fbite’s Salrlt. SCRIBNER Si CO. Schaff. History oftheChristianChurcli. By Philip Schaff, D. D. Vole. 11., 111., from Constantine the Great to Gregory the Great. Bvo.,pp. 1Q37. $7.50. These volumes complete the distinguished au thor’s History of Ancient Christianity, to which his history of the Apostolic Church, also pub lished by Scribner, formed the introduction; and which it is his intention to follow with the his tory of more Modern eras. The work, in fact, is a translation, Dr. Schaff having, written the greater part of it in German, in which* language it appears simultaneously at Leipsio. Dr. Yeo mans of Eochesterjhaß work of translation, except in- some places which the au thor himself wrote in English. As to the character of the work itself, it is scarcely necessary s to .repeat the favorable verdict which its earlierportioris received from the Chris tian public. The Narrative of the outward vicis situdes of the Church is told with clearness, fair ness and brevity. The character of Constantine is drawn with discrimination. Nor .are the la mentable inconsistencies into which the Church fell in this era of worldly prosperity concealed from view. Admirable is “The Downfall of Heathenism,” §7. After the External History, come, in separate chapters: The Literary Tri umph of Christianity over Greek and Homan Heathenism; Alliance of Church and State and its inflnence on Public Morals and Religion; Mo nasticism; The Hierachy and Polity of the-Church; Church Discipline and Schisms; Public Worship and Religious Customs and Ceremonies. The second volume opens with a chapter on Christian Art; but i 3 mainly occupied with- Theology, in two general divisions: Development of the Ecu menical Orthodoxy; Church Fathers and Theo logical Literature. In many respects, this must be regarded as the best Church History accessible to English stu dents. It combines the thoroughness and specu- lative depth of Neander with the freshness and vivacity,of Milman. It unites, : in other 1 wofds, some of the bestqualities of German and of English thinking and writing, which,rim; the department of Church History have hitherto been found in separate writers only. Its views of the relation of the Church to human activity are broad, while it grasps and vindicates with clearness and firm ness the central truths of its inner life. No as pect of modern- thought bearing upon his great subject has escaped the observing glance of the author. Even Tennyson is called in to give-beauty and distinctness to the picture 'of St. Symeon Stylites. But the strict scientific aim of the work is never sacrificed for a-display of rhetoric or learning. A living interest is made to pervade every part. The fine instincts and noble sympa thies of the writer not only fit him to present ad equately the great characters whom he meets, but ' kindle the enthusiasm of his readers. The read- ing of the history cannot be a mere-student’s job, it is a rare enjoyment. Besides the methodical arrangement of the ma terials, they are rendered more accessible by an Index. Day. Elements of Logic, Comprising the Doctrine of the Laws and Products of Thought and the Doctrine of Method, together with a Logical Praxis, designedTor.Cla-sesand for Private St,udy.' By Henry N. Day,'author of “ Art of Rhetoric,” “ Rhetorical Praxis,” &c. 12mo. pp. 237. $1.50. We have here brought within the reach of learners and teachers the results of modern specu lation in the field of Logic; where perhaps greater improvements of a practical sort have been made, than in any department of philosophy. Sir Wm. Hamilton's services in abolishing the barbarous methods transmitted to us from the schoolmen, and in further advancing the science, are fully re cognized by the author and incorporated in his work. Nor must we omit mention of his own services in giving a more rigid exactness to the science and in clearing of obscurity some of its im portant and hitherto imperfectly understood de partments. It marks a real advance in pedago gical literature and we cannot doubt that it will make its way into our higher schools of learning. De Vere. Studies in English; or Glimpses of the Inner Life of our Language. By M. Scheie de Vere, LL. D., Professor of Modem Languages in the University of Virginia. Crown Bvo. pp. 365. 82.50. We owe this volume, it seems, to the fore thought of the great Jefferson, who, in founding the University of Virginia, made provision for a course of Lectures on the Anglo Saxon by the Professor of Modern Languages. The author has for many years held this position, and has been led to the production of the “Studies,” in which he seeks to point out those topics which deserve most attention and those methods which lead to a profit able study on a historic basis. In an easy and perspicuous style he treats of the Relations and Elements of the English tongue, Latin in English, English sounds, Orthography, and Accent, Names of Places and of Men, How nouns are made, used and abused, Adjectives and Pronouns, How we count, Living words, Adverbs, Particles and Shifting Letters. A vast amount of valuable in formation, accessible, we think, no where else, is conveyed in these chapters. The book must be viewed as a step forward in the line of investiga tion already pursued so successfully by Max Mueller, Prof. Marsh and others. It is issued in uniform style with Scribner’s Editions of Muel ler’s Science of Language, on laid tinted paper, and handsomely bound. THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY,’ FEBRUARY'2B, 1867. EDMUND KHIKE'S NEW TESTAMENT. Kirke. The Life of Jesus, according to his original Biographers. With- Notes by Edmund. Kirke. Author of “ Among 'the Pines,” “ Patriot Boys, and Prison Pictures,” Ac. Boston, Lee'A Shep ard. 16mo. pp. 297. This volume puts the rather sensational author of “ Among the Pines” in a new and pleasing light. It is the habits of reading the New Testament, in which he was led to arrange the four gospels into a single consecu tive story, upon the plan of Robinson’s harmony. Ministerial friends qn,feeipg. what pared, solely for private use, strongly urged its publication, and it now appears, with a few ex-; planatory notes, and with'the language somewhat modernized, though not radically altered, from that of; our received. English ,;AU:such undertakings on the part of our literary men are tokens of good. They prove how deep is the in terest felt in such circles ‘in the Life of Christ; and they are calculated to interest a still wider circle inC^hegreat;filets’of.Giiristiahity‘by present ing them in fresh forms and under new names to the public. . jl; j ;JA The manner in which Mr. Kirke has accom plished his work, for the most part, meets our views. His alterations of the English version are done. ~ decided imilimpfoveWeiitA where -Dives lint hell (Hades,, says Mr. Kirke) speaks’of the end of Lazarus’ finger, instead of the “tip,” as the old version has it. The notes generally are real helps briefly and judiciously ‘introduced; yet here we observe that Lukeas accused-of an error in fact, in the account of the healing of the blind man at Jericho; & parallel 0 the lifsairens at the baptism'of our Saviour, is found in Livy; and the temptation’ik-positively resolved into a symbolical representation of an internal experi ence-of the S ( ayiour. So that while the superna tural, in miracle or prophecy, is not questioned at all, one feels that-the writer’stands father upon the outer circles of Evangelical belief. The paper, presswork, and binding of the vo lume are exceedingly handsome. Howitt. A Story of English Country-Life, by Wm Howitt. Three English volumes in one. Pliila, T. B. Peterson & Bros. 12tno. pp. 402. $2. - In this work of fiction, the writer accomplishes several purposes. Besides interesting and charm ing the reader with his vivid descriptions of En glish scenery, and stirring them with a first class sensation, ctA* Miss Braddon, he instructs them as to such English characters as may be found in a decaying landed aristocracy .on the one hand, and in a family rising on the other hand, from pauperism to wealth by the honest lab A and tri umphant energy of one of its members; he brings forward his co-religionists, the Quakers, “best foot foremost,” and last of all he inculcates his own peculiar latitudinarian faith in the superna tural. Of sensational novels, Mr:Mowitt’s l book is probably among the very purest, and without doubt it is something of pearl amid the fathomless mass of rubbish which the people are silly enough to buy and read, and which therefore, will never want publishers. The green and gilt, binding of Woodburn Grange is very. ; handsome. PERIODICALS AND PAMPHLETS. Sunday Magazine for February Contains: The Huguenot Family in- the English Village; An Earnest Cry, by Laidy E. C.; Peter Martyr; How to use the Epistles, by Dean Alford; Rights of Women, by Dr. Guthrie; Auntie’s Lessons; Seven Consciences:—A Seared Consience, hy De Liefde ; The Feeding of the Five Thousand; Luther,•'the Singer,._&c- One'of tlic full page En gravings, called “the Martyr,” only a month be fore served in the pages of “Good Words" for an entirely different purpose.!being made to ac company a poem called " A Legend of the Coun cil of Nice,” in which there is no allusion to mar tyrdom. Harper’s Magazine is the first monthly for March on our table. Its principal articles are a Continuation of Strother’s Personal Recollections of the War, and Two Hundred Thousand Spiders; the latter being a discussion of the Silk spinning Spider of the Sea Islands, fully illustrated. UTESAKY INTELU6ENCE. American Libraries. —The historical library of Mr. Peter Force is by far the most valuable collection of books and manuscripts relating to American history that has ever been brought to gether by one person in this country. There is a very large collection of the early American voy ages; of early printed American books, every day becoming rarer, there are ten times as many as in the Congressional Library. Of the laws and jour nals of the early colonial assemblies there are over two hundred volumes, few of which have been re printed, and none of which are in the Congres sional Library. The Library of Congress has not an American newspaper printed prior to 1789. The Force Library has very complete files from 1735 to 1800, about-245 volumes. It has also nearly 40,000 pamphlets relating to America, of which 8,310 were printed prior to 1800. The collection of atlases, maps, and plans relating to America is absolutely unique. While the na tional library has not a single autograph letter or paper of our Revolutionary generals and states men, the Force collection has forty-eight folio volumes of rare and valuable autograph letters, be sides various military journals, reports, private journals of George Washington, Gen Green, Ar thur Lee, Paul Jones, and two unpublished man uscript works of Las Casas—in all 429 volumes. There are also beside about 310 folio MS. volumes of collections prepared by Mr. Force for his “American Archives,” all copies of old papers, the originals of which are in many cases now de stroyed, This superb collection Mr, Force is willing to sell to the Government for $lOO,OOO. During the past year the Congressional library received 7,251 volumes and about 600 pamphlets; of the books 5,603 volumes were gained by pur chase; 645, chiefly official documents, by gift; 167 by exchange, and only 836 by the operation of the copyright law. The library now contains 99,650 volumes, exclusive of the 40,000 volumes, more or less, of the Smithsonian Institute, which are to be incorporated with it as a special deposit. American Announcements. — Lippincott & Co. Terra Mariae ; or, Threads of Maryland Colo nial. History, by Edward D. Neill, one of the Secre taries of the President of the United States. P. Putnam & Son, New Yorlc. Natural The, ology: Lowell Lectures, By Prof. P. A. Chad bourne; The Creator’s Works: being,a reprint of “Benedicite,” by G. C. Child, M- D> Sugges,; tians-for.. Household- .Libraries, af EssentiaLand Standard Books, exclusive of Scientific and Reli gious Works: . l-2mo. pp. 24. Dap: ,10 cts. W. Gould, Albany: American Ecclesiascial Law; the Law of Religious Societies, Church Govern ment and Creeds, Disturbing Religious Meetings, -,an' Mrs. E. Ji Humphrey, 16mo. pp. 286. Gl. $1.25,- .. Japanese Popular df 'andrite'resting'and singular bdok i ’aLrfe'’'t6 be seen" and had at Scribner’s. .It is .called “Hyak nia is’shiu, or StanzWby a Ceritury of Poets; being Japanese l'yrieil odfes ' translated into - English verse,”~by E. .V>Dickinsj-M-B-,-’ T.he-criginal text is'also given, 1 aPPthere are 'added' copious notesand a glossary. The odes themselves are great favorites with every Japenese household, high and low, and every Japanese child can re peat many of" them: The-compilation was the work of Teika or Sadaihe, about A. D. 1230.- C. Scribner & Go. will have ready in March, The Literary Life of J. K. Paulding, to be fol lowed by four volumes of Select Works of James ,K. Paulding’ uniform with it. Volumes 9 and 10 of Froude’s England; a fourth volume of Lange’s . Commentary and a Treatise on Homileties' by Prqf. Shedd. ~ ■ - Li, England. —Statistics of British Publishing'in 1866.—“ The Bookseller” (London) states,-that for the year' 1866, the following are the facts of British; publishings , There appeared 4204 new bgQks and j njejr editions: Religions i)boks;?Shd‘ pamphlets, 849; biographical and historical, 194; medical and surgical, 160; poetry and the ,drama,; 232; novels, 39<); minor fiction and, children’s b00k5,.544; travels, topography and geography, 195; annuals and serials (volumes only,) 225; agriculture, horticulture, &c., 64; English phi lology and education, 196; European and classi cal.philology and translation, 161; law, 84; na val, military, and ..enginneripg 39; Sqiqn.ce, Na tural'.History;, &c., 117; trade and commerce; 79; politics and'questions of the day, 167; illustrated works, 85; art, architecture, &c., 34; miscellane ous, riot classified, 359 —total, 4204. In Novero- Ber, 1866, over 500 new books arid-mew editions were published in England. Early. English Language. —Mr. R. Mooris has just published “Specimens of Early English, selected from: the chief English Authors,LA- D. 1250—1400; with Grammatical Introduction, Notes, and Glossary.” Mr. Morris has classified thc 'specialties of the early dialects, under* the he'ads'oPNorther'n, Midland, and Southern.' The outlines of the Early English grammar are, how ever, based on the Southern dialect only. To each declension and conjugation is added the Anglo-Saxon one from which it was degraded, so that its origin is clearly seen. After treating all the parts of speech, Mr. Morris introduces a set of sentences as exercises on the grammar, and then begins his specimens. These include passa ges from every important work of the period, and are very fully and correctly annotated, with a complete glossary. Ciiarles Dickens.— This very successful au thor is stated to have sold-250,000 copies of “Mugby Junction” within three weeks of its first publication, and now announces public read ings of the “Barbox” chapters, and the revela tions about rail-way refreshment stations, by “ The Boy at Mugby.” ■Oxford Chair of Poetry. —ln May, Mr: Matthew-Arnold, M. A., will resign the Professor-: .ship of Poetry in the University of Oxford to -which he was elected in 1857. Among its occu pants have been Dean Milman and the Rev. John Keble. Among the candidates is John Ruskin. 'Jural Stuitmtui;. BE GENTLE WITH TOUR STOCK. I presume that no man of experience or of observation will disagree with me, when I assert that a quiet or gentle disposition can be cultivated as well as bred, in most, if not all domestic animals. Point me to a man who loves his horses, cattle, sheep, hogs, and poultry, and I will show you a gentle, quiet, orderly stock. On the contrary, show me a bad tempered, unfeeling farmer, or herdsman, and I will insure you kicking, runaway horses, hooking unruly cattle, wild and unquiet sheep and hogs. This is the rule. There may be exceptions, but they are few and far between. There are un doubtedly cases in the management of horses and cattle, where sharp and decided discipline may be necessary and proper; but the cases are rare aiid should be treated with coolness and judgment, and hot as is gene rally the case when under the influence of passion. The model horseman oVliex-dsman, when he goes into the stable, always has a kind word for his horse, a gentle pat for his neck, or a stroke over his head or nose. If a horse is fond of his keeper, he likes to smell of him and eat out of his hand. When he goes to catch a horse from thepasture, he takes an ear of corn or a handful of oats. Ho never goes into the field where his ani mals run, without having a talk with them. Perhaps you. do not believe, doubting read er, that dumb animals can understand hu man language. Still they can, and you may laugh at me if you are. so inclined, when I assure you that I find vastly more enjoy ment in talking with an intelligent horse than in conversation with a human ninny. I am not alone in the indulgence of these “ beastly ” tastes. Some of the wisest and best of'our'race have, at times, reckoned it among their greatest enjoyments to mingle with their flocks and herds. One of the greatest minds the world ever produced, the “ God-like Daniel,” was never so happy as when sauntering among his Alderneys and his Devons. Who. doubts that his animals were.quiet and peaceable? I have some what wandered from my text, but my aim has been to show that if we love our domes tic animals, we shall bc kind and gentle with them, ,Und that such treatment generally be gets, a,like disposition in them. On the con trary, a mail who rarely goes near his horse or cow without an angry word or a kick, generally has bad tempered and unruly ani mals. It is easy to show that such treat ment is unprofitable, as well as inhuman. All dairymen will bear me out in the asser tion that a' quiet/gentle milker gets one third more milk than one who kicks and pounds his cows about. A kind and humane, teamster, whp loves and takes good. care;(of ; hm.team, will do more work in the lo'nga-un; with much less of wear and • tear, tb.anjdhe ill tempered cur who overdrives and abuses lhis horses. How mean and unmanly; as well as'unwise, to let our’temper have vent upon the poot innocent creatures whom God, in His providence, has placed under our con trol! When He decreed that man should “ have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowls of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth,” he did not design that he should play the tyrant, or abuse the Responsibility thus imposed upon him; but that he should so act as to hasten the happy period when “ the wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with I 'the kid, and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together, ,and ,a li ; .ttie child shall lead them.” If this peaceable epoch shall ever ,be brought about it will be through human instrumentality, when men shall, cultivate ■ peace not only among-na tions, States and communities, but. in their own households. and farm-yards.— H P.-8., in Country Gentleman. ■BUCKWHEAT OAKES. A lady of culture, refinement, and unusual, powers,of observation and comparison, be came a widow, lledueed from affluence to poverty, with .a large family of small chil dren dependent’on her manual labor for daily foody she made a" variety of experiments to ascertain what .articles could be purchased for the least money, and'would, at the same time,-‘‘go the furthest,” by keeping her chil dren .longest from crying for. something -to: eat.' She soon discovered that when* they ate buckwheat cakes and molasses they were quie.t for a longer time than after eating any other kind of food- A distinguished judge of the. 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