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PREFACE.

THIS volume has been called into existence by the earnest entreaties of the subscribers to the PRINCETON REVIEW, who needed some help to make available to them the valuable treasures in their possession.

Part I. is a RETROSPECT of the period in which the Review has been published, and of the share it has taken in the discussion of the various topics that have agitated the church and the world during the last fifty years. It is substantially a History of the Review, and is contributed by its venerable Editor.

Part II. is an INDEX TO AUTHORS. Like the other great Reviews of the period, the writers contributed to its pages anonymously, and for many years no one kept any account of their labours. Dr. Hope was the first who attempted to ascertain the names of the writers in the early volumes, and he was only partially successful. With the aid of his notes, and the assistance of Dr. John Hall of Trenton, Dr. John C. Backus of Baltimore, and Dr. Samuel D. Alexander of New York, the companions and friends of the Editor and his early coadjutors, the information on this head here collected is as complete as it is possible now to be given. A biographical notice is also given of the writers, as it was thought that many

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