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trembling before il~e modern Titans." "The doubts that remain do not lay
hold of the heart; they are, so to say, the doubts of scientific curiosity;" and,
be who once quieted the scruples of Thomas, and let him put his hands
~nto his wounds, "will silence our last doubts, when, by following him in life
we are led upward at last to himself."
The history of Jesus is laid out on a natural and comprehensive plan. All
the parts and relations of the subject are brought into review. The different
schools are fairly represented and acuteW criticised. Substantial truth is
found in the gospel narratives in spite of all the adverse criticisms. There is
a full account of the apocryphal gospels and acts, as well as of all the ancient
traditions about Jesus. In the by-paths of investigation Dr. Hase is always
at home, and his effort is rather to harmonize differences and difficulties
than to press them to negative results. His work is perhaps chiefly valuable
in the way of summing up, in a concise and pregnant form, the present state
of inquiry and controversy upon the momentous and central theme of which
he treats.
PHILOSOPHY.
History of Philosophy, from Thales to the Present Time. By DR. FRIED RICH UEnERwEG. Translated by Professor GF:O S MORRIS, of the Uni versity of Michigan. With Additions by PREsIDE~r PORTER, and PROF. V.
BETTA. 2 vols., 8vo. Being Vols. I. and II. of the Theological and Philo sophical Lib~ry, edited by Drs. H. B. Smith and P. Schaff; published by
bcribner, Armstrong & Co. New York. To meet the demand for the use
of this History of Philosophy as a text-book in colleges, it is now issued at
the low rate of five dollars for the two volumes. It is undoubtedly the best
text-book of the kind extant. Professor Ulrici, of Halle, in a notice of this
translation in his Philoso~hica1 7onrnal, says, that Ueberweg's History is
distinguished for its conciseness, its clear arrangement, the objedivi(y of its
criticism, and the great fulness and exactness of its bibliography. Some
defects in the original, he adds, have been well supplied by the American,
translator; while the additions made by President Porter and Professor
Botta (whom Ulrici reports as "lately deceased, as a Professor in Turin")
supply a desideratum in respect to English, American, and Italian philo sophical literature. Such high praise is deserved. None who need a his tory of philosophy can well afford to be without Ueberweg. At the present
~ow price, a large demand is to be anticipated. Though it is not all needed
for instruction, yet no real student can be content with a meagre and super -ficial outline in the place of it. The parts not needed in the class-room are
~ecessary in the study.
HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY.
Man~ia1 of Universal Ch'~rch History. By REv. DR. JOHN ALEOG.
Prof. of Theology, Freiburg. Translated from the ninth German edition, by
F. J. PABISCH, D.D., President of Mount St. Mary's Seminary, and Rev.
Thomas S. Byrne, Professor in the same. VoL II. The Middle Ages.
With chronological tables and a map. pp. 1,096. Cincinnati, 0. Robert
Clarke & Co., Publishers. Dr. Alzog's Text Book is undoubtedly the best
Roman Catholic Manual of Church History in German. It supersedes
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