attack is made on the revised edition, by Mr. Ayre, of Horne's Introduction to the Old Testament, lately issued in place of Dr. Davidson's volume, which was rejected because of its rationalism. The view of contemporary literature is, as usual, highly interesting. The London Quarterly has a very attractive essay on the iron manufacture, its rapid growth, the vast improvements that have been introduced into it, the difficulties with which it has to struggle, and the important place it holds in the national industry and wealth. The article on Italy is anti-Sardinian in its sympathies, and querulous. The most important article, and the best that has appeared abroad on the theme, is an exposure of the errors and absurdities of the recent Oxford volume of Essays and Reviews, from the pens of Powell, Jowett, Williams, and others of the rationalistic school. The Edinburgh opens with a Review of a long series of publications on the revision of the prayer-book, and a freer intercourse, especially in the colonies, between Episcopalians and Dissenters, in which the writer urges a modification of the Liturgy, and of the assent which is required to the creed, by which a wider diversity of opinions shall be tolerated. Reviews of much ability and interest follow on Japan, Canada, and Ocean Telegraphy. The latter gives a very discouraging view of the obstacles that are yet to be overcome, ere lines of any considerable length can be successfully laid beneath the sea. All the lines the British Government has guaranteed have failed. No adequate coating has yet been found to protect the electric wire. All thus far employed chafe by the action of currents, and the surfaces if rough on which they lie, corrode, decay, or are expanded and broken, by the action of the electric force; and when the line is to be laid in deep water, the strain from the weight breaks it, or stretches and weakens the sheath in such a manner that the electric charge, instead of transmission, passes off into the sea. Methods may at length be found of obviating these difficulties; but very formidable, perhaps insuperable, obstacles are likely still to exist to an effective and rapid transmission of messages through lines of more than three, four, or five hundred miles in length. A review of recent books, and theories of the glaciers of the Alps, is of much interest. The number closes with a scathing exposure of the inefficiency and confusion of the British Admiralty administration. The North British, in an article on Large Farms and the Peasantry of the Scottish Lowlands, presents a sad picture of H. Hackett's, H. B, Illustrations of Scripture, 348. Hengstenberg, E. W., on Ecclesiastes, etc., 526. Hop Pickers, by S. M. Fry, 687. I. Indications that the Strata were formed simultaneously, 629. Jones, Joel, Memorial of, 56. Notes on Scripture, 686. J. K. Knill, Richard, Life of, 527. L. Labagh I. P., on Unfulfilled Prophecy, 689. Lectures on the English Language, G. P. Marsh, 347. Rawlinson, George, Lectures on Historical Evidence of the Truth of the Richards, John, Memoir of, 247. S. Sense of ōros år, Acts iii. 19, 583. Sparkes, Samuel, on Daniel chap. xi., 349. T. Theories, false, of Science and Revelation, 62. U. Unfulfilled Prophecy, Lectures on, 689. V. Vocabulary of Mental, Moral, and Metaphysical Philosophy, W. Fleming's, 687. |