SCIENCE AND EDUCATION, ETC.

University Series: Educational and Scientific Lectures, etc. No. 1. Huxley on the Physical Basis of Life. No. 2. Dr. Barker, The Correlation of the Vital and Physical Forces. No. 3. J. H. Stirling, As regards Protoplasm. No. 4. Prof. E. D. Cope, The Hypothesis of Evolution. No. 5. Tyndall, Three Scientific Addresses. New Haven: C. C. Chatfield & Co. This University Series is a good project, thus far well carried out. It is proposed to issue about one number a month, at 25 cents a number, or $2.00 for 10 numbers. The selections bring us into the heart of present theories and investigations; and they have been made impartially. Mr. Stirling is a keen opponent of Protoplasm, from the metaphysical side—although his style is not always as clear as that of his opponents. Huxley's positions are examined in another part of our REVIEW. Dr. Barker seems to us to concede more to "correlation" than the facts warrant, or than theory can possibly establish; but his pamphlet gives an interesting summary of opinions. Professor Cope extends the sphere of Evolution to the metaphysical as well as the physical—and makes concessions on the ground of man's moral and religious needs. We hope the series will be continued, for the topics are of vital importance.

A Text Book of Elementary Chemistry, Theoretical and Organic. By GEORGE F. BARKER, M.D., Professor of Physiological Chemistry in Yale College. New Haven: C. C. Chatfield. This is a kind of text book that makes those who studied the science under the old method feel their need, and wish to begin again. It is clear, methodical and accurate. Those who use it in classes give cordial testimony to its value-and this is the best of recommendations. It is got up by the publisher in a neat and attractive style.

The Elements of General History. By Rev. JOHN P. CARTER, A.M. New York: University Publishing Company. pp. 317. This work has some good points as a brief manual of General History. It is clearly and conveniently arranged; the statements are concise and simple; the main dates and events are denoted by broad-faced type; questions are annexed for examination. The generally received chronology is adapted for ancient history. Our own history is of course treated more fully, in proportion, than that of other countries. In giving an account of our late war we notice that no mention is made of slavery as among its chief causes.

Eldredge & Brother, of Philadelphia, publish a compact and carefully prepared edition of Six Books of the Æneid of Virgil, by THOMAS CHASE, M. A., Professor in Haverford College.

The New York Observer Year Book and Almanack. 1871. pp. 200. A convenient and serviceable volume, valuable for its ecclesiastical and educational summaries and statistics. The names of the ministers of all the leading churches of this country are given; also the colleges and theological seminaries. It is prepared with care. Among other things the First Directory (1786) of New York City is reprinted.

Opening of the Walker Hall, Amherst College, October 20, 1870. The address of President Stearns on this occasion is a comprehensive and judicious statement of the relation of new and old studies in the collegiate course, giving fair range to science, while upholding the old methods of training. His account

of Dr. Walker is also interesting; as are the other exercises here reported. The occasion was a memorable one for this prosperous College, which is entering with enlarged means upon a higher stage of usefulness and influence. Religion and science have there always gone hand in hand.

The American Tract Society has published Short Sermons for the People. By Rev. WILLIAM S. PLUMER, D.D.; thirty-five sermons, earnest and practical, written in a clear and impressive style; The New Life, or Counsels to Inquirers and Converts; Hush! By Rev. SAMUEL MARTIN; and an excellent tract on "Judge Not," by Dr. RAYMOND, President of Vassar College.

HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY.

James R.

William Winston Seaton, of the "National Intelligencer." Osgood & Co. 12mo. pp. 385. The subject of this "Biographical Sketch" figured largely in the political history of the country during a long and eventful period. He was one of the last links between the illustrious men who framed our Government, and those who make our history of to-day. So long connected with the "National Intelligencer," and associated intimately with the leading men of the times, his influence was widely felt, and it was always exerted for noble and patriotic ends. He honored and dignified political journalism, and made it a powerful means of educating aright and purifying the politics and legislation of the nation. Would that we had a host of such journalists in our own day! For want of them our politics have become almost hopelessly corrupt, the public service and the public conscience alarmingly demoralized and vitiated, and our legislative halls places of unblushing and unparalleled bribery, fraud, and dishonor: and there is scarcely a man among all the thousand journalists of the day, bold enough, and patriotic enough, and free enough from party prejudices and trammels, and the contaminating influences of the times, to denounce, with becoming severity and persistency, these terrible evils which affect and degrade us, and willing to labor with all the earnestness and force of a determined purpose, for their correction.

The History of Greece. By Professor Dr. ERNST CURTIUS. Translated by ADOLPHUS WILLIAM WOOD, Professor of History in Owen's College, Manchester. To be completed in five volumes. Vol. I. Charles Scribner & Co. Crown 8vo. pp. 509. No sooner is Mommsen's magnificent history completed, than another important historical work is begun by this enterprising house, and a work every way worthy to rank with that, and with Froude's History of England. It is printed on tinted paper, uniform with those standard works.

It is scarcely necessary to add that Prof. Curtius' History is characterised by sound and thorough scholarship, and rare excellencies of style. While popular in the best sense of the term, it is at the same time eminently philosophical, and adapted to minds of the highest culture. Rendered also into good English, it can not fail to be welcomed by the world of letters, and by the class of intelligent readers in general. That wonderful kingdom will live anew and exert a moulding influence on the world's civilization, in this "masterpiece of historical literature." We shall have occasion to speak more fully of its merits as the work progresses.

GENERAL LITERATURE.

Chips from a German Workshop. By F. MAX MÜLLER, M.A., Foreign Member of the French Institute, etc. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities. New York: Scribner & Co. These "Chips" are of a lighter sort than those basketed in the previous volumes. The first is an interesting general sketch of German Literature, touching on the main names and books from Ulfilas all the way down. Then come Old German Love Songs, and an account of Brant's "Ye Schippe of Fooles" (Narrenschiff); a Life of Schiller; Wilhelm Müller; Poetry of SchleswigHolstein; Joinville; Chasot, etc. Two articles on Shakespeare, and on Bacon in Germany, good as far as they go, are rather disappointing from their meagreness. The most interesting part of the volume is the account of Baron Bunsen, and his familiar letters written to the author; these set some of the admirable features of Bunsen's life and friendships, and also of his wide and ceaseless labor, in an attractive light.

American Public.

The American Colleges and the By NOAH PORTER, D.D., Professor in Yale College. New Haven: C. C. Chatfield & Co. Professor Porter has enlarged his articles on this subject, published in the New Englander, and produced a volume which goes over the ground well and thoroughly. It is a wise and forcible advocacy of the general collegiate system of our country, with judicious suggestions as to its expansion and modification-retaining, however, its essential characteristics. With the growth of knowledge and science, and with the enlargement of the number of students in our colleges, some changes must of course be made. Our large institutions are growing into universities—yet not precisely after any foreign model. The general course and methods of instruction which have made them what they are ought to be retained, with such modifications and additions as may from time to time be found necessary. Professor Porter's defense of the classical course is able and conclusive. In training our youth we can not afford to cut them off from the past; and the past can be known and appreciated only through philology. We heartily commend this volume to all interested in our higher education. Just now it is timely, and no one can read it without profit.

Mechanism in Thought and Morals. By OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. James R. Osgood & Co. 12mo. pp. 101. The substance of this neat little work was an Address before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Cambridge University at the last Commencement. It is a racy and suggestive production. The subject is a "dry" one for a literary entertainment, but it is enlivened by anecdote, illustration, and touches of humor. The drift of the argument is opposed to materialism and fatalism; but, as usual, Dr. Holmes must improve every occasion to disparage orthodox truth, and make it the butt of his witticisms. Nothing from him would be complete that failed to exhibit his hostility to it, and his contempt of the religious opinions and convictions of those who profess it.

My Study Windows. By JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, A.M. James R. Osgood & Co. 12mo. pp. 433. The Publishers, and not the Author, are

evidently responsible for the title of this book, which gives one no idea of its contents. The papers here gathered, and produced in an attractive style, "have been written at intervals during the last fifteen years," and have all of them, we believe, already appeared in the Atlantic Monthly. The collection embraces some of the finest papers which the distinguished author has published, such as his essays on Chaucer, Thoreau, Carlyle, Abraham Lincoln, Emerson, Pope, and Percival, and will afford pleasure in this new form to his numerous admirers.

The same House have published Success and its Conditions. By EDWIN P. WHIPPLE. Containing twelve essays, on various subjects, which the author in collecting finds refers more or less to the conditions of success, in the various departments of life, and hence the title. They are mainly practical in their cast; are written with that vigor, clearness and directness which characterize the author, and may be read with interest and profit, and especially by our young men who have a character to establish and a success in life to achieve.

Messrs Scribner & Co. have brought out an entirely new edition, rewritten and with important additions, of Dean Trench's English, Past and Present-by far the most instructive and satisfactory treatise on this important subject which has appeared. The work is now fully up to the times, and is a mine of wealth to the student in the English tongue.

The same publishers have also added two new volumes to their "Illustrated Library of Wonders"-The Wonders of Engraving, by GEORGES DUPLESSIS-rich and unique in its numerous illustrations, and Wonderful Escapes, by RICHARD WHITEING. Twenty volumes in this Library Series are already published; and it is not too much to say of them, that they have awakened and cultivated a taste for science and practical and useful knowledge, in the minds of thousands of our youth. We know no surer antidote to the popular taste for frivolous and corrupting literature than this Library put into the family. We wish devoutly it were in every household.

Max Kromer: A Story of the Seige of Strasburg. 1870. By the Author of "Jessica's First Prayer," etc. Dodd & Mead. A thrilling narrative by an eye-witness—one that vividly portrays the horrors and sufferings of that six weeks' seige. It is particularly adapted to the juvenile class of readers.

The Silent Partner. By ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS. James R. Osgood & Co. 12mo. pp. 302. Miss Phelps appears in a somewhat new field in this work. "The Gates Ajar" was intensely personal-a vivid reproduction of her own morbid experiences and fancies. Her "Men, Women, and Ghosts," was simply a miscellaneous collection of papers, without unity— good, bad and indifferent, brought together to sell on the strength of the popularity of "Gates Ajar." In "Hedged In" she struck a new veinsent out her womanly sympathies in full measure in behalf of the fallen of her sex-aimed nobly to solve the fearful social problem relating to their reformation. In the present volume she grapples with the evils connected

with our "operative system," involving also the question of the relation of labor and capital-a question assuming every day graver aspects and enlarged proportions. Writing with a high purpose, with intense convictions, and with a fair measure of knowledge of the facts and principles involved, she writes strongly and effectively. Dark as is the picture she draws of the abuses of our factory system, we believe she does not exaggerate. The book is a timely one, and can not fail to do gcod.

ART. XI.-THEOLOGICAL AND LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. GERMANY.

Professor Hitzig, of Heidelberg, has subjected the Moabite Stone to a new and careful examination, applying to it more strictly the rules of the Hebrew Grammar. He differs from others in the very first line, making the end of that line and the beginning of the second to be a verb, and rendering thus: "Kamos [Kemosh] has set me up to be King of Moab." Nöldecke and Schrader had translated, "Moab of the Dibonites;" in the version we published in our last number it reads, "King of Moab, the Debonite." But as Hitzig renders it, the name Dibon does not occur until towards the end of the stele, where it is named as a city taken by Mesha, and the chief of his exploits. So that the monument was not erected because Mesha lived in Dibon, but because he there concluded the series of his victories. Another pamphlet on the same subject by Dr. Kaempf, Professor of the Semitic Languages and Literature in the University of Prague, is useful, as giving the Inscription in different forms, and a lithographic table of the alphabet of the original; an appendix contains an account of the Monument of the Sidonian King, Eschmunazar, and a new rendering of a portion of it.

Heidenheim's Vierteljahrsschrift. The third part of the 4th vol. of this "Quarterly for German and English Investigations," continues Prof. A. Scheuchzer's "Assyrian Investigations," summing up in a lucid way the results of recent studies. He doubts whether the "unilingual arrow-headed writing" has been really mastered; even Oppert concedes that no proper name in this kind of writing is yet sure; it is different with the" trilingual" inscriptions. E. Graf sends a new attempt to be added to thirty or forty, upon the parable of the Unjust Householder. Dr. Heidenheim edits and translates parts of the valuable " Samaritan Chronicle of the High Priest Elasar," from the Bodleian Library, and the "Prayers of the High Priest Amzan." Some English works are reviewed, with a Bibliography of English Theology for 1870.

Theologische Studien und Kritiken. Part II. 1871. Haupt, The Entrance of Jesus into his Messianic Calling; Klostermann, the Song of Moses (Deut. xxxii) and Deuteronomy; Krummel, the Pre-Reformers, Wycliffe and Huss; Sayce, the Ravagers of Samaria; reviews of Delitzsch's Apologetics by Dr. Sack, of De Wette's Introduction to Old Testament (Schrader's edition) by Kamphausen, etc.

Zeitschrift f. wissenschaftliche Theologie. Part II. 1871. O. Pfleiderer, the Pneuma in Paul's Writings; Hilgenfeld, the Pauline Christ; Egli, the Text of Exodus, concluded; Hilgenfeld, the old Latin Version of the Epistle of Barnabas.

Zeitschrift f. d. lutherische Theologie. No. I. 1871. Theod. Schott, the Nature of Baptism according to the Words of Institution-a thorough Lutheran interpretation; E. Engelhardt, the Transfiguration and Renewal of the World; G. Kawerau, on the History of the Formula for dispensing the