# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Februar 1861_S58
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58 Literary Notices.

and stepped in here and there as an interlocutor, and then, with the shortest and driest of words, without any addition of his own, and only in a few cases has he added his judgment or an explanation in a footnote. As for the selection, he has been more concerned with vividness than completeness; he has left many things aside in order to allow room for those he let speak to express themselves; he has passed more briefly over some periods and events in order to let the main epochs and occurrences stand out more — and has sought to make the selection of material impartially, so that it might become possible for the reader to form his own judgment.

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1. The first chief part of Luther's Small Catechism, that is, the Ten Commandments, expounded in sermons for the Christian people, by K. H. Caspari, pastor in Munich. 3rd edition. Stuttgart, 1857. Steinkopf. small 8vo. 192 pp. $0.25 postage free.

"In composing these catechism sermons the author" — as he himself states in the preface — "could not put out of mind that word of Luther's: '"There come into the church poor, small children, maidservants, old women and men, to whom lofty teaching is of no use; they grasp nothing of it, and when they do say: ah, he has said a fine thing and preached a good sermon, and one then asks them: well, what was it then? they say: I don't know! One must say to poor people white is white and black is black, in the very simplest way, as it is, in plain, clear words."'" — It has also not been the author's concern to offer all sorts of novelties and idiosyncrasies, but on the contrary, chiefly what has, whether as the exposition of our fathers or as the exposition of the "'wisdom of the street,'" an age and a warrant resting on the historical Christian German popular mind. That exposition can be acquired through study, and that the author has not let himself be deterred from doing so, the little book will hopefully prove, in which the older ecclesiastical catechism-explanations have been used in every way as to content and form — this exposition must be caught up from the mouth of the people and often divined and surmised."

2. Historical-Musical Handbook for Church and Chorale Song. By Dr. L. Kraußold, royal consistorial councillor and chief preacher in Bayreuth. With two music supplements. Erlangen, Deichert. 1855. 8vo. 194 pp. $1.25.

Contents: Chapter 1. On Roman or Gregorian chant. Section 1. History of church song up to Gregory: origin of song in the Christian church — songs of the first Christians — modes of singing. Ambrosian chant — influence of the cantors in the singing schools of ancient times on church song. — Gregorian chant. General character — development of the tonal system — scales. Modes. Genres of song of the Gregorian chant. Section 2. Of