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    draw a knowledge of his duties with the means for performing them , as well as of his destiny .

    We are not , however , sure that the lengthiness , which is a peculiarity of all prose composition written in an early age , and of Herodotus , therefore , as much as of the Bible , may not be a disqualifying circumstance . A story for children should be put in a nut-shell . They are impatient of delay , and eager

    to come to a conclusion ; so much , so , that they prefer a short tale , however simple and bald , to a long one , however replete with incidents . Whereas , " Bible Stories , " if told by the writers of the Bible , are full of unessential words , if not particulars .

    This is , however , a small matter in comparison of the important advantages which result from having the * ' Sacred Histories iu the Language of the Received Version , " whilst , by a judicious selection , those things which are hard to be understood , of questionable utility , or of actually injurious tendency to the young , are ^ prevented from puzzling their minds , or injuring their moral feelings , or alienating their hearts from the sacred page .

    The small edition which , as we understand , is published of this work , will , we doubt not , be quickly sold . In a second edition , or in a second volume , we would suggest to the author the propriety of inserting histories selected from the interesting and heroic story of the Maccabees , filling up what the

    Apocrypha does not supply , by narratives from profane writers , so as to connect together the last of the prophets with him of whom they all spake . The same plan might be , and ought to be , continued in , into , and through , the New Teatameut , and with the learning and taste for which the author is

    distinguished , might , much to the benefit of the young , and the increase of sound knowledge , be carried through the German , Roman , and English histories , as well as the period and series of events comprised in the term ecclesiastical history . A succession of well-executed works , such as we have now alluded to , is much wanted—we shall look in hope to Mauchester .

    We add , in conclusion , that in what we have above said , we have no wish to derogate from the merit of Mr . Wood's " Bible Stories . " They are as good as the plan of the author permitted , and though we place them second to " Sacred Histories , " it is not that Mr . W . has not done well , but that another , and

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    with less trouble to himself , has done better .

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    Art . III . —A JVord to the Bishops from One of their Order . Extract from a Convocation Sermon on Conforming and Reforming . By John Colet , D . D ., Dean of St . Paul ' s . Wilson . 8 vo . pp . 16 . A word in season , though more than three centuries have elapsed since it was first spoken . ** The friend of Erasmus and Sir Thomas More , the associate of the best men of his time , the founder of

    one of our most useful seminaries , ( St . Paul's School , ) and the approved of his Sovereign , may well be excused . speaking from the tomb , and calling upon his fellow-labourers to set au example worthy of their high calling . ** He may be excused , but will they listen , even if he were to rise , as well as speak , from the tomb ? The evils complained of by the good Dean are no whit diminished ; but

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    Critical Notices . —Theological . 853

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    Art . II . —The Church ; its Civil Establishment Indefensible 9 and ite iOlaims to a Tolerant Character disproved . By a lately Beneficed Clergyman . London . Hunter ; Wilson .

    An acute and caustic production . It was originally addressed to Archbishop Magee , and occasioned by his affirming in a Charge , as a very plain proposition , that ei it is the duty of the Sovereign to provide a true religion for his people ;" an arduous duty , seeing that he is not allowed to provide a religion for himself , but must take such as is provided for him . The Archbishop died while this pamphlet was in the press , and the author has therefore inscribed it to the

    Bishops and Clergy of the Province of Dublin . Considering the importance of the subject , and the interest arising from the practical testimony of its Author ( the Rev . Armstrong ) to truth and conscience , we should have been glad to devote m"bre space to it thau we can at present spare . The inconsistencies of

    the fierce polemic , who now rests from his conflicts , are powerfully and unsparingly exposed ; as are those of the system which rejoiced in him as its champion . That system the writer emphatically , but justly , describes as " at once a blunder in conception , a tyranny in pretension ^ and an utter abortion in practice . "

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1831, page 853, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2604/page/57/