gations, no distrust of the self-opinion of modern times, will tempt us to affirm that the history of former ages affords anything comparable to the phenomena of an existing society such as this-the last achievement of political progress."

The thirty-second volume of the Library of the Fathers has been published-being St. Augustine's Commentary on the Psalms.

Five volumes of the works of Dr. John Owen have been published by Messrs. Johnston & Hunter, Edinburgh, being part of the Standard Library of British Divines, noticed in a former number of this journal, The same publishers announce their intention to issue a "Protestant Library," containing

the chief treatises on the Romish controversy which adorn the theological literature of England.

A Practical Exposition of St. Paul's Epistles to the Thessalonians, to Timothy, Titus, Philemon, and to the Hebrews, in the form of Lectures, intended to assist the practice of Domestic Instruction and Devotion, by JOHN BIRD SUMNER, D. D., Archbishop of Canterbury :-A New Harmony of the Gospels, in the Form of Lectures, by the Rev. L. VERNON HARCOURT, M. A. 3 vols. 8vo. :—and a Treatise on the Unity and Order of St. Paul's Epistles to the Churches, by the Rev. A. T. PAGET, M. A., Fellow of Caius College, are announced in London.

The Rev. JOHN PYE SMITH, D. D., died at his residence in Guildford, Eng., on the 5th of February.

It is estimated that over two hundred and

fifty separate books, pamphlets, &c., have been issued in Great Britain on the Popish Question, since the commencement of the recent agitation.

Among the new works announced on the Continent of Europe are the following:

Pauli Epistola Altera ad Timotheum graece. Cum commentario perpetuo, edidit Gottlob Eduardus Leo, Theologiæ doctor, art. mag., senatus ecclesiastici Schoenburgici senator, Waldenburgensis ecclesiæ pastor primar. et dioecesis superintendens.

Das Wunder des Christenthums im Einklange mit Vernunft und Natur. Ein apolo

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getisches Versuch in Briefen, von Dr. J. W. Hanne.

Die drei ersten Evangelien übersetzt und erklärt, von Heinrich Ewald, Gottingen, 1850. 8vo., pp. 368.

Die zehn Gebote, in Zeitpredigten, gehalted in 1849, von Dr. Edward Niemann, Hannover, 1850. 8vo., pp. 171,

Among the new works announced in Great Britain, are the following:

The British Churches in relation to the British People, by Edward Miall, 1 vol. crown 8vo. :—A Letter to Lord John Russell; being an Answer to Cardinal Wiseman's Manifesto, by the Rev. John Cumming, D. D., Minister of the Scottish Church, Covent Garden :-Dealings with the Inquisisition at Rome, by Dr. Achilli :-Second Edition, with Additions, Romanism in England Exposed, by Charles Hasting Collette:-Popish Infallibility. Letters to Viscount Fielding on the Secession :-Journal of a Tour in Italy, in 1850, with an Account of an Interview with the Pope, at the Vatican, by the Rev. George Townsend, D. D., Canon of Durham :- Protestantism and Popery contrasted by the acknowledged and authentic Teaching of each Religion. Edited by the Rev. John Edmund Cox, M. A., F. S. A., of All Souls' College, Oxford; Vicar of St. Helen's, Bishopsgate, London. 2 vols., 8vo. :-The Divinity of our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, a Prize Essay read in the Divinity School, Oxford, Friday, June 7, 1850, by the Rev. William Alexander. 8vo. :-The Apostles as the Completion of the Patriarchs; being the

Christian Advocate's Publication for 1850, and the sixth and last part of the Province of the Intellect in Religion, by T. Worsley, M. A. 8vo. :-An Exposition of our Lord's Intercessory Prayers; with a Discourse on the Relation of our Lord's Intercession to the Conversion of the World. By John Brown, D. D., Edinburgh. 8vo. :-Exposition of the Gospel of St. Luke, in a Series of Lectures. By James Thomson, D. D. Chap-. ters IX.-XX. Vol. II. Edinburgh :-Christianity in Harmony with Man's Nature, Present and Progressive. Seven Lectures. By the Rev. George Legge, D. D.

Messrs. Lane & Scott are preparing for publication a very valuable contribution to Biblical literature, in a Harmony of the Four Gospels, arranged on an entirely new plan, with a paraphrastic version of the text, by JAMES STRONG, Esq. The readers of this Journal have too often had the benefit of Mr. Strong's accurate scholarship and thorough research, to need to be told that this new work will be prepared in a most careful and scholarly way.

The same publishers have in press a new edition of Asbury's Journal, which has long been out of print. It will be issued in three 12mo. volumes.

They will also shortly issue, Light in the Dark Places, or Memorials of the Christian Life in the Middle Ages. This beautiful

book, filled with narratives that have all the interest of romance, is a translation of part of Neander's Denkwürdigkeiten aus der Geschichte des Christenthums und des Christlichen Lebens,

A Report on the Geology of Palestine is soon to be published by Dr. H. J. Anderson, who accompanied Lieut. Lynch on his exploring expedition to the Jordan.

An abridgment of Dr. Alexander's Commentary on Isaiah is announced by J. Wiley, under the title of "Isaiah translated and explained." (2 vols., 12mo.)

Professor Moses Stuart is engaged in a Commentary on Ecclesiastes. A Commentary on the Apocalypse, by Rev. Joel Mann, of Kingston, R. I., is also announced as in preparation.

The publication of Mr. Bohn's excellent "Libraries" still goes on with punctual regularity. The November issue in the "Classical Library" was Plato's works, vol. iii., containing Meno, Euthydemus, the Sophist, Statesman, Cratylus, Parmenides, and Banquet. The "Standard Library" issue for November was Neander's Church History, vol. i.; and for December, the third volume of Goethe's Works. The several series are kept always on sale by Messrs. Bangs, Brother & Co., New-York.

It is said that Sir Robert Peel has left an autobiography ready for the press. It will not, however, be published for some years.

The Journal de la Librairie for 1850 furnishes an account of the number of books, pamphlets, and works of all kinds published in France during the last year. They amount to 7,208. Of these, 4,711 have been printed in Paris, 2,460 in the provinces, and 37 in Algeria. 1,360 works are reprints, or new editions; and 5,848 may be considered new publications. 6,661 are written in French, 68 in the different dialects spoken in the provinces of France, 53 in German, 61 in English, 2 in Arabic, 51 in Spanish, 83 in Greek, 9 in Hebrew, 16 in Italian, 165 in

Latin, 14 in the Polish language, 16 in Portuguese, 4 in the Roumelian dialect, 1 in Russian, 2 in the Turkish language, and 2 are polyglot works. These 7,208 publications comprise 281 newspapers, partly new,-79 of which have been printed and published in the departments, and 73 works printed by the lithographic process.

Some idea of the indomitable literary industry of Robert Southey may be formed from the following list of his writings:

1. Poems by R. Southey and R. Lovell. 1 vol. 1794:-2. Joan of Arc. 1 vol. 4to. 1795:-3. Letters from Spain and Portugal. 1 vol. 1797:-4. Minor Poems. 2 vols. 17971799:-5. Annual Anthology. 2 vols. 1799– 1800:-6. Thalaba. 2 vols, 1801-7. Chatterton's Works, edited by R. Southey and J. Cottle. 3 vols. 1802-8. Amadis of Gaul. 4 vols. 1803-9. Metrical Tales and other Poems. 1 vol. 1805-10. Madoc. 1 vol. 4to. 1805-11. Palmerin of England. 4 vols. 1807:—12. Specimens of English Poets. 3 vols. 1807-13. Letters from England, by Don Manuel Espriella. 3 vols. 1807:-14. Remains of Henry Kirke White, edited by R. Southey. 2 vols. 1807:-15. Chronicle of the Cid. 1 vol. 4to. 1808-16.

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Curse of Kehama. 1 vol. 4to. 1810:17. Omniana. 2 vols. 1812-18. Life of Nelson. 2 vols. 1813-19. Roderic the Last of the Goths. 1 vol. 4to. 1814:-20. Carmen Triumphale and Carmina Aulica. 1 vol. 1814:21. Minor Poems (re-arranged, &c.) 3 vols. 1815:22. Lay of the Laureate. 1 vol. 1816:23. Specimens of later British / Poets:-24. Pilgrimage to Waterloo. 1 vol. 1816:-25. Morte d'Arthur. 2 vols. 4to. 1817-26. Letter to William Smith. Pamphlet. 1817:-27. History of Brazil. 3 vols. 4to. 1810-1817-1819:28. Life of Wesley. 2 vols. 1820:-29. Expedition of Orsua. 1 vol. 1821 :-30. A Vision of Judgment. 1 vol. 4to. 1821-31. Book of the Church. 2 vols. 1824 :-32. Tale of Paraguay. I vol. 1825-33. Vindiciae Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ. 1 vol. 1826 :-34. History of the Peninsular War. 3 vols. 4to. 1822-1824– 1832-35. Lives of Uneducated PoetsPrefixed to Verses by John Jones. 1 vol. 1829:-36. All for Love and the Legend of a Cock and a Hen. 1 vol. 1829 :-37. Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society. 2 vols. 1829:-38. Life of John Bunyan, for an Edition of the Pilgrim's Progress. 1830-39. Select Works of British Poets, from Chaucer to Jonson, edited with Biographical Notices. 1 vol. 1831:-40. Naval History of England, 4 vols. and part of the 5th, in Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopædia. 18331840-41. The Doctor, &c. 7 vols. Vols. 6 and 7, edited by the Rev. J. Wood Warter, 1834-1847:-42. The Life and Works of Cowper. Edited, 15 vols. 1835-1837:43. Collected Edition of his Poems. 10 vols. 1837-1838. Also complete in 1 volume. 1847:44. Common-place Book, 1st, 2d, and 3d Series. A fourth is announced. Edited by the Rev. J. Wood Warter :-45. Oliver Newman, and other Fragments. Edited by the Rev. H. Hill. 1 vol. 1845.

He wrote, besides, nearly one hundred and fifty articles in the Annual Review, the Quarterly, and the Foreign Quarterly.

The following new works in Philosophy have appeared on the continent of Europe, namely:

Introduction à l'étude de l'histoire de la philosophie, par M. Nicolas, Paris. 2 volumes, 8vo.

Die Katastrophe und der Ausgang der Geschichte der Philosophie, von Dr. A. Smetana. Hamburgh, pp. 288, 8vo.

De la Philosophie Scholastique, par B. Haureau. Paris, pp. 260, 8vo.

System der Wissenschaft, von Dr. K. Rosenkranz. Königsberg, pp. 622, 8vo.

Herbart's complete Works, vol. v., containing the Lehrbuch zur Psychologie. 8vo., pp. 514.

Among the Works in Classical and Gene ral Literature, lately announced on the continent of Europe, are the following:

Theorie der Modi und Tempora in der griechischen Sprache, von Dr. W. Fuisting. Münster, 1850, pp. 159, 8vo.

Parallel-Syntax der griechischen und lateinischen Sprache, von Dr. Aur. Möller. Jena, 1850, pp. 364, 8vo.

Griechische Mythologie. In 3 Büchern, von Dr. Emil Braun. 1. Buch. Hamburgh, 1850. pp. 214, 8vo.

Euripides Werke. Griechisch mit metrischer Uebersetzung und prüfenden und erklärenden Ammerkungen von J. A. Hartung. 10. Bdchen. Leipzig, 1850. pp. 189, 8vo.

Grundriss der römischen Literatur, von G. Bernhardy. 2. Bearbeitung. Halle, 1850. pp. 613, 8vo.

Sophoclis Tragoediae. Graece et Latine. Ex recensione Gulielmi Dindorfii, vol. i. Ajax, Electra, Oedipus rex. Leipzig, B. G.

Teubner. 8vo.

Andeutungen eines Systems der Mythologie, entwickelt aus der priesterlichen Mysteriosophie und Hierologie des alten Orients, von F. Nork. Leipsig, 1850. 8vo. pp. 330.

Pragmatische Psychologie, oder Seelenlehre in der Anwendung auf das Leben, von Dr. Edward Beneke, Professor zu Berlin. Vol. i. Berlin, 1850. 8vo., pp. 426.

Among the new works recently announced in Great Britain are the following:

Letters on the Laws of Man's Nature and Development, by H. G. Atkinson and Harriet Martineau. 1 vol. post 8vo. :-Rovings in the Pacific, from 1837 to 1849; with a glance at California. By a Merchant long resident at Tahiti. With coloured plates. 2 vols., post 8vo.:-Commander E. Forbes's work on Dahomey and the Dahomans; being his Journals of Two Missions to the King of Dahomey and Residence at His Majesty's Capital. 2 vols. post 8vo. :-Mr. W. P. Snow's voyage of the "Prince Albert" in search of Sir John Franklin; a narrative of Every-day Life in the Arctic Seas. Post 8vo. :-Modern State Trials. Revised and Illustrated with Essays and Notes, by William Charles Townsend, Esq., M. A., Q. C., late Recorder of Macclesfield :-The Stones of Venice. Volume the first-The Foundations, by John Ruskin, author of "The

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Seven Lamps of Architecture," &c. :-A Year on the Punjaub Frontiers in 18481849, by Major Herbert Edwardes. vols. 8vo., with maps, plates, &c. :-The Literary Veteran; Including Sketches and Anecdotes of the most Distinguished Literary Characters from 1794 to 1849, by R. P. Gillies. 3 vols. post 8vo. :-A History of Greek and Roman Classical Literature. With an Introduction on each of the Languages; with Biographical Notices; with an Account of the Periods in which each principal Author lived and wrote, so far as Literature was affected by such History; and Observations on the Works themselves, by R. W. Browne, Professor of Classics at King's College. 2 vols. 8vo. :-Goa and the Blue Mountains; or Six Months of Sick Leave, by Richard F. Burton, Lieut. Bombay Army. 2 vols. post 8vo, with illustrations :The Correspondence of Horace Walpole, Earl of Oxford, and the Rev. William Mason. Now first published from the original MSS. Edited, with Notes, by the Rev. J. Mitford, author of "The Life of Gray." 2 vols. 8vo. :-England as it is; Political, Social, and Industrial, by William Johnston. 2 vols. post 8vo. :-Christianity in Ceylon; its Introduction and Progress under the Portu

guese, Dutch, British, and American Missions, by Sir J. Emerson Tennent. Woodcuts. 8vo. :-Gleanings, Antiquarian and Pictorial, on the Overland Route, by the author of "Walks about Jerusalem,” “ Forty Days in the Desert,” “The Nile Boat," &c. Large 8vo. :-Memoirs of the House of Brandenburg; or, the History of Prussia, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, by Leopold Ranke. Translated from the German by Sir Alex. Duff Gordon, Bart., 3 vols. 8vo. :-The Military Events in Italy, 1848-9. Translated from the German by the Right Hon. the Earl of Ellesmere. With a map. Post 8vo. :-The Lexington Papers; or, the Courts of London and Vienna in the XVIIth Century, by the Hon. H. Manners Sutton. 8vo. 8vo. :-A Manual of Elementary Geology; or, the Ancient. Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants, by Sir Charles Lyell, F.R.S., P.G.S. Third edition, thoroughly revised. 8vo. :-The Personal Narrative of an Englishman Domesticated in Abyssinia, by Mansfield Parkyns, Esq. 8vo. :-The Palaces of Nineveh and Persepolis Restored. An Essay on Ancient Assyrian and Persian Architecture, by James Fergusson, Esq. With maps and 45 wood-cuts. 8vo.

WE are very glad to see that Grote's History of Greece is to be presented to American readers in a cheap and convenient form. The first two volumes have been published, and are to be followed by the remaining volumes. Eight volumes have appeared in England-the last of which dwells on the career of Socrates, in a chapter which, according to the (London) Quarterly, "in originality of conception, and excellence of execution, will generally be hailed as the masterpiece of this work." Indeed, the Review goes so far as to say, that before the publication of Mr. Grote's last volumes, the character of Socrates was comparatively unknown.

Mr. E. G. Squier is preparing a work on "Nicaragua: its Condition, Resources, and Prospects;" to be illustrated by maps, plans and engravings. The Appendix will embrace the recently published work of John Bailey, Esq., on "Guatemala, Honduras, San Salvador, and Costa Rica." This work will present a complete and compendious account of the states of Central America, Geographical, Topographical, Statistical; their Mines, Harbours, &c., &c.; together

with all the facts hitherto developed respecting the proposed grand inter-oceanic canal.

Messrs. Ticknor, Reed, & Fields will publish, from the early proof-sheets, "The Biography of Wordsworth," by his nephew, Rev. Christopher Wordsworth, D. D., Canon of Westminster. Edited, at his request, by Prof. Henry Reed, of Philadelphia.

Mr. G. P. Putnam announces as in preparation what promises to be a valuable series of manuals, to be compiled from Maunder's Treasuries and other sources, and intended to form, when complete, a portable and convenient library of reference. They will embrace, I. Hand-Book of Science. II. Hand-Book of General Literature. III. Hand-Book of Biography. IV. Hand-Book of the Fine Arts, (now ready, Huntington's Manual.) V. Hand-Book of the Useful Arts.

A new weekly catalogue of German books is now issued in Leipsig under the title of Allgemeine Bibliographie für Deutschland. It contains the names of all new books. Mr. Rudolph Garrigue, New-York, will furnish it to all who desire it.