Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-11-12
NEW BOOKS.
JusTo UcuNDoNo, PRINCE OF JAPAN By Pm-
LLErHEs BalimWe, JoHs MURPHY & Co.

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JUsTo UcuNDoNo, PRINCE OF JAPAN. By Pr
| LALETHEs BalumVe, JoHE MURPHY & Co.
The scope Of this volume is to show that unbiased
reason properly applied is sufficient to conduct the in
qurer to the solution Of the great ethical problem what
is religious truth?
/ The outlines of the plan are thus sketched by the
hand Of the author:
"JusTo UcuYDoSo, young Japanese Prince in ordar
that the resources of his mind may be developed pure
and uncontamnated by prejudice educated in Sc
cuded valley far from the crimes the errors and the
doubts Of men, knowledge Of every human science CAL
cuat to give stability and character thought is inn
parted to him. From religious instruction of any kind
he is carefully withheld The Of the Deity is not
much mentioned in his presence; so that his soul
being it were perfect blank with regard religious
Impressions Reason, aided by the grace of God, might
have the fares scope to stamp upon it the image Of the
true faith when the proper moment should have arrived
" When the Prince had reached the years of maturity
the great truths of natural and revealed religion
unfolded before him. The existence of Supreme Being,
creator and ruler of the universe the Immortality of the
soul; the existence of future world; the destiny Of
man; the doctrine Of rewards and punishments after
death; the obligation OF man towards God in the state
of nature the fact of revelation; the creation and fall
of angels and of man, his redemption &c. discussed
before the Prince and the Emperor Of Japan by Council
of Diyines assembled from all parts Of the world and
representing every known religious sect.
"The truths of natural religion and the fact of reve
aon having been established the advocates Of the
riou systems of the latter urge their respective claims
orthodoxy before the council. The Jews, Christians
and present the strongest arguments The
Prince, after deep reflection decides in favor Of the
christian system Next the representatives of every
shade and variety of christianity appear to contest the
palm Of superiority The two great rival systems whose
enets are seyeray founded on the bases Of authority
and private judgment discussed by their champions
with great freedom and minueness. The BIBLE ALONE
and the TEACHING CnURcH Eccesia Docens) brought
forward front to front, carefully balanced and
| dismissed until Prince Justo decides"
The decision of the Japanese Prince may be seen at
w, A. KENNEDY betw e
and H. The style faultess and the pen of the scholar
apparent in this bland Eastern apologize.
History OF THE RESURRECTION IN CHINA, trans
lated from the French HARpEns, New York. TAYLOR
MAuRY, Washington.
The writers Of this history are NJ GALLERY Missionary
and Interpreter to the French Embassy in China and
! Dr. WAN, Physician to the Legation.
The book in addition to narrative Of the rebellion is
interspersed with lively anecdotes Of places and events
and abounds with novel, instructive, and humorous
pictures of Chinese generally.
The capture of Nankn is described length together
with record of the that occurred
April Prefxed is the Tartar countenance of TEN FE,
the leader of the instruction, together with map Of
| the Provinces of China traversed by the insurgents
OUTLINES OF SCRIPTURE GEOGRAPHY AND HIS
TORY, by EDWARD HuGHEs, F. Il. "A. s., F. r. G. s.
Philadelphia, BLANCHARD s. LEA. Washington TAY-
LoR MAURY.
Professor HuoHEs is head master of the Royal Naval
School ut Greenwich Hospital London and author
of various Geographical Treatises.
To the biblical student department of sacred ltera-
ture render greater assistance towards the eucda
ton of the inspired volume than correct knowledge Of
Scripture Geography. In compiling this volume the
writer has laid under contribution the researches Of
Rosenmuller. Winer, Jahn Robinson, and others Ex-
have been introduced also from the travels of On
Durbn, Lynch, Burckhardt Lamartine, and Layard, all
tending verify passages indicating the fulment Of
prophecies in the sacred writings.
The work is throughout illustrated with maps.
LOUIS XVII, HIS LIFE, SUFFERINas, AND DEATH,
CAPTIVITY OF THE ROYAL FAMILY In THE TEMPLE
/ by A. DE BEAUcHEsSE. HARpERs, New York TAY-
LoR MAURY, Washington.
The publication of this testimonial of the e suffer
ngs and death of the Dauphn of France may perhaps
serve exngusher the claims Of future asprants
TO posthumous royalty
Four candidates for regal honors in allegiance have
within few years appeared in Franceall utterly
like in person and pbysiognomy-and, after srutting
their brief hour the stage have passed away from life
and from remembrance.
We also, republicans though we be- have contributed
claimant to the high honors of the Capet line or this
fact the French bographer appears unconscious Our
title, however to the interregnum Isl conceive quite
valid that of any Of ambitious in the
race and therefore do wish countryman oil the
success he merits in the pursuit of throne secretly
hoping time, that his age at least may correspond
to the date which the Registers Of France assign to the
birth Of the Duke of Normandy, 9th April 1885, nearly
seventy years.
The two volumes constitute melancholy narrative OF
the execution Of Louis l6th and that of his Queen of
the imprisonment and cruel treatment of the Dauphin
then only ten years of age and recital of the crcum-
stances attending his last Illness agony, and death The
illustrations, which numerous consist of portraits
vignettes, autographs, and fac SMILES. O..
IsTELLIGEScRR.
Messrs. EDTroRs: Among the valuable "Notices Of