The List of Graduates at the several colleges in the States of New York and New Jersey is completed in this number of the Register. We have endeavored to make it accurate; yet it is probable that some mistakes have been made, for the labor of preparing it is not only great but difficult, as the Triennial Catalogues, from which we have derived the most of our information, are sometimes very incorrect. For instance, Governor Smith of New Hampshire graduated at Rutgers College and received his diploma in 1780; but owing to the confused state of the college at that time, his name probably was not registered in the books of the institution as a graduate, for it has never been published in the Triennial Catalogue. Such is the fact, though it may seem strange that the name of so distinguished a man should be thus omitted. In one of the Triennials the name of an individual is mentioned two or three times as he may have received degrees; and it is difficult in some cases to ascertain whether it is the same person. The following tabular view of graduates, similar to the one we published respecting the New England Colleges, is inserted as containing interesting information. NUMBER OF GRADUATES AT THE COLLEGES NAMED IN THE PRECEDING LIST, EACH YEAR, SINCE THEIR ESTABLISHMENT. In the above Table those only who graduated at the institutions are reckoned. In the seventh volume of this work, we published an Alphabetical List of the Graduates at all the Colleges in New England down to the year 1834. The following is a summary of the Graduates: The year in which the institutions were founded is placed over them. 1638 1700 1764 1769 1791 1793 1794 1800 1820 1821 1824 5,321 4,485 1,253 1,764 203 800 498 599 99 384 115 15,521 NOTICES OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. 1. The Tusculan Questions of Marcus Tullius Cicero. Translated by George Alexander Otis, Esq., Member of the American Philosophical Society; Translator of Botta's History of the War of American Independence. pp. 316. Boston: James B. Dow. Mr. Otis is well known to many of our readers as the able and accomplished translator of the great work of Charles Botta on the American Revolution-a work, which in several important respects, is the best which has appeared on that war. We rejoice, that Mr. Otis has presented in an English dress the Tusculan Questions of Cicero, which treat of great and noble subjects. Though we have not had opportunity to read but a few pages of the translation, and those 6. The Annual Address to the Candidates for very cursorily, yet from the specimen we have seen, we are confident, that Mr. Otis has executed his undertaking (task it can hardly be called, since it is done con amore), in a spirited and accurate manner. We understand that This Address is fraught with the most judicious John Quincy Adams, no inferior judge of such advice, conceived in an affectionate spirit, and matters, has tendered his encouragement to the based on the most exalted Christian morality. translator from the beginning, and that he ex-Truly happy would it be for our country if all presses his full approbation of the mode in which the members of the medical profession were the work is performed. guided by such principles as Dr. Miner here sets before them. 2. A Sermon on the Utility of a Permanent Ministry. By the Rev. David T. Kimball of Ipswich, Ms. pp. 24. 7. An Address at the Annual Commencement of Mr. Estabrook discourses on the general subject of the importance of collegiate education with much propriety and good sense. 8. A Discourse delivered before the Connecticut The text of this Sermon is 2 Kings iv. 13, "I dwell among my own people." The topic is very timely, and the considerations adduced by the preacher in favor of a permanent ministry are of great importance, and are handled judiciously. A permanent ministry promotes a strong attachment between a minister and his people; it enables him to adapt his instructions to the wants of his hearers; he can acquire and communicate more knowledge; the piety acquired under a permanent ministry is usually of a more deep and solid kind; a permanent ministry restrains an excessive love of novelty; gives firm-which are likely to prove detrimental to our ness and stability to religious societies, etc. 3. Sermon on the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the formation of the First Congregational Church in Dover, N. H., Nov. 29, 1838. By David Root, Pastor. pp. 31. A great variety of interesting facts are here embodied in relation to one of the oldest churches in the country. Some of the statements which Mr. Root brings forward are strikingly corroborative of the position in the discourse of Mr. Kimball just noticed. The average continuance of the fifteen ministers who have been settled over the church at Dover, has been but about ten years each. 4. A Sermon delivered at Sheffield, Ms., Jan. 6, 1839, by Rev. James Bradford, on the completion of a Quarter of a Century from his settlement over the Congregational Church in that place. pp. 47. The church in Sheffield was organized Oct. 22, 1735. It has had but four pastors-Rev. Messrs. Jonathan Hubbard, John Keep, Ephraim Judson and James Bradford. The first was pastor twenty-nine years; the second twelve years; the third twenty-two years. Honorable to the church and the town and to the ministers is the fact that for more than one hundred years not one minister has been sent away from the people, or felt himself necessitated to leave them. Another equally interesting fact is that there has never been but one ecclesiastical society in the town, though for forty years, it has contained more than two thousand inhabitants, spread over a territory eight miles long and six broad. The Sermon is judiciously prepared, and will be read with much interest. Dr. Humphrey describes some of the causes colleges. These are an excessive spirit of competition among the different institutions; the poverty of a large and growing class of students; and a restless and meddling spirit of innovation. The remedies for these evils which are suggested are, first, the colleges must be better endowed; secondly, they ought to have a perfect understanding in respect to the terms of admission. These topics are discussed with Dr. Humphrey's usual discrimination and practical wisdom. The close of the Address rises into a high strain of eloquence. 9. A Sermon delivered at the Ordination of Rer. Cyrus Hamlin as a Missionary to Constantinople, Oct. 3, 1838. By Rev. J. Maltby of Banger. pp. 40. A valuable and striking comparison of primitive and modern piety. We regret that we have not room to notice other interesting We shall do it in the next number of the Register. publications which we have received. STEPHEN S. N. GREELEY, Cong. ord. pastor, Gilmanton, 5. Address delivered before the Alumni Asso-J. ciation of the College of New Jersey, Sept. 26, 1838. By James M'Dowell, Esq. of Rockbridge County, Va. pp. 51. This Address is conceived in all the fervor of one nursed under a southern sky. It is a bold, heart-stirring appeal of a patriotic and nobleminded man. The main object is to enforce the importance of the continued union of the United States. It was delivered at the last commencement at Amherst College, and was received with great favor there, as well as at Princeton. Feb. 21. MILTON COBURN, Bap. ord. evang. Effingham, N. H. ABNER E. WARNER, Cong. ord. pastor, Milford, N. H. Feb. 28. VELONA R. HOTCHKISS, Bap. ord. pastor, Poultney, Ver mont, Dec. 29, 1838. 29. 1839. CHARLES FARRAR, Bap. ord. pastor, Felchville, Vt. Jan. SAMUEL H. PECKHAM, Cong. inst. pastor, Royalston, |