Tomline's Theology. This work of Bishop Tomline sets forth the doctrinal views held in his time by a large part of the Established Church of England. Dwight's Theology. The author, from long and habitual attention to exactness of thought, of arrangement, and of language, was accustomed, in conversation, in the desk, and while dictating to an amanuensis, to present the conceptions of his mind in a form and manner so finished as to need, usually, few or no corrections to prepare them for the press. This was the case with these discourses.-Preface. Gill's Body of Divinity. In this work the peculiar tenets of the Baptists are explained and defended. It has long been a standard work. Paxton's Illustrations. The only object which the author proposed to himself in composing this work was to illustrate the Scriptures; he has therefore uniformly and studiously rejected every particular in Oriental geography, natural history, customs, and manners that was not subservient to his design.-Preface. Leslie on Deism. Since infidelity is constantly reviving, and, though repeatedly laid prostrate by the weapons of truth, still rises with unexhausted vigour, the champion of Christianity will do well neither to disdain nor neglect such arms as Leslie has prepared for him, of which time has not injured the temper nor taken off the edge.-Christ. Obs. Leland's Deistical Writers. This work contains a summary view of the most noted books that have been published against revealed religion for above a century past, together with proper observations upon them.-Preface. Verplanck's Essays on the Evidences of Christianity. An able and earnest protest against the exclusive preference assigned by many writers, twenty years since, to the ex ternal or historical evidences of Christianity as compared with the internal. Erskine's Internal Evidences for Revealed Religion. This small volume, the first production of Mr. Erskine's pen, secured him at once a high place among theological writers. Newcome's Harmony of the Four Gospels. Archbishop Newcome's Harmony, though no harmony is perfect, furnishes, perhaps, the best groundwork for any future publication on the subject.-Christ. Obs. Leighton's Works. "Archbishop Leighton was," says Bishop Burnet, "possessed with the highest and noblest sense of Divine things that ever I saw in any man. And he had laid together in his memory the greatest treasure of the best and wisest of all the ancient sayings of the heathens, as well as Christians; and he used them in the aptest manner possible."-Ed. Enc. 8vo, $3 00, Edinburgh, 1840. Jeremy Taylor's Works. A pious and devotional temper, copiousness of learning, fertility of illustration, opulence of matter, and oftentimes exquisite beauty, characterize the writings of this great master. 3 vols. 8vo, $17 00. Baxter's Works. Dr. Isaac Barrow said that "his practical writings were never mended, and his controversial ones seldom confuted." -Penny Cyc. 4 vols. 8vo, $2 00, London, 1838. Barrow's Works. Although his divinity is less read now than formerly, it is not unfrequently resorted to as a mine of excellent thoughts and arguments. Passages of sublime and simple eloquence frequently occur.-Enc. Am. 2 vols., $5 50. Bates's Works. We scruple not to recommend them to every person living in retirement, who wishes to improve as well as enjoy a sequestered life in such a way as will produce happiness to himself, prove beneficial to society, and glorify the God who formed him and appointed him his station in the world.— Christian Observer. XI. PERIODICALS. "Pray you, use your freedom; And so far, if you please, allow me mine, Silliman's Journal of Science. Edinburgh Review. London Quarterly Review. I would recommend these Reviews, voluminous as they are, to be thoroughly read and studied.-Chancellor Kent. American Review and Metropolitan Magazine. Conducted by an association of gentlemen in the city of New-York; recently commenced, but full of promise. Democratic Review. Miscellaneous and able, devoted especially to a vindication of the doctrines of the party whose name it bears. Northern Light. Miscellaneous, though intended principally for the discussion of questions in Political Economy, Industrial Science, and Education. Southern Literary Messenger. American Journal of Education. American Journal of the Medical Sciences. (Edited by Isaac Hayes, M.D., quarterly.) Boston Medical and Surgical Journal (monthly). Both works of long standing and high authority. American Jurist and Law Reporter. I consider it one of our most useful and valuable law publications, at once accurate, comprehensive, and national, and comprising the double merit of adaptation to merchants as well as to professional men.-Judge Story. Franklin Journal and Register of Inventions. For mechanics, engineers, &c. Niles's Register. Made up, for the most part, of official documents, and extremely valuable as a register of statistics in various departments of trade and industry. Excellent. American Almanac. A rich repository of facts. American Museum. Made up of selections from the foreign reviews. Westminster Review. Foreign Quarterly Review. Both conducted with great ability. Blackwood's Magazine. Under the editorial guidance of the celebrated Professor Wilson. Penny Magazine. Saturday Evening Magazine. Both these Magazines are conducted with special reference to the wants of the young and uneducated. They are excellent. London Athenæum. London Spectator. These are weekly papers, mainly occupied with reviews of current literature and with literary intelligence. They are very able and spirited. Journals of Education. Of these there are many. The most valuable are those published in Albany (by Francis Dwight), in Boston (by Horace Mann), and in Kentucky. XII. ENCYCLOPÆDIAS, &c. "There is a kind of physiognomy in the titles of books no less than in the faces of men, by which a skilful observer will as well know what to expect from the one as the other."-BUTLER'S Remains. Encyclopædia Americana. We consider this publication as creditable to the editors and their coadjutors, and to the enlightened and enterprising publishers who have undertaken to furnish a work of reference well worthy to occupy a place among the books of every man of intelligence, taste, and enlightened curiosity. Am. Quart. Rev. It is mainly a translation of the German Conversations Lexicon, with the addition, however, of much new matter, especially on the United States. 13 vols. 8vo, $22 50, Philadelphia, 1830. Brande's Encyclopædia. We recommend it as a most useful work, and equally so to all classes.-London Athenæum. $3 00, New-York, Edinburgh Encyclopædia. In this work all the great questions of civil and religious liberty have been advocated, the inalienable rights of humanity pled, and the sound doctrines of our faith established and expounded.-Dedication. Rees's Encyclopædia. This is an enlargement and revision of Chambers's Cyclopædia. In many departments it is very full and able. |