wait. In the mean time this pamphlet, as well as the sermon on "Abraham's Sacrifice," which Bishop Colenso was prevented from preaching at Claybrook, deepen our conviction that he is performing a most important work in a truly religious spirit. Only those who habitually read the so-called religious journals, and recollect what are the churches whose opinions they claim to express, know what Bishop Colenso has to bear from week to week. If he suffers the grossest misstatements to pass unchallenged, he is supposed to admit that they are unanswerably true; if he challenges their accuracy, he is accused of disputatious perversity. No article on the condition of religious thought is complete without a fling at this "unhappy man," this "betrayer of the faith," this "abettor of unbelief," this "companion of infidels;" although if he venture a word in explanation or reply, his letter meets with grudging place or none. Every pulpit in England is open to his assailants, not one to himself; if he proposes Dr. Livingstone's health at a public dinner, the great missionary's orthodoxy is straightway tarnished; he cannot attend a scientific congress without being accused of courting notoriety. In spite of all this, we believe that he rises daily in the respect and admiration of all good men, whose perception of true Christian manliness is not dimmed by theological prejudice. When the animosities and vexations of the moment have faded away, it will be acknowledged that not many men have passed through so perplexing a trial with so few mistakes, so high-hearted a courage.

Mr. Francis W. Newman† has been exercising his active mind and his powers of analysis upon that curious monument of Italic antiquity, the Eugubine or Iguvine tables, which were dug up at Gubbio in Umbria in the year 1444. They are of bronze and seven in number, five being in the Etruscan character and two in the Latin. Ever since their discovery they have been the crux philologorum, and various and vague have been the interpretations of them. One learned man conjectured them to have been treaties; another, with a nearer approximation to the truth, litanies, sung on occasion of a great national calamity. Since the

* Abraham's Sacrifice: a Sermon for Claybrook Sunday School. By the Right Rev. J. W. Colenso, D.D., Bishop of Natal.

The Text of the Iguvine Inscriptions, with Latin Translation and Notes. Trübner and Co.

time of Lanzi, who in his Saggio di Lingua Etrusca (pp. 570-676) gave a transcript and interpretation of them, they have been generally admitted to be ritual and sacrificial formulæ. Some eminent scholars have in late years applied themselves to the study of them-Lepsius, Aufrecht, Kirchhoff and Mommsen. And being aided by the more philosophical principles of philology which now prevail, and by the monuments of the ancient languages of Italy, they have succeeded in establishing their general meaning. The Etruscan tables resist their attempts, but the two which are in the Latin character are gradually receiving a consistent and intelligible explanation. Had the late Sir Cornewall Lewis followed more closely than he appears to have done, the steps by which this result has been attained, he would not have so confidently pronounced the attempt a failure.

We cannot follow Mr. Newman through the details of his interpretation: he himself admits that much of it is tentative. But the rendering of a short passage will shew how close is the relation of the old Umbrian to Latin. It is a direction for a sacrifice to Jupiter, locally called Grabovius.

Jove Grabovi tref buf fetu, ocriper Fisiu, totaper Iguvina. Jovi Grabovio tres boves facito collepro Fisio urbepro Iguvina.

Ocris is old Latin for a rugged hill, allied to the Greek opic, and the only doubtful word is tota, assumed to mean urbs.

*

We have also received an "English Grammar, specially intended for Classical Schools and Private Students," by the Rev. Edward Higginson, which is clear in its method and interesting in style. We may mention a thoughtful and even entertaining chapter on the use of shall and will, as an example of the way in which Mr. Higginson successfully avoids the dryness usually supposed to be inevitably attendant upon this study. The book would, however, be improved, for the kind of scholars for whose use it is designed, by more frequent references to the facts and principles which are at the basis of all language.-"Flora and Eveline," a child's book on natural history, escaped our

An English Grammar, specially intended for Classical Schools and Private Students. By Edward Higginson. London: Longmans. 1864.

Flora and Eveline; or Leaves from the Book of Nature. London: Whitfield, Green & Son. 1864.

notice at the date of our last publication. The delay has enabled us to pronounce a more impartial judgment upon its merits than would then have been possible. It has been submitted to a jury of children, to whom it has been read, as designed by the author, on Sunday afternoons. We need say no more in its favour than that it has been eagerly read and re-read.-Mr. Goodwyn Barmby's "Return of the Swallow, and other Poems"*-a collection of verses, some re-published, others now printed for the first time-hardly come within the critical eyesight of a Theological Review. So, after the fashion of the old Greek blockhead, we offer a brick as a sample of the house in the following elegant little poem, asking our readers to believe that in Mr. Barmby's pages they will find much profitable and pleasing matter of a similar kind:

แ 'Sower, go forth! and with well-measured stride,
And balanced body, swung from side to side,
Spread forth thy hand and cast thy treasure wide.
"From the coarse bag athwart thy stout breast hung,
Draw forth thy golden seed, which broadcast flung,
Shall yet arise the binding weed among.

"Though poppies redden, purple thistles rear,
And knotted grasses point the verdurous spear;
Sow step by step-thy harvest shall appear.
"Let the rough harrow close thy useful toil,
Or the drill's labour, and the scattered soil
The roller press, for the rich autumn spoil.
"So, sower of the Word! pass o'er the land,
Sowing thy seed: no longer idly stand;

Sow in the morn, nor let eve stay thy hand.
"Beside all waters sow, though jointed weed
Or choking creeper struggle with thy deed;
Thou hast thy labour done and earned thy meed.
"Though tangling briar upon thy borders press,
Labour shall prune the world's rough wilderness,
And blooming roses its wide desert bless.

"The glance of goodness to the heart shall come ; Nor word, nor tract, fall seedless into gloom: And spring-tide sowing have its harvest home."

The Return of the Swallow, and other Poems. By Goodwyn Barmby. London Simpkin, Marshall & Co.

1864.

INDEX TO VOL. I.

AIKIN, Miss Lucy, death of, 125.

Arnold, Rev. John Muehleisen, "English Biblical Criticism and the Pentateuch
from a German Point of View," 161.

AUTHORITY AND FREE THOUGHT: Dr. NewMAN'S APOLOGY, 306. Lord Herbert
of Cherbury, 307. George Herbert, 308. Parallel to the two Herberts in the
brothers Newman, 310. Origin of Dr. Newman's "Apologia," 311. Charges
against Dr. Newman's sincerity and veracity unsustainable, 312. The Apology
valuable as a narrative of the Tractarian movement, 312. Dr. Newman's
youthful religious experiences, 313. His mental history from conversion a
perpetual enlargement of belief, 314. Theory that his Romanism was the
result of a recoil from theological liberalism, 315. His study of the Fathers
and ideas of antiquity, 317. His view of the start of the religious movement
of 1833, 319. His consciousness of having a work to do gives him new health
and vigour-his intolerance and carelessness, 319. His theological position in
1833, 320. Protestant and Catholic theory of the Church, 321. Tracts for
the Times, 323. Dr. Newman's study of the Monophysite controversy, 324.
Progress of his change to Catholicism, 325. His ultimate conversion, 326.
Remarks on his theological development, 327-333. F. W. Newman's posi-
tion on the very outpost of Protestantism, 333.

BARMBY, Rev. Goodwyn, "Return of the Swallow and other Poems," 602.
Beard, Rev. Dr., retirement from the ministry of, 125.

Bernard, Hermann Hedwig, "Exposition of the Book of Job," 480.
Binns, Rev. W., "Christianity in Relation to Modern Thought," 489.
BISHOP, A MISSIONARY-Memoir of Bishop Mackenzie, 438. Missionaries dis-
liked in India and the Colonies, 438. Foreign missions a stupendous failure
-the reasons of it, 439. Birth of Charles F. Mackenzie, 440. His character
as a boy, 441. Career at Cambridge, 441. Ordained in 1851, 443. His
Accepts the Archdeaconry

thoughts of becoming a foreign missionary, 444.
of Natal, 446. First letter on the voyage, 447. Parish priest in D'Urban,
448. High-church practices, 448. General character, 448. Returns to
England, 449. Made Missionary Bishop of the Zambesi district, 449. Arrival
at Chibisa's and description of the missionary party, 451. Settlement at
Magomero, 453. A day's work, 453. Repels hostile incursions of the Ajawa,
and vindication of his conduct, 456. Dies of fever, 458. Loveableness of
character, 458.

Briggs, F. W., "Modern and Apostolic Missions," 119.

Brown, J. B., "The Divine Mystery of Peace," 117. "The Divine Treat-
ment of Sin," 230.

Brown, Robert, "The Gospel of Common Sense," 486.

Browne, Professor Harold, appointed Bishop of Ely, 126.

Büchner, Dr. Luis, "Force and Matter," translated by J. F. Collingwood, 486.

CATHOLICISM, progress of, in England, 247. The Congress at Munich, 248.
Suppression of the Home and Foreign Review, 248.

CHESHIRE, NONCONFORMITY IN, 460. Volume of Historical Sketches a bicente-
nary celebration, 460. Chief object to honour Independency, 461. Sectarian
bitterness of Dissenting histories, 461. Religious houses in Cheshire, 463.
Early Bishops of Chester-Bird, 464. Cotes, Scott, Downham, 465. Mar-
tyrdom of George Marsh, 465. Bishop Chaderton a reforming Prelate, 466.
Bishop Moreton, 467. Policy of Laud, 469. Incident in the life of Prynne,
469. Presbyterian party in Cheshire, 471. Cheshire ejected ministers, 472.
Autobiography of H. Newcome, 473. Life of Adam Martindale, 474. Non-
conformity in Stockport, 478. John Knowles, 479.
CHRISTIAN ETHICS AND THE ETHICS OF CHRIST, 396. Fundamental moral and
religious truths never traceable to individual teachers, 396. Two classes of
truths brought to light by the moral teacher, 397. Materials for judging of
the current morals in the time of Christ, 398. Means of estimating the
moral physiognomy of Jesus, 399. Distinction between positive and negative
duty, 401. The positive character of duty a prominent feature in Christ's
morality, 402. Few traces of this in modern Christian ethics, 403. Ethical
teachers differ greatly in their relative value of fundamental moral principles,
404. Two classes in all religious minds, 405. In England, these two classes
represented by the Anglican party and the Evangelical party, 407. Christ
attached little importance to Jewish observances, 408. Varied treatment by
ethical teachers of the two orders of human offences, 412. Christ's treatment
of them, 413. Their position with the stricter Christians of modern days,
415. The reserve and secrecy in matters of the soul urged by Christ, con-
trasted with modern practice, 417. The long prayers Christ rebukes as
heathenish now common, 417. Christ's treatment of the woman taken in
adultery, 418. His conception of the perfect life, 418. His love of the
unlovely, 421.

Cobbe, Frances P., "Broken Lights," 224. "Religious Duty," 598.
Codex Sinaiticus, note on, 214. Tischendorf's edition, 214. Hilgenfeld's
reasons for doubting its extreme antiquity, 215. Argument from the readings
of this MS., 217. Note of the transcriber, 218. Omissions and mistakes,
220. Agreement with Cod. Vaticanus and citations in early Fathers, 221.
Colani, M., appointed Professor of Sacred Eloquence at Strasburg, 373.
COLENSO, BISHOP, ON THE CREATION AND THE FLOOD, 161. Review of Part IV.
of his work on the Pentateuch, 162. Double authorship of parts of the Penta-
teuch, 162. Two accounts of the creation, 164. Of the flood, 165. Rela-
tionship between Elohistic and Jehovistic documents, 167. Criticism of the
account of the Deluge, 170. Group of similar legends, 176. Mr. Philip
Smith on primæval history, 178.

Colenso, Bishop, "Remarks on the Proceedings and Charge of the Bishop of
Capetown," 599. "Abraham's Sacrifice," Sermon at Claybrook, 600. His
trial at the Cape, 126. Further references to his case, 244, 357, 599.
Cook, Rev. F. C., appointed Canon of Exeter, 126.

Coquerel, Ath., Jun., account of his deprivation, 249. "Profession de Foi Chre-
tienne," 374. Addressed by the British and Foreign Unitarian Association,
374.

Cranbrook, Rev. James, "A Sermon on the Colenso Controversy," 120.
Cromwell, Rev. Dr., retirement from the ministry, 124.