THE

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CHRISTIAN EXAMINER

AND

RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY.

VOLUME XLII.

FOURTH SERIES, VOLUME VII.

JANUARY, MARCH, MAY, 1847.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM CROSBY.

NEW YORK: C. S. FRANCIS & CO.

LONDON: JOHN CHAPMAN, 121 NEWGATE STREET.

CONTENTS.

ARTICLE

I. HUGO GROTIUS AND HIS TIMES

1. History of Holland from the Beginning of the Tenth to

the End of the Eighteenth Century. By C. M. Davies.

2. Hugo Grotius nach seinen Schicksalen und Schriften

dargestellt. Von Heinrich Luden.

3. Hugonis Grotii Epistolæ.

II. BEARD'S EXHIBITION OF UNITARIANISM

Unitarianism exhibited in its Actual Condition; consisting

of Essays by several Unitarian Ministers and others,

illustrative of the Rise, Progress, and Principles of

Christian Anti-Trinitarianism in different Parts of the

World. Edited by the Rev. J. R. Beard, D. D.

IV. THE PROGRESS OF NATIONS

Essays on the Progress of Nations in Productive Industry,

Civilization, Population, and Wealth; illustrated by

Statistics of Mining, etc. By Ezra C. Seaman.

V. THE GERMAN CATHOLIC MOVEMENT.

1. The New Reformation: John Ronge and the Holy

Coat.

2. History of the Robe of Jesus Christ: translated from

the French, with Notes.

3. The German Schism. By W. R. Greg.

4. The Mission of the German Catholics. By G. G. Ger-

vinus.

5. The Apostolical Christians and Catholics of Germany.

By Henry Smith.

6. Recollections of a Summer Tour in Belgium, etc. By

J. W. Massie, D. D.

7. Laing's Notes on the Pilgrimage to Treves.

8. The Protestant Friends. By Pastor Uhlich.

9. Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung.

10. Theologische Quartalschrift.

VI. LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE OF JOHN FOSTER .

The Life and Correspondence of John Foster. Edited by

J. E. Ryland.

VII. NOVELS AND NOVEL-WRITING

1. Euvres de George Sand.

2. Consuelo. By G. Sand. Translated by F. G. Shaw.

3. The Wandering Jew. A Novel. By Eugene Sue.

4. The Hunchback of Notre Dame. By Victor Hugo.

5. Coningsby. By B. D'Israeli.

6. Lucretia. By Sir E. L. Bulwer.

7. I Promessi Sposi : The Betrothed. By A. Manzoni.

8. Mosses from an Old Manse. By Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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9. The Step-mother. A Romance. By G. P. R. James.

10. The Novels of Jane Austen.

11. The Grumbler. By Miss Ellen Pickering.

12. Chillon. By Jane Louisa Williams.

13. The Three Guardsmen.

By Alexander Dumas.

14. The Redskins. By J. Fennimore Cooper.

15. Ni Jamais, Ni Toujours.

Par Paul de Kock.

16. Fleming Field. By J. H. Ingraham.

17. Ellen Templeton. By the Author of " The Mysteries

of Boston."

VIII. THE LOSS OF THE STEAMER ATLANTIC

IX.

WORKS ON SWEDENBORGIANISM

1. Statement of Reasons for embracing the Doctrines and

Disclosures of Emanuel Swedenborg. By George Bush.

2. Lectures on Swedenborgianism. By Leonard Woods,

D. D.

3. Swedenborgianism reviewed. By Enoch Pond, D. D.

4. Mesmer and Swedenborg. By George Bush.

5. The Doctrines of Spinoza and Swedenborg identified.

By

NOTICES OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

Conant's Gesenius's Hebrew Grammar, - Stuart's Gese-

nius's Hebrew Grammar,

119

129

136

137

139

140

141

141

142

143

143

144

144

Wells's Grammar,-Goldsbury's New Theories of Grammar 145

Randall's Geology,

Sedgwick's Morals of Manners,

Ballou's Christian Non-resistance,

Parker's Sermon of the Perishing Classes,

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Parker's

Sermon of Immortal Life, Withington's Anniversary

Sermon, - Tilden's Discourse on Evangelical Alli-

ance, - May on Rights and Condition of Women,

Gannett's Discourse on Temperance Cause, Hol-

land's Thanksgiving Discourse, Fosdick's Sermon

on Scriptural Temperance, - Holmes's Urania, - Ev-

erett's Address and Hayward's Lecture,

CONTENTS.

ARTICLE

I. MORAL INFLUENCE OF WAR

Napoleon and his Marshals. By J. T. Headley.

II. MAN'S ENMITY TO GOD

The Three Grand Exhibitions of Man's Enmity to God.

By David Thom.

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181

195

201

1. Consuelo. By George Sand. Translated by Francis

G. Shaw.

2. Euvres de George Sand.

3. The Countess of Rudolstadt. (Sequel to Consuelo.)

Translated by Francis G. Shaw.

By George Sand.

4. Jacques. By George Sand. Translated by Anna

Blackwell.

V. CLOUGH'S SELECT WORKS

A Series of Articles and Discourses, Doctrinal, Practi-

cal and Experimental; constituting the Select Works

of Simon Clough.

VI. PEABODY'S SERMONS ON CONSOLATION

Christian Consolations.

227

240

Sermons designed to furnish

Comfort and Strength to the Afflicted. By A. P.

Peabody.

VII. POETRY AND IMAGINATION

1. The Estray: a Collection of Poems.

2. Schiller's Homage of the Arts, etc. By Charles T.

Brooks.

3. The Island Bride and other Poems. By James F.

Colman.

4. Poems. By Thomas Buchanan Read.

5. Poems of Many Moods. By C. G. Fenner.

6. Poems. By William W. Story.

7. Poems. By William Ellery Channing.

8. Songs of the Sea, with other Poems. By Epes Sar-

gent.

9. Poems. By R. W. Emerson.

10. The New Timon.

VIII. CRITICAL REMARKS ON THE ACCOUNTS OF THE TRANSFIG-

URATION

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