ART. XI.-SYNOPSIS OF THE QUARTERLIES.

I.-American Quarterly Reviews.

I. THE PRESBYTERIAN QUARTERLY REVIEW, July, 1858.-1. John Wycliffe, (Second Article:) 2. Abelard, (Second Article:) 3. The Antecedents of the Moravians: 4. The General Assembly of 1858: 5. The Mosaic Account of Creation, Scientific.

II. THE THEOLOGICAL AND LITERARY JOURNAL, July, 1858.-1. The Principle of A. O. Brownson's Successive Theological Opinions: 2. The Prophetic Periods of the Apocalypse and Daniel: 3. Notes on Scripture: John the Baptist: Christ: 4. The Annals of the American Pulpit: The Presbyterian: 5. The Religions of India and China: 6. The Land of Promise.

III. THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, July, 1858.-1. Pierce's Analytic Mechanics: 2. George Stephenson: 3. The Missouri Valley and the Great Plains : 4. Contemporary French Literature: 5. The Phillips Family and Phillips Exeter Academy: 6. The Aquarium: 7. Laws of Association and Ornmental Gardening: 8. Ozanan's Civilization of the Fifth Century: 9. Lord Normanby's Year of Revolution in Paris: 10. The Basques and their Country: 11. Recent Commentaries on the New Testament.

IV. THE BIBLICAL REPERTORY AND PRINCETON REVIEW, July, 1858.-1. Sprague's Annals of the Presbytetian Pulpit: 2. Historical Value of the Pentateuch : 3. Missions in Western Africa: 4. The Present State of India, (with map:) 5. The General Assembly.

V. UNIVERSALIST QUARTERLY AND GENERAL REVIEW, July, 1858.-1. The Grace of God: its Nature: its Superiority to Sin: 2. Female Education: 3. Water Baptism: 4, If a Man Die, shall he Live again? 5. Universalism as a Purpose and a Power: 6. Hope, Sympathy, Destiny: 7. Tradition : 8. The Jewish Church: 8. Literary Notices.

VL. THE FREEWILL BAPTIST QUARTERLY, July, 1858.-1. Infant Baptism and its Relative Errors: 2. Slavery: 3. Leprosy in Israel: 4. Temptation: 5. The Relation of Christianity to Public Wrongs: 6. Evil Speaking: 7. The Love of God as Manifested in his Works: 8. Ministerial Success and Usefulness. VIL. SOUTHERN BAPTIST REVIEW, June, 1858.-1. Avenging of the Elect: 2. The Rise of the Dutch Republic: 3. Duelling: 4. Christian Union: 5. The Rise, Progress, and History of Infant Baptism and Rhantism: 6. The Allegory of Dante's Divine Comedy: 7. The Present Age; 8. Theology: The Philosophy of Religion: 9. Breckenridge's Theology.

VIII. EVANGELICAL REVIEW, July, 1858.-1. The Review: the Church: 2. Select Analytical Bibliography of the Augsburg Confession: 3. The three Saxon Electors of the Era of the Reformation : 4. Christ Preaching to the Spirits in Prison: 5. Mormonism: 6. Baccalaureate Address: 7. Liturgical Studies: 8. Olsshausen's Commentary: 9. Livingstone's Travels in Africa; 10. Manual of Church History.

IX. BROWNSON'S QUARTERLY REVIEW, July, 1858.-1. Revivals and Retreats: 2. Rome and its Ruler: 3. Conversations of Our Club: 4. Necessity of Divine Revelation: 5. Clapp's Autobiographical Sketches.

X. THE SOUTHERN PRESBYTERIAN REVIEW, July, 1858.-1. Alexander Von Humboldt 2. The Trinity of the Godhead, the Doctrine of the Holy Scriptures, (Continued) 3. Dr. Wayland on the Limits of Human Responsibility: 4. Popular Objections to Science: 5. The Mind of Man, the Image of God: 6. The Religious Awakening of 1858: 7. The General Assembly of 1858.

XI. THE AMERICAN QUARTERLY CHURCH REVIEW, and ECCLESIASTICAL REGISTER, July, 1858.-1. The Jewish and Christian Dispensations historically considered: 2. The Rev. Charles Tomes: 3. The Church and our Foreign Population: 4. Christianity and the Caucasian Theory: V. Professor Fisher's History of the Church of Christ in Yale College: 6. Skepticism or Superstition : 7. The Memorial Movement--Church Unity: American Ecclesiastical History, (Continued.)

XII. THE CHRISTIAN REVIEW, July, 1858.-1. The Authorship of the Epistle of Jude: 2. The Religion of Phrenology: 3. Randall and the Free-will Baptists: 4. Alleged Discrepancies in the Bible: 5. Christianity in the Legal Profession: 6. Hanserd Knollys in America: 7. The Plague of Blood.

XIII. THE QUARTERLY REVIEW OF THE M. E. CHURCH, SOUTH, July, 1858.-1. German Philosophy: 2. Use and Abuse of the Pulpit: 3. Power of the Press: 4. Popular Education: 5. The Fourth General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South: 6. Address of the Bishops to the Fourth General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South: 7. Pastoral Address of the Fourth General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South: 8. Reports on Education, adopted by the Fourth General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

THE Southern Methodist Quarterly Review has disappeared from our synopsis during the past year because, for cause unknown, it has disappeared from among our exchanges. Upon the accession of its present able editor, the Rev. T. O. Summers, D.D., it has resumed its visitations as a welcome cotemporary. We are gratified that it has survived the perils of the last General Conference, and continues its existence under favorable auspices. Its price is raised to two dollars without discount. Arrangements are made for the aid of able contributors, and a special effort is to be made by the friends of an elevated Church literature to sustain the work. We earnestly hope that the friends of the Review will succeed in enabling it to fulfill its high mission as a bulwark of a true evangelical Arminian theology in the southern states of our American Union.

XIV. THE NEW-ENGLANDER, August, 1858.-1. The History of Modern Philology: 2. Ellis on the Unitarian Controversy: 3. Lewes's Biographical History of Philosophy: 4. Theodore Parker and "The Twenty-eighth Congregational Society," of Boston: 5. The Right of Search: 6. The American Tract Society: 7. The Religious Awakening of 1858: 8. The Literature of Spiritualism: 9. The Ante-Mosaic Origin of the Sabbath.

We have before noticed the two articles on Comparative Philology in the Bibliotheca Sacra, by Rev. B. W. Dwight, of Brooklyn, now of Clinton, N. Y. The first article of this number of the New-Englander is from the same pen, and is the best of the three. Mr. Dwight goes rapidly over the rise and progress of the new science of modern philology with a very complete mastery, clearness, and life. With some of the idiosyncracies of an enthusiast, he attains results which nothing but enthusiasm could attain, and which, as often, revels in idiosyncracies not only pardonable but rather pleasing. The young student who has caught glimpses of the fascinating field of philology, but is still so bewilderd by its mazes as not to know where to begin or whither to direct his steps, can find no better hand-book in our language to point his path than this article.

Article NINTH is from the pen of Professor Gibbs, and is one of the choice monographs of that profound scholar and penetrating thinker.

XV. THE CHRISTIAN EXAMINER, July, 1858.-1. The Church of Rome in her Theology: 2. The Material Condition of the People of Massachusetts: 3. The Composition of the Apocalypse: 4. Curtis's History of the Constitution: 5. Mr. Combe on Sculpture and Painting: 6. Oriental Christianity and Islamism. 7. Bancroft's American Revolution: 8. Review of Current Literature.

On the eighth page of this number of the Examiner we have the following surprising information in regard to the Methodist view of the doctrine of Assurance: "The Methodists ignore it, or, rather, are completely ignorant of it; although, like Spurgeon, they practically adopt it in revival preaching, thereby making unconscious self-sufficient Christian converts."

For reckless assertion like this the plea of ignorance might be allowed, were not the author so self-complacent in his style, and were not the knowledge so abundantly within his reach. If, rising from his study, he had walked into the streets, and put to the first plain, earnest Methodist he met, the question: Do your people hold that a man may and should know his sins forgiven? the prompt and clear-eyed affirmative he would have received would have convinced him that his informant well understood both the question and the true answer. Would the said writer next go to a place where he might learn many things he sadly needs to know, namely, to a Methodist prayer-meeting, and put, not to the pastor, but to the people there, the same question, he would receive an answer so unanimous and so hearty, as would show him that the doctrine was not confined to a period of special "revival preaching." Would he then condescend to look into a Methodist Hymn Book, more copies of which are probably scattered through his own single state of Massachusetts than of any Socinian volume of Psalmody through the whole world, he would find a department of some thirteen pages, headed at each page with crowning capitals," Adoption and ASSURANCE;" upon which pages the hymns would contain stanzas like the following:

"His Spirit which he gave

Now dwells in us, WE KNOW;
The witness in ourselves we have,

And all its fruits we show."

If then he would proceed to open Wesley's Sermons, more copies of which have been doubtless circulated throughout our land during the last thirty years than of any other three divines extant, he will find no less than three sermons on the Witness of the Spirit as an assurance of our salvation to our own spirits. If he will open that widely-circulated body of divinity, Watson's Institutes, in which our young ministry are trained, he will find the doctrine clearly discriminated and ably elaborated. If, finally, he will look into our humble Quarterly Review, which circulates a larger subscription than any other quarterly in the United States, he will find, in our last October number, an able article on the subject, of some fifteen pages. And so lately as our Jauuary number, (p. 138,) in stating the positions of our theology as against Calvinism, our own words were: "And then, while both Calvinisms dread the doctrine of Assurance, knowing that, joined to the doctrine of infallible Perseverance, it produces a bold presumption of not only present, but eternal salvation, Methodism teaches us the duty and the joy of knowing a present salvation; and knowing it each hour of life for just that hour!"

And now, having put this peremptory gentleman through this course of study, we benevolently offer him this parting piece of caution. Whenever you attempt to make sweeping imputations of ignorance upon your neighbors, be sure you are not yourself the ignoramus.

Yet one word more. This writer, on the authority of Sir William Hamilton, affirms that the doctrine of Assurance was the " salient point" of the Reformation, and that the orthodox Protestants have abandoned their own ground, and coincided with the Romanists on this point. If he will turn to the eighteenth number of the British and Foreign Evangelical Review, he will find Sir William Hamilton somewhat refuted on that point, and will, perhaps, conclude that he is himself as much mistaken in his second-hand erudition as in his firsthand imputations.

XVI. BIBLIOTHECA SACRA, July, 1858.-1. The Greek Church: 2. The True Theory of Missions to the Heathen: 3. Was Peter in Rome, and Bishop of the Church at Rome? 4. The Scriptural Doctrine of a Future State: 5. Congregationalism and Symbolism,

THE second article is a discussion, the most able we have ever seen, of the true view of heathen salvability as the basis of missionary enterprise. It ranges the various views upon the subject under three theories:

I. The worldly or unevangelical theory, which acknowledges the vast intellectual and moral benefits produced by missions, of a temporal character, but wholly ignores the truly spiritual and eternal results. Of such acknowledgments the Westminster Review is liberal, while it denounces and ridicules the idea that heathenism is liable to eternal damnation, and utters hyperboles of abhorrence at all missionary effort based upon such idea.

To this theory the writer ably objects, 1. It is founded upon low assumptions. It recognizes earthly interests alone. It views man only as an animal and forgets his immortal nature. 2. It contradicts the picture of heathen depravity and moral ruin drawn by Scripture, as in the second chapter of Romans and various other passages, as well as the confirmations of that picture given by every visitant of heathen regions qualified by moral sensibilities to judge. In reference to St. Paul's description of heathen depravation, we have the following striking remarks:

"Says the Rev. Mr. Eckard, missionary to India: 'I have read this tremendous catalogue to assemblies of Hindoos, showing from facts which both they and I knew, that each of these sins belongs, in a high degree, to their national character. I have asked the heathen themselves whether the crimes enumerated by the apostle were not their national characteristics. Never, that I remember, did I fail to hear them confess that such was the case.' The Rev. Sheldon Dibble, in his earnest and valuable work entitled 'Thoughts on Missions,' after quoting Paul's language, adds: This description is not understood in Christian lands, neither can it be; but missionaries to the heathen, who are eye-witnesses of what is here described, place an emphasis on every epithet, and would clothe every word in capitals.' Again, he says: The character of the heathen is no better now than in the days of Paul. It is worse. It is impossible to describe the state of degradation and unblushing sin to which the nations, for ages sinking, have sunk. . . . It is impossible to give a representation of their unrestrained passions, the abominations connected with idol worship, or the scenes of discord, cruelty, and blood which everywhere abound. Deceit, oppression, and cruelty fill every hut with woe, and impurity deluges the land like an overflowing stream. Neither can it be said that the conduct of the heathen becomes