The Quarterly Review (Volume 98) (Paperback)

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1856. Excerpt: ... and ' Tom Jones.' In force of character, in freshness of incident, in wit and humour, it is very inferior to both; in domestic pathos it is superior. Even if it had been altogether unworthy of him, which it is not, his claim to head the procession of English novelists would have remained the same. It is by St. Paul's and not by Temple Bar that we measure the genuius of Wren. Art. V.--1. The Epistles of St. Paul to the Thessalonians, Galatians, and Romans, with Critical Notes and Dissertations. By Benjamin Jowett, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Balliol College, Oxford. London, 1855. 2. Rational Godliness. By Rowland Williams, B.D., Fellow and formerly Tutor of King's College, Cambridge, and Professor of Hebrew at St. David's College, Lampeter. London, 1855. COME twenty years ago, the members of an Oxford Com DEGREESJ mon-room were shocked and scandalized by the reply of a German professor, whom they were hospitably entertaining, to a theological argument adduced by one of his hosts. The Oxonian had enforced his views by an appeal to the writings of St. Paul; the Prussian rejoined, not by denying the relevancy of the citation, but by questioning the authority of the writer. 'Paul ' he exclaimed, 'Paul was a clayver man, but he had his fancies. His letters I have read, but not often I agree with him.' The dead silence which followed the speech expressed the horror and amazement which it excited, and brought a blush of confusion to the cheek of the perplexed Professor, who could not conceive what he had said to shock the company. If we may judge from the two works at the head of our article, Teutonic guests might now give utterance to a similar independence of thought in the halls of either University without creating so much astonishment, and might even elicit the approbation of some at least amo...