THE

CHRISTIAN EXAMINER

AND

RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY.

VOLUME LVII.

FOURTH SERIES, VOLUME XXII.

JULY, SEPTEMBER, NOVEMBER, 1854.

BOSTON:

CROSBY, NICHOLS, AND COMPANY.

NEW YORK: C. S. FRANCIS & CO.

LONDON: JOHN CHAPMAN, 142 STRAND.

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CAMBRIDGE:

METCALF AND COMPANY, PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY.

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IV. REV. JOSEPH BADGER AND THE CHRISTIAN CONNECTION

Memoir of Rev. Joseph Badger. By E. G. Holland.

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V. OLD AGE

Cicero's Cato Major; an Essay on Old Age. Liter-

ally translated by Cyrus R. Edmonds.

VI. FISHER AMES .

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Works of Fisher Ames. With a Selection from his

Speeches and Correspondence. Edited by his Son,

Seth Ames.

VII. THE SCIENTIFIC CRITICISM OF THE NEW TESTAMENT

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VIII. ON THE MEANING OF A PASSAGE IN JUSTIN MARTYR. 123

NOTICES OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

Palfrey on the Relation between Judaism and Chris-

tianity,

The Collier Emendations of Shakespeare,.

St. John's Purple Tints of Paris,

Smyth's Year with the Turks,

The Lamplighter,

Bailey's Essays on Opinions, Truth, etc.,

Sargent's Edition of the Works of Samuel Rogers,

Craig's History of the Protestant Church in Hungary,

Livermore's Discourses,

De Quincey's Theological Essays, etc.,

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Literary Intelligence. -New Books, - The Recent Dif-

ficulties in Columbia College, N. Y.,

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Religious Intelligence.- Confession and Covenant of the

First Church in Salem, - Anniversary Week,

Obituary. Rev. James Thompson, D.D.,

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An Address on Theology, before the Ministerial Con-

ference, at Bedford Street Chapel, Wednesday, May

31, 1854, by James Freeman Clarke.

II. MISS SEWELL'S NOVELS

"Margaret Percival," "The Earl's Daughter,

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185

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trude," "Amy Herbert,' "Laneton Parsonage,"

"Walter Lorimer and Other Tales," "The Experi-

ence of Life."

Edited by the Rev. William Sew-

ell, B. D.

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1. The Plurality of Worlds. With an Introduction, by

Edward Hitchcock, D. D.

2. More Worlds than One, the Creed of the Philoso-

pher and the Hope of the Christian. By Sir David

Brewster.

IV. PROSPECTS OF AMERICAN SLAVERY

1. Democracy in America. By Alexis de Tocqueville.

Translated by H. Reeves.

2. Despotism in America. By Richard Hildreth.

3. The Slave-Trade, Domestic and Foreign; why it

exists, and how it may be extinguished. By H. C.

Carey.

V. BARTLETT'S PERSONAL NARRATIVE

Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents in

Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chi-

huahua, connected with the United States and Mex-

ican Boundary Commission, during the Years 1850,

'51, '52, and '53. By John Russell Bartlett.

VI. OUR BOOK MOVEMENT

1. Proceedings at the Meeting of the Friends of the

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