It is by this mighty indwelling of the Holy Ghost, that God is to be glorified by us-the scoffer, convinced-the church, honored-the power of prayer, tested-the nature and worth of religion, understood-and the world, converted. This will kindle the flame of missionary ardor, bring innumerable and most willing guests to Zion's solemn feasts, open the treasures of our gold and silver, and produce universal consecration of all that we have to the Lord. Devoutly should we pray, therefore, for an increase of piety; 'not for the excitement of animal susceptibilities-not for awakened sympathies-not for an excess of emotion; but for strength of the Christian principle; for the deeper and more efficient indwelling of the Holy Ghost. EDITOR.

ARTICLE X.

LITERARY NOTICES.

1. M. T. Ciceronis Tusculanarum Quæstionum Libri Quinque. Accedunt Nota Anglica. Cura C. K. DILLAWAY, A. M. 2 Vols. 12mo. M. Acci Plauti Amphitruo et Aulularia. Accedunt Note Anglica. Cura C. K. DILLAWAY. 12mo. Philadelphia. Perkins & Purves. 1842.

The substance of these volumes is well known by most classical scholars, and little needs our commendation. The Tusculan Questions are an interesting exhibition of a pagan mind, groping by the light of nature after gospel truth. The doctrine of immortality, which heathen sages deemed probable, the revelation of the New Testament has brought to light. There is a dignity in the old Roman orator in these discussions, which inspires our respect, and an attractiveness which irresistibly bears us onward from page to page. It would be an interesting and profitable exercise for the professional classes, to devote a short time daily to the perusal of these volumes. It is a misfortune, that classical studies are nearly laid aside by our educated men, as soon as they leave college lecture-rooms. By a continued attention to these studies, the benefit to be expected from them might be continued and increased. The volumes before us are sufficiently tempting. They are printed on good, clear paper, with open type, and the notes appear to be judicious helps.

2. The Age of Gold, and other Poems. By GEORGE W. LUNT. Boston. W. D. Ticknor. pp. 160. 12mo.

The largest poem in this volume is the one which furnishes its title. There are twenty-five shorter pieces, besides. The first performance is

a reproof of the prevailing sin of the age, the inordinate desire of wealth. It is enough to say, that the poetry is generally exceedingly smooth, the language, chaste, the figures, apt and pure, and the execution of the book, of a high order.

3. Mesopotamia and Assyria, from the earliest ages to the present time; with Illustrations of their Natural History. By J. BAILLIE FRASER, Esq. With a Map and Engravings. Harper's Family Library, No. 157. pp. 336. 12mo.

The author of this work states in his preface, that he has endeavored to bring under one view all that is known of the history and aspect, moral, physical and political, of the provinces of Mesopotamia and Assyria; and to give, at the same time, a sketch of the causes that have produced the revolutions of which they have been the theatre. He has evidently had recourse to a large number of authorities, ancient and modern, of which he seems to have made judicious use. A part of the ground embraced in this subject has been more fully illuminated by works that have appeared since any of the writers to whom he has had access. His notions of the Nestorians, of whom Mr. Perkins has given us so full and interesting an account, are brief and confused. It is a hazardous undertaking, to attempt to condense so much important information into so small compass. Some things will be omitted which ought to be inserted; other things will be inserted, which might be spared; or an injudicious selection will be made, out of the mass of materials which offer themselves. Still it would be impossible, that such a book should be prepared with any degree of skill, and not be highly valuable.

4. The Missionary Eclectic. A Repository of select Missionary Works, American and Foreign. Edited by Rev. J. A. B. STONE and Rev. H. A. GRAVES. pp. 192. 8vo. Boston. William S. Damrell. January, 1843.

The conception of this work is to be attributed to the increase of missionary zeal, which has lately been experienced.. The title sufficiently explains its object. It is to be published quarterly, in numbers of about 190 pages, at $1,50 a year. It will contain such selections, abstracts, reviews, and original articles from British and American pens, as the editors may judge most conducive to the promotion of the missionary enterprise. The first number contains the first volume of the History of the English Baptist Missionary Society, by the Rev. F. A. Cox, D. D., LL. D., embracing the operations of that Society in the Eastern world; together with other missionary matter, original and selected. The second number will contain the remaining volume of Dr. Cox, which details the history of the English Baptist Society's missions in the West Indies. We should be recreant to our trust, if we did not highly commend, both the plan, and the manner in which it has thus begun to be prosecuted.

5. Hints on Modern Evangelism, and on the Elements of a Church's Prosperity. A Discourse by Rev. Dr. SHARP. Boston. W. D. Ticknor. pp. 24. 8vo. 1843.

This discourse was preached by Dr. S. to his own congregation in October last, and is published by their request. The text is Phil. 2: 2, 3. It is an honest and fearless declaration of the author's views of the subjects named in the title. Conscientiously differing from some of

his brethren, in reference to the former of the two topics, he has here avowed his dissent, and briefly enumerated the reasons of it. The age and experience of the venerated author, his zeal for the cause of truth and the welfare of the church, and his protracted and successful labors in the ministry, entitle his sentiments to sober and respectful consideration.

6. Magazine of the recent History of Missionary and Bible Societies, Basle. (Magazin für die neueste Geschichte der evangelischen Missions-und Bibelgesellschaften.)

This is the most complete and systematic missionary periodical which has ever been issued. It is a large quarterly publication, commenced at the Basle Missionary Institute, in 1816, by the lamented Dr. Blumhardt, and continued by him until his death, when Mr. W. Hoffmann, his successor in office as inspector, or director of the school, succeeded him as editor of the Magazine. Unlike ordinary missionary papers which publish items of missionary intelligence at frequent intervals, this work, in keeping with its more scientific and historical character, exhibits a connected and complete view of missionary operations, with maps and plates, treating of different countries successively, at intervals of several years. Dr. Blumhardt was one of the most intelligent and accomplished writers of missionary history. He was a man of great industry in his researches. Few men are qualified to complete his unfinished work on the early Christian missions, whose history he brought down only to the tenth century. It is an occasion of rejoicing, therefore, that such a man as Mr. Hoffmann could be found for a successor, who, in time, will probably be able more than to make up the loss. For though he has not yet read on the subject of missions so extensively as Blumhardt had done, his general scholarship and talents appear to be superior. Not only has he been a preacher, and a teacher of theology in Tübingen, but he is already distinguished as an author. His mind appears to have been early interested in the condition of the heathen. He studied the geography, history and religion of pagan nations so thoroughly as to be able to acquire considerable reputation as a writer on these subjects. If we may judge from his inaugural address, we may add, that in the deep and fervent tone of his piety, he is not unlike his predecessor. The view which he has given of the East India missions in three numbers of the Magazine for the year 1841, is generally regarded as the most elaborate and valuable to be found in the whole series. The reports and correspondence of the Bible societies are added as appendices, and occupy but a small part of each number. A missionary paper, more like ordinary missionary magazines, is issued in connection with the larger work. The 24th annual report for the year 1840, states that 158 missionaries have been educated in the school at Basle, of whom about one third had been sent out by the society of that place. The number still living at the various missionary stations was 109; and the number of students then at the schools, 42.

ARTICLE XI.

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

ENGLAND.

An association has been formed in London, under the name of the Elfric Society, whose leading object is the cultivation of the Anglo-Saxon language and history. It is proposed to publish the monuments of this literature still extant, in a convenient form and correct text, accompanied by an English translation. The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church will constitute the first of the series, to be followed by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, works of king Alfred, lives of the saints, &c.

GERMANY.

HAVERNICK, who was appointed Professor of oriental languages, as successor of Von Bohlen, at Königsberg, has experienced, as is already known, much opposition there on account of his religious views. The following are the particulars in the case, as we find them stated in an authentic form, in a German periodical : On the 19th of January, a year since, Prof. Hävernick held his usual public disputation; but, with the exception of his two opponents, not a single student was present. On the delivering of his first lecture the auditorium was crowded with hearers from all the faculties; but after Hävernick had spoken a short time, was entirely deserted, although he had said nothing as yet to indicate the character of his sentiments. He had announced as the subjects on which he would lecture, 1. a historico-critical introduction to the canonical and apocryphal books of the Old Testament; 2. explanation of the prophecies of Zechariah; and 3. interpretation of the gospel of Matthew. He was unable, however, during the whole wintersemester, to form a class. Hävernick's predecessor, Von Bohlen, was a rationalist of the lowest order, as he has abundantly shown in his commentary on Genesis; and there was a strong party among the students at Königsberg, who demanded that his place should be filled by a man of the same spirit. The disappointment occasioned by the selection of Hävernick, the pupil and personal friend of Hengstenberg and Tholuck, led to the difficulties above mentioned. We are happy to add, that since the preceding was written, things are said to have so far improved, that Prof. H. will probably be able to maintain his position.

Dr. H. A. F. AST died at Munich on the 31st of December, of the preceding year. He was born at Gotha, 1776, and has been a Professor in the University at Munich since 1826. He is best known in this country as the author of the Lexicon Platonicum, seu Vocum Platonicarum Index.

Prof. EWALD, of Tübingen, the Hebrew grammarian and orientalist, has been transferred from the faculty of Philosophy to that of Theology.

Recent Publications. Concordance of the Arabic Koran, arranged according to the order of the letters, and the roots of the words, by Flügel, from the press of Tauchnitz.-Hand-book of Latin etymology, by L. Doedlein, author of the very valuable and popular Manual on Latin Synonymy.-Critical Summary of the different views on the book of Jonah, with a new attempt at its explanation; second improved edition, by Friedrichsen.-Second edition of Gervinus's Manual of the history of the national poetic literature of the Germans, being a compilation from the author's larger work, in five parts. No work on this subject enjoys at present greater public favor.-The first number of H. E. G. Paulus's Exegetical Manual of the three first Evangelists. Foenum habet in cornu, we might label this book; for it is nothing but Paulus's old work, Commentary on the New Testament, under a new title-a work in which rationalism, of the type which prevailed at the beginning of the present century, reached its culminating point in the criticism of the New Testament, as it did in the writings of Eichhorn in that of the Old. The third number of a new edition of all the works of Aristotle, under the care of Weisse, from the press of Tauchnitz.

During the last semester, Prof. Rödiger read lectures at Halle, from the chair of Gesenius, on the topics which that distinguished scholar announced before his

death. There have been many conjectures as to the question, who will be appointed the successor of G. We learn, by a private letter, that the theological faculty of Halle, by request of the ministry, have addressed inquiries to Hupfeld, of Marburg, asking him whether he will consent to accept the place.-Hengstenberg has just published the first volume of a commentary on the Psalms.-Two other volumes are to follow.-Tholuck is about to publish a practical commentary on the same. An introduction to the New Testament has just appeared from the pen of Guerike, in Halle; also, a commentary on the book of Jeremiah, by Umbreit. Brockhaus has announced a new edition of the Conversations-Lexicon, in which every thing of importance in the supplements that have been published, is to be incorporated. All the most important articles are to be revised, which will make the publication a work of time. It will be comprised in 15 vols.-The fourth vol. of Erdmann's History of Modern Philosophy, embracing Leibnitz and the development of Idealism before the time of Kant, has appeared; also, a History of the same by Biedemann, in Leipzig.

AMERICA.

Allen, Morrill & Wardwell, of Andover, have in preparation a translation of "The School Grammar of the Greek Language," by Raphael Kühner, conrector of the Lyceum at Hanover, in Germany. The author has published three Greek Grammars, of which the first is elementary, the third a very copious grammar in two volumes, and the second intermediate between the two. It is this latter. work, which is to appear in an English dress. K. is remarkable for clearness of method and exactness of statement. The translators are B. B. Edwards and S. H. Taylor.

We learn, that it is determined to republish in this country, "A complete Concordance of all the words of the New Testament, on the basis of Schmid, but corrected and enlarged, to correspond with the present state of biblical criticism and hermeneutics, by Charles H. Bruder." It is stereotyped and published at Leipzig, by Tauchnitz Part V. has just been received; only one part is now wanting.

FRANCE.

M. Reinaud is on the eve of publishing the first volume of his translation of the Arabic Geography of Abulfeda.

RUSSIA.

We see it stated in the second volume of Kohl's "Russia and the Russians in 1842," just published in England, that great attention is paid to education in Russia. The number of governesses and private tutors employed in St. Petersburg, is stated to be about 6,000, and the salaries paid them are very high. In general, they run from 3,000 to 4,000 rubles, and in some cases, they rise to 6,000 and even 10,000; especially when an effort is made to entice away teachers to Siberia, or to a remote province. When an engagement expires, an annuity is commonly settled upon the teacher, or instead of this, from 30,000 to 50,000 rubles are given at once; so that French governesses often receive better salaries than professors in Germany. Schools in St. Petersburg are almost as numerous for females as for males. The greatest institution for females has 800 scholars, mostly from noble families. Instruction is given in French and German, and in the fine arts and sciences. The expenses of the institution are 700,000 rubles a year. The Russians, however, generally prefer private instruction.