The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1850-08-29
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NORTH BRIrIsH REVIEW. No. XIV, for May, 1850
American edition. Vol. 8, No. |. New York Leonard
Scott x Co. Washington: w. Adam, Pennsylvania
enue.
This is a rich number Of this able Review.
| The article ON the "Life and Times of Calvin
is one Of especial interest The present seems to
be the year Of resurrection Of the fame Of the
master minds of the transition period of the
worlds history. D'Aubigne, Carlyle, and Hen.
~, have all undertaken their several tasks with
courage, zeal, and the earnestness of devotion to
the cause of God and Humanity, in restoring to
the worlds regard the fame of Luther, Cromwell,
and Calvin. "Truth is the child of Time,n says
Calvin in the first letter of his which has reached
us. Superficial men," says the reviewer, Gin
capable Of detecting the secret Of his grandeur
and his power, have viewed Calvin as a mere To-
gician, and spoken of his life as one long syl-
logsm. 1t were blessed thing for the nations,
were the logic he used-the power of truth-stu-
diously learned again but the formula of his
life was not q sylogism; it is, "Let God be
true, and every man a liar" Next to Paul
the Apostle of the Genties, stands Calvin as
the bold exposition of the Word of God, whose
theology lights us deep into Deity" of whose
Commentaries even his antagonist, AraaiaiuS,
said, "next TO the perusal of the Scriptures,
which earnestly inculcate, ! exhort my pupils
to peruse Calvin's Commentaries,
for affirm that he excels beyond comparison in
the Interpretation of Scripture, and that his
Commentaries ought to be more highly valued
than all that is handed down 10 shy the Library
of the Fathers and Of whom "hs JadieiouS
Hooker" said, For my own part, ] think Cal
vim incomparably the wisest man the French
church did enjoy, since the hour it did ENJOY
himn There has been formed in England "the
Calvin Translation Society,"" by whom many Of
his works have already been translated. we
would caution our readers against Dyer's Lie OF
Calvin, mere redaction of /" The Life and Times
Of John Calvin, the great Reformer, by fsu'
Henry, d. D.; translated from the German py
Henry Stebbins, d. d., F. r. s." and which mas
been reprinted by the Harpers, volume In us
tone and tendency adverse to Calvin FRO"
man" says the reviewer, referring to TINS po0''
"who quotes Bishop Tomline as an authority III
theology, o. IL is not probable that the Genevese
Reformer can hope TO escape castigstion "
Henry has published small volume, oeins NE
own abridgment of his great work, Wni0",
happen to know, has been translated oy inc Nt =,
f. Goodrich Smith, of this city, and is no" :"
MS. We hope, If this notice shall os'on ,. 'a ~
eye of our book publishers, they may '''A
bring out this work which cannot fAi' 10 "
successful.
The next notice in this number Is rev'e" y
The Poetry of Science" by Robert Hunt keep,
of the mining Records, Museum OF rra0"
Geology "a work which has the charac'e,
poetry only 90 far a. truth 10 poeticsl Anu
this work we have here very interesting ana'
ala. which Of itself Is worth the price OF '"'
number.
wssrsissrxa REvIHw for April, 1850 No. CIV a"
lean odIsisa Vol. ~. No l. New York Lsonara '''''
a To. Washington; W. Adam.
We have in this number, rs Its leading ar"''''
Lord Js6reys Theory Of Beauty, theory W.
posed Of materials supplied by Mr.. Ais0n'