and I have arrived at the result that modern science, so far from favoring pantheism, materialism, and atheism (as many affirm), conducts us to exactly the opposite conclusion." The first section of the work reviews the ontology of natural science under such heads as Matter and Atoms; Force, Matter, and Law; Light, Warmth, Magnetism; the Organic Forces; the Psychical Force; Soul and Body. The second treats of the Cosmology of Natural Science, under such heads as, the Process by which the Solar System and the Universe were formed, according to Kant, Laplace, Burmeister, and others; Origin of Organisms; Stages in the formation of the organic creation and its chief types. The third treats of God as the necessary postulate and condition of a scientific ontology and cosmology. The fourth section, of God as the necessary condition of natural science itself. The fifth contains a speculative examination of the idea of God and of its relation to nature and humanity.

We have seldom, if ever, had in our hands a book so full of interesting matter, soberly and clearly put as this. The various positions of natural science, in all its branches and in its principal French, German, American, and English representatives, are accurately described, examined, and shown to bear rather favorably than unfavorably on the theistic question. The work is a remarkably well-stored armory of weapons against materialism in all its forms and consequences. If it were not so voluminous, it ought to be translated.

The following list contains some of the principal theological works published during the year 1865, and not already noticed in the Bibliotheca Sacra.

Auberlen: Beiträge zur christlichen Erkenntniss. Seven essays on various scriptural subjects. Good.

Beck, Prof. at Basle: Ueber die wissenschaftliche Behandlung der christlichen Lehre. Favorably characterized by the one remark: "It is not knowledge that is opposed to faith; but one faith to another, and selffaith to faith in God."

Bleek: Einleitung ins Alte Testament. Critical but sober.

Bleek: Vorlesungen über Colosser, Philemon, und Ephesier.

Böhmer, Pastor: Die offenbarung Johannis. A new view of this very difficult book, referring it partly to past, chiefly to contemporary events; but partly also to the close of the Christian despensation. A painstaking work.

Jacobson Evangelisches Kirchenrecht. A new and good work on the legal relations and position of the Evangelical church of Prussia. Keil and Delitzsch: Commentaries on Kings and Isaiah. Sound and learned.

Drechsler: Commentary on the Prophet Isaiah. Good, and not necessitating so great a knowledge of Hebrew as usual. Reprinted. Kleefoth: Das Buch Ezechiels. Commentary on Ezekiel by the Lutheran Pope of Mecklenburg.

Kirchmann: Ueber die Unsterblichkeit. A work whose aim is to show that the true immortality is the immortality of all that has being (alles Seienden). The author has a subtile mind, but perverse.

Hofferichter: Religionslehre. Lectures expounding the views of the German Free Religionists, or Associationists. Of little value. Huber: Die Idee der Unsterblichkeit. History and defence.

Köpler, Prof. Nacherilische Propheten. An Orthodox commentary, well spoken of by critics.

Küper: Das Priesterthum des alten Bundes. A discussion of the Priestly office and its laws; of the laws relating to sacrifices, and a brief history of the Old Testament priesthood. Mainly archaeological.

Dieckhoff: Lutherische Lehre von der Kirchengewalt. Very Lutheran. Ebrard: Kirchengeschichte. Reformed point of view. Of some value. Frank, Prof. Geschichte der protestantischen Theologie. Rather rationalistic and of course taking little notice of American and English works.

Fürst: Geschichte des Karaerthums. Very learned.

Gerhardi loci theologici. A cheap and well-printed republication of a most eminent work.

Gerlach: Die römischen Statthalter in Syrien. On the question of the date of the birth of Christ, with reference to a Latin inscription discovered by Professor Buttmann, of Berlin. Good.

Guericke Church History. Ninth edition in several volumes.
Gregorii Nysseni Opera ed. Oehler. Well printed and correct.
Lange: Geschichte des Materialismus. Plenty of material, but worked

up in a sceptical spirit.

Luthardt, Kahnis, Brückner: Die Kirche nach ihrem Ursprung, ihrer Geschichte und ihrer Gegenwart. Interesting and popular.

Nitzsch, Lic. Dr. F.: Augustinus Lehre v. Wunder. Exhaustive. Oehler Victor F.: Der Knecht Jehovah's in Jesaiah. 2 vols. In the main orthodox. Thorough and comprehensive.

Schmidt, Dr. W.: Dogma von Gottmenschen. Main idea seems to be πάντα ἀνθρώπινα, πάντα θεῖα.

Strauss: Der Christus des Glaubens: Die Halben und die Ganzen. Both books bitter and of no value, except as showing whither their author has advanced.

Sulze Glaubenslehre. A mystico-rationalistic view of Christian doctrine, by a prominent Hanoverian pastor.

Thenius, Dr. Das Evangelium der Evangelien. Apologetic; good. Volkmar: Ursprung unserer Evangelien. Tübingen point of view. Wangemann: Christliche Glaubenslehre. A popular system of theology from the strict Lutheran point of view. Cheap.

Wendt: Kirchliche Ethik. Clever, but curious.

Wilkii: clavis Novi Testamenti. A republication under a new and competent editor.

Zeller: Kirchliche Statistik Deutschlands. Authoritative, but not complete.

v. Zezschwitz: Apologie des Christenthums. Able, though sometimes fanciful.

Ziethe: Leben Jesu. A popular painstaking resumé of the fruits of the labors of the learned.

Erdmann: Geschichte der Philosophie. 2 vols. The part treating of modern philosophy is considered a masterpiece of clearness.

Brandis: Handbuch der Geschichte der griech-römisch. Philosophie. Very full in point of extracts or summaries.

Frauenstädt: Das sittliche Leben. A disciple of Schopenhauer. Ueberweg: Grundriss der Geschichte der Philosophie. 3 vols. Cheap, well arranged and full of literary information.

Jenerbach: Gottheit, Freiheit, und Unsterblichkeit vom Standpunkt der anthropologie. That is, as having no existence at all.

ARTICLE VI.

NOTICES OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

FELTON'S LECTURES ON GREECE.'

These volumes are a worthy memorial of the eminent scholar whose name they bear. Published in elegant style, and embellished with a very life-like portrait, they contain the fruits of a life devoted to the study of Greek literature. They come, after the numerous valuable editions of single and complete works of Greek authors which have made President Felton's name so familiar to American students, as a survey of the whole field of his studies, and will add to his reputation for exact and comprehensive learning and genial culture.

1 Greece, Ancient and Modern. Lectures delivered before the Lowell Institute by C. C. Felton, LL.D., late President of Harvard University. 2 vols. Boston. Ticknor and Fields. 1867.

In the easy and attractive style of the lecturer, the subjects are treated rapidly, but with a rare facility in arrangement and condensation that omits nothing essential to give an appreciation of what Greece was from the earliest to the latest times.

This first course of lectures comprises the Greek language and poetry, both ancient and modern. The opening ones upon the Origin and Classification of Languages, the Ethical Affinities of the Indo-European Tongues, and the Historical Value of the Greek Legends, give the results of the recent science of linguistics in a cautious and conservative manner. Passing to Homer, the Homeric Question is treated in a similar spirit. The argument for unity of origin and a personal Homer is put with great force of evidence and refreshing warmth of conviction. The lectures on the Dramatists are enlivened by frequent suggestive comparisons with modern literature, and especially with Shakespeare, as "the best commentator on the Greek dramatists,” and himself" the most classical of the moderns, because standing nearer to nature than they."

The second course on the Life of Greece, is a lively picture of the domestic, social, civil, and religious life of the Greeks. The mass of facts is enlivened by a constant comparison with modern life and frequent touches of that humor which plays through the Author's editions of Aristophanes' Comedies.

The second volume contains two courses, on the Constitutions and Orators of Greece and Modern Greece. Many of our maxims in law and politics, which have been often traced to a Roman origin are shown to have come from Greece mother of a free civil order as well as "of arts and eloquence." The lecture on Greek Slavery and the views of Plato and Aristotle compared with Paul's and the Christian doctrine of human relations, is suggestive and valuable. The most eloquent passages in the volumes are in the admirable lecture on Demosthenes. The sketch of the history and literature of Modern Greece gives completeness to the whole work.

The facts and views presented in the above volumes are of course, in the main, not new. The field is one that has been long and thoroughly worked over in every part of it. But the comprehensiveness of the work, and its fresh spirit and method make it one that will be welcome to the general student. It is well adapted too, we think, to be used as a college textbook, or at least, as a guide in exercises in archaeology and the history of literature. The author describes scenes he has visited, and we look upon Greece as it is through an eye that thoroughly observed and enjoyed the scenes. He writes too, of her past, with hardly an exception from familiarity with the original sources, and we have gained thus, in permanent form, an important original contribution to the literature illustrative of Greece.