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discharge the powers or duties of his office, the Vice-President shall exercise those powers and duties, until another President be chosen, or until the inability of the President be removed.'

"This was amended, on motion of Mr. RANDOLPH, (and Mr. MADISON,) by adding

"The legislature may declare by law what officer of the United States shall act as President, in case of the death, resignation, or disability of the President and Vice-President, and such officer shall act accordingly, until such disability be removed or a President shall be elected.'

"In this shape the subject was sent to the committee of style, &c."

"NOTE--By the act of 1792, in case of vacancy in the offices of President and Vice-President, the president of the Senate, and if there be none, the speaker of the House of Representatives, assumes the duties of President, until an election is had.

"By the act of 1845, the electors of President and Vice-President are to be chosen on the Tuesday after the first Monday of November, in all the States."

The volume contains much other valuable information; viz: a Digest of the History of the several Colonial Confederations; The Origin of the Federal Constitution; The Cession of Western Territory; The Organization of the Executive Departments of the Federal Government; Organization and Admission of New States into the Union; Table of Electoral votes for President and Vice-President from 1789 to 1856; Tables of the names of the members of each Cabinet from Washington's to Buchanan's, inclusive; Lists of Officers of the Government, from 1789 to 1860; Presidents pro tempore of the Senate; Speakers of the House of Representatives; Members of Conventions and Congress, prior to the adoption of the Constitution; besides other statistical information of importance.

THE PURITANS AND QUEEN ELIZABETH.*-In November, 1859, page 1100, an announcement was made of the appearance of the first volume of this unique and interesting work. A second volume has since been given to the public, which would have received a notice in the August number, had not its already crowded pages prevented. On the completion of the work, which is to be in three volumes, we propose to give an extended review of it. At present we content ourselves with making an extract from one of the chapters in the first volume, which will give our readers some adequate conception of the dramatic power of the author. The chapter treats of "The Troubles at Frankfort," and the strifes among the English exiles in 1554, 1555.

*The Puritans: or the Church, Court and Parliament of England, during the reigns of Edward VI and Queen Elizabeth. By SAMUEL HOPKINS. In three Volumes. Vols. I and II already published. Large octavo. pp. 549, 539. Boston: Gould & Lincoln. 1860. Price $2.50. [T. H. Pease, New Haven.]

"On the 12th of March, a company of stranger Englishmen arrived at the inn of Fritz Hansen. When they had refreshed themselves at his generous board, one of them asked him, somewhat querulously, whether he had or had not sent for Master Whittingham and Master Knox. Being answered in the affirmative, the querist turned to one of his companions, saying in English, 'You can manage this German language better than 1, Doctor Horn. Will you please catechise the man ?'

"Upon which, Doctor Horn, addressing Fritz, asked, 'You know our countrymen in Frankfort ?'

"Yes, sir; and proud to say it.'

"No doubt, no doubt. Englishmen are an honor to any city. But we are told that our countrymen here have not been peaceable among themselves in religious matters.'

"O, sir! that's all over now. It was only for a little while. To-morrow-let me see! This is the twelfth day of March. Yes-to-morrow will be five weeks since they came to a happy agreement.'

"Humph! An agreement to be half one thing and half another; half English and half Genevan,-was it not?'

"Fritz, wondering not a little at such a way of speaking about Christian harmony, replied, 'They have a Liturgy, good sir.'

"But not like the English.'

"I am told that some of it is like the English, and some of it not.'

"So we have heard. But have they continued this new way up to this time ?”

Yes, sir; and under the new way, they live very quietly and happily.' "Enough; if our countrymen for whom we have sent ever come, show them in.'

"It was as Fritz had said. The five weeks since the 6th of February had passed peacefully and happily with the English church, under the modified Liturgy agreed upon. The good people of Frankfort, seeing them once more walking in love and worshiping in unity, had almost forgotten the by-gone strifes; while the exiles themselves had followed their secular pursuits without distraction, and their worship without bitterness. They had indeed to regret that all their fellowexiles should not be united in one home and one church; and especially that any should stand aloof merely through a rigid reverence for forms, whose civil and ecclesiastical authority had come to an end, whose stability and perfection even their authors had never pretended, and which were displeasing to the Reformed churches among whom the exiles had taken refuge. This regret, however, had not intermeddled with their joy.

"The company who had just taken possession of Fritz Hansen's hostel were Doctor Richard Cox, Tutor, Almoner, and Privy Councillor of the late King Edward, Doctor Robert Horn, lately residing at Zurich, and 'others of great note and quality.' Cox was one of several whom they of Strasburg had officiously proposed to take oversight and charge of the church at Frankfort; and Horn had signed the letter of the 13th of October from Zurich, avowing a 'full determination to admit and use no other order than the last taken in the Church of England.'

"They were soon greeted by the principal members of the English church, and welcomed with honest cordiality. When Dr. Cox announced that he and his companions had come to abide there, Master Whittingham replied with sinceriy: 'We thank God! Would that all our countrymen who are beyond the paw of the tigress and the spite of the Lutheran were one family, in one tabernacle, and at one altar!'

"We do our part, you see, to forward your prayer,' replied Dr. Horn. 'And now, good sir, we would fain find better commodity of lodging than this hostel, an we may. An your better acquaintance with Frankfort may serve us in this, we shall be beholden for your kindness.'

"We do remember our own needs when we came hither,' replied Master Whittingham; and how the kind words and good offices of Master Valeran and Master Morellio were like cold water to our fainting spirits. God forbid that we fail in the like to you. An there be Christian hearts in Frankfort, ye shall have entertainment and every brotherly service, anon.'

"The offer was as gladly accepted as it was heartily made; and all hospitality and kindness were immediately extended to the new comers. When the order of religious service was spoken of, and their hopes expressed that some further return to that of King Edward's Book might be attained, they were told unequivocally that the present order could not be changed until the last of April, without breach of a promise which had been established by invocation of God's name; that the holy sacrament had been received as the sure token or seal of the present agreement; and that therefore it would be a sort of sacrilege to change. It was, moreover, frankly stated, that any further adoption of the English Book would be offensive to the honest consciences of the church, and would hazard the good will of the citizens and the favor of the magistrates.

"So, we find all things just as we expected, Doctor Cox,' said Doctor Horn, so soon as they were by themselves again. What with their conscience, as they call it, their seal of agreement, and the magistrates, we are like to have enow to look after in putting down this upstart new-fangledness.'

"Mark me!' replied Dr. Cox, with vehemence, we have come for the very purpose of putting it down; and it shall be done. I put not my hand to the plough and look back. I have come to repair this broken wall; aud, if need be, will copy Nehemiah, with his trowel in one hand and his sword in the other. To the wind with agreements and pledges and consciences, an they go in anything to deface the worthy ordinances and laws of our sovereign lord, King Edward, of most famous memory. An I fail in one way, I will invoke another.'

"But they are so confiding and brotherly,' objected Doctor Horn, it will seem like treachery to do violence to their arranging.'

"Say rather, their deranging. An Master Knox's conscience turns holy things upside down, and my conscience bid me put them to rights again, pray who should yield? Must I stay reformation, forsooth, because another maketh naughty pledge in God's name and on the sacrament? Must I be squeamish on the score of common courtesy and common hospitality? We will try whether will prevail with Englishmen,-the Primer of a vulgar Scot, or the Liturgy of a king; so mean a fellow as John Knox, or the friend and Councillor of Edward the

Sixth. We will try it-an the heavens fall, Doctor Horn-at to-morrow morning's prayers.'

"They did try it; and the first 'response' in prayer from their lips-like a discord in soothing music-wrought consternation and grief. The spirit of devotion fell, like a clipped bird. The form of prayer proceeded; but, to the last 'Amen,' not a prayer had gone up to God,-nothing but amazement, a sense of wrong, and exultation for a successful plot. Of course there were complaint and commotion. The elders rebuked their guests for so rude a violation of order in a brotherhood by whom they had just been welcomed, and in unsuspecting faith. It was of no avail. The others only retorted, that the dishonor of their country's ritual merited dishonor; that they would do as they had done in England; that they would have the face of an English church.

"This was on the 13th of the month,-Tuesday or Wednesday. It does not appear that the precisians attempted any other outrage during the week; but by some crafty measures, not on record, the pulpit on Sunday forenoon was occupied-abruptly, and without the previous consent of the congregation proper— by a preacher of Cox's party, who read the Litany of King Edward's Book, to which Doctor Cox and his friends gave the responses. Not content with this, the minister in his sermon uttered many taunting and bitter speeches against the past doings and present order of the congregation." pp. 93-98.

HISTORY OF WILLIAMS COLLEGE.*-This work is from the pen of a graduate and zealous friend of the institution whose annals it records. It is a handsome volume of four hundred and thirty-two pages, embellished with representations of the various buildings of the College, and with portraits of several leading benefactors. The value of the work is enhanced by the introduction of Governor Washburn, which contains interesting reminiscences of College life at Williamstown when he was an undergraduate. The author has, also, been aided by some of the living Professors, who furnish passages upon special topics; and besides making use of what has before been published upon this theme, he has evidently examined the unpublished sources of information with industry. This pleasing narrative leads us on from the foundation of "the Free School," (which was the germ of the College,) by the bequest of the gallant Colonel Williams, through the successive epochs of Presidents Fitch, Moore, Griffin, and of Dr. Hopkins, the present efficient incumbent of the office. The struggles with poverty through which the institution has had to pass, the contest occasioned by the attempts of President Moore and his coadjutors to remove it to Northampton or Amherst, the revivals of religion which have occurred with frequency

*A History of Williams College. By Rev. CALVIN DURFEE, Boston: A. Williams & Co. 1860. Price $2.00. [T. H. Pease, New Haven.]

among its undergraduate students, the commencement in the prayer meeting of Mills and Hall of that movement which resulted in the formation of the American Board, the generous donations to the College by Lawrence, Jackson and others, and other circumstances of interest, are detailed in this history. We commend it to the attention not only of the graduates of Williams, but of all who are interested in the growth and progress of educational institutions in New England. The connection of Williams College with Yale, is a matter upon which friends of the latter institution may reflect with satisfaction. The first President at Williamstown, Dr. Fitch, as well as the third President, Dr. Griffin, received their training at New Haven; and among the Tutors at Williams, in its early days, we notice with pleasure the name of Jeremiah Day.

HISTORY OF HARWINTON.*-This is another valuable town history, which we are glad to have added to the catalogue of similar works which are now rapidly increasing in number, and are of so much importance in illustrating the general history of the country. Harwinton is a town in the state of Connecticut.

PHILOLOGY.

TEUTONIC ETYMOLOGY.-It is well known that Professor Gibbs has devoted much time to the study of scientific philology, especially in its connection with the English language. His previous linguistic studies had prepared him to enter upon the new fields which were opened by German scholars, in the domain of language; and, there is no one, we judge, in our country, who has more successfully pursued this new branch of investigation. We are not a little gratified with the fact, that the living principles of language thus mastered and possessed, Professor Gibbs has employed for the explanation and advancement, not of the classic tongues of Greece and Rome, but, with a kind of patriotic partiality, of our own English language ;—and surely no language more needs to be studied in the light of philological science. The fruits of

* The History of Harwinton in Connecticut. By R. MANNING CHIPMAN. 1860. 8vo. pp. 152.

Teutonie Etymology. The formation of Teutonic words in the English language. By JOSIAH W. GIBBS, Professor of Sacred Literature, Yale College. New Haven: Peck, White & Peck. 1860. 16mo. pp. 139. 50 cents.