VI. THE CHRISTIAN REMEMBRANCER, July, 1860.-1. The Chronicles of Abingdon 2. The Moral Character of Story Books: 3. Wants of the Church's Missions: 4. Congregationalism: 5. Notes on Nursing: 6. The First Christian Emperors; De Broglie: 7. Evening Communions: 8. The Roman See and Sardinia.

VII. THE BRITISH QUARTERLY REVIEW, July, 1860.-1. Henry Lord Brougham: 2. Prison Ethics: 3. Victor Hugo; French and English Poetry: 4. The West Indies; Past and Present: 5. Marshman's Life of Havelock: 6. Mansel and his Critics: 7. Church Questions in Australia: 8. Owen's Paleontology: 9. Cambridge University Reform.

This review opens with a magnificent article of near forty pages on Henry Lord Brougham. The great qualities and splendid career of that eminent man are portrayed with much effect. As a thinker and writer on scientific, moral, and metaphysical subjects, his performances have not been equal to his manifest powers. As a parliamentary orator and leader his success has been brilliant. As a philanthropist and a friend of the oppressed his high heroic qualities have won the admiration of the world, and placed him in the noble catalogue of champions of right that have given luster to English history. At all times of his life, even down to the latest newspaper announcements, he has proved himself a thorn in the side of tyranny; nor least among the eulogies that ennoble his name are the mutters and scowls of the panders of oppression in Europe and America.

The article on the West Indies shows the worthlessness of Mr. Trollope's view of emancipation in the Islands. The Review fully confirms the account given by Mr. Bleby in his two articles on the subject in our Quarterly. It may be recommended to the perusal of our pro-slavery friends in this country with whom Mr. Trollope is a welcome authority. Mr. Trollope professedly "hates statistics," (being a writer of popular novels,) and very reasonably, for statistics bear hard upon him. The apparent fact is, that either figures lie or Mr. Trollope does. The Reviewer gives some of these disagreeable figures, of which he thus sums the result:

Of these figures the following is a summary, and, we think, satisfactory view:

Jamaica....

In closing the Review says:

With Count Montalembert, part of whose speech in the French Chamber of Peers we gladly quote, we affirm that the word of the missionary substituted for the whip of the slave-driver, in the government of the black race, is the most delightful spectacle and the most blessed revolution which the nineteenth century has presented to the world." "-P. 121.

On Lepsius's late work, "The Kings-book of Ancient Egypt," the Review thus discourses:

"We owe an apology to our readers for not having before registered the appearance of Professor Lepsius's long-expected work, the Königsbuch, which is to be regarded as the crowning labor of his zealous, indefatigable, and profound Egyptological researches, pursued, with such undoubted ability and genius for the difficult task, throughout a long and earnest lifetime. Devotion, like that manifested by this great European scholar, to studies which to all but a few are quite unattractive or even intensely repulsive, but which, in the interest of science, are of such vast moment, cannot be too warmly commended."-P. 245. "We are reminded of our sin of omission in neglecting to announce Professor Lepsius's opus magnum on its first publication, by receiving Dr. Brugsch's extremely valuable History of Egypt, of which, notwithstanding its great merits, we have left ourselves space to say but few words. Dr. Brugsch is the rising Egyptologer. His Demotic Grammar, his splendid work on the Geography of the Egypt of the Pharaohs, and others of his productions, afford ample proof of the assertion."-P. 246.

Brugsch gives us plenty of long inscriptions done, not yet, alas! into English, but what is the next best thing, into readable French. Nor do we besitate to affirm, that he has thus presented us with a History of Egypt more copious fiftyfold, and just infinitely more authentic and veracious, than could be compiled from all the ancient writers, including Herodotus, Diodorus, Strabo, and Manetho, put together. With these materials before us, so hoar with antiquity, and so rich in facts of the most interesting kind, nothing is wanting, save a reliable chronology, to give an impulse to ethnological research, linguistic science, comparative mythology, and the elucidation of the most ancient records both sacred and profane, such as these pursuits have never received before. One eye of Egyptian history Brugsch has himself supplied by his great geographical work, and we are convinced that the muse of Sais is not doomed to remain a female Cyclops much longer, for lack of the other. The mysterious vail of Neith, we are not without shrewd presentiment, will be lifted before very long. Something better than the blind guesses we have hitherto had to put up with, as to the position of the hands on the great clock of ages, when these deeply interesting raids of the old Pharaohs, the Tuthmoses, the Ramseses, and the Setis, not only into Mesopotamia, Armenia, Assyria, Asia Minor, Phoenicia, not forgetting Palestine, but into Greece certainly, and perhaps into Italy as well, really took place. A gentleman with whom we have some acquaintance, and who dabbles a little in these matters, will have it that we are on the eve of great discoveries in Egyptian chronology, which will probably, as in other parallel instances, be made simultaneously by independent inquirers in different parts of the world. He tells us— and of course we tell our readers, who may believe it or not, as they like-that he has himself lighted upon a hieroglyphical date of the day and year of the Exodus, and that he has identified Solomon's father-in-law with Ramses Miamun II. (Rosellini's Ramses XIV.,) an intensely interesting stele of whose reign Mr. Birch and M. de Rouge have translated."--P. 247.

III.-German Reviews.

I. THEOLOGISCHE STUDIEN UND KRITIKEN.-Herausgegeben von D. C. Ullman und D. F. W. Umbreit. Gotha, vei Friedrich Andreas Perthes Zweites Heft. 1860.

THEOLOGICAL STUDIES AND CRITIQUES. SECOND NUMBER-1860. Treatises Christian Doctrines, concluded. By Rothe. Thoughts and Observations: Critical Remarks on the Text of the CODEX VATICANUS B. By Buttman. Exposition of Dr. Keim's Theory of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. By Bodemeyer. Exegesis on Matthew xi, 12. By Zyro. On the Proper Conception and Province of the Science of Biblical Introduction. By Holtzmann. Reviews: Notes of certain late Theosophical Works. By Hamberger.

THEOLOGICAL STUDIES AND CRITIQUES. THIRD NUMBER. 1860.. Treatises: 1. On the Pauline Christology. By Beyschlag. Contribution to the Exposition of Stephen's Apology, Acts vii. By Nitzseh. Thoughts and Observations: 1. On the Use of the Pronoun èxɛivoç in the fourth Gospel. 2. The Meaning and Connection of the three Appendices to the Book of Judges. Reviews: 1. Holtzmann's Canon and Tradition. By Ritschl. 2. Stirms's Apology for Christianity. By Dörtenbach. Miscellany: Programme of the "Society at the Hague for the Defense of the Christian Religion."

The principal article, though not the longest, is the Exposition of Stephen's Apology. The writer claims a high place for this much assailed portion of the New Testament, and sets out in opposition to De Wette's well known remark that Stephen's address has less order and plan than any other in the Acts of the Apostles. It must not be supposed that the plan should necessarily be stated or intimated. But there is not by consequence any ground for thinking that there is none. On the other hand, Stephen had a direct purpose, and his whole address is an astonishing illustration of an easy transition from one theme to another, concluding with a convincing and overpowering climax that furnishes the key to all he had said. A great mistake commonly made by exegetical writers is, that Stephen's address was a defense alone. The truth is his argument was rather offensive than defensive, for he brings the severest charges upon his accusers and the entire Jewish race for their disobedience to God. With this view of the case we can well understand the bitterness of his enemies, who, when they heard these things were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth, and cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord, and cast him out of the city and stoned him." The first division of the address extends from verse 2 to 16. Here particular stress is laid upon the providential dealings of God on the one hand and the stubbornness of the house of Israel on the other, this last design fully manifesting itself in verse 9. Second division, 17-43. Here Moses takes the chief place, with the refutation of a single complaint. More - frequent mention is made of acts of disobedience, and a striking parallelism instituted between the earlier voice of God in the burning bush and Christ, consequently of the enemies of the former with the latter. The triumphant conclusion is drawn that God's Spirit and revelation are not confined to holy places. Third division, 44-50. The speaker takes up the charge concerning

the profanation of the temple, and casts back upon his opponents the reproach of obstinacy toward God and the Holy Spirit. Stephen's silent convictions giving impulse to his remarks seem to be, 1. You see that for the sake of truth I will not and cannot yield to you. 2. Your opposition to God and his witnesses is impious, but, judging from your antecedents, perfectly comprehensible. 3. But you cannot by this means frustrate God's plans. He will bring them to pass as he has formerly done, and will certainly visit you with his judgments. The conclusions of Licentiate Nitzsch are, 1. Stephen's address is purely offensive, and only has an apologetical character in so far as the defensive and offensive are inseparable. 2. The address is logical throughout, and has its theme to which all its parts are intimately related. 3. The theme is contained in verse 51. 4. This with the two following verses forms the application in contradistinction to the historical. 5. The historical part contains an amplification of the theme. It discloses on the one hand the theocratic agency of God from the beginning to the time of Christ, or at least of Solomon; on the other it sets forth the almost coexistent and constant opposition of corrupt Israel to the theocratic polity of God. 6. But this historical consideration by no means exclusively yet particularly refutes the two points of complaint adduced by his opponents. 7. The historical division, considered in its historical-chronological aspect, divides itself into three subdivisions: 2-16, 17-43, 44-50.

We are glad to meet with such an article as this from Germany. It is clear, logical, evangelical; and coming from a young man, is an index of the spirit beginning to animate the young theologians of Berlin. We trust not of Berlin merely, but of the entire fatherland. We have been lately reading J. Addison Alexander on the Acts, and having rejoiced in his successful refutation of the charge of planlessness in Stephen's address, we have been doubly rejoiced to find the same sentiments in the Studien und Kritiken. It is not inappropriate to transcribe Dr. Alexander's mode of division as an apt illustration of the different roads that men can sometimes take to arrive at the same place: "This chapter-Acts vii-contains Stephen's defense before the council (1–53) and his execution, (54-60.) His defense is drawn entirely from the Old Testament history, and is designed to show that all God's dealings with the chosen people pointed to those very charges which Stephen was accused of having threatened. This he proves by showing that the outward organization and condition of the Church had undergone repeated changes under Abraham, (2-8) Joseph, (9-16,) Moses, (17-44,) David, (45–46;) that the actual state of things had no existence before Solomon (47;) that even this was intended from the beginning to be temporary (48-50;) and lastly, that the Israelites of every age had been unfaithful to their trust, (9-25, 27-35, 39-43, 51-53.) The remainder of the chapter describes the effect of this discourse upon the council, (54,) Stephen's heavenly vision, (55, 56,) and his death by stoning, (57-60.)" One of the great beauties in the exegetical works of this lamented commentator and preacher, is this unfolding of the plan and scope of every chapter, a feature too much neglected by the student of the Scriptures.

ART. XIII.-QUARTERLY BOOK-TABLE.

Ir is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men, and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors; for books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are.-MILTON.

I.-Religion, Theology, and Biblical Literature.

(1.) "Journal of the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, held in Buffalo, New York, 1860. Edited by Rev. WILLIAM L. HARRIS, D.D., Secretary of the Conference." 8vo., pp. 480. New York: Carlton

& Porter. 1860.

The Conference of 1860 will be, we think, held in honor for the character both of its discussions and its measures. No conference has ever had a more important set of questions brought before its inquest. The subject of slavery especially, which is stirring the nation with an excitement unparalleled in our history, came before this body in its most exciting form. Justice to both sides requires the decision, that seldom or never has a subject so calculated to rouse intense emotion ever been discussed in so magnanimous a temper. The delegates from the border conferences stated their argument and presented their appeal in a firm, manly, eloquent style. They appeared like men who felt that much was at stake. There was temptation from the relative position of the parties, if none from the conduct of their opponents, to enact the ad captandum part of oppressed men. But they stood their ground with serene countenance, neither betraying the cause of their constituency, nor forfeiting by any discourtesy the fraternal respect of their brethren opposed. And, sooth to say, the majority, by a very unanimous forbearance of measure and language through the whole series of debates, fully establish the fact that they were actuated neither by a rabid fanaticism, by a desire to oppress, nor by a wish for disunion. Not seldom was there between the two parties a rivalry of magnanimous concession. We cannot wonder, therefore, that this body of Christian ministers left an honorable impression upon the minds of the community. Nor more do we wonder that when agitation for border secession arises, its authors and fomentors are other than the delegates from the border conferences. The measure at last adopted by the General Conference was most conservative and wise. Strictly speaking there is no change. That is, there is no change in the substance of the Discipline or the essential doctrine of the Church. The chapter as it stands states the old ground; the ground (until very lately) maintained unvaryingly, at least theoretically, by the border conferences themselves. If, indeed, those conferences are receding from the old ground and adopting the hitherto unheard of novelty, that the motive of the slaveholding is not to be made a matter of inquiry, very timely, indeed, is this our reassertion of the old and unchanged ground of the Church. But secession for that reassertion cannot justify itself before the bar of the Christian world. It has no case.

Equally progressive, yet conservative, was the action upon lay delegation. The sentiment in the Church on this subject, so far as it is not the result of