1844), which perhaps by this time you and Professor Nichols will have received from the publishers, I have a word to say. Upon some of the distinctions then contended for, it would be false humility if I should doubt they are sound. The substance I am too well assured is liable to no dispute. But as to the method of presenting the distinctions, as to the composition of the book, and the whole evolution of a course of thinking, then it is that I too deeply recognize the mind afflicted by my morbid condition. Through that ruin, and by the help of that ruin, I looked into and read the latter states of Coleridge. His chaos I comprehend by the darkness of my own, and both were the work of laudanum. It is as if ivory carvings and elaborate fretwork and fair enameling should be found with worms and ashes amongst coffins and the wrecks of some forgotten life or abolished nature. In parts and fragments eternal creations are carried on, but the nexus is wanting, and life and the central principle which should bind together all the parts at the centre, with all its radiations to the circumference, are wanting. Infinite incoherence, ropes of sand, gloomy incapacity of vital pervasion by some one plastic principle, that is the hideous incubus upon my mind always. For there is no disorganized wreck so absolute, so perfect, as that which is wrought by misery."-Vol. I., p. 325.

The second volume, in an appendix, gives a very able medical view of De Quincey's case by Surgeon-Major W. C. B. Eatwell, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London, and formerly Principal of the Medical College, Calcutta, which is well worth the study of all interested in such subjects. It warrants the charitable and comfortable conclusion that, enormous as were the evils of his opium-eating, it was the only antidote to certain diseases or morbid tendencies in De Quincey's constitution, which would, if unchecked, have terminated his life in his early prime.

Scribner, Armstrong & Co. publish another volume of their admirable Series of Epochs of Modern History, being The Age of Anne, by EDWARD E. MORRIS, M.A., of Lincoln College, Oxford, with Maps and Plans.

All the preceding publications from the houses of Scribner & Co. and Macmillan & Co. can be had of McGinness & Runyon, Princeton.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Coronation: A Story of Forest and Sea. By E. P. TENNEY. Boston: Noyes, Snow & Co., 1877. The Silent House, by the same author, was received with marked favor by the Christian public. But we confess to an inability fairly to apprehend the scope and aim of the present work. Is it a dream or a reality? Is it fiction or painful experience? We are unable to answer. We suspect it combines all these elements. The style, however, is fascinating. It has a high moral and spiritual aim. The life and character sketched in so odd, if not fanciful a way, we suspect will find counterparts in the actual experience of mankind. The spirit and aim of the book are well expressed in the closing words of the Introduction: "And when I myself go down to sleep in the silent valley, I shall not think that I have lived wholly in vain if this story of Cephas leads one human soul to a higher appreciation of the comfort, spiritual quickening and power to be gained by hours of sweet communion and holy striving with the Lord, in those closets which God himself has made in the solitudes of the earth."

Law for the Clergy: A Compilation of the Statutes of the States of

Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin, relating to the duties of clergymen in the solemnization of marriage, the organization of churches and religious societies, and the protection of religious meetings and assemblies, with notes and practical forms, embracing a collation of the Common Law of Marriage, by SANFORD A. HUDSON, Counsellor at Law. Chicago: S. C. Griggs & Co., 1877. We have given the full title of this book, which sufficiently indicates its scope and purpose. We wish it embraced all the States of the Union. The subject is important and practical. Clergymen are often ignorant of the laws under which they live in relation to matters of such vital interest, and fail in their duty in consequence, and cause mischief and injury.

The Presbyterian Board of Publication have issued in neat form the Proceedings and Addresses at the laying of the Corner-Stone and at the Unveiling of the statue of John Witherspoon, in Philadelphia. Compiled by REV. WM. P. BREED, D.D. Also, We Three, by KATE W. HAMILTON. 12m0, pp. 270. Also, a Manual of Forms for Baptism, Admission to the Communion, Administration of the Lord's Supper, Marriages and Funerals, conformed to the Doctrine and Discipline of the Presbyterian Church. By ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER HODGE, D.D.

The titles of these several works indicate their character. The first is a fitting memorial of one whom the Presbyterian Church will ever hold in respectful and grateful remembrance. The second is a story of decided interest, written in a pleasant and lively style—as are all the books of this authoress and makes a good impression. The other cannot fail to prove acceptable and useful to pastors and ministers throughout the Presbyterian Church. Dr. Hodge has shown skill and sound judgment in its preparation. The "Order" for each subject is brief, pertinent and scriptural. We heartily agree with the author that "the very spirit of liberty which opposes the authoritative recommendation of such formulas by the General Assembly will approve as legitimate such offerings to the brethren as the present, made by private persons, and thoroughly conformed to the doctrinal principles of the 'Confession of Faith,' and to the regulative injunctions of the 'Directory for Worship."" Certainly any approximation to a uniformity of method in the administration of Baptism, the Lord's Supper and the celebration of Marriage, which can be secured without the sacrifice of freedom and adaptability to varying circumstances, will be generally welcomed. We can barely announce, what we received too late for the more extended notice it deserves, an important contribution to Philosophy, from PROFESSOR FRANCIS BOWEN of Harvard College, entitled, Modern Philosophy, from Descartes to Schopenhauer and Hartmann, published by Scribner, Armstrong & Co., and for sale by McGinness & Runyon, Princeton.

Hitchcock & Walden of Cincinnati publish the Future of the Religious Policy of America; a Discussion of Eleven Great Living Questions, by WILLIAM RILEY HALSTEAD. These questions are handled with various ability, and have some bearing, direct or indirect, upon the title which the book bears. They hardly amount, however, to a direct treatment or solution of the problem.

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