Biblical literature.

We see that Catholics are watching one another's

orthodoxy, as well as contending against Protestantism.

Allioli's version of the Bible is advancing toward completion.

The second and last volume of Dr. Martin's translation (with notes) of Josephus's Jewish Antiquities has just appeared.

Dr. L. Reinke has published a second volume of his " Contributions to the Explanation of the Old Testament," containing a general introduction to the prophecies, two exegetico-historical articles, and some supplementary remarks on Vol. I.

Another volume (the second) of "German Catholicism in its development," traces its history through the memorable years 1848-9.

Protestant exegetical literature has not been very much enriched by the contributions of the last quarter. To promote the general study of "Isagogik," several new works have appeared. K. F. Keil gives us an Introduction to the Old Testament; Dr. L. Noack (just now a very prolific writer), "Biblical Theology, and Introduction to the Old and New Testaments, and Exhibition of the doctrinal substance of the books of the Bible, according to their origin and historical relations," and Guericke a second thoroughly

revised edition of his Introduction to the New Testament.

Delitzsch has prepared a new edition of his Commentary on Genesis. It will be remembered that this work, first published last year, attracted much attention as being quite liberal, considering the antecedents and connections of the author.

Part XIV. of the "Compendious exegetical Manual to the Old Testament" contains a Commentary on the Psalms by Justus Olshausen. It has just appeared. Parts XII. and XIII. (if we mistake not prepared by Bertheau) are in press. L. Diestel edits a Commentary on Gen. xlix., Jacob's blessing.

Parts 3 and 4 of Dr. E. Meier's" Scriptures of the Old Testament translated and explained," contain Job and Proverbs.

A Commentary on Baruch has just been published, from the pen of F. H. Reusch.

Two more parts of the Compendious Commentary on the Apocrypha by Fritzsch and Grimm have appeared, containing, Part 2, the books of Tobit and Judith; and Part 3, 1 Maccabees.

Dr. R. Stier has just published a defence of the Continental custom of including the Apocrypha in editions of the Bible. On the other side, P. F. Keerl has written a reply to Hengstenberg, entitled "The Word of God and the Apocrypha of the Old Testament."

Wahl's Clavis to the Apocrypha is complete.

Two numbers of the third (the only remaining) volume of Stier and Theile's Polyglott Bible are just out. This volume is to contain the Hagiographa

A third edition of H. A. W. Meyer's Commentary on Matthew has appeared.

Isaac da Costa has published "The Apostle John and his Writings-a

Biblical study." This writer's "Four Witnesses" makes us wish to see his works in a language more intelligible to us than the Hollandish.

Vol. I. Part 1 of J. P. Lange's History of the Church gives his views of the Apostolical Age.

Dr. F. C. Baur has just written a work on Christianity and the Church of the first three centuries. This will give us the key to the author's theories concerning the origin of the books of the New Testament more fully than any other of his works.

We have further from G. Volckmar "Justin Martyr and his relation to our Gospels," and from Sartori an exegetical and critical treatise on the Epistle to the Laodiceans.

Dr. H. Grätz has commenced a History of the Jews from the earliest times to the present. The publication commences with the fourth volume, which gives their history from the fall of the Jewish State to the completion of the Talmud (pp. xvi. and 565).

We have from A. Hilgenfeld "The Apostolical Fathers, - an inquiry into the contents and origin of the writings preserved under their name," and from F. M. Perthes, a life of Chrysostom.

A third edition of Schmid's "Dogmatics of the evangelical Lutheran Church," has just appeared. Among the lamented author's papers was found a work entitled “Biblical Theology of the New Testament." It consists of two parts, the life and doctrine of Jesus, and the life and doctrine of the Apostles. It is to be published under the supervision of Dr. Weiszäcker. R. A. Lipsius has published a little work on Paul's doctrine of Justification, and the related doctrines.

Zeller is preparing a work on Zuingli's Theological System.

Dr. L. Noack has published a work on Christian Mysticism, in two parts: the Mysticism of the Middle Ages, and Mysticism since the Reformation.

We see announced from Dr. W. Böhmer a "System of Christian Life;" from J. L. Jacobi a sketch of the doctrine of the Irvingites compared with the Scriptures, and from F. G. Nottebaum, a treatise "De personae vel hypostatis apud patres theologosque notione et usu."

Prof. Herzog of Halle has just published a work on the Romanic Waldenses, their circumstances and doctrines before the Reformation, their Reformation in the sixteenth century and its results. The sources are chiefly their own writings.

Vol. II. of Cröger's History of the revived Church of the United Brethren, contains their history during the years 1741-60.

Vol. II. of Weber's History of the Anti-Catholic Churches and Sects of Great Britain, contains "The Constructive part of the Reformation, and the formation of the Puritan Sect" (pp. viii. and 704).

J. B. Leu edits a little work on Clement XIV. and the Jesuits.

Dr. L. Noack has published the first part of a work on "Freethinkers in Religion." It gives a sketch of the English Deists. Two parts are to follow, containing an exhibition of the corresponding religious illumination in France and Germany.

Six parts of the Real-Encyclopädie edited by Prof. Herzog are ready. The work can be had in half-volumes of five parts each. Ten volumes complete the work.

Vol. IV. Part 1 of Daniel's Codex Liturgicus contains liturgies of the Oriental Church.

Thilo's "Selections from Athanasius" (Vol. I. of his Bibliotheca patrum Graecorum dogmatica) has appeared (pp. 1005).

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Erdmann's Attempt at a scientific exhibition of the History of Modern Philosophy" is complete. Vol. III. Part 2, which is just out, contains " The development of German speculation since Kant" (pp. vii. and 855).

Ritter's History of Philosophy is after twenty years labor finished. The last volume (being Vol. XII. of the whole work, Vol. VIII. of the History of Christian Philosophy, and Vol. IV. of the History of Modern Philosophy), contains four books. Book 7, treats of the modification of Theosophy into Metaphysics by the younger Helmont and Leibnitz. Book 8, of Idealism and Scepticism in England, discussing Collier, Berkeley and Hume. Book 9, of Sensualism and Naturalism in France, giving sketches of the systems of Condillac, Helvetius and Holbach; and Book 10, of "Circumstances and Prospects in the Philosophy of the eighteenth century," with special reference to Wolff, Reid, Burke, Hemsterhuis, Montesquieu and Rousseau.

Unusual attention has been lately given in Germany to the study of hea then systems of religion and mythology, ancient and modern. Among the works announced as published or in preparation, we notice the following; Vol. II. of Rinck's Religion of the Hellenes; Vol. VII. of Schwenk's Mythology of the Asiatic nations, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, etc., containing the Mythology of the Slavic nations; and Part 2 of Wuttke's History of Heathenism, treating of the "Spiritual life of the Chinese, Japanese and Indians,"

Karl Simrock announces a Manual of German Mythology (including the Northern) in three volumes. Vol. I. is to contain the History of the world and of the Gods.

Dr. J. N. Sepp has published, in three volumes, a work on "Heathenism in its significance in relation to Christianity."

We have also from Prof. H. Rückert, Vol. I. of a History of the Civiliza tion of the German people at the time of the transition from heathenism to Christianity.

Prof. W. Wachsmuth of Leipsic is publishing a History of political parties in ancient and modern times. Vol. I., which has just appeared, contains a sketch of the "Political Parties of Antiquity."

Vol. I. Part 1 of a fourth edition of Hermann's Political Antiquities of Greece is just from the press,

We have from Dr. Tobler the first of two books on the Topography of Jerusalem and its environs. This volume is confined to the Holy City (pp. cvi. and 677).

Dr. Gamprecht is publishing an account of Barth and Overweg's Expe dition into Central Africa,

A second edition of Jacob Grimm's History of the German Language has appeared.

Considerable zeal is manifested in the study of the English language and literature. Critics are discussing the merits of Collier's Emendations to Shakspeare. Dr. Otto Behnsch has published a History of the English language and literature. A manual of English national literature by L. Herrig has reached a fourth edition. The author has just prepared a similar history of North American literature.

One of the most recent and valuable German contributions to philology is a Celtic Grammar by J. C. Zeus. It is contained in two large volumes (pp. lvi. and 1163).

Uhlemann's Coptic Grammar is just out.

Petermann has published Schwarze's translation of the "Pistis Sophia." Dr. F. A. Arnold has prepared, chiefly from manuscript sources, a valuable Arabic Chrestomathy.

J. A. Vullers has published the first number of a new Persian and Latin Lexicon (pp. 208).

Six numbers of Grimm's German Lexicon have been published.

Two volumes are to be added to Kayser's Bücher-Lexicon, bringing down the work through the publications of 1852. It is to appear in half-volumes, the first of which has just been published.

Dr. J. Petzholdt, Librarian to Prince John of Saxony, has just published a Manual of German Libraries.

Dr. W. Freund, the eminent lexicographer, has just returned from a tour in Ancient Rhaetia, the ethnographical and linguistic results of which he will soon give to the public.

The annual volume of the Berlin Academy of Sciences for 1852, contains, among other interesting articles, two by Prof. Lepsius on important questions in Egyptian history. One treats of the twelfth dynasty as designated by Manetho, the other exhibits some of the results of the study of Egyptian monuments connected with the reigns of the Ptolemies. It is interesting to see what valuable results have been already secured by the study of these hieroglyphical records; with what precision the history of a dynasty that passed away more than 2000 years before the Christian era, can be restored. The number of the kings is determined, and their names, and the length of their reigns, sometimes in years, months and days. The imperfect and faulty records of Eusebius, Africanus and Syncellus are corrected and deficiencies supplied. More than 100 monuments now exist on which are dated records belonging to this period. These throw light on each other, and, though far from giving a perfect chronology, they supply many valuable facts. We may rely more fully on these results, for the system by which they were reached may be tested by applying it to a dynasty almost two thousand years later, with which we have long been acquainted through Greek and Roman histories. But it is not merely as a test that this application to later history is valuable. Our knowledge of the Ptolemies has always been more or less imperfect or confused. The monuments add much that is valuable to our

knowledge of them, their number, the order of their succession, their personal and family history. These two essays exhibit the results of long, cautious and discriminating study, in an attractive form. They bring vividly before us the mighty dynasty that stood last in the old kingdom, giving place to the Hyksos, and the last dynasty that ruled in Egypt before it was swallowed up in the Roman Empire.

GREAT BRITAIN.

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We can make no communications from England of greater interest than that a second volume of Bunsen's " Egypt's place in Universal History" is announced by Longman. It is translated from the second and third volumes of the German edition. The author is preparing a new edition of his Hippolytus. It is to be corrected, remodelled, and considerably extended.' There are to be in the new edition six volumes. The work is to be thus subdivided: Part 1 (2 vols.) is entitled Hippolytus and his Age, - the Beginnings and Prospects of Christianity. Part 2 (3 vols.) Hippolytus and his Age, the documents. These are Analecta Ante-Nicaena," Canones et Constitutiones Apostolorum," and " Reliquiae liturgicae." Part 3 (1 vol.) is to be a "Sketch of the Philosophy of Language and Religion, the Beginnings and Prospects of the human race." This last part will attract special attention. From its nature, it will develop fully the author's views of the Mosaic account of the origin and early history of the race. No German author can claim of the English public so candid and earnest a hearing as Bunsen. He is aware of his advantage, and will do what he can to commend a more liberal philosophy of history and of Biblical interpretation than has prevailed in England. We shall wait with great interest to see the book and its results.

Another of the fruits of the impulse given by the first edition of Bunsen's work is "Hippolytus and the Christian Church at the commencement of the third century," by W. Elfe Taylor.

Sir J. G. Wilkinson, as an abridgment of his larger work on Egypt, has prepared a “Popular Account of Ancient Egypt."

B. A. Irving has published a work entitled "Egypt and the Bible—the influence on the Hebrews of their residence in Egypt."

Niebuhr's Lectures on Ancient Ethnography and Geography have been translated by Dr. L. Schmitz. They treat of Greece and her colonies, Italy, the Islands of the Mediterranean, Spain, Gaul, Britain, Northern Africa and Phoenicia. They are published by Little, Brown and Co. in this country.

There is a work in preparation by George Smith, F. A. S., on the history and religion of the Gentile nations that were placed in proximity to the Jewish people, the Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes, Persians, Greeks and Romans.

Rev. Charles Forster announces "The third part of the one primaeval language," discussing the monuments of Assyria, Babylonia and Persia, and giving, as he thinks, a key to the recovery of the lost ten tribes.