AMERICAN. Messrs. Lane & Scott are preparing for publication a very valuable contribution to Biblical literature, in a Harmony of the Four Gospels, arranged on an entirely new plan, with a paraphrastic version of the text, by JAMES STRONG, Esq. The readers of this Journal have too often had the benefit of Mr. Strong's accurate scholarship and thorough research, to need to be told that this new work will be prepared in a most careful and scholarly way. The same publishers have in press a new edition of Asbury's Journal, which has long been out of print. It will be issued in three 12mo. volumes. They will also shortly issue, Light in the Dark Places, or Memorials of the Christian Life in the Middle Ages. This beautiful book, filled with narratives that have all the interest of romance, is a translation of part of Neander's Denkwürdigkeiten aus der Geschichte des Christenthums und des Christlichen Lebens. A Report on the Geology of Palestine is soon to be published by Dr. H. J. Anderson, who accompanied Lieut. Lynch on his exploring expedition to the Jordan. An abridgment of Dr. Alexander's Commentary on Isaiah is announced by J. Wiley, under the title of "Isaiah translated and explained." (2 vols., 12mo.) Professor Moses Stuart is engaged in a Commentary on Ecclesiastes. A Commentary on the Apocalypse, by Rev. Joel Mann, of Kingston, R. I., is also announced as in preparation. Classical and Miscellaneous. EUROPEAN. The publication of Mr. Bohn's excellent "Libraries" still goes on with punctual regu. larity. The November issue in the "Classical Library" was Plato's works, vol. iii., containing Meno, Euthydemus, the Sophist, Statesman, Cratylus, Parmenides, and Banquet. The “Standard Library" issue for November was Neander's Church History, vol. i.; and for December, the third volume of Goethe's Works. The several series are kept always on sale by Messrs. Bangs, Brother & Co., New-York. It is said that Sir Robert Peel has left an autobiography ready for the press. It will not, however, be published for some years. The Journal de la Librairie for 1850 furnishes an account of the number of books, pamphlets, and works of all kinds published in France during the last year. They amount to 7,208. Of these, 4,711 have been printed in Paris, 2,460 in the provinces, and 37 in Algeria. 1,360 works are reprints, or new editions; and 5,848 may be considered new publications. 6,661 are written in French, 68 in the different dialects spoken in the provinces of France, 53 in German, 61 in English, 2 in Arabic, 51 in Spanish, 83 in Greek, 9 in Hebrew, 16 in Italian, 165 in Latin, 14 in the Polish language, 16 in Portuguese, 4 in the Roumelian dialect, 1 in Russian, 2 in the Turkish language, and 2 are polyglot works. These 7,208 publications comprise 281 newspapers, partly new,-79 of which have been printed and published in the departments, and 73 works printed by the lithographic process. Some idea of the indomitable literary industry of Robert Southey may be formed from the following list of his writings : 1. Poems by R. Southey and R. Lovell. 1 vol. 1794-2. Joan of Arc. 1 vol. 4to. 1795:-3. Letters from Spain and Portugal. 1 vol. 1797 :-4. Minor Poems. 2 vols..17971799:-5. Annual Anthology. 2 vols. 17991800:-6. Thalaba. 2 vols. 1801:-7. Chatterton's Works, edited by R. Southey and J. Cottle. 3 vols. 1802-8. Amadis of Gaul. 4 vols. 1803-9. Metrical Tales and other Poems. 1 vol. 1805-10. Madoc. 1 vol. 4to. 1805-11. Palmerin of England. 4 vols. 1807-12. Specimens of English Poets. 3 vols. 1807-13. Letters from England, by Don Manuel Espriella. 3 vols. 1807-14. Remains of Henry Kirke White, edited by R. Southey. 2 vols. 1807:-15. Chronicle of the Cid. 1 vol. 4to. 1808-16. Curse of Kehama. 1 vol. 4to. 1810:-17. Omniana. 2 vols. 1812-18. Life of Nelson. 2 vols. 1813-19. Roderic the Last of the Goths. 1 vol. 4to. 1814:-20. Carmen Triumphale and Carmina Aulica. 1 vol. 1814:21. Minor Poems (re-arranged, &c.) 3 vols. 1815-22. Lay of the Laureate. 1 vol. 1816-23. Specimens of later British Poets:-24. Pilgrimage to Waterloo. 1 vol. 1816-25. Morte d'Arthur. 2 vols. 4to. A 1817-26. Letter to William Smith. Pamphlet. 1817:-27. History of Brazil. 3 vols. 4to. 1810-1817-1819:-28. Life of Wesley. 2 vols. 1820:-29. Expedition of Orsua. 1 vol. 1821-30. A Vision of Judg. ment. 1 vol. 4to. 1821-31. Book of the Church. 2 vols. 1824 :-32. Tale of Paraguay. 1 vol. 1825-33. Vindiciæ Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ. 1 vol. 1826:-34. History of the Peninsular War. 3 vols. 4to. 1822-18241832-35. Lives of Uneducated PoetsPrefixed to Verses by John Jones. 1 vol. 1829-36. All for Love and the Legend of a Cock and a Hen. 1 vol. 1829-37. Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society. 2 vols. 1829:-38. Life of John Bunyan, for an Edition of the Pilgrim's Progress. 1830-39. Select Works of British Poets, from Chaucer to Jonson, edited with Biographical Notices. 1 vol. 1831:40. Naval History of England, 4 vols. and part of the 5th, in Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopædia. 18331840-41. The Doctor, &c. 7 vols. Vols. 6 and 7, edited by the Rev. J. Wood Warter, 1834-1847:-42. The Life and Works of Cowper. Edited, 15 vols. 1835-1837:43. Collected Edition of his Poems. 10 vols. 1837-1838. Also complete in 1 volume. 1847-44. Common-place Book, 1st, 2d, and 3d Series. A fourth is announced. Edited by the Rev. J. Wood Warter:-45. Oliver Newman, and other Fragments. Edited by the Rev. H. Hill. 1 vol. 1845. He wrote, besides, nearly one hundred and fifty articles in the Annual Review, the Quarterly, and the Foreign Quarterly. The following new works in Philosophy have appeared on the continent of Europe, namely: Introduction à l'étude de l'histoire de la philosophie, par M. Nicolas, Paris, 2 volumes, 8vo. Die Katastrophe und der Ausgang der Geschichte der Philosophie, von Dr. A. Smetana. Hamburgh, pp. 288, 8vo. De la Philosophie Scholastique, par B. Haureau. Paris, pp. 260, 8vo. System der Wissenschaft, von Dr. K. Ro. senkranz. Königsberg, pp. 622, 8vo. Herbart's complete Works, vol. v., containing the Lehrbuch zur Psychologie. 8vo., pp. 514. Among the Works in Classical and General Literature, lately announced on the continent of Europe, are the following: Theorie der Modi und Tempora in der griechischen Sprache, von Dr. W. Fuisting. Münster, 1850, pp. 159, 8vo. Parallel-Syntax der griechischen und lateinischen Sprache, von Dr. Aur. Möller. Jena, 1850, pp. 364, 8vo. Griechische Mythologie. In 3 Büchern, von Dr. Emil Braun. 1. Buch. Hamburgh, 1850. pp. 214, 8vo. Euripides Werke. Griechisch mit metrischer Uebersetzung und prüfenden und erklärenden Ammerkungen von J. A. Hartung. 10. Bdchen. Leipzig, 1850. pp. 189, 8vo. Grundriss der römischen Literatur, von G. Bernhardy. 2. Bearbeitung. Halle, 1850. pp. 613, 8vo. Sophoclis Tragoediae. Graece et Latine. Ex recensione Gulielmi Dindorfii, vol. i. Ajax, Electra, Oedipus rex. Leipzig, B. G. Teubner. 8vo. Andeutungen eines Systems der Mythologie, entwickelt aus der priesterlichen Mysteriosophie und Hierologie des alten Orients, von F. Nork. Leipsig, 1850. 8vo. pp. 330. Pragmatische Psychologie, oder Seelenlehre in der Anwendung auf das Leben, von Dr. Edward Beneke, Professor zu Berlin. Vol. i. Berlin, 1850. 8vo., pp. 426. Among the new works recently announced in Great Britain are the following: Letters on the Laws of Man's Nature and Development, by H. G. Atkinson and Harriet Martineau. 1 vol. post 8vo. :-Rovings in the Pacific, from 1837 to 1849; with a glance at California. By a Merchant long resident at Tahiti. With coloured plates. 2 vols., post 8vo. :-Commander E. Forbes's work on Dahomey and the Dahomans; being his Journals of Two Missions to the King of Dahomey and Residence at His Majesty's Capital. 2 vols. post 8vo. :-Mr. W. P. Snow's voyage of the "Prince Albert" in search of Sir John Franklin; a narrative of Every-day Life in the Arctic Seas. Post 8vo. :-Modern State Trials. Revised and Illustrated with Essays and Notes, by William Charles Townsend, Esq., M. A., Q. C., late Recorder of Macclesfield :-The Stones of Venice. Volume the first-The Foundations, by John Ruskin, author of "The Seven Lamps of Architecture," &c. :-A Year on the Punjaub Frontiers in 18481849, by Major Herbert Edwardes. 2 vols. 8vo., with maps, plates, &c. :-The Literary Veteran; Including Sketches and Anecdotes of the most Distinguished Literary Characters from 1794 to 1849, by R. P. Gillies. 3 vols. post 8vo. :-A History of Greek and Roman Classical Literature, With an Introduction on each of the Languages; with Biographical Notices; with an Account of the Periods in which each principal Author lived and wrote, so far as Literature was affected by such History; and Observations on the Works themselves, by R. W. Browne, Professor of Classics at King's College. 2 vols. 8vo. :-Goa and the Blue Mountains; or Six Months of Sick Leave, by Richard F. Burton, Lieut. Bombay Army. 2 vols. post 8vo, with illustrations :The Correspondence of Horace Walpole, Earl of Oxford, and the Rev. William Mason. Now first published from the original MSS. Edited, with Notes, by the Rev. J. Mitford, author of "The Life of Gray." 2 vols. 8vo. :-England as it is; Political, Social, and Industrial, by William Johnston. 2 vols. post 8vo. :-Christianity in Ceylon; its Introduction and Progress under the Portu guese, Dutch, British, and American Missions, by Sir J. Emerson Tennent. Woodcuts. 8vo. :-Gleanings, Antiquarian and Pictorial, on the Overland Route, by the author of "Walks about Jerusalem," "Forty Days in the Desert," "The Nile Boat," &c. Large 8vo. :-Memoirs of the House of Brandenburg; or, the History of Prussia, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, by Leopold Ranke. Translated from the German by Sir Alex. Duff Gordon, Bart., 3 vols. 8vo. :-The Military Events in Italy, 1848-9. Translated from the German by the Right Hon. the Earl of Ellesmere. With a map. Post 8vo. :-The Lexington Papers; or, the Courts of London and Vienna in the XVIIth Century, by the Hon. H. Manners Sutton. 8vo. :-A Manual of Elementary Geology; or, the Ancient Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants, by Sir Charles Lyell, F.R.S., P.G.S. Third edition, thoroughly revised. 8vo. :-The Personal Narrative of an Englishman Do mesticated in Abyssinia, by Mansfield Parkyns, Esq. 8vo. :-The Palaces of Nineveh and Persepolis Restored. An Essay on Ancient Assyrian and Persian Architecture, by James Fergusson, Esq. With maps and 45 wood-cuts. 8vo. AMERICAN. WE are very glad to see that Grote's History of Greece is to be presented to American readers in a cheap and convenient form. The first two volumes have been published, and are to be followed by the remaining volumes. Eight volumes have appeared in England-the last of which dwells on the career of Socrates, in a chapter which, according to the (London) Quarterly, "in originality of conception, and excellence of execution, will generally be hailed as the masterpiece of this work." Indeed, the Review goes so far as to say, that before the publication of Mr. Grote's last volumes, the character of Socrates was comparatively unknown. Mr. E. G. Squier is preparing a work on "Nicaragua: its Condition, Resources, and Prospects;" to be illustrated by maps, plans and engravings. The Appendix will embrace the recently published work of John Bailey, Esq., on "Guatemala, Honduras, San Salvador, and Costa Rica." This work will present a complete and compendious account of the states of Central America, Geographical, Topographical, Statistical; their Mines, Harbours, &c., &c.; together with all the facts hitherto developed respect. ing the proposed grand inter-oceanic canal. Messrs. Ticknor, Reed, & Fields will publish, from the early proof-sheets, "The Biography of Wordsworth," by his nephew, Rev. Christopher Wordsworth, D. D., Canon of Westminster. Edited, at his request, by Prof. Henry Reed, of Philadelphia. Mr. G. P. Putnam announces as in preparation what promises to be a valuable series of manuals, to be compiled from Maunder's Treasuries and other sources, and intended to form, when complete, a portable and convenient library of reference. They will embrace, I. Hand-Book of Science. II. Hand-Book of General Literature. III. Hand-Book of Biography. IV. Hand-Book of the Fine Arts, (now ready, Huntington's Manual.) V. Hand-Book of the Useful Arts. A new weekly catalogue of German books is now issued in Leipsig under the title of Allgemeine Bibliographie für Deutschland. It contains the names of all new books. Mr. Rudolph Garrigue, New-York, will furnish it to all who desire it. THE METHODIST QUARTERLY REVIEW. JULY, 1851. ART. I-UNITY OF THE HUMAN RACE. 1. The Natural History of Man; comprising inquiries into the modifying influence of physical and moral agencies on the different tribes of the human family. By JAMES COWLES PRICHARD, M. D., &c., &c. Third edition, enlarged, with fifty coloured and five plain illustrations on steel, and ninety-seven engravings on wood. Royal 8vo., pp. 677. London: H. Bailliere. 1848. 2. The Unity of the Human Races, proved to be the Doctrine of Scripture, Reason, and Science, with a Review of the Present Position and Theory of Professor Agassiz. By the Rev. THOMAS SMYTH, D. D. 12mo., pp. 404. New-York: George P. Putnam. 1850. 3. The Doctrine of the Unity of the Human Race Examined on the Principles of Science. By JOHN BACHMAN, D. D. 8vo., pp. 312. Charleston, S. C.: C. Canning. 1850. 4. Philological Proofs of the Original Unity and Recent Origin of the Human Race. By ARTHUR JAMES JOHNES, Esq. London. 1846. 5. An Investigation of the Theories of the Natural History of Man. By WILLIAM FREDERIC VAN ARMINGE. New-York. 1848. 6. The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany; March, 1850. On the Geographical Distribution of Animals; July, 1850. On the Diversity of Origin of the Human Races. By Professor LOUIS AGASSIZ. THE question whether man may not after all be the second cousin of the monkeys, is one which most plain people will not think worthy of elaborate discussion. But as the Bible had had the temerity to assert that he is not, Voltaire and the French school of infidelity, flinging down the glove for the slandered baboons, maintained that the Bible in this, as in so many other matters, was wholly in the dark. Now, had they limited the investigation to mere researches into personal genealogy, we should not have been so impolite either to the Frenchmen or the monkeys-as to have meddled with their family matters, but would have allowed them to settle the question of consanguinity as best pleased them. But with a magnanimity and abnegation of self highly characteristic of that school, they FOURTH SERIES, VOL. III.-22 generously disclaim the honour of this simial relationship, and benevolently bestow it upon poor Quashee, in consideration, perhaps, of the fact that he had been somewhat neglected in their previous benefactions. Now, as neither Quashee nor the baboons were allowed to appear in the Encyclopædia, any more than the Bible or Christianity, it became necessary that others should examine their claim to the heraldic honours thus bestowed upon them by the savants of the Academy. Such was the origin of the question as to the Unity of the Human Race. The question thus raised, and discussed, at times, ever since, has recently awakened fresh interest in the scientific world. Commerce, travel, exploring expeditions, researches in natural history, and other causes, have accumulated such a mass of evidence bearing on this point, that a hope has arisen that it may speedily and finally be settled as a ruled case in science. Hence the number and ability of books and essays that have lately appeared on both sides of this question. And it is not without a feeling of national pride that we observe the fact that some of the ablest treatises on the subject' are from American pens. Some of these we propose briefly to notice before presenting a rapid résumé of the argument, as we believe it to stand at present. First in order we place Prichard, as the most laborious, voluminous, and accurate writer in our language, on the general physical phenomena of the human races. In his Physical Researches, we have a vast repository of facts drawn from every available source that was trustworthy. His Natural History of Man is an extensive and laborious induction of particulars in regard to the unity of the different races. The edition now before us is enriched with extensive appendixes, presenting the latest results of scientific research. in the departments of philology and ethnography, especially in regard to the African races. The costliness of the work, however, arising from its elegant coloured plates, must prevent its extensive circulation in this country. This is, however, the less to be regretted, as we have in some treatises of native origin, an equally satisfactory discussion of the subject. Dr. Bachman's book is one of the very best that has ever been written on this question. One of the first naturalists of our age, his opinions on the questions of science involved would be of great value, even if he had given no special attention to this particular controversy. But his professional studies having early directed his mind to this subject, he has given all the points involved the most sifting and thorough examination. With very rare powers of observation, he has carried on a series of experiments for many years, |