Writings Against the Manichaeans and Against the Donatists (NPNF I/IV)

The Edinburgh translation, especially of the first two treatises, is sufficiently faithful and idiomatic, and needed very little alteration by the American editor, who compared it sentence by sentence with the Latin original, and made changes only where they seemed necessary. This part of the volume is also enriched by an introductory essay of Dr. Newman, which embodies the literature and the results of the most recent as well as the earlier researches concerning that anti-Christian heresy. II.— The Writings against the Donatists. These were well translated by the Rev. J. R. King, of Oxford, and are slightly revised by Dr. Hartranft, of Hartford, after a careful comparison with the Latin. The literary introduction of Dr. Hartranft, in connection with the translator's historical preface, will place the reader in the situation of the controversy between the Catholic Church and the Donatists at the time of St. Augustin. In both sections the treatises are arranged in chronological order. The fifth volume will contain the writings of St. Augustin against the Pelagians and Semi-Pelagians. It is in the hands of the printer and will be published in October. PHILIP SCHAFF. New York, June, 1887. COMENTS. xi\.il>r^L^xi'.* ■ • • • • • • • • • • • I. THE ANTI-MANICH^AN WRITINGS. Translated by the Rev. Richard Stothert, M.A., Bombay, and Prof, Albert H. Newman, D.D., LL.D., Toronto. Introductory Essay on the ManichjEan Heresy By Dr. Newman. II. Modern Vvorks. Isaac de Beausobre (b. 1659 in France, pastor of the French church in Berlin, d. 1738): Histoire Crit. de Maniche'e et du Maniclie'isrtie, Amst. 1634 and '39, 2 vols. 4to. Part of the first volume is historical, the second doctrinal. Very full and scholarly. He intended to write a third volume on the later Manichseans. F. Chr. Baur: Das JSIanichdische Relio-ionso system nach den Quellen neu untersucht und entwickelt, Tiib. 1831 (500 pages).…