have done, because we are delighted to show the extent of our agreement with Archdeacon Hare; because the views of Faith that prevail in all Denominations require, more or less, the corrections he has passed upon them, the vitality and fulness he has imparted to them; and partly because we are glad, upon occasion, to mingle the living influences of religion with the more speculative, dissertational, and historical matters, which largely occupy our pages. These eloquent Discourses were delivered before the University of Cambridge. They were devised for the benefit of youthful hearers, to purify young hearts, to direct the first fervid energies of youth towards worthy things, and sustain them by unfailing trusts. One cannot think without a throb of hope at the heart, of such high words as these, addressed, from the seat of authority, by a man whose genius only graces his more exalted qualities of piety and zeal, to the youth of England. "You will go forth into all parts of the land: and on the manner in which you fulfil your appointed task, the weal and prosperity of England for the next, nay, for many generations, will in no slight measure depend. If you serve her faithfully and strenuously, with zealous hearts and holy lives, the calamities which at times appear to be threatening her, may through God's blessing be averted. If you are faithless, if you betray and forsake the service of your country, to serve your own lusts, to gain pleasure for yourselves, or riches for yourselves, or power or honour for yourselves, then . . O may God vouchsafe to raise up others, who will serve her better than you! In her eyes, in the eyes of England, my young friends, your souls are very precious.-Čast them not away on vanity and frivolity; starve not, nor wither them in the toils of interest or ambition; yield them not up to be defiled and rotted by the lusts of the flesh watch carefully lest such precious jewels be injured or polluted by any manner of impurity: and pray continually to God, that, as He has called you to His Salvation, so He will vouchsafe to fulfil His good work in you, and to render you faithful and zealous to serve Him in whatsoever path He may ordain for you." -P. 128. "O, if such a body as I now see around me, so gifted, so fitted out with human learning and knowledge, as, unless you grievously misspend and waste your time, you may be, before you leave this University, if such a body were to go forth with united hearts, hearts united by Faith in Christ and by the Love of God,—if you, my brethren, were to go forth in this spirit, on your various missions, then might we hope that manifold blessings would be poured down on your labours, and that the heart and soul of England would arise in freshness and joy out of the death-sleep which is lying so heavily on many parts of the land. Go forth in this spirit, my dear young friends; and may God bless you with His choicest blessings! Go forth in Faith to overcome the world, strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might and may Christ give you, as he has promised to them that overcome, to eat of the Tree of Life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God,”—P. 203. ART. VI.-NOTICES OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. I. An Attempt to ascertain the Number, Names and Powers of the Letters of the Hieroglyphic or Ancient Egyptian Alphabet. By the Rev. Edward Hincks, D.D. The Defacement of Divine and Royal Names on Egyptian Monuments. By the Rev. Edward Hincks, D.D. On the Three Kinds of Persepolitan Writing, and on the Mode of expressing Numerals in Cuneatic Characters. By the Rev. Edward Hincks, D.D. The twenty-first and twenty-second volumes of the Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, contain several important communications from the Rev. Edward Hincks, D.D., on the subject of Egyptian and Persepolitan antiquities. Of the former, one relates to the effacement of royal and other names on Egyptian monuments. The most curious instances of this are those in which the change appears to have been connected with revolutions of religious opinion. Thus on one set of monuments the name of the god Amoun, where it entered into the composition of royal cartouches, has been systematically obliterated. On another, the figure of the god Seth (as it is supposed) the Typhon of the Greeks, has been effaced, indicating, as Bunsen thinks, a change in the theological system, by which Seth, who had previously been considered as a beneficent god, became identified with the principle of evil. The other paper relates to the phonetic value of the hieroglyphic characters, and could not be made intelligible, without entering into the history of the discovery of the Egyptian alphabet. Its chief object is to show, what had not been noticed by Champollion, or Lepsius, that the phonetic characters had certain expletives added to them, which in reading must generally be treated as quiescent. The establishment of this principle, which Dr. Hincks illustrates with great research and ingenuity, will of course introduce very important modifications into the mode of reading proper names, and the identification of phonetic groups with words of the Coptic or other languages. In his papers on the Persepolitan inscriptions Dr. Hincks has contributed valuable aid towards the great work begun by Grotefend, and nearly consummated by Rawlinson, of decyphering the cuneiform character. His discovery of the numerals is the most important, and we see that its value and originality have been fully recognized by Major Rawlinson. II. The Works of Henry Ware, jun., D.D. 4 vols. Boston. 1846-7. In a former Number we reviewed at length the life and labours of Henry Ware. We recur to the subject only for the purpose of directing attention to this convenient and valuable edition of his collected writings. With the exception of his Life of the Saviour, which we trust is to form a fifth volume, it contains all that he had published during his lifetime. The additions are chiefly Sermons, marked by that grave earnestness, simplicity, and seriousness of spirit which have enabled Mr. Ware to exercise the beneficent power of a practical teacher of Religion over so many minds. When Mr. Ware deals with the speculative difficulties that affect religious thinkers we cannot say that he is satisfactory or far-seeing, but when he addresses the conscience and the life he has the deep solemn tones of reality and power, which show that the affections of a fervid heart, and the conviction of a calm and stedfast intellect, have been strengthened, tested and mellowed amid the trials, endeavours, and experiences of the practical Christian. We copy some very touching lines written by Mr. Ware in his last illness. "It is not what my hands have done, That weighs my spirit down, That casts a shadow o'er the Sun, And over earth a frown; It is not any heinous guilt, Or vice by men abhorred; For fair the fame that I have built, And men would wonder if they knew "Alas! they only see in part, When thus they judge the whole; Its root may there conceal, And spread its poison through the frame 'They judge by actions which they see In folly thrown away, Forgetfulness to pray,— And thousand more omitted things, Whose memory fills my breast with stings. And therefore is my heart oppressed With thoughtfulness and gloom; Nor can I hope for perfect rest, Till I escape this doom. Help me, thou Merciful and Just, This fearful doom to fly; Thou art my strength, my hope, my trust, O, help me, lest I die! And let my full obedience prove The perfect power of faith and love.". Vol. i. p. 318. III. Dialogues on Universal Salvation, and Topics connected therewith. By David Thom. Second Edition. 1847. This is the Second Edition of a very ingenious work which first appeared in 1838. We have already in our |