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of the renowned philosopher, has contributed
largely to its pages, to something of prolixity
he adds a good deal of acuteness and a compre- MARY LYNDON; OR REVELATIONS OF A LIFE. An
hensive spirit. His ontology and ethics are his
ablest works. Professor Ulrici has written more
Autobiography. (Stringer & Townsend, N. Y.)
than any other one man in this journal; he is We have received an early copy of this work,
the author of the work on Shakespeare, which which is now in press and will shortly be pub-
has been translated into English, and of a criti-lished. For this book we hesitate not to predict
cism of the Hegelian logic. Weisse, Chalybaeus, an unusual success. It is the production of a
author of the History of German Philosophy, lady, whose name is withheld, and it purports to
Dobrisch, the disciple of Herbart at Leipsic, be the true heart-history of its authoress. There
Franenstadt, and Wirth, are among the frequent is more than a possibility of its being a faithful
writers in this philosophical review, the only record of an inner life, and, if our guess at the
German periodical devoted exclusively to specu- writer's name be correct, there is almost a cer-
lative science. It is an important publication, tainty that, under another name, Mary Lyndon
and necessary to any one who would keep pace has sown and reaped in reality the harvest of sad
with the progress of German thought; and it has experiences here garnered up. Our authoress
contributed very much to the exposure of the avers that in thus telling "the secrets of her
defects of the Hegelian system, and to a reaction prison-house," she tempers her terrible story with
more favorable to the interests of Christianity. truth and charity, and narrates nothing which
It gives a review of all the leading works in phi has not had its counterpart in her own history.
losophy published in Germany, and notices of Her own affirmations to this effect remind us of
those issued in France and England.
that well-known sentence of Rousseau, which
forms so appropriate an exordium to his "Con-
fessions.”*

"A little, weary, sad-looking girl sat on the grass, with a great babe in her arms. She raised her eyes to the speaker with a gaze of sad astonishment.

"That weary child, who sat, holding her baby-brother on

life, as full of change as the rapid river, or the ever-varying clouds. That child has grown to be a woman, and has gone down into the deeps of existence, and has dwelt among its shallows and shams-has drunk earth's bitterest draughts, and has had the sweetest foretastes of heaven. And now she would paint the picture of her life, with its black masses and shadows, and its bright and blessed lights. She believes that the world loves Truth, and that a Life Revealed may be

both a warning and a blessing."

And again-

"I have resolved to write the real and etual Life of a

Human Being, so far as I can. Nobody ever did it, though many have tried and more have pretended-but all have failed. How then can I expect success? I can make, at

earnestly, lovingly; above all, truthfully."

least, the honest effort, to perform my task. It shall be done

The Zeitschrift fur die historische Theologie, is also now published by Perthes, in Gotha. It has been in existence for about twenty years, and was originally edited by Dr. C. F. Illgen, of Leipsic, in connection with the "Historica-Theological Society" of that place, which numbers among its members the most eminent theologians The twenty-sixth volume, being the first and of Germany. Its present editor is Dr. E. W. second parts for the current year, has an essay Niedner, formerly a professor of Church history by Wirth, on the Beginning of Philosophy, that at Liepsie, now living in literary retirement at is, the speculative question, with what must phiWittenberg, where he is engaged upon the com-losophy begin; one by Fechner, on the Atomistic position of a work of immense research, designed Theory, two articles by Fichte, against the the grass, and looking in astonishment, and yet in reverto present a combined history of the Christian theory of the Nature of the Soul in the material-ence, on the beautiful Eva, now traces these records of a Church, of Christian doctrine, and of philosophi-istic systems; a discussion of the Last Difference cal speculation. Dr. Niedner is the author of a of Philosophical Systems, by Franenstadt, with most philosophical manual of Church history, reference to Trendelerburg's examination of published in 1845, in a single volume-technical Spinoza; Remarks on the Antagonism of Idealism in its terminology, but admirable in its arrange- and Realism and Schopenhauer's views on the ment and classifications. The Zeitschrift," point, by Ulrici; on the Transcendental Sense which he edits, is chiefly made up of elaborate of the Logical Judgments and Syllogisms, by C. historical disquisitions, upon important or neg- H. Weisse, with a response by Ulrici; a contri. lected portions of Christian history. The second bution to the Philosophy of Religion, on the idea and third parts for 1855 contain but four articles: of knowledge, also by Ulrici; together with A general view of the whole literature of Church reviews of the most recent philosophical works History, from 1850 to 1854, by Professor Engel- of Germany and France, and a tolerably full hardt, of Erlangen, fully competent to this great catalogue of the latest works on speculative task; a continuation of Wiggers' History of the science. Augustinian Anthropology, from the condemnation of Semiplagiarism, in 529, to the revival of Augustianism, by the monk Gottschalck; the portion here contributed presents a full account of the views of Isidore, Archbishop of Seville. Dr. Wiggers is the author of the History of Augustinianism, translated, in part, by Dr. Emerson, of Andover. Professor Hilgenfeld, of Jena, has an elaborate essay upon the Gospel of Marcion, in its relations to the Gospel of Luke; and Max Goebel continues his curious investigations into the history of the "Inspiration Churches" formed in Germany by the French refugees; his narrative will bring their history down from 1688 to 1854, and it rests upon original investigations. The "Zeitschrift fur Philosophie und Philossophische Kritik," edited by the younger Fichte, Professor Ulrici, of Halle, and Dr. Wirth, has just completed its twenty-sixth volume, having been published for thirteen years. It is a representative of that portion of the German philosophers who have passed through and got beyond the Hegelian system, and who are trying to establish a speculative system on theistic,, instead of a pantheistic basis. The younger Fichte, the son

This periodical was suspended for two year in the troublous times succeeding the revolution of 1848, but it has been revived with new zeal. Its whole tendency is commendable; it seeks for alliance with Christianity; it is an earnest opponent of all the pantheistic and atheistic extras vagances, which have brought some portions of the German philosophy into such extensive and deserved disrepute. Such authors as Feuerbach and Comte are severely handled in its pages. And though there is some rivalry among the various contributors, and though no one of then will concede that any other one of them has found that perfect system, which they are all seeking after, yet their discussions are conducted in an amicable spirit, and may serve to promote the progress of a true philosophy. The harmony of philosophy and faith is what they all strive to prove and exhibit.

(To be continued).

Lamartine is asserted to have realized $260,000 by his writings in 1848. He completed fortyseven volumes, working fourteen hours daily.

Of course, our authoress is her own heroine, and we must permit her to introduce herself, “at her own sweet will," to our readers. Respecting her early years, we are told, in a strain of

moodiness

"My first recollections are those of pain-of mental and hours of childhood. I had never a childhood; my earliest bodily misery. I have heard and read much of the happy youth was a darkened and painful old age.

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as the cat from the bird, with no common thought, no gushing fount of sympathy, no appreciation or understanding of the being committed to her care, I could have no happy childhood. From infancy I was baptized in tears. I presented a strange contradiction in my organization. Iinber

"With a mother, whose nature was as distinct from mine

Que la trompette du jugement dernier sonne quand elle voudra; je viendrai, ce livre à la main, me presenter devant le souverain juge. I dirai hautement; voilà ce que

j'ai fait, ce que j'ai pensé, ce que je fus. J'ai dit le bien et le mal avec la même franchise. J'ai dévoilé mon interieur tel que tu l'as vu toi-même, Etre Eternel. Rassemble autour de moi l'innombrable foule de mes semblables; qu'ils écontent mes confessions, qu'ils rongissent de mes indignités,

qu'ils gemissent de mes miseres: que chacun d'eux decousincérité, et puis qu'un seul te dise, s'il l'ose. Je fus meilleur que cet honune-la."--Rousseau Confessions, chap. 1.

vre à sontour son cœur au pied de ton trône avec la même