THE

PROSPECTIVE REVIEW;

A QUARTERLY JOURNAL

OF

THEOLOGY AND LITERATURE.

Respice, Aspice, PROSPICE.

St. Bernard.

VOL. III.

(CHRISTIAN TEACHER. VOL. IX.)

LONDON:

JOHN CHAPMAN, 142, STRAND.

RICHARD KINDER, PRINTER, GREEN ARBOUR COURT, OLD BAILEY.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME III.

ART.

NUMBER IX.

I. State and Prospects of Ireland

II. The Benedictines: Monte Cassino

III.-Sacred Poetry

IV.-Acton's Sermons, with a Memoir of his Life

V.-Potts' Edition of Euclid's Elements of Geometry

VI.-Patterson's Zoology: for the use of Schools

VII.-National Education

NUMBER X.

I.-Christianity and the Formative Arts

II.-Modern Painters

III.-Characteristics of Men of Genius

IV. The Minutes of the Committee of Council for 1846

V.-State of Protestantism in Germany

VI.-Aspland's Sermons

NUMBER XI.

I.-Christian Theology in its Relation to Modern Ideas and

Modern Wants

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1

44

70

105

108

112

115

157

213

231

238

255

290

297

II.-England's Weak Point: Sismondi on Political Economy

and Government

326

III.-Prichard's Researches into the Physical History of Man-

kind

355

IV. The Marquis of Wellesley

370

• V.--Archdeacon Hare on the Victory of Faith

396

VI.-Notices of New Publications

417