illustrations; and a Poem was delivered by William W. Story Esq. of Boston, on Nature and Art, in which successful literary execution was combined with pure moral sentiment. The Address before the Alumni and the Oration and Poem delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa have been published, and will be noticed in a future number of our journal. The present state of the University, in all its branches, is highly satisfactory. The Freshman class, just entered, consists of 56, and 12 have been admitted to "advanced standing." The number in the Divinity School is larger than it has ever before been at any one time, 13 having entered the Junior class, and 2 having joined the Senior class. The whole number at present in the school is 38; in the Senior class 13, in the Middle class 12, in the Junior class 13. Considerable means of assisting students who require aid are connected with the school; the fear of incurring great expense in his preparation for the ministry need not, therefore, prevent any one from resorting to Cambridge. The increase of students connected with the Law School has made it necessary to enlarge Dane Hall, the building appropriated to the use of this department of the University, by an extension of its length with the addition of wings, the work upon which has been commenced. The work upon the Observatory has been steadily prosecuted through the last season. The whole number of students attached to the University, including Undergraduates, members of the Divinity, Law, and Medical Schools, and Resident Graduates, is 611, a larger number than has ever before been embraced upon its catalogue. English Plagiarism. The plagiarism of the English press upon American publications has become too notorious to require that we should adduce evidence of its frequency, but it is somewhat remarkable how many of these thefts have been committed upon the domain of Unitarian literature. Not content with appropriating extracts without acknowledginent of the source whence they were drawn, whole volumes have been re-printed in England under the guise of original works. A few years ago Mr. Fox's "History of the Reformation," and Dr. Parkman's "Offering of Sympathy," were offered for sale by "Evangelical" booksellers in London, without the slightest intimation that they were the productions of heretical pens. More recently the re-publication of Mr. Muzzey's "Young Maiden," as a new work from an English author, has been made the subject of merited exposure. Another example of the dishonesty of English editors has just been given, in the use which the London Monthly Review for last July has made of articles which originally appeared in the Christian Examiner — the journal for which we are now writing. In the thirteenth volume of the third series (numbers for Nov. 1841 and Jan. 1842,) may be found two articles on the Burial of the Dead, contributed by Rev. Dr. Brazer of Salem, which have been unscrupulously removed into the English journal, without an intimation of their transatlantic origin, and only with such defacement as occasionally impairs their beauty. We feel no objection to the importation of American thought into Great Britain, but every principle of literary and commercial justice requires that it should be quoted as of foreign production. MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. Monumental Inscriptions — Mount Auburn. — A monument has recently been placed in the Cemetery at Mount Auburn, to the memory of the Rev. Dr. Channing. It was designed by the late Mr. Allston, whose directions have been strictly observed, and was erected in compliance with a resolution of the religious society of which he whose remains it covers was the faithful and beloved minister. It is a quadrangular monument, of white Italian marble, with a large square base of several stages, portions of which are deeply undercut, to produce the effect of light and shadow, surmounted by an equilateral die having panels on its four sides, above which is a Roman sepulchral cornice or slab, supporting on its centre a low open vase. On the front is this inscription. The monument stands on Greenbrier Path, and may be approached by turning to the right soon after entering the grounds. Our mention of this monument reminds us of other similar structures at Mount Auburn, of which we desire that our pages should contain some notice. We refer particularly to those erected to the memory of Mr. Buckminster, President Kirkland, and Dr. Worcester. Obvious reasons lead us to select these three names. They stand in connexion with the name of Channing, in any enumeration of the men to whom this community is most indebted for the diffusion of correct religious opinion, high moral sentiment and pure literary taste. The monument to Mr. Buckminster was erected by the congregation of which he was the minister during the short, but memorable period of his professional life. It is an upright square structure, of white marble, having a narrow base and cornice, and a die of considerable elevation with a Gothic panel recessed in each side; with these in scriptions. On the front of the monument: BUCKMINSTER. On the second compartment: was born May 26, 1784, was ordained pastor On the third compartment: with those of his eldest sister were deposited beneath this stone by the care of the church had ministered, On the fourth compartment: LUCY MARIA, Rev. J. S. Buckminster, and wife of Professor John Farrar, was born October 11, 1787, and died September 20, 1824. This monument may be found by the visitor to Mount Auburn, on Hyacinth Path, at the distance of an eighth of a mile from the gate. The monument to the memory of Dr. Kirkland, on the summit of Harvard Hill, is a cenotaph, erected by graduates of the University over which he presided. It is, in form, a large upright sarcophagus, of Italian marble, with Gothic panels and decorations, and is surmounted by a book and double scroll. It bears these inscriptions. JOANNI THORNTON KIRKLAND, ingenii acumine, sermonis venustate, Academiæ Harvardianæ, Alumni grate memores hoc monumentum ponendum curaverunt. On the reverse: JOANNES THORNTON KIRKLAND, S. T. D. Decessit die Aprilis XXVI. A. D. MDCCCXL. Ætatis suæ LXIX. The memorial raised by grateful friends over the remains of Dr. Worcester stands at the meeting of Walnut and Laurel Avenues, is constructed of white marble, is very simple in its form, and surmounted by a cross. The inscription on the front : To NOAH WORCESter, D. D. Erected by his Friends, In commemoration of his Zeal and Labors Meekness, Benignity, and Consistency Christian Philanthropist and Divine : On the reverse: NOAH WORCESTER, Born at Hollis, N. H., Nov. 25, 1758: "Blessed are the Peacemakers, The Children of God." The increase at Mount Auburn of memorials, which add interest and beauty to a spot that nature seems to have designed for the use to which it is now consecrated, cannot have escaped the notice of any one by whom it has been recently visited. Every year is multiplying upon its surface the evidences of tender sentiment and refined taste. By means of a subscription, in addition to receipts from the sale of lots, the Trustees have been enabled to prosecute the plans originally contemplated for redeeming and adorning the grounds. The wooden gateway has given place to one of granite, and along the whole front of the Cemetery a very neat iron fence has taken the place of the former wooden palisade. A similar fence, or one of durable masonry, will be carried around the three other sides. Workmen are now engaged in deepening the ponds and draining the marshy parts of the ground, which will be made in future to increase instead of marring the beauty of the place. It is intended in the course of the next year to erect a Chapel, for the performance of the funeral service, if desired, at the place of interment, and for the reception of such sculpture as might suffer from exposure to the open air. It will present a fine example of the Continental Gothic, and from its dimensions and the material of which it will be built will be suited to meet the wants of many generations after the present. We may add that before another spring Mount Auburn will contain a bronze statue of full size, placed there in honor of Dr. Bowditch, whom it represents in a sitting posture, as in his familiar habits of study. The model has been executed by Ball Hughes, and is one of the most successful results of modern art. LETTER FROM S. H. DICKSON, M. D. In our introductory remarks to the Letter of Dr. W. B. Carpenter, in our July number, we expressed our disinclination to publish replies to articles that might appear in our Journal, and we repeat that we do not wish to make our pages the vehicle of direct controversy. But as the Letter which we give below comes from a source entitled to respect, the writer being a member of the medical profession of high standing in the section of the country to which he belongs, and as it proposes to treat the subject to which it relates historically and scientifically, under which aspect it was presented by Dr. Carpenter, we feel that we cannot in justice either to the author or to our readers, nor in consistency with the principle on which this journal is conducted, of allowing the free expression of opinion, refuse it admission. We wish it, however, to be taken not as representing either the opinions or feelings of the Editors of the Examiner, but those of an intelligent correspondent at the South, with whose views our readers may be glad to have an opportunity of becoming acquainted. — [Eds. Christ. Exam. and Rel. Misc.] To the Editors of the Christian Examiner: GENTLEMEN: May I ask your insertion of a brief reply to the Letter of Dr. W. B. Carpenter of Bristol, England, published in the July number of the Christian Examiner. The name of this distinguished physiologist carries with it such weight, that those of us who think him in error, and who have hitherto been silent on the subject of which he treats, cannot help feeling that the incorrect statements to which he has given his endorsement must not be left uncontradicted or his argument left unanswered. I am glad to notice that Dr. C. avoids the discussion of the general subject of Slavery, "fully admitting that the question is a most difficult one, and that on his side of the water the number and extent of the difficulties which environ it are very imperfectly known." He comments upon an able article in a late number of the Examiner, and objects to "a point comprised in one sentence of that paper, as follows: the colored population is said to be scattered among us, and yet separated from us by impassable barriers, physical if not mental; refused intermarriage; refused intercourse as equals, etc.'" Dr. C. endeavors to demonstrate, that this statement is neither “scientifically nor historically true." "How is he (the Negro) ever to rise?" exclaims the writer above quoted, well aware of the actual "difficulties which environ the topic." These difficulties Dr. C. failing to appreciate, believes himself to have removed; and speaks lightly of the impediments natural and artificial, original and conventional, which oppose themselves to the elevation of the black race. In reply, I propose to maintain the doctrine laid down by your former correspondent, and to show that "these barriers are impassable;" that the colored population must be “refused intercourse with us as equals;" and that they can neither "rise," as a race, by such intercourse, nor should the attempt to raise them in this way, especially if it imply intermarriage, ever be made by the race already elevated above them. I propose to show that it is historically true that "an impassable barrier" has always existed between the races, and that it is "scientifically true" that it exists now. |