Ditor+s rbabit. gr. PublisherF will confer a favor by mentioning the Prim of all hooks sent to this 'Department. .1 DAIC BAPTISM. DR. p Ai x, o f Media, is still pursuing his close and thorough inquiries into the whole subject of Bart i,,,,. In his previous work, CLASSIC BAP- Trot, be showed what classic authorities meant by the use of the term. He now goes over the whole ground of Jewish literature, as interpreted by Jewish scholars and by the Christian fathers, to get at the meaning by them 'attributed to the Fame word Bourrt:or. Josephus, Philo, the Apoc rypha, the Old Testament in Hebrew and Greek, with a score or two of the Fathers, are searched with inexhaustible patience and zeal, and the term in question is held up in all the various lights presented by the context of some fifty different passages, in which the word is repeated in one form or other more than thrice fifty times. His conclusions are, 1. That Jewish writers are in perfect accord with the classic. There is no dipping in the use of the word by either. There is a " mersion," or " intusposition," a placing the object within a fluid, without any idea of limit as to its continuance there, and finally a condition of the object resultant from controlling influence and secured without mersion ; as when body and mind are baptized into insensibility by wine drinking. (Joset)hus.) 2. As the Greeks spoke of the Baptism of their deities, Bacchus and Silenus, by wine drinking, so the Jews steak of a religious baptism, not by mersion, but by sprink ling ashes, blood and water. The position taken in Classic Baptism is regarded as confirmed ; viz.: that condition of intusposition, involving complete influence and - not modal act, is the fundamental idea of the word; while 'it advan ces to a secondary use, in which intusposition (as the form by which the influence is effected) is lost, and influence, in whatsoever way opera tive, (if capable of thoroughly changing the con dition of its object and subjecting it to itself) takes the place of intusposition. He shows how the word comes to mean, in Jewish use: to puri- fy ceremoniously, a meaning which had already been claimed by President Beecher and others, but until now, without well ascertained ground, and then concludes the whole, with the following comprehensive statement : " Judaic Baptism is a condition of ceremonial purification, effected by the washing of the hands and feet ; by the sprink ling of sacrificial blood, or heifer ashes'; by the pouring on of water; by the touch of a coal of fire ; by the waving of a flaming sword, and by, divers other modes and agencies, dependent in no wise on any form of act, or on the covering of the object." Those who would acquaint themselves with the latest phase of the controversy, presenting the subject in the most scholarly, acute, and yet really entertaining manner, will, of course, find Dr. Dale's book simply indispendble. Phila delphia : Wm. Rutter & Co. Bvo. pp. 400. LIPPINCOTT & CO. A WREATH OF RHvans, by Willie Mayfield, shows a great Vergatility, if not a great depth of poetic talent, in which originality and freshness are not wanting, and a real exuberance of versi fying power appears in the endleis variety of metres successfully handled. A vein of true piety appears not only in the versifications of Scripture, but runs through the whole work. Occasionally there are outbreakings of the deep passion that must go to the composition of a true poet, but for the most part, the tone is rather of the lighter type. 16mo. pp. 386. Bevelled edges. $2. MRS. SHERWOOD'S STORIES FOR SUNDAY, IL• LUSTRAT/Na THE CATECHISM, are again issued in a neat and substantial volume, as revised by Rev. Arthur C. Ooze, Bishop of Western New York. It is a beautiful filial tribute, when in the preface, the Bishop says : " I. do this in part, as a tribute to a saintly mother, who now sleeps in Jesus, and in gratitude for the lessons impart ed to my early childhood, by her sweet voice, as she read these stories to me in the nursery, and tenderly illustrated them by her comments. Such were her discrimination and good taste, and such was her faith unfeigned, that I consider her prac tical approval of this work a sufficient proof of its adaptation to the holy uses of maternal piety." 16trio. pp. 450, bevelled boards, tinted paper. AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY, NEW YORK. RE.v. JOHN G. HALL's Compilation of LORD BACON'S THOUGHTS ON SCRIPTURE, abounds in forcible apotbegnis, drawn from the various wri tings of the great philosopher, and associated with the passages upon which they bear. The " Par adoxes" having, , since the first edition, been traced to another author, (Rev. 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LITERARY ITEMS. —Charles Augustine Saint -Beuve, the distin guished critic and a Senator of France, is dead. He was born at Boulogne-sur-Mer, Feb. 23, 1803. He went to Paris in 1822, and there soon became prominent in literary circles as onu of the cham pions of the " Romantic" school, of which Victor Hugo is now the Most brilliant exemplar. He became best known by his so-called psychological critiques, in which he analyzed the prominent works of French literature, using the leading events in the life of their authors as the founda tion of a psychological delineation of their intel; leetual character. He has often appeared as a poet under a nom de plume, and his lyrics rare distinguished by a strain• of _rather melancholy sentiment. —A Belgian weekly paper, the Flandern, is. sues the following peculiar notice : " Cloister scandals belong so essentially to a true reflex of the times, that a journal cannot pass them by. But it would be impossible for a weekly paper to communicate all these stories; besides, a/respecta ble journal must set itself against violating the moral feelings of its readers, especially the female and younger portion. Taking these considerations into account, the editor has determined to publish weekly an especial supplement for men,' which will also contain much in the language of Rome itself,' and this for a very small circle of readers." —Two interesting contributions to the history of printing and the book trade in Germany have lately appeared. " The Printer Family Fros chauer, in Zurich (1521-4595)," with the list of their published works, by E. Camille Rudolphi PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1869. (Zurich), and " The Coburger Book-dealer Fami ly of Nuremberg," a description of the German book trade at the period of transition from the scholastic service to the Reformation (1470- 1540) ; and dating from 1525 are communicated, among others, letters of Martin Luther, in which he mentions the labors of the Coburgers; by Oscar Hase, Leipsic. --Mr. George Bancroft, our Minister to Ber lin, has been lately at Konigsberg, the native town of Kant, engaged in researches bearing up on the life and the works of that greatest of all German metaphysicians. —G. P. Putnam & Son announce a volume of sermons by Father Hyacinthe. The Rev. L. W. Bacon translates it, and Dr. E. A. Washburn will write the biographical, introduction. The volume includes the Speech before the League of Peace, which kindled the war Letween the preacher and his order. —Father Hyacinthe is going to publish a pa per which will be both relicrions and political in character, called Le Chretien. --Rossetti's edition of Shelly's works promises to be very complete. It contains part of an un published " Tragedy of Charles the First," and other unknown piece's: The " AdonaiB " will be corrected from the. original edition, and the life contains much new matter. —Afzelius, the Swedish historian, though in his 85th year, is actively at work upon the com pletion of his great work on Swedish history, based upon popular songs and legends, and is also preparing new editions of some of his for- Mei works: —The Galaxy has an article asserting that a secret-,society, whose object is the establishment of an empire in this country, exists. The mem bers are active, though their organ, the imperial ist, sixteen nnmbers of which were issued, is sus pended. • —Cedar Rapids, lowa, has a newspaper printed in the Bohemian language, called the Pokrok, which is, tieing interpreted, Progress. —Tennyson's works have been supplied with a " concordance,". filling a volume of 477 pages. It contains upwards of 15,000 references. —Some ineffable donkey who signs himself " A MeMber of Congress" (not Mr. Samuel Cox) has written to The London Vines, that as a literary woman Mrs. Beecher Stowe is simply nobody, and that, morally considered, she is, merely (not to put too fine a point upon it) a liar !— Tribune: —M. Guizot is engaged in completing a work which will bear a title analogous to that of Sir Walter Scott's popular " Tales of my Grand father," entitled " Histoire de France, racontee mes petites enfanis." —Frederick Hudson offered to take charge of the N: Y.' Times for $15,000 if he could have entire control of the editorial columns. He could have the .$15,000, but not the control, so he retired to his farm. —The first Catholic almanac published in the United'Staies was issued in New York in 1817, by Mr. Field, the father of the young lady writer and lecturer,, Miss Kate Field. It was a small 24m0.,_ of sixty-eight pages, and its title was The Catholic Laity's Directory to the Church Service with Alma/Wed:Tor the year 1817. —A daily German newspaper is about to be established in London, as the organ of the Democratic party,' to be called The German Post. • —Mrs. Mundt (Louisa lluhlbach) was lately asked to write an American historical novel on the subject of Aaron Burr. She replied that she had never before heard of the gentleman. —The 'Paris correspondent of the London Times is Mr. O'Meagher, who formerly served in the Spanish army, resided a long time in Spain, married 'a Spanish woman, and is consequently supposed to be familiar with Spanish affairs. !Re has a handsome establishment in Paris, and draws an annual salary of £1,500. —Rochefort says that at least half a dozen French fencing-masters have tried to pick quar rels with hinlin Brussels since he arrived in that city, in order to provoke him to challenge them. These fencing masters, he adds, he has good reason to believe, were sent by the French Government especially for that purpose to Brus sels. Rochefort claims that his Lanterne still has upward of 80,000 subscribers. ' —There is now preparing for publication in England a work by Garibaldi on " Rome in the Nineteenth Century." It is understood to be a popular book, and one which will throw some light upon many matters which have 'hitherto been but partly seen or quite concealed. SCIENTIFIC ITEMS. —The British Association the advancement of science held its annual meeting this year at the interesting old town of Exeter. Among the communications bearing upon various branches of science we note one by Dr. Wilson on the " Moral Imbecility of Habitual Criminals exem plified by Cranial Measurements!' The theory set forth by Dr. W. was that habitual criminals do not possess such an amount of intellect a s t o enable them to discriminate between right and wrong, and that the majority of them are devoid of moral sense. The habitual criminal was of a low type of intellectual development, and some of tliem were so backward as to be unable to sur mount the rudimentary difficulties of education. In 464 separate measurements, Dr. Wilson found cranial deficiendy, especially in the anterior lobes of the cerebral , portions of.the brain. He suggested that punishment should be more re formatory than, punitive. Be.,also suggeited that, means should be taken to test a criminal at ter confinement for a certain time, and if he failed to pass the ordeal to keep him in 'confine , went for the sake of society. A very animated discussion ensued, in which considerable differ ence of opinion was expressed as to whether an habitual criminal was morally responsible or, not for his acts. [As the plea of insanity is getting a little rusty, we may expect that of "habitual" to take its place, in the good time coming.] —The important question of, Human Longevity was discussed in a paper, by. Sir Duncan Gibb, entitled "An Obstacle to 'European Longevity beyond seventy years!' He had previouslY:sh'own that, in an examination of 5,000 healthy pei!drs of all ages and both sexes, the epiglottis, was pendent and not vertical in 11 per cent. The epiglottis is a thin plate of cartilage (fibre car tilage), shaped like a leaf, and placed behind the tongue in front of the superior opening of the up per part of the windpipe (larynx). Its function is to close the windpipe during deglutition. On analyzing his statistics, and taking his general experience, he has found that in no instance has the cartilage been pendent over 70 years; and he has examined a considerable number from 70 to 95 years, in all of whom it was vertical, even in one case of a person aged 102. He therefore concluded that pendency of the epiglottis is an obstacle to longevity beyond 70, and death en sues from some cause or other, at or before that age. He mentioned several aged statesmen and others whose epiglottis was vertical, like Palmer ston, Lyndhurst, Brougham and Campbell. —" A cause of diminished longevity among the Jews" furnished the subject of another paper by the same gentleman. This he showed to be thi persistent use of olive oil for culinary purposes, giying to them an appearance which he charac terized as the sang uineo . oleaginous expression, typi cally exemplified in the furniture auction rooms of London. 'Usually with this was a pendent epiglottis. Longevity was rare amongst such persons; they become constitutionally old, seldom or never actually reach old age, and die from some of the fatal congestive diseases. The Waist of the Period.—Under this head the editor of the London Lancet comments in severe, but just terms on the prevalent custom of tightlacing which tyrannical Fashion •again im poses upon her deluded victims. Beaten back for a time, probably more by fashion than by the spread of knowledge, he has not been killed, but has only recoiled; apparently for a better spring, for his victims are as numerous and pitiable as ever. The folly is one which was formerly to be found mainly in the drawing-room, but now it also fills our streets. It is lamentable to, observe at every lairn, a woman, young or old, who moves forwardl in a stooping 'position, unable even to hold herself upright in consequence of the con straint upon the muscles of the back. If the evils of tight-lacing were confined to the distorted appearance which it never fails to produce, we might regret, indeed, to see the female form di vine so defaced, but it would scarcely be in our provin'ce to comment upon it. But as medical ' practitioners we see its effects every day in the train of nervous and dyspeptic symptoms by which it is constantly indicated, and in the still more 'grave internal mischief of permanent' char acter which is often caused by it. Until some little physiological knowledge is made a. part of female education, and is considered an " accom plishment," we suppose itis of little use to pro test against the cruel injury to health which wo men thus inflict upon themselves. The matter is one which is " worse than crime—it is folly," for beauty is destroyed by the process which is intended to, increase it. —Rev. Ch. C. Adams, of Manhattanville, N. Y., is now finishing a ten years' labor, by pre paring for the press a volume on." The Recent ness of Creation." Its principal features are to set forth the discovery of a new Law of Motion in the Sea, which has formed the marine geo graphical strata from the Azhic rocks upwards ; and to endeavor to prove that there have been but four geographical epochs, and these within the last six thousand years, viz.: The Creative Epoch, the Productive Epoch, the Destructive Epoch, the Regenerate Epoch. It regards the Bible, as much a scientific as a theological revela tion from God ; and treats both as parts of one grand whole, neither being capable of being un derstood without the other, and both being in perfect harmony. The new theory is claimed to be based on ascertained facts and observations of the most advanced scientific men in Europe and America. —The ex-President of the Royal Astronomi cal Society of England is of the opinion that the length of our day has been certainly in creasing, and that "'the length of a day may be expected ultimately to become a year." Bisisittitarg ktrou, -The services of the London Missionary So ciety in Madagascar, are now attended by aboht 30,000 natives in 148 different congregations. One hundred and twenty chapels are now in pro- cess either of building or enlargement. In An tananarivo, the city where the Queen resides, there are nine large churches. , —The hundred missionaries. in China, with their wives and children, would not fill an ordi nary lecture room. Yet they are all the Chris tian agency given to that great empire by ' the Church,' an empire embracing one half of the' heathen world. Hundreds :of. our^ young men are flocking. there for worldly gain ; The diffi culties of the language, separation , from home and friends, are of small account, compared with the opportunities of wealth and the social -posi tion it brings.—Christian Secretary. '-=The Times of India publishes notes of •a mission tour .by the 'Rev. W. Keer, of Bombay. At v Tuticorn die found the Roman Catholics clothed but little, if any better, than their hea then neighbors, whom they still continued to imitate in their manner of worship. The, graves of deceased priests were'decorated with garlands and crosses, and were apparently as much objects of worship as the 'adjacent shrines of, Hindoo idols. In the .whole. of Kattywar, with a, popu.- lation of two millions, there are only two mission aries, Messrs. Beatty anff 'Gillespie, both 'belong ing to the lriskPresbyterian Church, the former stationed.,' at Gogo, 'the' latter at- Rajkote. In Kutchi-iith a-pOpulation , of 400,000, there =is no mission ageitcy.—r Christian, Express. -- 7 The. Committee on -Foreign Missions sif the U. P. Church of Scotland, are desirons,ofsend ing, without delay, ten missionaries to the Foreign field—one to China; five to India; two to Ja maica; and 'two to Old Calabar.' Three new churches have been built intheir Caffre missien, in a year. —There are 580 European , and American, and 2000 native Christian laborers in the mission work i in India. —Rev. Thos. Downie, of the -Scotch U. P. Mission in Jamaica, on occasion of the ordina tion of a native preacher in that field, says C ° Brief as has been my stay in Jamaica, I already share in the regret that is felt by older brethren in the field, that so little has been done to raise up from among the churches of the island young men of education, piety, and a self sacrificing spirit, who will he qualified to discharge with efficiency the duties of the pastoral office." —A sort of free-masonry prevails among the natives on the Guinea coast, which is thus de scribed by a missionary: "It is a society of men, and membership is obtained by purchase. The members are males ; females, as in the institu- Lion of freemasonry, being ineligible. This Ibi bio lodge of freemasons goes by the euphonious name of Ekpo Ndy'ohs. The members rub their persons with chalk, specially making white circles round their eyes, greatly enhancing native ugli. ness, some of them being also veiled. They carry cutlasses; and any person who is not a member, if met by the way, is cut and wounded." —A report on the labors of the missionaries of the Russian Church, in the government of Irkutsk, Siberia, shows that in two districts there are still upwards of 210,000 idolaters, and that in the nomad tribe of the Buviats, which con sists of 105,000 persons, there are only 13,000 Christians. In 1868 there were nine mission aries in this district, six of whom were paid by the government, and the remainder out of a mis sionary fund proceeding from voluntary subscrip tions. —A deputation of 200 Tartars proceeded re cently to Lividia to thank the Emperor Alexan der for the confidence and protection which he accords to the Mussulman populations of Russia. The Czar received the delegates kindly, and in his reply said that a difference of religion would never cause him to forget that all his subjects were Russian, and had an equal right to his affection. —Robert Moffat, the African missionary, and father-in-law of Dr. Livingstone, now in his 75th year, is purposing to return to his native land. The 200 mile journey in wagons over the un tracked country and bridgeless currents from the Kuruman to the Orange River is an arduous un dertaking for him at his advanced age, but he. retains his.full vigor of mind, if not of body. He intends; if possible to be in England before the May meetings begin. American Presbyterian For 1569-70. TERMS_ In Advance, per Annum, $2.50 After Thirty Days, 3.00 Home Missionaries, 2.00 Three Months for Nothing. In order, to, introduce the paper to those as yet unacquainted with it, we will give a copy from this date, till Dec. 3180870, for $2.50 in ad- Your own Paper for Nothing ! 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