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or disputed Passages With Biographical APP |
/ pendrx. BY Henry Martyr Dexter. Large Svo !; |
| l,oS2 pages; cloth. New York: Harper L Bros |
San Francisco; A L. Bancroft l. Co.
| This is hardly work for criticism 1t is |
q compilation in twelve lectures of the litera- |!
ture of the Congregational Church, with the |
concentrates of the lecturer. How shall such |
work be reviewed and its LOSE pages con
sidered without discussing the whole thsolog-
zeal question No, the work is one to be |
characterized and not criticised in its theories,
except at the expense of more space than we |
can accord. We find then that the work |
treats in the main of these chief topics, and |
their statement will sufficiently Introduce
this valuable history Of the literature of |
! Church. We present as nearly as possible |
the sentiment and thought of the subjects |
from the authors view. It begins with de- |
tailed statements as to the condition of mind |
and heart to which the Papacy reduced Eng |
land, as tending to explain as natural and |
inevitable what otherwise would seem to be /
the inexplicahle intensityof the early Puritan |
| spirit. The designation of the true point OF |
| divergence of Separation from Puritarisrn, |
as being not in the interest of polity, but of |
purity, and of pushing forward nominal |
| into real Reformation. The discovery of |
| the substantial early autobiography of Robert |
| Browne, and of several Of his treatlses |
unknown before, and the development /
from them of truer theory of his life |
| and character. and a more exhaustive |
and symmetrical outline of his actual system.
| A more complete view of the Martin Mar |
Prelate Controversy than has been previously |
taken and the authors vindication of the
| real and great merit of the tracts of Martin
| himself, and their relation to early English
! prose satire ; with new theory as to who
| Martin was. The exhibition of the Presby-
! terio-Congregatlonal nature of the Barrow
istic separation, as distinguished from the
| practical, though unattended, democracy of
| Brownsm. An account of the various Eng
| lish Separatist Churches which in the
early part OF the seventeenth century
found refuge in Holland; with their rela-
lions to each other, and especially their points
OF mutual repnls1on and, in connection
with this, the discovery at Cambridge
OF the long-lost book of George johnson, de-
sciibing the details of the sorrowful and
amazing old.clotbes controversy The grad
ual successive development of Johnsonism,
or High Church Borrowism Of Ainsworth-
ism, or Low-Church Borrowism and of Rob
insonism, or Broad Church Borrowism In
connection with this the authors demonstra-
ton of the fact that John Smyth first sepa-
rated from Johnson's "Ancient" Church at
Amsterdam, not, as heretofore alleged, be
cause he had become Baptist but for other
reasons seeding afterwards from his own
seeded church, when he Subsequently hap,
TIED first himself and then those who at that
time followed him-and, as connected with
this, the discovery OF Smyth's fRetractatinn
of his Errours" in the Minister Library
at York. The calculation of the fact
that the famous Farewell Address" of
John Robinson, at Leyden, does not-as
narE tt,ltetgl
solely to polity. Argument that the early
| Congregationalism of New England was
Barrowism and not Brownisrn, and of the
natural relation of the system of Ruling
Elders to that fact. The discovery and de.
| scription of the long. lost manuscript Cam
| bridge Platform" prepared for that synod by
Ralph Partridge of Duxbury. The explana-
ed the New England Churches of the sew
enteenth and part of the eighteenth CEN
fury, as being due to the irrepressible con-
fiict between the aristocratic and the demo
cratic elements of which their Barrowism
was composed. The pointing out of the
manner In which the Congrsgationaism of
New England was transferred from the
old basis of Barrowism to its present
basis OF Brownism with the relation
of John Wise and Nathaniel EN-
mons to that transfer The correction
OF the prevalent misconception that the
original Brownism repudiated Councils, and
the attempt to illustrate the full outgrowth
and working of the system of Ecclesiastical
Councils III this country, by copious cita-
ton of actual cases drawn from a collection ;
of more than twelve hundred of the "Re. ,
suits of such bodies The somewhat ex-
tended endeavor to intimate the actual con-
dtion Of the world as to general knowledge
at the time of the first settlement of New
England, as helpful to any just estimate of
tEan faDl ~ Il al1- = Al IL
The appendix to the volume is a list of col
lections toward photography of Congregations /
ism, and presents the titles of several thou
sand volumes and essays.
The contents of 'Appleton's Journal . for
August are as follows Edge-Tools," by .
Annie Boutwell, ); +" Health at Home,' by L. :
w. Richardson, NJ. D.; "Some Thoughts on !
Shelley, by Stopford A. Brooke; "The In
fuence of Art in Daily Life" by J. Beaving- I
ton Atkinson; German Dialect-P Poets" by I
". w. Crane; Michael and L" by Julian .
Sturgis; The Historical Character of the :,
Spanish Stage !" Landscape Painting, by :
Sir Robert ?. Collier; 81 The Cooks Oracle !" !
Goodwin Smiths ''Cowper;" Swinburne's
"Songs of the Springtides !" s'Captain Or
tis's Booty: a Ballad, by A. Mary F. Rob-
inson. Briefs on recent novels-"The Un- ..
.s GGaps5y odd s Essa
+.
Ship. Mrs Beauchamp Brown ;" Mad t
emoiselle de Mersac y Second Thoughts > /
/" Mary Anerley;' ''Reata What's In a S
Nance" 1.-THE Dukes Children - 1.-The /
Virginia Bohemians" Editors Table t
Thought Extirpation Process !" Litera- $
ture as Drudgery;" Modern Poets as Verse; '
Makers = Sir Robert 2. Collier on Land :
scape Painting Signing Magazine Arti- !.
cles." :
"The Atlantic Monthly for August has 5
these articles, beside the regular editorial {
departments: "The Saltwater Tragedy" a
Thomas Bailey Aldrich; sicilian Hospi- {
tality," Luigi Monti ''Kintu," Susan |
Coolidge "The Surgeon at the Field Hos {
pital; Mr. Hunts Teaching" T. d.
Millet; "Pepacton A Summer Voyage" |
John Burroughs The Archbishop and Gil q
Bias" Oliver Wendell Holmes "Sylvia's |
Suitors A Little Episode" Louise Stockton; /
Among the Pueblos," Susan E. Wallace ,
Edward Mills and George Benton" a tale, |
Mark Twain ''Alien Sin :" Sc The Preceptor = =
of Moses" Francis II. Underwood "An
Englishwoman in the New England Hill
Country : 1.-The Red Immortal, 7. W;
Grant White 1.-The Republicans and the {
Candidate;" Professor Fishers Discus !
sions :" Henry Armitt Brown y &c Natural
Science and Religion y Italian Poetry"
"The Popular Science Monthly" for
August Cd. Appleton & Co., New York;
presents this table of contents in addition to
the regular reviews and departments 1.-THE
Kearney Agitation in California" by Henry
George; "The Interior of the Earth" by
r. Radau son the Method of zadig." by
Professor T. II. Huxley, f. r. s.; The
Medicinal Leech," by DIR. A. Berghaus
Recent Original Work at Harvard, /" by +.
r. w. Hitchcock, A. B.; Geology and
History" by Professor Grant Allen; The
Cinchona Forests of South America" by H.
S. Welcome: "Types Of the Nubian Race !"
"Algebras Spaces, Logics," by George B.
Halsted, Pm D.; % Chemical Exercises for
Ordinary Schools, by Miss Eliza Youmans