ART. I. The Life of William Wilberforce. By his Sons, Robert II. 1. Sabbation, Honor Neale, and other Poems. Chenevix Trench, Author of the Story of Justin 2. Memorials of a Residence on the Continent, and His- III. 1. Isis Revelata: an Inquiry into the Origin, Progress, and present State of Animal Magnetism. By J. C. 2. An Introduction to the Study of Animal Magnetism. By the Baron Du Potet de Sennevoy. ART. PAGE. VI. 1. A brief History of the Church in Upper Canada: con- 2. The Stewart Missions; a Series of Letters and Journals, 3. A Letter to his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, occasioned by the recent Meeting in support of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts 400 VII. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart......... 423 NOTICE OF BOOKS. ... 483 INDEX OF BOOKS REVIEWED, OR NOTICED IN THE ECCLESIASTICAL RECORD. * For Remarkable Passages in the Criticisms, Extracts, and Ecclesiastical Record, see the Index at the end of the Volume. THE BRITISH CRITIC, AND Quarterly Theological Review. JULY, 1888. ART. I.-1. Schleiermacher's Introduction to the Dialogues of Plato. Translated from the German by William Dobson. 1836. 2. Initia Philosophiæ Platonicæ. Auct. Phil. Gul. Van Heusde. 1827-31. It has become a trite observation of thoughtful men, that in all around us in the present day there is a sound and a movement— a working in the human mind-a stirring in the waters which betokens the approach of some great change. Not only in this country, but throughout the civilized world, there are symptoms of a crisis in opinion as well as in society. The two cannot be separated. Old forms are breaking up, and new are thickening on each other. Wider scenes of action seem opened to practical minds, and deeper mines of thought for speculation. There is in the many an eager restless craving for some vague good, which all anticipate and none define; an exultation at coming prospects; a contempt for the poverty of the past, and the imperfection of the present; a sense of newly awakened powers; a passion for new sympathies and combinations; a general baring and exposure of the human mind, as among men who have cast off restraint and are about to enter together on some great enterprise. And when the current is not rushing forward with an accelerated movement, it is turning in an extraordinary way, and remounting back to its source. Those who think, and those who think not, all seem impressed with something of a mysterious action. And even the few who take no part in the crowd, are sitting with anxious eye watching for the end. To a philosophical observer, the symptoms of this singular state of the human mind are full of interest; though they may appear in seemingly very insulated facts, and, when connected with the general principle, may sound far-fetched. One of them is a remarkable phenomenon, which cannot have escaped the observer of general literature. Within the last few NO. XLVII.-JULY, 1838. B |