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Reviews Of New Books,
REVIEWS OF NEW BOOKS ,
[ Publishers are requested to send works for review not later than the 20 th of the month , addressed to the Editor of the " Freemasons' Monthly Magazine , " 74-5 , Great Queen-street , LincolnVInn Fields . ] A Plea for Reformatories ' , By Chaeles Batcliff . London : Nisbet & Co . — "We hail this sagacious , withal most philanthropic
publication , as an augurj of an increasing soundness in the public view upon a momentous question . Whilst the statistics are affecting — -for what can be more so than the fact , that in 1855 twelve per cent , of the whole criminal population of England were committed under the age of 15 years ?—the pleas advanced for the Reformatories evince a singular ! v deeo knowledge of the human heart : founded , tories evince a singularly deep knowledge of the human heart ; founded
, we may add , upon the only safe and pure medicine for its sickness , namely , religious truth . " Nemo repente fuit turpissimus , " says Juvenal . " Principiis obsta , venienti occurrite morbo , " echoes Horace . So that even those who look to human sages as their chief instructors , have undeniable stimulus for their exertion in this righteous cause of attending to the moral culture of the young . To
those , on the other hand , who are not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ , but consider it as truly the power of God unto salvation , we heartily commend this address , in which the Christian metaphysician will discover an acknowledgment of Gospel truth r s the sure . basis in the hearts of young and old , for the " security of any people . " The hints , also , to instructors and other attendants upon criminals in their progress of reformation are admirable , and Mr . BatclifPs advice in this respect cannot be too closely followed .
A Vindication of the Authorized Version of the English Bible . By the Bev . S . C . Mala ^ , M . A . London : Bell and Daldy . —Any work by so sound an Oriental and classical scholar as Mr . Malan demands our utmost attention , especially when employed upon so important a subject as the Vindication of the English Version of the Bible from certain charges brought against it . In his present treatise ,
this justly approved author remarks , —1 st . XTpon the miracle of the Passage of the Bed Sea . 2 nd . On a specimen of a revision of the English Scriptures of the Old Testament ( Job i . ) , wherein the superiority of the authorized to the revised version is established beyond all question . It is one thing to criticize , another to amend ; but the knowledge possessed by Mr . Malan , not only of the Ancient Hebrew
and Syriac , but also of the Anglo-Saxon tongue , carries all before it in proving that whilst the present English Bible is unapproachable in its exact translation of the original meaning , the suggestions of its pseudo-improvers are open to most serious inculpation . The Mosaic account of the Passage of the Eed Sea is supported by direct estabvoii . ii . 3 f
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Reviews Of New Books,
REVIEWS OF NEW BOOKS ,
[ Publishers are requested to send works for review not later than the 20 th of the month , addressed to the Editor of the " Freemasons' Monthly Magazine , " 74-5 , Great Queen-street , LincolnVInn Fields . ] A Plea for Reformatories ' , By Chaeles Batcliff . London : Nisbet & Co . — "We hail this sagacious , withal most philanthropic
publication , as an augurj of an increasing soundness in the public view upon a momentous question . Whilst the statistics are affecting — -for what can be more so than the fact , that in 1855 twelve per cent , of the whole criminal population of England were committed under the age of 15 years ?—the pleas advanced for the Reformatories evince a singular ! v deeo knowledge of the human heart : founded , tories evince a singularly deep knowledge of the human heart ; founded
, we may add , upon the only safe and pure medicine for its sickness , namely , religious truth . " Nemo repente fuit turpissimus , " says Juvenal . " Principiis obsta , venienti occurrite morbo , " echoes Horace . So that even those who look to human sages as their chief instructors , have undeniable stimulus for their exertion in this righteous cause of attending to the moral culture of the young . To
those , on the other hand , who are not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ , but consider it as truly the power of God unto salvation , we heartily commend this address , in which the Christian metaphysician will discover an acknowledgment of Gospel truth r s the sure . basis in the hearts of young and old , for the " security of any people . " The hints , also , to instructors and other attendants upon criminals in their progress of reformation are admirable , and Mr . BatclifPs advice in this respect cannot be too closely followed .
A Vindication of the Authorized Version of the English Bible . By the Bev . S . C . Mala ^ , M . A . London : Bell and Daldy . —Any work by so sound an Oriental and classical scholar as Mr . Malan demands our utmost attention , especially when employed upon so important a subject as the Vindication of the English Version of the Bible from certain charges brought against it . In his present treatise ,
this justly approved author remarks , —1 st . XTpon the miracle of the Passage of the Bed Sea . 2 nd . On a specimen of a revision of the English Scriptures of the Old Testament ( Job i . ) , wherein the superiority of the authorized to the revised version is established beyond all question . It is one thing to criticize , another to amend ; but the knowledge possessed by Mr . Malan , not only of the Ancient Hebrew
and Syriac , but also of the Anglo-Saxon tongue , carries all before it in proving that whilst the present English Bible is unapproachable in its exact translation of the original meaning , the suggestions of its pseudo-improvers are open to most serious inculpation . The Mosaic account of the Passage of the Eed Sea is supported by direct estabvoii . ii . 3 f