ter of woman in the family and abolish- | ed slavery, but it has emancipated the citizen, destroyed the old privileges, and founded modern democracy....Liberty has a bad reputation in some of the European countries. It is only known by the ruins which it has caused, by the violence which it has produced; but ought this violence, these faults, these crimes, be attributed to liberty or to the men who have used its sacred name to dishonor it? The example of America gives us quite a different notion of liberty, and teaches us to respect and to love it. In this liberty which elevates the souls, enlightens and purifies the spirits and draws the hearts nearer to each other, we see the most perfect fruit of the Gospel. This modern liberty which rests on the co-operation of all, which rejects slavery, and protects minorities and the individual, has only made its appearance in countries which

recognize Christ as their master. Let us recognize the tree by its fruits; let us understand that religious, political, social, individual liberty is the daughter of Christianity; instead of cursing and insulting it, let us try to know it, and perhaps, learning more of its divine beauty, we may finally love and embrace it. We shall introduce it to our hearths, and devote to it our entire lives. That America has done, and who will say that she has not fared well with it. May we be able to follow this example. May the same love and the same faith carry the civilization of the world toward the same future of good will, of peace, and of prosperity.

Works conceived and carried out in

such a spirit can of course not fail to be effectual apostles of our institutions, both political and religious.

ART. XIL-SYNOPSIS OF THE QUARTERLIES, AND OTHERS OF THE HIGHER PERIODICALS.

American Quarterly Reviews.

AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN AND THEOLOGICAL REVIEW, October, 1865. (New York.)-1. Demoniacal Possessions of the New Testament. 2. The Ministering of Christ and Christian Ministering. 3. Analysis and Proof Texts of Julius Muller's System of Theology. 4. The Relation of Christianity to the Present Stage of the World's Progress in Science, Civilization, and the Arts. 5. Slavery and Christianity. 6. Resume of the Geological Argument.

BIBLIOTHECA SACRA, October, 1865. (Andover.)-1. What is the True Conception of Christian Worship? 2. New England Theology. 3. Life and Correspondence of Theodore Parker. 4. The Son of God. 5. Frederick Denison Maurice. 6. Editorial Correspondence. 7. Egyptology, Oriental Archæology and Travel,

EVANGELICAL QUARTERLY REVIEW, October, 1865. (Gettysburg.)— 1. Church Music. 2. Reminiscences of Deceased Lutheran Ministers. 3. Natural Theology. 4. True Greatness. 5. The Cross. 6. MarriageTranslated from Zeller's Biblisches Worterbuch. 7. Inauguration Addresses. 8. Pilate's Question. 9. "The Laborers are Few." FREEWILL BAPTIST QUARTERLY, October, 1865. (Dover, N. H.)-1. A Good Minister of Jesus. 2. Oneness of the Church of Christ. 3. Woman's Position and Influence. 4. One of the Presumptive Arguments for the Divinity of the Bible. 5. Life and Times of Paul. 6. Dr. Lyman Beecher.

NEW ENGLANDER, October, 1865. (New Haven.)-1. The Revival of Letters in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries. 2. Principles of Art. 3. A Divine Actor on the Stage. 4. The Word made Flesh. 5. The Rights of the Nation, and the Duty of Congress. 6. Ought Treason against the Government of the United States to be Punished?

English Reviews.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN EVANGELICAL REVIEW, October, 1865. (London.)—— 1. The Development of the Ancient Catholic Hierarchy. 2. Augustine. 3. Candlish's Cunningham Lectures. 4. Early History of Heathenism. 5. Scripture Songs of the Scottish Church. 6. The Skepticism of Hume. 7. Rome and the Roman Question in 1865. 8. Miscellaneous Intelligence. 9. German Theological Literature.

BRITISH QUARTERLY REVIEW, October, 1865. (London.)-1. Matthew Arnold, Poet and Essayist. 2. Frost and Fire. 3. Palgrave's Central and Eastern Arabia. 4. The Judges of England. 5. Mrs. Browning's Poetry. 6. State Policy of Europe in 1865. 7. Lecky's History of Rationalism. 8. Notes on the United States since the War. CHRISTIAN REMEMBRANCER, October, 1865. (London.)-1. Guizot on the Christian Religion. 2. The Early Struggles of the Church of Christ. 3. Theiner's Documents from the Vatican. 4. Palgrave's Arabia and the Arabs. 5. Zeller on the Greek Philosophy. 6. New Translations of Eastern Liturgies. 7. Faith and Life. 8. Gnosticism. 9. Ffoulkes on the Divisions of Christendom.

EDINBURGH REVIEW, October, 1865. (New York: Reprint.)-1. Journal and Correspondence of Miss Berry. 2. Life in the Criminal Class. 3. The Rock-cut Temples of India. 4. Life of Carl Maria von Weber. 5. Campbell's Frost and Fire. 6. Posthumous Writings of Alexis de Tocqueville. 7. Palgrave's Arabia. 8. The Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland. 9. Sir Thomas Wyse's Peloponnesus. 10. American Psychomancy.

LONDON QUARTERLY REVIEW, October, 1865. (New York: Reprint.)— 1. Cathedrals of England. 2. The Mariner's Compass. 3. The Resources, Condition, and Prospects of Italy. 4. The Poetry of Praed and Lord Houghton. 5. Blind People. 6. Field Sports of the Ancient Greeks and Romans. 7. The Gallican Church. 8. The Russians in Central Asia.

NORTH BRITISH REVIEW, September, 1865. (New York: Reprint.)— 1. Mr. Mill's Examination of Sir W. Hamilton's Philosophy. 2. Burlesque Poetry. 3. Carlyle's History of Frederic the Great. 4. Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, Bart. 5. Mr. Russel on the Salmon. 6. Sensation Novelists: Miss Braddon. 7. "Frost and Fire."

WESTMINSTER REVIEW, October, 1865. (New York: Reprint.)—1. Personal Representation. 2. Rationalism in Europe. 3. Capacities of Women. 4. Palgrave's Travels in Arabia. 5. The Holy Roman Empire. 6. The Doctrine of Nationalities and Schleswig-Holstein. 7. Mr. Grote's Plato. 8. Letters from Egypt.

German Reviews.

ZEITSCHRIFT FUR HISTORICHE THEOLOGIE. (JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL THEOLOLGY.) First Number, 1866.-1. UHLHORN, The Literature of Church Theology, from 1851 to 1860.

The above number of the Journal of Historical Theology is more a work than a periodical, for the whole number is occupied by one

article, or rather by only the beginning of one article. No reader, however, will regret this want of variety, for the essay of Dr. Uhlhorn is one of the most valuable and interesting contributions to theological literature which has been made for many years. His object is to review all the German, and the more important non-German works which from 1851 to 1860, appeared in the Department of Church History. The works are grouped together in periods; the contents and essential points of each are concisely stated, and the new light which has been obtained from every particular work and from the works of one period, taken together, is clearly pointed out.

The first installment of the essay, in this number of the Journal of Historical Theology is restricted to the period of Ancient Church History until Constantine, and it subdivides the literature to be reviewed into seven classes.

1. Literature on the New Testament.

2. The Apostolical Fathers, and the Pseudepigraphs.

3. Gnosticism and Manicheism.

4. Montanism.

5. Patristics and History of Doctrines.

6. The Combat with Paganism.

7. The History of the Period in General.

For any one who wishes to acquaint himself with the grave theological controversies which have been carried on from 1851 to 1861, (or rather to 1864, for many of the works from 1861 to 1864 are embraced in this review,) and with their results, this article is absolutely indispensable. For we have as yet no other work, in any language, which in a so thorough and comprehensive manner lays before us the essential results of the literature of the last ten or fifteen years.

JAHRBUCHER FUR DEUTSCHE THEOLOGIE. (Yearbooks of German Theology. Third Number, 1865.)-1. STEITZ, The Doctrine of the Greek Church on the Lord's Supper in its Historical Development. 2. PAUL, The Significance of the Resurrection of the Lord for the Faith of the Christian. 3. DISTELMANN, Remarks on 1 Cor. xv, 51. 4. Jahn, Remarks on Rom. viii, 18-23, with special regard to modern commentators.

We have already called attention in former numbers of the Quarterly Review to the very valuable essay of Dr. Steitz on the History of the Doctrine of the Lord's Supper in the Greek Church. In the above number of the "Yearbooks," we have the third instalment of the essay, which sets forth the gradual transition of the "symbolic" view of the Church to the "realistic" in the second half of the fourth century, and examines in particular the pass

ages concerning the Lord's Supper in the Apostolical Constitutions, a fragment formerly ascribed to Irenæus, Cyril of Jerusa lem, Ephraem the Syrian, Epiphanius, Gregory of Nyssa, Chrysostom and Maruthas. As in the former installments of his articles, Dr. Steitz quotes in full all the passages of the fathers, and thus enables the student to become fully satisfied as to the real views of the Greek fathers, without being under the necessity of turning to the voluminous original.

French Reviews.

REVUE DES DEUX MONDES.-August 1.-1. AM. THIERRY. The Struggle of Origenism at Rome-Death of Paula. 3. TAILLANDIER, The Poetry and the Poets of 1865. 4. BERNARD, Progress of Physiological Science.

August 15.-2. E. DUVERGIER DE HAURANNE, Eight Months in America, at the Close of the War. Letters and Notes of Travel.

September 1.-CH. DE REMUSAT, Mahomet and Mahometanism, with reference to the new work on the Koran, by B. Saint Hilaire. 3. E. DuVERGIER DE HAURANNE, Eight Months in America, (second Article: Life at the Watering Places, and the Northern Lakes.) 4. BoisSIER, The Roman Catacombs. 5. MAURY, The Recent Progress of Organic Chemistry. 6. MAZADE, The Crisis of Liberalism in Spain. September 15.-1. ESQUIROS, England and English Life, (twenty-seventh article: Religious Life in the Country: the Presbytery, the Church, and the School.) 5. DUVERGIER DE HAURANNE, Eight Months in America (third article. The Chicago Convention.)

October 1.-3. REVILLE, The Pagan Christ of the Third Century-Apollonius of Tyana, with special reference to the works of German Critics. 5. KERATRY, The French Counter-Guerillas in Mexico.

REVUE CHRETIENNE, August, 1865.-1. ASTIE, The Beginning of Abolition ism in the United States. 2. PEDEZERT, Marc Aurelius, (third article.) 3. HOLLARD, The Character of Jesus Christ.

September 1.-VALCOURT, The Sanitary Condition of the Armies during the Great Cotemporary Wars. 2. DELMAS, An Obstacle to the Realization of a Separation between Church and State in France. 3. BONIFAZ, The Christian Character of Corneille's Polyeucte.

ART. XIII.-QUARTERLY BOOK-TABLE.

Religion, Theology, and Biblical Literature.

Christian Memorials of the War; or, Scenes and Incidents illustrative of Religious Faith and Principle, Patriotism and Bravery, in our Army. By HORATIO B. HACKETT, Professor of Biblical Literature and Interpretation in Newton Theological Institute. Pp. 252. Boston: Gould & Lincoln.

These sketches we would not "willingly let die." It must have been a labor of love for the eminent author to gather and arrange them.

War is always terrible, and makes fearful havoc of homes, and hearts, and lives; but when before was war accompanied by so much of the power of Christianity as was the War for the Union? Many felt it a religious duty to fight for the Government; and one-seventh of the male members of the Churches are estimated to have volunteered, while many entire Churches were left with hardly a living man, either clergy or laity. The Christian bishop would "take our glorious flag, and nail it just under the cross." Pastors, in some cases, led the men of their flocks to the field. Neither Cromwell's Ironsides nor Havelock's Highlanders furnished greater heroes than were many of the Christian soldiers of our army. Trust in God for success; faith in Jesus inspiring courage in peril and battle; patience in the endurance of sufferings; peace and triumph in death on the field, in the hospital and prison; O! how numerous the instances from the general down to the drummer-boy! Battle-fields and camps have their holy places where the Son of God revealed himself as the Saviour. Armies were supplied and resupplied with copies of the New Testament; soldiers at a halt would take them from their pockets and read a chapter; cabins became Bethels; there were regimental Churches and regimental revivals; and eternity alone can tell how many thousands who left their homes unsaved became Christians in the army. Would that all our commanders had been such men as Foote, Mitchell, Howard, Sanders, and Shaw!

The volume before us contains one hundred and forty-three incidents, illustrating the above with other points, and giving us examples of the intelligence, earnestness, Christian principle and heroism of our brave men. They are only a few of the brightest jewels of our country, and none of them can we afford to lose.

W.

The Centenary of American Methodism. A Sketch of its History, Theology, Practical System, and Success. Prepared by order of the Centenary Committee of the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, by ABEL STEVENS, LL.D. With a Statement of the Plan of the Centenary Celebration of 1866. By JOHN M'CLINTOCK, D.D. New York: Carlton & Porter. 1865.

Among its other good results our Centenary has called out Dr. Stevens to furnish the Church a miniature of his History of Methodism. Great and beneficial to the Church has been his mission as her historiographer, entitling him to her deepest gratitude and highest honor. He comes at the right period of her age: just early enough to rescue from total loss a great mass of her best reminiscences; just late enough to be able to contemplate her origin in a true historical perspective. It is her vindication and her