t great
man and his doctrines, which they seem to have thought could be put down
by petty libels.

Calvin is now being born into a new life, as it were; the critics and
printers of each particular language are as busy with him as the English
have been with Shakspeare. His amazing wit, and genius, and learning,
are found as attractive and powerful now as they were three hundred
years ago. And this life of him by Henry, embodying whatever of
contemporary records is most needful for the illustration of his
writings, will be likely to have a large sale with every class of
historical students, as they discover that the popular and partisan
notions of him are untrue. Certainly no one should attempt to form an
opinion of Calvin without thoroughly acquainting himself with Henry.

* * * * *

In Paris, M. MILLER, librarian to the Assembly, has made an important
discovery among some old Greek MSS. of a lost work by Origen. The
_Journal des Debats_ describes the original work as being in ten books;
the first of which is already known to the world under the title of
_Philosophumena_. The last seven books have just been printed at the
university press in Oxford, under the editorial direction of M. Miller,
who went to England for that purpose. They make an octavo volume of
about three hundred and fifty pages. The _Debats_ says the work is "a
refutation of heresies, in which the author endeavors to prove that the
heresiarchs have all taken their doctrines from the ancient
philosophers:"--a very curious task for Origen to perform, since he was
himself chiefly remarkable for the mixture of Zeno, Plato, and
Aristotle, which he compounded with his Christianity. But apart from its
controversial interest, the recovered manuscript will throw new light on
the opinions and practices of the Neo-Platonists, and on the manners and
customs of ancient times. Discoveries like this point out the necessity
for a larger and more combined action of learned societies in the search
for ancient manuscripts. Origen's _Stromata_ might even yet be
completed: and it is not to be supposed that all the existing fragments
of his _Hexapla_ were collected by Montfaucon.

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From Constantinople we learn that very important discoveries of ancient
Greek MSS. have been made, in a cave, near the foot of Mount Athos,
bringing to light a vast quantity of celebrated works quoted by various
ancient w