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MR. CHAPMAN'S PUBLICATIONS.

THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW.

PROSPECTUS.

The 'WESTMINSTER REVIEW' is designed as an instrument for the development and guidance of earnest thought on Politics, Social Philosophy, Religion, and General Literature; and is the organ of the most able and independent minds of the day.

The fundamental principle of the work is the recognition of the Law of Progress. In conformity with this principle, and with the consequent conviction that attempts at reform-though modified by the experience of the past and the conditions of the present-should be directed and animated by an advancing ideal, the Editor seeks to maintain a steady comparison of the actual with the possible, as the most powerful stimulus to improvement. Nevertheless, in the deliberate advocacy of organic changes, it is not forgotten, that the institutions of man, no less than the products of nature, are strong and durable in proportion as they are the results of a gradual development, and that the most salutary and permanent reforms are those which, while embodying the wisdom of the time, yet sustain such a relation to the moral and intellectual condition of the people as to ensure their support.

The Review gives especial attention to that wide range of topics which may be included under the term Social Philosophy. It endeavours to form a dispassionate estimate of the diverse theories on these subjects, to give a definite and intelligible form to the chaotic mass of thought now prevalent concerning them, and to ascertain both in what degree the popular efforts after a more perfect social state are countenanced by the teachings of politico-economical science, and how far they may be sustained and promoted by the actual character and culture of the people.

In the department of politics careful consideration is given to all the most vital questions, without regard to the distinctions of party; the only standard of consistency being the real, and not the accidental, relations of measures,—their bearing, not on a ministry or a class, but on the public good.

In the treatment of Religious Questions the Review unites a spirit of reverential sympathy for the cherished associations of pure and elevated minds with an uncompromising pursuit of truth. The elements of ecclesiastical authority and of dogma are fearlessly examined, and the results of the most advanced Biblical criticism are discussed without reservation, under the conviction that religion has its foundation in man's nature, and will only discard an old form to assume and vitalize one more expressive of its essence. While, however, the Editor does not shrink from the expression of what he believes to be sound negative views, he equally bears in mind the pre-eminent importance of a constructive religious philosophy, as connected with the development and activity of the moral nature, and of those poetic and emotional elements, out of which proceed our noblest aspirations and the essential beauty of life.

In the department of General Literature the criticism is animated by the desire to elevate the standard of the public taste, in relation both to

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artistic perfection and moral purity; by the omission of those minor and miscellaneous notices which are necessarily forestalled by newspapers and magazines, a large continuous space is obtained for reviewing in each department a selection of the new works as they appear in Great Britain, America, and on the Continent; and ample scope being thus afforded, it is intended, by a careful analysis and grouping of each quarter's productions, at once to exhibit the characteristics of the individual works reviewed, and to supply a connected and comparative History of Contemporary Literature.

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PROSPECTIVE REVIEW:

A Quarterly Journal

OF THEOLOGY AND LITERATURE,

Price 2s. 6d. per Number.

CONTENTS OF No. XXXVII., FEBRUARY, 1854:

I. The Theories of Christian Salvation.

II. The Stones of Venice.

III. Religious Services and Symbols.

IV. Juvenile Delinquency.

V. Poems of Matthew Arnold and of Alexander Smith.

VI. Wayland's Life of Judson: Christianity in Burmah.

The 'PROSPECTIVE REVIEW' is devoted to a free theology and the moral aspects of literature. Under the conviction that lingering influences from the doctrine of verbal inspiration are not only depriving the primitive records of the Gospel of their true interpretation, but even destroying faith in Christianity itself, the work is conducted in the confidence that only a living mind and heart, not in bondage to any letter, can receive the living spirit of revelation; and in the fervent belief that for all such there is a true Gospel of God, which no critical or historical speculation can discredit or destroy, it aims to interpret and represent Spiritual Christianity in its character of the universal religion. Fully adopting the sentiment of Coleridge, that "the exercise of the reasoning and reflective powers, increasing insight, and enlarging views, are requisite to keep alive the substantial faith of the heart," with a grateful appreciation of the labours of faithful predecessors of all churches,-it esteems it the part of a true reverence not to rest in their conclusions, but to think and live in their spirit. By the name 'PROSPECTIVE REVIEW," it is intended to lay no claim to discovery, but simply to express the desire and the attitude of Progress; to suggest continually the duty of using past and present as a trust for the future; and openly to disown the idolatrous conservatism, of whatever sect, which makes Christianity but a lifeless formula.

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Chapman's Quarterly Series.

PUBLISHED BY SUBSCRIPTION.

FOUR VOLUMES IN LARGE Post Octavo, foR £1 PER ANNUM. PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.

CHAPMAN'S QUARTERLY SERIES is intended to consist of Works by learned and profound thinkers, embracing the subjects of THEOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY, BIBLICAL CRITICISM,

AND

THE HISTORY OF OPINION.

An endeavour will be made to issue the volumes regularly at Quarterly intervals, viz.,

In March, June, September, and December. Volumes I. to IV. are now ready.

Subscriptions paid after the 1st of March of each year will be raised to £1. 1s.

The price of each work to non-Subscribers will be announced at the time of publication. It will vary according to the size of the respective volumes, but will be on the average 9s. per volume, so that a large saving will be effected by annual Subscribers.

The Volumes for 1854 are as follows:

The Philosophy of Kant.

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Lectures by VICTOR COUSIN. Translated from the French. To which is added a Biographical and Critical Sketch of Kant's Life and Writings. By A. G. HENDERSON.

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The Essence of Christianity. By LUDWIG FEUERBACH. Translated from the Second German Edition by the Translator of Strauss's Life of Jesus.'

VII.

A Sketch of the Rise and Progress of Christianity. By R. W. MACKAY, A.M., Author of the 'Progress of the Intellect, etc.'

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VIII.

An Introduction to the History of the People of Israel. By HEINRICH EWALD. With Additions and Emendations specially made by the Author for the English Edition. Translated by JOHN NICHOLSON, B.A. Oxon., Ph.D.

The Volumes for 1853 (Subscription Price of which is now
£1. 1s.) are-
No. I.

Theism, Atheism, and the Popular Theology. Sermons by THEODORE PARKER, Author of A Discourse of Matters pertaining to Religion,' etc. A Portrait of the Author engraved on steel is prefixed. Price to non-Subscribers 98. P. 18.

The aim of this work is defined by its author at the beginning of the first Discourse as follows:-"I propose to speak of Atheism, of the Popular Theology, and of pure Theism. Of each first as a Theory of the Universe, and then as a Principle of Practical Life; first as Speculative Philosophy, then as Practical Ethics."

"To real thinkers and to the ministers | practical, addressing their argument to of the Christian gospel we emphatically say-Read them, (Parker's books) and reflect on them. . . there are glorious bursts of eloquence, flashings of true genius."-Nonconformist.

"Compared with the sermons which issue from the majority of pulpits, this volume is a treasure of wisdom and beauty." -Leader.

"The method of these discourses is

common sense. Atheism and the popular theology are exhibited in their repulsive relations to common life, while from the better conception of divine things, of which the writer is the chief apostle, there is shown to arise, in natural development, the tranquil security of religious trust, guidance and comfort in all social duty, and the clear hope of the world to come.' Westminster Review.

No. II.

A History of the Hebrew Monarchy from the Administration. of Samuel to the Babylonish Captivity. By FRANCIS WILLIAM NEWMAN, formerly Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and Author of 'The Soul; its Sorrows and Aspirations,' etc. Second Edition*. Price to non-Subscribers 8s. 6d. P. 18.

"This work presents the results with-ed and little understood. The struggles out the ostentation of research, and with perfect freedom of criticism unites a reverent and sympathetic spirit. It is equally adapted to guide the student, and to interest those who are familiar with the writer's subject, and can therefore duly estimate his accuracy and comprehensiveness, and the soundness of his original suggestions. The entire work is an able attempt to render intelligible and interesting a portion of history which in England has been comparatively neglect

and successes of David, the culmination of Hebrew prosperity under Solomon, the subsequent division of the kingdom, the revolution in Israel under Jehu, and in Judea under the priest Jehoiada, the foreign alliances and hostilities of the nation, with their bearing on its religious development, the ministry of the prophets, from the eloquent remonstrances of Joel to the hopeful strains of the later Isaiah-all the chequered fortunes of the Hebrew people, from the time when they

*Persons who already possess the First Edition of this work may obtain the other three volumes for 1853 by subscribing 158.

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took a king 'like all the nations,' to the | Babylonish captivity-appear, under the author's treatment, no longer exceptional, and therefore removed from the sphere of our understanding and sympathy, but as part of the same web with the rest of the world's wondrous history."- Analytical Catalogue of Mr. Chapman's Publications. "It is truly refreshing to find Jewish history treated, as in the volume before us, according to the rules of sound criticism and good sense. . . . The publication of such a work will form an epoch in biblical literature in this country."—Inquirer.

"The Author has brought a very acute mind, familiar with knowledge that is beyond the range of ordinary scholarship, to the task of combining and interpreting the antique and fragmentary records which contain the only materials for his work." -Prospective Review.

"This book must be regarded, we think, as the most valuable contribution ever made in the English language to our means of understanding that portion of Hebrew History to which it relates."-Massachusetts Quarterly Review.

Nos. III. and IV.

The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte, freely Translated and Condensed by HARRIET MARTINEAU. Price to nonSubscribers 16s.

The following extracts from an article (understood to be by Sir David Brewster) which appeared in the Edinburgh Review will give some idea of the aim and character of this celebrated work :

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"A work of profound science, marked with great acuteness of reasoning, and conspicuous for the highest attributes of intellectual power. It comprehends MATHEMATICS, ASTRONOMY, PHYSICS, and CHEMISTRY, or the sciences of Inorganic Bodies; and PHYSIOLOGY, and SOCIAL PHYSICS, or the sciences of Organic Bodies.

"Under the head of SOCIAL PHYSICS the author treats of the general structure of human societies, of the fundamental natural law of the development of the human species, and of the progress of civilization. This last Section is subdivided into three heads--the THEOLOGICAL EPOCH, the METAPHYSICAL EPOCH, and the POSITIVE EPOCH-the first of these embracing FETICHISM, POLYTHEISM, and MONOTHEISM."

Referring to the Astronomical part of the work, the Reviewer says, "We could have wished to place before our readers some specimens of our author's manner of treating these difficult and deeply interesting topics of his simple, yet powerful eloquence of his enthusiastic admiration of intellectual superiority-of his accuracy as an historian, his honesty as a judge, and of his absolute freedom from all personal and national feelings. The philosopher who has grown hoary in the service of science longs for the advantage of such an historian to record his labours, and of such an arbiter to appreciate their value."

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