ART. XII.-SYNOPSIS OF THE QUARTERLIES.

1.-American Quarterly Reviews.

I. THE CHRISTIAN REVIEW, April, 1860.-1. The Ecclesiastical Miracles: 2. Moral Philosophy: 3. Baden Powell on the Immutability of Physical Laws: 4. Dr. Edward Beecher's "Conflict" and "Concord:" 5. The Doctrine of Romans i, 18-23: 6. The Defense of Socrates: 7. Modern Skepticism and its Refutation.

II. THE NEW ENGLANDER, May, 1860.-1. Humboldt, Ritter, and the New Geography: 2. The Power of Contrary Choice: 3. Discourse commemorative of Rev. C. A. Goodrich, D. D.: 4. Hebrew Servitude: 5. Are the Phenomena of Spiritualism Supernatural? 6. Worcester's Dictionary: 7. Common Schools and the English Language: 8. The Marble Faun: 9. The Crime against the Right of Suffrage.

III. BROWNSON'S QUARTERLY REVIEW, April, 1860.-1. Limits of Religious Thought: 2. Etudes de Theologie: 3. Ventura on Christian Politics. 4. Burnett's Path to the Church: 5. American College at Rome.

IV. THE PRESBYTERIAN QUARTERLY REVIEW, April, 1860.-1. Who is Responsible for the Present Slavery Agitation: 2. Pythagoras: 3. The American State and Christianity: 4. The Annihilation of the Wicked. 5. The Insurrection of the Paxton Boys.

V. THE THEOLOGICAL AND LITERARY JOURNAL, April, 1860.-1. Dr. Fairbairn's Typology: 2. God is Love: 3. Dr. J. F. Berg's False View of the Second Advent: 4. Divine Authority of the Bible, in Review of Rev. A. Barnes 5. Designation and Exposition of Isaiah, chapters xlix, 1, and li. VI. THE AMERICAN QUARTERLY CHURCH REVIEW, April, 1860.1. Philosophy and the Knowledge of God: 2. New Gospel in New England and the Church; 3. Bishop Griswold on the Apostolic Office: 4. The Moravians: 5. English Reformation: The Nag's Head Story: 6. Free Churches. VII. THE THEOLOGICAL AND LITERARY JOURNAL, January, 1860.1. Dr. Mansel's Limits of Religious Thought: 2. Notes on Scripture, Matthew xxiii, xxiv: 3. Christ's Promises, in the Epistles to the Churches, to those who are Victorious: 4. The Indo-Syrian Church: 5. Designation and Exposition of Isaiah, chapters xlix, 1, and li: 6. The Book of Judges: 7. Mr. Hequembourg's Plan of Creation.

VIII. THE BIBLICAL REPERTORY AND PRINCETON REVIEW, April, 1860.-1. Theories of the Eldership: 2. The Dissolution of Empires: 3. Sir W. Hamilton's Theory of Perception: 4. Man, Moral and Physical: 5. The First and Second Adam.

IX. THE UNITED PRESBYTERIAN QUARTERLY REVIEW, April, 1860.1. Foreign Missions: 2. Letters on Psalmody: 3. The First Adam and the Second: 4. Verity of the Old Testament History: 5. Secondary Uses of the Ceremonial Law: 6. Systematic Beneficence.

X. THE EVANGELICAL REVIEW, April, 1860.-1. The Study of the Scriptures: 2. For the Gifts and Calling of God are without Repentance: 3. Language: 4. Baccalaureate Address: 5. Imagination: 6. Christian Instruction in our Colleges: 7. The Field and Harvest of Ministerial Labor: 7. The Lutheran Church in Russia: 9. The Divinity of Christ: 10. Reminiscences of Lutheran Clergymen : 11. Dorpater Zeitschrift.

XI. THE MERCERSBURG REVIEW, April, 1860.-1. Constantine the Great: 2. The Old Doctrine of Christian Baptism: 3. The English Language: 4. German Hymnology: 5. Religion and Christianity: 6. What is a Catechumen? 7. Mansel's Limits of Religious Thought.

XII. THE SOUTHERN PRESBYTERIAN REVIEW, April, 1860.-1. A Few More Words on the Revised Book of Discipline: 2. The Relation of Organic Science to Sociology: 3. The Supernatural in the Scriptures: 4. Presbyterian Preaching at the South: 5. The Divine Right of Presbyterian Church Government; a Review of Killen's Ancient Church: 6. Baird's Elohim Revealed.

XIII. BIBLIOTHECA SACRA AND BIBLICAL REPOSITORY, April, 1860.— 1. Rothe's Ethics: 2. Comparative Phonology; or, the Phonetic System of the Indo-European Languages: 3. Exegesis of 1 Corinthians xv, 35-44, as Illustrated by Natural History and Chemistry: 4. John George Hamann : 5. Romanism and a Free Bible: 6. Dr. Nathaniel W. Taylor on Moral Government in the Abstract.

XIV. AMERICAN THEOLOGICAL REVIEW, May, 1860.-1. New England Theology historically considered: 2. Hickok's Rational Cosmology: 3. Unitarian Tendencies: 4. The Jewish Christian's Notion of a Redeemer: 5. The Alleged Progress in Theology: 6. Denominationalism not Sectarian: 7. Darwin on the Origin of Species: 8. Maine De Biran's Philosophy.

The American Theological Review has been called into existence by the necessities of the elder Calvinism. So rapid and general have been the advances of the more Arminian modifications of that system, and so uniformly have the higher periodicals of that section of the Church in these latitudes marched with those advances, that the more venerable and consistent form has been left, we believe, without a champion. Such a champion, able and scholarly, the present number, under the editorship of Professor H. B. Smith, shows itself; and we doubt not the work will live to do manful battle, not only for its own theological individualisms, but for the general Church of Christ.

The first article, by Professor E. A. Lawrence, of the East Windsor Theological Seminary, purposes to state the true limits and history of New England Calvinism. It is from an able and eloquent pen, which manages its facts with no ordinary skill. Professor Park dates the existence of New England theology from the commencement of Edwards's career. The present Review claims to remove this modern landmark backward, and include within the limits of New England theology the prevalent doctrines of the Congregational Churches generally from near the commencement of their existence. And in its derivative character, as drawn from the apostles, it "takes John Calvin into its genealogical line." The installation of this theology as adjectively "New England," took place in the adoption of the "Westminster Confession of Faith in 1648," which is now "the accredited exponent of New England theology."

Should any uncircumcised Arminian like ourself attempt an interference in this high debate, he may learn what sort of a setdown he will receive from the following passage. The writer is contrasting the believing theologian with the speculative: "The derivative character of the one leads along the line of an illustrious descent to its origin with the apostles and their Lord. The lineal branches of the other came to an end some centuries this side of the

apostolic age, in Sabellius or Socinus, Arius or Arminius, whose substantive doctrine, so far as not derived from Scripture, was original, and because original, erroneous. A desire to be the originator of essentially new Christian doctrines has ever been a leading cause of corruption in theology. It is the great practical error, the original sin by which the race fell. Hence the propagators of such original theology must be reputed as in regular succession from that distinguished preacher whose first converts were made in Eden."

II.-English Reviews.

I. THE WESTMinster Review, April, 1860.—1. Vedic Religion; 2. Manin, and Venice in 1848-9; 3. The Ethics of War; 4. Plutarch and his Times. 5. Austria and the Government of Hungary; 6. Parliamentary Reform: the Dangers and the Safeguards; 7. Japan; 8. Darwin on the Origin of Species.

II. THE LONDON REVIEW, (WESLEYAN,) April, 1860.-1. Lord Macaulay; 2. Whitby; 3. Ancient Syriac Gospels; 4. Eastern Problems; 5. Frederich Schiller; 6. Morocco; 7. Books and their Bindings; 8. Socrates; 9. Arctic Explorations.

III. THE BRITISH QUARTERLY REVIEW, April, 1860.-1. Lord Macaulay; 2. M'Leod's Eastern Africa; 3. Christian Revivals; 4. Belgium and China; 5. Darwin on the Origin of Species; 6. Lord Dundonald; 7. Brown's Sermons; 8. China and Japan; 9. Italian Nationality.

IV. THE NATIONAL REVIEW, April, 1860.-1. Plutarch's Lives: Clough; 2. The Testimony of Geology to the Age of the Human Race; 3. The Budget and the Treaty in their relation to Political Morality; 4. St. Thomas of Canterbury and his Biographers; 5. Madam Récamier; 6. The Acts of the Apostles; how far Historical? 7. The Reform Bill its real Bearing and Ultimate Results; 8. Christianity in Japan; 9. Papal Rome; 10. Cerebral Psychology: Bain; 11. Mr. Bright, painted by Himself. V. THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN EVANGELICAL REVIEW, April, 1860.— 1. Recent Syriac Literature; 2. A Nation's Right to Worship God; 3. Dr. Tyler and his Theology; 4. On the Power of Contrary Choice; 5. The Minister's Wooing; 6. What is Christianity? 7. The Text of Jeremiah; 8. Natural Science and Theology; 9. Principal Tulloch's Leaders of the Reformation.

VI. THE CHRISTIAN REMEMBRANCER, April, 1860.—2. Lord Bacon and the Inductive Philosophy; 2. Neale's Commentary on the Psalms; 3. Mr. Mansel and Mr. Maurice; 4. Daniel Wilson; 5. Irish Revivalism in Relation to the Church of England; 6. On the Remains of Old Babylonian Literature; 7. The Bishop of Oxford's Ordination Addresses; 8. The Trial of the Bishop of Brechin; 9. Liturgical Quotations in the Pauline Epistles. VII. THE JOURNAL OF SACRED LITERATURE AND BIBLICAL RECORD, April, 1860.-1. Sinai, Kadesh, and Mount Hor; or, a Critical Inquiry into the Route of the Exodus; 2. Nimrod and his Dynasty; 3. George Buchanan; 4. The Sisters of Galilee and Bethany; 5. Pauline Authorship of the Hebrews; 6. Remarks on the Book of Esther; 7. Analysis of the Emblems of St. John, Rev. xiii.

VIII. THE NORTH BRITISH REVIEW, May, 1860.-1. Redding's Reminiscences-Thomas Campbell: 2. Quakerism-Past and Present: 3. Sir Henry Lawrence: 4. Australian Ethnology: 5. Heine's Poems: 6. Church and State-The Spiritual and the Civil Courts: 7. Origin of Species: 8. The British Lighthouse system: 9. State of Europe.

IX. THE EDINBurgh Review, OR CRITICAL JOURNAL, April, 1860.1. Commercial Relations of England and France: 2. Youth of Milton: 3. Expense of Public Education in England: 4. English Local Nomenclature: 5. Civil Correspondence of the Duke of Wellington: 6. De Broglie's Church and Roman Empire. 7. The Alleged Shakspeare Forgeries: 8. Darwin on the Origin of Species: 9. France, Savoy, and Switzerland. X. THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, April, 1860.-1. William Beckford: 2. Money and Credit: 3. Anne Whitney's Poems: 4. The Letters and Times of Basil of Cæsarea 5. Nichol's Hours with the Evangelists: 6. The Law of Divorce: 7. United States Coast Survey: 8. The Life of John Collins Warren: 9. Darwin on the Origin of Species: 10. Recent French Literature 11. Isaac Disraeli: 12. Woman's Rights as to Labor and Property.

III.-French Reviews.

I. REVUE DES DEUX MONDES, February 15, 1860.--1. Les Commentaires d'un Soldat-III.-Les Derniers Jours de la Guerre de Crimée; 2. Le Roman de Femme en Angleterre.-Miss Mulock; 3. Les Terres Noires de la Russie, Souvenirs et Scènes de la Vie Rurale et Serve en Ukraine; 4. Rivalité de Charles-Quint et de Francois I.-Le Connétable de Bourbon.-I.-Sa Conjuration avec Charles-Quint et Henri VIII. Contre la France; 5. Etudes Morales-Le Travail et le Salaire des FemmesLes Femmes dans la Fabrique Lyonnaise; 6. Le Programme de la Paix; 7. Episode d'un Voyage d'Agrément, Récit de la Vie Anglo-Hindoue. March 15, 1860.—1. La Jeunesse de Mazarin ; 2. L'Homme au Bracelet D'or; 3. La Cavalerie Régulière en Campagne, Souvenirs D'Afrique et de Crimée; 4. Rivalité de Charles-Quint et de Francois I.-Le Connétable de Bourbon-III.-Le Siége de Marseille et la Bataille de Pavie; 5. Un Voyage dans la Nouvelle-Grenade, Paysages de la Nature Tropicale.— III.-Rio-Hacha, les Indiens Goajires et la Sierra-Negra; 6. La Jeunesse de Phidias; 7. Les Statistiques Agricoles de la France; 8. Chronique de la Quinzaine, Histoire Politique et Littéraire.

April 1, 1860.-1. La Ville Noire; 2. Décadence Morale du XVII Siécle.La Brinvilliers; 3. Souvenirs d'un Amiral-La Marine de la RestaurationLes Derniéres Années et le Testament d'un Marin; 4. Léonard de Vinci, d'Après de Nouveaux Documens; 5. Une Nouvelle Théorie d'Histoire Naturelle L'Origine des Espéces; 6. Du Crédit des Chemins de fer at des Moyens d'Achever Le Résau; 7. Les Armes au Feu au xixth Siécle-I.-La Poudre et les Armes Portatives; 8. Le Roman Contemporain-Corruption du Roman de Moeurs.

May 1, 1860.-1. La Ville Noire; 2. Un Voyage dans la Nouvelle-Grenade, Paysages de la Nature Tropicale.-IV.-Les Aruaques et la Sierra-Nevada; 3. Une Reforme Administrative en Afrique.-III.-Des Devoirs Nouveaux du Gouvernement Colonial en Algéire; 4. Le Monde Alpestre et les Hautes Régions du Globe d'Après les Dernières Recherches de la Physique; 5. Guerre de l'Inde.-Episodes Militaires de la vie Anglo-Indienne.

III.-Fin de la Guerre, Reprise de Lucknow, la Chasse aux Rebelles. 6. La Comédie Anglaise sous la Restauration.-I.-Le Public; 7. De la Renaissance des Lettres Ches les Grecs Modernes.-Les Poètes Zalokostas et Orphanidis.

May 15, 1860.-1. Economistes Contemporains.-Richard Cobden et l'Ecole de Manchester, Histoire de la Liberté Commerciale en Angleterre; 2. La Reine du Sabbat, Scenés de la vie des Landes; 3. De la Situation de la France et de la Papautè en Italie; 4. La Comédie Anglaise sous la Restauration.-II.-Les Poétes; 5. La Turquie, son Gouvernement et ses Armées Pendant La Guerre D'Orient.-I.-La Campagne de Armènie; 6. Les Révolutions et les Dictatures de L'Amèrique du Sud En, 1859; 7. La Saison Dramatique.-Décadence du Théatre.

II. REVUE CHRETIENNE, March 15, 1860.-1. La Doctrine Definitive Maine de Biran; 2. Madame Récamier; 3. Les Catacombs de Rome; 4. La Lutte Religieuse in France au Seizième Siècle, à l'Occasion du livre de M. Dargaud. May 15, 1860.-1. La Question Religieuse in Hollande; 2. Les Cours a la Sorbonne et au College de France; 3. Julian L'Apostat; 4. Bulletin Bib. liographique.

ART. XIII.-QUARTERLY BOOK-TABLE.

Ir is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men, and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors; for books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are.-MILTON.

I.-Religion, Theology, and Biblical Literature.

(1.)" Christ our Life. The Scriptural Argument for Immortality through Christ alone. By C. F. HUDSON, Author of Debt and Grace, as related to the Doctrine of a Future Life." 12mo., pp. 160. Boston: J. P. Jewett & Co. 1860.

The present work of Mr. Hudson's embraces a more explicit statement of his system, a completer Scripture exegesis, and a reply by the way to most of his opponents. It exhibits the same constructive skill, sharp dialectics, copious learning, keen criticism, and general good temper as his former work. His views will probably be accepted by not a few individuals who desire a halfway house between the stern eschatology of Protestant orthodoxy, and the utter effeminacy of Universalism.

Mr. Hudson regards man's soul as not necessarily but conditionally immortal. Immortality is its intentional but forfeitable destiny. Yet he evades materialism by asserting the independent existence of soul, its separate intermediate state, and its final reunion with the body at the resurrection. He eludes the charge of destroying the graduation of future penalty to the degrees of individual guilt by affirming that there are different degrees of misery and protraction in the pangs of the second death, through which the nonentity of soul and body is attained in the destiny of the wicked. Viewed, indeed, in a naturalistic light, Mr. Hudson's doctrine of conditional