Short Notices [pp. 674-683]

Short Notices.
by honest labour. This is a peculiarity of American life.for
which the history of nations can hardly furnish a parallel.
Preudice and its Antidote. An address delivered before the
East Alabama Presbyterial High School. By Rev. W. T.
Hamiltom D.D. of Mobile, Alabama. Philadelphia; Wm.
F. Geddes. 1850.
Church Development on Apostolic Principles: An Essay ad dressed to the Friends of Biblical Christianity. By S. S.
Schmucker D. D. Professor of Christian Theology in the
Theological Seminary, Gettysburg, Pa. Gettysburg. 1850.
Addresses, delivered at the Inauguration of Hon. Theodore
Frelinghuysen, LL. D., Pres. of Rutgers College. By the
Hon. A. Bruyn Hashbrouck, LL. D., His Ex. Governor
Haines, Rev. James S. Cannon, D. D., and Hon. Theodore
Frelinghuysen, LL. D. New Brunswick: Press of J. Ter hune and Son. 1850.
A Review of the Rev. W. Craik's Essay on the Divine Life
and the New Birth. By Rev. John S. Watt. Louisville:
1850.
Influence. A Quarter-Century Sermon, Preached in behalf
of the American Tract Society. May 5, 1850. By Rev.
Gardiner Spring, D. D., Pastor of the Brick Presbyterian
Church, New York, one of the founders of the Society.
The above are among the number of interesting pamphlets
which we have received, but which the crowded state of our
pages forbids our noticing more particularly.
The Star of the Wise Men: Being a Commentary on the
Second Chapter of St. Matthew. By Richard Chenevix
French, B. D. Philadelphia: H. Hooker. 1850. pp. 116.
This may be described as an exhaustive commentary on this
passage of the holy scriptures. All the curious and incidental
questions which have been raised, touching the strange, eventful, and supernatural incidents related in the chapter, are discussed with varied and comprehensive learning, and the con
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