aries should so entirely give themselves to preaching as to neglect the training up of any native agency.

Surely the reviewer must have been cursory in his perusal of the chapter he condemns. From page 276 to 280, inclusive, of vol. ii. is wholly taken up with showing the importance of training up native ministers, and of a large portion of missionary labour being expended on this subject! Similar arguments are advanced on page 222, and in various other places. Here again is a most striking similarity between my arguments and his. He takes feathers from my wings, to furnish his arrows. Every idea set in array against me, on the lower half of page 504 of the review, is contained in my dissertation, viz: that Christendom cannot supply enough missionaries, without native preachers; that if it were possible, they would not be as well qualified as well educated natives; that the proportion of missionaries, who perfectly master their respective languages, is very small; that Dr. Carey himself, after preaching two years, found he was not understood; that the preacher should not only know the language, but imagery, modes of thinking, difficulties, and objections of the hearers, &c.

The reviewer proceeds to censure me for arraying schools against preaching, "as rival measures in the work of missions." Where? certainly not in the following passage, where my opinion of schools is formally announced. "I am far from wishing the school system to be abandoned. A school has many advantages in enabling a missionary to bring divine truth before his pupils; and a man whose heart glows with zeal, will find it an animating field. The error seems to be, not in having schools, but in expending upon them a disproportionate measure of our means; in expecting too much from them; in establishing more than can be properly superintended; in the indiscriminate reception of scholars; and in trusting to science to overturn idolatry." Is this arraying schools against preaching "as antagonist means?" Where is the "false issue?" From page 252 to 254 of vol. ii. is devoted to showing the value of schools-how they should be managed-whether the mere rudiments of reading and writing should be taught to the grestest number, or the same amount of effort expended in carrying the education of select scholars to a high point-the comparative benefit of boarding schools-the influence on parents-and that in educating converts, particularly the younger ones, there can scarcely be too much effort. The only ground of offence to

the reviewer, that I can think of, is the attempt to show, in another place, how feeble, as a means of converting souls, schools as generally managed by missionaries are, compared with the preaching of the gospel.

I have now reviewed the reviewer in every point adduced by him. It may not be improper to advert once more to his general charge of haste and cursoriness, though no other reviewer, out of the scores who have noticed the work, have discovered such an appearance. In every instance, while abroad, my notes, at each principal place, were prepared and submitted to some one or more, who seemed best qualified to correct them. As to the dissertations at the end of vol. ii. they were submitted, as they grew on my hands, to prominent missionaries in Burmah, Calcutta, Madras, Siam, and China. Each had remarks to make, of which I fully availed myself. After being four times entirely re-written, during this period, they were after my return home, submitted at different times, to no less than four distinguished directors of missionary societies-Congregationalists and Baptists and such things as they objected to, were expunged. From such individuals, I have in my possession the most encomiastic remarks.

I cannot flatter myself that there are no errors in this "immense mass of facts," and whenever any are pointed out, they shall be meekly corrected. What private ends could I gain by persisting in a mistake? But when impediments are placed in the way of the usefulness of a work, from the circulation of which I expect the highest advantages to the cause of missions, I feel myself compelled to attempt to remove them.

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A Historical Discourse, prepared for the Semi-centenary Sabbath, and delivered on that day, at the request of the Session of the Presbyterian Church in New Brunswick, and published at the request of the Trustees of the Congregation. By Jacob J. Janeway, D.D. New Brunswick: John Terhune. 8vo. pp. 28. 1840.

This is a discourse of sterling value; rich in ecclesiastical statistics and historical information. It is one of those occasional sermons which ought to be carefully preserved for future reference and instruction. The venerable author commenced his ministerial life in the Presbyterian church, more than forty years ago, and continued in it more than thirty years. After a short sojourn in the Reformed Dutch Church, he has recently returned to the Presbyterian Church, where his old friends have welcomed him with grateful respect, and where they delight to listen to his instruction from the pulpit and the press. His early and intimate connection with some of the most important movements in our church for the last forty years, entitles him to speak with confidence, and certainly has enabled him to speak with clearness and accuracy concerning the matters of which he treats.

The Minister wholly in his Work: a Sermon delivered at the Ordination of the Rev. Daniel Bates Woods, as Pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Springwater, Livingston County, New York. By Leonard woods, D.D., Professor of Christian Theology, Andover. Andover: Gould, Newman, and Saxton. 8vo. pp. 16, 1839.

A sensible, pious and seasonable discourse. It presents in a clear and strong light the great duty of ministers being wholly devoted to their official work. I the present day, when so many of those who bear the sacred office are so lamentably immersed in secular cares and pursuits, we could wish that some such sermon might be preached at the opening of every Presbytery, Synod and General Assembly, and at the ordination of every candidate for the ministry in the land, until the criminal and degrading spirit here condemned, and which has so long grieved the hearts of good men, shall be banished from the church. Address delivered in the First Presbyterian Church, New York, at the Funeral of Robert Lenox, Esquire, on the 16th of December, 1839. By Rev. William W. Phillips, Pastor of the Church. New York, 1840, pp. 38. This is a remarkably well-devised and well-conducted address. The subject of it was eminently worthy of public commemoration; and his character is here appropriately drawn ;-with the respect and affection of one who had long known him, and cherished toward him sentiments of the highest filial veneration. In the history of the First Presbyterian Church of New York, of the College of

New Jersey, and of the Theological Seminary at Princeton, as well as in the American annals of honest and honourable commerce, the memory of few men will be found more honourably or permanently embalmed than that of Robert Lenox.

A Grammar of the Idioms of the Greek Language of the New Testament. By Dr. Geo. Benedict Winer, Professor of Theology in the University at Leipsic. Translated by J. H. Agnew and O. G. Ebbeke. Philadelphia: Published by Herman Hooker, 1840, pp. 469.

This work, though published before the issuing of our October number, was not received in time to be then announced. As it has now been more than three months in the hands of the public, and has been received with very general commendation, it is hardly necessary for us to say more than that we regard it as one of the most important contributions which has ever been made to the American student for his assistance in the exegetical study of the New Testament. The reader will occasionally meet with loose interpretations of passages of scripture, indicative of the writer's erroneous theological opinions, but these are, in the more important cases, properly corrected by the annotations of the translator. The work is equally adapted for the private student, and for theological seminaries. The original German work has long, we understand, been used as a text book in the Lutheran Seminary at Gettysburg, as the translation now is in the Seminary at Princeton.

The Life and Times of Selina, Countess of Huntington. By a member of the Houses of Shirley and Hastings. 2 vols. 8vo.

The above work we notice as announced in a recent publication in England. As it relates to one of the prominent actors in the great religious reformation of the middle of the last century, it must be a work of no little interest.

Scripture and Geology, or the relation between the Holy Scriptures and some parts of Geological Science. By John Pye Smith, D.D. 1 vol. 8vo.

This work we understand is about to be published by an American bookseller.

A Grammar of the Hebrew Language. By George Bush, Professor of Hebrew and Oriental Literature in the New York City University. New York: Gould, Newman, and Saxton. 8vo. pp. 276.

This, though called a second edition, is, in reality, a new work, and deserving of particular attention, as the first American attempt to exhibit Ewald's principles of Hebrew Grammar. At the same time, the best features of the first edition are retained, and a valuable praxis, or series of exercises, interspersed. We do no more at present than announce the work, but hope to give hereafter a particular account of it.

Gesenius's Hebrew Grammar, translated from the eleventh German edition. By T. J. Conant, Professor of Hebrew in the Literary and Theological Institution at Hamilton, N. Y. With a Course of Exercises in Hebrew Grammar, and a Hebrew Chrestomathy, prepared by the translator. Boston: Gould, Kendall, and Lincoln. 8vo. pp. 325 and 60.

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This appears to be an accurate translation of the most popular Hebrew Grammar used in Germany. We have heretofore expressed our wish that Gesenius might be allowed to speak for himself, as well in grammar as lexicography. Whatever we may think of the intrinsic merit of this grammar, as a book for elementary instruction, we regard its publication in an English dress as a favour to the public, as well as an act of justice to the author. The translator has added a series of orthographical exercises, on an original and useful plan, of which, and of the work at large, we hope to speak more fully at another opportunity. Ancient Christianity, and the Doctrines of the Oxford Tracts. By Isaac Taylor, Author of Spiritual Despotism, &c. Philadelphia: Herman Hooker. 1840. 12mo. pp. 554.

When so much is doing to circulate among us the "protestantism rejected, and popery spoiled" of the Oxford Tracts, we rejoice in the re-publication of this work, as an omen for good. The argument as conducted by Mr. Taylor against the doctrine of these Tracts, is irresistible. We have never met, beyond the pale of the exact sciences, with a more complete reductio ad absurdum than that to which he has subjected the radical principle of the Oxford theologians. Let his work circulate widely, and we have no fear that good men will seek to enlarge the revelations of the Bible by resorting to the “quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus," of such an antiquity as he has laid open. Report on Education in Europe, to the Trustees of the Girard College for Orphans. By Alex. Dallas Bache, LL.D., President of the College. Philadelphia: Printed by Lydia R. Bailey. 1839. 8vo. pp. 666.

Dr. Bache has rendered in this report a good account of his visit to Europe. It contains the fullest and most satisfactory account that has ever been published of European systems and modes of education. We regard this work as so important a contribution to the cause of education, that we propose giving a more extended account of it in a future number.

An attempt to estimate the Christian Ministry. A Sermon preached before the Baptist Education Society of Virginia. By William Southwood, 8vo. pp. 15. The Duty of the Educated Young Men of this Country. An Address delivered before the Eumenean and Philanthropic Societies of Davidson College, N. C., July 31, 1839. By Rev. P. J. Sparrow, A.M., Professor of Languages in Davidson College. 8vo. pp. 32.

Remarks upon Slavery and the Slave Trade, addressed to the Hon. Henry Clay. 1839. 8vo. pp 23.

A beautifully printed pamphlet, without any name of place or publisher on its title page, but signed "a Slave Holder," and emanating, unless we have mistaken the physiognomy of its type, from a Paris press. The author revives and urges with much force the plan proposed some years since by Rufus King, and sanctioned as to its constitutionality by Chief Justice Marshall, for the gradual extinction of slavery by appropriating the proceeds of the public lands to the redemption of the slaves. He urges also the adoption of further and more vigorous measures for the suppression of the slave trade, which is still extensively carried on under shelter of the American flag.