but he does not allow his religious opinions to bias his judgment. We might read entire lectures without suspecting that he was a member of the "mother church." He has lately delivered a course of lectures in London, on the Roman Catholic question, which are regarded as particularly able, though to Protestants, of course, wholly unsatisfactory. He endeavors, in the course of his argument, to grapple with the question of the "authority of tradition."

The Greek Testament of Dr. Bloomfield will be soon issued from the press in two volumes, 8vo. We have examined some of the sheets, and we find them printed with great correctness and beauty. We presume that there will be but one opinion of the value of this Testament. Dr. Bloomfield is a learned and critical scholar, long practised in the study of the New Testament, well acquainted with German works, and apparently devoted to the truth as it is in Jesus. The work will answer both for a Greek Testament with the various readings, and a closely and judiciously condensed English commentary. If we understand the case, it will exactly meet the wants of many clergymen and students of the Bible.

Dr. Adams, president of the college of Charleston, S. C., is about to publish a treatise on moral philosophy. From the analysis of the volume furnished by the public papers, as well as from the reputation of the author, we may expect a valuable contribution to the science.

The Latin-English part of the late Mr. Leverett's lexicon was published just previously to the lamented death of the editor. The volume bears the marks of the most solicitous care in the preparation of the copy, and in the typographical execution. We learn that it is well received by those, whose employment has required them to examine its merits. The English-Latin part is in press. An edition of 2000 copies of Andrews and Stoddard's Latin grammar has been sold. We observe that it is mentioned with commendation in the last annual catalogue of Yale College. Prof. Fiske's Manual of Classical Literature, published by Key and Biddle of Philadelphia, is adopted into the schedule of text-books in some of our classical institutions and colleges. It is a work constructed on the most enlarged and philosophical principles, and, at the same time, combines a great amount of accurate detail and of learned reference.

Fosdick's translation of Hug's Introduction to the New Testament has met with an unexpectedly rapid sale. It has been adopted into the course of study at some of the western literary and theological institutions. Professor Keith of Alexandria is proceeding with the translation of Hengstenberg's Christology. Professor Stuart's work on hermeneutics, is not to be a revised edition of Ernesti, but an independent treatise, adapted to the present wants of theological students.

The American Antiquarian Society have just issued a second volume. It is mainly occupied with a very extended view of the Indian languages, etc., of America, by Albert Gallatin.

We have been much pleased with a little Manual of Biblical interpretation by the Rev. L. A. Sawyer, just published by A. H. Maltby of New Haven. We think the author has been successful in his endeavor to exhibit the fundamental rules and principles of biblical interpretation, in such a manner as to place them within the reach of every intelligent reader of English. The rules are accompanied with familiar illustrations and examples. The system is substantially the

same as that which Ernesti and Morus have developed in a scientific and technical manner.

Public libraries. The number of volumes in the college libraries of the United States is about 300,000; in student's libraries, 120,000; in the libraries of theological seminaries 80,000; in other public libraries 300,000. Total number of volumes, 800,000. The Philadelphia library has 44,000 volumes; the Harvard University, 42,000; the Boston Athenaeum nearly 30,000; the New York city 25,000. The best theological library in the United States is that of the Andover Theological Seminary, containing 13,000 volumes. A well-selected and very valuable library has just been purchased in Europe by professor Stowe for Lane Theological Seminary. Some of our libraries contain numerous pamphlets, maps, etc. Harvard university has a collection of 10,000 maps, charts, and views. There is a great deficiency of systematic and scientific catalogues of the books in the American libraries. This deficiency has been supplied at Cambridge, and it is about to be at Andover, and at the library of the American Antiquarian Society at Worcester. Mr. Taylor's catalogue of the Andover library, nearly ready for the press, is very elaborately prepared.

The number of organized colleges in the United States is between eighty and ninety. About seven or eight are under the direction of the baptists; seven of the episcopalians; seven of the methodists; six of the Roman catholics; one of the universalists; and the remainder, (about sixty), of the congregationalists and presbyterians. Thirteen, containing about 2600 students, are in New England; nineteen, with 2000 students, in the four Middle States; twenty-one, with 2000 students, in the seven southern and south western States and the district of Columbia; and thirty, with about 2300 students, in the remaining States. Yale College has the largest number of students; Amherst and Union are about equal in point of numbers; and Harvard university is the fourth. The students mentioned in some of the southern and western colleges include those in the preparatory departments. The number of law-schools in the United States is eight, with 214 students; medical schools twenty-three, with 133 professors and 2100 students; theological seminaries about thirtyfive, with 80 professors and 1400 students.

The total number of ministers of all the religious denominations in the United States, of all kinds, not including the local preachers of the

methodists, nor the ministers of the Friends, may be about 13,000. A large part of these, however, are uneducated, and but ill qualified for their work. The communicants are estimated to be between 1,800, 000, and 1,900,000. The number of communicants belonging to the Baptist denomination in the United States and the British Provinces, as stated in the Baptist Triennial Register, for 1836, is 517,523; the number in England and Wales 140,000; in the world, 696,692. The methodist episcopal church and the methodist protestants of the United States have about 680,000 communicants; the congregationalists 140,000; the presbyterians under the care of the general Assembly 250,000. The number of communicants in several of the sinaller denominations is not known.

GREAT BRITAIN.

THE parliamentary returns of education, lately printed, state that there are in England and Wales, 38,971 day-schools, containing 1,276,947 scholars, and 16,828 Sunday-schools, with 1,548,890 scholars; being thirty-two for each day-school, and ninety-two for each Sunday-school. It will be observed that the total of Sunday scholars reported is 271,943 more than the daily scholars.

From the annual report of King's college, London, delivered April 30th, 1836, it appears that the prosperity of the college is steadily progressive. The regular students were at Christmas, 554; and the occasional, during the year, 205. There are now 614 regular students.

Mrs. Sophia Vansittart, sister of lord Bexley, has bequeathed ten thousand pounds to the United Brethren's missions, and a like sum to the British and Foreign Bible Society.

The total missionary income of Great Britain in 1835 is estimated at £250,000, exclusive of the income of the Bible Society for foreign objects, which does not amount to £50,000; and, therefore, the whole missionary income is under £300,000. The whole income of Great Britain and Ireland is calculated by Pebrer, in his work on Taxation, to be £514,823,059; hence its missionary income is not one 1700th part of its whole income; and if one hundredth part of its income might not unreasonably be consecrated to foreign missious, then the missionary income ought to be £5,140,000. The amount of ardent spirits consumed in Great Britain and Ireland, in the year 1832, was nearly 26,000,000 of gallons, the cost of which to the consumer was about £17,000,000.

In Wiseman's Lectures, there is frequent and honorable mention, of the treatise of Dr. James C. Prichard on "The Eastern Origin of the Celtic Nations, proved by a Comparison of their Dialects with the Sanscrit, Greek, Latin, and Teutonic languages." The main strength of Dr. Prichard's argument, seems to lie in the analogy which he has established between the numerals, the names of persons, and de

grees of kindred, and of the most ordinary natural objects, in the Celtic dialects, and in the class of languages with which he compares them. The coincidences between the two classes are too numerous and striking to be the effect of accident. In the course of his argument, Dr. Prichard has made out a very strong affinity between the German and Slavonic tongues.

The society of Antiquaries has established a Saxon Committee, who will soon publish the Exeter Book, (under the editorship of Mr. Thorpe, the translator of Rask's Anglo-Saxon Grammar), and the first volume of the Layamon. It is possible that the works of Alfred and of Piers Plowman, may come out under the same auspices.

FRANCE.

It is stated in the "Ami de la Religion," that a new mission has been appointed to go to the South Seas, under the bishop of Ariopolis; and directed by missionaries from the diocese of Lyons. One of them has received special powers from the Propaganda. M. Pompalier has been created bishop in partibus of Maronea, and apostolic vicar for Polynesia and the western ocean. This prelate, who is only thirty-five years old, has just arrived at Lyons from Rome, and will be accompanied by four or five other missionaries.

The Society of History has published under the care of M. Champollion-Figeac, a beautiful volume, containing curious chronicles relating to the establishment of the Normans in Italy and Sicily. It has in preparation an edition of the works of Gregory of Tours.

In M. Guizot's Commission Historique, a separate committee was named in January, 1835, to superintend publications on the subjects of literature, philosophy, and the arts. The members are MM. Cousin, Vitet, Auguste Le Prévost, Pierre Mérimée, Victor Hugo, Ch. Lenormant, Albert Lenoir, and Didron. Cousin is about publishing a volume of the inedited works of Abelard; and is preparing some important inedited works of Roger Bacon. Champollion-Figeac is making a selection from the whole of the State documents contained in the Bibliothèque Royale. M. A. Thierry will edit a collection of the charters of towns and corporations from the 11th to the 15th centuries. The publications of the commission, relate to distant points of a wide extent of time, and to a great variety of subjects. The French government devote an annual grant of 120,000 francs to the purposes of the commission.

In the royal printing office at Paris, there are types of fifty-six oriental dialects, including modern and ancient characters, and sixteen of European nations, which do not make use of Roman letters. The whole of the presses of this establishment are capable of working 278,000 sheets in a day, or 9266 volumes of thirty sheets each.

A work has been commenced with the title of "Musée des Anti

quités Egyptiennes, on Recueil des Monumens Egyptiens, Architecture, Statuaire, Glyptique, et Peinture," with explanatory text by Lenormant, assistant keeper of the royal academy of medals. It will be completed in ten livraisons.

M. Brochant has recently presented to the academy of sciences a general geological map of France, with an explanatory memoir.

HOLLAND.

In the Dutch Reformed, or established church, the decisions of the synod of Dort, remain unrepealed, and in connection with the Hiedelberg catechism, constitute the acknowledged system of belief. The Presbyterian system of government, by representation, through the medium of church sessions, class directions, and the general synod, remains in full force. There is a paucity of lay-elders in this church. The Walloon, or French Reformed church differs principally, if not entirely, from the established church, by using the French languagein stead of the Dutch, and the Geneva catechism instead of the Hiedelberg. In 1688, they had sixty-two congregations; they have now about twenty. The evangelical Lutherans are under a Presbyterian representative government, according to a new constitution, sanctioned by the king in 1818. They have fifty-seven congregations, fifty-seven ministers, and 47,000 members. The principal congregation is at Amsterdam. It numbers 25,000 souls, under the charge of five ministers. A considerable portion has separated on account of the prevailing neological notions. The congregations at the Hague, and at Rotterdam, have about 3000 members each. The Mennonites, Baptists, or Anabaptists, as they are called, have, in general, no peculiar distinctive creed, but what refers to the subjects of baptism and to oaths. The Jansenist communion, or the church of Utrecht, refuse to subscribe to the condemnation of Jansenius by pope Alexander VII. They also refuse to acknowledge the bull unigenitus, because it condemns Catholic verities founded on the Bible. Another point of difference relates to the rites of the "church of Utrecht." In 1831, they had twenty-seven congregations, and 5000 souls, under the care of one archbishop, of two suffragans.

GERMANY.

Among the principal works lately published in Germany are Rückert on the epistles to the Corinthians; Tiedemann on human physiology; Grimm's edition of the Germania of Tacitus; Maurer's commentary on the Old Testament; Schultz on the life of the poet Sophocles; Salvador's history of the Mosaic institutions, and of the Jewish people, etc.

Mr. Kemble, the editor of the Anglo-Saxon poem of Beowolf, has