THE

NEW ENGLANDER.

VOLUME IV, 1881.

NULLIUS ADDICTUS JURARE IN VERBA MAGISTRI.

NEW HAVEN

W. L. KINGSLEY, PROPRIETOR AND PUBLISHER.

TUTTLE, MOREHOUSE, AND TAYLOR, PRINTERS.

1881.

Prof. C. Sprague Smith, Columbia College, New York City. 49

IV. The Irish Land Question.

Henry Carter Adams, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, Md. 68

V. The Teaching of Church History as to the Method of the World's

Rev. William DeLoss Love, South Hadley, Mass. 86

Conversion.

VI. A Humble Apology; or, Is the Pulpit insincere ?

Rev. M. C. Welch, Hartford. 100

VII. A Word with the Spelling Reformers.

Prof. Lemuel S. Potwin, Western Reserve College. 113

ARTICLE VIII.-NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS.

Four Conferences touching the operation of the Holy Spirit. By the Rev. F.

C. Ewer, S.T.D.

124

The Mountain of Instruction. By George Dana Boardman.

125

The Eden Tableau, or Bible Object-Teaching; A Study. By Charles Beecher. 126

The Origin and Growth of Religion as illustrated by the Religion of Ancient

Egypt. By P. LePage Renouf.

127

Canonicity. By A. H. Charteris, D.D.

127

The Creation, and the Early Developments of Society. By James H. Chapin,

Ph.D.

128

Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar. Translated by Benj. Davis, LL.D.

128

Two Worlds are Ours. By Hugh Macmillan, D.D.

129

In Christo: or, The Monogram of St. Paul. By J. R. Macduff, D.D.

129

Notes on Genesis: or, Christ and His Church among the Patriarchs. By the

Rev. Nathaniel Keymer, M.A.

129

Religion and Chemistry: A Re-statement of an old Argument. By Josiah

Parsons Cooke.

130

Holiness, as understood by the writers of the Bible: A Bible Study. By

Joseph Agar Beet.

131

Indirect Testimony of History to the Genuineness of the Gospels. By Fred-

eric Huidekoper.

131

A Popular Commentary on the New Testament. Edited by Philip Schaff,
D.D., LL.D.

131

The Apocrypha of the Old Testament. By Edward Cone Bissell, D.D.

Japanese Fairy World. By William E. Griffis.

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Recent Publications.

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