the naked eye; a magnifying glass must be used to read it. Amateurs must place this literary jewel not in a library, but in a cabinet.

Biblical Repertory. A Collection of Tracts in Biblical Literature. By CHARLES HODGE, Professor of Oriental and Biblical Literature in the Theological Seminary at Princeton, New Jersey. Vols. I. II. and III. Princeton, 1825—1827. 8vo. This work is offered to his countrymen, by Professor Hodge, as a vehicle by which information contained in expensive and rare volumes may be conveyed to biblical students at a reasonable price. We are glad to see such a work commenced in the American Union, and hope that it will meet with the encouragement it deserves. As its title implies, the subjects principally discussed relate to the criticism of the text of Scripture, to the ancient versions, to critical editions, to Hermeneutics, biblical antiquities, and the literary history of the sacred volume. Exegetical treatises on important passages of Scripture, biographical notices of biblical writers, and accounts of the most important biblical works, are likewise inserted; and, occasionally, disquisitions on some topics of ecclesiastical history. The work is, avowedly, not intended to be original in its general character, but to consist of selections from the writings of the most distinguished British and Continental critics and Oriental scholars: hence it will not be necessary to offer any extracts, especially as the treatises whence this collection of tracts is taken have long been familiar to the majority of English biblical scholars. As, however, we have reason to think that very few copies have reached this country, we subjoin the following analysis of their contents for the gratification of our readers.

Vol. I. contains translations of-1. Beck's Monogrammata Hermeneutices Novi Testamenti. 2. Tittmann's Dissertation on Historical Interpretation. 3. Warnekros de Fertilitate Palestinæ. 4. Extracts from Staudlin's History of Theological Knowlege (from the German). 5. Knappius de Spiritu Sancto et Christo, Paracletis. 6. Morus on the Style of the New Testament, and his rules for discovering the Usus Loquendi of the New Testament. (The substance of these observations has long been before British readers in the second volume of Mr. Hartwell Horne's Introduction to the Critical Study of the Scriptures.) 7. Michaelis on the Population of Palestine, (this is to be found in Dr. Smith's Translation of Michaelis's Commentaries on the Laws of Moses); and reprints of the following Disquisitions by English biblical critics ; viz. 8. Bishop Warburton on Types and Secondary Senses; Remarks on the Propriety of a New Translation of the Scriptures in English (ascribed to the venerable Bishop of Salisbury); and Archbishop Laurence's Critical Remarks on the Unitarian Version of the New Testament.

Vol. II. contains reprints of-1. Extracts from Bentley's Phileleutherus Lipsiensis. 2. Archbishop Laurence's Remarks on Griesbach's Classification of Manuscripts. 3. The Rev. H. J. Rose on the State of the Protestant Church in Germany, Sermons I. and II.; and translations of the following articles; viz. 4. Storr on the various uses of the word HAHPOMA. 5. On the Antiquity of Coined Money, from the French of Calmet. 6. On the Genuineness of Isaiah's Prophecies, from the German of Jahn, who satisfactorily vindicates their genuineness. 7. Analytical Comparison of the Sanscrit, Greek, Latin, and Teutonic

Languages, from the Annals of Oriental Literature. 8. Knappe's Dissertation on 2 Pet. i. 19–21. 9. Account of the Life and Writings of John David Michaelis, from Eichhorn's Allgemeine Bibliothek. 10. Herder's Dialogues on the Spirit of Hebrew Poetry, translated from the German. This volume has one original essay on the Antiquity and History of the Hebrew Language, compiled from Bishop Walton's Prolegomena, Loescher de Causis Linguæ Hebrææ, Gesenius's Geschichte der Hebraischen Sprache, (History of the Hebrew Language,) and Leusden's Philologus Hebræus.

Vol. III. contains-1. The conclusion of Mr. Rose's Sermons on the State of the Protestant Church in Germany. 2. A translation from the Latin of J. G. Walchius's Dissertation on the Mode of Catechetical Instruction pursued by the Apostles. 3. Five tracts on the Interpretation of Scripture, translated from the Opuscula Philologico-Critica of Jo. Aug. Ernesti. 4. A Refutation of the Hypothesis of the Papists in relation to the Interpretation of the Scriptures, translated from Jo. Alphonso Turretin's (or Turretini's) Treatise de Interpretatione Scripturæ. 5. ATranslation from the Greek of Justin the Martyr's Exhortation to the Greeks. 6. Hints on the Importance of the Old Testament, from the German of Prof. Augustus Tholuck. 7. The conclusion of Herder's Dialogues on the Spirit of Hebrew Poetry. 8. A Translation of Reinhard's Latin Dissertation on Miracles. 9. Illustrations of the Elementary Principles of the Structure of Language, reprinted from the Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, and the Arts, New Series, Vol. I. No. I. 10. An Extract from Mr. Faber's Difficulties of Romanism, in regard to the claim of Infallibility. 11. On the Gospel of St. John, translated from Eichhorn's (German) Introduction to the New Testament. Besides various " Gleanings," principally from British journals and other publications.

These volumes are printed with singular neatness, and on good paper. One number for the year 1828, we believe, has appeared; but whether the "Biblical Repertory" has met with sufficient encouragement for its further continuance, we have, at present, no means of ascertaining.

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The 5th and last Part of Bagster's quarto edition of Biblia Sacra Polyglotta. This Part contains the intire New Testament in five Languages. The Syriac Version is to be sold separately.

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A Manual of Parochial Psalmody, comprising Select Portions from the Old and New Versions of the Psalms; together with Hymns for the principal Festivals, &c. of the Church of England, revised and adapted to the Service of the Church, for every Sunday, &c. throughout the year. By the Rev. THOMAS HARTWELL HORNE, M.A. 18mo.

The title of this Manual of Psalmody (which is dedicated to His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury) completely expresses its design and contents: and as some of the editor's corrections of the New Version of the Psalms by Tate and Brady are, strictly speaking, critical corrections, this circumstance gives it a place in our Journal. In his preface, the editor has given a concise history of the Church of England Psalmody, together with a statement of the reasons which now render it necessary that Christian congregations should have other compositions for singing, besides merely literal versions of Jewish Psalms. The portions, selected from the Old Version of Sternhold and Hopkins and from the New Version, are upwards of one hundred and forty in number; and they contain the finest passages, for divine worship, of both versions. The Hymns, or imitations of Psalms, are selected from the best authors of that species of composition, both British and Anglo-American. Every mystical expression (and it is well known that many of the finest hymns in our language have a

mystical turn) has been carefully altered or omitted. The whole are strictly congregational, that is, such as may be sung by every individual in a congregation. Two features distinguish this volume, and render it peculiarly a Manual of Parochial Psalmody; viz.

1. The editor has prefixed a copious arrangement of Psalms and Hymns, adapted generally to the subjects of the First Lessons, Epistles, Gospels, or Collects, for every Sunday, Festival, &c. throughout the Ecclesiastical year; and also for the administration of the two Sacraments, for Charity Sermons of different kinds, Laying the Foundationstone or Consecration of Churches or Parochial Chapels, Visitations, Funerals, and various ecclesiastical and other occasions, for which some such help has long been a desideratum. The Introits before the Communion-service are from those Psalms which were appointed to be sung (chorally, in the Prayer Book version,) as introits in King Edward VI.'s first Liturgy, printed in 1549, and which, according to Wheatley, had reference generally to the season of the year or to the service of the day: so that this part of Mr. Horne's plan is în effect an attempt to bring back our Psalmody to that order which it obtained at the Reformation.

2. To each Psalm there is prefixed a brief preface, pointing out its scope, and, if it be a prophetical Psalm, its application to the Messiah : these prefaces are abridged either from Bishop Horne's Commentary, from Bishop Mant's recent metrical version of the Psalms, or from the black-letter prefaces which were prefixed to the Psalms in the earlier editions of the Old Version, and many of which were very judicious, though they have been unaccountably omitted in all the modern editions of that version.

Altogether, this neatly printed volume is one of the most comprehensive Manuals of Parochial Psalmody, as it is the cheapest, which has fallen under our notice.

The Celtic Druids. By GODFREY HIGGINS, Esq. 4to. With many beautiful Engravings. Price 31. 3s. bds. Hunter, London.

It is impossible to do justice to this volume by any critique, but our readers may form the best idea of the work by the following extract from the table of contents.

Preliminary Observations-Necessity of Etymology-Alphabets-Explanation of the Alphabets-Changes in Language-Theory respecting Figures—Division of the Year and Circle-Druids acquainted with Letters-Objection to the Passage of Cæsar's-Ingenuity of Mr. Ledwich-Two Ancient Alphabets-Irish, Greek, and Hebrew Letters the same-Slight Difference in the Alphabets-English and Arabic Alphabets the same as the others-Ogams of Ireland-Hercules Ogmius— Ogam Writings yet exist-Affinity between the Languages-Argument concluded -Peculiarity of the Irish Alphabet-Irish Letters compared with Hebrew-Possible Use of the above System-Hieroglyphics--Ciphering invented before Letters -A Mazy Concern-Holy Fury-Virgil a Druid-Welsh Letters-Runes of the North-Allusions to Trees-Most Ancient Alphabets-When the Ogam Writing was invented-Tenth Chapter of Genesis-The Eleventh Chapter of Genesis misplaced-The Author's Hypothesis supported by Mr. Bryant-Transposition of Part of the Eleventh Chapter of Genesis--Great Knowlege displayed in the Tenth Chapter of Genesis-Examination of Ararat and ArmeniaD'Herbelot's Opinion-St. Jerom respecting Babylon and Shinar-Nineveh near to Babylon-M. Baillie's Hypothesis on a Primeval Nation-M. Baillie's Doctrines Opinions of Baillie, Buffon, and Linné, on the Earth and on Man-Baillie's