# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Mai 1864_S149
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Literary Notices. 149

produce an altered, correct reprint of the work for the price of 2 guilders
for an unbound copy and 2 guilders 27 kreuzer for a bound one, provided he
could count on America taking off circa 200 copies of it. Driven by
necessity, we then agreed to this offer, without having first secured
assurance here of the sale of the stated number of copies. Since our synod
comprises about 200 pastors, a number of the students are still without the
book, our gymnasium students will in any case have to acquire it later, and
we hope that a number of scientifically educated pastors of other synods
will also make use of the opportunity to add a good dogmatic compendium to
their library, we hope that we shall not be put to shame by the promise we
have made to stand good here for the sale of at least 200 copies. Since the
work is to be finished in Germany in the month of June, and 200 bound copies
are to be sent from there to here at that time, we take the liberty of
making this request: all pastors who intend to subscribe to the work should
kindly announce this by letter, as soon as possible, to the address: Mr. T.
A. Torgerson, Concordia College, St. Louis, Mo. As soon as the shipment has
arrived, the price, as it will then work out with the addition of the
transport and import-duty costs, will be made known, and the requested copy
will be sent to the customer at once upon remittance of the amount. Even
those of the pastors who, being supplied with other similar works, feel the
need of Baier's handbook less, should consider that by taking a copy they
help at the same time to ensure that this institution obtains a textbook for
one of the most important theological disciplines, one that can be replaced
by no other.

Finally, we communicate a portion of the review which the Compendium
received upon its first appearance in the year 1686 in the famous Leipzig
learned journal Acta Eruditorum of that year. It reads, among other things,
as follows: "The praise of Antonius, which the same Crassus himself, teacher
of the higher eloquence, bestows upon him in Cicero (Lib. I, de Orat., at
the end), is this: '''That he had enclosed the whole office of an orator
within certain narrow bounds.''' But the more extensive theology is in
comparison with profane oratory, the greater is the praise which the
reverend author deserves, who has confined the whole compass of it within
certain narrow bounds. Cicero, for the sake of this artifice, praises
himself under the cloak of a fictitious dialogue between Antonius and
Crassus — with how much greater right may we, without any such play of
concealment, praise our author? For he has, with as great diligence as
success — indeed with the greatest of both — begun and completed this his
book. It is ten years since he gave it, under public authority, in public
lectures and in a brief outline on a few sheets; later, with a view to the