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Notices of Recent Publications.
shed important light on the reasoning or application of the sacred
text. But he is intensely polemic, and whenever he confronts Calvinism it seems to have very much the effect which water has on one
afflicted with hydrophobia. See his exegesis of Rom. ix., in which,
among much more the like, he tells us-" We offer no solution of the
problem, that amiable and clear intellects, like Albert Barnes, cannot
not only advocate doctrines that are morally so abominable, but can
advocate them with reasonings so futile. But we are almost compelled to believe from such specimens of pitiable logic, that the divine
penalty imposed upon the ablest intellects for holding the abhorrent
dog,ma (election) is to be smitten with mental imbecility in defending
it," p. 357. This will suffice. This sort of polemics seems to us too
heated aind rabid for a "Popular Commentary."
Ihe Problem of Evil. Translated from the French of Af. Ernest Naville. By
John P. Lacroix, Professor in the Ohio Wesleyan University, and
Translator of Pressens6's " Reign of Terror." [The only authorized
translation.] New York: Carlton & Lanahan. 1871.
A new translation and an American edition of a work we have before commended to our readers, and which treats the great problem
in hand from the Christian stand-point of the fall of all men in the
fall of the first man; adopting, however, the realistic rather than
the federal solution.
Life of John Bunyan, with Notices of some of his Cotemporaries, and Speci mens of his Style. By D. A. Harsha, M.A., author of "Life of Philip
Doddridge, D.D.," etc. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. 1871.
The countless readers of the Pilgrim's Progress must be eager to
know the life of its marvellous author. This want is happily met in
the present volume. It also gives a taste of Bunyan's style and
power as an author, in many memorable selections from his works,
which withal illuminate the whole subject of free grace and holy living as no other uninspired man has done.
The Kinderqarten. A Manualfor the Introduction of Froebel's Sytem of Pri mary Education into Public Schools; and for the use of Mothers and
Private Teachers. By Adolph Douai. With 16 Plates. New York:
E. Steiger. 1871.
The system of education, which this is an attempt to naturalize
among us, is thus described by Miss Elizabeth F. Peabody, who has
studied it in Germany, and is laboring to promote it in this country:
"It is exceedingly important," says that lady, "that Froebel's
method should be carefully studied and fully understood; because
many of the schools called Kindergartens are only parodies of the true
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