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CHRISTIAN EXAMINER

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GENERAL REVIEW.

VOL. XXII.

THIRD SERIES, VOLUME IV.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY JAMES MUNROE AND COMPANY.

LONDON:

ROWLAND HUNTER, AND R. J. KENNETT, YORK ST., COVENT GARDEN.

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VOL. XXII. -THIRD SERIES, VOL. IV.

The Question of Expediency.

ART. III. Text-Book of Ecclesiastical History. By J. C. I.
GIESELER. Translated from the third German Edition,
by FRANCIS CUNNINGHAM.

ART. IV. - A Harmony of the Gospels. By LANT CAR-
PENTER, LL. D., Minister of the Gospel.

ART. V.- Poems. By WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. Fourth
Edition.

ART. VI. The Sunday School. A Discourse pronounced
before the Sunday School Society. By WILLIAM E.
CHANNING.

ART. VII.The Young Lady's Friend. By a Lady.
ART. VIII. — Remarks on the Four Gospels. By W. H.

FURNESS.

NOTICES AND INTELLIGENCE.

- Robinson's Greek and English Lexicon of the New Testament. Brownson's New Views of Christianity, Society, and the Church. Carey's Memoir of William Carey, D. D., late Missionary to Bengal. The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, now first published with his Works. - New Publications.

EDITORIAL NOTICE.

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ART. I.— The Young Man's Friend. By A. B. MUZZEY. ART. II. Notices of the Rev. Bezaleel Howard, D. D., of Springfield; being the Substance of the Rev. Mr. Peabody's Discourse at his Interment, February 22, 1837. 157 ART. III. 'H KAINH ΔΙΑΘΗΚΗ. The Greek Testament, with English Notes, Critical, Philological, and Exegetical. By the REV. S. T. BLOOMFIELD, D. D. ART. IV. - Cours de Droit Naturel, professé à la Facultié des Lettres de Paris, par M. TH. JOUFFROY. Premiere partie. ART. V.-1. Mammon; or, Covetousness the Sin of the Christian Church. By REV. JOHN HARRIS.

2. An Essay on the Sin and the Evils of Covetousness;
and the Happy Effects which would flow from a spirit
of Christian Benevolence. By THOMAS DICK, LL. D.

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3. The Philosophy of Benevolence. By PARACELSUS
CHURCH, A. M.

ART. VI. 1. Schiller's Song of the Bell. Translated for
the Boston Academy of Music. By S. A. ELIOT.
2. Song of the Bell. From SCHIller. American
Monthly Magazine for January, 1837.

ART. VII. - Physical Theory of Another Life. By the Au-
THOR OF NATURAL HISTORY OF ENTHUSIASM.

ART. VIII. - History of Worcester, Massachusetts.

WILLIAM LINCOLN.

lish Lexicon.

By

NOTICES AND INTELLIGENCE. - Robinson's Hebrew and Eng-
Morgridge's True Believer's Defence.
- Unitarianism in England. - The Church of Eng-
Specimens of Foreign Standard Literature.

land.

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No. III.

ART. I. — Clerical Studies: being the Substance of a Dissertation read before an Association of Ministers.

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ART. II. - The Miracles of Jesus

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ART. III.The Evidences of the Genuineness of the Gospels. By ANDREWS NORTON. Vol. I.

ART. V.-The Elements of Moral Science. By FRANCIS
WAYLAND, D. D.

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ART. VI. Miriam ; A Dramatic Poem.
ART. VII. - 1. The Duties of Hard Times. A Sermon
preached to the First Church, on Sunday Morning,
April 28, 1837. By its Minister, N. L. FROTHINGHAM.
2. Views of Duty adapted to the Times. A Sermon
preached at Portsmouth, N. H., May 14, 1837. By
ANDREW P. PEABODY, Pastor of the South Church and
Parish.

3. The Temptations of the Times. A Discourse deliv-
ered in the Congregational Church in Purchase Street,
on Sunday Morning, May 7, 1837. By GEORGE RIP-
LEY, Pastor of that Church.

4. The Hard Times. A Discourse delivered in the Sec-
ond Unitarian Church, and also in the First Parish
Church, Portland, Sunday, January 1, 1837. By
JASON WHITMAN.

NOTICES AND INTELLIGENCE.

Christ. Cole's Meditations for the Sick. Haven's
Historical Address. Noyes's New Translation of the
Hebrew Prophets. VOL. II.

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INDEX.

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ART. I.- Dramas, by JOANNA BAILLIE. In Three Volumes. 8vo. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, & Co. 1836.

We are now in possession of no less than seven volumes of Joanna Baillie's Dramas ;- the three volumes of plays on the Passions, which were published some years ago, a volume of miscellaneous plays, and the volumes before us. This collection may easily be called the richest gift which has been made to English dramatic literature in the present age; and we believe, that there are many who would not charge us with extravagance, if we were to say, that it is the richest which has been ever made to it, excepting the unapproached donation of the plays of Shakspeare. In offering such an opinion, we enter not into the question of individual genius. We remember the works, a large portion indeed of which we should not grieve to forget, of Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, Massinger, Otway, and others. But, regarding both quantity and quality, intellectual elevation and moral influence, truth of substance and beauty of form, and holding a fair balance both of merits. and defects, we hesitate not to place the name of this lady above even those distinguished names. However some of those writers may have excelled her in the graces of poetry and the flashes of intellect, there is a sustained dignity, a pure loftiness in her muse, which, with other attributes of power and beauty, entitle her to the precedence. But, if the charge of extravaVOL. XXII. -3D. s. VOL. IV. NO. I.

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