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most important general helps are Jörden's Lexicon of German poets and prose-writers; Wachler's Lectures on the History of the National Literature of Germany, 2d ed. 1834; Bouterwek's History of Poetry and Eloquence, vols. 9-11; Gervinus's History of the Poetic National Literature of the Germans, 3 vols. 2d. ed. 1840-1842, his History of the more recent National Poetic Literature, 2 vols., 1840-1842, also his Manual on the same subject, 1842, works of standard authority; and Kinne's Internal History of the Development of German National Literature, 2 vols. 1842-3. Wackernagel's German Reading books and Pischon's Memorials of the German Language from the earliest period to the present times, are also well worthy of consultation.

Since the preceding pages were in type a fresh supply of the German Periodicals has been received, and we enlarge our present No. beyond its appropriate limits for the purpose of spreading before our readers the most recent intelligence with regard to German literature. We find that the eighth volume of Ritter's History of Christian Philosophy, referred to on p. 404, relates in its most important parts to the Scholastic triad, Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus and Albertus Magnus. In these schoolmen the dialectical philosophy reaches its acme.-A new volume, the seventh, of von Raumer's Historisches Taschenbuch (see p. 405,) for the year 1846, is favorably noticed by the Reviewers. It contains five articles of historical interest, relating chiefly to modern times.-The work of Böhringer, presenting the history of the church in biographies of her eminent men, (see p. 407) is very favorably noticed in Reuter's Repertorium and is pronounced a work of signal merit.

The fifth edition of Sartorius's Die Lehre von Christi Person und Werk has been recently published at Hamburg. A previous edition of this work has been translated into English by Mr. J. E. Ryland of Northampton. The Evang. Homiletik of C. Palmer has passed into a second and improved edition. It still sustains a high reputation in Germany, and being more compressed than the treatise of Schott, is more generally adopted as a homiletical text-book.-Dr. K. Lanz has just published the second volume of the Correspondence of the Emperor Charles V. The first volume of this very interesting work was issued in 1844; the third and last volume is now in press. Its materials were obtained from the Royal archives and the Bibliotheque de Bourgogne at Brussels.—A second and improved edition of Hagenbach's Encyclopädie und Methodologie in den theologischen Wissenchaften has been issued at Leipsic.—A new work of Fr. Theremin, Court Preacher at Berlin, has appeared, with the title Demosthenes und Massillon; ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Beredsamkeit, Berlin, 1845, p. 351, price 23 Thaler. Theremin is already well known as an eloquent preacher, and especially as author of the work Die Beredsamkeit eine Tugend.

Among other new works of value we notice the following:

A new edition of the work of J. A. Dorner, entitled, Die Lehre von der Person Christi, geschichtlich und biblisch-dogmatisch dargestellt. I Theil. 1 Abtheilung: Entwickelungsgeschichte der Lehre von der Person Christi in den ersten vier Jahrhunderten 1 Hälfte. Stuttgart, 1845, p. 400.

price 2 Thaler. In subsequent numbers of the Bib. Sac., we hope to give an extended synopsis of this standard treatise.

Julius Wiggers's Geschichte der evangelischen Mission. 1 Band Hamburg, 1845, pp. 212, price I Thaler. This is the younger Wiggers, the author of the best Kirchliche Statistik, and of the Kirchengeschichte Mecklenbergs, a writer of high character.

R. von Wedell's Historisch-geographischer Hand Atlas in 36 Karten nebst erläuternden Text. In 6 Leiferungen, Berlin. Two thirds of this important work has already appeared. It will cost in all about ten Thaler. No other work, furnishing accurate maps for the geographical divisions of the earth, through successive ages from the earliest dawn of history to the present, has been furnished, but the more extensive and costly Atlas of Spruner, which is also unfinished. Kruse's work relates only to Europe, and is injudiciously arranged by centuries instead of historical periods. Wedell's Atlas is the best for those who cannot purchase so costly a work as Spruner's.

E. W. Hengstenberg's Commentar über die Psalmen. 4 Band. 1 Abtheilung. This volume when finished will complete the work. The first volume of this Commentary has been translated and published in Scotland. It is intended to translate the remaining volumes as soon as possible.

S. H. Dessauer's Geschichte der Israeliten mit besondere Bruchsichtigung der Kulturgeschichte derselben. Von Alexander d. Gr. bis auf die gegenwärtige Zeit. Nach den besten vorhandenen Quellen. Erlangen, 1845, pp. 593.

H. Ewald's Geschichte des Volkes Israels bis Christus. 2ten. Band. Göttingen, 1845, pp. 676.

Real Encyclopädie der classischen Alterthumswissenschaft in alphabetischer Ordnung. Herausgegeben von Pauly, fortgesetzt von Walz und W. S. Teuffel, 61-62 Leiferungen. The friends of classical learning will be happy to learn that the place of the lamented Pauly as editor of this standard work, is supplied by such men as Walz and Teuffel.

Prof. Winckelmann has left the Gymnasium at Cassel, and returned to Dresden, his native city, in order to complete his edition of Plutarch's Moralia, which will be a valuable work for theologians.

The Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung, No. 48, contains the programm of the lectures delivered during the past winter at several of the German Universities. At Berlin, throughout the semester recently closed, from the 15th of October to the 26th of March, Prof. Twesten has delivered four courses of lectures, on Theological Encyclopaedia and Methodology; a second on the Gospel of John; a third on the system of Theological Ethics; and a fourth on the Religious Instruction to be given in the Gymnasia, and the theological knowledge necessary for a teacher in a Gymnasium. He has lectured fourteen times each week. Neander, besides holding a weekly Conversatorium on theological subjects, has lectured fifteen times each week. One of his courses has been on the Epistle to the Corinthians, and other short Epistles of Paul; another on the System of Christian Doctrine; and a third on the History of the Church from the time of Gregory the Great to that of the Reformation. Hengstenberg has lectured on the Psalms; on the Gospel of Matthew

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compared with that of Mark and Luke; on the History of the Jews from the Babylonian Exile to the Destruction of Jerusalem; three courses occupying eleven hours weekly. Forty different series of theological exercises are pursued in the Theological Department of this University, from which the student may select those most congenial with his tastes or essential to his wants. More than three hundred courses of lectures have been delivered during the last semester, by all the Faculties of the University; and the names of Michelet, Gabler, Beneke, Trendelenburg, Schelling, Bopp, Böckh, Bekker, Benary, Zumpt, J. and W. Grimm, Ritter and Encke are still conspicuous in the catalogue of its lecturers.

Among the works recently issued from the English press we notice the following: "A Brieff Discours off the Troubles begonne at Franckford in Germany, A. D. 1504, about the Booke of Common Prayer and Ceremonies," etc., with an Introduction by Mr. Petheram ; a translation of Geiger's History of the Swedes, from the earliest period to the accession of Charles X; the Correspondence of Sir Philip Sidney with Hubert Languet, now first translated from the Latin; Dr. Arnold's History of the Later Roman Commonwealth from the end of the Second Punic War to the death of Julius Caesar, reprinted in two vols., from the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana; Fichte on the Character of the Scholar and its Manifestations, with a life of the author, translated from the German by Wm. Smith; Forbes's Hindustani Manual, containing a Grammar and Vocabulary; Justin Martyr's First Apology, with an English introduction and notes by the Rev. W. Trollope, editor of Demosthenes; Bishop Tomline's Introduction to the Study of the Bible, being Vol. I. of the Elements of Christian Theology; and Whewell on a Liberal Education in general, and with particular reference to the leading studies of the University of Cambridge.

We are happy to perceive that Mr. Thomas Clark, publisher of the Biblical Cabinet proposes to commence the publication of a new Foreign Theological Library; to issue four volumes yearly, of about 500 pages each, demi octavo. Among the works to be incorporated into this Library from the German, are the following: Lücke on the Gospel of St. John, Dr. Julius Müller on the Doctrine of Sin, Hagenbach's History of Opinions, Hävernick's Introduction to the Old Testament, Hengstenberg on the Authenticity of Daniel, Hoffinan on Prophecy, Pelt's Theological Encyclopaedia, Usteri Pauli Lehrbegriff, Neander's General Church History, Gieseler's Elements of Church History, Baum's life of Beza, Herzog's Life of Ecolampadius, Neander's Life of Christ, Hengstenberg's Christology, new edition.

Prof. Haddock of Dartmouth College has recently published, in compliance with urgent and repeated solicitations, a volume of Addresses and Miscellaneous Writings. Of the thirty-three articles contained in the volume, a majority have a direct bearing upon the clerical profession. Among them, we notice the following: The Standard of Education for the Pulpit; The Clergy the Natural Advisers of Young Men; The Influf ence of Educated Mind; Personal Qualifications for the Pulpit; Unity o

Pursuit in the Christian Ministry; Wisdom in Clergymen; The Eloquence of the Pulpit as affected by Ministerial Character. The whole work is characterized by the purity and elegance of style, the quiet beauty, the equanimity and justness of thought, which give a tone to all Prof. Haddock's writings.

An Elementary Grammar of the Greek Language, containing a series of Greek and English Exercises for translation, with the requisite Vocabularies, and an Appendix on the Homeric Verse and Dialect, by Dr. Raphael Kühner, Conrector of the Lyceum, Hanover, has been recently translated by Samuel H. Taylor, Principal of Phillips Academy, Andover, and published by Allen, Morrill and Wardwell. This work is the first of the Series of Kühner's Greek Grammars, the second having been translated by Mr. Taylor and Prof. Edwards in 1844. It is designed particularly for Academies and Colleges, and constitutes an admirable introduction to the Greek language. The most persevering effort has been expended upon its translation, and it has been very skilfully accommodated to the wants of the American student.—The same publishers have in press a volume of Select Treatises of Martin Luther, in the original German, with copious philological Notes in English. These treatises are among the most eloquent of Luther's writings, and the notes are valuable, not merely as explaining the secret of Luther's astonishing power over his fellow men, but also as illustrating the genius and spirit of the German language, and imparting much unexpected information in regard to our own mother tongue. Every philologist will be interested in the volume, for the light which it reflects on the structure of language. It is prepared by Dr. Sears of Newton Theological Seminary.-Allen, Morrill and Wardwell propose to republish immediately the work which is reviewed in our present No. pp. 217-241, viz., Metcalfe's Translation of Becker's Gallus, or Roman Scenes of the Time of Augustus, with Notes and Excursus illustrative of the Manners and Customs of the Romans; also Metcalfe's Translation of Becker's Charicles, or Illustrations of the Private Life of the ancient Greeks. Mr. R. D. C. Robbins, Librarian of Andover Theol. Sem. is preparing an edition of Xenophon's Memorabilia, with critical Notes, which will be issued from the Andover Press during the ensuing summer or autumn.-From the same press will also be sent forth, within a few weeks, a volume of the Miscellaneous Writings of Prof. Stuart; including his two sermons on the Atonement, his Letters to Channing on Religious Liberty and his Letters to Channing on the Divinity of Christ, etc. The merits of these writings are too well known to require any comment from us. The Letters last named have passed through several editions in America and Great Brittain, but are now out of print.

ERRATA.-Page 222, for toreatae r. toreutae; p. 227, for fecerous r. feverish; p. 2, for revision r, version, for Asiccia r. Aricia; p. 238, for measure r, mission; p. 240, for mastick r. mastich, for pod r. god.

BIBLIOTHECA SACRA

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THEOLOGICAL REVIEW.

NO. XI.

AUGUST, 1846.

ARTICLE I.

TOPOGRAPHY OF JERUSALEM.

By E. Robinson, Professor at New York.

IN the Preface to the Bibliotheca Sacra for the year 1843, I made allusion to intimations which had reached me from various quarters, that some of the positions taken in the Biblical Researches in respect to the topography of Jerusalem, were "likely to be assailed, in carrying on a crusade in favor of the reputed site of the Holy Sepulchre."

These anticipations have since been realized. During the last year (1845), two works appeared, one in London, a thick octavo; the other in Berlin, a brief memoir,'-giving the results of new speculations upon the topography of the Holy City; and devoted mainly to the support of a new theory as to the course of the ancient walls, by which the traditional site of the Holy Sepulchre might be brought without the ancient city. These volumes, from the reputed scholarship of their authors and the advantages enjoyed by them during a long residence upon the spot in official stations, might seem justly to claim a higher degree of authority, than almost any former work upon these topics.

THE HOLY CITY; or Historical and Topographical Notices of Jerusalem ; by REV. GEORGE WILLIAMS, M. A. Fellow of King's College, Cambridge; and late chaplain to Bishop Alexander at Jerusalem. Lond. 1845. 8vo. pp. 512, Published in April, 1845.

JERUSALEM; eine Vorlesung, von DR. ERNST GUSTAV SCHULTZ, königlich Preussischem Consul in Jerusalem. Mit einem Plane, gezeichnet von H. KIEPERT. Berlin, 1845. 8vo. pp. 120. Dated in June, 1845. VOL. III. No. 11.

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