# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_October 1861_S316
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316 Literary Notices.

lars of the central nave or at the supports of the galleries. The bases of the pillars should not be enclosed by pews.

15. The church requires a sacristy, not as an internal recess but as an annex, beside the choir, spacious, bright, dry, heatable, and of an arrangement and furnishing worthy of a church.

16. The foregoing principles for evangelical church building are to be made valid by the church authorities at every level, brought to the builder's attention in good time, and made the basis on which he must submit all building plans to church-governmental examination, or as the case may be, correction.

Literary Notices.

Published by C. A. Schwetschke and Son in Brunswick:

Paulus Speratus: His Life and Hymns. A Contribution to the History of the Reformation and to Hymnology, by C. J. Cosack, pastor and professor of theology at Königsberg. Large octavo. 272 sheets. Price 1 thaler 24 groschen.

Just published by J. Ricker in Giessen:

Baur, G., History of Old Testament Prophecy. First Part. 2 thalers 10 neugroschen.

Published by Opitz in Güstrow:

On the History of the Litany. By Dr. Th. Kliefoth. Octavo. 48 pp. 8 groschen. (Reprinted from the New Mecklenburg Church Gazette.) Dr. Münkel calls this little work "a thorough, sound, and instructive piece of work."

Just published by L. Volkening in St. Louis, Mo.:

Eighty-two Brief Words of Comfort by Dr. J. Lassenius, taken from Lassenius's well-known book of comfort: The Afflicted and Richly Comforted Ephraim of God. Reprinted unaltered. Octavo. 414 pp. (This is an excellent book of comfort for those under spiritual trial of every kind.)

Published by Justus Naumann in Leipzig and Dresden:

A Little Communion Book for preparation for, and for the celebration and after-observance of, the holy Sacrament. Compiled from Benjamin Schmolck's prayer writings by A. H. Rühle, pastor at Lausa in Saxony. 1861. VIII and 158 pp. Price 8 groschen. — The more recent editions were for the most part a slovenly compilation, which was all the more to be regretted since the Lutheran people still ever prized and sought after their Schmolck. Here a reliable, well-produced, and inexpensive edition is offered.

Friedrich Bleek, Introduction to the Old Testament. Edited by J. F. Bleek and Ad. Kamphausen. With a preface by E. J. Nitzsch. Berlin, 1860. XX and 834 pp. large octavo.

Of this work Prof. Keil says, in a review of it in Kliefoth's journal, in conclusion: "Everything that Bleek has independently investigated in the Introduction to the Old Testament, and in particular in the discussions concerning the Mosaic origin of many of the Pentateuchal laws, for the