17 JANUARY 1835, Page 19

Revealed Characteristics of God, by G. BARROW KIDD, and Bible

Lives from the History of the Old Testament, by BOURNE HALL DRAPER, seem toe purely devotional for a miscellaneous journal to meddle with at length. They do not appear to aim, like Professor VAUGHAN in his late work on the Corruptions of Chris- tianity, at blending history and theology together, making the former conduce to the support of the latter; nor do they, like Dr.

WARDLAW in his Christian Ethics, compare the philosophical speculations of men with what the author conceives to be the ex-

press directions of the Deity, and thus combine profitner learning with divinity. On the contrary, judging from a slight inspection, their wisdom is not of this world, and therefore beyond our jurisdiction.