public. They will certainly take advantage of it to stigmatize his volumes as rubbish that is heretical when it is explicable, and superfluous throughout. The scholar will value them because they bring under his eye hints and notices that are scattered through a dozen languages, and in many books that are not generally accessible. He will delight to roam, as in a library, through their generously furnished pages; but he will become a little jaded by the absence of method. Let Mr. Dunlap, in another volume, give us the substance of these three, carefully fortified by his own conjecture, distilled by discussion, and he will increase the obligation of his readers. He ought to state in plain language, unencumbered with learning, what are the ideas, or the moods of feeling, which one cultus has transmitted to another, what are the natural grounds from which they spring, what temporary exigencies they have served, and how much of them may survive legitimately to enter into any future worship or philosophy of religion. As it is, his volumes exhibit a good many striking coincidences, but do not show how the development of human intelligence drops, or modifies, or preserves and improves, the conceptions which the old world had in the presence of Nature and in the depths of consciousness. Mr. Lecky shows how scholarship may be wedded to a vigorous and genial discussion, during which the gradations of moral and intellectual ideas become plainly marked, and most instructively unfolded. Mr. Dunlap's learning is more remote from the sympathy of modern times, but equally capable of being reduced to a free and flowing expression. J. W. THE next number of this Magazine will be devoted mainly to a consideration of public affairs. But I cannot let the present number go to press, and not occupy the space that is yet left by putting down what I believe to be the truest word that can be uttered. America was never threatened by so appalling a danger as now. Never before was so much power lodged in the hands of a President of this country, with the disposition, openly declared, to use it for evil. PRESIDENT JOHNSON IS A BOLD, DANGEROUS MAN. He is animated by a spirit kindred with that which inspired the rebellion. The foes of liberty throughout the land have claimed him from the beginning. They knew their own. This is no time to pour oil on the troubled waters. The battle is to be fought out. Not yet is 'LIBERTY victorious'! Nor will it be-Men and Women of America- while there remains a public man or party, to question the principles of the Republic. The time to discuss those principles has passed. 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