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Reviews Of New Books.
REVIEWS 0 E NEW BOOKS .
[ Publishers are requested to send works for review not later than the 20 th of the month , addressed to the Editor of the " Freemasons' Monthly Magazine /' 74-5 , Great Queen-street , Lincoln ' s-Inn-Eields . ] Who is God in China—Shin , or Shangte ? By the Rev . Gr . C .
Malak , M . A . London : Bagster . — This learned work contains some remarks On the etymology of onVtf and of 0 EO 2 , and on the rendering of them into Chinese . The inquiry obtains vast importance from the consideration that the Bible Society has been invoked in all the evils of controversy upon the subjebt ^ and that the min d of the heathen is affected to a vast extent by the totally opposite
views which the several titles commented upon , present of Deity . Not only are immense learning and acquaintance with the original tongues exemplified in this able treatise , but the inquiry is conducted in a truly Christian and patient spirit , whilst the several questions emanating from the great topic of investigation are examined with great intellectual analysis and critical acumen . The author concludes by many potent arguments , that in Chinese , " Shin " does not
represent " 6 Geoc , " " G-od , " but expresses only Aaljuov or to Acu / ioviov , " Deity , " with a collective meaning , whilst " Shang-te" denotes , as far as the Chinese language can attain to its expression , the proper title of " G-od . " The same term is also enuntiative of bs & rh % and the astonishing research with which the author brings to the support
of his position , Syriac , Chinese , Greek , Hebrew , and Latin authors , shows him a perfect " helluo librorum , " buried , like a second Hooker , where all our greatest writers lie unnoticed by the flagitious patrons of the day , yet not inactive , in the wastes of clownish ignorance , and the Siberia of rustic seclusion ! Mr . Malan ' s work will live when half our bishops are forgotten;—we heartily recommend it as one of the most able commentaries of late years presented to the learned or inquiring Biblical student .
New and Comprehensive Dictionary of the English Language , as spoken and written . By Hyde Claeke , D . C . L . London : John Weale , 59 , High Holborn . —If a man choose to attend to this work , he may become a complete English scholar for 3 s . 6 d . Ethnology ; analysis of the English tongue ; comparative philology ; orthoepy and orthography ; accent ; parts of speech ; syntax ; composition ; stops ; emphasis ; rhyme ; prosody ; figures of speech , are elucidated with no less clearness than arrangement . We fearlessly proclaim the superiority of this to all other compendious lexicons of the English language ; and its system , small size , and scholarship will , we doubt not , ensure its access to every library , and prove it the most successful educational work which even Mr . "Weale , so celebrated for
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Reviews Of New Books.
REVIEWS 0 E NEW BOOKS .
[ Publishers are requested to send works for review not later than the 20 th of the month , addressed to the Editor of the " Freemasons' Monthly Magazine /' 74-5 , Great Queen-street , Lincoln ' s-Inn-Eields . ] Who is God in China—Shin , or Shangte ? By the Rev . Gr . C .
Malak , M . A . London : Bagster . — This learned work contains some remarks On the etymology of onVtf and of 0 EO 2 , and on the rendering of them into Chinese . The inquiry obtains vast importance from the consideration that the Bible Society has been invoked in all the evils of controversy upon the subjebt ^ and that the min d of the heathen is affected to a vast extent by the totally opposite
views which the several titles commented upon , present of Deity . Not only are immense learning and acquaintance with the original tongues exemplified in this able treatise , but the inquiry is conducted in a truly Christian and patient spirit , whilst the several questions emanating from the great topic of investigation are examined with great intellectual analysis and critical acumen . The author concludes by many potent arguments , that in Chinese , " Shin " does not
represent " 6 Geoc , " " G-od , " but expresses only Aaljuov or to Acu / ioviov , " Deity , " with a collective meaning , whilst " Shang-te" denotes , as far as the Chinese language can attain to its expression , the proper title of " G-od . " The same term is also enuntiative of bs & rh % and the astonishing research with which the author brings to the support
of his position , Syriac , Chinese , Greek , Hebrew , and Latin authors , shows him a perfect " helluo librorum , " buried , like a second Hooker , where all our greatest writers lie unnoticed by the flagitious patrons of the day , yet not inactive , in the wastes of clownish ignorance , and the Siberia of rustic seclusion ! Mr . Malan ' s work will live when half our bishops are forgotten;—we heartily recommend it as one of the most able commentaries of late years presented to the learned or inquiring Biblical student .
New and Comprehensive Dictionary of the English Language , as spoken and written . By Hyde Claeke , D . C . L . London : John Weale , 59 , High Holborn . —If a man choose to attend to this work , he may become a complete English scholar for 3 s . 6 d . Ethnology ; analysis of the English tongue ; comparative philology ; orthoepy and orthography ; accent ; parts of speech ; syntax ; composition ; stops ; emphasis ; rhyme ; prosody ; figures of speech , are elucidated with no less clearness than arrangement . We fearlessly proclaim the superiority of this to all other compendious lexicons of the English language ; and its system , small size , and scholarship will , we doubt not , ensure its access to every library , and prove it the most successful educational work which even Mr . "Weale , so celebrated for