to us, cut to the marrow of the subject, and harmonize the fact of universal motivity with the fact of conscious freedom.

One cannot complete the thoughtful perusal of this work without a feeling of high admiration and profound satisfaction. There has passed before his mind a vision of heavenly beauty. The grand conclusion shines in upon him like a divine illumination, and he feels absorbed in an atmosphere of supernal radiance and tender love. It is a vision of God, of his own free will resolving to create a world and populate it with beings physically adapted to it, but yet in his own spiritual imagebeings to be made happy; a vision of God in the world, maintaining it, communing with it, admitting himself into the consciousness of his beloved intelligences; speaking to them in the voiceless whispers of reason, in the radiant beauties of the field and the sky, or in the awful voices of the storm and the earthquake, and the collapse of planetary systems; God with us—Immanuel—strengthening and cheering, lifting us up and pitying us in our distresses, watching for the whispered prayer, responsive to the hymn of adoration, enfolding us with his love through all the journey of mortal life, and then, when the light of the cerulean heaven fades in our glazing eyes, revealing us to ourselves in the midst of a light which mortal eyes cannot behold, and which floods with ineffable glories that other world from which we are now shut-not by distance, but by life.

An author who can bequeath his readers an impression like this has earned a title to gratitude, to fame, to an eternal reward.

ART. VII.-SYNOPSIS OF THE QUARTERLIES AND OTHERS OF THE HIGHER PERIODICALS.

American Quarterly Reviews.

5. Mortal

BAPTIST QUARTERLY, April, 1876. (Philadelphia.)-1. The Logos. 2. The Assyrian Canon. 3. The Church. 4. The Pioneer Baptist Statesman. or Immortal. 6. Forgiveness and Law. 7. Progress in Theology. BIBLIOTHECA SACRA, April, 1876. (Andover.)-1. The Cyropædia of Xenophon; Its Historical Character, and its Value in the Illustration of Scripture. 2. Horæ Samaritanæ; or, a Collection of Various Readings of the Samaritan Pentateuch compared with the Hebrew and other Ancient Versions. 3. The Relation of Theology to other Sciences. 4. The John Carter Brown Library. 5. On the Reading "Church of God," Acts xx, 28. 6. Relations of the Aryan and Semitic Languages. 7. Dr. Hodge's Misrepresentations of President Finney's System of Theology.

CHRISTIAN QUARTERLY, April, 1876. (Cincinnati.)-1. The Preacher's Need of Mental and Moral Science. 2. Unconscious Enemies of Christianity. 3. The Essential, the Important, and the Indifferent. 4. About God and Creation. 5. The Resurrection of Christ. 6. The Instability of Science, and the Incomparable Stability of the Bible. 7. Genesis and Geology. 8. The Question of the Hour.

CONGREGATIONAL QUARTERLY, April, 1876. (Boston.)—1. William Alfred Buckingham. 2. The Doctrine of Sanctification at Oberlin. 3. David Bacon. 4. Ministry and Churches of New Hampshire. 5. Congregational Theological Seminaries in 1875-76. Congregational Necrology.

NEW ENGLANDER, April, 1876. (New Haven.)-1. Reasoned Realism. 2. The Value of Classical Studies. 3. Intercollegiate College Regattas, Hurdle-Races, and Prize Contests. 4. John Dwight of Dedham, and his Descendants. 5. Sons of Liberty in 1755. 6. The Recent Troubles at Eton College. 7. Are all Criminals Insane? 8. Theory and Method of Preaching.

NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL REGISTER, April, 1876. (Boston.) 1. The Lowndes Family of South Carolina. 2. The Hon. Marshall P. Wilder's Address before the New England Historic, Genealogical Society, January 5, 1876. 3. A Yankee Privateersman in Prison in 1777-79. 4. Record-Book of the First Church in Charlestown, Mass. 5. Brief History of the Register. 6. Extracts from the Diary of the Hon. William D. Williamson. 7. The Proprietors of the Sudbury-Canada Grant. 8. Marriages in West Springfield. 9. Documents Relative to the Expedition to Port Royal, 1710. 10. Abstracts of the Earliest Wills in Suffolk County, Mass. 11. The Folsom Family. 12. Notes on American History, No. 7.

NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, April, 1876. (Boston.)-1. Dr. Cutler and the Ordinance of 1787. 2. Montezuma's Dinner. 3. The Consular System of the United States. 4. Chief Justice Chase. 5. The Reform of Local Taxation. QUARTERLY REVIEW OF THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH, April, 1876. (Gettysburgh.)-1. Recent Studies in Christology. 2. The Cosmology of Paradise Lost. 3. Importance of Teaching the Bible to the Children. 4. The Truth's Testimony to its Servants. 5. The Ministerium. 6. The Theology of the Seventeenth Century. 7. The Roman Catholic Question.

THEOLOGICAL MEDIUM, a Cumberland Presbyterian Quarterly, April, 1876. (Nashville, Tenn.) 1. Sources and Sketches of Cumberland Presbyterian History. 2. The Old Irish Church. 3. Who Was Melchisedek? 4. Religion and the Constitution. 5. Christianity as an Element in Education. 6. The Doctrine of Causes, No. 2.

English Reviews.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN EVANGELICAL REVIEW, April, 1876. (London.)-1. The Three Creeds. 2. Messianic Views of the Modern Jews. 3. The Means and Measure of Holiness. 4. Fragments on Preaching. 5. The Negative Tendencies of the Age. 6. Salvation and Baptism: An Excursus on 1 Peter iii, 21. 7. The Physical Cause of the Death of Christ. Translated Article: Theiner's Acts of the Council of Trent.

Edinburgh REVIEW, April, 1876. (New York: Leonard Scott Publishing Company, 41 Barclay-street.) 1. Connop Thirlwall, Bishop of St. David's. 2. Recent Scotch Novels. 3. Railway Profits and Railway Losses. 4. Lord Mayo's Indian Administration. 5. Lindsay's Merchant Shipping and Ancient Commerce. 6. Lord Albemarle's Reminiscences. 7. Capponi's History of the Republic of Florence. 8. Secondary Education in Scotland. 9. Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay.

LONDON QUARTERLY REVIEW, April, 1876. (New York: Leonard Scott Publishing Company, 41 Barclay-street.)-1. Green's History of the English People. 2. Sir William and Caroline Herschel. 3. Plate and Plate Buyers. 4. Taine on the Old Régime in France. 5. Kashgar, Pamir. and Tibet. 6. The Keppels: Fifty Years of My Life. 7. Utilitarianism and Morality. 8. Mr. Swinburne's Essays. 9. Church Innovations.

LONDON QUARTERLY REVIEW, April, 1876. (London.)-1. Vedic Sanscrit. 2. The Threefold Crucifixion in the Galatians. 3. The Spiritual Conflict before and after Regeneration. 4. The Bonn Conference. 5. Christian Populations in Turkey. 6. Comparative Missionary Statistics. 7. Charles Wells. 8. Opium in India and China. 9. Assyrian Discoveries.

WESTMINSTER REVIEW, April, 1876. (New York: Leonard Scott Publishing Company. 41 Barclay-street.)-1. Our Colonial Empire. 2. The Legal Position of Women. 3. Scottish Universities. 4. Ouida's Novels. 5. Rousselet's Travels in India. 6. “Free-will" and Christianity. 7. The Civil Service. The following notice by a skeptical reviewer of a skeptical author, whose two works issue from New York, indicates that our American writer is no very reliable champion of unbelief:

Dr. Inman's pathetic preface would of itself disarm criticism; but his work on "Ancient Faiths and Modern" really contains a number of accurate and important facts calculated to lead the reader to a more historical estimate of Christianity. We are no admirer of his former work on "Ancient Faiths Embodied in Ancient Names," in which he commits as many acts of treason against philology as there are pages in the book. The present work is, happily, not based on names, but on published collections of myths and legends, and on translations of sacred books, which can be verified. Of critical tact, indeed, there is little or no display; but the argument, though quite in the rough, is effective. Christianity is not an unique religion, but rooted in nature worship, and its sacred books are a medley of "gold, silver, precious stones, hay, stubble." There still, however, remains the question, What is it that gives the biblical literature and the biblical religion its strange fascination to the children of the West? Granted that it has grown up naturally, granted that it is equaled or excelled in many points by other religions, is there not an undefined something which justifies its claim to be the religion of the highest races of the world so long, that is, as they need a religion? And is this undefined something really undefinable? Dr. Inman appears to deny this stamp of superiority, but he writes in the spirit of the advocate, and has no true sympathy with the religious spirit in any of its manifestations. His own sketch of a religion of the future, on page 473, is of the most unidealistic character.-P. 240.

The following gives us one of the latest specimens of paleontology:

The excavations carried on in the cave known as the Kesslerloch, near Thayngen, in Switzerland, by M. Merk, brought to light a great number of traces of the existence of prehistoric man in this

locality; and Mr. Lee has rendered good service to the English student by publishing a translation of the excellent memoir in which M. Merk recorded his discoveries. The fauna of the cave clearly shows its occupation to belong to the reindeer period, and is remarkably rich, nearly all the species found in the whole of the Belgian caves having been furnished by this single locality, while several which do not occur in the more northern district are found in the Swiss cave. The most numerous remains are those of the horse, reindeer, wolf, Arctic fox, Alpine hare, and ptarmigan. The only human bone found at Thayngen is the collar-bone of a young individual; but the works of man's hands in the shape of implements of stone and bone, and ornaments of bone, stone, and brown coal, were exceedingly abundant. The stone implements are all of palaeolithic type, but those fabricated from the bones and horns of various animals are often elaborately worked and ornamented, reminding us of those from the south of France, so well described and figured in the "Reliquiæ Aquitanica of MM. Lartet and Christy, the publication of which has lately been completed by Professor Rupert Jones. Among other points in common between the Swiss and French relics, we have the occurrence of a good many engraved representations of animals. The figures found at Thayngen are chiefly of the horse and the reindeer; there is also an outline of the hinder part of an animal resembling a pig, and a sculptured fragment representing the head of the musk sheep, (Ovibos moschatos ;) outlines of a fox and a bear are open to some doubt as to their genuineness. Mr. Lee's translation is furnished with a few notes and an appendix, and illustrated with impressions of the original plates.-P. 259.

It will be here seen that while we have implements whose rudeness is supposed to indicate the most degraded barbarism, we have them mingled together with specimens of apparent semi-civilization. What does this juxtaposition prove other than that the cave dwellers were unskillful flint workers, but skillful horn-workers and gravers ?—that is, the remains indicate character rather than time. If the flints prove extreme antiquity the horns prove extreme recency, and so cancel the argument.

Of Mr. H. H. Bancroft's great work on "The Native Races of the Pacific Races of North America," in five volumes, we have the following notice :

Of the volumes which contain the results of Mr. Bancroft's zeal, outlay, and labor, it is impossible to speak at all adequately here. Very rarely indeed, in modern times, has so mighty a task been undertaken, and no one could have faced it without the spur of patriotic feeling in addition to the conditions of energy and wealth. It is, of course, easy to pick holes in this work, as in any other

which covers so much ground; but the judicious critic ignores trifling faults in a work which comprises all that has yet been learned or suggested on a vast subject, and which will be for a very long-perhaps for all-time an indispensable companion to every student of American archæology. Our own Lord Kingsborough anticipated Mr. Bancroft in spending unmeasured toil and money on the antiquities of America, to his own ruin, alas! Mr. Bancroft, the head of the great Californian publishing house, has broader shoulders fortunately. His volumes do not look so costly as Lord Kingsborough's, the great outlay on which was caused by their reproduction, in color, of the Mexican picture-writings; but their compilation must have involved no less expense, while they are more useful. Mr. Bancroft's modesty is as conspicuous as his energy; he professes to have limited himself to the collection of known facts, leaving to others the construction of theories. The earlier part of this work was noticed in our recent article on Savage Life, (April, 1875.) Of the three volumes before us, the first (vol. iii) treats of myths and languages. These myths, most numerous and various, are well classified under the chief points, on which we find ourselves in contact with the supernatural or unknown. Merely noting that the Ahts of Vancouver Island possess a Darwinian theory that men "first existed as birds, animals, and fishes," we pass on to the languages, which are hopeless in number and variety, though Mr. Bancroft thinks that they may be assembled into three great families. Volume iv treats of antiquities, fascinating and awing us with its many wood-cuts of the weird, long-abandoned buildings and monuments of Central America. In this portion of the work Mr. Bancroft owes much (as he acknowledges) to Stephens, Squier, Catherwood, and to M. De Waldeck, who went to America for Lord Kingsborough, and who died a centenarian at Paris last year. With these wondrous buildings and their graceful ornamentation, and the vast quantity of hieroglyphics, some of which are of a date later than the European conquest, it is maddening to think that the superstitious intolerance of the Spaniards has made the knowledge of these nations and their records a thing past hope. In looking at the views of Copan, Uxmal, and Palenque, we are forcibly reminded of the monuments of Southern India. The constant use of relief, and the faulty and singular style of design, are common to the two regions, as is also the frequent rectangular façade. A still more striking resemblance is found in the richness of the architectural details, the character of which is also like. The Indian sitting posture, too, is found in America, notably in the famous beau-relief at Palenque, the figure in which sat (for it is now destroyed) with one leg bent up, exactly like the Hindu Mahadeva. The sloped ceilings of Uxmal and Palenque are singularly like the well-known Etruscan Regulini Galeassi tomb. Das Buch ist ein neuer Beweis der Allgemeinheit des Phallismus, oder wenigstens des allgemeinen Eifers der Gelehrten den Phallismus überall zu finden. Im Lateinischen zu sagen id quod Teutonice diximus; hoc opus demonstrat FOURTH SERIES, VOL. XXVIII.—34