# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Mai 1864_S148
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148 Literary Notices.

Melanchthon's is completed, the complete collection of Calvin's works is now,
as the title shows, to follow in the same form, and in it his hitherto
unprinted writings are also to find a place. Each individual work will be
prefaced by a bibliographical-literary introduction, which will treat in part
of its origin and historical significance, and in part will critically and
precisely record and describe the editions arranged for during the author's
lifetime. For all writings issued more than once, the possible variants will
be noted in the margin, without any useless or exaggerated scrupulousness.
The conclusion of the whole will be formed, besides the complete catalogue
of all editions and translations that have appeared since Calvin's death, by
detailed biographical annals (Annales Calviniani), grounded essentially on
the correspondence, as well as complete indices of names, places, and
subjects calculated for the needs of our time.

Notice for Pastors.

As long as the local scholarly seminary for preachers has existed, the
following work has been laid at the foundation of the dogmatic lectures:
Jo. Guilielmi Baieri Compendium Theologiæ Positivæ, adjectis notis
amplioribus, quibus doctrina orthodoxa ad παιδείαν academicam explicatur,
atque ex scriptura sacra, eique innixis rationibus theologicis confirmatur.
["John William Baier's Compendium of Positive Theology, with fuller notes,
by which orthodox doctrine is explained for academic instruction, and
confirmed from Holy Scripture and the theological reasoning resting on it."]
What advantages this dogmatic compendium has over all others we have
already set forth for the readers of this journal in an earlier volume, in
the article "Lutheran-Theological Pastor's Library" (see Jahrg. I, pp.
341–343). A secondary reason for its choice, which for us, however, was a
conditio sine qua non, was this: that among all textbooks of this kind, this
Compendium was most easily obtainable in the secondhand book trade. For it
has, namely, from the year 1686, when it first appeared, down to the year
1750, when it appears to have appeared for the last time, gone through at
least thirteen editions, and has also been, in part, commented upon and, in
part, epitomized by various — some of them distinguished — theologians
(e.g., by Joh. Fabricius 1696, Joh. Andr. Schmid 1699, Joh. Abr. Kromayer
1715, Christoph Wilhelm Schneier 1697, Sam. Nitschmann 1701, Joh. Sam.
Tromsdorf 1714, and others). In recent years, however, it has become
increasingly difficult to procure the copies our institution needs. Several
of our students here have already had to content themselves with making do
with a copy borrowed daily from one of their fellow students, which of
course was attended with much inconvenience for both borrower and lender.
This has brought us to the thought of whether it might not be possible to
reprint the book, even though it comprises over 800 octavo pages in very
small and compressed print. The matter was laid before the bookseller Mr.
Liesching of Stuttgart, most favorably known, and he has undertaken to