Theological and Literary Intelligence [pp. 573-580]

1874.] CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE. 573:
well made from such writers as Lyte, Mrs. Steele, Zinzendorff, St. Bernard,
Doddridge, Miss Winkworth, Crashaw, Longfellow, and from Latin, Spanish
and German authors. There are also meditations in prose. The volume is
brought out in attractive style.
James R. Osgood & Co., Boston, publish a beautiful volume, "Child Life,
in Prose," edited by John G. Whittier. It is made up of a capital selection
of stories by such writers as Hawthorne, Grace Greenwood, Maria Child,
Bjornsen, Dickens, Hughes, Woolman and others, and finely illustrated. It
is sure to be a favorite. They also publish "Marjorie Daw and Other
People," by Thos. Bailey Aldrich, which is also a charming tale for children
and grown people.
Shepherd & Gill, of Boston, have issued two bright books for children: "A
Night with St. Nicholas," by George C. Lorimer; and "Little People of God,T
edited by Mrs. George L. Austin; both of which are well illustrated and
brought out in an attractive style.
Dr. Thomas H. Skinner, of Cincinnati, has recently published two able
sermons on the Relation of the State to Sects and to the Church.
The "Alumni Record of the Wesleyan University," Middletown, Conn.,
compiled by Orange Judd, pp. 308, is altogether the best and fullest memorial of the kind.
Dr. Murray's " Memorial Discourse" on Dr. Gardner Spring is a fitting
and felicitous tribute to the memory of that remarkable preacher and pastor,
who stood so long in the front rank of the ministry of this city. The
addresses of Drs. Adams, Paxton, Tyng and Ormiston are also appropriate.
Dr. Jacobus, of the Allegheny Seminary, has brought out "Notes on.
the Book of Exodus: from Egypt to Sinai," comprising eighteen chapters.
They are, of course, well adapted to the use of both teachers and pupils,
in connection with the " Bible Lessons," and present in a compact form the,
results of critical investigations.
Several notices of books, last received, have been, from want of space,,
postponed.
ART. VIII.-THEOLOGICAL AND LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.
GERMANY.
TleologiscAle Stid~ien unzd rizi'kelz. Parts II. and III. I874. Delitzscn, a criticism of the sources of the most ancient ecclesiastical notices of Simon Peter and
Simon Magus, following up the recent investigations of Lipsius and others, in their
bearings on the early fables about Peter. Klihler, Interpretation of Romans ii.
I4-I6. Seidemann and Ktistlin continue the discussion on the year of Luther's
birth; Schrader contributes notes on the Assyrian inscriptions. In the third part
Kleinert has a learned essay on the theory of sacrifices; Hollenberg examines the
book of Joshua in its relation to Deuteronomy; and Goebel discusses the group of