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After the recent death of the beloved KRUM-
DiActiEß, his family was surprised to find, and
the public deligheed to hear of, an AUTOBIO-
GRAPILY which had lain among his papers, of the
existence of which they had not the least suspi
cion. This document covered over fifty years of
his life (1796-1848.) It is now published, with
a dditions, embracing the remaining twenty years,
in which, to a large extent, the good man still
speaks for himself in his correspondence. The
style of the work is animated, fresh and familiar,
as in conversation; ample materials of the most
varied and interesting character, were presented
in a life covering, and connected with, such an
eventful era in the history of Church and State
in Germany. One is struck with the evident
happiness of a childhood passed amid the trying
scenes of the French Revolution and the Napo
leonic wars. The picture of his early domestic
life is homely and yet strikingly beautiful. As
his education is carried on at different German
Universities, we are introduced-to the Professors
and leading men of eaoh, in brief, but effective
portraits ; and that remarkable period of the re
ligious and intellectual life of Germany, when
rationalism and cold infidelity were yielding to
evangelistic influences, is placed before us in the
inner life of one of the great ornaments of the
new and better period. All is disposed of brief
ly however. There is no story of a protracted
struggle darkening and convulsing the soul. The
genial nature bestowed by the Creator upon
Krummacher, rose quickly to happy regions of
experience scarcely clouded by doubt. It is an
interesting fact in his history that Dr. Krum
macher was called to a professor's chair in Mer
cersburg in our State, and that when he declined
he suggested Dr. Schaff for the position. Thus
the American Church owes to the subject of this
memorial no common debt of gratitude.
The volume, with its careful and instructive
annotations, forms a valuable introduction to the
history of German theology, German uni
versities, and the personal character,of German
thinkers of the 19th century. It is an Bvo.,
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with a photograph of the writer.,,
SORROW, by Rev. John Reid,like his previous
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ARMY LIFE IN A Br am P,EGIMENT, by the
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LEE a . SHEPARD. BOSTON.,'
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. HESTER STRONG'S LIFE WORK belongs to
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THE PRESBYTERIAN PUB. CON
Dr. Helffenstein of Germantown, appropriate
ly marks the close of a most faithful evangelical
ministry, by issuing a little volume—THE SA
VIOUR WE NEED,---within whose narrow com
pass-are clearly and skilfully, yet simply stated,
the marrow of all his preaching. The whole
plan of salvation is set forth in a wise and beau
tiful mingling of the doctrinal and practical,
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ious interest. The introduction by Dr. H. D.
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18mo., pp. 196.
ELLA DALTON is a story of school life and
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may mislead even the believer and bring on a
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,The illustra
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STORIES FOR ALL SEASONS, by two sisters,
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OLDEN'S MISSION is a brief rehearsal of the
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remembrance. pp. '79.
OTHER JUVENILES.
ALFRED MARTIEN publishes quite a list. NEL
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cing to lead a right life, 18mo., pp. 173. (By
Mary A. Denison.) HARRY'S BATTLES is an
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same
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JEM admirably illustrates the power of forgive
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human beings. pp. 108. ANNE'S SATURDAY
AFTERNOONS is a story 'of girl life, the value of
which is mainly in the excellent stories intro
duced as episodes, in which prominent faults of
the young are effectively reproved. 18mo., pp.
150. (Mary A. Denison.) SCRUB, OR THE POOR
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apprentice, and the poor house boy, whose good
principles alone carried him far ahead of the ef
feminate apprentice, in the struggle of life. All
illustrated.
THE PRESBYTERIAN BOARD have issued TELL
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the thirty-four stories it contains—and a very
good beginning it is. 184n0., pp. 216. MAR
GARET LA.WRENOE is also the opening story of
another series ; Margaret is changed from a mere
slattern to be the comfort of, her poor home, by
the, gentle persuasions of a Christian visitor.
EDITH'S Two ACCOUNT BOOKS illustrates, in a
striking way, the great doctrine of salvation
the sinner's debt all paid by the \ divine Substi
tute. pp. 212. FOOTSTEPS IN THE LIGHT is a
story of Pennsylvania life„in which the strug
gles of an impetuous, young nature with sin and
self are well and instructively described. pp. 158.
THE AMERICAN SUNDAY-SOROOL UNION has
just published A YEAR IN SIINDAY-SOROOL, a
lvok that ought to be in every Sunday-school
teacher's hands. It is, in fact, a guide-book in
the form of a most pleasing and well:Constructed
narrative. The honorableness, the ,discourage
meats, and the successes of the true teacher are
described by one whose discernment of character
is no less a qualification for, writing than for
teaching. 18mo., pp 267.
From R. CARTER & BROS. Wit have TIBBY THE
•OHARWOMAN, a story illustrating the . precious
PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1869.
ness of a word spoken in season, and the leaven
like movement of true piety from heart to heart.
Several other brief stories are found in the vol
ume. 18mo., pp. 171.
JOHN BRETT'S HOUSEHOLD (Garrigues) was
a sorrowful place; a large family, a negligent
wife, a busy father, children fast falling into evil
ways, and everything going to destruction. Bat
the presence of a girl brought up by a pious and
competent woman, and her conscientious life
amid extraordinary trials, work a great and de
lightful change, though it cannot avert all the
bad consequences of parental neglect. A. story
of much and varied interest, and of considerable
narrative power. By. Mrs. 0. E. K. Davis.
LITERARY ITEMS.
—The discovery of Junius , so often :announced,
has at length, it is said, been placed beyond
doubt by the researches of the Hon.. Edward
Twistleton, of England, who has for the first time
called in the aid of a scientific expert in hand
writing, the well known Mr. Ch. Chabot. The
results will shortly be made public, together with
facsimiles of the autographs of Junius's _Letters
to Woodfall and George Greenville.
—Anthony Trollope received from his English
publishers £3,000 for his "He Knew He Was
Right.' It Was' ' published in thirty-six porta, at
sixpence each. The sale was poor, and it is said
in London that if the publishers had given Mr.
Trollope £2,000, and then destroyed the MSS.,
they would have been better off.
—The London correspondent of the Boston
I Daily Advertiser says it is reported that the son
and daughter of Mrs. Leigh' contemplate'bringing
a libel suit on accoua of Mrs. Stowe's attack on
their mother. The suit would •of course, have to
be brought, against Mr. Maclillan, the London
publisher of the attack.
—Roberts Bros. of Boston announce " The Pri
meval World of Hebrew Tradition," as to be
ready at an early day. The work is by Rev. F.
H. Hedge, D. D. The scholarly attainments of
this distinguished divine, and the great study
which marks all his productions, and• his conser
vative position in the Unitarian Church, will give
him a wide circle of readers.
—Poets sometimes steal from themselves. In
Tennyson's latest poem, "The Mystic," occurs
the phrase "divinely tall," which is found in his
" Vision of Fair Women," published twenty-five
or thirty years ago. So says an exchange, but it
seems that the poem in qu,estion is not one of his
latest, but one of his early poems, which the The
Atlantic Almanac resuscitates.
—Professor Lane has introduced the Conti
nental pronunciation of lain and Greek at Har
vard, and it is to be used hereafter in the in
struction of all the classed.
—Thomas Watts, the ibrarian of the British
Museum, who died rece' tly, knew more than any
one living about the Museum Library, and yet
for years he was kept in a subordinate a position,
while a man who happened to be a favbrite with
the Prince Consort was put into the post of honor
and profit. Mr. Watts had thred quarters of a
million of books under his charge, and it is no
exaggeration to say that le kneo them all—he
could tell an inquirer exactly„iftere he could
find any information of which•he was in search
and would i put his hand in an instant on any
volume that happened to be wanted. His mem
ory never failed him. . He was always burrowing
among books, and his immense acquaintance with
foreign languates—he knew almost as many as
Cardinal Mezzofanti—enabled him to enrich the
Library with selections from the literature of
other nations. The Museum is now said to have
"The best English library in England or the
world, the best Russian library out of Russia,the
best German out of Germany, the best Spanish
out of Spain, and so for every language from
Italian to Icelandic, from Polish to Portuguese."
—Mr. William Howitt \is said • to be busy with
a history of the Society of Friends, of which he is
or has been a member. His latest contribution
to literature, (his lettters on the Stowe-Byron
controversy,) do not indicate a large measure of
the impartiality demanded by history. •
Blio,sinatty ttruto.
—Nothing is more wonderful among Baptist
missions, says The National Baptist, than the
progress of the Baptist cause in Germany. Mr.
Oneken, and' six 'others, were baptized. by Dr.
Sears, at Hamburg, April 22, 1834.. The next
day these persona, were organized into a Church,
and Mr. Oneken ordained pastor. From this
beginning the movement has grown, until n ow
the principal statistics are: Associations, Lit ;
Churches; 96 ; Stations and outstations, 1,188 ;
missionaries, 5 ;-.ministers and Bible eolporteurs,
about 250; Church members, 17,088; Sunday
schools, 115, with about 3,700 scholars.
Rev. John Robson, the very able, sensible, and
successful missionary of the Scotch V. P.
church, in Ajmere, India, is very much pleased
With a recent convert, of whom he says : "Be
sidds other good qualities he has the advantage
of beino . t' what some people would call: a ' muscu
lar Christian. He was very much delighted
with an explanation I one day gave of the verse,
" Glorify God in your bodies and spirits, which
are His." He at once set himself to drill one or
two younger inquirers, making . them get up
early in the morning to bathe and' have some
exercises or, gymnastics, which has produced a
change for the better on their appearance and
habits."
Dr: Valentine, of the same P., misaion, at
Jeypore, has about a .thousan pupils, more or
less, directly under his instruction, including 150
women and 400 prisoners in the jail. An • idea
of the extent of his work may be gained from
the following extract from the Missionary
Record:
"In the School of Arts there are now 'l2l
1 - Joys and young men. The blanches taught are
Pottery, wood engraving,' wood' and ivory carv-,
ing, carpentry, 'blacksmith's work, fitting; coach=
building, turning in wood and ivory, electro
plating and electrotyping. All are getting on
very well; indeed, it is now one of the sights in
Jeypore. One thing in connection with it is the
entire leveling of caste. Brahmins. Buniyas,
Rajpoots, etc., etc., are learning all kinds of
trades without distinction. The idea of getting
a Brahmin to touch a carpenter's tool, or to be
come a potter, never was heard of before in this
part of the country. In this school we have no
caste prejudices or distinctions. If we had done
nothing else, I should have looked upon this as a
perfect success. lam to establish a school for
reading. Each pupil will require to attend two
hours a day. Several important additions of
English and native books have during the past
year been made to our library, which now num
bers upwards of 6000 volumes. I have got a
class in the Medical Hall for the training of
apothecaries, and impounders of medicine, and
for those intending to study medicine in the
Agra •Medical School. I have just finished a
prospectus for the formation of a Social Science
congress for Rajpootana, having its head office
in Jeypore."
—A native convert, Rev. Tiyo Soga, has
. .
translated the PiloTim's Progress into Caffre.
The critics are quite enthusiastic in praise of
the work as a literary performance. Says one :
" The translation shows how carefully and suc
cessfully he has adapted the shades of meaning
peculiar to the Caffre language to the niceties of
English ideas. The pathetic and emotional
parts have been naturally and exquisitely ex
pressed ; and where the immortal Bunyan has
provoked a smile. by some quaint yet simple
pleasantry, the translator has caught the exact
meaning, and given a life-like reproduction of
the original. A point which appeared, to be
beset with difficulties was the names of Bunyan's
characters ; but in this the translator -has been
most felicitous, not only in the meanings of the
names, but in giving them in euphonious Caffre.
A few instances will serve to show this: Obsti
nate is Pikapele; Pliable is V umazonke ;
Worldly=Wiserhan, Sazinqazwe ; Love-of-vain
glory, Corqudumo;. Sir Harry Greedy, Bawela;
Implacable, Zondinzondo ' • with many others
which could not be, more happily translated."
—ln the Eastern Turkey mission of the Amer
loan Board, the little Protestant community of
Karabash, numbering only six, all young men
and without means, are trying to build a chapel
It will cost 4,000 or 5,000 piasters, ($6OO in
gold.) It was hoped that, the people of, Mardin,
4 neighboring station, would contribute from one
to two hundred piasters. They actually sub
scribed 678 piasters, or 170 days' labor, which
had nearly all been paid in when the missionary
wrote, July 13. .
—The Basle Missionary Society ;has issued its
forty-fifth annual report. Its expenditures have
been over 800;000 francs, deficiency 4767 frs.;
total debt, 173,753 frs. The number of Euro
pean laborers actually in, the field was 153: of
whom 93 were men ; but hely many of these had
received ordination, the report does not state:
The native agency is as follows : Native. deacons,
3; itinerant preachers, 4 ; catechists and evan
gelists, 90; male teachers and helpers, 54 :
female teachers, 28; heathen teachers, 25. The
additions to 'the congregations during the year
were 510, the number reported by the African
mission alone having been 372.
—Mr. Davis, of the Amoy mission (Reformed
Dutch) writes June 10:'"Hardly were we set
tled in China when tidings like these reached
our ears : From the west comes, The persecu
tion of - the Chha-than po people has ceased l
The Chiistians are invited back, and the hea
then have, entered into bonds not to disturb the
Christians in their worship of God. Thus a
door to a large portion of country is open to
admit the gospel. This good news is scarcely
told, when from the north comes the cheering
word, The Tong-an difficulty is nearly settled ;
and not only is that important city open ,to the
truth, but a large region beyond is ready to
listen to the doctrines of Jesus The echo of
our thanksgiving has hardly died away, when
from the large island of Quemoy, on the east, is
boine a message for missionaries and native
helpers to come and teach the many thousands
there of a Saviour."
—Mr. Ab'eong, the native Hawaiian missionary
to the Chinese in the Sandwich Islands, has at
tentive congregations, varying from about sixty
to one hundred in number. On account of many'
of his hearers coming from various parts of
China, he has always preached in two different
dialects, ,4 that all might comprehend. In con
nection with the Sabbath service , a Tuesday
evening prayer meeting has been held in Bethel
vestry; average atteddance about eighteen. Sev
eral have taken part in speaking and praying,
and it is encouraging to know that light seems
dawiting on Several minds.: Two' evening free
schools for Chinese are in progress in Honolulu.
Seieral of the scholars manifest ari eager desire
to learn to read the English language, and are
doing uncornunonlywell. A very intelligent young
man entered one evening as a new scholar, wholly
unacquainted 'with the alphabet, and in a little
more than half an hour he had' learned it. com
pletely.
WHAT WE OWE THE ARABS.
The industrious Arabs revived those use
ful arts which the barbarians of Europe
seemed anxious to forget. They wove the
richest fhbrics of wool, cotton, or silk; they
manufactured cloth of gold and carpets of
unequalled splendor ; their divans were cov
ered with satin cushions and velvet hang
ings, and, nanalins :and lace of fairy-like tex
ture adorned the Moslem bride. In metals
the Arabs were also excellent, workmen.
They forged bilge Chains and bars of -iron;
the steel of Damascus was renowned in the
cities of Europe. Their jewelry wasthe
fairest and costliest of the, age; they lavish.'
ed gold and silver in decorating their
mosques and their palaces, and their mints
produced a coinage that was the model- of
the European world. As architects they
invented a strangely graceful style;of build
jug, in which the fancy of the artist seemed
to revel in new creations, and of ,which the
lovely ruing:of- the Alhambra form a living
example; in their private houses they gath
ered the richest marbles, the Lcostliest
saics, fountains of dancing waters and gar
dens of perpetual beauty.
The Arab workman was usually temper
ate almost to austerity. Mohammed had en
forced the doctrine of total abstinence with
a rigor unsurpassed by the most austere of
modern reformers. He denounced temporal
and eternal woes against the Mussulman
who should touch the accursed wine. He had
himself set an example of perfect abstinence,
and in their purer age his followers obeyed
the precept of their prophet. It was only
in the decline of the nation that the Moham
medans learned to imitate the drunkenness
and license of the Europeans. Temperate
in their diet, frugal in their mode of life, the
Arabs possessed sound intellects in sound
bodies; they soon began to display an in
tellectual vigor that raised them to the front
of civilization. They eagerly sought for
knowlege amid the ruins of Grecian litera
ture, and the poets and philosophers of
Athens and of Rome were translated for the
benefit of the students of Bagdad and Cor
dova. The colleges and schools of the Arab
cities were thronged with attentive schol
ars, when the great nobles of France and
England could neither read nor write; they
produced eminent poets and graceful writers,
while Europe had neither a literature nor a
language; their libraries numbered thousands
of volumes, when Oxford possessed only a
few imperfect manuscripts chained to the
walls; and the poorest merchant of Bagdad
lived with more comfort and was far better
nformed, than the proud knight whe came
at the head of his barbarous squadrons to
die on the burning plains of Syria in an in
effectual crusade. , Common schools and col
leges, indeed, seem to have originated with
the Arabs. The caliphs were as ardent
friends of popular education as a Brougham
or a Barnard. na.roun Al Raschid decreed
that a free school should be attached to
every mosque; the Spanish caliphs founded
colleges at Cordova and Seville, that became
the models of those of France and England ;
the Saracenic working men were accom
plished artists, and the general education of
the people aided the progress of manufac
tures and the arts.—Harper's Magazine.
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