IVERSALIST QUARTERLY. Boston: Published by T.
Tompkins & Co. New York: H. Lyon, 119 Nassau street.
CONTENTS: The Logic and the End of the Rebellion. The Eastern
Church and Council of Nice. Salvation in Christ not Limited to this
Life. Contributions of Science to Religion. History of the Doctrine of a
Future Life. Atheism and its Exponents. Formula of Baptism. The
Universalists as a Christian Sect. General Review. Recent Publications.
American and English Quarterlies.
THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, January 1st, 1864. Editors:
Prof. James Russell Lowell and Charles Eliot Norton, Esqs. Boston:
Crosby & Nichols, 117 Washington street. New York: H. Dexter,
Hamilton & Co., Sinclair Tousey, and D. G. Francis.
CONTENTS: Ticknor's Life of Prescott. The Bible and Slavery.
The Ambulance System. The Bibliotheca Sacra. Immorality in Politics. The
Early Life of Governor Winthrop. The Sanitary Commission. Renan's Life
of Jesus. The President's Policy. Critical Notices.
THE CHRISTIAN EXAMINER.--Contents: Weiss's Life of
Theodore Parker. Uhland. The Patience of Hope. Arthur Schopenhauer.
The System and Order of Christ's Ministry. Ticknor's Life of
Prescott. Our Ambulance System. The Two Messages. Review of Current
Literature. New Publications Received. Boston: By the Proprietors,
at Walker, Wise & Co.'s, 245 Washington street.
EDITOR'S TABLE.
ARTISTS' RECEPTION.
The evening of February 4th, 1864, will long be remembered as the
occasion of one of the most delightful receptions ever given in the
Tenth-street Studio Building. The Committee deserve great praise for the
successful manner in which they filled without crowding the pleasant
exhibition-room and the many interesting studios. Their task was
certainly not an easy one, and merits imitation by all managers of
social entertainments.
Want of space must for the present prevent any description of the fine
works exhibited; suffice it to say that the Committee--Whittredge,
McEntee, Thompson, as well as Gifford, Eastman Johnson, Bierstadt,
Beard, the Weirs, Hazeltine, William Hart, Dana, Leutze, Gignoux,
Shattuck, Brown, Suydam, etc., were all worthily represented. New York
has reason to be proud of her artists.
Amusing incidents were not wanting. As we stood before Beard's
'Watchers' (an impressive representation of a company of crows watching
the last struggles of a dying deer), we heard a lady ask her attendan
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