reply to the question which M. Bastiat quotes, "What would become of the glazier if nobody broke windows?" If nobody else breaks them, I will, for I must have work; and this answer has been given in substance all along our railroads and in our burning cities during the past summer.

It is the question of the hour, and those who wish to learn how one class of writers treat the subject, and who wish to be interested and instructed by a vigorous and animated discussion of related topics, cannot do better than to read the essay "that which is seen and that which is not seen."

CUNNINGHAM'S DISSERTATION ON THE EPISTLE OF BARNABAS.* -This little volume considers (1) the Manuscripts, Editions, and Text, of the Epistle which bears the name of Barnabas; (2) its Plan and Character; (3) its Authorship; (4) the testimony of Antiquity respecting it; (5) the Epistle and Contemporary Influences; (6) the Theology of the Epistle. Then follows the Greek Text, Latin Version, Commentary, and English Translation. The work is the product of careful study, and well deserves the attention of all students who are interested in the early patristic literature.

BISHOP KIP ON THE CHURCH OF THE APOSTLES.t-Bishop Kip presents us in this volume with four Essays, on the following subjects: Creeds, Fellowship, Eucharist, Liturgies,—which are followed by a brief Conclusion. They are written in a reverential spirit. Their materials are drawn from Eusebius and his Continuators, and from Stanley's Lectures on the Eastern Church. Much valuable information is incorporated in them. The strong predilection of the author for the Anglican polity and worship is quite manifest in his judgments respecting the institutions of the primitive Church.

MEMOIRS OF JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, VOL. XII.1-Pages 289-536

* A Dissertation on the Epistle of S. Barnabas, including a Discussion of its date and authorship. By the Rev. WILLIAM CUNNINGHAM. Together with the Greek Text, the Latin Version, and a new English Translation and Commentary. London: Macmillan & Co. 1877.

The Church of the Apostles. By the Right Rev. WM. INGRAHAM KIP, D.D., LL.D., Bishop of California. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1877.

Memoirs of John Quincy Adams. Comprising portions of his Diary from 1795 to 1848. Edited by CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS. Vol. XII. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co.

1877.

of this volume, the concluding volume of the series, are devoted to the Index, which, considering the extent and character of the work, is none too long. The volume embraces an account of the last days of Mr. Adams, up to the time when he fell at his post, in the House of Representatives, where he had maintained, with so much fearlessness, the cause of freedom against the encroachments and the violence of the representatives of the Slave Power. Partly owing to the strenuous political struggles in which he was so long engaged, and partly from the warmth of his temper, this extended Diary of Mr. Adams contains a great quantity of vituperative writing. If we cannot accept, in many cases at least, the verdicts and estimates which he records with reference to his contemporaries, they are seldom destitute of a racy quality which makes them interesting, and they have all the spirit which might be expected in contemporary sketches, taken from the life, by a vigorous hand. Of Mr. Adams's uprightness and patriotism, and of his great public services, there can be but one opinion, whatever regret may be felt at the infirmities of temper which are so fully exhibited on the pages of this Memoir.

LIGHTFOOT'S S. CLEMENT OF ROME, AN APPENDIX.*-The recent discovery of the concluding portion of the Epistle of Clement of Rome to the Corinthians, both in the Greek and in a Syriac translation, has led Dr. Lightfoot to prepare the present volume, by way of supplement to his formerly published edition of Clement's Epistle. The newly discovered matter is, from various points of view, of much interest; and the comments and discussions of the editor are marked by the learning and judgment which distinguish all of his productions.

SELECTIONS FROM EPICTETUS.-We can hardly call this tiny book a collection of gems; for what did Epictetus write that is not a gem? It is a selection of characteristic utterances of the Stoic Sage, which may serve to acquaint the reader who goes no farther, with the peculiar flavor of his noble teachings. Whoever reads this volume appreciatively is pretty likely to be enticed to the perusal of all the writings of the most striking of the Stoic teachers.

* S. Clement of Rome. An Appendix containing the Newly Recovered Portions. With Introductions, Notes, and Translations. By J. B. LIGHTFOOT, D.D., Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity, Cambridge. London: Macmillan & Co. 1877. + Selections from Epictetus. Boston: Roberts Brothers. 1877.

ROMANISM AS IT IS.-The Rev. Samuel W. Barnum, who is known as a painstaking and accurate scholar, published in 1871 a book with the above title, which was commended at the time in the New Englander as a valuable collection of facts and documents in exposition of the Roman Catholic System, which had hitherto not been easily accessible to the general reader in this country. Mr. Barnum has recently published a new edition of the book, to which has been added an Appendix of nearly a hundred pages. In this is given an account of the more important events of the last six years, which show what the working of the new system has been, since the decrees of the Vatican Council. An account is given of the Gladstone controversy, the Falk Laws, the Guibord case, and the state of Romanism in the various nations of Europe, as well as in this country. The book will be found to be a very convenient book of reference.

SPIRITE.* This entertaining little story deals, as the title may indicate, largely in the supernatural. Spirite is a beautiful girl who is in love with the hero, but by a perverse and malicious fate is prevented from being seen by him, although they are repeatedly brought near one another. At length, in despair, she takes the veil, and soon dies. But she appears to the object of her love, succeeds in weaning him from every other attachment, until finally he dies, and enters into a blissful union with herself. The story is genuinely French, and sufficiently interesting to repay a perusal. The management of the celestial machinery is carried forward with the aid of a Swedish nobleman, a disciple of Swedenborg.

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