ARTICLE IX.

SELECT LITERARY AND MISCELLANEOUS Intelligence.

UNITED

STATES.

THE 2d edition of Prof. Stuart's Commentary on the Romans appears simultaneously with that of Prof. Hodge of Princeton. The latter, we suppose, may be regarded as presenting the views of a portion of the Presbyterian church on some long controverted topics of the Epistle. On this account, as well as in consideration of the character and learning of Prof. Hodge, the Exposition will be eagerly sought after. Mr. Stuart's book appears under the advantages of a repeated thorough investigation-in connection with the light derived from the many criticisms and reviews of the first edition both foreign and American. We understand that the gentlemen at Burlington are waiting for a new edition of Tholuck on Romans, before they commence their translation. No scholars in our country are more competent to the task of rendering German into English than our Vermont friends.-We think that a translation of Calvin on the same Epistle would be well received. Very few, if any expositors, are more to our taste than John Calvin.

The interest in the subject of Geology is fully maintained. The last report (4th) of the British Association for the Advancement of Science contains the first part of a long and able report on the geology of the United States from the pen of Prof. Rogers. The next No. of Mr. Silliman's Journal will be mainly occupied with an account of the coal formations of Ohio.

We learn that an enterprising firm in Boston are making arrangements to bring out a splendid edition of Dr. Bloomfield's New Testament. An entirely new Greek type will be employed resembling that of the English edition. It will be printed from a second edition of the work which Dr. B. is now elaborately preparing. The English edition is the most beautiful specimen of Greek typography, which we have ever seen. It is in two volumes octavo. From one half to three fourths of the page are occupied with English notes critical and explanatory. Dr. B. is well acquainted with the German commentators, and is, at the same time, an orthodox and pious man.

Of the books lately published in Great Britain are, Summer Rambles in Syria, by Rev. V. Monro, 2 vols. 8vo; Observations on Lord

Brougham's Discourse on Natural Theology, by T. Wallace, L. L. D. ; Rev. Thomas T. Stone's Sermons on War re-printed; Laborde's Visit to Petra, translated and corrected, with the original plates reengraved; Philosophy of Morals, an investigation by a new and extended analysis of the faculties, and of the standard employed in the determination of right and wrong, with illustrations from theology, jurisprudence, and general politics, by Alexander Smith, M. A.; Book of the Denominations and Sects of Christians; a new edition of the Travels of Rubriquis, in Tartary in the 13th century, is in progress in Paris, under the auspices of the London Geographical Society; Life of Mrs. Ellis, wife of the Rev. Wm. Ellis, Secretary of the London Missionary Society; Lex Ægyptiaco-Latinum, ab Henrico Tatham, by S. Cuthbert; and History of British India from 1805, the termination of the Mahratta war to 1833, the renewal of the East India Company's Charter, by Edward Thornton, Esq. In the British Museum in 1832, compared with 1821, were the following literary treasures.

The great increase of books was owing to the accession of a library of George III. An elaborate catalogue is nearly ready.

PRUSSIA.

The loss of Hegel and Schleiermacher is severely felt at Berlin, though the number of students has not materially diminished. Savigny, in logical power is said to resemble Sir Robert Peel, and in profound historical knowledge, Sir James Mackintosh. He is opposed to the historical school, which places no implicit faith in the Pandects, and Corpus Juris, any further than they coincide with the Hegelian philosophy. Gans is the advocate of the latter. Boeckh has peculiar merits. His Economy of Athens has been translated into most of the European languages. He lectures on Pindar with great ability and enthusiasm. Von Raumer stands high as an historian. Berlin is to have a new building for the royal library. That library now contains 250,000 volumes, exclusive of duplicates. Baron Schilling Von Cronstadt, a Russian councillor, has procured in Thibet 7000 Mss. One half are in Berlin, and the other at Petersburg. His bodily bulk was so great that the Thibetans looked on him as an incarnation of the Deity, and allowed him to pass unmolested.