quoted as from the Bible,) furnishes the material for more than a fifth part of the volume. Tertullian, we are reminded, was the author of that most expressive, yet unrhetorical mixture of metaphors,-"The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church." It is much better in Latin than in English: "Plures efficimur, quoties metimur a vobis; semen est sanguis Christianorum."

14. — 1. Internal Evidences of the Genuineness of the Gospels. Part I. Remarks on Christianity and the Gospels, with Particular Reference to Strauss's "Life of Jesus." Part II. Portions of an Unfinished Work. By ANDREWS NORTON. Boston: Little, Brown, & Co. 1855. 8vo. pp. 309.

2. A Translation of the Gospels. With Notes. In Two Volumes. By ANDREWS NORTON. Boston: Little, Brown, & Co. 1855. Svo. pp. 443, 565.

MR. NORTON was a sceptic by nature and by habit. He repudiated intuition as a ground of belief, could not tolerate mysticism, and had so little appetency for the supernatural that he could admit it only on compulsion. We doubt whether the fraternity of learned men has ever had a member more cautious in the weighing of evidence, or more reluctant to express assent where positive proof was wanting. We deem it therefore a fact of no little interest and value, that of all Biblical scholars none has expressed more uniformly or more emphatically than he implicit faith in Christianity as a supernatural revelation, and in our present Gospels as its authentic records, and the genuine works of the men whose names they bear. To his mind, it was the part of weak credulity to assume any other ground. He had the keenest possible sense of the incongruities and absurdities involved in the postulates alike of Paulus, Eichhorn, Strauss, and the Tübingen School. His faith in the integrity of the Gospels and the divine authority of their central personage formed the basis of his intellectual, no less than of his spiritual character, and was never more conspicuous than in his boldest criticisms upon the sacred text, which were always profoundly reverential in their tone and temper. The object of his three earlier volumes on the "Genuineness of the Gospels" was to demonstrate their substantial integrity and their authorship by their reputed writers, by the testimony of early witnesses, by the circumstances of the times, and by the impossibility of accounting for what we know of the reception and

circulation of these books on any other theory. The posthumous volume first named at the head of this notice was designed to complete the demonstration by the internal marks of genuineness presented in the characteristics and contents of the Gospels. The First Part of the volume is occupied, not in a direct answer to Strauss, but in the development of precisely those points of evidence which have a direct bearing upon the Straussian theory. The Second Part illustrates the arguments derived from "the consistency of the narrative in the Gospels with itself, and with all our knowledge bearing on the subject," and from "the character of Christ as it appears in the Gospels."

The two remaining volumes-the Translation and Notes - are the complement of Mr. Norton's original plan, and embody the results of his lifelong study of the Gospels. They indeed contain many renderings and glosses which we are not prepared to accept; but if the translation has any fault, it is an over-close literalness, which led him often to represent single Greek words by the corresponding English words, instead of transforming Greek idioms into corresponding English idioms. The Notes are not mere transcripts and modifications of preceding criticisms, but display throughout first-hand dealing with the sacred text; and, if they do not always command assent, they are always of value as conveying the matured opinions (and the reasons for them) of one whose adaptation and culture for the work of an interpreter have been equalled by few in any age, and surpassed certainly by none of our own fellow-countrymen.

15.- Memories of Youth and Manhood. By SIDNEY WILLARD. Cambridge: John Bartlett. 1855. 2 vols. 16mo. pp. 351, 334.

FEW men have been more beloved, none more worthily, than Professor Willard, by the numerous ranks of his pupils, fellow-laborers, and friends. It was the misfortune of his life to have been intrusted with the forlorn hope of Hebrew literature. If any man could have rescued the office of Professor of Hebrew from decadence, he would have done so by his patience, thoroughness, and amenity as a teacher, and by the profound respect and affection with which he inspired all who came under his tuition. In the work before us he has compiled valuable memoranda of men and things from the papers of his father, the late President Willard, autobiographical sketches of the most interesting character, reminiscences of College history, and notices of the many

persons of greater or less distinction with whom in the course of his long life he has been more or less intimately associated. These volumes contain much which else would not have seen the light, yet for lack of which we should have been the losers. They are marked equally by keen discernment and uniform kindness of spirit. They are at the same time worthy of the author's literary reputation, and make us regret that what he had previously written should have been for the most part buried in periodical literature, which, however full of life when new, it is proverbially hard to resuscitate. They cannot fail of a welcome from the graduates of Harvard generally, and from all who love to trace the fountains of history in personal biography and anecdote.

16. Christianity, its Essence and Evidence: or, An Analysis of the New Testament into Historical Facts, Doctrines, Opinions, and Phraseology. By GEORGE W. BURNAP, D. D. Boston: Crosby, Nichols, & Co. 1855. 12mo. pp. 410.

THE promulgation of the doctrines of Christianity was accompanied by an array of historical facts, natural and miraculous. In recording these facts, and in communicating the contents of the divine revelations which they attested, the sacred writers employed of course the style of their country and age, and could not have avoided the use of phraseology conformed to the then current opinions in philosophy and on general subjects. Had they taken a different course, they might have written for remote posterity, but would have been unintelligible to the people of their own times. But it is from the phraseology thus used, and the opinions thus referred to, that recent infidelity and naturalism have derived a very large proportion of their most specious cavils and objections. On this ground they have been successfully met by Christian scholars on both sides of the Atlantic, among whom we might name as foremost Neander and Stuart. Dr. Burnap's work has this same purpose. He attempts, by a logical analysis of the component elements of the New Testament, to discriminate between the revelation and its media on the one hand, and the necessary conditions of its being put on record on the other; and to ward off from the former objections which cease to be objections when it is understood that they have sole reference to the latter. The work manifests equal ability and learning. In great part its conclusions cannot fail to win the suffrages of every reasonable believer in Christianity; though on some points those who admit the author's general principles might differ from him as to their application.

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Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Bowdoin College, and the Medical School of Maine: Spring Term, 1855. Brunswick Joseph Griffin. 1855. Circular and Catalogue of the Law School of the University of Albany for the Year 1854-55. Albany Joel Munsell. 1855.

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Catalogue of Antioch College for the Academical Years 1853-54 and 1854-55. Cincinnati. 1855.

Harper's Story Books. By Jacob Abbott. No. 5. Prank. No. 7. Virginia. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1855.

Library of Select Novels. No. 197. The Country Neighborhood. By Miss E. A. Dupuy. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1855.

Review of the Veto Message of President Pierce of February 17, 1855, on the Bill relating to French Spoliations.

Know-Nothingism; or, the American Party. By Franklin. Boston: E. W. Hinks & Co. 1855.

Adam and Christ, or the Doctrine of Representation stated and explained, by E. C. Wines, D. D. Philadelphia. 1855.

The United States Insurance Gazette, and Magazine of Useful Knowledge. Edited by G. E. Currie. New Series. Vol. I. No. 1. New York: G. E. Currie. May, 1855.

The Nazarite's Vow. An Address delivered before the Sons of Temperance, in San Francisco, Sunday, March 4, 1855. By C. F. Winslow, M. D. Boston Crosby, Nichols, & Co. 1855.

The Sixth Annual Report of the Ministry at Large, in the City of Roxbury. Roxbury. 1855.

On the Influence of Social Degradation in producing Pauperism and Crime, as exemplified in the Free Colored Citizens and Foreigners in the United States. By the Rev. Robert Everest.

Doing Good. A Sermon preached before the Unitarian and Baptist Congregations of Jamaica Plain, on Fast Day, April 5, 1855. By Rev. Heman Lincoln. Boston: Gould & Lincoln. 1855.

Twenty-Third Annual Report of the Trustees of the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind, to the Corporation. Cambridge. 1855.

A Discourse occasioned by the Death of Rev. James Flint, D. D., Senior Pastor of the East Church in Salem; with an Address delivered on the Day of his Burial, March 7, 1855. By Rev. Dexter Clapp. Salem: Henry Whipple & Son. 1855.

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Arithmetical Calculations of the Elements of the Orbit of the Moon. By Samuel E. Coues. Washington. 1855.

The Immaculate Conception. A Sermon preached in the Church of the Unity, Worcester, and in the Second Congregational Church, Worcester, on the 14th and 21st of January, 1855. By Edward E. Hale. Boston: Phillips, Sampson, & Co. 1855.

Semi-Centennial Celebration. New York Historical Society. 1854.

Fiftieth Anniversary of the Founding of the
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The Education demanded by the People of the United States. A Discourse delivered at Union College, Schenectady, July 25, 1854, on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Presidency of Eliphalet Nott, D. D., LL. D. By Francis Wayland. Boston: Phillips, Sampson, & Co. 1855. Report of the School Committee of the Town of Winchester, Massachusetts, for the Year 1854-55. Boston. 1855.

What makes Slavery a Question of National Concern? A Lecture, delivered, by invitation, at New York, January 30, and at Syracuse, February 1, 1855. By Charles Francis Adams. Boston: Little, Brown, & Co. 1855.

Speech of Rev. Rodney A. Miller, of Worcester, on the Plummer Professorship. Delivered April 12, 1855, before the Board of Overseers of Harvard University. Boston: John P. Jewett & Co. 1855.

The Old and the New: A Sermon containing the History of the First Unitarian Church in Washington City. Preached on Sunday, December 31, 1854, by Moncure D. Conway. Washington. 1855.

Proceedings of the National Institute for the Promotion of Science. New Series. Vol. I. No. 1. Washington. March, 1855.

The Strength and Beauty of the Sanctuary. A Sermon preached at the Dedication of the First Congregational Church in Natick, Massachusetts, November 15, 1854. By Rev. Elias Nason. Boston: S. K. Whipple. 1855.

Report of the Commissioners for the Establishment of a State Reform School for Girls, under the Resolves of April 12, 1854. Boston. 1855. Sixth Annual Report of the Female Medical Education Society, and the New England Female Medical College. Boston. 1855.

The Terms of the Gospel Trust: A Sermon preached at the Installation of the Rev. Horatio Stebbins, as Associate Pastor of the First Church in Portland, Me., January 31, 1855. By George E. Ellis. Portland: George R. Davis. 1855.

A Sermon preached at the Installation of Caleb D. Bradlee, as Pastor of the Allen Street Church in Cambridge, December 11, 1854. By Thomas Starr King. With the Charge, Right Hand of Fellowship, and Address to the People. Boston: Benjamin H. Greene. 1855.

My Brother's Keeper. By A. B. Warner. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1855. 24mo. pp. 385.