DR. MOLLOY is a worthy disciple of the same school, and we are glad to find in him the same candor and liberality which it is certainly to be hoped he will receive at the hands of those who may differ from him. His geological arguments and illustrations are very naturally drawn, chiefly from British authorities. It is evident that the condition of opinion upon these matters among religious teachers and readers in Great Britain is less advanced than it is in this country or in continental Europe. Our author has obviously but little familiarity with the American literature of this subject. The similarity in some parts of his book both in thought and style with the writings on this subject of the late PROFESSOR SILLIMAN, of Yale College, is quite noticeable. He has obviously not seen the writings of DR. HITCHCOCK, of GUYOT, of DANA, and of other American writers. We have therefore by the kind permission of the author reproduced in this edition the chapter on COSMOGONY from PROFESSOR DANA’S _Manual of Geology_.[4] The views set forth, in a very condensed form, in this chapter, embrace also the ideas of PROFESSOR ARNOLD GUYOT, of Princeton, as presented by him in his unpublished lecture upon the same subject. American readers will remember also that PROFESSOR DANA has discussed this subject much more at length in a series of papers published in the _Bibliotheca Sacra_,[5] in a review of DR. TAYLER LEWIS’S _Six Days of Creation_.[6] It is greatly to be desired that PROFESSOR DANA should soon make a revised edition of his various writings upon this subject, a work which would be received with interest on both sides of the Atlantic. We do not propose here to present the bibliography of this subject with any completeness, but we desire to mention, to those who have not seen it, a little volume of excellent spirit by DR. JOS. P. THOMPSON, of New York, entitled _Man in Genesis and Geology_,[7] which discusses chiefly the relations of man to creation, in seven lectures, the first of which is an “Outline of Creation in Genesis.” Even as we write another small volume on this subject comes to hand under the title of _Chemical History of the Six Days of Creation_,[8] by MR. JOHN PHIN, which also contains the substance of a series of lectures delivered by the author, who handles his theme in a spirit equally reverential and scientific, and well calculated to do good. Those who desire to know the best exposition of this subject at the hands of a modern theologian will read the first part of DR. LANGE’S _Genesis, or the First Book of Moses_,[9] in DR. TAYLER LEWIS’S translation, pp. 159-177. The candid and scholarly spirit of the learned authors of this work indicates a marked change in discussions of this nature when compared with similar literature of the last generation.