# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Februar 1861_S57
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Literary Notices. 57

From the Library of Classical Theology in inexpensive editions, published by G. Schlawitz in Berlin, the newest (8th) volume is now in press:

Examen Concilii Tridentini per Mart. Chemnitium scriptum, sec. ed. 1578 Francof., collata ed. a. 1707, denuo typis exscribendum curavit, indice locupletissimo adornavit, vindicias Chemnitianas adversus Pontificios, praecipue adversus Bellarminum ad calcem adjecit Ed. Preuss, Dr. Phil. s. s. theologiae evang. licentiatus, eamque in univ. litt. Berol. priv. docens.

Previously published: Loci praecipui theologici per Phil. Melanthonem.

Ad edit. Lipsiensem a. 1559. 14 sheets in 4to, paperbound. 22½ Silbergroschen.

And: Menoza, an Asiatic prince, who traveled the world seeking Christians, especially in India, Spain, Italy, France, England, Holland, Germany, and Denmark, but found little of what he sought. A work which clearly sets forth the infallible grounds of natural as well as of revealed religion, and faithfully warns against the errant ways of most Christians in faith and life. Translated from the Danish. Fourth edition, 1759. New reprint. Inexpensive pocket edition. 46½ sheets. 1 Thaler. The work is by Erich Pontoppidan.

Published by Just. Naumann, Dresden and Leipzig:

Philipp Melanchthon's Life, told for Christian readers generally from the sources, by Moritz Meurer. With a portrait of Melanchthon after Lucas Cranach. 1860. 8vo. 187 pp.

The well-known author of "Luther's Life Told from the Sources" has here, in the same wholesome freshness and originality that won so many friends for the aforementioned work, described the life of Melanchthon. "He offers here," says the preface, "certainly not to scholars and researchers, but to all those who do not wish to work their way through a biography contrived from some particular standpoint and interspersed with investigations, reasonings, and reflections, and yet do not have the time and opportunity to occupy themselves with the sources and documents themselves, yet who would gladly and freshly place themselves directly into that period in which Melanchthon lived and worked — to them, for lack of anything better, he offers his book, and in it a simple and compact compilation of the material, without any clever or dull, learned or seemingly learned, artistic or artificial addition of his own. He has gratefully made use of his predecessors (especially Strobel, Galle, Matthes, Landerer), but he has, as his book must show, drawn himself from the works of Melanchthon, of his contemporary biographers, and of other contemporaries, or rather let them speak for themselves and told the story in their own words. His own contribution has been only the selection and the arrangement. Only in order to maintain the historical connection has he, here