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 "THE SWEDEXBORG LIBRARY." OPINION OF THE NEW-CHURCH REVIEW. The following is copied from the July (1882) number of the Xetv-Cfiiit'ch JReview, and is from the pen of a competent critic, and one of the most intelligent and scholarly ministers in the New Church. "Of the 'Swedenborg Librar}^' as edited b}' Mr. Barrett, and published in the neat, elegant and at- tractive little quartos, we niaj' justh* say that it will be hard to find any other printed matter in the world, which will so worthih' occup}' an equal twelve inches of shelf-room. This little Library is a specialty, in- deed. It is devoted to one and only one theological S3'stem, but that a verj^ cathohc and comprehensive one ; so that there is hardly a principle in science or philosophy, a question of morals, or of life, or of death, or of the here, or of the hereafter, that is not eluci- dated in it. But it is analytic also, and so thoroughly and admirably so. that we find here its peculiar value, not only to the world at large but to the Xew Church- man himself, to whom the theology here presented is alread}' tolerably familiar. "In calling attention to the Swedexborg Library in these pages, we have not in view so much to adver- tise the work, already far more widely known than is the Keview, as to dwell upon certain features which commend the books, especially to the familiar and con- stant use of the Xew Church, especially in the famil}^ and in the instruction of youth. "AVe need say but little about the advantages the Library offers to the world at large. The handy and inexpensive, yet thoroughly tasteful little volumes, speak for themselves, and are sure to find a welcome entr}' into thousands of homes and libraries where the more sombre and stately volumes of the complete 4