to the same things. There are those in both extremes, who differ from each other and from the Church, both in form and substance.

Historical Address, pronounced before the House of Convocation of Trinity College, in Christ Church, Hartford, Connecticut, at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Commencement, by the Rev. E. E. Beardsley, M. A., Rector of St. Thomas' Church, New Haven.

This is a Scholarly production, creditable to the College and its author. It notices the disabilities under which Churchmen in Connecticut long suffered; traces the educational efforts of Bishop Seabury, in establishing the Episcopal Academy, at Cheshire; the repeated refusal of the General Assembly to give to that Institution power to confer degrees; the successful efforts made, after the Consecration of Bishop Brownell, and the passage of the Toleration Act, to obtain a Charter for a new College; and gives a succinct history of the Institution, under the Presidences of Bishop Brownell, Doctors Wheaton and Totten; the modelling of the government of the College after the English Universities; and brings its history down to the election of President Williams, the present Assistant Bishop of the Diocese. Every friend of Trinity College, present and future, will be grateful to Mr. Beardsley for a work executed with so much judgment and good taste.

Rev. N. E. Cornwall's Jubilee Sermon in Trinity Church, Southport, (Fairfield,) Connecticut, Aug. 10, 1851.-This is an important historical sketch of one of the oldest Parishes in Connecticut; a parish which had the partial services of the Rev. Dr. Johnson, for two years; and was the scene of the labors of a man too little known, the Rev. Dr. Henry Caner, about twenty years, from 1727 to 1747. Mr. Cornwall is the Seventh Rector of a parish which has been organized one hundred and twenty-seven years. He gives brief but interesting notices of his predecessors; and records many valuable facts in the history of the Parish. The discourse is exceedingly creditable to its Author, for the industry and exactness which it evinces; and the Wardens and Vestry who solicited its publication will, we hope, find their example imitated in other of our older Parishes. The real history of the Church in this country, must be gathered, hereafter, from just such sources as

this.

THE INFLUENCE OF THOUGHT. The Rev. Dr. Thomas M. Clark's Phi Beta Kappa Oration at Union College, July 22, 1851.

It is the belief of the Orator, that "we are now verging towards a new intellectual era, the characteristics of which will be as vital and important as were those of the Reformation." He infers this "from the condition of practical art, of theoretic science, and of abstract thought." The Oration is full of truthful, vigorous, and beautiful conceptions; and contains some keen hits at certain modes of thinking, or what is sometimes called, thinking. It may be commended to all who are not fearful of collapse from contact with its sharp points.

RIGHT REV. BISHOP PAYNE'S ADDRESS before the Alumni of the Alexandria Theol. Seminary, July 10, 1851. A clear vindication of the claims of our African

Mission to a more vigorous support.

COLONIAL CHURCH CHRONICLE: London.

This valuable Periodical (Monthly) is a record of the progress of the Venerable Propagation Society, and often contains papers of great value.

REV. DR. MUHLENBERG'S ADDRESS at the laying of the Corner Stone of Kemp Hall, St. James' College, Md.-The efficient agency of Rev. Dr. Muhlenberg, in promoting the cause of Christian Education in this country, has not been duly appreciated.

REPORT OF THE GEN. PROT. EP. S. S. UNION, 1851. With the Right Rev. Bishop Whittingham's Quarter-Centennial Sermon.

EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT of the Bishop White Prayer Book Society, 1851. REV. T. F. BILLOPP'S SERMON: "Hearing Christ in the Church," at Stanton, Del. Published by request.

A LETTER to the Clergy and Laity of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Delaware. By Alfred Lee, Bishop of the Diocese of Delaware, 1851. With two Letters to the Rev. T. F. Billopp, and also Bishop Lee's Sermon at New Castle, Del., April 27, 1851.

We receive, Bishop Lee's pamphlet at the moment of going to press. The whole controversy, which we have no room here to explain, involves serious questions both of Order and Doctrine. It is an illustration of the practical workings of our Church system; an admirably adjusted system of Law and Order, checks and balances.

The New York Ecclesiologist, Nov. 1851. Published by the New York Ecclesiological Society.

THE MOTTO of Jubilee College, Nov. 1851. This Monthly Magazine is always an interesting messenger from the Venerable Presiding Bishop; whose Church Missionary Character it strongly reflects.

FOURTH ANNUAL Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1850.

LONDON LABOR AND THE LONDON POOR. By Henry Mayhew. With Engravings. Parts 13, 14, 15. New York: Harper & Brothers.-Graphic Sketches of Life in London.

PICTORIAL FIELD BOOK OF THE REVOLUTION. Parts 18 and 19. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851.-This popular work fully sustains its reputation. We have before noticed the exquisite finish of the illustrations.

HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE, New York: Oct., Nov., Dec.-The article in the December number, on the American Arctic Expedition, illustrated by drawings faken on the spot, is worth more than the price of the Number. The work is conducted with great ability and industry.

THE INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE, New York: Stringer & Townsend, Oct., Nov., Dec.-The Editor and Publishers are sparing no efforts to inerit the favor of the public, and which we believe they are liberally receiving.

ART. VIII.-LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

UNITED STATES.

The Smithsonian Institute, Washington City, has published Vol. i, 4to. Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley, by Messrs. Squier & Davis, pp. 346, with 48 plates and 207 wood-cuts-$10. Volume ii, containing 13 Memoirs on Scientific Subjects, 4to. pp. 164, and 24 plates-$5.50.-Geo. P. Putnam, New York, will publish immediately a posthumous work of Fennimore Cooper, The Men of Manhattan, said to abound with curious statistics and opinions relating to the City of New York.-The Fourth Annual Report of the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, prepared by C. C. Jewett, gives the following Summary of Libraries in the United States:

The whole number of libraries, (including those of the district schools,) of which I have been able to collect accounts, is 10,640; the aggregate number of volumes, 3,641,765; the whole number, exclusive of district school libraries, 644; the aggregate number of volumes in these, 2,144,069. (These are exclusive of

pamphlets, manuscripts, maps and charts, &c.) The number of libraries said to contain 50,000 volumes and upwards, is but four, namely: Harvard University, (including the public library, 56,000; Law, 13,000; Theological, 3,000; Medical, 1,200; students' libraries, 10,000 volumes,) 88,200; the Philadelphia and Loganian Libraries, 60,000; Congress Library, 50,000; Boston Athenæum, 50,000; the number of libraries containing over 20,000, (counting with the college libraries those of societies of students connected with the colleges, and excluding the four libraries above mentioned,) 11; the number of libraries containing from 10,000 to 20,000 volumes, 38; the number of libraries containing from 5,000 to 10,000, 75; the whole number of libraries containing over 5,000 volumes each, 188; whole number of libraries containing between 1,000 and 5,000 volumes, 437. The Hon. Mr. Gladstone's two Letters to Lord Aberdeen, on the State Prosecutions of the Neapolitan Government, has been republished by a New York Newsboy.-Little & Brown, Boston, will publish the Miscellaneous Writings, Addresses, and Judicial Opinions of the late Judge Woodbury, in four octavo volumes.The Life of Judge Story is already in preparation by his Son, and will be published in two volumes.-E. B. Butler & Co., Philadelphia, have published The Female Prose Writers of America. With Portraits, Biographical Notices, and Specimens of their writings. By JOHN S. HART, LL. D.-Forty-eight names are introduced. The portraits given are of Miss Sedgwick, Miss McIntosh, Mrs. Kirkland, Mrs. Hentz, Mrs. Stevens, Margaret Fuller, Mrs. Judson, and Mrs. Neal.

ENGLAND.

Mr. Edward Ross is preparing Lives of the Judges of England, four volumes of which have been published. They are said to rival Campbell's Lives of the Chancellors, and to exhibit more care and research in their preparation. Bagster & Sons, London, have published The Jansenists: their Rise, Persecutions by the Jesuits, their Remnant, by S. P. Tregelles, LL. D.-Rev. Henry Caswall is preparing a Second Edition of his America and the American Church.-R. C. Trench has published by Parker, five Lectures on the Study of Words.-Parker & Son have published Rituale Anglo-Catholicum; or the testimony of the Catholic Church to the Book of Common Prayer, as exhibited in quotations from Ancient Fathers, Councils, Liturges, and Rituals. By Henry Bailey, B. D. 8vo. pp. 155. This may be a valuable work; and if well done, should be reprinted in the United States.-Parker also publishes a new Edition of Coxe's Christain Ballads, with a new Preface by the Author.-The Westminster Review has been sold to Mr. John Chapman, the publisher. This change will make it the organ of the party to which Theodore Parker, Francis Newman, Froude, Foxton, and Thomas Wilson belong.-Thackeray is writing a novel, in three volumes, to be published in the winter. The scene is in England, nearly in the eighteenth century, and the stage will be crossed by many of the illustrious actors of that time, such as Bolingbroke, Swift and Pope; and Steele will play a prominent part.-Chapman & Hall have just published Thomas Carlyle's Life of John Sterling. 8vo. 10s. 6d. The book is attracting_considerable attention. Murray has published the Second Edition of History of Erastianism, by Archdeacon Wilberforce.-Professor Wilson, of Edinburgh University, the Christopher North of Blackwood, has retired from the University on account of ill health.-Macaulay's two Essays on Ranke's History of the Popes, and on Gladstone on Church and State, forms the eighth part of the Traveller's Library.-The following is the circulation of some of the London Newspapers:-Illustrated London News, 66,673; Daily Times, 38,019; Ecclesiastical Gazette, (Monthly,) 12,025; Guardian, 3,612; Tablet, 2,093; English Churchman, 1,520; Church and State Gazette, 846.-Keble's Christian Year has reached the fortieth edition.-Among the recent publications of Parker, are the following:-A collection of all the Ecclesiastical Laws, Canons and Constitutions of the Church of England, from its first foundation to the Reformation. Translated into English with explanatory Notes. By John Johnson, M. A. A New

Edition. Two Vols. 8vo. 11. 4s. This Edition has been carefully reprinted from that of 1720, extracts from the original Saxon and Latin being added in Notes where Johnson's translation seemed incorrect or obscure. Also, A Manual of Ecclesiastical History, from the First to the Twelfth Century inclusive. By the Rev. E. S. Foulkes, M. A., Fellow and Tutor of Jesus College, Oxford. In one Vol. 8vo., 12s.-J. Deighton has in press the Hulsean Lectures, 1851. The Preparation for the Gospel, as exhibited in the History of the Israelites; By the Rev. G. Currey, B. D., Preacher at the Charterhouse, and Boyle's Lecturer, formerly Fellow and Tutor of St. John's College, Cambridge.-An Exposition of the xxxix. Articles, derived from the Writings of the Older Divines; By the Rev. W. B. Hopkins, M. A., Fellow and Tutor of St. Catharine's Hall, and formerly Fellow of Caius College, Cambridge.-Hope & Co. have in press An Enquiry into the Theology of the Anglican Reformers; with Extracts from their Writings on the Apostolical Succession-Baptism-the Holy Eucharist-PredestinationFaith and Works; with a concluding Dissertation on their Value and Authority in illustrating the teaching of the Church of England; By a Priest of the Diocese of Exeter. One Vol. post 8vo., price 6s.-The Oxford University Press has recently issued The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments_with the Apocryphal Books, in the Earliest English Versions, made from the Latin Vulgate by John Wycliffe and his followers; Edited by the Rev. Josiah Forshall, F. R. S., &c., late Fellow of Exeter College; and Sir Frederick Madden, K. H., F. R. S., Keeper of the MSS. in the British Museum. Four Vols. 4to., 51. 15s. 6d.--Also, The Two Books of Common Prayer, set forth by Authority_of Parliament, in the reign of King Edward VI; Compared with each other. By Edward Cardwell, D. D., Principal of St. Alban's Hall. Second Edition. 8vo., 88.-Also, Reformatio Legum--The Reformation of the Ecclesiastical Laws, as attempted in the reigns of King Henry VIII, King Edward VI, and Queen Elizabeth. A New Edition. 8vo., 6s. 6d.

CONTINENTAL AND ORIENTAL.

The study of Russian archæology and history is prosecuted in that country with a degree of activity and thoroughness that other nations are not aware of, and publications of importance are made constantly. Within the present year the fifth part of the complete collection of Russian Chronicles has appeared, the fourth of the collection of public documents relating to the history of Western Russia, and the beginning of a new collection of foreign historians of Russia.

Periodical literature is making its way into Asia. A literary monthly has made its appearance at Tiflis, in the Georgian language. It will discuss Georgian literature, furnish translations from foreign tongues, and treat of the arts and sciences, and of agriculture. What oriental students will find most interesting in this magazine, will be its specimens of the popular literature of the country. A new Armenian periodical has also been commenced in the Trans-Caucasian country.

The second part of the third volume of HUMBOLDT'S Kosmos is nearly completed, and will soon appear. A fourth volume is to be added, in which the geological studies of the venerable author will be set forth. He is now nearly eighty-one years old, and is as vigorous and youthful in feeling as ever. The first part of the third volume of Kosmos appeared in German and English several months ago.

A History of Polish Literature, from the remotest antiquity to 1830, is now being published at Warsaw, by Mr. MACIEJOWKI, a writer thoroughly acquainted with the subject. Three parts of the first volume have appeared, bringing the history down to the first half of the seventeenth century. One more part will complete the volume, and three volumes will complete the work.

ECCLESIASTICAL REGISTER.

SUMMARY OF HOME INTELLIGENCE.

CONSECRATIONS.

BISHOP OF FLORIDA.

ON the 15th of October, 1851, the Rev. Francis H. Rutledge, D.D., was consecrated Bishop for the Diocese of Florida, in St. Paul's Church, Augusta, Georgia. The Right Rev. C. E. Gadsden, D. D., of South Carolina, presided by request of the Senior Bishop. Morning Prayer was said by the Rev. T. F. Scott, of Columbus, Georgia. The Sermon was preached by the Right Rev. Bishop Gadsden, from John xx, 21, 22, 23; who also began the Communion Service; the Right Rev. Bishop Elliott, of Georgia, reading the Epistle, and the Right Rev. Bishop Cobbs, of Alabama, the Gospel. The Bishop elect was presented by the Right Rev. Bishops Cobbs and Elliott. The Testimonials were read by the Rev. Dr. Ford, of Augusta, Ga.; the Litany was then said by the Right Rev. Bishop Elliott; the Bishop elect was assisted in putting on the Episcopal Habit by Rev. Dr. Marshall and the Rev. T. G. Young, of South Carolina. The Right Rev. Bishops Gadsden, Elliott, and Cobbs, then united in the laying on of hands upon the Bishop elect. The Right Rev. Bishop Elliott read the Offertory, and the Prayer for the Church Militant was said by the Right Rev. Bishop Gadsden. The services were solemn and imposing, and were attended by a large Congregation of Clergy and Laity.

ASSISTANT BISHOP OF CONNECTICUT.

On the 29th of October, 1851, the Rev. John Williams, D. D., President of Trinity College, was consecrated Assistant Bishop of the Diocese of Connecticut. The Right Rev. Bishop Brownell acted as Consecrator by request; the Right Rev. Bishops Hopkins of Vermont, Eastburn of Massachusetts, Henshaw of Rhode Island, Chase of New Hampshire, Burgess of Maine, and DeLancey of Western New York, being present and assisting. The Rev. Dr. T. W. Coit and the Rev. R. A. Hallam, read Morning Prayers, assisted by Rev. J. L. Clark in the Lessons. The Right Rev. Bishop Hopkins, read the Ante-Communion Service to the Collect, which was said by the Right Rev. Bishop Brownell. The Epistle was read by the Right Rev. Bishop Eastburn; the Gospel by the Right Rev. Bishop De Lancey. After singing Psalm 79, Bishop Burgess preached from St. Luke, xxii, 26, 27. The Bishop elect was presented to the Presiding Bishop by the Right Rev. Bishop Chase, and the Right Rev. Bishop Burgess. The Rev. Dr. Croswell read the Testimonials of the Convention; the Rev. Dr. Mead, the Testimonials of the Standing Committees by twenty-six Dioceses, and the Rev. Dr. Wheaton, the letter of the Right Rev. Bishop Chase, requesting to Consecrate. The Presiding Bishop proceeded with the Prayers and Interrogatories, the Litany