of Oxford; Horace, by A. J. Macleane; Herodotus, with an Index of Proper Names, by J. W. Blakesley; Eschylus and Euripides, by F. A. Paley, with Indices; Thucydides, by J. G. Donaldson, with an Index. Cæsar, Sallust, Sophocles, Xenophon's Anabasis, Cicero De Senectute, and De Amicitia, and other works are in preparation. The Harpers deserve the thanks of all scholars for these serviceable and excellent editions. We hope that they may become pocket-companions with our collegiate and theological scholars. Silas Marner, the Weaver of Raveloe. By the Author of "Adam Bede," etc. New York: Harpers. 1861. Pp. 265. In the translator of Strauss's Life of Christ, and of Feuerbach's Essence of Christianity-two of the most destructive pantheistic books of the century, who would have expected to find the sharpest delineator of scenes and characters in the humblest lot of human life, with a marked fondness for describing religious struggles and experience? But this transition from pantheistic abstractions to homely realities is in the nature of things, and exemplified in many other instances. George Elliot's (Marian Evans) novels are wholly of the realistic order (in the empirical sense of realism); and they are of the highest order of patient and truthful elaboration, yet without any artificial polish. Silas Marner, as a whole, is not equal to either Adam Bede or the Mill on the Floss; its two parts are disproportioned, and the plan of the author hardly seems to have been fully carried out. But it is a work of deep interest. The psychology is acute and natural, though concealed. It was a kind Providence that sent little Effie to take the place of Silas Marner's moneybags, and gave him human love instead of the love of gold; but does the book also mean to teach that human love is to supplant religious trust ? Trumps. A Novel. By GEORGE WM. CURTIS. Splendidly illustrated by Augustus Hoppin. New York: Harpers. 1861. Pp. 502. The author of "The Potiphar Papers" has lost nothing of his talent for describing fashionable society, and satirising fashionable follies. He is one of the few American writers who have made the scenes of novels, with their locality in New York, at once entertaining and natural. This work is written with talent. The characters are well drawn, and the movement spirited. It contains an exposure and rebuke of that fashionable pride and money-making, which rely only on external success. It is rather the outside of life, its superficial aspects, which are here delineated-in striking contrast with the work of Marian Evans. The illustrations by Hoppin are capital. The book is issued in very handsome style. The Wits and Beaux of Society. By GRACE AND PHILIP WHARTON. With Illustrations from Drawings by H. K. Browne and James Godwin. Engraved by the Brothers Dalzel. New York: Harpers. 1861. Pp. 481. This volume is a side-piece to the "Queens of Society." The lives of the Wits and Beaux of courts and fashionable life, Buckingham, De Grammont, Lord Rochester, Fielding, Lord Hervey, Beau Nash, Beau Brummell, afford little that can be edifying-excepting the sad moral derived from the contemplation of their perversion of brilliant talents. Their lives are hardly redeemed even by any noble human sympathies or sentiments. Of a higher order is the genuine wit of Chesterfield, Walpole, Sheridan, and Sydney Smith. The volume is enlivened by abundance of anecdote; and the narrative is simple and unpretentious. As the only tolerable collection of the kind, the work has its place and worth in the illustration of the morals and manners of a class which a higher and more earnest culture will disown or transform. The Breath of Life; or, Mal-Respiration and its Effects upon the Enjoyments and Life of Man. By GEO. CATLIN. John Wiley, New York. 1861. 8vo. Pp. 76. The author of the well-known work upon the North American Indians here presents himself as a medical discoverer, intent upon remedying the evils that afflict the race. His grand remedy is found in three words, "Shut-your-mouth," to be "engraved in every Nursery, and on every Bed-post in the universe." While the author manifestly exag gerates the importance of his discovery-made among the Indians, and tested by himself, yet no possible harm could come from giving the prescription a fair trial. The volume is at least entertaining; and the illus trations are spirited and effective. Missouri,... 87.422 115,619 28,197 3,687 (No returns.) Washington..... 13,465,523 19,046,173 5,580,650 Kentucky, 3,203,999 3,999,853 55,771 148,375 In Delaware and Maryland alone It will be seen from this that NewYork is still the first State in the Union, but that Illinois has grown more rapidly than New-York during the last ten years. In several of the has there been a decrease-that in Western States the population has Maryland so large that in another ten more than doubled in ten years, and years, at the same rate, the slaves will in one, Iowa, has nearly quadrupled. be gone altogether. In Delaware there There has been no positive decrease will be few left. of population in any, although in several of the New-England States it is nearly stationary. The same remark may be made of the slave States, as this table shows: In Missouri there has been a small positive increase; but compared with the white population, which has doubled, an enormous relative decrease. Slavery is nearly stationary in North-Carolina, SouthCarolina, Kentucky, and Tennessee. In those States it grows only a few thousand a year. An emancipation 153 517 of this increment alone would speedily 99.474 extinguish the system in all the border 20States without much loss to any body, 33.750 and an immense general gain. 1860. Increase. 110,548 946.1-3 949,133 1,097,373 North-Carolina,... 580.491 679.965 283.523 308,186 615.336 Delaware.. Virginia.. South Carolina,... Georgia,... 524.503 Florida,... Arkansas... 162.797 Tennessee, 763,154 Kentucky.. 771,424 Missouri, 594,622 Dist. Columbia,.. New-Mexico.... 48.000 Alabama. Mississippi, Louisiana. 354.245 415,799 148.340 91.6 5 110.403 81.292 The slave States have gained in ten 261,563 years about two millions of whites, 16-913 and the free States more than five 96,374 millions. New-York, Pennsylvania, 490 973 and Ohio contain as many white 31.477 people as all the slave States to6,522,048 8,602,470 2,080,422 gether. 1,085 595 75,321 148,653 27,321 1843,.. 1860.. The Immigration of 1860.-The whole number reported by the Com- 1832.. missioners of Immigration, for 1860 1854... (to Dec. 27), is 103,621, who brought with them $7,875,196. Of these 46,659 were from Ireland, bringing $3,540,034; 37,636 from Germany, bringing $2,800,336; 11,112 from England, with $844,512; 1,506 from Scotland, with $114,456; 1,470 from France, with $111,720; 1,306 from Switzerland, with $104,816; and the rest from 21 other countries. Of these, 44,000 remained in New-York State; 20,000 were destined for the West and North-West. The immigration in 1859 was 79,322; 1858, 78,589; 1857, 183,773; 1856, 142,342; 1855, 146,233; in 1854, 319,223; 1853, 284,945; 1852, 309,992; 1851, 259,601; 1850, 212,795; total in eleven years, 2,131,437. Church Membership of Slaves.The Educational Journal of Georgia gives the following summary: Methodist Church South,.. .260,000 Evangelical Relative Population. Ministers. Supply. 1437 to 1 1093 to 1 9 to 1 986 to 1 INCREASE PER CENT. Population, 1832 to 1860, 226 and a fraction over. Evangelical Minis ters, 1832 to 1860, 328). THE following comparative statement is from the Examiner: The Almanacs of the Presbyterian, Congregationalist, and the Baptist denominations, for 1861, give the sta tistics of their membership and minis ters, and contain facts worthy of notice. The Congregationalists (Orthodox) have, in all North America, 2734 churches, of which 561 are without pastors; male members, 81,453; fe male members, 157,257. Total number, 260,389. Of these 201,409 are residents of New England. The Presbyterians are divided into ten or twelve distinct bodies, the 12000 largest being the Old-School Presby 20,000 terian Church, which has, in the North, in Va. and Md.,. 15,000 Cumberland Presbyterians... Protestant Episcopal, Campbellites and Christians, All others,................... 6,000 10,000 7.000 United States, 2,693 ministers, 3,592 20,000 churches, 292,857 communicants. A Total colored members South,.......507,000 large proportion of its membership is in the South. The New-School Pres-bers-being a little more than all the byterian Church is less than one half Presbyterians and the Congregationas large as the Old-School, having alists combined. 1,527 ministers, 1,483 churches, (a remarkable exception to most Protestant denominations, its ministers being more numerous than its churches), and 134,933 members. They are mainly in the free States. The Cumberland Presbyterians, who, in many respects, have more affinity with the Methodists than with the Presbyte-General Synod was organized in 1820. rians, are mainly in the South-West- The church had then 103 ministers; ern States, and are most numerous in 1833, 337 ministers and 1,017 conin Kentucky, Tennessee, and Misgregations; in 1853, 900 ministers souri. They number 1150 ministers, and 1,750 congregations; in 1860, 1250 churches, and 103,000 members. 1,150 ministers and 2,099 congregaNext come the United Presbyterian tions. The Theological Seminary at Church, who adhere to many of the Hartwick was established in 1816; forms of the Scotch Church, and are, that at Gettysburg, 1825; the Pennas a body, strongly opposed to slav-sylvania College in 1832.-Prof. M. ery. They are found almost entirely L. Stoever's Brief Sketch. Lutherans.-The first Lutheran Synod (that of Pennsylvania) in this country was formed in 1748, at the suggestion of the Theological Faculty of Halle; the New York Ministerium was organized in 1785. The synods now number 38 in 18 States. The in the Middle States, and have 447 ministers, 674 churches, and 58,781 members. The Reformed Protestant Welsh Calvinistic Methodists in Dutch Church is usually reckoned a the United States: 113 churches, Presbyterian body. It too is confined 4,851 members, 53 ordained ministers, almost entirely to the Middle States, and 36 preachers. Ten Associations and has 410 ministers, 410 churches, (Cymanfa) for preaching are held and 50,427 members. The other each year, 4 in New York, and 2 Presbyterian Churches, the United each in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and WisSynod, two Reformed Synods, one consin. In the State of New York Associate Reformed Synod of the are 27 churches (the largest in Utica South, the Associate, Associate Re- of 160 members; next in New York formed, Free Synod, and Covenanters, City of 143), with 1,416 members. are small bodies, none of them num- The largest salary paid is $1,000 to bering more than 12,000 members. Rev. W. Roberts, N. Y. In Ohio, 26 Together, the entire Presbyterian bo- churches and 1,400 members; Penndies in the United States number sylvania, 17 churches, 654 members; 6,606 ministers, 7,928 churches, and Wisconsin, 38 churches; Minnesota, 683,932 members. In British North 5 churches. America there are 465 ministers of the different Presbyterian bodies, 625 churches, and 59,284 members, making the aggregate for North America, 7,071 ministers, 8,553 churches, and 743,216 members. Years. 1908.. The regular Baptists number, in the United States, 8,952 ministers, of 1830... whom 1,115 are licentiates, 12,371 180 churches, and 1,020,442 members. 1854. Adding to these those in British North America, we have 9,424 minis-187... ters, of whom 1,203 are licentiates, 1859. 13,046 churches, and 1,091,167 mem-1851,. 1855.. 1856.. 1860, Roman Catholics: Provinces. Dioceses. ***** Bishops. Stations & Chapels. Eccles. A:: RENO Institutions. 39 1574 1712 746 40 1714 1824 978 1761 1910 895 1872 2053 29 43 46 49 |