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 Notices of New Boohs. 129 commendation are his candour, honesty, and independence in handling controverted questions. See, for instance, the remarks on the celibacy of the clergy, and on the progress of monasticism, pp. 290 316. The work, however, suffers in our judgment from attempting to fall in with the requirements of too large a class of readers. If Mr Robertson had only written for intelligent laymen, he might have made his book more interesting, and might also have dispensed with not a few of his refer- ences : while, on the other hand, it hardly meets the case of the professed student, who will not be satisfied with secondary authorities, and who at least would have preferred the formal and scholastic mode of treat- ment generally adopted by modern historians,] C. H. dementis Romani guce feruntur Homilive Viginti nunc primum integrce. Text, ad cod. Ottob. constit. vers. Cotelerii passim correx., eamque absolvit, select, virr. doctt. not. suasque subjunxit A. R. M. Dres- sel. Gottingse. 1853. [The Paris MS., from which Cotelier (whom subsequent editors have followed) published the Clementine Homilies, breaks off in Horn. xix. cap. 14. Fifteen years ago Dressel discovered in the Vatican Library a MS. containing the twenty Homilies entire. He has since been pre- paring an elaborate edition of the Apostolic Fathers : but, being inter- rupted by various causes, has consented to publish the Homilies at once, without waiting to complete his illustrations. The additional matter consists of eleven chapters and a half of Horn. xix. and the whole of xx. The last chapter conducts St Peter to Antioch, and corresponds with capp. 65 68 of lib. x. of the Recognitions. The latter diffuse recension has four additional chapters, but the completeness of the Homilies is shewn by the word 'Afj-rjv, with which they conclude. The Vatican MS., though faulty enough, exhibits throughout on the whole a much purer text than that of Paris. Dressel justly blames Schwegler for taking Cotelier's text not from the fountain-head, but from Le Clerc's corrupt reprint. Yet to Schwegler are mainly due the scanty notes vouchsafed to us : and he must still be pronounced the most meritorious editor. Abundant work remains for future labourers.] F. J. A. H. Real-Encyclopadie fiir protest. Theologie u. Kirche, hrsg. von Dr Herzog. Stuttgart. 1853, &c. [To be completed in 10 vols., each vol. consisting of 10 parts, or 800 pages, price 8 Ngr. a part. The list of contributors comprises almost every important name among the Protestants of Germany. Many of the articles are far too slight, containing no references whatever, though such a cyclopaedia is chiefly useful as a guide to direct the student to further sources of information. English works, even such as are known in Germany, (e.g. Pearson on the Creed, and Waterland on the Athanasian Creed) are too often neglected. Abp. Abbot has a notice, while Bp. Andrewes is passed over. Still the work is on the Vol. I. March, 1854. ' 9