blind him, to a great extent, to the fearful defects and faults of Napoleon's character, and the book, as a whole, must be pronounced a panegyric rather than a history. (57.) SYDNEY SMITH abused the Methodists, but that is no reason why Methodists should abuse him. We have read with great amusement and equal instruction "A Memoir of the Rev. Sydney Smith, by his daughter, LADY HOLLAND." (New-York: Harper & Brothers, 1855; 2 vols., 12mo.) Sidney Smith was not only the wittiest but one of the wisest men of his age, and the more we know of him the more we admire his great and noble qualities. His life was devoted to the removal of great abuses, and to the exposure of public vices and crimes at a time when vice was enthroned in high places, and when so many perils environed the path of a reformer as to require, in even the mildest innovator, a large stock of humanity and an equal share of courage. Without the power and prestige which in England usually follow high birth or wealth, he exercised a greater influence over the public mind of his day than any man except, perhaps, Lord Brougham. These volumes put his religious character in a far better light than it has ever appeared in before; and although his Christianity partook of the temper of the time and circle in which he moved, and had therefore far less of the evangelical element than could be desired, it is yet clear that his life was mainly regulated by a strong sense of duty, and that he found peace and comfort in his abiding faith in the great truths of religion. INDEX. Abbott's Napoleon, noticed......... Page 641 | Brownson, his Protestant element..Page 78 history of..... 489 vince of.... on Native-Americanism......... 86 639 421 396 predicted overthrow of. 426 Catechism of the Methodist Episcopal 141 470 Baird's Christian Retrospect and Reg- 485 Bailey's Theory of Human Reason...... 156 Baptized Infants, their relation to the Church..... 90, 475 deceitfulness of the people of...... 617 education among the........ 251 91 162 its duty toward baptized children 99 142 630 631 true idea of... Belcher's Religious Denominations...... 474 521 maculate conception... 280, 294, 297 his early labours............... 497, 498 Wesley's idea of . 272 460 ...... 350, 352 625 629 356 Colleges, prayer 322 Comings on Health 135 29 Compositions in schools, best mode of Brown's Dead in Christ, noticed......... 485 teaching...... 517 75 Conference powers in the Methodist 610 144 the same now as ever 332 Jephthah's vow, true view of......Page 563 | Methodism, Taylor on, reviewed...Page 329 494 the great Secession from the...... 319 492 Lying severely punished in English 525 557 611 Malachi, new translation and exposi- tion of....... 9, 169 his power of memory. 538 his political career..... 10 , meaning of the name.. Mathematics as an instrument of edu- Maurice, (Mr.,) and his writings... 26, 201 206 Norton on the Genuineness of the Gos- Norton's Translation of the Gospels..... 635 132 his rationalism....................................... 202 Odenheimer's Jerusalem........ ... 204 Life........ Palatines of Ireland, their origin......... 489 its recognition of the laity.. .... 355 Porter's Chart of Life.... rich in biographies......... 312 325 .............. 602 590 Presiding-Elder Question in the Metho- substantial elements of.............. 346 |