explanatory notes, and a variety of other interesting matter are embodied in the work. This adapts the work only the better to American readers. Every section of Scripture taken in hand is treated 1st, Exegetically, in which the true sense of the text is brought out. 2d, Doctrinally and Ethically, in which valuable theological matter is exhibited. 3d. Homiletically, under which head excellent hints and suggestions are given in the way of seed thoughts for sermonizing. The work is well gotten up by the publisher, and we are certain that, as its merits become known, it will have a large and ever increasing sale. In a lengthy and valuable preface, Dr. Schaff gives, among other things, a brief account of Dr. Lange's history, with which we close our notice. Dr. John Peter Lange was born in 1802, April 10th, near Elberfeld, in Prussia. His father was a farmer and a wagoner, and brought up his son to the same occupation, but allowed him, at the same time, to indulge his passion for reading. Young Lange often took the products of the soil to market. He early acquired an enthusiastic love of nature, which revealed to his poetic and pious mind, as in a mirror, the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven. He was instructed in the doctrines of the Heidelberg Catechism, which is still in use among the Reformed Churches on the Rhine, although the Lutheran and Reformed confessions are united in Prussia since 1817, under one government and administration, and bear the name of the United Evangelical Church. His Latin teacher, the Rev. Herman Kalthof, who discovered in him unusual talents, induced him to study for the ministry. He attended the Gymnasium (College) of Duesseldorf from Easter 1821, to autumn 1822, and the University of Bonn from 1822 to 1825. There he studied mainly under Dr. Nitzsch, the most venerable of the living divines of Germany, who for many years, was a strong pillar of evangelical theology in Bonn, and subsequently in Berlin. The writings of Nitzsch, though pregnant with deep thoughts and sug gestive hints, give but an imperfect idea of his power, which lies chiefly in his pure, earnest, and dignified, yet mild and amiable personal character. He is emphatically a homo gravis, a Protestant church-father, who, by his genius, learning, and piety, commands the respect of all theological schools and ecclesiastical parties. After passing through the usual examination, Lange labored from 1825 to 1826 in the quiet, but very pleasant town of Langenberg, near Elberfeld, as assistant minister to the Rev. Emil Krummacher (a brother of the celebrated Dr. Frederic William K., who wrote the sermons on Elijah the Tishbite, and other popular works.) From thence he was called to the pastoral charge of Wald, near Salingen, where he remained from 1826 to 1828. In 1832 he removed as pastor to Duisburg, and began to attract public attention by a series of brilliant articles in Hengstenberg's Evangelical Church Gazette, and other periodicals, also by poems, sermons, and a very able work on the history of the infancy of our Saviour against Strauss's Life of Jesus. In 1841 he was called to the University of Zurich, in Switzerland, as Professor of Theology in the place of the infidel Strauss, who had been appointed by the radical, valid administration of that Canton, but was prevented from taking possession of the chair by a religious and political revolution. In Zurich he labored with great perseverance and fidelity in the midst of many discouragements till 1856, when he received a call to the University of Bonn, in Prussia, where he will probably end his days on earth. 718 2. THE PHEBE FAMILY. By the Editor. 3. AN OLD POET DESCRIBĚTH A MISER. (Poetry.) 12 20 21 24 25 32 34 35 36 7. MEDITATION. THE FIRST LOVE. From the German of 8. 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