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considers the Savi 's earthly death as representing sown-
thing which is spiritually repeated in the higher world, and
which has its street tow aids the deliverance of the angels.
On the necessity of grace his diet ins. is desc►iled as un-
sound; he allows. how ever, that. in order to beeonse or to
11.111/till go,sl. grace is necessary. as well as free.s ill.
All 1 'sl •ut. he holds, is merely conrcti►e and r••
medial. At the end of the world all uninkind s ill have to
pass through a tire. The purged spirits. will enter into
paradise. a plat's. of training tor the eonsi iiiii Iltill4bll ; the
wicked will remain in the " tire," w hich. however, is ma
described as material, but as a mental misery. But their
essitslitien is rot without hope. although thousands of years
may elapse_ bet'ore their sittliTing shall have wrought its
slue Viii•Ct 011 thew. OH the other hand, (bust who are ud•
milled into bliss may abuse Unir frse•will, as in the begin•
ring. and Illtiy consequently be dawned to
their slyou►v in illetlesh. At tin. Modem's' kkkkkk swims the
soul will dwell in a glorified organ, of which► the germ is
in the p►•esent body. Its pleasures will lir purely spi•
ritual ; even Satan himself will be turned it to
gossl, sand sill not be eseluded front saltation. " tins' will
be all in all.••

The reputation elf Origets lots had vehement am:annum
anti 011-114.5 t rlopObitiislls itserihill to
hive Were e011414`11111441. nail 1111 111111 t ilelllll w,es Utttleileil to his
113111 e Icy as synod 114441 at 4.011,4111111110ri0. 111 the hi \ til cen-
tury : used it may petinipslec thought that the wisrhief of
any part ienlar errors in 110440114. bl lilieN.eeedell by that teethe
pen el.).)' Inetllo4l of interpret jug Script Cur, v, Weis owed to him
Its eompleteness and its popstlurit. lint with whatever
abatements on the ground of his errors—however strong
may be • NCIlm. orate eV it which his Sp.it.lll
was titled to pivallee, ill the hands of others—we nicest
think of Origen himself as at 1111111 who 110 t 41111) 414'%oted all
the energies of his mined, attiring it tat N 11.41. Le
conceived to lee the truth. hilt belie% VII his Views or truth to
lee consistent with the traditi ttt al faith or ths-I•hurea: Iles
peculiar opinions 1.1,415 t. las 11114e4 Ice ea ilirClelly ~aid ) (VIM% it
wish tee overcome the illCoolitiftli.jtily phits.•
soplay with the gnspee l ; he. desired in sell things tee hold
fast the foundation or essential Christina doctrine ; he. pro.
peened his own sleveidatiotimwith taimb.sty, NIA claimed for
them no higher character than that of probable conjectures.
His piety is as unquestioned as the greatness of his genius
and the depth of his learning: he sulfured di for the
...Nospel. &mil may, indeed, al st let reckoned ass n martyr.
%%idle he lived he was the ehief oppeelient of heresy in sill
its vanietiem; the multitude of converts whom he brought
Mel* 41 the Church from heathenism, Judaism, and cot,
rupte-d folios oft isrist heftily. is a noble testin ttttt 'uulessluhis
eallileSttleto4 and love• than tee his. controvernial ability. Wu
may well say with the caudal Tillemmet. " that such a titan
m 441411014 heretical opinions. bast could 11411 lee 14
llitlee he was utterly tree from that spirit which C 010411111%
:Ile guilt Of heresy."
_ _

Theologi►•al students will tintl the knitted
annotations to this w►hune of the greatest use.
It has a table of the various works cited, and
is supplied with an excellent index. Its
genuine scholarship and with. tesearch will
obtain for its author considerable rel►utation.

Old Enybend find New England. In a Series of
Views taken on the Spot. By Alfred Bunn.
lannhai : Bentley.

A FINE subject, treated in one of his happier
veins, by an able writor, takes at, once a-high
rank among valuable literary productions. N4l
matter how illustrious the national language
in which it appears, it is not only felt to be
worthy of that language, but is appmpriated
with avidity into other tongues by a dozen
simultaneous translations. Here, in Mr.
Ilumes new work, we have the first of the
requisites we have indicated, a thoroughly fine
subject, suggestive, inexhaustible, exciting.
and immense; liberal to profusion in the
opportunities—armfuls of opportunities—with
which it has rewarded our managerial saunterer
in his " pretty considerable loaf " through the
" empire cities" and various other wonders of
the nion ; that last not least of the nations,
that youngest born of history, that precocious
hardy giant whose sudden maturity and
eldritch genius are the problem, bewilder-
ment. and admiration of the whole world.
Hut, eh! Mr. Bunn, Mr. Bunn! you are a
right excellent comrade, you are a lively man
with a noble allowance of that noble thing,
good spirits ; and, certainly, you blunder nine
times out of ten into approximation towards a
very proper solid sort of view, which, taken
roughly. and in the "you know what I meim "
spirit, is perfectly correct ; but your reader
writes again for you in his mind, or else he
never wrote, and never will write, and cannot
write at all ; but he can guess, and, just for
the nonce, this is a capital hook, "as books
go," and better than half the books that go,
and go down ; it serves its turn very fairly,
and there is nothing to regret in having
parted with the price requisite to become
owner of a copy. Still there are books which
one reads when they appear, and of which one
thinks tolerably well, or not badly ; they have

not. to use an Ameriean slang phrase on au
subject, they )rave not tiled " you ;
and. again, there are books which one not only
reads at first but re-reads long afterwards,
books whielt no lapse of years scents to alter
in value, except to ameliorate. There are, of
course, sueh books. and tat all starts, •• grave
and gay, anti lively and severe:" travels, and
history, anti sketches, and nothing too light,
which have tau far as they are concerned)
" said the last word,- and in at manner never
inure to be bettered, improved, or superseded.
ln purchasing such productions you become
master of a bunt:namable he simple. more en-
dining than that of land, superior to the
telluric solidity of the very soil which we till ;
for climates and soils IlnVO 111111eIV011e whole
cycles tat' chain...es. have lost, and regained, and
lost swain their speeitie cirhtes tar chanteteris-
ties, %%bile the qualities of certain hooks ha%
retuaimvl ill every particular unadtemble, and
show, even at the present time, no symptoms
tat' reaching decay ; no, not though we ',hold,'
substitute dues a/caudal sancta Petri" for the
renowned and much out-realised boast of
thou ;frontlet ('‘9,itolinen."
Decidedly, Mr. Butan's present essay on
Old England and New England " is not ono
of these. It professes, however, no morn than
it effects, which is tine criterion of art it jana.
fesses to enflame the it amuses hint
very much at the first reading. lint it will
mat amuse hint again ; ear, among other
reasons, he will not read it again and, what
We 4101114 if anybody will read it in
ten years', or it' many will renal it in ten months.
Now the worst is 'admitted. For the rest, an
intelligent, observant, rattling writer has
brought before the public his " views" bud
impressions of one of the vastest and most
exuberant subjects that modern titres afford.
It is worth while to hear any 1111111 011 such a
theme ; it is worth while, in fact, to listen to
every man. Ma.. haunt will not be among those
who will hem you. It is only empanel honesty
to add that passages of this diversified anti
pleasant baulk are tat' superior merit. It
would be equally true to say that there are
bpassages in it of the most slattern vulgarity
oth of marina r and of matter ; things not
worth writing at all, but adroitly written by
others badly, soul now by Mr. Dunn written
lignite only written worse. Some of his states-
manship 4•011It'S Under this description ; and
almost sill his tuitional physiology (a dash of
his at a difficult topic tat' whielt Ili' is profoundly
it 11111 l belollgS to the same category. In
plain truth, and to sum Nana, Mr. Bunn often
diverts and gratifies and occasionally shocks
and disgusts his reader oteeording to the
latter's amount tat' intelligence un(l education)
lay the uniform vigilance with which he, Mr.
Bunn, plies the ctauumumplaee, the
and the received. His jokes are frequently
not at all bad : hile his (Tatham; are generally
not worth a moment's considerution, except
where they happen to be repeated tar plagitarimed
opiniotas ; in Mavis case their value is, of
course, as may be. 11'e suspect that lay this
time we shall have staid enough to express
the reader's own estimate of Mr. Bunn's
haelleemal qualities ; but we cant praise
the spirit, the temper, and the good dis-
position tat' his book, with smaller reserva-
tion anti with notch less misgiving. There
is not, apparently, much rancour in Mr.
liman's mind awe use the word in a courteous
spirit) ; and, where he is ill-netured, why, in
that spot others have been ill-natured helm°
him : it is the most current tone. Where he
stops and indulges a transient vertigo of ans.
laaragement, tat' rant, tar id' emit, thousands
have made the same halt on the same topics.
His instinct by ma means ever fails tar misleads
him, it hackneyed abuse, tar in prescriptive,
enerable twaddle. )111' pietnrc would be
cruelly incomplete if we emitted to say that
Mr. Turveydrop's exchtmatimo's gone. That
gentleman, by a transitive, regenerative, and
secondary originality, had appropriated and
made his own the thrilling load amaxitsF apos-
trophe of " IVoman ! lovely e;17:1711:::
words
Mr. Bunn pmnounces the talis
know not. But they are now, heneeforth anti
:1 14147.
for evermore, his, and his only, be the sound
"woman," or • wooman," that issuers from his
lips. It is but right that the lesser magician.,
in the same great business of " deportment

should yield to the greater; and to the greater
cede the use of his sign and of his counter-
sign. Practical must, artistically, succumb to
mimetic " deportment." Oh! to how many
sentences has Mr. Bunn succeeded in impart-
ing the highest tone in the hysterical gamut,
and the most luscious of all the various sac-
charine smacks, by merely breaking off into
" woman, lovely W0111141l," and then ambling
down the well-known prose-nen-mad, toating-
alley, of "nature as it should be," and " irre-
sistibility" as it must be.
Mr. Bunn is a great classical scholar; this
must not. be hidden ; and "cam multis
"Cesar aid tidal," with other nether new and
startling hits, we guess, will be found in cer-
tain pages of theme volumes. Mr. linen':
perceptions of the grave and the trivial
are not very diserintinuting. At ',age. 53
of vol. 1, alluding to Bee Astor-pbeee riots
of 1549, in which eighteen or nineteen human
beings were killed, Mr. Bunn says " the best
joke we heard upon the muldeet," &e. It is,
surely, no questi4m Of jokes, best, or worst, or
middling, but of deplorable ineidents. Nor is
the joke a good joke in itself, when Mr. Bunn
has told it.

As a specimen of Mr. Ihum's mute serious
manner (where he chooses to be serious) we
will quote a really sensible and forcible pas-
sage from his preface:—
A work we published some years since, entitled "The
Stage both Before and Itchitsil the Curtain," obtained, we
may Kay, without any nonsensical t%iiggi•r, a more Ilion
ordinary success,-1111 event which led to its Is•iiig pirated
in America, and published, ns soon as isissilile idler its
publication in London. !laving enjoyet the eiliniesy of
being plaissl, as a irie visitor, on the hooks of the New
. York Society Library i 1111 l itsliately em pair arrival, in the
first page of its catalogue We 1111141141 we f, Milli the slid
work duly registered, us printed by Messrs. 1.4'11 and Ma-
chart, of l'liihulelphia, mill sold 1i a• them 3lr. A. Ilan.
of the samelit.4., lit the charge of we believe—
the price in this (sundry having been 11. I Is. ILI. This is
putting your finger in smother inan's pie, to 4 pretty past
purpose; for the maid cheap edition hail a rapid sale, is
entirely out of prior, our eimlit we copy of it fur
love or money. It nonst be apparent to any •MC that such
a state of things as this ought mit to exist.; and that, as
international mopyriglit treaties have been concluded upon
and exchanged between England awl France, similar trea-
ties should at 64. he VS(4111114144 ht.l%..eas the only two
comitries 4111 eltrth whose 111,11111t.e is the smote. The
possbiet of some isien's brains 11111 y 1101. be suite, be woeih
1111101; but at all events it most Is• worth something, when
people are no be tio 1111 l I a lio think it of sufficient import-
ance to filch it, and realise a plait out of what they
I sotly have any kind of interest in, and certainly no
right to.

It is our duty to add that our readers might
certainly Lind many much duller occupations
for the requisite amount of time than in read-
ing this book of the renowned ex-manager.

Biographic du Prince Adam C.:artoryxki. Par J. U.

Nioneewicz. Lotitlres : lietkens.

A CLEM:IX-WRITTEN lic'eolUlt of the life of Prince
Adam CzarLayski, so far as it is consorted with the
aspirations of l'oland for liberty during tho last sixty
years, and the desperate sirw:gl4. in 114:10. These
were the sacrifices Prince thou made in his court-
try's eause :
" title imun uw 61111111 e, la ist,iti.e s,sisfe In plug i•levi.e,
nnr aureole &jig haillalite de patriatisille et tle
Ittsieise par ireelittele; sellieeS, Untie %Wiled Sit earn 41'
pn•ralele mill* liliallikortallite de I ia.urreetiuu it
uit ells eeluta, it mit tout ale eiote pair se ri nuir all 111011% e-
taunt mai 111 l al toil jugettil impossible ale 4.04.14.46 r."
The author thus speaks of the attitude of England
at that period :
" Et elite Angletenv, naguere armee pair let defense el
lc repos alit mouth.. cluilloieti tie Se implant-I-elle pas ilgoiste
et illaprevoyante, alors iill'elle i tait gottvernee par ceux
itat''!uies qui, petulant newt. ails, ete eke/. elle les
apiltres ale hi justice et de lu liberte ! ' I a Polubase est
imp elnignee ! ' "
Our Foreign Minister then is our Prime Minister
now.

The Key to the Sabbath Question ; He, a Letter to
Douglas Jf rrohl, Fsq., on Sabbath Observance.
By a Biblical Economist. Edinburgh : Moodie.
Tuts is a little tract written against the opening of
Crystal Palaces, be., on Sundays, and, without de-
tailing its arguments, we may add that it is mode.
rate, sensible, and a model of conside ate candour
for the literary luminary to whoa► it is addressed.

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