3. A Fragment of the Irish Roman Catholic Church. By the late Rev. Sydney Smith. 1845. II.-Letters from the United States of America, exhibiting the Workings of Democracy for the last Twenty Years III.-Histoire de France. Par M. Michelet. V.-German Protestantism and the Right of Private Judgment in the Interpretation of Holy Scripture. A brief His- tory of German Theology from the Reformation to the 1. The Ideal of a Christian Church considered in Com- parison with existing Practice. By Rev. W. G. 2. The Kingdom of Christ delineated: in two Essays on our Lord's own account of his Person and of the Nature of his Kingdom, and on the Constitution, Powers, and Ministry of a Christian Church, as appointed by Himself. By Richard Whately, D.D. 3. On the Constitution of the Church and State, accord- ing to the Idea of each. By Samuel Taylor Cole- 4. Fragment on the Church. By Thomas Arnold, D.D. VIII.-Notices of New Publications. 1. Illustrations of Unitarian Christianity, consisting 2. Brief Remarks on some of the Doctrines of the Ca- tholic Church. By a Graduate of Oxford 5. Luther Revived: or, a Short Account of Johannes Ronge, the Bold Reformer of the Catholic Church 6. The Truth Seeker. Edited by Dr. F. R. Lees 7. The First Principle of Church Government: an In- NUMBER III. 1. The Relation of Jesus to his Age, and the Ages. By 2. The Fourth Quarterly Report of the Executive Com- mittee of the Benevolent Fraternity of Churches. 3. The true Position of the Rev. Theodore Parker 4. The Ministry at Suffolk Street Chapel: its Origin, Progress, and Experience. By John T. Sargent. 5. The Exclusive Principle Considered. By William 6. A Letterto the Boston Association of Congregational Ministers, touching certain matters of their Theo- 7. Deism or Christianity. By Dr. Frothingham 8. A Plea for the Christian Spirit. By A. B. Muzzey. 9. The Excellence of Goodness. A Sermon. By Theo- V. The Miscellaneous Works of Thomas Arnold, D.D. V.-Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Barrett. VI.-The Life and Character of Blanco White The Life of the Rev. Joseph Blanco White, written by himself; with portions of his Correspondence. Edited by John Hamilton Thom, 3 vols. NUMBER IV. I. The New German-Catholic Church 1. Luther Revived: or a short account of Johannes 2. Johannes Ronge und der heilige Rock. Armstadt. 3. Johannes Ronge Leben. Jena. 4. An Meine Glaubensgenossen und Mitburger. Von 5. Die Haupt-sätze der Christlich Apostolisch-Katho- lischen Gemeinde, &c. Leipsic. 6. Rechtfertigung meines Abfalles von der Römischen 7. Offenes Glaubens-Bekenntnitz der Deutsch-Katho- lischen Christengemeine in Berlin. 8. Notes on the Rise, Progress and Prospects of the Schism from the Church of Rome, called the Ger- man-Catholic Church, &c. By Samuel Laing. 1. Tracts by the Anti-State-Church Association. 1844-5. 2. Tracts on the Church of England. By the Rev. Thos: 3. Fundamental Reform of the Church Establishment, by which it may be rendered less despotic in its constitution, less secular in its spirit, and less into- lerant in its administration. By a Clergyman. 4. Principles of Church Reform. By Thos. Arnold, D.D. III.-Rome, Ancient and Modern, and its Environs. By the Very Rev. Jeremiah Donovan, D.D. IV.-The Elements of Morality, including Polity. By William V.-Different Views of the Atonement VI.-Notices of New Publications. 1. Germany University Education; or the Professors 2. The Unity of God, the distinguishing feature of the Jewish Faith: a Sermon. By the Rev. Morris J. Raphall, M.A., Ph. D., Preacher of the Synagogue, 3. The Coming of the Mammoth, the Funeral of Time, and other Poems. By Henry B. Hirst, Boston, 1845. 4. Legends of the Isles and other Poems. By Charles 5. Essays on Natural History. By Charles Waterton. Second Series. With a continuation of the Auto- biography of the Author. London, Longmans. 6. The Nature of the Scholar, and its Manifestations. By Johann Gottlieb Fichte. Translated from the German, with a Memoir of the Author, by William Smith. London, Chapman, 1845 7. Evidences of Christianity. By William Smyth, Pro- fessor of Modern History in the University of Cam- bridge. London, Pickering, 1845. THE PROSPECTIVE REVIEW. No. I. ART. I.-HISTORICAL CHRISTIANITY. 1. The Parker Society, for the publication of the Works of the Fathers and early Writers of the Reformed English Church. Cambridge. 1841-1844. 2. A Library of Anglo-Catholic Theology. Parker, Oxford. 1841-1844. 3. The Wycliffe Society, for reprinting Tracts and Treatises of the Earlier Reformers, Puritans, and Nonconformists of Great Britain. 1844. THESE undertakings are among the significant signs of the times. Amidst the dearth of original learning and inquiry at least in the moral and theological, sciencesthey manifest an exuberance of re-productive activity. Distrusting the present, the world seems to be throwing itself back on the past. As we look over the announcements of the press, we are half tempted to believe that the age of prophecy-of free, spontaneous utterance-is gone, and that a new Alexandrine period of critics and commentators is taking its place. The editor supersedes the author, and philosophy is abandoned for the simplest form of history-the mere chronicling of remote events. The press itself is seized by the vast co-operative agencies of the day it becomes the organ, not of individual thought, but of social tendencies and predilections; and is employed in rescuing from obscurity, and presenting in a more attractive and accessible form, those monuments of CHRISTIAN TEACHER.-No. 27. B an earlier faith and wisdom, which different parties appeal to, as the vouchers and credentials of their present claim to the ear of the public. The series of publications, indicated at the head of this article, all set on foot at such short intervals from each other, and issuing from parties that are so widely separated by their principles and modes of action-attest the very general diffusion of this feeling of reverence for the past, and may be taken as a decided expression of the spirit of the age. The Parker Society was instituted for the purpose of bringing before the public, the writings of the first race of Reformers, who gave to the English Church its present form and constitution, and who flourished between the accession of Edward VI. and the death of Elizabeth. It is avowedly its object to extend the knowledge and influence of what are peculiarly called the principles of the Reformation, as contained in the writings of Cranmer, Ridley, Parker, Grindal and Whitgift; and this circumstance, and the names most conspicuous on the Councilthose of the Revs. J. W. Cunningham, E. Bickersteth, Thomas Dale, B. W. Noel, J. Scholefield, and Daniel Wilson-render it sufficiently evident, that it is designed as a silent counteraction to publications of a different tendency, put forth by another party. Eleven or twelve handsome octavo volumes have already been issued by the Society, containing, among other things, the works of Ridley and Cranmer, liturgies and other documents set forth in the reign of Edward VI.,—and an interesting collection of letters, written by English Reformers, in the early part of Elizabeth's reign, to Peter Martyr, Bullinger, and other learned Protestants in Germany and Switzerland, who had hospitably entertained them during their exile in Mary's days-and now first published from authenticated copies of the autographs preserved in the archives of Zurich. Another volume of this correspondence is promised among future publications. To the ecclesiastical historian the labours of the Parker Society will be of service in completing, and exhibiting more accurately, the materials relative to this important period of our history, already collected by Burnet and Strype. As far as we have had an opportunity of examining these volumes, they appear to have been carefully edited. For the convenience |