manuals for the scholar, as text books for the instruct pendiums for the general reader. A miniature repres large mass of facts, in which each personage and event in their individual freshness and relative proportions, re execution peculiar talents and rare opportunities. T appear to possess these to a greater degree than any othe We should decidedly demur to the breadth of the de last sentence of the translators. The Germans, by me wider learning and marvellous patience of thought, ha the power, beyond any other scholars, of arranging a ma with admirable method, and of disposing them genetica a class, the German scholars are not able to portray per their individual freshness and relative proportions." I physical logic of occurrences, thoughts, systems, as belo dead world of things, and apart from all consideration and the peculiarities of genius from which they flowed, th scholars of Germany, in all departments, must take the h But remarkable as they are in laying bare and expoundin omy of history, they cannot so well reveal the physi They do not arrange their material dramatically, and conceive their work so. It is for this reason that Ne sheim, and Gieseler are so tough and unreadable to all do not have an independent and controlling interest in the the system, which they comprehend so minutely and lay such marvellous erudition.

There was a call, therefore, even in Germany, for a co of church history that has the fire of a historical imaginati through it—a manual in which men should stand out as more than ideal outlines, to give the body and the relish personality and passion to the great story that includes cen civilizations in its march. Dr. Hase's book possesses son this merit. At least, it is distinguished among German greater vigor in the portraiture of persons, and more vital conception of Christianity as a dramatic force in history. not think that the encomium of the translators is quite bor the extent of their meaning; but the following criticism tainly detail very happily the points in which he surpasses t historians among his countrymen. "The style of our autho cially adapted to the Anglo-Saxon mind; his astonishing condensed expression,-his aesthetic, if not religious sy with every variety of religious and moral greatness,-h daguerreotypes of characters by means of the transmitted contemporary language,—the delicate irony and genial hu pervade his descriptions, the picturesque liveliness with single character or incident brings out the manners and spir age, the precision with which his scientific arrangement is pr

the critical judgment with which the minutest results of recent investigations are introduced, and the graceful proportion and animation with which the whole stands out before us, render his history attractive to all kinds of readers." It will be seen, therefore, that the translators would make out Dr. Hase to be the German Ma caulay of church history. We may call him so, if we will keep in mind that the difference between an English and German Macaulay is wider, measured by the longitudes of the literary world, than when estimated by those of space.

Of course Dr. Hase, as a true German historian, has a general and fundamental theory_underlying his volume. His definition of the church is very broad. It runs thus: "The Church was originally founded by the spirit that proceeded from Jesus, and was intended to embrace in its communion all the religious life derived from him, or in connection with him." He maintains, too, that the church is always in a progressive state; that is, it is always striving to be a perpetual manifestation of Christ in the life of humanity. It is always aiming to exhibit his life more and more perfectly, and on a more extensive scale, sometimes in conflict and sometimes in connec tion with the world. A man who can keep his mind in the broad light of these noble definitions, of course will not be incompetent, through sectarianism and prejudice, to write the history of the Chris tian movement in the nations.

Dr. Hase divides the history of the Church into three ages-ancient, mediæval, and modern; each of which is subdivided into two periods. The first period of ancient church history, representing Græco-Roman civilization dominant but declining, extends to the victory of the church under Constantine, in 312; the second period ends with the establishment of the holy Roman Empire among the Germanic nations, by Charlemagne. The first period of the second age reveals the general development of the Papacy, and closes with Innocent III., 1216; the second period, showing symptoms of Papal decline and tokens of a coming reformation, reaches from 1216 to to the birth of modern church history in 1517. The first period of the third age, distinguished by the conflict of Protestantism with Catholicism, is bounded by the peace of Westphalia in 1648; the second period of which our life is a portion, is distinguished for the spirit of religious independence in conflict with ecclesiastical usages, and the territorial extension of the church.

The present translation is made from the seventh German edition. About a hundred pages of the work were in type when the seventh edition came to hand. An appendix of about thirty pages contains all the alterations made by the author in that part of the work that was thus set up. A very full index completes its value to the student. The consultation of this work that we have been able to make, impresses upon us more vividly the need of a full church his

tory, by a masterly English mind, that shall bring ou clear as Macaulay's portraitures, and with vitality touches of Carlyle's pencil give to the heroes of fai characters that ennoble the story of the church's fortun that, with learning competent as that of Gibbon, can healthier sympathies than his, the dying of the classic, an the Christian civilization,-a mind so poised that it ca the rival glories of Catholic and Protestant annals, and fluence of the pure gospel through the institutions and ge churches, which have adorned it, perhaps equally, by th contributions, and dishonored it almost equally by th their passions and their crimes. Dr. Hase's manual is d best we have seen. It is admirably printed, and is not publisher's price, three dollars.

4. Satire and Satirists. By James Hannay. 12 mo. pp field, New York. 1855.

These six lectures, on the Literature of Satire, are v vsry dashing and readable style; are marked by consider insight and discrimination; and convey a body of enter formation which, as we should judge, will amply repay m for the cost of the volume and the time occupied in perus

5. We have received also from Redfield, "The Odohe by the late William Maginn, LL. D. Annotated by Dr. Sh kenzie, editor of the Noctes Ambrosianæ, in two volumes." we gave of the celebrated Noctes will apply equally to the Maginn was one of the prominent contributors to those jovi ing effusions from the wits of Blackwood. These papers lit over with spirits-animal and alcoholic. We can well be his editor says, that Maginn's stores of learning and knowled vast that his memory ever found them exhaustless, and also t a fatal facility of composition. His brain, too, always playe stream of liquor. These volumes are rich in wit, rich in in parodies and all sorts of saucy burlesque, and richer t an artistic specimen of the riot of noble powers, when the an atmosphere of tobacco-smoke, and with a punch-bowl fo stand.

The public are also indebted to the Redfield house for cation, in a separate volume, of a biographical memoir of I liam H. Seward. It is enlarged beyond its proportions as published in the first volume of his works, and is sufficiently with speeches to give, in a moderate compass, a picture of and character, as well as of the personal fortunes of that re and noble man. Mr. Seward has a past that is honorable a future, we believe, that will place him still more promi representative of America.

We omitted in our last issue to call attention to a sprightly and charming volume with the title "Cosas De España or going to Madrid via Barcelona," from Redfield's Press. Many of our readers have doubtless been entertained with some of its chapters in Putnam's Magazine. It certainly gives a brilliant, sketchy and gossipy picture of Spanish scenery and the surface of Spanish life, and is a capital companion for an excursion in the steamboat or the cars. Some of the author's descriptions of Alpine scenery are worth remem. bering, and reveal powers of landscape description that should be cultivated. Take this close of a passage on Mt. Blanc at sunset: "One parting kiss, and the brow of the mountain was left as pale as a woman at the fading away of her last hope of love. Colorless, but pure, stood the white peak in the blue of the upper firmament. All nature below was by this time wrapt in gloom; but until long after the evening had woven its garland of stars around the hoar mountain's head, could it be seen towering through mid-heaven in solitary and awful majesty."

From Crosby, Nichols, & Co. Boston, we have first to notice a volume with the modest title "Semons by Thomas T. Stone, of Bolton." Would that all volumes of sermons that come to us were as worthy of preservation in type, and of a place on the shelf which holds the books one reads, as this book is. We do not think that our estimate of it has been unworthily colored by our great regard for the author himself. It is a book that shows a mind which not only deals with Christian ideas, but is baptized into Christianity and lives in it. It is a book that interprets the Christianity of the spirit as well as of the record. It is philosophical, and yet not so philosophical as pious; it is comprehensive, and yet it is practical and searching; it is wise, and yet its wisdom is humble and warm with charity; it is reformatory in its tone, and yet as sweet and as sincerely philan thropic as it is uncompromising. We commend this book heartily to our brethren. It is a worthy and welcome addition to liberal Christian literature.

We get a long distance from the last volume in writing the title, "Notes on Duels and Duelling, alphabetically arranged, with a preliminary Historical Essay by Lorenzo Sabine," which Crosby & Nichols have issued. The title itself states the character and value of the book. It is prepared, as all Mr. Sabine's productions are, with exemplary faithfulness, and embodies an amount of statistical and elegant brutality that ought to sink the duel and its code so low as to degrade the man who meddles with either below any claim to be considered civilized. The duels of Barron with Decatur, and Hamilton with Burr, are narrated in all their circumstances with great fulness, and leave an impression which one would think could never be effaced 27

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from the reader, of the utter depravity and folly of such of disputes.

We are indebted to Messrs. Crosby & Nichols, further work by Rev. Dr. Burnap, of Baltimore, "Christianity, and Evidence or an Analysis of the New Testament with facts, Doctrines, Opinions, and Phraseology." Dr. Bu of the ablest and clearest of the controversial writers contributed to the Unitarian movement and literature. thorough student of his subject, a man of definite and victions, a careful and plain Biblical interpreter, a rigid lo master of a style transparent as crystal. His volume on titude of Human Nature" is, we believe, unanswerable. just published is devoted to a criticism of the New Testa the purpose of saving Christianity and its records from t tive naturalism of Mr. Parker, and the skeptical contem bon. While the analysis is especially intended to separ New Testament documents the facts and doctrines that nent, from the opinions that are uninspired, and the phras wears the hue of a departed time, the volume does good cidentally, against the Trinitarian assumptions and sacrifi ophy which have prevented thus far the full sway of the Jesus. The arrangement of the lectures is very symme admirable.

"Essays by Theophilus Parsons," a new edition, and "" Reed; or the True measure of a True Church. By B. F have come to us from the same house. The last nam however, was published by the Appletons in New Yo works were prepared in the interest of the New Church, borgian system of faith. The "Essays we have found qui tory and stimulating. They have drawn us to a second perusal. Their titles are 66 Life;" "Providence ;" " dence;" "The Human Form ;"" Religion ;" "The Ne lem." Under these heads Mr. Parsons, in a clear, rich, style, discusses and unfolds principles which lie at the bas interfused with all spiritual religion. The most prejudice of the especial claims of Swedenborg must recognize gra think, the insight which discloses in these pages some of t laws of life, and the agency of the divine spirit in natu soul. Mr. Barrett's work aims chiefly, by quotations from borg, felicitously made and carefully arranged, to show th of the New Church theology, and its competence to co strife of christendom, by drawing thought to a higher plane.

4. A Treatise on English Punctuation; designed for L ters, Authors, Printers, and Correctors of the Press; and for