creating other homes for you. They reciprocate every feeling which has been expressed by Dr. Beman. The effect of the meeting of this Assembly upon the city has been most happy. The wisdom, the kindness and the piety of the Assembly have been the theme of conversation, and the impression has found its way into the public press. Even where there had previously been little kind feeling, where there had been perhaps too much disposition to watch us with an eye scarce friendly, there have sprung up feelings of a different nature. You have commended yourselves to all men. And, Mr. Moderator, Philadelphians have rejoiced to see you here occupying the position to which the assembled Presbyterian Church has, by acclamation, called you. To this city you gave the dew of your youth, and the first freshness of your manlier powers, and to you is owing in no small degree that public sentiment which here sustains us now. Faithful as you have always been to our cause, never swerving an instant from those high principles we have upborne amid so much contumely and misrepresentation, we rejoice to gather in affection around you as your children in the Lord, and to crown you now with the highest honors of our Church.

The Moderator, appearing as if deeply moved, said that he had feelings that he could not trust himself to express. He claimed no merit but sincerity, no desert except what came from an honest desire to serve our beloved Church, and its Lord. He was aware that, from a want of familiarity with business, he had committed errors, and he had been greatly indebted to the Assembly for its indulgence. He had never, he said, under any circumstances, experienced purer enjoyment in the exercise of brotherly love, than since this Assembly had convened. He could only bless God and say, "Behold how good and how pleasant it is, for brethren to dwell together in unity.'

All present rose and sang the hymn, "Blest be the tie that binds," and the Moderator, with prayer, and the Apostolic Benediction, dissolved the Assembly, and directed another, chosen in like manner, to convene in the city of St. Louis, on the third Thursday of May, 1855.

Thus ended the great Assembly of 1854. God grant us many such!

LITERARY AND THEOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE.

ENGLAND.

Bishop Ridley's MS. reply to Bishop Hooper's "Book to the Council against the use of those Habits, which were then used by the Church of England in her sacred Ministry," 1550, is about to be published by the Parker Society, in the second volume of the Writings of Bradford, edited by A. Townsend. The work of Bishop Hooper is not known to be in existence.

The two following works are announced in the "Notes and Queries" as wanting a publisher. 1. "A Syriac-English Lexicon to the New Testament and the Book of Psalms," arranged alphabetically, with the derivatives referred to their proper roots, and a comparison of the principal words in the cognate languages. 2. "A Syriac-English Grammar," translated and abridged from Hoffmann's larger work.

Mr. Joseph Mayer, F. S. A., of Liverpool, having purchased the "Faussett Collection," is about to publish a volume entitled, "Saxon Antiquities from the Kentish Tumuli," edited by M. C. Roach Smith; the subscription price is two guineas. Notes and Queries.

A number of documents illustrating the Cromwellian period, is said to have been discovered in the Lambeth Library. Of their character or value no account has yet been given.-Condé's valuable "History of the Arabs in Spain," translated by Mrs. Jonathan Foster, in 3 vols.; the first has appeared in Bohn's Library. The twentyeighth volume of the Surtees Society Publications is, "The Pontifical of Egbert, Archbishop of York," 732-766, now first published from a MS. in the Imperial Library, Paris.-H. G. Liddell has in preparation a History of the Roman Republic, from the close of the Second Punic War to the death of Sylla, in two volumes.

Edward Greswell, B. D., Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, has just published an important chronological work. "Origines Kalendariae Italicae; Nundinal Calendars of Ancient Italy; Nundinal Calendar of Romulus; Calendar of Numa Pompilius and of the Decemvirs; Irregular Roman Calendar and the Julian Correction. With Tables of the Roman Calendar, from U. C. 4 of Varro, B. C. 750, to U. C. 1108, A. D. 355." 4 vols., 8vo., £2. Also, "Preliminary Address of the Origines, &c., with some further observations." These

works are published at the University Press, Oxford, by John Henry Parker. Mr. Greswell is the author of the "Fasti Temporis Catholici," 5 vols., 1842.-At the same press has been issued a new edition of the "Synodus Anglicana," by Edmund Gibson, D. D., afterwards Bishop of London, edited by Edward Cardwell, D. D., Principal of St. Alban's Hall. 8vo., 5s. 6d.

Kingsley's "Lectures on Alexandria and her Schools," delivered in Edinburgh, in one volume, 8vo.-F. A. Neale, "Islamism, its Rise and Progress." 2 vols., 8vo.-Mr. Madden announces as nearly ready, "A Turkish Grammar, Reading Lessons and Vocabulary," by W. B. Barker, Professor of Arabic, Turkish, &c., at Eton College.-Memoirs of Rev. James Weithecht, late missionary in Bengal, of J. J. Gurney and of Amelia Opie, have been recently published.— Messrs. Griffin & Co., announce a new "General Biography."

L. Wiese, "German Letters on English Education," which is reviewed in the " Studien und Kritiken," the third number for 1854, in highly commendatory terms, has been translated into English by W. D. Arnold, and published by Longman. 209 pp., 4s. 6d.-Rev. John Forbes, LL. D., "The Symmetrical Structure of Scripture; or Scripture Parallelism exemplified in an Analysis of the Decalogue, the Sermon on the Mount," &c.-Rev. J. B. Marsden, author of the History of the Puritans, in two vols., is engaged upon a "History of the Various Denominations of the Christian World" from early times.

Dr. Waagen, Director of the Royal Gallery of Pictures in Berlin, has enlarged his well known work, "Art and Artists in England," into three volumes. "The Treasures of Art in Great Britain, being an account of the chief Collections of Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures and Illuminated MSS." It contains an account of twenty-eight collections in and near London, of nineteen in other parts of England, and of seven in Scotland, in addition to those described in his former work. This work will be the standard handbook on the subject. The second volume of George Finlay's "History of the Byzantine and Greek Empires," contains from 1057 to the Sack of Constantinople by the Crusaders in 1204, and from 1204 to the Capture by the Turks under Mohammed in 1453.-Bernard William Mac Cabe, "Catholic History of England; its Rulers, Clergy and Poor before the Reformation, as described by the Monkish Historians." The third volume of this work, from Edward the Martyr to the Norman Conquest, has been published. It is by a Roman Catholic, and a work of diligent research, letting the old monkish writers tell their own tale.Ewald's introductory volume on the "History of the People of Israel," is to be published by Mr. Chapman, with additions and

emendations by the author, for the English version. Mr. Chapman has also issued, "The Sphere and Duties of Government," translated from the German of Baron Wilhelm v. Humboldt, by Joseph Coulthard.

a

Dr. Bunsen's work on Hippolytus and his Age, is to appear in new edition, in seven vols.; two on Hippolytus, or "The Beginnings and Progress of Christianity;" two on the "Philosophy of Language and Religion;" three of "Analecta Ante-Nicaena," viz., "Reliquiae Literariae," "Reliquiae Canonica" and "Reliquiae Liturgica." This seems a better arrangement of the multifarious learning and materials of the work, than that of the former edition.-The "Theologica Germanica, which setteth forth many fair Lineaments of Divine Truth, and saith very lofty and lovely Things of a perfect life," so renowned in German literature, one of the mystic treasures of the fourteenth century, loved by Luther, has been translated by Susannah Winkworth, with a preface by Charles Kingsley, and a letter from the Chevalier Bunsen. Another translation of this work is announced.The second volume of Bunsen's "Egypt's Place in Universal History," in the English version of C. H. Cottrel, Esq., comprising the second and third volumes of the original German, is announced.

Archdeacon Wilberforce's treatise on the "Holy Eucharist," is examined by "Theophilus Secundus," and shown to be "inconsistent alike with Reason, with Scripture and the Church; and his unsound views of the Holy Trinity exposed."-The first two volumes of Dr. Gordon's posthumous work, "Christ as made known to the Ancient Church," are occupied with the Historical Books; the Prophetical are to follow in two additional volumes.—Apostolic Succession overthrown and Evangelical Succession established, by a comparison of the qualifications assigned by Jesus Christ to the Apostles and their Successors, &c. 96 pp., 5s.-The Life of Saint Francis Assisi. 2 vols., 12mo., 88.-E. Churtin, Book of Psalms in English Verse, and in Measures suited for Sacred Music. 12mo., 468 pp., 7s. 6d.

The "Hulsean Lectures" for 1854, by M. Cowie, on "Scripture Difficulties," have been issued by the Rivingtons.-The "Donnelian Lecture" for 1853, before the University of Dublin, by W. De Burgh, "On the Early Prophecies of a Redeemer, from the First Promise to the Prophecies of Moses." 178 pp., 8vo., 5s.-The third volume of the "Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy," by Oedericus Vitalis, with the Introduction of Guizot, translated by T. Forester, in Bohn's Antiq. Library.-J. R. Prettyman, "The Church of England and Erastianism since the Reformation." 374 pp., 8vo., 7s. 6d. The author of the "Plurality of Worlds," has published a "Sup

plement" to the same, with the title, "Dialogue on the Plurality of Worlds." 1s.-R. C. Trench, "Synonyms of the New Testament," republished in this country.-Robert Owen, "The New Existence of Man upon the Earth," the first part, with an autobiography.-Prof. Creasy, "The Rise and Progress of the English Constitution," a new edition." Irvingism and Mormonism tested by Scripture,' Rev. Emilius Guers.-The third edition of Rev. Joseph Gilbert's, "The Christian Atonement-its Basis, Nature and Bearings."-Rev. William Jay's Autobiography is announced, edited by Dr. Redford and John Angell James.

Owen's "Theologoumena," with thirteen sermons never before published, appear in a new volume of the Johnstone and Hunter's edition of his Works.-The latest Discoveries in Palestine; Narrative of a Journey through Syria and Palestine in 1851-2, by C. W. M. Van De Velde, late Lieutenant Royal Dutch Navy. 2 vols., 8vo.— Robert Knight, "A Critical Commentary on the Epistle of Paul to the Romans," in 1 vol.-Rev. Wm. Trollope, Commentary on Acts, second edition.-Supplement to "Vacation Rambles," by T. N. Talfourd. The Castilian; an historical Tragedy, by T. N. Talfourd.— Swedenborg, a Biography and Exposition, by E. P. Hood.-Dr. John Pye Smith's Syllabus of Lectures, "First Lines in Christian Theology," have at length been issued in one volume. The high reputation of the author, representing that aspect of English Theology most in harmony with the Evangelical views prevailing in our own country, will undoubtedly attract attention to this work, which has been reissued by Gould & Lincoln in Boston, in a handsome octavo volume.

Dr. Candlish has published "An Examination of Mr. Maurice's Theological Essays," in one volume, which is much commended.Mr. Maurice has published, or is about to publish, several new works, "The Unity of the New Test." "Lectures on Literature," and "Lectures on Ecclesiastical History."-P. G. Dove, Esq., so well known by his "Theory of Human Progression," has further developed his views, in the " Elements of Political Science," in two books; the first book containing the Method, the second the Doctrine.-Rev. J. E. Riddle, author of Ecclesiastical Chronology and Christian Antiquities, has prepared a "History of the Papacy," in 2 vols.-Dugald Stewart's Works are to appear in a new edition, under the accomplished editorship of Sir William Hamilton. Among other new treatises in it, is one on Political Economy. The first volume has appeared, containing the "Dissertation on the Progress of Philosophy," with many additions.-W. W. Harvey, "History and Theology of the Three Creeds," in two volumes, one of the new Cambridge manuals.