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428 THEOLOGICAL AND LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. [April.
The New Englander, for January, has an admirable article by Prof. D. L.
Diman of Providence, on " The Roman Element in Modern Civilization."
It is in the form of a review of Guizot; but it includes in a brief space a
clear and accurate account of the Feudal System. In the same number,
Mr. Kingsley exposes the perversions of the English version of the
charming RBeicit d'une Soeur: it seems that the whole' Confession" there
given is entirely altered and made slavishly Roman Catholic.
The British Quarterly Review for January, republished by Scott, has a
noteworthy account of "Mahomet,"' on the basis of Syed Ahmed's curious
A, Essays on the Life of Mohammed," Vol. I., published by Triubuer & (Co.,
London. The Mohammedan lives and legends yield valuable contributions,
and serve to bring out some new aspects of the career of "'the Great
Arabian." Some of the infelicities and shortcomings of Dr. Sprenger's
Life of Mohammed are roticed. The article is ascribed to Mr. Freeman.
The first paper on Laufey's Napoleon is by Professor Seelye.
The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, edited by Dr. Harris, St. Louis,
begins with the year its sixth volume. It is getting to be quite indispensable to students of German philosophy. The January number contains translations of Lotze on the Ideal and Real; of Rosenkranz on Hegel's Phenomenology, very well done by S. G. Hall; of Trendelenburg, on
Hegel's system; and a metaphysical essay on the Trinity and the Double
Procession by F. A. Henry.
Dr. L. P. Hickok, now residing at Amherst, Mass., has in the press two
new philosophical volumes; one on the "Creator and Creation" will soon be
published. It investigates some of the main problems of modern science
and speculation.
The second volume of Ueberweg's "History of Philosophy," translated
by Prof. Moriis for the "Theological and Philosophical Library," will soon
be out. Besides the addition of President Porter on recent English and
American Philosophy, it will contain a full account of the Later Italian
Philosophy, by Professor V. Botta, of New York, who formerly taught
philosophy in the iUniversity of Turin, and is amply qualified to do
full justicet to the subject. An edition of Tischendorf's New Testament
text, with critical apparatus, is in preparation for this "Library;" also,
an "Introduction to the Old Testament,' by Professor Green of Princeton
an'Introduction to the New Testament," by Professor Dwight of New
Haven; and Hase's "Polemics," edited by Prof. G. P. Fisher. Martensen's
Christian Ethics," will probably be translated for the "Library,"
Mr. Mori, the Japanese minister to this country, is preparing a work on
the laws, institutions and resources of this country, in four volumes, in
English and Japanese. The first volume on Life and Resources in America
s already printed and sent to Japan.
J. R. Osgood & Co., of Boston, announce for publication, Drake's American Biographical Dictionary; Dr. Chaplin's Life of Henry Dunster, First
President of Harvard Colloge; Senator Wilson's Rise and Fall of the Slave
.Power in America; Col. Lamon's True Life of Pres?;dent Lincoln, etc.