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LITERATURE AND LITERARY PROGRESS US 1864. 



taries on the Scriptures, and Miscellaneous. 

 Of Sermons, twenty-four volumes were pub- 

 lished during the year, besides numerous single 

 Sermons in pamphlet form not reported. The 

 most important were " The Discourses of the 

 Paulist Fathers for 1863 and 1864 ; " Rev. W. 

 Aikman's discourses on " The Moral Power of 

 the Sea;" Rev. Dr. Hitchcock's "Final Tri- 

 umph of Christianity ; " Rev. J. Matthews, 

 D. D., " Sermons on the Influence of the Bible 

 in improving the Understanding and Moral 

 Character," with a life of the author; Dr. John 

 Cumming's " Great Consummation, 2d Series; " 

 Archbishop Hughes' "Sermon on laying the 

 cornerstone of the New St. Patrick's Cathe- 

 dral;" Rev. F. W. Robertson's "Sermons, 5th 

 Series" (a reprint) ; Rev. Gardiner Spring, 

 D. D., "Pulpit Ministrations and Sabbath 

 Readings ; " Rev. T. S. Preston's " Sermons on 

 the principal Seasons of the Sacred Year " 

 (Catholic) ; Rev. James Freeman Clark's " The 

 Hour which Cometh and now Is ; " Rev. 

 George Junkin, D. D., LL. D., " The Two Com- 

 missions, the Apostolical and Evangelical ; " 

 Henry B. Smith, D. D., on " Christian Union 

 and Ecclesiastical Reunion ; " Josiah D. Smith, 

 D. D., "Sermons: The Truth in Love," with 

 Memoir of the author; a new edition of the 

 Sermons of Rev. Samuel Davies, D. D., edited 

 by Rev. Dr. Sprague ; Andrew Jackson Davis's 

 " Morning Lectures, delivered before the 

 Friends of Progress ; " Rev. Morgan Dix, D. D.'s 

 Lectures on the " Pantheistic Idea of an Imper- 

 sonal-Substance Deity, as contrasted with the 

 Christian Faith concerning Almighty God;" 

 Horace Bushnell, D. D., " Christ and His Sal- 

 vation ; " Charles Kingsley's " The Good News 

 of God " (reprint) ; l{ev. J. A. Collier's " The 

 Dawn of Heaven," with a memoir of the author, 

 and Rev. J. Spaulding's " Christ and tLe Sea." 

 Of Commentaries the most important work 

 of the year was the publication of the first vol- 

 ume of Dr. J. P. Lange's Commentary on the 

 Scriptures, translated and edited by Philip 

 Schaff, D. D., with additional notes from emi- 

 nent theologians of different denominations. 

 This first volume contained a General Theolog- 

 ical and Horniletical Introduction to the New 

 Testament, and a Commentary on the Gospel 

 according to Matthew. The work will extend 

 to a considerable number of volumes, and is an 

 enterprise of great importance. Other Com- 

 mentaries of the year were, Prof. Charles 

 Hodge on "The Epistle to the Romans; " Ru- 

 dolph Stier's " Words of the Lord Jesus," trans- 

 lated and edited by Profs. J. Strong and H. B. 

 Smith ; Rev. L. A. Sawyer's First Gospel 

 (Mark) translated, with notes, and Daniel, with 

 the Apocryphal additions, translated and anno- 

 tated ; Rev. M. Dix, D. D.'s Exposition of Ga- 

 latians and Colossians ; Archbishop Leighton 

 on First of Peter ; Rev. W. Hanna, D. D., on the 

 " Forty Days after our Lord's Resurrection ;" Dr. 

 David Brown's " Commentary on the Four Gos- 

 pels ; " Rev. Sylvanus Cobb's " The New Testa- 

 ment, with Explanatory Notes and Practical 



Observations; " William Nast, D. D.'s Commen- 

 tary on Matthew and Mark ; M. W. Jacobus, 

 D. D.'s Notes Explanatory, &c., on Genesis; 

 The American Bible Union's New Version of 

 the New Testament ; Joseph Lathrop, D. D., 

 "Exposition of Ephesiaiis," edited by Rev. Dr. 

 Sprague; Dr. W. S. Plumer's "Law of God 

 (Ten Commandments) Explained ; " E. C. 

 Wines, D. D., "The Penitent Portrayed," in a 

 practical exposition of the fifty-first Psalm. 



Among the works on Practical Religious 

 duties, five, by Rev. Robert Nelson, Rev. J. 

 Chaplin, D. D., Rev. D. X. Junkin, D. D., Miss 

 Sewell, and an anonymous author, are intended 

 as guides to the reception of the Eucharist ; ten 

 are either forms of prayer for private and fam- 

 ily or camp use, or treatises on prayer ; they 

 are by Rev. S. J. Prune, D. D., Rev. J. G. 

 Forman, S. H. Tyng, D. D., John S. Hart, 

 LL. D., J. R. Macduff, D. D., and several 

 anonymous authors. Four are books of conso- 

 lation, viz. : " Choice Consolation for the Suffer- 

 ing Children of God " (anonvmous) ; " The 

 Prayer of the Afflicted," by G. F. Smith, D. D. ; 

 " Over the River," a book of Consolation for 

 the Sick, the Dying, and the Bereaved, by Rev. 

 T. B. Thayer; and "Human Sorrows," by the 

 Countess de Gasparin, translated by Miss Mary 

 L. Booth. Attractive editions of Jeremy Tay- 

 lor's "Rule and Exercise of Holy Living," and 

 "Rule and Exercise of Holy Dying"; "Selec- 

 tions from Works of Jeremy Taylor ; " Thomas 

 Fuller's "Holy and Profane States; " Dr. Gold- 

 burn's "Thoughts on Personal Religion ; " Rev. 

 K. Tweedie's "Life and Work of Eminent 

 Men," and a little English work entitled " Ore 

 from Precious Mines," have appeared during 

 the year. Other practical religious works pub- 

 lished in the course of the year were: "Chris- 

 tian Missions: their Agents and their Results," 

 by T. W. M. Marshall (Catholic) ; " The Spirit 

 in the Word," by J. A. Smith, D. D. ; "Satan's 

 Devices and the Believer's Victory," by Rev. 

 W. L. Parsons; "Thoughts for the Christian 

 Life," by Rev. J. Drummond, with an intro- 

 duction byJ. G. Holland; "The Foot of the 

 Cross and the Blessings Found There," by Oc- 

 tavius Winslow, D. D. ; " " The Star of Bethle- 

 hem, a Guide to the Saviour," by Rev. D. A. 

 Harsha ; " The Good Steward, or Systematic 

 Beneficence-an Essential Element of Christian- 

 ity," by D. X. Junkin, D. D.; "The Religion 

 of Childhood, or Children in their Relation to 

 Depravity, to the Family, and to the Church," 

 byF. G. Hibbard, D. D.; "Religious Training 

 of Children, in the School, the Family, and 

 the Church," by Miss Catherine E. Beecher; 

 "None but Christ, or the Sinner's Only Hope," 

 by Robert Boyd, D. D. ; " Life Lessons in the 

 School of Christian Duty," by E. H. Gillett, 

 D. D. ; " God's Way of Holiness," by H. Bonar, 

 D. D. (reprint) ; "Treatise on Sanctification," 

 by George Junkin, D. D., LL. D.; "The Im- 

 mortality of the Soul considered in the Light 

 of the Holy Scriptures, the Testimony of Rea- 

 son and Nature, and +he various Phenomena 



