their affluent vocabulary, their fulness of illustration, their rich practical and hortatory vein immensely overbalances the hazard that may occasionally accrue of taking on from their pages a prolixity of descant but ill suited to the temperament of our times.

We speak thus in general terms of the collective series of volumes before us. Though all valuable and all models in their way, yet they cannot be deemed, of course, of equal merit. The work of Adams on Peter undoubtedly ranks highest on the score of talent, and is the reflexion of a genius of the loftiest order. It is scarcely to be paralleled in the whole circle of English theology, for splendor of thought and diction. Greenhill comes next in the same department, less grand, massive, and majestic, but falling little short in epigrammatic brilliancy and fertility of invention. But Burroughs, after all, we love the most, and scarcely admire any less, for his inimitable anatomy of religious experience, and the wonderful pungency and pathos of his appeals to the conscience.

But our object is not a critical estimate, so much as a hearty commendation of these noble volumes. We could yield to our prompting to say more of their value, could we assure ourselves of being able to persuade those who can afford it, by no means to have these works out of their theological collections. And we trust that the judicious and laborious editor will consider any exhortation on this head as a merited compliment for the service he has performed. Nor would we close without expressing the hope that the health, which we learn has been seriously impaired by the toil of getting up these volumes in their present beautiful style, may yet be such as to enable him to enhance our obligation still further by drawing yet again upon the storehouse of obsolete English theology.

16.-- The Hierophant ; or monthly Journal of Sacred Symbols and Prophecy. Conducted by Geo. Bush, Prof. Heb. Ñ. Y. City University. Complete in one volume. New York: Mark H, Newman. 800. pp. 288.

This volume is made up of a new series of original articles, almost exclusively from the pen of the editor, and devoted mainly to subjects of prophecy in which Prof. Bush is laboring with great ardor and much ability. A considerable portion of the work is occupied with a course of letters addressed to Prof. Stuart, rather sternly arraigning the principles laid

down in the "Hints on Prophetical Interpretation," in regard to the double sense, the intelligibility of prophecy, and the prophetical designations of time. Prof. B. contends strongly for the double sense in many of the Psalms and symbolical predictions of the Old Testament, and maintains also, with the older school of expositors, that a day in Daniel and the Apocalypse stands for a year, on the principle that where the events are symbolical the connected time must also be symbolical. Its pages contain, moreover, an extended view of Daniel's Judgment of the fourth Beast and his little horn, succeeded by the everlasting kingdom of the saints, the commencement of which he refers to the establishment of Christianity in the Saviour's resurrection and ascension.

The discussions of the volume are full of ripe scholarship, and cannot but be very useful to the student of prophecy, which Prof. B. affirms any student of the bible must necessariy be.

17.- The Valley of Vision; or, the Dry Bones of Israel Revived. An attempted Proof (from Ezekiel xxxvi. 1-14) of the Restoration and Conversion of the Jews. By GEO. BUSH, Prof. N. Y. C. University. New York: Saxton & Miles. 8vo. pp. 60. The principles on which the various predictions respecting the final destiny of the Jews are to be interpreted, have ever been a matter of dispute among expositors-some contending for the literal, and some for the spiritual or allegorical sense. Professor Bush, in the pamphlet before us, ranges himself uncompromisingly in the ranks of the literal expounders, and maintains with great strength the position, that the promised restoration of Israel to their own land, shadowed forth by the symbol of the re-collected and re-animated bones of Ezekiel's vision, has never yet received a fulfilment, and must of necessity be future. Without attempting to define the precise time of the accomplishment, he yet thinks we have arrived at the borders of the period when its incipiency is to be expected, and dwells much upon the consideration, that the diligent study of their own prophets is to be itself, one of the grand means of their national regeneration. A leading feature of Prof. B.'s tract is, that the prophesying on the dry bones is the explaining of prophesy, and that whoever, at this day, rightly unfolds the import of the predictions respecting the Jews, is in effect performing the very office here attributed to Ezekiel. This is certainly a striking view of the drift of the passage, and it must be admitted that the author has sustained it in a fine

style of exegetical reasoning. We are not called upon to pronounce upon the soundness of the view itself, but we do not hesitate to say that a strong case is made out, and that his arguments can be met only by an equally thorough-going inquest into the meaning of the original.

18.-Notes, Critical and Practical, on the Book of Joshua: designed as a general help to Biblical Reading and Instruction. By George Bush. New York: Saxon & Miles. 1844. pp. 221, 12mo.

Notes, Critical & Practical, on the Book of Judges: Designed as a general help to Biblical Reading and Instruction. By George Bush. New York: Saxon & Miles. 1844, pp. 257,

12mo.

Professor Bush is so well known and so highly appreciated as a Biblical Commentator; and his works have been so often commended on the pages of the Repository, that we need only to announce the fact of the issue of these two additional volumes to secure their sale. These historical works are prefaced by a general introduction; and then each book preceded by one appropriate, scholar-like and useful. We know of no other commentaries on Joshua and Judges so well suited to family instruction and Sabbath Schools.

19-The Prophecies of Daniel. Nebuchadnezzar's Dream of the Great Image. Nos. I & II. By George Bush. New York: Harper & Brothers.

The above works of Prof. Bush have since been followed by the commencing portion of a new and elaborate commen. tary on Daniel, to be issued in ten or twelve numbers, of which the first two are before us. These embrace the prophetic dream of Nebuchadnezzar, with the inspired exposition of Daniel who has, we may say, anatomized the gigantic image, and shown the symbolic scope of its various constituent parts. The commentary of Prof. B. is strictly exegetical, and by presenting on his page the Heb. and Chald. originals, with several of the ancient versions, he has put the reader in the best possible position for judging in regard to the correctness of the results to which he comes. The image he regards as a prophetic personification of the great system of despotic gov. ernment extending from the earliest ages of the world down to the period of the overthrow of all merely secular sove

reignty, and the universal establishment of the everlasting kingdom represented by the smiting stone of the vision. In the excision of the stone from the mountain he recognizes the origin of the Christain church from the Jewish Kingdom, and his illustrations on this head are both new and interesting. The demolition and comminution of the image he supposes to be gradually effected, and sees no evidence of that sudden crisis which some interpreters anticipate in the downfall of the present dynasties of the old Roman world. The entire system of Millenarianism fares hardly before his rigid exegesis. The work on the whole we regard as rich in promise, and its completion will no doubt give the biblical reader a highly valuable commentary on this difficult and obscure book.

20.-Religion in America; or an account of the Origin, Progress, relation to the State, and Present Condition of the Evangelical Churches in the United States, with notices of other Evangelical Denominations. By ROBERT BAIRD. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1844. pp. 343, 8vo.

This work has been some time before the public, although it has, but recently, fallen into our hands. Whilst it must be acceptable to Christians and others in Great Britain, containing as it does information important to them, it cannot but be useful to Dr. Baird's friends at home. It contains a great deal of knowledge condensed, on the several subjects indicated in the title, and will be found convenient as a book of reference. We trust its translation into French and German may do much toward opening the eyes of foreigners to the value of our system, and directing their attention to an evangelical creed and practice.

ADDITIONAL NOTICES.

The Autobiography of Heinrich Stilling, late Aulic Counsellor of the Grand Duke of Baden etc. etc. Translated from the German by S. Jackson. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1844. pp. 187, 8vo.

This work is far more interesting than any novel, and it has received universal admiration. It is the life of a remarkable man written by himself, in beautiful simplicity, and developing the inner workings of his pious spirit.

Cyclopædia of Biblical Literature. By JOHN KITTO. NǝwYork. Mark H. Newman.

Parts 11 & 12 are now issued together and bring the work down to Jephthah; when complete it will certainly be an excellent dictionary.

Rabbah Taken; or the Theological System of Rev. Alexander Campbell, examined and refuted. By ROBERT W. LANDIS. New York: Mark H. Newman, 1844. pp. 135, 8vo.

The readers of the Repository will remember some articles on this subject by Mr. Landis. In this volume he has much enlarged, and is certainly entitled to say "Rabbah Taken."

Coleridge and the Moral Tendency of his Writings. By
New York: Leavitt, Trow & Co. 1844.

This is a pamphlet of 118 pages handsomely printed, and prefaced by Dr. Skinner. It contains also a brief memoir of Coleridge. The warning we think in place, and hope it will be read. Our books exert a powerful influence over us. them be choice and true.

Pictorial Illustrations of Apostolical Succession.

Let

By WILLIAM PAGE, of Monroe, Michigan. Bishop Presbyterian. NewYork: Ezra Collier.

This is quite a new idea in its application, but altogether according with the spirit of the age, which almost demands illustrated books. It is written in a somewhat queer style, but contains, withal, a great deal of argument.