THE

NEW ENGLANDER

EDITED BY

PROFESSOR GEORGE P. FISHER, PROFESSOR TIMOTHY DWIGHT,

AND

WILLIAM L. KINGSLEY..

VOLUME XXVIII., 18 6 9.

NULLIUS ADDICTUS JURARE IN VERBA MAGISTRI.

NEW HAVEN:

PRINTED BY THOMAS J. STAFFORD.

1869.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXVIII.

No. I.

ART. I. The System of Instruction at West Point :-Can it be Employed in

Rev. W. A. P. Martin, Professor in the new Imperial College at
Pekin, China.

IV. The American Colleges and the American Public, No. I,

Prof. Noah Porter, Yale College.

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V. Prof. Noah Porter's Work on the Human Intellect,
Prof. B. N. Martin, New York University.

VI. The Presbyterian Disruption of 1838.-A Review of Rev. Dr.

S. J. Baird's History of the "New School,"

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Prof. Leonard Bacon, Yale College.

ARTICLE VII.-NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS.

THEOLOGICAL AND RELIGIOUS.

The Divinity of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; Eight Lectures Preach-

ed before the University of Oxford, in the year 1867. By Henry Parry

Liddon, M. A.,

The Doctrine of the Atonement, as taught by Christ himself. By Rev.

George Smeaton,

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The Christian Doctrine of Sin. By Julius Müller. Translated from the

German of the Fifth Edition by the Rev. William Urwick,

Gropings after Truth. A Life Journey from New England Congregational-

ism to the One Catholic and Apostolic Church. By Joshua Huntington, 185

The Holy Communion. Its Philosophy, Theology, and Practice. By John

Bernard Dalgairns.

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Symbolism; or Exposition of the Doctrinal Differences between Catholics and

Protestants, as evidenced by their symbolical writings. By John Adam

Möhler, D. D., Dear. of Wurzburgh. Translated with a Memoir of the

Author. By James Burton Robertson, Esq.,

Moral Use of Dark Things. By Horace Bushnell,

Sermons. By Rev. Newman Hall, D. D., of London,

The Hour which cometh, and now is. Sermons preached in Indiana-Place

Chapel, Boston. By James Freeman Clarke,

Sermons. By the late Rev. George Shepard, Professor in the Theological

Seminary, Bangor, Me., with a Memorial by Prof. D. S. Talcott,

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