Tholuck-Poole-Weisse. 571 people were astonished at the very ridiculous mouse brought forth by the thirty years' labour of the seven mountains on the Tiber. A later edition of the New Testament atoned to some extent for the prodigious fiasco. Of this more faithful exhibition of that venerable text Messrs. Williams and Norgate published an accurate reprint at a cost which rendered it accessible to the most straitened student, and they have now done the same service for the famous Alexandrine Manuscript. Mr. Cowper, to whom the work has been entrusted, has performed his task admirably. We happen to know how laboriously he has devoted himself to the examination not only of Woide's expensive and unwieldy fac-simile, but of the Codex itself, to which the liberality of Sir Frederick Madden and the Trustees of the British Museum afforded him the freest access. He has thus been enabled to produce, in a manner highly creditable to his scholarship and critical ability, what is virtually an entirely new collation of this celebrated text. The Genesis of the Earth and of Man: or, the History of Creation and the Antiquity and Races of Mankind, considered on Biblical and other Grounds. Edited by REGINALD STUART POOLE, M.R.S.L., &c., of the British Museum. Second Edition, revised and enlarged. London: Williams and Norgate. 1860.-Every candid and thoughtful attempt to reconcile the claims of Revelation with those of science is entitled to commendation; and the work before us is both. The author meets the geological objections to the account given in Genesis of the six days' work of creation by treating them as a series of visions; and those drawn from the supposed antiquity of the human race against the comparatively late origin attributed by the sacred writer to Adam and his posterity, by a revival of the old notion of a Pre-Adamite population, which he imagines to have been akin to the Negro family of nations. It is not unlikely that this latter theory may become domesticated amongst the pliant theologians of South Carolina as the true orthodox doctrine. It would afford them a welcome peg on which to hang their apologies for slavery. We are quite sure, however, that the ingenious writer and his accomplished editor would be amongst the first to repudiate any such abuse of their ideas. The book is written with calmness and dignity, and embodies a vast amount of information of all sorts, so that its arguments and illustrations will be sure to interest even where they fail to convince. Philosophische Dogmatik, oder Philosophie des Christenthums (Philosophical Dogmatic Theology, or the Philosophy of Christianity'). Von CH. H. WEISSE. Second volume. Leipzig: S. Hirzel .London: Williams and Norgate. 1860.-The separate title of this volume, "The Creation of the World and of Man,' indicates that it treats of the same subjects as the work just noticed. Whilst, however, the writer of 'The Genesis of the Earth and Man' is a staunch stickler for the plenary, or perhaps we should say, the verbal inspiration of the Scriptures, Professor Weisse disencumbers himself of all difficulties presented by the Mosaic narrative by the simple process of discarding that narrative as a myth. In place of it, he presents us with a thoroughly German, and therefore infallibly true philosophy of creation. Philosophy of creation, forsooth, as if the very idea of creation in the Biblical and Christian sense did not preclude the possibility of any philosophy of what must necessarily transcend any attempt to understand it on the part, not to say of human, but of any finite intelligence whatever. But we suppose where professors of philosophy are packed together so closely as' at Leipzig-there are about a score professors in ordinary in that faculty, besides more than a dozen extraordinarythey must justify their creation somehow or other. We wish, however, they would not mix up Christianity with their speculative dreams. The great problem of Christ's religion has been, ever since its first introduction into the world, and is still, not how to justify itself to the philosophical consciousness of each passing age, but how to emancipate itself more entirely from all such arrogant preconceptions. Eléments de la Grammaire Assyrienne (Elements of Assyrian Grammar). Par M. JULES OPPERT. Paris: Imprimerie Impériale. London: Williams and Norgate.-The title of this work will probably be a surprise to most of our readers; and to many, whose business it will be to make its better acquaintance, it will be an agreeable surprise. What, have we really got so far as to be able to compose a grammar of those inscriptions which the new member for Southwark unearthed only the other day? Everybody, of course, was aware that more or less successful attempts to decipher this strange arrow-headed writing had been made by Sir Henry Rawlinson, Grotefend, Dr. Hincks, and others, not forgetting M. Oppert himself. But from some isolated lucky hits at translation to the concoction of an Assyrian grammar is a long way. Yet that way has been trodden with sure footsteps, and here the grammar lies open before us, to smooth the pilgrimage of future travellers. The name of the author is a sufficient guarantee that there is no quackery about the book, but that it is a bonâ fide reduction of the forms and idioms of the Assyrian tongue to grammatical laws. In fact, all students of the Semitic languages must now make up their minds to recognise Assyrian as a legitimate member of that important family. It can no more be neglected by one who would obtain a thorough knowledge of the Hebrew, than Syriac, Arabic, or Chaldee, from which last, as M. Oppert shows, it is altogether distinct, although they are commonly regarded, on the strength of one or two misunderstood passages in the Book of Daniel, as identical. We ought to add, lest any should be deterred from studying the work by the dread of encountering the cuneiform characters, that these are very rarely employed in these pages, the common Hebrew letters being very wisely substituted for them. On the other hand, we think it would have been a good fault, had something like an introduction to the reading of the cuneiform inscriptions been prefixed, though we are, of course, aware that, strictly speaking, this does not belong to a grammar. The Index will be published in the next Number. INDEX. The New Move in Oxford.-3; Dr. Temple on The Education of the World,' 5 French Fiction-its Better Aspects.-81; realism does not secure truth, 83; French Abortive Legislation.-111; absurd regard for antiquity, 113; Stuart parliamentary Coventry Patmore-Faithful for Ever.-142; story of the poem, 143; modern ver- Chinese Characteristics.-150; the standstill in civilization, and why? 151; Con- Autobiography of Alexander Carlyle.-182; Hutcheson as professor, 183; free On the Origin of Life.-197; protozoa-their purpose, 199; opinions-antiquity, London in the Middle Ages.-227; the 'Liber Albus'-regulations respecting the The Fables of Babrius, 269. Gustave Masson's French Literature, 270. Guide to Her Majesty's Civil Service, A Nation's Manhood, 270. 271. Dictionary of Contemporary Biography, Memoir of Dr. George Wilson, 271. ART. Faulkener's Dedalus, 271. Shakespeare's Birthplace. By J. Wise, Legend of St. Swithin's. By J. Facet, Smith's Cartoons, 275. Dr. Lorimer's Scottish Reformation, THEOLOGY. Ellicott's Lectures on the Life of Our Boone's Sermons, 280. Perfitt's Practical Religion, 281. Thrupp's Study and Use of the Psalms, Ackermann's Platonic Philosophy, 282. Kennedy's Life of Rev. J. Morison, 282. Angus's Bible Handbook, 283. The Leisure Hour and Sunday at Home, Bloomfield's Critical Annotations, 283. The Congregational Pulpit, 284. Pigg's Sermons, 284. INDEX. 575 Iceland and its Physical Curiosities.-325; buccaneering explorers, 327; its Lilli- The Sinaitic MS. of the Greek Testament.-353; discovery of the manuscript, 355- Canada.-374; characteristics, 375; the Atlantic colonies, 377; success and diffi- Dixon's Personal History of Lord Bacon.-391; Bacon's early life, 393; Bacon in The Impending Crisis in America.-419; Washington's will—Franklin and Jeffer- The Historic Element in Ballads.-443; use of the political ballads, 445; early Our Commerce with China.-468; peace of Tien-Tsin, 469; fresh Russian acquisi- Theological Liberalism.-485; sceptical perversions of free inquiry, 487; immoral |