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ebrated Syriac version of the New Testament, called the Peshito. This venerable specimen of the piety and learning of the primitive church, now accessible to the English reader, will furnish a very instructive commentary, especially on some of the more difficult passages of the New Testament.

Messrs. Harpers have lately reprinted the valuable abridgment of Thirlwall's History of Greece, by Dr. L. Schmitz, in one volume—a work uniform with the same author's compend of the History of Rome, reprinted at Andover.

Prof. Gillespie of Union College, has published a volume on the Philosophy of Mathematics, from the "Cours de Philosophie Positif d'Auguste Compte." This publication has awakened an earnest discussion whether, and if so, how far, it is affected by the author's atheistic sentiments on religion.

The number of volumes added to the library of the Andover Theological Seminary, since 1849, when the Supplement was printed, is 741; including some that are ordered, the number will amount to 800. These are mostly standard works in recent English literature, such as all the recent important publications on Asia Minor, the library edition of Alison's History of Europe, the volumes of the United States Exploring Expedition, the complete works of Dr. Chalmers, John Adams's works, a set of the Chinese Repository, etc. We learn, also, that valuable accessions have been made to the library of the Union Theological Seminary in New York. - Lane Seminary has been so fortunate as to procure the fine library of the late Dr. Neander, at a price much below its real value. — Dr. J. G. Cogswell, the accomplished librarian of the Astor Library, has again gone to Europe in order to procure large additions to that already invaluable collection. The library of Yale College is enlarging from year to year with costly works, as well as with volumes of current literature. The sum of $18,000 or $20,000 has been subscribed for the library and library building of Amherst College. It is confidently hoped that the subscription may be carried up to $30,000. We trust that no niggardly policy or short-sighted views will preside over the erection of the edifice, but that in simplicity, neatness, and pure taste, it will be an enduring teacher of rhetoric, and of the unchanging principles of just architecture. Unfortunately most of our college edifices are wretched piles of brick and mortar, not only perpetuating their own deformity, but serving as models for subsequent structures, so that uniformity in evil may not be lost.

CANADA.

The following are the numbers of the different religious denominations in Canada West, according to a statement of Capt. Strachan, a son of the bishop of Toronto.

We observe nothing of special importance in the notices of late publications or of those soon to appear. The Papal controversy excites less interest, and the number of publications relating to it has decreased. The presses of the Bible, Religious Tract and other Societies have been unusually active in sending out Bibles and practical religious works for the great multitudes that have congregated in England. The two university presses are employed as usual, on editions of the classics, treatises on mathematics, logic, etc. to be used as text-books. Oxford has lately furnished a noble present to the Protestant English world in the publication, from the MSS., of Wielif's translation of the Bible. Among Mr. Bohn's numerous publications are translations of the principal Greek and Latin classics, accompanied with Notes.

Of the books most interesting to the biblical student, now in preparation, are a new edition of Dr. Davidson's Lectures on Biblical Criticism, Dr. Tregelles's new edition of the text of the Greek Testament, the new Syriac works under the editorship of Mr. Cureton of the British Museum, and further publications in respect to the deciphering of the Assyrian inscriptions. Col. Rawlinson is earnestly engaged on this work, and is said to be making gratifying progress. Mr. Layard is now in London, and, we regret to say, suffering from ill health.

The Oxford University comprises twenty Colleges and five Halls, most of which possess their own quite valuable libraries. As only the University Library proper (the celebrated Bodleian) prepares catalogues of all its manuscripts, Mr. Coxe, the assistant librarian, has taken on himself the tedious labor of registering the manuscripts in the different college libraries, and has already finished a large quarto volume, in which 3,000 titles are recorded, and to which the index only is wanting.

The Baptists of England and Scotland have nine institutions of learning: Bristol, Horton at Bradford, Stepney in London, Pontypool in Wales, Haverford West, Theological Education Society, Accrinton, Leicester (General Baptists), Edinburgh. Each has one professor, and the four first named one tutor each besides. The number of students in all is only 113. The following remarks will apply to the other bodies of Dissenters. Before the recent amalgamation of three London academies, the Independents had nine seminaries for the education of 150 men. Of the Baptist institutions, Bris

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tol, Horton and Stepney are all which could, in any proper sense, be called colleges. In all, the course of instruction is mixed, literary and theological. In several it embraces only the usual studies of the grammar school with limited theological studies.

In these nine institutions are embraced 113 students, averaging less than thirteen each, and conducted at the expense of about $30,000 per annum. One institution, adequately provided with able professors, library and apparatus, could perform this labor twice as well, and with but little more than one quarter the expense.

FRANCE.

The French National Assembly have lately voted 78,000,000 of francs for the excavations at Nineveh, and 30,000 francs for clearing the temple of Serapis at Memphis. Opposition was silenced by the remark of the minister, that it was for the majority to decide, whether England should have the precious remains rather than France.

GERMANY.

A recent official statistical report upon Prussia, gives the following results: Total population at the commencement of the last year, 16,331,000. Of these, 10,000,000 were of the Evangelic church, 6,000,000 Catholics, 219,000 Jews, 14,000 Mennonites, and 1,200 Greek Christians. The whole population has increased by 220,000 since the former census at the close of 1846; and increase is the most marked among the Jews. In the beginning of 1850 the whole number of military men in active service was 199,000.

In Germany, Austria excluded, appear 746 newspapers, of which, 646 are printed in German, 5 in French, 1 in English, 15 in Polish, 3 in Wendish (the Wenden are a Slavonic people in the midst of Germany), 7 in the Lutheran language. In all Europe, according to official statements, 1356 newspapers are published, of which 169 are issued at Paris, 97 at London, 79 at Berlin, 68 at Leipzig, 36 at St. Petersburg, 24 at Vienna.

The subjects of the articles in the 4th No. of the "Theological Studies and Criticisms" for 1851, are as follows: Remarks on the Idea of Religion with special reference to psychological questions, by Dr. Charles Lechler, chaplain of the Insane Institute at Minnenthal; Lucian and Christianity, a contribution to the Church History of the second century, by Adolph Planck, deacon at Heidenheim in Würtemberg; Additions to the treatise on the author of the maxim "In necessariis unitas, in non necessariis libertas, in utrisque caritas," with some remarks on the Irenic literature of the 17th century, by Dr. F. Lücke; Review of Dr. C. A. Hahn's History of the Waldenses, contained in his history of the Sects in the Middle Ages, by Prof. Herzog of Halle; Review of Henry Hübsch's Work on Architecture, and its Relation to the Painting and Sculpture of the present day, by Dr. B. Stark; and the Evangelical Church Organization for Westphalia and the Rhine Province, by Dr. Kling. The writer of the article on Lucian, VOL. VIII. No. 32.

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investigates the following topics: Peregrinus Proteus as a cynic; his death by fire without doubt a parody on the Christian martyrs; Peregrinus as a Christian; Lucian's judgment of the Christians; and whether Lucian was acquainted with the New Testament? Dr. Lücke, in his little work on the age, the author, the original form, and the true sense of the famous maxim, "In necessariis,” etc., sought to prove that the author of it was Rupertus Meldenius, a Lutheran theologian, not much known, in his essay Paraenesis votiva pro pace ecclesiae ad theologos Augustanae Confessionis," written about 1620 or 1630.

The 3d vol. (1850-1) of Ewald's "Jahrbücher" for Biblical Science, pp. 298, has been published. The tenth volume of Ritter's History of Philosophy, is shortly to appear. The later volumes have not been translated into English.

The second and concluding volume of Dr. Ebrard's Christian Dogmatics, is to be published in the course of this year. The 2d section of the 2d part of Dr. J. P. Lange's Christian Dogmatics is published.

The 7th edition of Tholuck's Doctrine of Sin and Redemption, or the true Consecration of the Skeptic, has just been published.

The first vol. of the 3d edition of Hagenbach's Encyclopedia and Methodology of Theological Science, has appeared, in 431 pages.

The 3d vol of the 2d edition of Hengstenberg's Commentary on the Psalms, is also advertised. There does not seem to be much alteration or improvement in this edition.

Dr. Augustus Pfizmaier of Vienna has published the first part, in 92 pages folio, of a Dictionary of the Japanese language.

The last part published of Pauly's Real-Encyclopaedie, extends from Tullia to Viae, and carries the 6th volume of the whole work from the 2241st page to the 2560th.

The following parts of the Bibliotheca Classica Latina have just appeared. Cicero's Orations for Sulla, the Manilian Law, Archias, Murena, Milo, Marcellus, Ligarius, Deiotarus, Roscius, Plancius, the 4th against Catiline, and the treatise De Senectute and De Amicitia, with notes, etc. for the use of schools, by Geo. A. Koch. The first section of the 4th volume of Poppo's Thucydides has just come out.

Suidae lexicon Graece et Latine. The ninth part of the second volume, completing the text, of Prof. Bernhardy's edition of this lexicon, accompanied with notes, has been printed.

Dr. H. Weissenborn has published a short essay, entitled "Nineveh and its territory in respect to the latest excavations in the valley of the Tigris.” The following historical, biographical and geographical works are just announced: The first volume of the second edition of Böckh's "Staatsaushaltung" of the Athenians, pp. 812; the third volume of Pertz's Life of the minister, Von Stein; Life and Studies of C. J. Zumpt, with six of his Latin speeches, by A. W. Zumpt; an Eulogy on C. F. Schulz, by E. F. Wüstemann; Palestine and Syria, being the second part of Ritter's Geography of

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the Peninsula of Sinai, Palestine and Syria, in 721 pages; the seventh edition, by Dr. Mappaeus, of Stein and Hörschelmann's Manual of Geography and Statistics; Contributions to a History of the German Book-trade, by Albrecht Kirchhoff, the first volume containing notices of some booksellers of the 15th and 16th centuries.

RUSSIA.

Population of the Russian Empire.- The Russian Ministry have just published the census of the Empire for the year 1846. In European Russia it contains 52,565,334 souls; in the four Western Governments of Siberia, 2,153,958; in the Kingdom of Russian Poland, 4,800,000 (this is an approximation merely); in the Grand Duchy of Finland, 1,900,000; in the territory beyond the Caucasus, 2,500,000; total, 63,600,000. If we add to these the inhabitants of the district of Jarkutsk, of the island of Kamschatka, of Ochotsk, of the American possessions, the submitted Kisgis hordes, and finally, the army, the entire population of the Empire will amount to 65,000,000; of those 49,000,000 belong to the Orthodox Greek Church, 7,300,000 to the Roman Catholics, 3,500,000 are Protestants, 2,400,000 Mohamedans, 1,200,000 Jews, 1,000 Gregorian and Armenian Catholics, 600,000 Pagans.

ERRATA.

Page 424, bottom, for Brandis, read Branis; p. 464, line 19 from bottom, insert after pages, "of the 6th volume." P. 769, I. 13 from bottom, for Strator, read Straton; p. 770, 1 12 from top, for altioresque, read altioresque; 1. 14, for erodandos, read enodandos; line 2 from bottom, for Luvinius, read Lavinius.

N. B. In Article VII. (July Number) frequent references are made to the Biblical Repertory, Vols. VI. and VII. These volumes are the sixth and seventh of the Entire Work, and are numbered II. and III. in the New Series. The reference in Note 2, p. 600, should have been to Vol. XXIII; in Note 1, p. 622, to Vol. II. New Series; in Note 1, p. 623, to Vol. XVII, p. 86. In the second Note on p. 615, insert Pars II. after Ib., and on p. 216, read Lib. III. for Lib. II. On p. 639, 12th line from top, insert 11 for 2; and on p. 641, Note 6, insert Chapter 2 for Chapter 1.