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HEw-HAvEH MAGAZIsEs-TBg SOPHOMORE
BIENNIAL JUBILEE.
Gssm Our Own Rsports<.
Nyw.BAvEs, JAY 81, 1850
For University town New-Hsven Is quite aety,
in literature. True, men here seldom publish book,
and the clssss are not often murdered excepsby s.ds
graduates. Perhaps We should more correctly c.u
New Haven men thiakers--ahd tie literature wsish
comes Of this tendency is sgacaat enough 10 IL ga,
but the thinks. the less he cares 70 nsod
the world with his speculsdons. Men connected via
the University here, are widely known az thinker
and not as mere fine wrters In this reepect thev Ar,
quite in col trast with certain Of Boston writer.
who mistake elegance for thought aud In the name q
hberal.ty, dogmstizs every subsc. under heaven.
The former often publish their results bu. In aust
mode st way aod, as if hey had certain tain, VI Ps
snism are by many for what in reality they
are quite innocent of. NeS. Haven ID Portaa city.
and there is enough bisoty here to fshten any ors
who has much hope for the next generations bat the
b;oory ia confined chiefly 10 the uuedqcatsd dsases;
the t,nly educated class lrs eminently lib raj holding
10 that sort of libeTaLty which has fixed opinions ia
IL charitable 10 ALL and vein OF truth even IN the
dognstic Liberals assumptions. Our statement q
bsc ked up by facts. No 'ne can read me CAsrd
Perpn, The N.m- Englander, or The Uni,osiy
Quarterly, without seeing these things f'r himsL
Ine Puritan has lost his rigor the Liberal his dog.
atisu; the result ID temper Of mind rare and 1sfdl
Each Of ihese magazif rs has genuine vignr. ih
C6uy,L Plrieg stsiIds up foe Episcopacy; TIE k,w.
EDulander pleads the of Dr. Taylor and tho Ne
England Theology The Unirersity Quarterly takes up
toIies interesting to students, and treas them Gish
ability Lot much inferior - the Two more stately Ql4-
teries. S,A,moss Journal of Sciesce has peculiar
sphere of ito own and as III the present numbef ofen
has ,apers of great vaue. The Journal of tie Assrs.
ian Biographical and Statistical Socety ~ ais'
edited bere, though published in New-York. l~ Lew
editor d. G. Gilman esq, the LIBRA ian OF Tale,
man enlineutly ftted bath by hs s,ndrs and exper-
epce for his Eositon ana in bis hands the July Mn
Der shows mal ked Improvement over previous issaea
The Yale Literary Magazine Is entirely loeal u
the oldest students ,urnal in tho country; ts paRe
are ottn rrcy and its locals are read VIA eager
uesr IL is Just entering its twenty -rlxh vous'e
But oar three gu ter,ies demand more minute no
tce The NeT-Engtaader opens with paper on tae
late Augustus Hhouss brother 81 The poet aan nsa
OF singular characteristics 1t is written by that Bean
erpes of the pen the Rev. DR.. Bacon Letter ff,na
Country Clergyman holds up the bright SIDE OF the
ministry snd contains hints which might easily be ex.
nAIaed mic a readable volume. l. Is written Ia good
hun or. and contains many sharp hits, well put. An
auigle ON The New Planets sums up mucn scieailne
inform alton in redaable way. " The Bipst' 10 Con.
nectcut" is mainly historical ard furnishes a COCA
commentary the perpetual no WHITTIER OF mere seas
whese fights are quite degradI those OF the T.
H., and whore " warrirg ords. as Mr. parker-wM
certainly had experience ebough-htnsef SAID, w"n
only .eess minber aud vast. tilne Ia tae readlng
Another PAPER goes INTO the metaphSsi.s OF the na
arts and looks if t were written by an able baod
Then comes paper which Will nj rset much attention
ON The Copgrt gstional Poliry and Biblical The
oogy" Dirsens we may, from maoy OF is poef
ons the body OF the article, It's main IDEAS, sspcs
When Tire peculiar advantages Of the Congr' gi'ions
polity are set forth. NUT be ark0o ~ied2ed by .i
is by the Rev. Dr. j. p. ThomPson Of Ne"-fork, Ss
sutfcr If q paper Oh " The Phrnomens OF Mvd,rs
Spri,ualism,f in thu May humber which attrsct,a
much notice. VIVA. is particularly marked in tas
paper OIL tie Copgregat oDel policy IL lis iilrr dny
free 60 frank 40 act 10 all, that few can help reid
in it. Professor W. A. Lsrned OF Yale, Goa
tributes a paper on the Constitutional H'ss'ry
of the Athenian Democracy His studies IA ,e long
lain 10 that direction and this paper, probably sug
Rested BY the discuss Of Congress LAST Wmef and
IL the main historical, embod-s the rcsnts Of many
years study and by exhaustive ausls brings the
Constitutions II CIR, zee home 10 our conceptions
Such papers sre seldom found Outside The NorA
american. Piof Fisher also contributes al historical
paper ON "Ohginal Sin." His clear analysis, apt
statement and de scholarship bring many points Of
this question the light. The article avoids cooro
yersy anG ia he of Ihoee papera which leave little &C
be taid in addition Oh the subject. DIR. Bacon corns
again with an article on II M Gentry Of to-
ign Missions" and there is od sketch OF Cnarls
Goodyear the inventors but he lest paper pc.
bars ID a review Of tue CritlcsGs DIR. Taylor sna
the Edwsrdean Theology. The book noticrs Ia '1n
number msuy Of them b.iug written b. men hped 10
he different works by previous s!ndy are often rsrr
and ai good.
ne Church Rerier has sever al articles of psculn
merit. "About DIR. Oldham of Gresstoues," is oIed
the ost spicy usg,ziLe ari les we have ever seen II
Charles Lamb alive would be attributed 10 hio,
ard de writes like him than Lowell, aIth5T
Of The New Priest " perhaps we d. not err in st
tributng il to him. Whoever the writer s. hs singu-
gular wien Of wisdom, oddly ana bumor, will be ths
making IF auy magazine for watch ne ~rites. Two
historical articles, 'The Euglh Reformation; the
NJ, and nikH Pc sarta xn.rpi r
they come FRONT slngIarly rich in the
Gin Ises Trey give of the questionable things in rs
gIous history Artclts of tns claez app fequen.y
in his Review, snd are one OF us spe ialiisr. The
Rev. DR.. Coke contributes Two Letters TO the
Bishup Of Arrss," valuable his orical materials
TIL Review lie quite as boera as The Ns@. agsander
though it appsars in somewhat different VEN.
We come to The University Q4artrty, which bss
failure are at an end. In due ume,, insrad
Of student bard a. Yale, it will Eve
some general Secretary appointed az I'd.
itor and then its articles, which reed
show more compscrn.ss and have bettes puaciu4ioa;
but wth the best will TO hrd fault with this tIaly)
number, We bsvr been unable 10 light upon aoyhing
worth mentioning. Is articles are sound, yigsro1s,
carefully uriltep, add often STOW line schols'shp.
Some are racy as chapter of " Ton Brown a! OK
ford" others show up the defects of Yale few
thoHgh) ard other colleges others, the Weston
College essays Clip into rue profo1.d Others sll as
Que Ia the pcesent nuuOer on hIs stowe ana hec M
ics, are able criticisms Occasionally ere ia vaoped
up coegs essay ut these happily very scarce n
this issue. The Articles from colleges
always interesting and will day he valuable his
tory. This Quarterly having great iDAueuce upoa
American ccDegss Tire tone of thought and purity Of
style must be greatly elevated by the wide crculsto,
OF = periodical whore essays are from stntens s,a
whose pages opse to any one who can write god
enough payer for ite pags l's irst general assoasr
ton Of EDITORS meets at Worcester Mass July "a ct
the tire Of the College Regatta
The SOph.morts got ont OF Biennial YESTERDAY, I'D