It is in the Tudor style of architecture, and comprises eight or ten lecture-rooms, a library, museum, a laboratory, and a residence for the Principal. The library is a lofty room, 60 feet by 25; and the shelf accommodation, which is expected will be completely filled, is sufficient for 20,000 volumes.-Literary Gazette, October.

A university, in connection with the Church of England, has been founded in Toronto, Canada. The building approaches to completion; and, with a view to the commencement of academical business, a Provost and two Professors have been already appointed. Provost-the Rev. George Whitaker, M.A.; Classical Professor-the Rev. Edward St. John Parry, M.A.; Mathematical Professor-George C. Irving, Esq.-Colonial Church Chronicle, October.

The Builder (No. 304) prints the following translation of the inscription upon Cleopatra's Needle: "The glorious hero-the mighty warrior-whose actions are great on the banner: the king of an obedient people-a man just and virtuous-beloved by the Almighty Director of the universe: he who conquered all his enemies, who created happiness throughout his dominions, who subdued his enemies under his sandals. During his life he established meetings of wise and virtuous men, in order to introduce happiness and prosperity throughout his empire. His descendants, equal to him in glory and power, followed his example. He was therefore exalted by the Almighty-seeing Director of the world. He was the Lord of the Upper and Lower Egypt: a man most righteous and virtuous, beloved by the All-seeing Director of the world.-Rhamsis, the third king, who, for his glorious actions here below, was raised to immortality.

There are in the British Museum certain bowls, fifteen in number, dug from the ruins of Babylon, and generally 6 inches broad and 3 or 4 deep, containing inscriptions inside, the characters and language of which have till now baffled all our antiquarians. Mr. Thomas Ellis, who is engaged in the Oriental department, has at last deciphered them. The language is Chaldee, and the characters somewhat resemble the Phoenician or square Chaldee. At the same time are found some words peculiar to the Jews, and thence Mr. Ellis infers that the inscriptions must either have been written by the Jews during their captivity in Babylon, or by a remnant of the Jews who never returned from Assyria.-Athenæum, Dec. 20.

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The French government has lately made a literary acquisition of no ordinary interest and value. Under the authority of the Papal government, a French gentleof the name of M. Perret, had explored the whole of the sixty catacombs under the city of Rome, and returned to France with a collection of drawings extending to 360 sheets in large folio. These drawings consist of representations of frescoes, paintings on glass, lamps, vases, rings, instruments of martyrdom, and more than 500 sepulchral inscriptions. This collection has been purchased by the French nation, and the drawings will be published in a style commensurate with their high importance, both as works of art and as invaluable monuments of Christian antiquity.-Gentleman's Magazine, October.

The National Assembly of France have given grants of money for the resumption of excavations at Nineveh, the renewed excavations to be directed by M. Place, the successor of M. Botta; and also for fitting out a scientific expedition to be dispatched into Assyria, to complete the discoveries recently made in that part of the world.

M. De Sauley, a French savan, recently returned from Palestine, declares that fish do not and cannot exist in the Dead Sea, though he saw ducks swimming on its surface. The Arabs, who escorted him, mentioned that the river Jordan frequently carries down fish, but that they soon die. The dead body of a little fish was picked up by him amidst the bitumen and sulphur on its banks. The sea, he ascertained from observations confirmed by subsequent calculations, is not fewer than 400 yards below the level of the Mediterranean.-Literary Gazette, October.

There is in Paris, under the sole direction of an ecclesiastic, the Abbé Migne, an establishment embracing a printing office, stereotype foundry, and all other departments of book manufacture, which has in course of publication a complete series of the chief works of Catholic literature, amounting to 2000 volumes, and the

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prices are such that the mass of the clergy of that faith may possess the whole. Among the departments of this vast collection are biblical literature, dictionaries, atlases, analytical tables, concordances, and works of the Fathers, 200 volumes; histories and acts of councils, 80 volumes; canon law, 150 volumes; lives of the saints, 100 volumes; ascetical works, 100 volumes; ecclesiastical and universal biography, 100 volumes; controversial works, 100 volumes; ecclesiastical history and geography, 300 volumes; theological encyclopædias, 50 volumes.

M. Jules Bonnet, who had been commissioned in the reign of Louis Philippe to collect the letters of Calvin in the public libraries of France, Geneva, etc., has found 497, of which 190 are written in the French language, and 307 in Latin. This correspondence promises great interest. It commences in 1524, when Calvin was yet on the benches of the University, and continues up to 1564, when he died. The greater part are addressed to Farel, Melancthon, Beza, and others. The French letters are written to the King of Navarre, the Duchess of Ferrara, the Prince of Conde, etc. One, of 23 pages, is addressed to the Duke of Somerset, the Lord Protector.-Evangelical Christendom, December.

There are five religious newspapers published in the Welsh language in the United States, as follows:-The Cyfaill (Friend), a Calvinistic or Whitfield Methodist paper, published in New York; The Cenhadror (Missionary) Congregationalist, published in Kemsen Oneida County, New York; where also is published a general newspaper, called The Detholydd (Eclectic); The Seven Orllewinol (Western Star), Baptist, published at Pottsville, Pennsylvania; The Drych (Mirror), New York. These circulate among the Welsh emigrants in the United States, of which it is estimated there are 200,000 in number.

There has been published recently in the United States a Dissertation on the coincidence between the Priesthood of Jesus Christ and Melchisedek, in three parts; in which the passages of Scripture relating to that subject, in the 14th chapter of Genesis, the 90th Psalm, and the 5th, 6th, and 7th chapters of the Epistle to the Hebrews, are explained; together with a sketch of the Life of Jesus Christ. By James Gray, D.D.

A cargo of books on Oriental languages and literature has arrived in Cork, as a present from the East India Company to the Queen's College in that city; and a writership in the Honourable Company is at the same time offered to be bestowed on such of the students as distinguish themselves in Sanscrit and Arabic literature.

The sum of £1,500 has been placed by Government at the disposal of Colonel Rawlinson, to assist towards the prosecution of excavations and enquiries in Assyria. Colonel Rawlinson will, it is understood, proceed immediately to Baghdad, and thence direct his explorations to any quarter that may appear likely to yield important results.

The subject of the Norrisian Prize (a medal and some books) Essay for the present year is the "Analogy between the Miracles and the Doctrines of Scripture." The candidate for this prize must be under 30, must be, or have been, a Cambridge student, and have attended twenty divinity lectures in the course of any one year.

The Halle monthly Review of Science and Literature has a valuable paper on the Rigveda by Professor Robb, of Tubingen, in which the Professor does full justice to Professor Wilson's translation of the Rigveda or Sanhita.

It is stated from Holsingford, in the Grand Duchy of Finland, that Dr. Everard Groenblad, Professor of Philology, has just made the discovery in the library of the Senate of several Palimpsests and other manuscripts, containing a great number of fragments of Latin authors. All the manuscripts are of the fourteenth century, and Dr. Groenblad is engaged in restoring the writing of the Palimpsests by means of chemical agencies.-Athenæum, Dec. 13th.

A Prospectus of a series of Manuals for Theological Students has been issued by Macmillan and Co., Cambridge. It announces that the works will endeavour to give, in a clear and interesting summary, the main Facts and Dates of each subject of

theological science up to the present state of knowledge, as well as the results of personal research. Copious references to original authorities will be added, so as to guide the student to sources of information, and likewise to guarantee the accuracy of the statements made. Two works on the Old Testament, four on the New, four on Church History, with one each on the Book of Common Prayer, the Three Creeds, and the Thirty-nine Articles are mentioned as in preparation. The authors are Clergymen of the English Church, and the series is primarily for the use of candidates for office in her ministry.

A Prospectus has been issued for the publication of Neander's Theological Lectures, to be produced under the editorial care of Dr. Julius Müller. The work will be issued in separate volumes at a cheap rate, and will form three divisions. 1. Exegesis of the New Testament. 2. Historico-Theological Lectures, including Church History, the History of Christian Doctrines and Morals, and Protestantism and Romanism. 3. Theological Lectures on Christian Doctrines and Ethics.

A Turkish Grammar has been published, compiled by Fuad Effendi, Mustershen of the Grand Vizier, a man known for his high attainments, assisted by Ahmed Djesrid Effendi, another member of the council of instruction. The work has been printed at Constantinople by Mr. Churchhill, and is to be had through the usual channel of the booksellers. Translations will be made into several languages.Athenæum, December 6th.

There has been published at Berlin a dissertation read by Leipsius before the Royal Academy of Berlin, on the first series of the Egyptian Gods, and its historicomythological origin, in which the author endeavours to shew that they were originally seven only, not eight.

A literal English translation from the Syriac-Peshito version of the New Testament by Dr. James Murdock, of Newhaven, has just been issued from the American press. The translation is literal; Saxon phraseology has been preferred to Latin; the obsolete forms of speech are adopted, and proper names are written as they are written in the authorized version; technical theological terms are avoided, and idiomatic phrases are translated by equivalent English ones.

Dr. Max Müller is at present editing for the Cambridge University Press, on the recommendation of Mr. Wilson, the Sanscrit Professor, a splendid edition of the Vedas. Dr. Müller obtained in 1849 a prize medal of 1200 francs from the French Institute for the best work on the comparative philology of the Indo-European languages as connected with the primitive civilization of the human race.-Literary Gazette, Dec. 13th.

The lately published Bibliotheca Biographica Lutherana, by E. M. Vogel, (Halle, 1851), gives the titles of no less than 1,321 works which have been published illustrative of the life of Luther.

The library of the Vatican is to receive the valuable collection of Oriental MSS. made by the late Monsignor Molso, Laureani's successor.-Athenæum, Nov. 8.

ANNOUNCEMENTS AND MISCELLANEOUS.

An interesting addition has been made to the study of comparative philology in the Great Polyglot Collection of the Lord's Prayer, in more than 800 specimens of Languages and Dialects, with interlineary translations, and transcriptions of the pronunciation into Roman types, and a complete series of the Alphabets of the World. This remarkable work, produced at Vienna by the skill and energy of the Director of the Austrian Imperial Government Printing Office, M. Alois Auer, Councillor of State, etc., has not hitherto been procurable by purchase; but in consequence of the notice its display at "The Exhibition "attracted, a few copies have been sent over for distribution

in England. It consists of the following divisions :—1. The Lord's Prayer, in 608 specimens of Languages and Dialects, in Roman types; with an interlineary translation (except in a few cases) arranged geographically. 2. The Literature of the attempts hitherto made by other compilers to form these Polyglot collections. 3. 208 specimens of the Lord's Prayer, in the characters appropriated to the various Languages and Dialects, printed with movable types cut expressly for the work, with an interlineary translation, and a literal transcription into Roman letters, so far as possible. 4. A tabular display of the Native Alphabets of the entire World, so far as known, with the powers of the letters in Roman equivalents. 5. A Synopsis of Adelung's Mithridates. 6. Beautifully executed illuminated Titles, Portraits, Indexes, Bibliographical Lists, etc. This work is printed on very stout paper, in the highest style of typography, and is delivered in a neat portfolio.

There is in the press, by Messrs. Carter, of New York, and will be published simultaneously in London by Messrs. Nisbet and Co., a work by Jonathan Edwards, entitled Discourses on Christian Love. It will be edited from the original MS. by the Rev. Tryon Edwards, D.D., and consists of sixteen lectures on 13th chapter of 1 Corinthians. The work is said to be marked throughout by that strong and clear thought, and that thorough knowledge of human nature which characterize the treatises on the "Will" and the "Affections."

Preparing for publication, by the Oriental Translation Society, The Li-ki; translated by Professor Stanislaus Julien. This ancient Chinese work, which is attributed to Confucius, was the original Moral and Ceremonial Code of China, and is still the principal authority on those subjects in that empire.

A collation of the Syriac MSS. of the New Testament, both Nestorian and Jacobite, that are accessible in England, by the Rev. Samuel Lee, D.D. This collation will include the various readings of the Syriac MSS. of the New Testament in the British Museum, and the libraries at Oxford, Cambridge, etc.

The Hexaglott Pentateuch, or, the Five Books of Moses, in Hebrew, Hebrew Samaritan, Chaldee Samaritan, Chaldee Syriac, and Arabic; printed on the interlinear system. To be completed in 5 vols. 8vo., containing nearly 3,000 pages.

The Theological Systems of Peter Lombard, Thomas Aquinas, and Duns Scotus; in three Books. With an Introductory Essay on Scholastic Theology, and its relation to Moral and Theological Science. By William J. Irons, B.D., Vicar of Brompton.

Comparative Tables of the Semitic Languages, containing the Alphabets, Pronouns, Verbs, Nouns, etc., of the Hebrew, Samaritan, Chaldee, Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic Languages. In large folio.

Theophilus Hibernicus. By the Rev. Christopher Wordsworth, D.D., Canon of Westminster. (Rivingtons).

Journal of a Visit to Thessaly, Albania, and Mount Athos. By the Rev. G. F. Bowen, Rector of the Greek University, Corfu. (Rivingtons).

Dr. Neander's Denkwürdigkeiten, etc.; or, Memorabilia from the History of the Christian Life, a third and enlarged edition of which, in two volumes, was published at Hamburgh in 1845-46, is in course of translation by Mr. J. E. Ryland, of Northampton, for Mr. Bohn's "Standard Library.'

A new edition, in a modern form, of the scarce work of Samuel Clarke, D.D., on the Trinity; with his Remarks on the Sufficiency of the Apostles' Creed, on Baptism, etc. By the Rev. Deacon Morrell.

Willett's Synopsis Papismi; or, Compendium of the Protestant Controversy. Carefully revised and edited by the Rev. John Cumming, D.D. To be issued in monthly volumes.

A new edition of Dr. Gill's Commentary on the Bible, printed verbatim from the last quarto edition; and to appear in monthly parts, in royal 8vo., forming six volumes when complete.

Sacred Streams; or, the Ancient and Modern History of the Rivers of the Bible. Edited by the Rev. George B. Cheever, D.D. Shortly.

The Heroes and Martyrs of the Modern Missionary Enterprise. Edited by L. E. Smith, Esq. With an introduction by William D. Sprague, D.D. 1 vol. 8vo., plates.

A new edition of Dr. Isaac Barrow's works is preparing for publication, compared with the original MSS., and enlarged with materials hitherto unpublished. Edited for the Syndics of the University of Cambridge.

In the press, a Memoir and Remains of the late Rev. J. Harington Evans. Edited by his Son.

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By the Rev. Daniel Katterns. 1 vol. 8vo.

COTEMPORARY PERIODICAL LITERATURE.

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The October Number of the American BIBLIOTHECA SACRA is somewhat heavy and unusually deficient in Biblical matter. The life of Zwingli, commenced in a previous number, is completed. There is a large paper on " Government and Popular Education," the object of which, not without significance to us, is to shew, "that it is among the most solemn and imperative obligations resting on a government, to provide by law for the thorough instruction of all the children in the community." Dr. Hagenbach's Academic addresses on Neander's services as a Church Historian appears here in a translation. Hagenbach's own eminence in the same department, and the prominence of his name as "a successor to the chair of Neander" gives a peculiar value to this discriminating and impartial survey of Neander's labours. The single Biblical essay is on the import of the Hebrew phrase rendered, "They pierced my hands and my feet." It is in vindication of this translation, in opposition to the Jewish interpretation which has lately had some countenance from "a popular and excellent expositor," the Rev. Joseph Addison Alexander-the author of Commentaries on Isaiah and on the Psalms. This version is " as a lion, my hands and feet,”—an interpretation which the present writer, the Rev. Robert W. Landis, has no great difficulty in demolishing.

The BRITISH QUARTERLY REVIEW, No. XXVIII., Article II., in a pleasing style endeavours to meet objections to literature on religious grounds. Article IV. is an able review of a work on sin by a German, Dr. Julius Müller, the conclusion of which is that "the origin of sin is, and must ever continue to be, utterly inexplicable to the human mind. So soon as we begin to deduce it speculatively, we inevitably miss it. ... Our author propounds no theory of the origin of sin; he is content to endeavour the humbler task of explaining its possibility." In Article IX., the tendency of ultraunitarianism to " downright infidelity and relinquishment of all faith in the supernatural origin of the Gospel" is very clearly made out.

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The NORTH BRITISH REVIEW, Article IV., in a review of Newman's Hebrew Monarchy and Greg's Creed of Christendom, illustrates "the sort of objections to the Old Testament which are now passing current in some quarters of our literature, together with some of the principles by which they may be judged. . . In a great degree these objections consist of bold and unsupported assertions, or of arguments which the thoughtful and intelligent writers themselves would deride on any other subject." Article VI. is a picturesquely written paper on Dr. John Owen. "The excellences of his treatises, and the main causes of their redundances," are ascribed to the systematic nature of his mind; "that he could only discuss a special topic with reference to the entire scheme of truth... but so devout was his disposition, that instead of