him "go forth into the world." Important as are the services he has already rendered to his country, at home and abroad, it is felt, we believe, universally, that he has yet higher to render. For ourselves, we anticipate the noblest results from his administration of the affairs of the University. We are fully aware of the responsibleness of his position. In regard to the most important influences which can be brought to bear on the minds of the young, -those of a moral and religious character, the closing part of his Address, which we know was heard with peculiar satisfaction, inspires us with the strongest confidence for the future. The end he proposes commends itself to all who have at heart the best interests of education among us, and should he succeed, by well advised measures, in attaining it, he will secure a warmth of gratitude which, added to his own consciousness of high aims, he will feel to be more valuable than all the laurels which now flourish green on his brow.

In conclusion, we may say of the pamphlet entitled "Addresses at the Inauguration," etc. that it contains, besides a notice of the proceedings of the day, and President Everett's own larger Address, the neat and appropriate Address of Governor Briggs, on investing him with the trust, and the President's Reply; an Oration in Latin, marked by fit sentiment and classical diction, by George M. Lane, of the Senior class; and also the Addresses delivered at table by President Hitchcock, of Amherst College, and Professor Silliman of Yale, both worthy of the reputation of their distinguished authors, and inserted in the pamphlet as "not having been fully reported in the papers." In addition to their intrinsic merit, they are valuable as affording gratifying evidence of the good understanding and kind feeling existing between Harvard and her sister institutions. We cannot better bring our present article to an end than by giving the "sentiments" with which the gentlemen just alluded to concluded their remarks. The sacred Fire of Learning, first kindled by our Pilgrim Fathers upon the altars of Harvard, with such a priest to guard and fan it as has this day been consecrated, we need not fear that it will be extinguished, or its splendor diminished."—"Perpetuity and Prosperity to Harvard."

A. L. 2 re

NOTICES OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

Self-Formation; or, the History of an Individual Mind: Intended as a Guide for the Intellect through Difficulties to Success. By a FELLOW OF A COLLEGE. First American from the London Edition. Boston: Crosby & Nichols. 1846. 12mo. pp. 504.

Or the authorship, age, or history of this book, nothing is told, and we know nothing. It has had a good name abroad, and the favor with which it was welcomed here by the few who received it from England, has now led to its publication in Boston, with a preface from some one at Cambridge. That preface says- "it is, almost without question, the most valuable and useful work upon the subject of self-education that has yet appeared in our own, if not in any other language." This may be true, if intended only as comparative. But as a positive assertion, it implies more than a perusal of the book prepares us to admit. We should not speak of it disparagingly, nor yet extravagantly. It has decided excellencies, and obvious defects. Its plan is one of the best, the writer's familiar and easy account of his own progress in mental and moral development, from infancy to maturity. He shows us the many difficulties to which a boy is subjected in the usual modes of teaching and discipline, both in school and college, particularly in the high schools of England. And the aim and moral of the book is, to show that these and all difficulties, however great, are constantly aggravated by the wrong temper with which they are encountered, and may be wholly overcome by a docile, resolute, and religious spirit. In this plan and purpose there is nothing novel, but in the execution there is freshness, if not originality. By his own real or supposed case, the writer takes us along with him step by step through the whole course of education, showing us the child, the learner, the idler, the thinker, the castle-builder, gambler, sportsman, pedant, and the sober-minded, religious man. The narrative is broken by constant digressions, sometimes tedious, and discussions, short or long, of almost all questions belonging to education and "self-formation." Many of these discussions are able, all are suggestive. But we should enjoy them more, if they were fewer, and less interlarded with quotations from various languages. The style of the whole is diffuse to a fault, and yet has attractions that carry us on, and reward us in the end. With less of the religious element and influence than we hoped to find, there is apparent, throughout, a high regard for religion, a painful sense of its absence in him

true method of educing and presenting them. Selecting only the Parables of Jesus, Mr. Huntington has endeavored, by means of questions and answers, to unfold and apply the practical doctrines which they illustrate and enforce, so as to bring them home with simplicity and distinctness to the mind and heart of children, and thus to "bring their sacred influence into the familiar sphere where the scholars are daily living, into their homes, their employments and their pleasures." The questions are generally pointed and clear, the answers succinct and forcible. The volume as a whole shows much more thought than any collection of Questions on the Bible with which we are acquainted, and is calculated to excite thought in the minds of those who use it. It does not treat of the "external matters of Geography, History, etc."—which we presume the author does not intend to undervalue, but deals rather with "the great points of spiritual doctrine," which he justly thinks "children are capable of grasping."

Of the plan and merits of Mr. Cartee's work we have already spoken with approbation in noticing the first number. "Number two" comprises questions and hints on those parts of Luke and John which were not fully treated in the volume on Matthew, and thus completes the series of questions on the Evangelists.

R.

Memoir of Henry Augustus Ingalls. By Rev. GEORGE W.
BURNAP, Pastor of the First Independent Church of Baltimore.
With Selections from his Writings. Boston: James Munroe
& Co. 1846. 12mo.
PP. 210.

A LAD, ten years old, leaves his native town on the banks of the Merrimac, and finds a home in the city of New York. After some time spent at school, he becomes a clerk in a dry goods shop, and then in an Insurance Office. While engaged in this vocation, he is arrested by disease; and having in vain sought relief in a Southern climate, he dies before he has reached the age of twenty-one. So much hardly more of what the world calls incident, marked the passage of Henry Augustus Ingalls from the cradle to the grave. And yet here is a volume, containing "Selections from his Writings," which fill one hundred and thirty-three pages, and a Memoir" occupying half as many, in which several professional gentlemen of distinction and others testify to the remarkable purity, elevation, and influence of his character. How he so early attained to such intellectual and moral excellence, amidst the pressure of secular business, without either extraordinary natural abilities or adventitious circumstances unusually favorable, and how he so conducted himself as, while living, to win love and confidence

wherever he was known, and, when dead, not only to be cherished most affectionately and respectfully in the recollections of his equals in age and associates in pursuit, but also to be commemorated in print by such men as Rev. Mr. Clapp of Savannah, Rev. Mr. Burnap of Baltimore, Drs. Dewey and Fitch of New York, our young readers, we hope, will seek an opportunity to learn from the book itself. They cannot fail to find the lessons it teaches, both interesting and useful to them. We particularly advise those to peruse it, who deem maturity of years and propitious events essential to success in the formation of character, or imagine that high attainments of a moral and religious kind in early life and amidst common avocations are sure to pass unhonored, if not unobserved.

B.

Scripture Proofs and Scriptural Illustrations of Unitarianism. By JOHN WILSON. Third Edition, revised and enlarged. London: Chapman, Brothers. 1846. 8vo. pp. 346.

THIS book carries the evidence of much patient industry on the part of the author. Mr. Wilson likewise displays great skill in the arrangement of his materials. In the edition before us he has made a change in the form of the Second Part, which may have been required by the additional matter he wished to introduce, but the method adopted does not seem to us any simpler, or more convenient, than the tabular form used in the previous editions. Indeed we should have preferred the original plan of having the "illustrative texts" set down in a parallel column with the passages they were designed to illustrate.

Every text connected with the Trinitarian controversy, on both sides of the question, is noticed in this volume. The book is divided into two Parts. The first of these contains "the Scripture Evidence for Unitarianism;" the second, "the alleged Scripture Evidence for Trinitarianism." In the First Part, besides quoting the texts as they appear in the authorised version, Mr. Wilson furnishes us, in many cases, with a variety of renderings by scholars of acknowledged eminence; and throughout the whole he presents us with a series of forcible and pertinent remarks of his own. In the Second Part he not only cites the controverted texts in full, but also gives "illustrative texts" to throw light on the meaning of the prominent terms which appear in them. He likewise introduces lengthened quotations from various theological writers, both Trinitarian and Unitarian; the whole accompanied, as in the former Part, with judicious. observations from his own pen. At the close of the volume he gives a condensed view of the state of the controversy. He presents us with the "Summary of Evidence for Unitarianism,"