5. THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA, By C. Wyville Thomson, LL. D., F. R. S. S., L. and E., etc. New York and London: Macmillan & Co.

This book is full of profound interest. It was the popular notion, long entertained, that at certain depths of the sea the conditions of existence are so very peculiar, so actively different from those on the surface of the globe, as to preclude any other idea than that of a wild waste of utter darkness, and subjected to a pressure so stupendous as to render life of any kind impossible. It was supposed, also, that insuperable difficulties existed in the way of any attempt to investigate the wonders of the great deep. But, as the work before us shows, these notions, which only one or two decades ago were universally entertained, are utterly unfounded and false. The depths of the ocean are, in fact, teeming with forms of life as wonderful as any of those which appear on the dry land. The work of Dr. Thomson, however, and the wonders it discloses, are far too important to be dispatched in a book notice; accordingly we shall, in our April number, devote an article to the subject, which is as novel as it is replete with religious instruction.

6. THE VICARIOUS SACRIFICE GROUNDED ON PRINCIPLES OF UNIVERSAL UBLIGATION. By Horace Bushnell. New York: Charles Scribner & Co. 1869.

This man has no title to his name, but it is a name that needs no title. An A. M., or a D. D., or a LL. D., which grace so many names now-a-days, and which so many names now-a-days disgrace, may well be dispensed with after the name of Horace Bushnell. He is a giant. The greater is the pity, therefore, that with Titanic audacity he assails 'the faith once delivered to the saints.' The doctrine that the atonement is 'a satisfaction to divine justice,' is attacked by him, as well as by Dr. Young and so many other rationalizing divines of the present day, but with a strength of arm and a directness of aim which render him a far more dangerous adversary than a host of such would-be logicians and philosophers. We do not object to their rationalism, except that it is false, cutting down the word of God to fit the Procrustean beds of their own reasons, instead of raising their reasons to

the fulness, and amplitude, and glory of the divine word. As with their false rationalism they trample the word of God under foot, so (God helping) we shall trample their word under foot with a true rationalism. We shall meet them, and especially Horace Bushnell, on their own ground, and fight them with their own weapons-the arms of reason, logic, and conscience. If we cannot meet them thus, with blows as vigorous as their own, and with a defiance as bold, then let us acknowledge ourselves vanquished, and retire from the armies of the living God. Mr. Horace Bushnell will be examined and sifted in the next number of this Review. We have given a book notice to Dr. Young; we shall devote an elaborate article to him.

His doctrine of justification is, also, precisely the same as that of Dr. Young, only it is advocated with far greater ingenuity and power. We shall, nevertheless, advance to the encounter without fear or trepidation, for, unless we are infinitely mistaken, we have found full many a point in the armor of this modern Goliah in which a fatal pebble may be planted. 'He is thrice armed whose cause is just.' And he must be weak, indeed, who cannot defend the word of God against the reason of man. We may not be able, it is true, to find the ground on which that word reposes, but we may, nevertheless, expose the grounds on which objections to it are raised. The first, though hidden, is as solid as the eternal 'Rock of Ages.' The last is, therefore, as false and fleeting as the sands of time. Hence we shall ask, and we shall give, no quarter.

In the great work of Dorner, which, in five volumes, treats historically and doctrinally of' The Person of Christ,' the various productions of Dr. Bushnell are noticed as radically unsound in their theology. It is far more important for us Americans, however, that his heresies should be exposed, than it is for the Germans, for his works have had a far wider circulation among us, and have done far more mischief. He is, we believe, the most formidable Unitarian to whom New England has given birth and let loose among us. It would take many Channings, with all his fine rhetoric and florid declamation, to make one Bushnell.

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