THE 71974 CHRISTIAN EXAMINER AND GENERAL REVIEW. : VOL. XΧΙΙ. THIRD SERIES, VOLUME IV. BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY JAMES MUNROE AND COMPANY. LONDON: ROWLAND HUNTER, AND R. J. KENNETT, YORK ST., COVENT GARDEN. OF VOL. XXII. - THIRD SERIES, VOL. IV. No. I. ART. I. - Dramas. By JOANNA BAILLIE. ART. II. - The Question of Expediency. 1 13 ART. III. - Text-Book of Ecclesiastical History. By J. C. I. GIESELER. Translated from the third German Edition, by FRANCIS CUNNINGHAM. 27 ART. IV. - A Harmony of the Gospels. By LANT CAR- 43 ART. V. - Poems. By WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. Fourth 59 ART. VI. - The Sunday School. A Discourse pronounced before the Sunday School Society. By WILLIAM E. CHANNING. ART. VII. - The Young Lady's Friend. By a Lady. FURNESS. NOTICES AND INTELLIGENCE. - Robinson's Greek and English. Lexicon of the New Testament. - Brownson's New Views of Christianity, Society, and the Church. - Carey's Memoir of William Carey, D. D., late Missionary to Bengal. - The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, now first published with his Works. - New Publications. EDITORIAL NOTICE. 68 90 101 ART. I. - The Young Man's Friend. By A. B. MUZZEY. ART. III. - ̔Η ΚΑΙΝΗ ΔΙΑΘΗΚΗ. The Greek Testa- 170 ART. IV. - Cours de Droit Naturel, professé à la Facultié ART. V.-1. Mammon; or, Covetousness the Sin of the 2. An Essay on the Sin and the Evils of Covetousness; 181 ✓ 3. The Philosophy of Benevolence. By PARACELSUS 218 ART. VI. -1. Schiller's Song of the Bell. Translated for 235 ART. VII. - Physical Theory of Another Life. By the Au- 245 ART. VIII. - History of Worcester, Massachusetts. By WILLIAM LINCOLN. 254 ART. I. - Clerical Studies: being the Substance of a Dissertation read before an Association of Ministers. 273 ART. II. - The Miracles of Jesus 283 ART. III. - The Evidences of the Genuineness of the Gospels. By ANDREWS NORTON. Vol. I. 321 ART. IV. - Memoir of the Rev. Bernard Whitman. By JASON WHITMAN. 344 ART. V. - The Elements of Moral Science. By FRANCIS 364 ART. VI. - Miriam ; A Dramatic Poem. 382 ART. VII. - 1. The Duties of Hard Times. A Sermon preached to the First Church, on Sunday Morning, 3. The Temptations of the Times. A Discourse deliv- 4. The Hard Times. A Discourse delivered in the Sec- JASON WHITMAN. NOTICES AND INTELLIGENCE. - Fox's Ministry of Jesus 392 406 INDEX. 409 THE CHRISTIAN EΧΑΜΙΝER. N°. LXXIX. THIRD SERIES - No. X. MARCH, 1837. ART. I. - Dramas, by JOANNA BAILLIE. In Three Volumes. 8vo. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, & Co. 1836. We are now in possession of no less than seven volumes of Joanna Baillie's Dramas; - the three volumes of plays on the Passions, which were published some years ago, a volume of miscellaneous plays, and the volumes before us. This collection may easily be called the richest gift which has been made to English dramatic literature in the present age; and we believe, that there are many who would not charge us with extravagance, if we were to say, that it is the richest which has been ever made to it, excepting the unapproached donation of the plays of Shakspeare. In offering such an opinion, we enter not into the question of individual genius. We remember the works, - a large portion indeed of which we should not grieve to forget, of Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, Massinger, Otway, and others. But, regarding both quantity and quality, intellectual elevation and moral influence, truth of substance and beauty of form, and holding a fair balance both of merits and defects, we hesitate not to place the name of this lady above even those distinguished names. However some of those writers may have excelled her in the graces of poetry and the flashes of intellect, there is a sustained dignity, a pure loftiness in her muse, which, with other attributes of power and beauty, entitle her to the precedence. But, if the charge of extrava VOL. XXII. - 3D. S. VOL. IV. NO. I. 1 |