THE

1

NEW ENGLANDER.

NULLIUS ADDICTUS JURARE IN VERBA MAGISTRI.

VOLUME XVII, 1859.

NEW HAVEN :

WILLIAM L. KINGSLEY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, 30 GROVE STREET-

T. J. STAFFORD, PRINTER.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME XVII.

No. I.

ART. I. The True Style and Measure of the Higher

Joseph S. Ropes, M. A., Boston, Mass.

Continuation on page 69, by Rev. L. Bacon, D. D., New Haven, Conn.

III. Roman Catholic Contributions and Missions,

Henry C. Kingsley, Esq., New Haven, Conn.

93

VIII. Nature and the Supernatural,

Rev. Edward W. Gilman, Bangor, Me.

VI. Dr. Cleaveland's Reply to the New Englander,

Rev. S. W. S. Dutton, D. D., New Haven, Conn.

VII. Palestine a Perpetual Witness for the Bible,

Rev. Joseph P. Thompson, D. D., New York City.

Rev. Prof. Noah Porter, D. D., Yale College.

ARTICLE IX. NOTICES OF BOOKS:

HOVEY. A Memoir of the Life

and Times of the Rev. Isaae

Backus, M. A.,

DENISON.-Notes of the Baptists

164

192

224

THEOLOGY.

SCHEDEL. The Emancipation of

269

259

-

BLEDSOE. A Theodicy,

260

FURNESS.-Thoughts on the Life

and Character of Jesus of

Nazareth,

UHDEN, H. F.-The New England

261

SCHAFF.-History of the Christian

Church,

STEVENS.-History of Methodism,

PERKINS.-Sermons,

WAYLAND.-Salvation by Christ, 267 HOLLAND.-Bitter Sweet. A Poem,

Alexander, Jas. W.-Discourses, 268 The Autocrat of the Breakfast

PRIME.-The Power of Prayer, 268

LONGFELLOW.-The Courtship of

Miles Standish,

270

276

CONTENTS.

States of America,

283

Proposed New English Dictionary, 288 | Washington's Visit to New Eng-

New Haven and Hartford Two

land, 1789,

Hundred and Twenty Years

Ago,

290

Connecticut Historical Collections,

Dr. Taylor's Lectures on the Moral

Government of God,

291

292

292

No. II.

ART. I. Anticipations of Man in Nature,

293

Prof. James D. Dana, LL. D., Yale College.

II. Chicago Theological Seminary,

335

IV. Dr. Bushnell's Sermons for the New Life,

357

Mr. Edward W. Robbins, Kensington, Conn.

VI. Meteorology of Palestine,

Rev. W. T. Eustis, New Haven, Conn.

VIII. Common Version and Biblical Revision, .

III. Mr. Daniel Lord and the American Tract So-