THE

NEW ENGLANDER

NULLIUS ADDICTUS JURARE IN VERBA MAGISTRI.

V O L U ME VIII.

NEW SERIES-VOL. II, 1850.

NEW HAVEN:

PUBLISHED BY JOHN B. CARRINGTON.

PRINTED BY B. L. HAMLEN,

Printer to Yale College.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME VIII.

No. I.

Art. I. The Doctrine of the Trinity, - - -

II. The Buckminsters, Father and Son, . . .

III. Writings and opinions of Thomas Carlyle, -

IV. Professor Fiske, - - - -

V. The Hand of God in the Gold Region,

VI. American Presbyterian History, - -

VII. Looking for the Church, - -

VIII. David Hale, -

- 129

Note to the review of Dyer on Inspiration,

- 144

LITERARY NoticÈs.

Ticknor's History of Spanish Literature, - - . . 145

Hawks's Monuments of Egypt; or Egypt a Witness for the Bible, · 149

Gieseler's Compendium of Ecclesiastical History,

151

Irving's Mahomet and his Successors, - . . . . 153

The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith,

The Provincial Letters of Blaise Pascal, .

John Howard, and the Prison-World of Europe,

A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon,

Colman's European Life and Manners, . .

- 156

Bowen's Lowell Lectures,

• 157

The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the

year, 1850, - - - - - - - - - 158

Is Christianity from God? or, A Manual of Bible evidence for the

People, - -

- - - - - - 158

Anthon's System of Ancient and Mediæval Geography,

Spring's Mercy Seat, . .

159

Vinet's Gospel Studies, . . .

Taylor's Apostolic Baptism,

Kollock's Pastoral Reminiscences,

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The Histories of Caius Cornelius Tacitus, - - - -

Family Pictures from the Bible, . .

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Blakeman's Essay on Credulity and Superstition, and on Animal Fas-

cination and Charming, - .

Boise's Exercises in Greek Composition, ·

Eichorn's Practical German Grammar, ..

Dana's Poems and Prose Writings,

No. II.

Art. I. Examination of Mill's Philosophy of Necessary

Truth, and of Causation, - - - - 161

II. Popular Lectures, - - . . . 186

III. Chalmers on the Inductive Method in Theology,

and the Nature of Christian Doctrine, - . 203

IV. The Right of Property in Land,

220

V. Hugh Miller, - - - - -

237

VI. Henry Ware, Jr., - - - - - - 250

VII. Christianity Applied to Social Questions, . - 264

VIII. On Perfect Intonation and the Euharmonic Organ, 278

IX. The Question! Are you ready for the Question ?

-Mr. Webster's Speech, - - - - 292

" Land,

LITERARY NOTICES.

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The East: Sketches of Travel in Egypt and the Holy Land, -

Farr's Ancient History, . . . .

Rowland on the Common Maxims of Infidelity,

Kip on the Early Conflicts of Christianity, .

Goode on the Doctrine of the Church of England as to Baptism,

McGhee on the Ephesians, · · ·

Kitto's Daily Bible Illustrations,

Trench on the Miracles of our Lord, ..

Stanton's Sketches of Reforms and Reformers,

Hume's History of England,

Onderdonk's Revolutionary Incidents, -

The War with Mexico, . .

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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith,

Eloquence a Virtue; or, Outlines of a Systematic Rhetoric, ..

Hooker's Physician and Patieni, ·

321

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327

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327

Johnson on Life, Health and Disease, .

A Dictionary of Machines, Mechanics, Engine-Work and Engineering,

Chambers' Educational Course, · · · · · ·

General French and English Dictionary, - .

The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, .

Hildreth's History of the United States,

Morton Montagu ; or a young Christian's choice,

Elements of Natural Philosophy.--Companion to Ollendorf's New

Method of learning the French Language.-Ollendorf's New Method

of learning the French Language, · · · · ·

Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Thomas Chalmers, D.D., LL.D.-

The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey, · · ·

307

328

328

No. III.

Art. I. Liberalism in Europe, - - - - - 329

JI. William Ellery Channing, -

345

III. The Earth and Man,

365

IV. The Supremacy of God's Law, Mr. Seward's

Speech, - - - - - - - - 378

V. John Cotton, -

388

VI. Architecture, - - - - - - - 418

VII. Bartol's Discourses,

VIII. Allston's Lectures, -

- 445

IX. Social Reforms,

- - 452

434

LITERARY Notices.

Report to the Corporation of Brown University, on changes in the sys-

tem of Collegiate Education, . - - - - - 470

Stuart's Conscience and the Constitution, with Remarks on the recent

Speech of the Hon. Daniel Webster, · · - .. 472

Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford, . . . . . 476

Historical View of the Language and Literature of the Slavic Nations, 478

Irving's Mahomet and his Successors, . . . .

Norton's Elements of Scientific Agriculture, - . .

The Sermons of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, D.D.,

The Psalms Translated and Explained, · ·

Lossing's Pictorial Field Book of the Revolution,

Redwood; A Tale, .

Cuba and the Cubans, .