Short Notices [pp. 567-576]

Short Notices.
evangelical. It is only occasionally that we detect even a tinge
of Arminian theology.
A Commentary on the Gospels of Matthew and Mark, intended for Popular
Use. By D. D Whedon, D. D. New York: Carlton & Porter. 1860.
This is an addition to our stock of Commentaries on the
Gospels, so constructed as to be useful to all, but especially to
private Christians and Sabbath-school teachers. It is well
written, and will be welcome, not only to the Methodist body,
to which its author belongs, but to many in other communions,
who seek the aid of various interpreters in the study of Christ's
life and teachings.
History of the Great Reformation in England, Ireland, Scotland, Germany,
France, and Italy. By the Rev. Thomas Carter. New York: Published
by Carlton & Porter. 1860.
For those who desire to read an account of the Reformation
reduced to a compass of one volume of moderate size, this work
may be suitable, provided they rate at their true value its feeble
thrusts at Calvin and Calvinism.
The Life of Jacob Gruber. By W. P. Strickland. New York: Carlton &
Porter. 1860.
This is the biography of a Methodist minister, a Pennsylvanian by birth, who laboured in the early half of the present
century. He was a man of rude, uncultivated strength, of
narrow views, of intense energy. Often crude and rough in
thought and expression, he has found a fit biographer in the
writer of this volume, who tells us of "the Young Americas of
Gruber's day, who regarded age as a synonym of fogyism," etc.
One portion of the work, however, redeems it. it gives an
account of the indictment and trial of Gruber, on the charge of
preaching insurrection to the slaves in Maryland. The able
arguments of Chief Justice Taney and his associate counsel, in
defence of Gruber, are given in full. For various reasons,
these monuments of the past will now be studied with interest
and profit.
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