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NEW ENGLANDER.

1884.

VOLUME VII, NEW SERIES.
VOLUME XLIII, COMPLETE SERIES.

NULLIUS ADDICTUS JURARE IN VERBA MAGISTRI.

NEW HAVEN:

WILLIAM L. KINGSLEY, PROPRIETOR.

TUTTLE, MOREHOUSE, AND TAYLOR, PRINTERS.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME VII.

No. I.

ART. I. The U. S. Supreme Court and the Civil Rights Act.

President William W. Patton, Howard University, Washington, D. C. 1

II. The Religious Factor in Education.

Rev. L. O. Brastow, Burlington, Vermont.

III. The Function of the Will in Knowledge.

20

From the French of Edmond de Pressensé; translated by Rev.

J. B. Chase, Cherokee, Iowa.

37

IV. Easy Divorce: its Causes and Evils. A Social Study.

Rev. I. E. Dwinell, Redwood, California.

48

V. Unbelief, Half-belief, and a Remedy.

L. Bell, Brooklyn, New York. 67

VA. Some Race-Problems in China. Dr. S. Wells Williams' "Middle

Kingdom."

VI. The Ideal in Literature.

Sidney Lanier.

VII. The Theism of Jesus.

VIII. Anarchic Socialism.

John Addison Porter, Washington, D. C. 81

A Review of the "English Novel" by

F. H. Stoddard, Northampton, Mass. 97

Rev. C. S. Walker, South Amherst, Mass. 105

Rev. Edward Kirk Rawson, Boston, Mass. 113

ARTICLE IX.-NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS.

The Grounds of Theistic and Christian Belief. By George P. Fisher, D.D.,

LL.D.

127

Philosophy and Christianity. By George S. Morris, Ph.D.

132

Ten Lectures on Orthodoxy and Heresy in the Christian Church. By Edward

H. Hall.

133

The Theory of Morals. By Paul Janet.

134

Philosophical Series-No. IV.: Certitude, Providence, and Prayer.

James McCosh, D.D., LL.D., D.L.

By

136

The Parabolic Teaching of Christ: A Systematic and Critical Study of the

Parables of our Lord. By Alexander Balmain Bruce, D.D.

Biblical Study: Its Principles, Methods, and History; together with a Cata-

logue of Books of Reference. By Charles Augustus Briggs, D.D.

Christ preaching to Spirits in Prison. By William DeLoss Love.

Contrary Winds and Other Sermons. By Wm. M. Taylor, D.D., LL.D.

Land and its Rent. By Francis A. Walker, Ph.D., LL.D.

Christian Charity in the Ancient Church. By Dr. Gerhard Uhlhorn.

Plato's Best Thoughts. By Rev. C. H. A. Bulkley, D.D.

History of the Christian Church. By Philip Schaff.

The "Calendar of American History," by Miss Delia Lyman.

The Art Amateur.

No. II.

ART. I. Scientific Ethics.

II. Darwinism and Christianity.

Hon. Henry T. Steele, Chicago, Ill. 145

From the German of William Bender. By Edward G. Bourne. 177

III. Women's Suffrage.

Rev. Prof. H. M. Goodwin, Olivet College, Olivet, Mich. 193

IV. Teleology, Old and New.

V. The Extradition of Criminals.

F. A. Mansfield, Oberlin, Ohio. 213

F. M. Stone, New Bedford, Mass. 224

VI. Moral Defects in recent Sunday School Teaching.

Rev. James M. Whiton, Newark, N. J. 231

VII. The Substitutes for Christianity proposed by Comte and Spencer.

Miss Julia H. Gulliver, Andover, Mass. 246

Martin Luther: A Study of Reformation. By Edwin D. Mead.

292

The Words of Christ as Principles of Personal and Social Growth. By

John Bascom.

292

The History of Democracy, considered as a Party name, and as a Political

organization. By Jonathan Norcross.

293