Literary Intelligence [pp. 478-482]

Literary Intelligence.
Sharpe's Translation of the Hebrew Scriptures has just appeared in a
new edition.
Tillotson's "Palestine: its Holy Sites and Sacred Story," and Gill's
"Notices of the Jews by classic writers of Antiquity" add to the
number of works illustrative of the externals of Scripture.
Our more miscellaneous theological and religious list includes Vol.
III. of Tyerman's Life of Wesley; Wesleys' (John and Charles)
Eucharistical Manual; " Wesley his own Biographer," from his journals
and letters; Wesley's Christian Theology (selections from his writings
put in systematic form); Miss Yonge's Musings over the Christian Year;
a "Concordance to the Christian Year;" "Counsels to Young Students" and "Half-hours in the Temple Church," two volumes of Dr.
Vaughan's excellent sermons; a new enlarged edition of Bishop
Wordsworth's" Union with Rome," and a small volume of his sermons
entitled " The Maccabees and the Church;" the third series of Bishop
Wilberforce's Oxford University Sermons; an " Examination of
Liddon's Bampton Lectures, by a Clergyman of the Church of England;" Dean Stanley's "Athanasian Creed;" "Reasons for Returning
to the Church of England" (by a distinguished Roman Catholic);
Sadler's "Abundant Life, and other Sermons; "Gavazzi's "No Union
with Rome, an Anti-Eirenicon;" Goodsir's "Ethnic Inspiration;"
Bishop's "Human Power in the Divine Life;" Romanoff's "Divine
Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom; " a new edition of Mant's "Ancient
Hymns from the Roman Breviary;" Part I. of King Alfred's West
Saxon Version of Gregory's Pastoral Care (text, notes, introduction,
and translation, utinder the auspices of the Early English Text So ciety); a translation of Hefele's History of the Christian Councils;
Gogerly's "Pioneers" (a record of early Christian Missions in
Bengal); and Miss Yonge's "Pioneers and Founders" (the latest
issue of the Sunday Library).
The most important contributions to biography and history are
Vol. I. of Lord Br.ougham's Life and Times; Christie's Life of An thony Ashley Cooper, first Earl of Shaftesbury; Vol. II. of Masson's
Life and Times of Milton; Chabot's "Hand-writing of Junius, profes sionally investigated;" Earle's "English Premiers;" Life and Labors
of Duncan Matheson; Moffat's "Life's Labors in South Africa;" Mrs.
Oliphant's "St. Francis of Assisi" (Sunday Library); "The Diary
of Abraham de la Pryme, the Yorkshire Antiquary;" a new edition
of De Bonnechose's History of France; Philip Smith's Student's Man ual of Ancient History; Starkey's England in the Reign of King
Henry VIII.; "The Secret Documents of the Second Empire; " Vol.
1871.]
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