TABLE, Showing the number of Students in Colleges from the several Counties of Connecticut. 1. That of 644 students in the colleges of Connecticut, 367 (or about foursevenths) are from other States; and that of 277 students belonging to Connecticut, only 55, (or about one-fifth) go out of the State for their education, and 222, (about four-fifths) remain in the State: which is as good a recommendation of these colleges as their most ardent friends can desire. 2. That New Haven County, with 43,848 inhabitants, is educating 58 students, which is one student to 756 inhabitants: this ratio would give the State 393 students; and that Fairfield County, with 46,950 inhabitants is educating 32 students, which is one student to 1,467 inhabitants; this ratio would give the State but 203 students. And if the State should adopt the ratio of Tolland County, the students would be reduced to 160. If all the counties in the State were to increase their students to the present ratio of New Haven County, their number would stand thus :— Does it appear that any part of the State is doing too much for the cause of education? And why is there so great a disparity, in the different parts of the State, in attention to this great subject? Is it not as important for the people in one section to educate their sons, as for those in another? for Tolland as for New Haven? There was never a time when every station of public life, civil, political and educational, more imperiously demanded the labors of men of thorough education, and sound virtue and integrity. It may appear an important question with some, How large a proportion of the young men ought to receive a liberal education? and it may not be a very easy question definitely to determine. But this is certain, there is no danger of having too many educated, nor even hope of having enough, so long as any chief magistrates of States and cities, any members of Congress, any judges of Courts, or any ministers of the gospel, are men whose minds have not been liberalized by a public and thorough education. SCHEDULE, Exhibiting the number of Students in several Colleges, and the States in which they reside. NOTICES OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. 1. Memoir of Mrs. Sarah Lanman Smith, late other laborers in the field of natural history. of the Mission in Syria, under the direction Prof. Twining considers the subject of our colof the American Board of Commissioners for leges, what a college ought to be, in its religious Foreign Missions. By Edward W. Hooker, bearings and system of spiritual means, in its Pastor of the First Congregational Church, plan of intellectual discipline and internal governBennington, Vt. Boston: Perkins & Marvin.ment, and in relation to science at large. Prof. 1839. pp. 407. Hough makes some remarks on the importance of a forcible and correct English style, and the importance of studying the principal English classics in preference to the productions of writers whose authority is uncertain, and whose character is not established. All these addresses We hardly know in what terms to speak of this Memoir. Nothing of the kind has interested our feelings so much, since we perused the Memoir of Henry Martyn. We have tried to analyse the effect which the book produces, and to state to ourselves the points in which its excellence consists. We are unable however, to do justice to our feelings in this particular. We cannot describe what attracts us to the last chapter in the biography of Martyn. We are drawn irresistibly to the narrative. There is a charm which an often repeated perusal has not broken. So with Mrs. Smith's memoir. A third perusal has more deeply interested us than the first. She writes in perfect simplicity, and as if entirely unconscious of her extraordinary powers. There is no effort in the style, yet it is accurate, clear and dignified, and exactly expresses the conception. A lofty imagination and "a great deep of emotions," are almost always under her control. She had a loftiness of aim, and a spirit of daring enterprise, which seemed to be in perfect harmony with the modesty and gentle attractions of an accomplished woman. Her piety was intelligent, winning and all-pervading. It shed the sweetest charms around a character which was eminently marked by the God of nature. We anticipate for the volume the widest sale and the most extensive usefulness. No one, who has the least piety, or sensibility, or intelligence, can read it without manifest improvement. We do not intend to write indiscriminate eulogies of books, but in this case we cannot prevent it. If there are faults in this volume, of which we have seen none of any importance, we have no heart to search for them. 2. Addresses delivered at the Inauguration of the Professors of Middlebury College, March 18, 1839. Published by request of the Corporation. Middlebury. 1839. pp. 56. These addresses are four in number. The authors are Mr. Solomon Stoddard, professor of ancient languages, formerly a tutor in Yale College; Mr. Charles B. Adams, professor of chemistry and natural history, formerly a tutor in Amherst College, and more recently a professor in Marion College, Mo.; Mr. Alexander C. Twining, professor of mathematics and natural philosophy, late civil engineer, and formerly a tutor in Yale College; and the Rev. John Hough, professor of the English literature and education, formerly a minister in Vergennes, Vt., but for many years professor of languages in Middlebury College. Mr. Stoddard's subject is, Liberal Education, what such an education implies, how it may be acquired, and what are some of its valuable results. Prof. Adams discourses on some of the benefits which have resulted to society from the efforts of the chemist, and may be read with much interest and profit. and philosophical views. Middlebury has a They are fraught with sound, common sense, faculty that cannot fail to command the respect and confidence of an intelligent public. 3. Annual Catalogue of the Hamilton Literary and Theological Institution, 1838-9. pp. 24. The following is the summary of students at this flourishing institution: Resident graduates 3, theological department 16, collegiate 55, academic 29, shorter course 17, total 120. We understand that a considerable number of students have been admitted since this catalogue was published. The faculty are, Nathaniel Kendrick, D. D., Professor of Systematic and Pastoral Theology; John T. Maginnis, Biblical Theology; Thomas J. Conant, Hebrew and Biblical Literature; George W. Eaton, Civil and Ecclesiastical History; A. C. Kendrick, Greek; Stephen W. Taylor, Mathematics and Natural Philosophy; and John F. Richardson, Latin. The tutors are P. B. Spear, J. H. Raymond, and A. Lamb, Jr. A course of lectures is given annually on chemistry by William Mather, M. D. of Fairfield. The course of study in this institution is well arranged and very extensive. One of the good fruits of the establishment of this seminary is the translation of Gesenius's Hebrew Grammar by Professor Conant, just printed at the University press, Cambridge. 4. Annual Circular of Marietta College, Ohio, with the Inaugural Address of President Linsley, delivered July 25, 1838. Cincinnati. 1839. pp. 28. The number of students in the College course is 56, Latin 46, Teachers' Seminary 86, total 188. The officers of the college are, Rev. Joel H. Linsley, D. D., President, and professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy; Henry Smith, M. A., professor of Languages; D. Howe Allen, M. A., professor of Rhetoric and Oratory and Political Economy; Samuel Maxwell, M. A., associate professor of Languages, and principal of the Teachers' Seminary; Israel W. Andrews, Tutor; Samuel Hall, assistant instructor. The professorship of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy is vacant. The Board have commenced raising a fund for the aid of pious and indigent young men preparing for the ministry. Such progress has been made that they are able to remit a considerable portion of the tuition of twenty-five or thirty students each year. The course of studies is on the model of the eastern | fruits of his labors. The substance of it was colleges. Dr. Linsley's Inaugural Address, delivered in two lectures before the Historical which is included in the pamphlet, embraces two Society. It is now published, with enlargegeneral divisions-thorough and comprehensive ments, in a handsome form. To those who are education, and the removal of the more prominent engaged in the study of this great branch of objections which are urged against our colleges. political economy, the volume will be of much Dr. L. earnestly recommends, as we might ex- value, and to such we commend it, for their pect, a sound and enlightened course of studies perusal. Many of the facts recorded in it, will be and discipline. The discourse is fraught with interesting and entertaining to the general reader. good sense, expressed in an earnest and vigorous style. We rejoice that Marietta College has a head who is so well able to promote the cause of education in the West, and who has so much at heart the still higher interests of morality and religion. 5. The Comparative Value of Greek and Hebrew Poetry in a course of Liberal Study, an Inaugural Address. By Innes Grant, Professor of Languages in Oneida Institute. Whitesboro'. 1839. pp. 14. This is an unassuming address, and contains valuable thoughts on an important subject. 6. An Address before the Philadelphian Society of Middlebury College, Aug. 13, 1838. By Rev. Harvey Curtis. pp. 16. 9. Memoir of Mrs. Elizabeth McFarland, or The subject of this biography, was personally known to a large circle of clergymen and of Christians, and by them her varied excellencies were highly appreciated. All such, and we trust many others who never saw her face in the flesh, will be grateful to Mr. Bouton for his labor. The mother of Mrs. McFarland was an intimate friend of Mrs. Waters, Mrs. Mason, and of others, who formed, at the beginning of the present century, a circle of "devout women," in Boston, who were adorned with all the graces of holiness, and The subject of this Address is, "The attain- whose prayers were offered without ceasing for ment of eminent piety considered in its relation the coming of the kingdom of Christ. Mrs. to the Christian's usefulness." It is happily illus-McFarland evidently partook largely of their trated under the following particulars. Eminent piety improves the whole man, and thus qualifies him for more efficient action in promotion of any worthy end; it produces singleness of purpose; it suggests a better direction to effort; it secures to its possessor the favor of God, and to his enterprises the blessing of Heaven." 7. Funeral Discourse at the Interment of the Rev. spirit. The great business of her life was to do good to all as she had opportunity, and to stand, herself, complete in the whole will of God. The volume will be eminently useful, we have no doubt, in many families in New England and through the country. In ministers' dwellings, especially, it will be a cherished book. The biographer's labors, as might have been expected, have been performed with judgment and ability. 10. Second Annual Report of the Board of Education of Massachusetts, together with the Second Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board. pp. 79. Mr. Pierce was born at Wilmington, Vt., Jan. 18, 1797. He spent some time at Union College, and at the Andover Theological Seminary, but did not complete his course in either. Whatever may be the opinions of some of He was installed at Dracut, Ms., in April, 1829; our readers in regard to the ultimate utility of on account of ill health he was dismissed. June some of the plans on foot in this State for the 27, 1832, he was installed pastor of the church promotion of common school education, all will in Methuen. He died of a pulmonary consump-unite in the opinion of the high value of the tion, May 8, 1839, aged 42. As a minister, he was distinguished for great fervency and spirituality. He was eminently successful, in various places, in winning souls to Christ. Mr. Jackson's sermon is an affectionate and interesting tribute to his memory. The text is Phil. i. 21. "For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain." The text is explained with great propriety and force. annual document of the Board of Education, proceeding from the eloquent pens of the Governor, and of Mr. Mann the Secretary. 11. An Address delivered before the Mercantile Library Association at the Odeon, Boston, Sept. 13, 1838. By Edward Everett. pp. 40. Everett commits to the press, will well repay a This Address, like every thing which Gov. careful perusal. The thoughts are fresh and striking, and beautifully expressed. 12. A Discourse on the Alton Outrage, delivered at Peacham, Vt. By Rev. Leonard Worcester. pp. 16. This Discourse is a solemn vindication of the supremacy of the laws, and an earnest remonstrance against the outrage at Alton. Though the interest connected with the event has somewhat diminished, yet the sermon may still be read with profit. 13. Blessedness of the Faithful Servant: Ations, intended to show the practical value of Sermon preached in Pownal, Me., Jan. 31, the mathematical sciences. The unscientific 1839, at the Interment of the Rev. Perez reader may peruse it with the deepest interest. Chapin, late Pastor of the Congregational Church in Pownal. By Asa Cummings, Editor of the Christian Mirror, Portland. 1839. pp. 32. Mr. Chapin was born in Whately, Ms., April 29, 1783. He graduated at Middlebury College in 1808. He studied theology with the Rev. Abijah Wines of Newport, N. H., afterwards professor in the Maine Charity School. He was ordained at Pownal, in March, 1811. He died Jan. 27, 1839, in the 56th year of his age, after having sustained the pastoral relation twentyeight years. His ministerial life, as delineated by Mr. Cummings, seems to have been one of unusual excellence and usefulness. He exhibited the scriptural requisites of a minister of Jesus Christ in an eminent degree. "He was universally and every where the efficient minister. He could encounter fatigue with more success than most ministers. He had great elasticity of body and mind. He had a well-balanced mind, a quick discernment of character, and a large and compassionate heart." Mr. Cummings's text is Luke xii. 43, "Blessed is that servant, whom his Lord when he cometh shall find so doing." This passage of Scripture is well illustrated, and the character of Mr. Chapin is drawn with uncommon discrimination and ability. The style is fresh and vigorous, and the whole discourse is every way worthy of perusal. 14. A Sermon delivered at Williamstown, Ms., on the day of the Annual State Fast, March 28. 1839. ̊ By Albert Hopkins, Professor in Williams College. Published by request of the Students. Troy, N. Y. 1839. pp. 21. This sermon is founded on Ps. lxxxii. 5, "All the foundations of the earth are out of course.' The text is understood by the author as asserting the existence of universal disorder among the moral elements, and at the same time indicating an analogy in this respect between the moral and material world. The discourse is written with great earnestness and solemnity, and is well fitted to the occasion on which it was delivered. 15. An Inaugural Address, delivered Aug. 21, 1838. By Elias Loomis, M. A., Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in Western Reserve College. New York: John F. Trow. 1839. pp. 38. The position maintained in this Address, is, that it is essential to the best interests of society that there should be a class of men devoted It exclusively to the cultivation of abstract science VOL. XII 16. Catalogue of Books belonging to the Porter The Rhetorical Society in the Seminary at Andover, was formed in the year 1823. In 1825, it assumed the name, "The Porter Rhetorical Society," in honor of Rev. Ebenezer Porter, D. D., to whose liberality, in the donation of the copy-right of his popular work on Rhetorical Delivery, the Society is largely indebted for its library. The number of volumes at present contained in the library is about 2,500. They are mostly works in standard English literature. The Society of Inquiry respecting Missions have a missionary library of about the same size. This contains a large number of works in the Indian, East Indian and Oriental languages. 17. Sermons by the late Rev. Edward D. Griffin, D. D. To which is prefixed a Memoir of his Life, by William B. Sprague, D. D., Minister of the Second Presbyterian Congregation in Albany. New York: John S. Taylor. 1839. Vol. 1. pp. 597. Vol. II. Pp. 596. An account of the principal incidents in Dr. Griffin's life, together with a notice of the funeral sermons of the Rev. Dr. Spring, and of Rev. Dr. Hopkins, President of Williams College, may vol. x. p. 285. It is not necessary here to repeat be found in the American Quarterly Register, this account. printed, and make a handsome appearance. Of Dr. Sprague's volumes are well the first volume, 270 pages are occupied with the Memoir. In the remainder of the volume, and in the second, are sixty sermons. These are on a considerable variety of subjects. They are in general highly characteristic of the eloquent author. Some of them will rank very high as specimens of pulpit eloquence. The life is written in Dr. Sprague's finished manner. The materials are well selected, and are wrought up with great skill. The task which Dr. Sprague assumed was a somewhat delicate one, inasmuch as Dr. Griffin was so lately among us, and was, for a long period, so well known, and was so intimately connected with many of our important institutions. Full justice, however, is done to Dr. Griffin's eminent talents and services, while no man or body of men will have cause, so far as we can see, to take any exception. The volumes will, unquestionably, occupy a high and permanent place in American theological literature. 18. Truth made Simple: being the first volume of a System of Theology for Children. Character of God. By the Rev. John Todd, Pastor of the First Congregational Church in Philadelphia, Author of Lectures to Children, etc. Northampton: J. H. Butler. 1839. pp. 424. We find the following touching paragraph in Mr. Todd's introduction, or rather dedication of the volume to his little son. "Far away from our house, lives an aged widow. She has no children near her. She has no home. She has no money. She has been deprived of reason ever since I can remember. She does not even know her own children. That aged woman is |