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Killen's Ecclesiastical History of Ireland in a thoroughly competent way. The best "original article," by Prof. Leebody, in "the Scientific Doctrine of Continuity," is, on the whole, favorable to it, making exceptions in three points: I. The eternity of matter. 2. The origin of life. 3. The origin of man; which exceptions plainly show that physical continuity has got to be supplemented by a higher power in order to explain things. The accounts of current literature and notices of books are as usual very well done. This is a remarkably able number of the best English Theological Review.

The Theological Review. July and October, 1876. A. Kuenen, D.D., Yahveh and the "Other Gods;" Hon. Roden Noel, Free Will and Responsibility; H. S. Solly, Schopenhaur; P. Magnus, The Jews in England. Oct.-E. R. Russell, The Religion of Shakspeare; W. Sandy, The Nature and Development of Monotheism in Israel-in part, a reply to Kuenen; G. W. Cox, The Range of Christian Fellowship; C. B. Upton, Lord Amberley's Analysis of Religious Belief; Alx. Gordon, Bernardino Ochino, etc.

Dickinson's Theological Quarterly, Oct., 1876, is wholly from American periodicals and works. Among these articles (with no indication of the reviews in which they first appeared) are Prof. G. P. Fisher, on Rationalism; Dr. Thos. Hill, on the First Chapter of Genesis; Dr. Hurst, on Seneca; and Prof. Harrington, on Lucretius; Dr. Woolsey, The Religion of the Future; Dr. H. A. Nelson, "God in Human Thought" [from our own REVIEW]; Dr. D. R. Goodwin, The Reciprocal Influence of Christianity and Liberty, etc.

Mind: a Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy. Williams & Norgate. Nos. III., IV., 1876. No. III. contains: H. Helmholtz, The Origin and Meaning of Geometrical Axioms; R. Flint, Associationism and the Origin of Moral Ideas; Fred. Pollock, Evolution and Ethics; Max Müller, The Original Intention of Collective and Abstract Terms; Shadworth H. Hodgson, Philosophy and Science (III. conclusion); T. M. Lindsay, on Herman Lotze; W. H. S. Monck, Philosophy at Dublin. No. IV.: J. A. Stewart, Psychology—a Science or a Method; James Ward, An Attempt to Interpret Fechner's Law; James Sully, Art and Psychology; J. Vena, Bode's Logical System; R. Adamson, Schopenhauer's Philosophy-an able criticism; A. Bain, Life of James Mill; II., Philosophy in London (not much of it), by the editor, G. C. Robertson, Prof. in University College, London. Each number also contains good analyses and reviews of new French and German books, and gives the contents of all the leading philosophical journals of England and the Continent. It is very well conducted, and admits discussions from, various philosophical quarters. The price is 125. a year.

Edward Wm. Lane, the orientalist, died August 10th. He was born at Hereford, September 17, 1801. He lived in Egypt, 1825 to 1828; and again, 1833 to 1835. In 1835 he published his Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians; sixth edition lately issued. His translation of the Thousand and One Nights appeared 1838-40. The first volume of his great Arabic Lexicon appeared in 1863; five vols. have been published; the sixth is nearly printed; two more vols. will complete the work, from Mr. Lane's manuscripts. The Duke of Northumberland bore the main cost of this work. His sister, Mrs. Poole, wrote the Englishwoman in Egypt. Mr. Lane's Lexicon is derived from native sources.

Bagster has published A Concordance of the Hebrew and Chaldee Scriptures, prepared by B.'Davidson; price, three guineas.

The Psalms, with Introduction and Notes, by Rev. A. C. Jennings and Rev. W. H. Lowe, is now completed, in five books, and published by Macmillan. The Rabbinical learning of the editors is praised.

James Maclaren, a Dublin barrister, in an acute work, entitled A Critical Examination of some of the Principal Arguments For and Against Darwinism (London, 1876), admits the probability that some so-called species may have originated in some kind of evolution, but denies that Darwin's natural selection is a sufficient theory or explanation.

In consequence of the Union Conference at Bonn, the doctrinal differences of the Eastern and Western Churches are receiving new attention in England. Dr. Pusey has published, "A letter to the Rev. H. P. Liddon, on the clause, and the Son,' in regard to the Eastern Church and the Bonn Conference" (pp. 188), and H. B. Swete has written "On the History of the Doctrine of the Procession of the Holy Spirit, from the Apostolic Age to the death of Charlemagne." (Pp. 240.)

The four Scotch universities had 4,338 students in 1874-5, against 3,369 in 1864-5, showing an increase of 1,000, while the population increased from 3,250,000 to about 3,500,000. There was one student to 964 inhabitants in 1864-5, and one to 806 in 1874-5. In the latter period St. Andrew's had 143 students; Aberdeen, 635; Glasgow, 1,484; and Edinburgh, 2,076.

Mr. Bentley announces Capt. Charles Warren's" Underground Jerusalem," an account of his well-known investigations, with a narrative of an expedition to the Jordan valley, and a visit to the Samaritans; a translation of Duncker's "History of Antiquity," translated by Evelyn Abbott; and the twelfth volume of ❝ Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury," consisting of the Index. Macmillan & Co. announce Prof. T. R. Birks on "Modern Physical Fatalism and the Doctrine of Evolution."

R. C. Bensly, of Cambridge, reports in The Academy, June 17th, that their library has received a Syriac manuscript, bought at the sale of the books of Julius Mohl, at Paris, containing the Heracleian translation of the New Testament, and also a Syriac translation of the epistles of Clement of Rome. The manuscript is dated A.D. 1170. Mr. Bensly is preparing this Syriac version for the press. He considers it so accurate, that, in doubtful cases, it may well decide between the only two manuscripts of the Greek text-the Alexandrian (A) and the Jerusalem (I), which last is the one recently published by Bryennius.

A new edition of Finlay's History of Greece under Foreign Domination, is to be published by Macmillan & Co., for the University of Cambridge, edited by Rev. H. F. Tozer, and continued from 1843 to 1864—the year after the present king ascended the throne. Parts of it will be enlarged, especially the fourth volume, on Medieval Greece and Trebizond, which will be almost a new work.

L. Tyermann, the biographer of Wesley, is writing a Life of George Whitfield. A Life of Servetus, by R. Willis, is announced. The materials for this work have been much enlarged by the recent German researches of Tollin and others. A translation of Benrath's Life of Bernardino Ochina, by Miss Zimmerman, is announced. It is a valuable monograph.

The death is announced of Mr. George Smith, the English orientalist, at the age of fifty-one, while still engaged upon his uncompleted studies. In 1866, while examining the collection of Assyrian remains in the British Museum, he discovered an inscription which gave some account of the war against Hazael, and with the hope

that other inscriptions might be found to throw light upon the world's earliest history, he began at once the study of "Cuneiform inscriptions with great diligence and zeal. The first of his publications in this direction was a volume of "Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia," prepared for the British Museum. His discoveries were recorded from time to time in the "Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archæology," and among the earlier ones was a tablet recording the eclipse of June 16, 763 B. C.; an Assyrian religious calendar; an account of the conquest of Babylon by the Elamites in the year 2280 B. C., and the tablet on which an account of the flood is given, which he afterward found to be one of the series of twelve tablets, some of them badly mutilated, that he described fully in his latest work. In the year 1871 he published an important work concerning the history of Asshur-bani-pal, which gave a new direction to the study of oriental antiquities. Since the year 1873 he has been engaged pretty constantly in explorations of Nineveh and the Euphrates Valley, undertaken at the expense of the London Daily Telegraph, and prosecuted with extremely valuable results. His later works have included accounts of his explorations and discoveries-" Ancient History from the Monuments" and "The Chaldean Account of Genesis." This, his latest published work, was founded upon Chaldean legends concerning the early history of the world, the value and interest of which were greatly enhanced by the fact, that in many respects they coincide with the Mosaic account, or run closely parallel with it. This work was put forth as provisional, and the author explained, that while it was necessary thus to put upon record the results already reached, he had reason to believe that further discoveries and further study of the inscriptions would enable him to make a later and much more complete treatise on the subject, in which the significance of the newly-found historical material could be more accurately determined than was possible at the time. What results have been attained by the work he has done since the Chaldean account of Genesis was written the public have as yet no means of knowing, but it is pretty certain that so careful a recorder of facts as this enthusiastic scholar has not neglected to put whatever materials he has gathered into such shape that they may be used by other scholars in finishing the work which he did not live to complete. We suffer loss in his death before his work was done, but the work is not lost, incomplete as he has left it.-Post.

Mr. Matthew Arnold is preparing for the press, to be published by Macmillan & Co., a new edition of his poetry, including his later compositions; together with some of his recent papers on questions of the day, which have appeared in Macmillan's Magazine and the Contemporary Review. The same publishing firm announce a small work by Mr. Edward A. Freeman, on the Ottoman Power in Europe: Its Nature, Growth, and Decline, uniform with his History of the Saracens; also a new theological treatise, written by the Rev. Dr. Abbot, entitled Through Nature to Christ, founded on his Hulsean Lectures, lately delivered at Cambridge.

Mr. Edward Fitzgerald, who a few years since achieved such great success, tardily recognized, by his admirable translation of the Rabaiyat of the Persian poet, Omar Khayyam, has recently published an equally remarkable version of the Agamemnon of Eschylus. The following is his spirited translation of the " Signal from Troy:

Hephaistos, the lame God,
And spriteliest of mortal messengers;
Who, springing from the bed of burning Troy,

Hither by fore devis'd Intelligence
Agreed upon between my Lord and me,
Posted from dedicated Height to Height,
The reach of land and sea that lies between,
And first to catch him and begin the game
Did Ida fire her forest pine, and waving,
Handed him on to the Hermæan steep
Of Lemnos, Lemnos to the summit of
Zeus consecrated, Atkos lifted; whence,
As by the giant taken, so dispatched
The torch of Conquest, traversing the wide
Ægean with a sunbeam stretching stride,
Struck up the drowsy watchers on Makistos,
Who, flashing back the challenge, flash'd it on
To those who watched on the Mersapian height,

With whose quick-kindling heather heaped and fired
The meteor-bearded messenger refresh'd,
Clearing Asophus at a bound, struck fire
From old Kitharon; and, so little tired.
As waxing even wanton with the sport,
Over the sleeping water of Gorgopis

Sprung to the Rock of Corinth, thence to the cliffs
Which stare down the Saronic Gulf, that now

Began to shiver in the creeping Dawn;

Whence for a moment on the neighboring top
Of Arachnæum lighting, one last bound
Brought him to Agamemnon's battlements.
By such gigantic strides in such a Race,
Where First and Last alike are Conquerors,
Posted the traveling Fire whose Father-light
Ida conceived of burning Troy To-night!

One of the most admired choruses is thus rendered:

Some think the Godhead couching at his ease
Deep in the purple Heav'ns serenely sees
Insult the altar of Eternal Right.

Fools! For though Fortune seem to misrequite,
And Retribution for a while forget,

Sooner or later she reclaims the debt

With usury that triples the amount

Of Nemesis with running Time's account.

For soon or late Sardonic Fate

With man against himself conspires,

Puts on the mask of his desires;

Up the steps of Time elate,

Leads him blinded with his pride,
And gathering, as he goes along,
The fuel of his suicide,

Until, having topt the pyre

Which destiny permits no higher,
Ambition sets himself on fire;

In conflagration like the crime,

Conspicuous through the world and time,
Down amidst his Brazen walls,
The accumulated Idol falls

To shapeless ashes; Demigod

Under the vulgar hoof down-trod,

Whose neck he trod on; not an eye

To weep his fall or lip to sigh

For him a prayer; or, if there were,
No God to listen or reply.

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