DEVOTED TO GENERAL AND RELIGIOUS LITERATURE, CRITICISM, AND ART. DANIEL CURRY, D. D., EDITOR. VOLUME IV. CINCINNATI: NEW YORK: NELSON AND PHILLIPS. 1878. PAGE. 281 377 phy-Annual Record of Science and Industry- November-Through the Dark Continent-Student's Ecclesiastical History-New Testament Idea of Hell-Life and Times of John Knox-Memoirs of John Howard-English Men of Letters-Li- brary of American Fiction-Half-hour Series- Villages and Village Life-From Different Stand- December-The Foreknowledge of God, and Cog- Logan, the Mingo Chief, Henry B. Dawson, Massacre of Ipsara, Edward M'Clure, 473 Recluses of Port-Royal, Professor J. H. Worman, July-The Quakers and Higher Education — A Woman Philanthropist-An Interesting Dis- covery-The Russian Church--Church of Eng- August-German Reformed Church of the United States United Brethren-Work of the Ameri- can Board-Seats in the Protestant Episcopal September-Protestantism in Mexico-Dr. Charles Hodge-Protestantism a Failure-Modern Infi- October-Christian Unity-Aggressive Movement of the "Disciples "-Origin of Fetichism-A Novel Way of Treating of Evolution-Intem- perance-Anecdote of Moody Gutenberg's Bi- July-Near-sightedness-Flour Mill Explosions- 63 182 277 372 469 566 32 Rogers, Henry (illustrated), 121 HE public-schools and all the colleges committee of college officers, of which Dr. Tof the piece are under the supervision Haven, of the Syracuse University, was of a body of twenty-three men, called the Regents of the University of New York. This Board of Regents, elected by the Legislature for life, conduct annual examinations in all the school districts of the State, and issue certificates to all pupils who pass them. They are also maturing a plan for academies and college preparatory examinations of a similar character; and it is likely will also provide for still higher examinations and the issuing of appropriate degrees. This was suggested to the Board of Regents by a VOL. IV.-1 chairman, last year, and the Legislature granted to the Regents the special authority required for carrying out the recommendation. Indeed, in this board of Regents of the University of New York is the nucleus of an agency which may solidify and harmonize the education of this great State into a system as compact and vigorous as that of Prussia. The people of New York have also established many academies and colleges. As usual, the most of these are under denomi |