NOTICES OF NEW PUBLICATIONS.

subject of true readings, and also that of Greek idioms, have been enlarged. The additions to the exegetical notes are very numerous; illustrations from the classical writers, and particularly from Josephus and Philo-Judæus, (for the most part original,) have been incorporated with them. A short introduction, literary and critical, to all the books of the New Testament is given; the quotations from the Old Testament are more amply exhibited and discussed; and remarks on the most difficult passages have been much more amply made than in the first edition.

1. The Greek Testament, with English | found to be improved. Notes which discuss the Notes, Critical, Philological, and Exegetical, partly selected and arranged from the best commentators, ancient and modern, but chiefly original; the whole being specially adapted to the use of academical students, candidates for the sacred office, and ministers of the gospel; although also intended as a manual edition for the use of theological readers in general. By the Rev. S. T. Bloomfield, D. D., F. S. A., Vicar of Bisbrooke, Rutland, (Eng.) Two volumes, 8vo. Boston: Perkins & Marvin. pp. 629, 631.

WE are glad to announce the publication of this Testament. The style of the mechanical execution, and the whole appearance of the volumes, are of the most finished character. We have reason to know that the Greek text is printed with great correctness. In respect to the character and merits of the work, we here quote the testimony of Prof. Stuart.

"The second edition of this work, recently out of press in England, and corrected, greatly enlarged, and considerably improved by the editor, is the one from which the American edition is copied. It contains the original Greek of the New Testament, froin the text of Robert Stephens, with such critical marks and annotations as will inform the reader what alterations have been since made, and the judgment of the editor what value should be attached to them. The notes, which are very numerous, are printed beneath the text on each page; so that the convenience of the student is thus consulted. They are drawn from a great variety of sources, ancient and modern, as well as from the author's own mind. Previously to the publication of this work, Dr. Bloomfield published a Recensio Synoptica of commentators on the New Testament; a work not unlike to Poole's Synopsis Criticorum, excepting that it brings the account of critical remarks down to the time in which the author wrote. By the composition of such a work, Dr. B. must have been peculiarly prepared to make annotations of his own on the New Testament. His other studies also have contributed to render him a learned and mature Greek scholar.

"The title-page, as copied above, shows the The general plan and object of the work. Preface to the second edition states, that the editor has not only consulted commentaries more extensively than before, but looked through the works of the earlier reformers, both on the continent of Europe and in England, in order to gather their views of particular texts of Scripture. The punctuation of the text, the marginal references or parallels, etc., have all been the subject of special attention, and will be

the one of the principal Greek words and phrases "At the close are two very useful Indexes; commented upon in the course of the notes; and the other of special and important matters which are treated of in the same."

We may here remark that intelligent laymen, as well as clergymen, will find Dr. Bloomfield's Notes of great utility as a guide in the study of

the New Testament.

2.

Reports and Proceedings of the Statistical Society of London.

We have received the reports and the monthly papers of this society, from its commencement, in 1835. The association was established for the purpose of procuring, arranging, and pub"facts calculated to illustrate the condilishing tion and prospects of society." The subjects to which its attention is directed, are, I. Economical statistics, embracing, 1. The statistics of the natural productions and the agriculture of nations; 2. Of manufactures; 3. Of commerce and currency; 4. Of the distribution of wealth. II. Political statistics, furnishing, 1. The facts relating to the elements of political institutions, the number of electors, jurors, etc. 2. The sta tistics of national expenditure, and of civil and military establishments. 111. Medical statistics, under three subdivisions, including population. IV. Moral statistics, comprehending, 1. The statistics of literature; 2. Of education; 3. Of religious instruction and ecclesiastical institutions; 4. Of crime. The great objects of the society seem to be prosecuted with a commendable degree of intelligence and zeal.

3.

A Historical View of the Council of
Nice, with a Translation of Docu-
ments. By the Rev. Isaac Boyle, A. M.
Boston James B. Dow. 1836. pp. 62.

The publisher of the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius Pamphilus, (translated by the Rev. C. F. Cruse,) being about to furnish another edition of the work, requested Mr. Boyle to translate certain documents relating to the celebrated Council of Nice, which assembled A. D. 324, the year immediately following that at which the history of Eusebius terminates. Mr.

Boyle, perceiving that the documents would be better understood, if preceded by a short and connected view of the origin of the Arian controversy, and of the proceedings of the Council of Nice, has accordingly prefixed such a view. This historical sketch is written with candor and fidelity. The translation of the documents seems to be exceedingly well done.

QUARTERLY LIST

OF

DEATHS

of Clergymen and Students in Theology.

SAMUEL JOHNSON, æt. 44, Cong. Winthrop, Maine, Nov. 16, 1836.

SAMUEL WOOD, D. D. t. 85, Cong. Boscawen, New
Hampshire, Dec. 24, 1836.

ELIJAH PAINE, æt. 39, Cong. W. Boylston, Massachusetts,
Sept. 14, 1836.

10.

WILLIAM G. TRASK, æt. 28, Baptist, Lincoln, Mass. Oct.
LEMUEL LE-BARRON, æt. 90, Rochester, Mass. Oct.
ABEL CONANT, Unit. Leominster, Mass. Dec. 6.
JOSEPH GRAFTON, æt. 79, Baptist, Newton, Mass. Dec. 16.
JESSE FISHER, æt. 59, Windham, Connecticut, Sept. 29,
REUBEN IVES, Cheshire, Conn. Oct. 14.

1836.

JOHN R. MCDOWALL, æt. 35, Pres. New York City, New
York, Dec. 14, 1836.

4. Inaugural Address before the Trustees of Newark College, Del., delivered April 26, 1836. By the Rev. R. S. Mason, D. D., President. pp. 27. The object of Dr. Mason, in this Address, is to point out the fitness of a collegiate course for the improvement of the mind and the advancement of knowledge. The proper training of the mind, it is remarked, requires, 1. The regulation and discipline of its several faculties and powers; 2. The furnishing of it with as broad a foundation as possible for the erection of an extensive superstructure of learning and wisdom; and 3. The inculcation of those sound principles IRA CONDIT, æt. 65, Pres. Georgetown, Pennsylvania, Oct. by which the acquisitions of the mind may be most correctly, most judiciously, and most usefully employed. These topics are happily and ably illustrated. We are glad to see such sentences as the following; "The student is to be taught, that unless his knowledge have continual reference to the immortality of the soul, to the glory of God, the benefit of his fellowcreatures, and his own spiritual as well as temporal advancement, its acquisition may prove worse than vain, it may prove a curse both to himself and to his race.'

24, 1836.

OLIVER BEALE, Meth. Baltimore, Maryland, Dec. 30, 1836.

LUTHER RICE, Baptist, Edgefield District, South Carolina,

Oct. 25, 1836.

JOHN MCGEE, æt. 72, Meth. Smith Co. Tennessee, July 16,

1836.

JAMES ALLEN, Meth. Massillon, Ohio, Oct. 27, 1836.
JOHN H. EELLS, Pres. Elyria, Ohio, Dec. 7.
Whole number in the above list, 16.

SUMMARY.

AGES.

80 90..
Not specified.

Sum of all the ages speci-
fied.....

Maine.....

STATES.

2 New Hampshire..
1 Massachusetts....

1 Connecticut.....

1 New York....

2 Pennsylvania.
2 Maryland.......

6 South Carolina...

Tennessee.....

16 Ohio.... 596 Total......

Average age........... 596-10

DENOMINATIONS.

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We have read this Address with much satisfaction. Though on a subject-education-Total..... which some men are disposed to regard as jejune and unprofitable, yet there is a freshness and originality in many of the remarks and illustrations, which will well repay the attention of the most fastidious reader. If our limits would at all permit, we would gladly copy a number of passages. President Hopkins considers that a wise system of education will regard man, first, as possessed of a body which is to be kept in health and vigor; second, as possessed of intellectual faculties whose object is truth; third, as having faculties whose object is beauty; fourth, as possessed of a moral nature, the object of which is goodness; and fifth, as susceptible of the influence of habit. Some striking remarks are found under the third and fifth heads. From these general con- ORDINATIONS AND INSTALLATIONS. siderations, the author proceeds to consider how far the course pursued in our colleges is adapted to attain the ends mentioned, and to meet the wants of the community. In so doing, he answers the objections that colleges destroy physical vigor; that they are not practical; that they do not keep up with the spirit of the age; that they are aristocratic; and that they do not teach manners. The Address closes with expressing the earnest desire that the college may continue to be, what it has been, in its happy influence on the great interests of revivals of religion, and of missions to the heathen.

TUCKER, Baptist, inst. pastor, Philadelphia, Pennsyl-
vania, Oct. 5, 1836.
ALFRED A. MILLER, Epis. ord. dea. Philadelphia, Pa.
Oct. 16.

SAMUEL HENDERSON, Pres. inst. pastor, Lebanon, Pa.
Nov. 3.

EPHRAIM KIEFFER, German Ref. inst. pastor, Nittany Val-
ley, Pa. Nov. 13.

JOSEPH WORREL, Pres. ord. pastor, Durham, Pa. Nov. 15.
LESLIE IRWIN, Pres. inst. pastor, Allen Township, Pa.
CHARLES WILLIAMSON, Pres. inst. pastor, Manayunk,
Pa. Nov. 30.