Missions and the Oriental Churches. 3. The Provincial Synod of the Province of Canada. 4, Early Annals of the American Church. 5. Motley's History of the Dutch Republic. 6. Chrystal's Modes of Baptism. 7. Bishop Bowman. 8. The Two Regenerations. BIBLICAL REPERTORY AND PRINCETON REVIEW, January, 1862.-1. God and Revelation. 2. Memoirs of Philip de Mornay. 3. The Human Body as related to Sanctification. 4. Bilderdijk. 5. Are there too many Ministers? 6. England and America. EVANGELICAL REVIEW, January, 1862.-1. Slavery among the Ancient Hebrews. 2. Remarks on Matthew vi, 25-34. 3. Reminiscences of deceased Lutheran Ministers. 4. Isaac blessing Jacob. 5. John Gottlieb Fichte. 6. A Call to the Christian Ministry. 7. Exposition on Romans viii, 33-39. 8. Dissensions among Christians. 9. Hymn from the German. NEW ENGLANDER, January, 1862.-1. Chrysostom, the Pulpit Orator of the Fourth Century. 2. The Lake Region in Central Africa, South of the Equator. 3. How to accommodate a Worshiper. 4. Review of W. H. Dixon's "Personal History of Lord Bacon." 5. Adequacy of the Constitution. 6. The Justice of God as a Theme for the Preacher. 7. The Claims of the Higher Seminaries of Learning on the Liberality of the Wealthy. 8. Our Unity as a Nation. 9. "The Wars of the Lord." 10. Catalogue of the Boston Public Library. 11. Hautefeuille on some recent Questions of International Law. PRESBYTERIAN QUARTERLY REVIEW, January, 1862.-1. The Permanent in Christianity. 2. The Progressive Tendency in Knowledge. 3. The Holy Spirit. 4. John Bunyan, the Prose Poet. 5. The War for the Union. 6. The Okavango River. UNIVERSALIST QUARTERLY AND GENERAL REVIEW, January, 1862.1. The Ulster Revival. 2. The Gospel and the Soul. 3. The Preexistence of Christ. 4. The Old and the New. 5. The Divine Power in Salvation. 6. The Hope of Salvation a Working Principle. 7. Olmsted's Cotton Kingdom. BIBLIOTHECA SACRA AND BIBLICAL REPOSITORY, January, 1862.-1. Christ Preaching to the Spirits in Prison. 2. Saalschüts on Hebrew Servitude. 3. The Tübingen Historical School. 4. Life of Erasmus. 5. Close Communion. 6. The Imprecatory Psalms viewed in the Light of the Southern Rebellion. 7. Remarks on Renderings of the Common Version, (in the Epistle to the Galatians.) The Bibliotheca Sacra has, during its entire existence, sustained the highest rank for profound biblical and theological scholarship and ability of any periodical in England or America. In the hands of its present editors, Professor Park and Principal Taylor, it amply sustains its reputation. With the commencement of the present year it assumes a new position, which entitles it to a new consideration by all the evangelical denominations of our country. Though in the hands of gentlemen of a particular denomination, it disavows the character of a "sectarian" or "partisan" periodical. Its editors have been, and intend to be, liberal in admitting such articles as they do not, in all respects, indorse. They insert able essays from different evangelical schools. They are not to be held responsible for any statement which does not appear under their own names. They intend to insert a series of articles unfolding the distinctive principles adopted by different theological parties and sects, and exhibiting the peculiarities of meaning which the parties and sects attach to the terms they use. In order that these articles may be, and may be esteemed, authentic and authoritative, each one will be written by a representative member of the sect or party whose tenets are described. It is believed that such a series of articles will tend to prevent some fruitless discussion; for a large part of our theological controversies is occupied with the charge and the proof that the controversialists are misunderstood, and therefore misrepresented. It is a waste of time to refute what our opponents do not believe, and it causes a loss of charity to accuse them of maintaining what they do not mean to maintain, and what they think that they utterly reject.-P. 3. This is very catholic ground; and we have no doubt, from the well-known character of the two Christian gentlemen who are its responsible editors, that their programme will be faithfully and honorably carried out. English Reviews. BRITISH AND FOREIGN EVANGELICAL REVIEW, January, 1862.-1. New England Theology: the Edwardean Period. 2. Evangelism of the Eighteenth Century. 3. The Old Testament in the New. 4. That which may be Known of God-Mansel, Maurice, Young, and Calderwood. 5. The later Religious History of Scotland. 6. The Protestant Church in Hungary. 7. Discussions in France on the Supernatural. 8. The Moral Aspects of the Present Struggle in America. 9. Dr. Hickok's New and revised Edition of Rational Psychology. 10. The Pauline Doctrine of the Righteousness of Faith. 11. The late Principal Cunningham. BRITISH QUARTERLY REVIEW, January, 1862.-1. Anno 1662-Revision of the Liturgy. 2. Miss Knight's Autobiography. 3. Memoirs of De Tocqueville. 4. Goldwin Smith on Ireland. 5. The Fourfold Biography. 6. The Works of Charles Dickens. 7. Facts about Railways. 8. History of Mormonism. 9. The Free Churches of England. CHRISTIAN REMEMBRANCER, January, 1862.-1. The Position and Prospects of the Church in Scotland. 2. Church Histories-Bright and Robertson. 3. Father Félix and his Conferences at Notre-Dame. 4. The Education Commission and the Revised Code. 5. The Codex Zacynthius. 6. Dr. Pusey's Commentary on the Minor Prophets. 7. Memorials of Mr. Sortain. 8. Social Creeds among our Novelists. 9. Two Years of Church Progress. EDINBURGH REVIEW, January, 1862.-1. Life and Writings of William Paterson. 2. Sewell's Ordeal of Free Labor. 3. Max Müller on the Science of Language. 4. Military Defense of the Colonies. 5. Felix Mendelssohn's Letters. 6. Wrecks, Life-boats, and Light-houses. 7. Burton's City of the Saints. 8. May's Constitutional History of England, (1760-1860.) 9. The Lady of La Garaye. 10. Belligerents and Neutrals. JOURNAL OF SACRED LITERATURE AND BIBLICAL RECORD, January, 1862. -1. The Mines and Metals of Antiquity, with Special Reference to the Bible. 2. The Gospel of St. Matthew. 3. The Early Life of Bossuet. 4. Critical Remarks on Isaiah xviii, 1, 2. 5. Hindu Philosophy and Indian Missions. 6. Exegesis of Difficult Texts. 7. Remarks on the Papal Canon Law. 8. On the Divine Nature. 9. Hupfeld on Modern Theosophic Theology. 10. The Position and Meaning of the Apoca lypse. 11. Arioch and Belshazzar. 12. Recollections, Early and Late, of Joshua Watson. LONDON QUARTERLY REVIEW, January, 1862.-1. Railway Control. 2. Autobiography of Miss Cornelia Knight. 3. Popular EducationThe New Code. 4. Iceland-and the Change of Faith. 5. The Revival of Spain. 6. The late Prince Consort. 7. Lord Castlereagh. 8. The American Crisis. NATIONAL REVIEW, January, 1862.-1. Medieval English Literature- WESTMINSTER REVIEW, January, 1862.-1. Law in and for India. 2. The ART. XI.-QUARTERLY BOOK-TABLE. Religion, Theology, and Biblical Literature. A Text-Book of the History of Doctrines. By Dr. K. R. HAGENBACH, Professor of Theology in the University of Basle. The Edinburgh Translation of C. W. BUсH revised, with large Additions from the fourth German edition and other sources. By HENRY B. SMITH, D.D., Professor in the Union Theological Seminary of the City of New York. Volume II. 8vo., pp. 558. New York: Sheldon & Co. Boston: Gould & Lincoln. 1862. An adequate mapping of the entire doctrinal history of the Church, upon a full survey of the extended past, truly comprehensive of the entire, and yet accurate in the details, is a great achievement, which it required German research to accomplish. The best scholarship of the English and American theological world is proud to be able worthily to appropriate and improve the results of that research. For completeness, conciseness, and lucid order, the work of Hagenbach is without a competitor. Every American minister, inclined to master the field of Christian theology, will find it an aid unlike anything else in our language. The history of Christian theology is divided into Five General Periods. The first, or post-apostolic, is the period of evidential defenses, or, as the technical term is, with an unfortunate ambiguity in our language, Apologetics; during which Christianity performed the task of asserting her own existence and nature as the sole true religion, against Paganism and Judaism. This work accomplished, next came the age of Polemics, in which the strife became internal, from the fact that the Church found herself obliged to enter into such an analysis of her doctrines as would enable her to meet the cross-examinations of the inquisitive mind of man with adequate answers. Through this transition period she attained an age of Systematic Theology. John of Damascus, a doctor of the Greek Church, is memorable as the author of the first complete symmetrical body of divinity. In accordance with the milder theology of the Eastern Church on the subject of predestination, John of Damascus taught, ws Távта μÈV προγινώσκει ὁ θεὸς, οὐ πάντα δὲ προορίζει, προγινώσκει γὰρ τὰ ἐφ' ἡμῖν, οὐ προορίζει δε αὐτά. The influence of Augustine not only as the expositor of the doctrine of original sin, but as the advocate of a fatalistic predestination, pervaded the Western Church. An organic politico-ecclesiastical unity under the Roman see was reflected by a sort of general doctrinal unity, as the result of the discussions of former doctors and the decisions of councils. Yet the schoolmen, exerting their great intellectual powers with deep intensity upon the questions then open within the existing narrow limits of human knowledge, allowed themselves a considerable range of free discussion, and some of the master minds of the age but doubtfully hovered upon the boundary lines of orthodoxy and heresy. The rise of the human mind above the level of churchly morality, the incoming of new sources of knowledge, and the invention of printing, inaugurated the age of the Reformation. The first Reformers commenced theologically as Augustinians; but (as in the Methodism of a later age) a division soon commenced between the Melancthonian or Lutheran and the Calvinistic or Reformed (so-called) theologies. From the Reformed body an unexpected secession subsequently took place under Arminius; and the cause of a liberal yet evangelical theology was for a while by them maintained with eminent ability and learning. Still the suc cessors of that eminent doctor did so decline toward Pelagianism and Rationalism, that the very name of Arminianism has, until very lately, among Calvinistic writers and preachers, been made the appellation of doctrines which Arminius would have promptly rejected. The fifth and last period, extending from 1720 to the present time, is the age of Criticism, of the struggle between faith and science, and the effort after reconciliation. Under the scrutiny of free unshrinking thought, aided by the facts of science, theology is revising herself, eliminating those errors, however nearly central, which are unable to stand the test of demonstrative examination, striving to bring her statements into accordance at once with the affirmations of Scripture, the deductions of science, and the intuitions of the human soul, without any surrender of her permanent truths and immortal hopes. It will at once be seen what an interesting and important field of thought is opened before us in these volumes. The position of the author, as well as of his editor and reviser, is Augustinian. Of this he makes no secret. Doubtless, many turns of expression would have been different, and some different proportions of the respective parts would have resulted, had he occupied a different standpoint. But no one will doubt his intentional historical fairness. The additions by Dr. Smith greatly enhance the value of the work. His extended sketch of American theology is a good beginning; why will he not prosecute it to a completion in an extended volume by itself? That his present sketch is complete mostly in the department of Calvinistic theology is, of course, to be expected, both as that forms much the largest proportion of American discussion, and as Dr. Smith is, doubtless there, as yet, most at home. It is scarcely correct to say (p. 440) that Dr. Fisk criticising New Haven views was replied to by Fitch." Dr. 66 Fisk knew nothing about "New Haven views until Dr. Fitch "replied to" him in a review of a sermon of his, preached some time before, being one of the most compact arguments against general Calvinism extant. When Dr. Fitch did reply to him, Dr. Fisk rejoined that his opponent was upon the point in discussion "an Arminian." A point of much value in the volumes before us is the immense number of references to the best authorities, which enable the reader to test the accuracy of the author's statements, and serve as a guide to the researches of the inquirer in every branch of Christian doctrine. Commentary on the Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia. Revelation ii, iii. By RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH, D.D., Dean of Westminster. 12mo., pp. 312. New York: Charles Scribner. 1861. To a minister of the Gospel especially, as no book is so important as the Bible, so, next to the Bible, none are so valuable as those which aid in penetrating the depths of the divine word. During |