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For $10.50, THE LIVING AGE and either one of the four-dollar monthly Magazines (or Harper's Weekly or Bazar), will be sent for a year, with postage prepaid on both; or, for $9.50, THE LIVING AGE and the St. Nicholas, or Appleton's Journal, both postpaid. ADDRESS LITTELL & CO., 17 Bromfield St., Boston. viii NATIONAL QUARTERLY REVIEW ADVERTISER. The Bibliotheca Sacra. VOLUME XXXVII. 1880. The first Prospectus of the BIBLIOTHECA SACRA set forth its objects in the following language: "It will embrace the subjects which are included under Theology in the wider acception of that term, namely, Biblical Literature, Doctrinal Theology, and the History of the Church, including that of the principal doctrines of Christianity. Particular prominence will be given to Biblical Literature, in respect to which there is a large and constantly increasing amount of valuable materials. Certain collateral subjects will receive a share of attention, particularly classical philology and mental science. . . will endeavor to consult the needs of theological students and clergymen. With this view articles will be sought of permanent value, instead of those which are fitted to produce a popular and immediate effect." The plan of the Review here sketched was in some of its features entirely original. The BIBLIOTHECA SACRA first introduced the plan of publishing entire theological treatises in successive Articles, of condensing and transfusing instead of translating Essays and books from foreign languages, of describing original explorations in biblical geography, of presenting denominational differences in a series of Articles by representative writers, etc. Under the administration of Professor Park, one of its founders, this plan of the work has been, in the main, steadily adhered to. The exceptions are such as were naturally developed in the progress of the active inquiries of the past thirty or forty years; such in particular as have grown out of the researches in the natural sciences, especially geology, in relation to the Bible; the illustration of certain passages of Scripture from travels and new discoveries in Oriental lands; and the state and progress of education in the higher seminaries of Europe and America. Investigations in natural theology, philology, archæology, textual criticisms, and the explanation of difficult passages of the Bible, homiletics, etc., have not been neglected; and in some of these departments the REVIEW has had many original papers by original explorers. These carefully-wrought papers have often been the result of long-continued study-months and even years of labor and investigation have produced them; and they have been, and still are, quoted as authorities. Not only has great labor been expended in the preparation of these elaborate papers for the press, but also great care and pains to secure accuracy in printing, the use of type in various foreign and Oriental languages often involving the labor and expense in one page equal to that in two and sometimes five or six pages of ordinary matter; a sort of work which no other Review in this country often attempts. Terms, $4.00 per annum. W. F. DRAPER, Publisher, ANDOVER, Mass. A particularly strong number of this old and able REVIEW, *** replete with very carefully written papers on topics of living interest.— Advance. It is scholarly, able, vigorous; dignified but not heavy in its treatment of topics, and has editorial utterances of its own which give it a unity and character which are wanting in mere literary compendiums. -Christian at Work. No American review which comes under our eye takes so careful and extended notice of current literature as the NATIONAL QUARTERLY. -Christian Union. 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