sesses a value beyond the occasional interest which suggested its composition, and beyond the momentary effect which suggested its publication. The sermon is an exposition of the author's views of the life to come. As a theory of that life it is wise and humane, and combines in a remarkable degree philosophic insight with Christian feeling. While it breathes the evangelical spirit which usually characterizes Dr. Osgood's writings, it is untrammelled, liberal, and hopeful. There are passages in it of great beauty, and the whole is pervaded by a tenderness and pathos which explains the charm it seems to have exercised on the congregation who listened to it. NEW PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. THEOLOGY. Theodore Parker's Experience as a Minister, with some Account of his Early Life and Education for the Ministry; contained in a Letter from him to the Members of the Twenty-eighth Congregational Society of Boston. Boston: Rufus Leighton, Jr. 8vo. pp. 182. (See p. 282.) Ishmael; or, A Natural History of Islamism, and its Relation to Christianity. By the Rev. Dr. J. Muehleisen Arnold. London: Rivingtons. 8vo. pp. 524. (To be noticed.) The Immortality of the Soul and the Final Condition of the Wicked carefully considered. By Robert W. Landis. New York: Carlton & Porter. 12mo. pp. 518. The Sheepfold and the Common; or, Within and Without. London and New York: Blackie & Son. 12mo. 2 vols. pp. 592, 583. (Consisting of Narratives and Conversations, in Illustration of Evangelical Views of Religion.) Here and Beyond; or, The New Man the True Man. By Hugh Smith Carpenter. New York: Mason Brothers. 12mo. pp. 345. (A volume of some merit in rhetoric and fancy, and one which will be attractive and valuable to the younger class of serious readers. Its religious spirit seems wholly earnest and practical.) A Commentary, Explanatory, Doctrinal, and Practical, on the Epistle to the Ephesians. By R. E. Pattison, D.D. Boston: Gould & Lincoln. 12mo. pp. 244. 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Liberally illus Report of the Woman's Rights Meeting at Mercantile Hall, May 27, 1859. Boston: S. Urbino. pp. 32. Eighth Annual Report of the Boston Young Men's Christian Union. April 13, 1859. Boston. pp. 23. Luxury of the Fine Arts, in some of their Moral and Historical Relations. An Address delivered in Aid of the Fund for Ball's Equestrian Statue of Washington, 13 May, 1859. By Robert C. Winthrop. Boston: Little, Brown, & Co. pp. 60. A Sabbath Discourse on the Death of Hon. Rufus Choate, together with the Address at his Funeral. By Nehemiah Adams, D.D. Boston: J. E. Tilton & Co. pp. 64. Debates in the Unitarian Society for the Diffusion of Christian Knowledge, respecting the Election of a Committee and Office-Bearers for the Year 1859 -60. Belfast (Ireland). pp. 107. EDITORIAL NOTE. IN Art. IV. the oversight is committed of speaking of Dr. Leonard's predecessor as an unmarried man, inaccurately so stated. - Again, Dr. Lainson's close relation to the Dublin case, and the importance of his testimony, is less precisely described in the text than it would be by designating him as an expert on the whole subject of ecclesiastical history. THE CHRISTIAN EXAMINER. NOVEMBER, 1859. ART. I. — KINDERGÄRTEN OF GERMANY. 1. Les Jardins d'Enfants, Nouvelle Méthode d'Education et d'Instruction de Frederic Froebel. Par la BARONNE DE MARENHOLTZ. Bruxelles et Ostend. 1858. 2. Woman's Educational Mission. By MADAME DE MARENHOLTZ. London: Danton & Co. 3. A Practical Guide to the English Kindergarten, being an Expo sition of Froebel's System of Infant Training. Accompanied by a great Variety of Instructive and Amusing Games, and Industrial and Gymnastic Exercises; also numerous Songs, set to Music and arranged to the Exercises. By JOH. and BERTHA RONGE. London: J. S. Hodson. 1855. WHILE the hopes of political freedom for Germany have again and again been blighted, its intellectual life has gone on developing in every form of science and art. To the German mind we owe the vast flood of light which has been thrown on Biblical interpretation and theologic science. Every department of natural history has been filled with students of deep insight and laborious research. History and Belles lettres have, put on new charms, and Art counts her votaries by thousands. Amid all this intellectual life, the subject of education has received the attention of both government and people, and the public-school systems of Prussia and Saxony surpass all others in thoroughness, extent, and efficiency. No wonder that in this country of intellectual activity and vigorous thought has appeared the new system which aims to begin eduVOL. LXVII. — 5TH S. VOL. V. NO. III. 27 cation at the very threshold of life, and to conduct the child by progressive steps from its first instinctive yearnings after knowlledge up to its highest development. The Kindergarten must pave the way for the Gymnasium and the University. A full knowledge of this new system in its details may be gathered from the works named at the head of our article. We shall preface a slight account of its leading aims and methods by a notice of the life of its founder, Friedrich Froebel, condensed from the pages of Madame Marenholtz. Friedrich Froebel was born in 1782, at Oberweissbach, in the principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt. His father, a humble country curate, brought him up in the principles of the Christian religion, and in the daily practice of piety and charity. Friedrich lost his mother early; and in his deep sense of the deprivation of her tender, intelligent, and unwearying affection, may be found the source of his devotion to the cause of maternal education. The visits which he made with his father to the cottages of his parish, the sufferings and domestic troubles which he witnessed, developed in the soul of the young man the love of humanity, and the desire to remedy the evils which had come under his observation. He was an ardent lover of nature, and an earnest student of the natural sciences, mathematics, and agriculture. After passing some years in Switzerland, under the direction of Pestalozzi, he took part in the war for German independence, in the regiment of Lützow, whose daring exploits are commemorated in "Lützow's Wild Chase." He was afterward inspector of the Mineralogical Museum at Berlin, but abandoned this lucrative position, preferring, even at the expense of hard privations, to consecrate his whole time to the realization of the idea which possessed him, the improvement of early education. He founded his first establishment at Keilhau, a small village of Thuringia, where his school, supported by the people of the neighboring villages, is still in existence. His farm-house being too small to contain his pupils, while additional rooms were building poor Froebel was obliged to lodge in the henhouse. He scarcely allowed himself the necessaries of life; often, in his journeys, passing the night in the open air, to save |