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The Evangelical Succession,. Third Series. (Macniven and Wallace.) —Here we

have sketches of the life and work of eight divines who may fairly be described by the title given to this volume. •The eight are,—Owen, Bunyan, Boston, Edwards, Wesley, Carey, Vinet, and Chalmers. Thomas Boston was the author of " The Fourfold State," a work founded OD " Ed ward Fisher's Marrow of Divinity." His teaching was at least a beginning of the loosening of Calvinistic bonds, and as such deserves a special recognition. Jonathan Edwards, who forms the subject of the next memoir, did not certainly consciously seek to loosen them ; but his influence has not been altogether adverse. A thoroughly philosophical and logical statement of a theory is certain to be profitable in its way. We may commend this volume to our readers.