Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-06-25

the wittiest man of his day, he would have
been accounted one of the wisest," Again
Macaulay said: He Is not one of those
show-talkers who reserve all their good
things for special occasions. 1t seems to
be his greatest luxury to keep his wife and
daughters laughing for two or three hours
every day.
The book contains many letters in refer
ence to the subjects character, disposition
or work from prominent Englishmen In
Guiding Earl Granville, Gladstone and
Ruskin, and has annexed an alphabetical
index OF 10 pages Received through Bough-
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THE STUDENTS RCCL EsIAs HISTORY
Part IL. By Philip Smith, B. A., author Of
the students Old Testament History" and
the "Students New Testament History PIP.
700; illustrated. Published by. Harper 4
Brothers, Franklin Square, New York.
The present well stored and very attrac-
lively printed work forms the continuation
and conclusion Of the authors History Of
the Christian Church During the First Ten
Centuries" 1t is subdivided into five sec
tons; the first of which covers the period
from A. D., 1902 to 1904 detailing the strug-
gle between the German emperors and the
popes and their conflict for the supremacy
the conflict between Hildebrand and Henry
w. some notice of the crusades and the rise
The second section carries the work
up to the coronation of Charles v,
in 1880, and deals specifically with
the Councils OF Pisa, Constance
and Basic, and the age of the renaissance,
A. d. 1447-l503, from which the figures OF
Calixtus Ill and Innocent VIII stand out In
bold relief. The constitution, worship and
| doctrines of the medieval church, to which
| the authorremarksth that the title the "dnrk
ages" has been indiscriminately applied
by the pride OF the renaissance and the
i self complacency of modern progress, -
| form the topic Of the third section; open.
| ing with the momentous epoch when the
idea of national churches, with rights more
or less Independent of papal control, was
growing up in England and France side by
| side with the vigorous reassertioi
from Rome of universal and overrulinr
church, and the development OF the doe
trine of infallibility which has been retro
spectyely affirmed in our own day by the
Vatican Council Of 1870. The fourth section
treats of the monastic orders OF the Twelfth
and thirteenth centuries; and the fifth o
ecclesiastical learning, the universities ant
scholastic theology; Il theme which tn,
author takes up at the accession of Sigber
to the kingdom Of East Anglia A. d. 62g-3
and pursues to the era OF the mystics Of thu
Netherlands and western Germany in thu
fourteenth century. The sixth section
is devoted to retrospect o
the ManichRan sects, the Waldense
and other sects, the Albigensian crusad
and brief notice of the origin and decIin
Of the inquisition in Germany and Spain
and the book concludes with a summar
Of the reformation, the causes which le,
thereto and the part taken therein b.
Luther, Calvin and others. A copious in
deX follows. The author has striven l.
deal throughout with only the plain, his
toric truth and TO avoid eXaggerating o
CLOSING over the conclusions to which |
lends. We receive the book from G. /
Thomas X Co.