Lives of Eminent British Statesmen. Vol. VI. By John Forster, Esq. (Lardner's Cyclopædia, Vol. CVIII.)
Services connected with the opening of the Chapel and the fornation of the Baptist Church in Wellington Square, Hastings.
The Limitations of Liberty. By John Edgar, D.D.
Treatises on Physiology and Phrenology; from the Seventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. By P. M. Roget, M.D. 2 vols.
The Call to Hear the Church Examined. By the Rev. John Elv.
The Poems of Richard Monckton Milnes, Author of 'Memorials of a Tour in Greece.' 2 vols.
My Mother's Stories ; or, Traditions and Recollections. By Esther Copler,
Letters and Papers. By the late Theodosia A. Viscountess Powerscourt. Edited by the Rev. Robert Dalby, A.M.
A Critical Grammar of the Hebrew Language. By Isaac Nordheimer, Professor of Arabic, Syriac, &c., in the University of the City of New York. 8vo.
Titles and Offices of the Lord Jesus Christ : illustrated in a series of Essars. By Isabella Gray Mylne. 2 vols. 12mo. Political Discourses. By George Ramsay, B.M. 8vo.
Lectures, Doctrinal and Practical, on the Epistle of the Apostle Paul to the Romans.
Evening Meditations ; or a Series of Reflections on Various Passages of Holy Scripture and Scriptural Poetry, for every day in the Year. By the Author of the Retrospect.
The Bible Prayer-Book; or, Christian's Scripture Help in Prayer. Being a large Selection of Passages from the Bible, arranged under their respective heads, as sacred materials for that important duty. By Serjeant B.
Opinions of Learned and Eminent Men on the Truth, Style, and Importance of the Holy Bible.
Life's Lessons: a Tale. By the Author of "Tales that Might be True.'
The Anti-Christian and Pernicious Doctrines of the Church Catechism ; containing an Affectionate and Faithful Appeal to Parents, on the Impropriety and Danger of allowing their children to learn it. By the Rev. W. Thorg.
India, Great Britain, and Russia.
A Lecture on the Writings, Prose and Poetic, and the Character, Public and Personal, of John Milton; delivered at several Metropolitan Literary Institutions. By Alfred A. Fry, Esq.
The Natural History of the Sperm Whale : to which is added a Sketch of a South-Sea Whaling Voyage. By Thomas Beale, Surgeon.
A Key to the Hebrew Scriptures; being an Explanation of every Word in the Sacred Text, arranged in the order in which it occurs : to which is prefixed a Short and Compendious Hebrew Grammar without Points, &c. By the Rev. James Prosser, A.M.
Examination Questions and Answers, selected from Mosheim's Ecclesiastical History, for the use of Students in Divinity.
Examination Questions and Answers, selected from Burnet, on the ThirtyNine Articles.
Examination Questions on Butler's Analogy, as abridged and arranged in Hobart's Analysis; together with brief Answers to the Questions, and a suminary view of the whole subject. By George W. Crawford, M.A.
Historical Sketch of the Rise, Progress, and Decline of the Reformation in Poland, and of the Influence which the Scriptural Doctrines have exercised on that Country, in Literary, Moral, and Political Respects. By Count Valerian Krasinski. Vol. I.
Geraldine ; a Sequel to Coleridge's Christabel: with other Poems. By Martin Farquhar Tupper, Esq., M...
A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles, in the Catechetical Form ; for the use of Families, Schools, and Bible Classes. By John Morison, D.D.
The Pictorial Edition of Shakspere, Two Gentlemen of Verona. Part I.
colonial population in 1834, 231; con- duct of the British government, 233; voluntary emancipation at Montserrat, 233; Nevis, 234; St. Christopher, 234 ; St. Vincent, 235; Barbadoes, 236; Jamaica, 237; Granada, 240 ; Lord Brougham on slavery in the crown colonies, 240; reply of Lord Glenelg,
241 ; present duty of abolitionists, 243. Antiquitates Americanæ, see America. Apostolical Succession, works on, 547; Dr. Faussett's testimony as to the re- vival of popery, 547 ; tendency of his own sermon to popery, 548; impor. tance of being informed on apostolical succession, 549; the different periods to which its advocates may appeal, 549; the different species of church- men, 551; ertract from Froude's remains, 554; inefficiency of acts of uniformity, 555 ; character of Mr. Powell's work, 555; his view of episcopacy, 556; minis- terial superintendency, 557; Mr. Pow. ell's attack on Dr. Hook's sermon before the queen, 557 ; Dr. Faussett's view of the necessity of tradition, 558; absurdity of apostolical succession, 559; character of the Oxford system,
560. Aquitaine, Elinor of, her character, 75. Auber, Peter, his rise and progress of the
British power in India, 125 ; revolu- tions presented by history, 125 ; geo- graphical divisions of India, 126, its ancient history veiled in mythology, 126 ; historical sketch, 126; origin and history of its trade with England, 128; extension of British power in the country, 133; achievements and con- quest of Clive, 134; administration of Hastings, 139; government of Corn- wallis, 140; Lord Teignmouth, 142 ; Marquis Wellesley, 143; war with the Pindarries, 145; duplicity of Scindiah, 146; capture of Bhurtpore, 147 ; con- quest of Lord Bentinck, 148; charac. ter of the new charter, 149; improve- ments the British may introduce into India, 151 ; in politics, 151 ; social ameliorations, 152; extension of Christianity, 155; repugnance to the
observance of the Suttee, 155; toleration of idolatry, 156; education of the nu- tives, 156; suggestion of prayer meet- ings specially for India, 158; charac- ter of the work, 159.
Bancroft, G., his memoirs of Washing-
ton, 489; importance of discovery un- known to ancient navigators, 489; in- struction imparted by discovery, 489; America as found by the puritan fa- thers, 490; nature of the connexion Setween America and England, 491; sketch of Washington, 491, et sequel, his military services, 492; his mar- riage and domestic habits, 493; ex- tract from his will respecting his slaves, 494; origin of the contest for freedom, 496; smuggling, 497; reception of Washington at Cambridge, 500; de- claration of independence, 501; con- quest of New York, by sir W. Howe, 502; battle at Trenton, 504; attack on German Town, 506; convention at Saratoga, 507; changes in European politics, 508; encouraging character of American prospects, 510; loss of life, 512; importance of Washington to his country, 512; elected first pre- sident, 514; his difficulties, 514; his retirement and death, 517; sketch of his character, 517.
Barton, William, his edition of Walker's works, see Walker.
Bettridge, W., his history of the church in Canada, see Canada.
Bickersteth's Christian Fathers of the
first and second centuries, 122. Bosworth, Dr. J., his dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon language, 671; history of Anglo-Saxon lexicography, 671; dictionaries by Souvier, 671; by Ben- son, 672; by Lye, 672; excellence of Dr. B.'s work, 673.
Bowring's Observations on the Oriental Plague, 722.
Brenton's Bible and Spade, 487. Brougham, lord, speeches of, 42; mo- dern, authors who collect their own works, 421; advantages of the plan, 421; dissatisfaction of many with lord Brougham's recent proceedings, 422; regret that he accepted office, 423; his power of oratory lost in Lord's, 423; his unfitness for office, 424; his want of candor towards the ministry, 425; his inconsistency accounted for, 425; possibility of his regaining his true position, 426; power of his elo- quence over the popular mind, 426; character of his mind, 427; invective against negro slavery, 428; the slave trade, 429; contents of the volumes, 431; et sequel; portrait of lord Castle-
reagh, 432; eloquence of Wilberforce, 434; sketch of Sir James Mackintosh, 435; his mistake as to the ancient orators, 437; attention of the ancients to their style, 438; influence of mo- dern oratory, 440; eloquence of Demos- thenes, 441; attention at present needed to style, 443; encomiums on the work, 444.
Brown, Dr. J., on the law of Christ respecting civil obedience, see Edin- burgh Annuity Tax, 160.
Brown, Dr. W., his edition of Baxter's Saints' Rest, 245.
Bulwer, Mr., his Ernest Maltravers, and
Alice; or the mysteries, 48, admira- tion of Mr. Bulwer as a man of genius without compromise of scriptural prin- ciples, 48; sketch of Maltravers, 49, et sequel; its principles on female character censured, 51; passing from youth to manhood. 52; unhappy state of Alice, 54; the maniac, 59; sketch of Alice, 60, et sequel; under plot de- veloped, 64; criticism on the volumes, 66; change in the author on the sub- ject of religion, 68; his errors pointed out, 69; importance of revelation as the test of truth, 70.
Canada, church of England in, 249; con- troversy as to establishment every where prevalent, 249; high claims of the church, 250; extravagance of its friends, 250; spirit of Mr. Bettridge in his pamphlet, 251; origin and bis- tory of established church in Canada, 251, et sequel; Romish church in Lower Canada, 251; note; appropria- tion clause, 252; appropriation of lands, 254; claims of the Scotch church to a portion of the reserves, 254; emigration from North Britain to Upper Canada, 256; dissatisfaction produced by the reserves, 256; extent of the several denominations in 1834, 257; intended proceedings of Sir J. Colborne, 260; rash proposals of Sir F. B. Head, 261; conduct of Dissenters, 262; Sir F. B. Head, and Rev. Mr. Roaf, 263; views of Canadian congre gationalists, 264; benefits of the Co- lonial Missionary Society to Canada, 266; proceedings of the colonial de- putation in England, 267; lord Glen- elg's reply to memorial, 268; present state of the question, 269, voluntary principle forced on the church, 270. Chalmers, Dr., his lectures on the es- tablishment and extension of national
churches, 1; presumed disappoint- ment of the Christian Influence So- ciety, 1; political purpose of the lec- tures not avowed, 1; analysis of lec-
tures, 2; et sequel ; his opposition to Dissenters, 2 ; his wish for a parliamento ary grant, 2 ; real character of the church-extension scheme, 2 ; compari- son between the stipendiary and voluntary system in Ireland, 3 ; Scot- land, 4; Wales, 4; the lecturer's opinion of the Irish church, 6; bad character of its machinery, 7 ; misre. presentations of the voluntary principle, 9; mis-statement of the nature of an established church, 10; mis-statement of the establishment of Scotland, 11 ; its dependence on the state, 11 ; mis- representation of Dr. Adam Smith, 12, et sequel; erroneous reasoning on parliamentary grants and missionary societies, 13; support of the apostles, 14; efficiency of the voluntary system, 15; fallacy of his reasoning on the free trade principle, 16; fallacies on dif- ferent sorts of the voluntary principle, and the selection of a religion by a government to be supported, 18 ; concessions to the voluntaries, 20; his rebuke of certain churchmen, 21; his commendation of the first Dissent. ers, 21 ; the service rendered by the
lecturer to nonconformity, 22. Chapman, D., bis discourse on the com-
plete restoration of man, 280; the duty of its reviewer painful, 280 ; vanity of its author, 281 ; character of the work, 282; improper manner of treating infidels, 283; style of the book censured, 284; advice to its au-
thor, 284. China, works on, by Medhurst and
Gutzlaff, 271; interesting character of China, 271; the press, 271; litera- ture, 272; its stationary character ac- counted for, 273 ; antiquity of its his- tory, 274; influence of religion on its improvement, 275; analysis of Mr. Medhurst's volume, 275, et sequel ; its character, 277 ; literature and mo- rals, 278; character of Mr. Gutzlaff's work, 279; claims of China on the
Christian church, 280. Clarkson's Strictures on the Life of
Wilberforce, 364. Colonial Missionary Society, second re-
port of, see Canada. Colonization, European, its crimes and
improvement, 646 ; criminal character of its bistory, 646; barbarous character of a passage in Sir John Ross's second voyage, 647 ; recent commencement of a new era, 618 ; happy results of missionary enterprize, 6-18; account of Howitt's colonization and Christ- ianity, 649, et sequel; Jesuits in Pa. raguay, 650; Reductions of the Jesuits
in La Plata and Paraguay, 652; Bri- tish atrocities in India, extracts, 653; Benares, 656; Indian government cha- racterized by disregard of human happiness, 657 ; eulogium on Mr. Howitt's volume, 657 ; missionaries in South Africa, 658; Mr. Bannister's British colonization and coloured tribes, 658 ; his qualifications for his work, 658 ; claims of the Aborigines, 659; their state and prospects, 660 ; former British professions, extract, 661 ; Wil- liam Penn and the Indians, extract, 662 ; friends in Pennsylvania, 664 ; inhabitants of the Arru Islands, 665; Singapore, 666 ; New Zealand colonia zation, 667 ; New South Wales, 668 ; improvements needed in the system of colonization, extract, 669; commen- dation of the Aborigines Protection
Society, 671. Conder, J., his analytical and compara-
tive view of all religions, 590 ; differ- ences as to religion often treated as trifles, 590; import of religion, 591 ; absurdity and pernicious character of false religions, 592; character and style of Mr. Conder's work, 592 ; analysis, 594 ; extract from Hooker, 595; want of uniformity in the English church, 596; faults of the work, 597 ;
Mohammed, 598. Conder's edition of Bunyan's Pilgrim's
Progress, 364. Congregational Psalmody, 466; influence
of sympathy, 466; importance of Christian excitement, 466 ; influence of vocal music, 467; that influence injured by an improper selection of hymns, 467 ; importance of corre- spondence between tunes and words, 468 ; indispensable necessity of so- lemnity in hymn tunes, 469; exem- plification of remarks, 469 ; effect of singing dependent on a belief of sin- cerity, 473 ; objections to organs de.' clining, 474 ; mode of reformation, 474 ; character of the Psalmist, 477 ;
error on the part of its compilers, 478. Crichton's Scandinavia, 122. Cruse, C. F., his translation of Eusebius's
Ecclesiastical History, see Eusebius. Dick, Dr. T., his Celestial Scenery, 461;
design and value of the volume, 461 ; fascinating character of astronomy, 461, its adaptation to promote religious feeling, 462 ; frequently neglected by Christians, 463; contents of the vo- lume, 464 ; celestial scenery in Jupiter,
465. Dick, Dr. T., his Christian Benefi-
cence contrasted with Covetousness, 723.
Distinguished Men of Modern Times, 246. Dissenter, the, vol. i. 365.
Durfee, Job, esq., his poems on What- cheer, or Roger Williams in banishment, 22; explanation of the title, 22; doom of the American Indians, 22; present prevalence of pestilence among them, 23; cruelties shown towards them, 23; domination of the Puritan exiles over Roger Williams, and his search for liberty, 26; his origin and embark- ation for America, 27; his views of religious liberty, 27; plan of the poem, 28, et sequel; boldness of the man in such an adventure, 39; great importance of the subject, 39; eulo- gium on the poem, 40. Edinburgh Annuity Tax, Dr. J. Brown
on, 160; its origin and history, 160, et sequel; peculiarity in Scotch eccles- iastical revenues, 161; new era in the history of the impost, 162; cunning of the clergy, 162; their contention with the magistrates, 164; opposition of the citizens, 164; means of coercing pay- ment, 165; character of civil estab- lishments of Christianity, 166; Dr. Brown's refusal to pay the tax, extract, 168; results of his refusal, 169; his discourses on Rom, xiii. 1, 170; limi- tations to civil authority, 171; tribute, 172; difficulties of the subject, 172; duties of Christians to civil government, 174; limitations to the law of tribute, 176; inconsistency of Mr. Haldane's reasoning, 178; importance of the question, 179; feeling of the country on establishments, 180. Ernest Maltravers, see Bulwer. Erskine, T. esq., his Doctrine of Election,
and its connexion with the general tenor of Christianity, 100; the excel- lence of a former work of the author, 100; his statement of the doctrine of election as generally held, 100; the his- tory of his own feelings, 101; his novel views of the doctrine, extract, 101; freedom of his criticisms and argu- ments, extract, 103; his misrepresen- tations of the doctrine, 104; scriptural view of the subject, 104. Eusebius's Ecclesiastical History, trans- lation of by Cruse, 369; artifices in reference to ancient church history, 369; causes of change in the ancient church, 369, et sequel; earliest testi- mony necessarily oral, 369; ambition of the churches to trace their origin to some apostle, 370; tradition of Peter's preaching and death, 372; legend as to Simon Magus, 373; reverence paid to the city churches, 374; progress from variety towards uniformity, 375; di-
versity of languages, 375; the amal- gamation of paganism with Christian- ity, 376; reaction from the dread of heresies, 377; consolidation and wealth of the church, 378; Domitian's per- secution cowardice, 379, note; effects of persecution, 380; change over the rulers of the Roman world, 382; pre- sent publication seasonable, 382; two bishops named Eusebius, 382; cha- racter of the historian, 383; remarks of Valesius, 383, odium resting on Eusebius, 384; list of his works, 386; their character and style, extract, 386; his exaggerations as to miracles, 388; his acumen as discriminating the genuineness of the apostolic writings, 389; his omissions as to the manners and morals of Christians, 389; extent of superstition in the church, 390; character of the present translation,
Fry's Lectures on Milton, 724. Gutzlaff, Rev. C., see China. Harris, Rev. J., his Union; or the divi-
ded church made one, 305; anecdote of Dr. Hales, 303; character of Union, 303; analysis fof the work, 304; et sequel; parties guilty of schism, $05; ecclesiastical usurpations, 306; reflec- tions on them, 307; means by which divisions have been perpetrated since the Reformation, 307; tests of a schis- matical spirit, 308; guilt and evils of schism, 309; Satan its author, 309; difference between denouncing schism and asking for the sacrifice of truth, 310; the kind of union to be attempted, 311; evils of divisions, 313; great value of the work, 314; suggestion of an addi- tional chapter, 314; the established church a barrier to union, 315; ne- cessity of its separation from the state 316; duty of petitioning for it, $18. Harvey's new translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, 244. Heath's Annuals, 715; character of cri- tics, 715; the Keepsake, 716; the river, 717; the Picturesque Annual, 718; the Book of Beauty, 718; the blind girl's lament, 719; Gems of Beauty, 719; the guitar, 720; the children of the Nobility, 720; lines to Lord Durham's son and daughter, 721. History in Germany, Heeren's works, 609; origin of German literature, 609; general resemblance of English litera- ture to it during the civil war, 610: German works in classics and history, 611; character of Heeren's works,
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