THE

CHRISTIAN EXAMINER

AND

RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY.

VOLUME XLVI.

FOURTH SERIES, VOLUME XI.

JANUARY, MARCH, MAY, 1849.

BOSTON:

WM. CROSBY AND H. P. NICHOLS.

NEW YORK: C. S. FRANCIS & CO.

LONDON: JOHN CHAPMAN, 142 STRAND.

CONTENTS.

Leary

ARTICLE

I. THE CRISIS OF FREEDOM IN THE OLD WORLD AND THE

NEW

II. SCOTUS ERIGENA.

Fuemas Hell

Eyzees &

Bartol

1. Johannis Scoti Erigenæ de Divisione Naturæ Libri

Quinque. Editio recognita et emendata. Accedunt

Tredecim Auctoris Hymni ad Calorum Calvum, ex

Palimpsestis Angeli Maii.

2. Scot Erigène et la Philosophie Scholastique. Par

M. Saint-René Taillandier.

III. THE WATER CELEBRATION

Speeches of Nathan Hale, Chairman of the Board of

Water-Commissioners, and of Mayor Quincy, on Oc-

casion of the Introduction of the Waters of Lake Co-

chituate into Boston, Oct. 25, 1848.

IV. ALEXANDER'S ISAIAH

A. P. Pravdy

1. The Earlier Prophecies of Isaiah. By Joseph Addi-

son Alexander.

2. The Later Prophecies of Isaiah. By Joseph Addison

Alexander.

V. SOMERVILLE'S PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

The Le cuiry Physical Geography. By Mary Somerville.

VI. NEANDER'S LIFE OF CHRIST . .

The Life of Jesus Christ in its Historical Connection

4. Honorion and Historical Development. By Augustus Nean-

der. Translated from the Fourth German Edition,

by John M'Clintock and Charles E. Blumenthal.

VII. CHURCH MUSIC

1. The National Lyre: a New Collection of Sacred

Fear Music, consisting of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, with a

Choice Selection of Sentences, Anthems, and Chants,

etc. By S. P. Tuckerman, S. A. Bancroft, and H.

K. Oliver.

2. Taylor's Sacred Minstrel, or American Church Mu-

sic Book; a New Collection of Psalm and Hymn

Tunes, etc.; together with Anthems, Sentences,

Chants, etc. Edited by Virgil Corydon Taylor.

3. A Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, comprising

the Best Compositions in General Use, and including

many by Eminent English and Foreign Musicians,

which are now for the First Time published in this

Country, etc. Edited by James Turle and Edward

Taylor.

VIII. MERRY-MOUNT.

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Merry-Mount; a Romance of the Massachusetts Colony. Dr Lamsen

REV. HIRAM WITHINGTON

X. MOUNTFORD'S EUTHANASY

IX.

Euthanasy; or Happy Talk towards the End of Life.

By William Mountford.

XI. PEABODY'S SERMONS

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Sermons by the late William B. O. Peabody, D. D.;

with a Memoir, by his Brother.

NOTICES OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

Durfee's Works,

Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley,

Bartlett's Dictionary of Americanisms,

Groton,

Holmes's Poems,

Moore's American Governors,

Ward's History of Shrewsbury, Butler's History of

Whittier's Poems,

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American Almanac for 1849,- Unitarian Congregational

Register for 1849,- Channing's Treatise on Etheriza-

tion, Fable for Critics, The Biglow Papers,

Manual of Morals, Noble's Important Doctrines of

the True Christian Religion,-Griswold's Sacred Poets

of England and America, Wordsworth's Poems,

Coleridge's Poems, Rose of Sharon, - M'Clintock

and Crooks's First Book in Greek, Lamb's Tales

from Shakspere, Howitt's Mary Leeson,

of Middlesex Sunday School Society,

Perkins's Discourse at Cincinnati, Channing's Dis-

course on Church and Reform,- Bacon's Alumni Dis-

course, Furness's Discourse before the Philadelphia

Art-Union,

Religious Intelligence. - Ecclesiastical Record,-Society

for Propagating the Gospel, - Dedications,

tions and Installations,

Literary Intelligence. - University at Cambridge,

Obituary. Peter Mackintosh,-Israel A. Putnam,

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CONTENTS.

ARTICLE

I. LÜCKE'S DISSERTATION ON THE LOGOS

Fee Reyes [Translated from the German Commentary of Professor

Lücke of Göttingen.]

II. WHIPPLE'S ESSAYS AND REVIEWS

C. C. Smith

Essays and Reviews. By Edwin P. Whipple.

III. SAINT THERESA AND THE DEVOTEES OF SPAIN

1 Obras de la Gloriosa Madre Santa Teresa de Je-

sus, etc.

Sumuel Osgood

Works of the Glorious Mother St. Theresa de Jesus,

Founder of the Reformed Order of Our Lady of Car-

mel of the Primitive Rule.

2. Cartas de Santa Teresa de Jesus, etc.

Letters of St. Theresa de Jesus, with Notes by Palafox.

3. Euvres très-complètes de Sainte Thérèse; Des

Euvres complètes de S. Pierre d'Alcantara, etc.

Complete Works of St. Theresa, St. Peter of Alcanta-

ra, St. John of the Cross, and the Blessed John of

Avila; forming thus a very complete Whole of the

most noted Ascetic School of Spain. Translated by

various hands, and edited by Migne.

4. Vie de Sainte Terèse. Par F. Z. Collombet.

Life of St. Theresa. By Collombet.

IV. KENTISH'S NOTES ON SCRIPTURE

Notes and Comments on Passages of Scripture. By

Henriks. ECONOMIES

John Kentish.

VI. MACAULAY'S HISTORY

jco. E. Ellis

The History of England from the Accession of James

II. By Thomas Babington Macaulay. Volume I.

VII. RELIGIOUS POETRY OF MODERN GERMANY

1. H. Hurt bu). Novalis Schriften. Herausgegeben von L. Tieck

und Friedrich von Schlegel.

The Writings of Novalis.

2. Gedichte von Fouque.

Poems of Fouque.

3. Siona.

Sion. [A Collection of Religious Poems.]

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