art of singing was taught and practised daily. As a statute of this Commonwealth forbids the introduction into its public schools "of any book favoring the tenets of any sect of Christians," all hymns that would come under this ban are excluded from the little volume before us. It contains 328 hymns, with a list of tunes, and an index of subjects, and is commended to public approbation by the Principals of our three Normal Schools. * The Rev. Professor Park's Discourse before the Convention of the Congregational Ministers of Massachusetts is published in a separate form (Boston, Perkins & Whipple, 8vo, pp. 44), as well as in the Bibliotheca Sacra for July. It bears the title, "The Theology of the Intellect and of the Feelings." So far as we can express briefly the ground or basis of the distinction here raised, the preacher would refer the statement of religious truths, when made in strong, unqualified, or highly figurative language, unguarded and exaggerated, to the sentiments and emotions, thus constituting the theology of the feelings; but when the truths thus stated are qualified and harmonized by mediating between the strong and various expression of them, then the intellect has a theology. Unless, as we cannot but surmise is the case, something more is implied in this distinction and in the illustration of it beyond what Professor Park actually asserts, we see little, if any thing, in it beside the well-known variance between truth as stated in disjointed sentences and hyperboles, and truth as drawn out in carefully worded phrases. But we think we discern intimations of a more significant idea than this below the rich rhetoric and the wonderfully brilliant sentences of this discourse. Utterly apart from the idea which it aims to illustrate, it will chain attention, and reward perusal, by its elegant diction, its elaborate style, and its finely exhaustive use of the most expressive of the Scripture similes. There is a passage on page 33, which our readers may hunt out if they please, but which seems to us to come properly under neither the theology of the intellect nor the theology of the feelings. We should really be glad to know whether it formed a part of the original conception of the discourse, or was suggested by circumstances. The Oration delivered before the city authorities of Boston, on July 4, 1850, by Edwin R. Whipple, (J. H. Eastburn, 8vo, pp. 30,) is entitled, "Washington and the Principles of the Revolution.' It is of a wholly different style and manner from those numerous performances delivered on the anniversary of the Declaration of American Independence which have made such orations synonymous with bombast, fustian, and diseased patriotism. For acuteness of analysis, for vigor of thought, and even 1850.] Notices of Recent Publications. 297 for novelty of idea and method, this oration is remarkable. Something in its phraseology, or in its moulding into sentences and periods, makes it rather difficult to read it aloud, and it is a perfect marvel to us how the author could commit it and deliver it memoriter. After developing the idea of liberty or freedom which lay at the basis of the struggle, and presenting our Revolution as a contest for "rights which were customs, for ideas which were facts, for liberties which were actually existing laws," Mr. Whipple sketches, with a fine but strong pen, the British ministry of the day, and then comes to his noble theme, Washington. The orator seizes upon that wellnigh universal portraiture of Washington, which has long presented him as a singularly upright man of moderate mental abilities, and before he has done he has satisfied us that our great chief was intellectually a genius, a man of a great mind, of a noble soul, of the largest gifts of nature, and the loftiest acquisitions of character. Mr. Whipple says of him, "This illustrous man, at once the world's admiration and enigma, we are taught by a fine instinct to venerate, and by a wrong opinion to misjudge." Never did antithesis state a more decisive truth. Washington has been underrated by all who have, in any way, qualified his greatness. "An Essay on the Opium Trade, including a Sketch of its History, Extent, Effects, etc., as carried on in India and China, by Nathan Allen, M. D.," (Boston, John P. Jewett & Co., 8vo, pp. 68,) is the title of a pamphlet from which we have gathered much valuable information, while we have perused it with most painful feelings. Without aiming after an effect, the author produces one of the most impressive character. He records, with proper authentications, the history of the growth of opium, the honest and smuggling trade in it, the art and management which are used to put it into the hands of its consumers, the vast amount of expense which attends its use, the opposition which its sale has met with, the attempts of the Chinese government to exclude it, and the abominable course of the English government in forcing its sale and enriching itself by the traffic. Then, by the most startling descriptions, the horrible effects of opium-smoking and opium-eating are drawn out before us. We commend this very valuable essay to all who would have any thing like an accurate idea of the startling facts, which have not previously been made public in so complete a form. We feel indebted to Dr. Allen for the service which he will have rendered to humanity in thus exposing an iniquity through which half a million of human beings in China annually find a premature grave, and that people are drained annually of fifty millions of dollars as the price of their own ruin. VOL. XLIX.-4TH S. VOL. XIV. NO. II. 26 A Memoir of John Bromfield, by Josiah Quincy, (Cambridge, Metcalf & Co., 8vo, pp. 34,) does something towards removing a general impression in this community, an impression shared in a measure, too, by some of the friends of the late Mr. Bromfield, that he was a man of a morose and miserly nature. Known, as he was, as a man without family, living in the most economical manner, and seen upon the exchange, where the vicissitudes of the money-market offer opportunities to the rich financier, he was supposed by many to be sordidly penurious, and no great lover of his kind. Mr. Quincy gives a brief sketch of his life and character, principally in very interesting letters from a few of the intimate acquaintances of the deceased, and presents him to us, not in an exalted, but in a dignified manner, as struggling on from an adverse youth and early manhood, till, by industry and probity and prudence, which taught him economy and thrift, and in spite of some marked peculiarities, he achieved independence. He is found to have been faithful, in his own way, to the duties of humanity while he lived, besides endowing the Boston Athenæum with $25,000 in his lifetime, and leaving public legacies to the amount of $110,000. The Oration delivered by Edward Everett, on the Celebration of the Seventy-fifth Anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, has been published, together with an account of the celebration in the great ship-house, and at the dinner-table (Boston, Redding & Co., 8vo, pp. 80). The occasion was a marked one. The orator thus completes his work of associating his splendid periods and his eloquent voice with the three great battle-scenes of Massachusetts. His orations at Concord and Lexington are more descriptive, but this is the most philosophical, and its paragraphs are burdened with the wisdom of a rich experience, pervaded by thought and study. Two more of the "Latter-Day Pamphlets, edited by Thomas Carlyle," No. VII., Hudson's Statue, and No. VIII., Jesuitism, (16mo, pp. 48, 58,) have been published by Phillips, Sampson, & Co., Boston. Mr. Elizur Wright of this city has taken Mr. Carlyle in hand, and after much the same fashion in the use or abuse of the English language, and by the aid of incongruous epithets and images, seeks to riddle the Latter-Day Pamphlets. We suppose that Mr. Wright intends to do his work upon each one of Mr. Carlyle's series. "Perforations in the Latter-Day Pamphlets" is the title under which Messrs. Phillips, Sampson, & Co. have issued the first number of Mr. Wright's essays, in uniform appearance with their reprints of Carlyle. (pp. 48.) 1850.] Literary Intelligence. 299 Messrs. Phillips, Sampson, & Co. have published the twentythird semi-monthly number of their rich and valuable edition of Shakspeare. Without any falling off in the mechanical excellence of the paper, the type, or the engravings, each successive number sustains the reputation of the work, and finds, we believe, an increasing circulation. We again commend it to all who are without a proper copy of the great poet. Lester's "Gallery of Illustrious Americans," an enterprise of great merit, presents for its seventh and eighth numbers, fine engravings of Colonel Fremont and of William H. Prescott, with accompanying biographical sketches. The more the editor is patronized, the better will he labor to make his enterprise most successful. The Messrs. Harper have published, in a neat form, an American edition of Sydney Smith's Moral Philosophy, a work which is noticed in our pages. Messrs. Gould, Kendall, & Lincoln have published a second and revised edition of Professor Felton's translation of Professor Guyot's Lectures on "The Earth and Man." This valuable work, whose merits we have already discussed, has appeared in two editions in London, and in one at Paris. Messrs. Ticknor, Reed, & Fields have published a new volume of poems by Whittier, entitled " Songs of Labor." We have not had time to examine it, but the author, as a poet or prose-writer, needs no introduction to our readers. The history of the American Revolution is put into a most attractive form for the young, and indeed for their parents, in the serial work by Lossing, entitled "The Pictorial Field-Book of the American Revolution," five numbers of which, beautifully printed and richly illustrated, have been published by the Har pers. INTELLIGENCE. LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. Death of Neander. A recent arrival from Europe has brought to us the intelligence of the decease of one of the most honored and worthy of the great Christian scholars of Germany, Dr. Augustus Nean der. He died of a form of cholera, on Sunday, July 14, at Berlin, where, for a period longer than that of a human generation, he has been an instructor of successive bands of Christian teachers, and has helped to train religiously the mind of his whole nation. He was, in many respects, a remarkable and a very interesting man. He was born of Jewish parentage, in the year 1787, at Göttingen. At the early age of seventeen he was converted to Christianity. Of course, at that stage of his intellectual and spiritual development his conversion can scarcely be claimed as involving the highest exercise of judgment, and must have been, more or less, influenced by circumstances independent of his own mental action. But his whole subsequent career continually kept open before him the grounds and reasons on which he retained a residuum of his former faith in Judaism, and the whole of his after faith in the Gospel, as the blossom and the fruit of a revelation from God. Over and over again, with all the thoroughness and erudition of the highest class of German scholars, with a most penetrating sagacity, and a most patient candor, did he study the whole written lore of the ancient world, and especially the records of Christian antiquity. The collisions of an incessant scholastic warfare, the acute and ingenious, though often fanciful and shadowy, theories of a race of Biblical critics, and the destructive systems of unbelief and so-called philosophy which continually arose around him, forbade his mind to rust, or his faith to continue alive without daily renewal. Neander lived and wrote and taught through one of the most critical periods of the discussions which involve the authority and the substance of the revelation made by God through Jesus Christ. No weapon which sophistry, logic, ridicule, or real scholarship and the most exhausting skill of sharp intellects, could find to employ against the Gospel, was left untried by some of those who lived contemporaneously with him, and even taught directly at his side. If with some degree of satisfaction we may claim his adherence to an old-fashioned Christian belief as a proof of the undamaged foundations of the Gos pel, we may with even higher satisfaction call to mind his acknowledged candor, his perfect freedom from all rancor, his generous confidence, his fearless tolerance in dealing with those who labored to destroy what he sought to build up. A poor bigot, or even a timid and sincere believer, would probably have used the power, which Neander had offered to him, of forbidding the publication in Prussia of Strauss's "Life of JeBut Neander discouraged such weak opposition to the entire liberty of the mind and the press, and advised that the work should be allowed to circulate with perfect freedom, while it should be subjected to the fair trial of a perusal, an examination, and a reply. He was faithful in the exercise of his abilities to these latter ends, and so could well dispense with the help of his fears. sus. Of all the works of Neander, his History of the Christian Religion, and of the Planting and Training of the Christian Church, is the most thorough, elaborate, and valuable. That the History is a perfect work, probably only a portion even of the admirers of the author would care to assert. Its style and rhetoric are not wholly to our taste; from its conclusions, as well as from its philosophy, we are often led to differ. There is at times a vagueness in its statements, and a dimness cast over its discussions, which perplex us. We see the same defects in his Life of Christ, in which we are often left in doubt as to the theory which the author adopts, or the bearing of his opinions upon matters where a de |