to the subject of education. There are now 25,000 primary schools in the kingdom, which ought to be exerting a powerful effect upon the people. Spain has ten universities, and the number of students in them is far greater than one would expect under the low state of popular education. They are thus distributed: "The course of study pursued in these institutions is substantially the same as that in other countries; 2,040 of the students are in the Philosophical and Literary course, 1.617 in the Exact Sciences, Physics, and so forth; while Law, Theology and Medicine, include the rest." The first part of the Papal edition of the Vatican MS. has been published, edited by Fathers Vercellone and Cozza, containing the New Test.; the other parts are promised at intervals of ten months. The missing parts of the text are supplied per another Vatican MS., of which Cardinal Mai used in his edition. The whole will be in six volumes--one of these containing the critical notes and apparatus, with fac-similes. The first volume is an excellent specimen of typography, on good paper, in brown ink, from a type like that of the Codex Sinaitiary-folio, three columns on a page, like the original MS., lines and letters. Codises Gotici Ambrosiani, etc.: "Gothic MSS. in the Ambrosian Library of Milan," containing fragments of the Epistles of St. Paul, and Ezra and Nehemiah, in the Gothic version of Ulphilas. Bishop Ulphilas' Gothic version of the Scriptures is now known only in fragments. The Codex Argenteus, now in the Upsala Library, containg the Five Gospels, was published by Juning in Dort, 1665, by Stiernjelhm at Stockholm, 1671; and at Oxford, by Lye, 1750. Parts of the Epistles were edited at Brunswick, 1762, by Knittel, from a Wolfenbüttel palimpsest; other fragments of the Epistles, from the Ambrosian Library, Milan, edited by Mai and Castaglione, were published between 1819 and 1839. Gabentz and Loebe, 1836-47, edited a complete edition; later editions were published by Massmann, 1855-7, and Stamm, 1858. The author of the present edition, Uppströmm, has been long engaged in Gothic researches; the present work, from his collections, is edited by his son, with annotations, appendices, etc. This Gothic version is appealed to, in the criticism of the text, by Griesbach, Scholz, Tischendorf and others. Its renderings often agree with the oldest M33. Yet it also contains some exclusively Latin renderings. GREAT BRITAIN. 4. Phile The British and Foreign Evangelical Review, Oct., 1868. 1. The Swedish Reformation. 2. Forbe's Analytical Commentary on the Romans (Edinbourgh, 1868); expressing dissent from some of Dr. Forbe's views, especially on Romans, V. where be stresuously and acutely combats the theory of immediate imputation, and the exegeses of Dr. Hodge. Dr. Forbes makes a liberal use of " parallelism " in his Commentary, and, at some points, with signal clearness. 3. The Norwegian Church,--its present state, rites, etc. Judæs. 5. Assyria and her Monuments,--or the basis of Rawlinson. 6. The Christian Doctrine of Sin,-a criticism of Müller's work. 7. Science and Civiliation,-against Lubbock's lucubrations. 8. Was Gibbon an Infidel? (from the Princton Review). 8. Unpublished Letters of Melancthon-recently discovered at Brussels by Dr. Scheler, and published in the Serapeum-several of which are here translated; but none of them are of special value. In noticing the Princton Review on Reunion, the editor says: "To us it appears plain, a wholesome change has come over the ministers and people of the New School," "It seems hard, almost cruel. to revert to the old battles of thirty years ago, and compel the young men, who were then mere children, proudly to condemn the error of their fathers, before extending to them the right hand of fellowship. Truth does not demand such an inviolation of national feeling, and charity forbids it." ART. XIV.-ECCLESIASTICAL RECORD. By EDWIN F. HATFIELD, D. D. [Ordinations, Installations, and Deaths of Ministers since the Meeting of the General Assemblies.] I. ORDINATIONS. Joseph Lanman, June 2, 1868, P., Windham, N. H., Thos. J. Brown, 66 by Pres. Londonderry' Phil., Third. P., Phil. (Logan Sq.), Pa, 66 P., Industry, Pa., 66 David Biggar, Utica. 66 N. McFetridge, Erie. 66 Albert F. Lyle, 22, Ev., 66 Thomas Tracy, " 28, F. M., Cayuga. James A. Hoyt, "30, A. J. Layenberger," P., Lincoln, Ill., Bloomington. James P. Irwin, July 1, P., Gilead, Ct., Connecticut. 14, George P. Noble, "26, M. H. Calkins, Aug. 20, E. W. Schefel, Sept. 1, Walter Condict, 20, F. M., Raritan. 66 8, P.. Lancaster, Pa., Donegal. 9, P., Newark (Calv.), N. J., “10, Ev., Green Castle. 13, “20, P., Cornwall, N. Y., 22, F. M., 66 66 W. Louis Rabe, “29, Ev., 66 “29, Ev., D. W. Bigelow, ❝ 29, Indianapolis. Richland. Bloomington. Onondaga. H. D. Jenkins, ❝ 29, P., Joliet (Central), Ill., Oct. 4, Ev., Andrew Jardine, 81, May 15, 1868, Broome Co., N. Y., Pres. Nath. B. Lyons. 44, 19. Geo. Junkin. D.D., Ira O. DeLong, Prosperity, Pa., Logansport. N. Brunswick. Huntingdon. Washington. Philadelphia Oatario. Elizab'town. G. River. Monroe. Missouri R. 71, 66 23, Cincinnati. O., Cincinnati. 74, 26, Detroit, Mich., Detroit. 66 James C. Sharon, 28, Bloomfield, Io., David F. Palmer, 66 62, 28, Meadow Creek, Tenn. " Holston. Henry Benedict, 71, July 18, Saratoga, N. Y., 66 Connecticut. Lansing, Io., Fairbury, Ill., " Rochester. Bloomington James Lewers, 61, Aug. 24, Catasaqua, Pa., 66 Phil, Sec'nd Orange, N. J., 66 86, 28, Alfred N. Denny, 29, 30, Oct. 1, 46 2, 16, Alex. Lemon, 55, 66 15, Ripon, Wis., J.G. Reichmann,D.D. 57," 16, Kalamazoo, Mich., THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN REVIEW. THIRD SERIES. No. II.-APRIL, 1869. ART. I.-RECENT DISCOVERIES IN GEOLOGY. THE AQUEOUS FORMATION OF GRANITE AND CONSEQUENT REVOLUTION IN GEOLOGY. By Rev. ROBERT PATTERSON, D. D., Chicago, Ill. Ir is the custom of a certain class of writers to contrast religion, as a mere collection of speculative opinions, with science, and especially with geological science, as consisting of a body of well-ascertained facts. They argue the necessary conquest of faith by science, and the substitution of Murchison for Moses, and of Lyell for Christ, on the ground of superior authority. But this flippant contrast displays no profound acquaintance with either religion or science. For religion consists, not merely of dogmas, but of a body of facts, well-ascertained, in the very same way as the facts of science are ascertained, by the observation of competent observers, and the experiments of inquirers, and believed on the very same grounds on which all science is believed, namely, on the testimony of the observers. There is not one of our readers who has any other basis of belief for his A, B, C, or for any subsequent acquisition in geography, astronomy, geology, or any other science, than faith in the testimony of his teachers. On the other hand, science does not consist in the knowledge of a heterogeneous collection of facts, but in an arrangement of facts according to a system or theory. The greater |
