Theological and Literary Itelligence [pp. 569-580]

580 LITERARY INTELLI(;ENCE. [July, I875.~
Peter and the Claims of the Roman Catholic Church, confronted with Scripture and
the Testimony of the Popes Themselves-a learned summary, damaging to Cardinal
Manning's bold assumptions and assertions; Robertjamieson, D.D., The Inspiration
of the Scriptures (Baird Lecture, iS7~); The Chinese Reader's Manual, a Hand
book of Biographical, Historical, Mythol9gical, and General Literary Reference, by
W. F. ~layers, Chinese Secretary to the British Legation, published by the Shanghai
Presbyterian Mission Press, and by Triibner & Co., London. Codet's (of Neuchatel)
excelfent Commentary on Luke has been translated by F. W. Shalders, 2 vols. ~1.
~V. Habershon, The ~Vave of Skepticism and the Rock of Truth: a Reply to
"Supernatural Religion;" ~V. E. Jeif, An Examination into the Doctrine and
Practice of Confession; Rev. C. A. Row, The Supernatural in the New Testament
Possible, Credible, and Historical.
Philosophical Works. R. S. Wyld, F. R. S. E., "The Physics and Philosophy of
the Senses; or, The MentM and the Physical in their Mutual Relations," with
diagrams and engravings. This work is based on the philosophy of force as ultimate
in matter-the dynamical theoryAand as leading to a theistic theory of the universe, in
opposition to Spencer, Huxley, and Tyndall. "Lux e Tenebris; or, The Testimony
of Consciousness, a Theoretic Essay." This is also theistic and speculative. The
author's theory is, that ther are "mind cells" as well as matter cells. He cites
and agrees with, Spencer's general doctrine that " our knowledge of nonmenal
existence has a certainty which our knowledge of phenomenal existences cannot
approach; in other words, in view of logic as well as of common sense, realism is
the only rational thesis; all the others are doomed to fall." Only, Spencer does not
say that the ultimate "nonmenon ".is intelligent, rational mind. The first volume
of the projected tr&nslation of Comte's "Positive Polity" is out; it is translated by
Dr. J. B. Bridges. The other three v~-lumes ar~ to. be txanslated by R. C on %p.~ve, S.
Beesly; and T Harrison. This work will revive the discussion 6f~Comti~sm~~~an& its
relation to recent English theories. Mr. Francis Galton, whose work on" Heredita~r
Genius" is well known, has published a continuation of it, on" English Men of
Science; Their Nature and Nurture," a collection of facts and statistics beanng on
the same point. Dr. Drysdale 6n "The Protoplasmic Theory of Life," contends
that vitality is resident in "a universally. diffused, pulpy, structureless matter," -
equivalent to the protoplasm of Dr. Lionel Beale. Dr. Chariton Bastian, in his
"Ev~ution and Origin," is stilf contending f~r " spontaneous generation," without
any new facts.