appeared to have been altogether too short for his proper work. Yet it can not be said of him, that he lived in vain.

He has left behind him a lasting monument in his work on Psychology. This, of course, is not without its defects. When can we expect to have a book on the same subject, that shall be all that a just criticism may require? Some of its Hegelian aspects are, to say the least, a good deal unsatisfactory. It must be admitted too, that it is not just in the right form, to answer the purposes of a text book in the common American sense. But still, with all these concessions, we hazard nothing in pronouncing it one of the most important publications in its department which has yet appeared in this country. It was the introduction into our literature of a new way of looking at the science of the human mind, a method which was not known among us before. I do not mean by this, that it was in any sense original or new with Dr. Rauch. He never thought of claiming for himself any such credit. The method has been common in Germany for years; all that he pretended to do, was to exhibit it under an English form, working into it in an independent manner, the material which he found at hand in different German writers. His work is based in this way especially on the Philosophical Anthropology of Daub, with a proper use at the same time of other recent systems. The true merit of Dr. Rauch in the case is, that he has given us in American shape, not a translation or copy simply of any of these transatlantic systems, but a living reproduction, both in matter and form, of what we may call their general idea. In this view, his Psychol ogy, when it appeared, was something new among us in its kind. It formed in fact a sort of epoch in this department of our literature. We had nothing like it before; and we have had as yet nothing to supersede it properly since.

Another interesting memorial of Dr. Rauch is found in a volume entitled The Inner Life, which has been brought out lately by one of his early pupils, the Rev. Dr. Gerhart, now President of Franklin and Marshall College. It con

sists of seventeen discourses selected from his manuscript sermons, and so arranged as to exhibit to a certain extent the unity and order of a common subject, answering to the title of the book. Written mainly for students, by one who was himself accustomed to think more than to declaim, these discourses are of course not just of the popular order and kind. Some of them approach to the character of philosophico-theological dissertations. They are, however, very far from being either abstract or dry. The grace of an inward, spiritual eloquence may be said to adorn them throughout. They are fresh, earnest, and full of religious life-chaste in style, tender in sentiment, beautiful in description, rich in edifying and suggestive thought. They fairly sparkle with the gems of imagination—taking the faculty in its true sense, as it differs from mere fancy, and forms the proper soil of genius. Altogether the book is well suited to make us acquainted with the inward life of its author, reflecting as a mirror the distinguishing qualities of his mind and heart. It is especially important as a standing testimony to his religious character; illustrating the fact, as the editor of the volume tells us, "that the first President of Marshall College was a decided and humble Christian, no less than a philosopher; that his philosophy was neither rationalism nor pantheism, neither sensationalism nor transcendentalism in any false sense, but really Christian; and that the impulse and peculiar character which the institution received from him in the beginning, was not hostile or prejudicial, as some have alleged, to sound Christian ideas, but subservient and favorable to the progress of orthodox scientific theology and true practical religion."

Still more effectually in some sense the life of Dr. Rauch may be regarded as continuing itself in the history of Marshall College, and in the successive classes of students who have gone forth from it year after year, bearing along with them more or less of its spirit into the world. For it is very certain, that the soul and genius of the man, his ideal presence we may say, wrought powerfully on the character

of the institution, during the whole period of its continuance in Mercersburg. His ideas went largely to form the reigning tone of its instructions, and also to determine their general direction. His name became a precious legacy for the College-more highly appreciated after his death. than it had been during his life-inspiring those who had the care of it with large and generous views, and at the same time drawing respect to it from abroad. It served as a sort of rallying standard for the academical pride and self-respect of the students. His very grave appeared to hallow the ground to which it belonged; making it sacred to literature under its best form, and in its lonely retirement—a spot for musing meditation, the close of many a summer evening's walk-breathing as it were an atmosphere around it, that made its memory blessed.

The remains now before us, form thus, as we may all see, a most important part of the College itself—one of its chief historical treasures indeed, more valuable than any other portion of its literary apparatas-which ought of right to accompany it in its removal to this place. Without them, the transfer could never be altogether final and complete. Without them, the affections of its alumni could never go wholly after it, so as to settle with full home-like feeling in its new connections and relations. They would continue to linger still with fond recollection around his monument at Mercersburg, as though half the glory of the old institution lay buried there with his slumbering dust. It was a debt due to Franklin and Marshall College, then, to complete at this time the act of consolidation out of which it has grown, by bringing the contents of that honored grave to Lancaster; that being solemnly committed here to a new tomb, and crowned with new marble, they might be outwardly and openly joined henceforward with the living history of the College in its new form. Let the city of Lancaster welcome these illustrious remains. They will be an ornament to her cemetery, a jewel in the coronet of her future fame. Especially let the friends of Franklin

and Marshall College, its Board of Trustees, its Faculty, its Students, take home to themselves with new honor and affection the memory of the man, whose bones are placed this day as a precious legacy in their hands; and whose grave is to be for them from this time forward their own visible and solemn pledge, may we not say, that they will show themselves true and faithful to the interests of learning, which have been consigned to them in such honorable conjunction as a great public trust. The best wish we can. utter in behalf of the institution is, that it may never cease to be known as worthy of the name, and true to the spirit, of its first President, Frederick Augustus Rauch.

ART. X.-RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

LECTURES ON METAPHYSICS AND LOGIC. By Sir William Hamilton, Bart. (Late) Prof. of Logic and Metaphysics in the University of Edinburgh. Edited by the Rev. H. L. Mansel, B. D., Oxford, and John Veitch, Edinburgh. In 2 vols. Vol. I. Metaphysics. Boston: Gould & Lincoln. 1859.

This stately volume of 738 pages, is probably the largest metaphysical work ever printed in this country. Its appearance is alike creditable to the enterprise of the publishers and the taste of the American people, who, with all their practical and utilitarian tendencies, are alive to the abstrusest questions of philosophy. These lectures constitute the first portion of the Biennial Course which the great philosopher of Scotland was in the habit of delivering as professor of Logic and Metaphysics in the University of Edinburgh, from 1836 to his recent lamented death. Although not as complete and perfect as if they had been prepared by the author himself, and passing by many of the subjects generally included in Metaphysics or Ontology, even in its stricter sense, they are, nevertheless, a most valuable work and a noble monument of his philosophical genius and learning. Although not so elaborate and exact as some previous works of Hamilton, they surpass them in freshness, vivacity and adaptedness to popular capacity, while they are equal

to them in variety and comprehensiveness of learning, ranging over ancient Greek and Roman, patristic, scholastic, British, French and German schools of speculative science, and commanding them with such facility and ease that we are almost prepared to subscribe to the judgment of his enthusiastic American admirer and critic, Mr. Samuel Tyler: "There seems to be not even a random thought of any value, which has been dropped along any, even obscure, path of mental activity, in any age or country, that his diligence has not recovered, his sagacity appreciated, and his judgment husbanded in the stores of his knowledge."

P. S.

THE LIFE OF JOHN MILTON : narrated in connection with the political, ecclesiastical, and literary History of his time. By David Masson, M. A,, Prof. of Eng. Liter. in University College, London. Vol. I. 1608-1639. Boston: Gould & Lincoln. 1859.

Unquestionably by far the best work ever written on Milton, which promises, when completed in two more volumes, to throw all its predecessors far in the shade. We have indeed a large number of introductory memoirs to some editions of the poet's works, or essays on his character and merits. But Prof. Masson purposes to give a full and elaborate biography of Milton from the cotemporary sources. He views him under all his aspects as a man, a scholar, a Christian, a Puritan, a statesman, as well as a poet, and always in connection with the general movements of his age and country, so as to reflect in his life, at the same time, the history of England during one of its richest and most interesting periods, embracing the last sixteen years of James I., the whole reign of Charles L., the interval of the Commonwealth and the Protectorate, and the first fourteen years of the Restoration under Charles II. The first volume, consisting of 658 large pages, and adorned with two beautiful portraits of Milton, the boy of ten, and the youth of twentyone-extends only from 1606 to 1639, and accompanies Milton from his birth to the school house, the University of Cambridge, through his early literary and poetical labors, with a full review of the literary, ecclesiastical and political aspects and antecedents of England at the approaching storm of the Puritan Revolution, and through his continental journey extending to Rome and Naples. It is the period of his education and minor poems. The second volume is to embrace the middle period of his life from 1640 to 1660, i. e. from the beginning of the Civil Wars to the Restoration, during which time he unfolded mainly his polemical activity as a prose-writer. The third volume