lon; and his final debauchery and melancholy end, as herein narrated, possess a power of fascination that rarely falls to the lot of history.

14.-History of Hannibal, the Carthagenian General. By JACOB ABBOTT. With engravings. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1849. CARTHAGE, the rival of Rome, and long her maritime mistress, and finally the victim of her terrible vengeance, will ever possess a melancholy interest to the student of history. This beautifully written life of Hannibal, her great General, who carried the war to the very gates of Rome, performing the prodigious feat of crossing the Alps in the dead of winter with his whole army and implements of war; whose splendid career of victory and conquest for a season covered Carthage with glory and Rome with defeat, but whose sudden reverses rolled back the tide of carnage and death upon the shore of Africa and reduced her proud city to ruin, and overwhelmed the General in hopeless and terrible calamity-this life, so crowded with great and startling events, and chequered with prosperity and adversity, glory and shame, and terminating in so melancholy and tragical a manner, is replete with interest and instruction.

15.-History of Queen Elizabeth. By JACOB ABBOTT. With engravings. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1849.

QUEEN ELIZABETH, if we judge rightly, appears here in her true light, and that is no very enviable one. Mr. Abbott's appreciation of her great virtues and great faults, her private character and public life, comes nearer to our ideas of the truth than anything we have before seen in any single history. He narrates her early life as the neglected child of a disgraced and beheaded queen and as the victim of Mary's jealousy, and you become interested in her; he sketches the principal events of her long and glorious reign, and you admire and wonder at her strength of mind, and indomitable energy of will, and political sagacity, and regal splendor, and state crimes; he portrays her utter selfishness and hypocrisy and double-dealing and cool calculating treachery and cruelty as a sovereign, and you loose all respect, and denounce her memory; he shows her womanly weaknesses, her pride and vanity, her partialities and love attachments; the struggles of sovereign pride and love of power against maidenly tenderness and yearnings as in the case of the ill-fated Essex, and you know not whether most to pity or to blame; he paints the death-sceneElizabeth prostrate on the floor, writhing in agony and calling for mercy, straining her ear to catch the sound of prayer, forsaken by nearly all of her lords and other satellites who had fled to Scotland to hail King James as soon as her death was known, and she stung by the consciousness of abandonment,--and you inwardly exclaim, "O the littleness of human greatness! the poverty of a crown! the bitterness of death in a palace with not a true heart to tender its sympathy, or a divine consolation to offer its support!"

This series of brief histories from the polished and graphic pen of Mr. Abbott is not only of a very popular character, but is admirably adapted to interest, particularly, the young in the study of history. He has selected the most remarkable characters in history, and grouped together the leading events in the life of each, so as to give a distinct and complete impression of their historic being. And while these histories wear an air or romance, and are highly fascinating, the author has confined himself to the facts of sober received history. The series will form a gallery of well-executed and striking portraits of these world-renowned personages. The several histories are uniform in size, binding, and general appearance; are illustrated by many striking and beautiful engravings; and together make a useful and most beautiful little library.

16.-Raphael. By ALPHONSO DE LAMARTINE. New York: Harper & Brothers.

1849.

LAMARTINE is certainly a writer of great beauty and power, whether his subject be history or romance. This work is a fictitious narrative, full of the poetry of thought, the beauties of style and imagery, and the extravagance of over-wrought and transcendental sentimentalism. The drift of it is to illustrate the power and workings of that mysterious element in man which we call sympathy, in the affairs of love and conjugal life; showing that the love which is based on the beauties and accomplishments of person, on matrimonial bonds, or rank, station, and wealth, cannot secure the bliss for which the lover sighs in his inner soul; that heart must meet heart in the contact, the outgoing and the communion of a pure spiritual sympathy, or man must pine in loneliness and die with secret grief. There is a profound truth at the bottom of all this; and our regret is that the distinguished author has so marred the description by the most extravagant romantic ravings and superlative nonsense, that all sober-minded matter-of-fact persons will only read to laugh, and sentimental ones to run mad.

17.-The North British Review. November 1848 and February 1849.

THIS Quarterly represents the Free Church of Scotland party in English literature, politics and religious matters, and is conducted with great ability. It comes nearer to our own standard of thinking and feeling than any one of the other great Quarterlies which give expression and direction to the English mind; indeed no well-informed American ought to be without it.

These last two numbers contain several articles of peculiar interest and great excellence. We have only space to specify those relating to the Authorship of the Letters of Junius; the Final Memoirs of Charles Lamb; the Memoirs and Correspondence of Viscount Castlereagh; Baptist Noel's Church and State; Macaulay's History of England; and the Duke of Argyle's Essay on the Ecclesiastical History of Scotland since the Reformation.

The Review of Baptist Noel's powerful work, though kind in spirit and favorable in general, takes decided exceptions to some of his principles and reasoning, as unsound, and pushed to extremes; as having a decided tendency to radicalism in ecclesiastical matters. "We had hoped to find in Mr. Noel's book a more moderate scheme of reform projected, which might have reconciled the extremes; but we are compelled to say, that we despair of him as a leader in any great movement of reformation, when we see him thus merging himself in the confused ranks of existing dissent-descending into the arena, singlehanded, as the champion not of a Church but of a chapel and pleading with all the ardor of a neophyte for a system of disunion and disorganization, the utter impotence of which, for any combined action, even its veteran supporters were beginning to deplore." How far the decided Presbyterian feelings of the "North British" have influenced its judgment we know not: it anticipates however, far humbler and less beneficial results from this already renowed Essay than are confidently predicted on this side of the Atlantic.

The article on Macaulay's History is one of the ablest and grandest things we have read in many a day; and it is doubtful whether many of the thousand and one reviews which it has called or will call forth, will attain to its high standard of merit. While the reviewer is not blind to the faults of the great historian, to his church partialities, and his injustice to Puritan character and history, he still does him noble justice, and profoundly appreciates the incomparable merits of this great work. We think it vastly more truthful and just and valuable than the critique in the British Quarterly already referred to.

CONTENTS OF NO. III., VOL. V.-THIRD SERIES.

ARTICLE

I. THOUGHTS ON THE ATONEMENT, WITH REMARKS ON THE
VIEWS OF S. T. COLERIDGE,

By Rev. HENRY NEILL, Lenox, Mass,

PAGE

381

III. THE SANDWICH OR HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; THEIR HISTORY
AND RELATIONS TO THE REST OF THE WORLD,

By Rev. HENRY T. CHEEVER, New York.

IV. EXPOSITION OF ROMANS, 8; 19-23, .

By Rev. S. COMFORT, Sanquoit, N. Y.

V. THE SPIRIT OF LITERATURE AND ART,

By H. P. TAPPAN, D. D., New York.

314.

431

453

462

VI. CHRISTIANITY SET FORTH ACCORDING TO ITS TRUE ESSENCE, 486

From the German of Schleiermacher, by Rev. WM. HALL.

VII. ARGUMENT FOR THE BEING OF GOD FROM THE CONSTITU

TION OF MAN,

By Rev. JAMES M. MACDONALD, Jamaica, L. I.

VIII. REVIEW OF PETER'S AND SMITH, ON BAPTISM,

By Rev. J. JAY DANA, South Adams, Mass.

501

514

IX. ASTRONOMICAL VIEWS OF THE ANCIENTS,

529

By Prof. TAYLOR LEWIS, L L. D., New York.

X. A HOMILY ON THE GREATNESS OF THE SCRIPTURES,

551

By T. H. SKINNER, D. D., Prof. Union Theo. Sem., N. Y.

XI. LITERARY AND CRITICAL NOTICES OF Books,
By the EDITOR.

559

1. Turnbull's Theophany and Supplement. 2. Dr. Mason's Complete Works.

3. Vinet's Gospel Studies.

4. Cumming's Bible Evidence for the People.

17. Memoirs of Mrs. Eliza Astor Rumpff and of the Duchess de

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Broglie.

Prof. Smith's Elementary Treatise on Mechanics.

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REPOSITORY

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CLASSICAL REVIEW.

THIRD SERIES, NO. XVIX.-WHOLE NUMBER, LXXV.

JULY, 1849.

ARTICLE I.

THOUGHTS ON THE ATONEMENT, WITH REMARKS ON THE VIEWS OF S. T. COLERIDGE.

By REV. HENRY NEILL, Lenox, Mass.

MUCH has been written respecting Mr. Coleridge both as a metaphysician and a poet. In these respects men are fast doing him justice. Of his Theological views, however, much remains to be said.

On no one subject was he more anxious to make himself understood, and to give satisfaction to an enquiring mind, than on the subject of Redemption, or the work that Christ does for a fallen soul. It is in the "Aids to Reflection," pp. 187-202 of Dr. Marsh's edition that Mr. C. expresses himself most fully on this great theme.

His view was wholly a subjective one. He believed that Christ effected the redemption of men only as He imparted His own spiritual life to their believing souls. The texts which he quotes and dwells upon are such as these; "I am the resurrection and the life." "The Way, the Truth, and the Life." "The law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death." "The last Adam was made a quickening spirit." John 6: 24-26, was also a favorite passage with him; especially that place in which the Redeemer, after having said "I am the bread of life;" "He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me and I in him," perceiving that the disciples murmured and thought it "a hard saying," explained himself by adding, "Doth this offend you? It is the spirit that quickeneth the flesh profiteth nothing; the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life.

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