ralleled munificence has laid the foundation of the greatest cna institution in our country; and we shall dwell for a moment those features of the proposed institution which are already deve loped, and which seem to us to require comment, on account either of their good or evil tendency.

STEPHEN GIRARD, merchant and mariner, as he styles himself in his will, was born at Bordeaux, in France, on the 24th day of May, 1750. Little is known of his parents or early education, exVOL. I-11

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METHODIST QUARTERLY REVIEW.

APRIL, 1841.

EDITED BY GEORGE PECK, D. D.

ART. I.-1. Report on Education in Europe to the Trustees of the Girard College for Orphans. By ALEXANDER DALLAS BACHE, LL.D., President of the College. Philadelphia: 1839. 8vo. pp. 666.

2. Biography of Stephen Girard, with his Will affixed. By STEPHEN SIMPSON. Philadelphia: 1832. 12mo. pp. 316.

3. Proceedings on the laying of the Corner Stone of the Girard College for Orphans, with the Address pronounced on that Occasion. By NICHOLAS BIDDLE. Philadelphia: 1833. 8vo. pp. 28. 4. Communication from the Board of Trustees of the Girard College for Orphans, to the Select and Common Councils of Philadelphia. Presented July 16, 1840.

5. Report of the Special Committee, appointed by the Common Council, on a Communication from the Board of Trustees of the Girard College, THOMAS S. SMITH, Chairman. Read in Council, Aug. 27, 1840. Philadelphia: 1840. pp. 53.

OUR principal object in the present article will be to present our readers with a brief view of the contents of the valuable work which we have placed first at the head-Dr. Bache's Report on Education in Europe. Preliminary to this, however, we shall notice, as concisely as possible, the life of the remarkable man whose unparalleled munificence has laid the foundation of the greatest charitable institution in our country; and we shall dwell for a moment on those features of the proposed institution which are already developed, and which seem to us to require comment, on account either of their good or evil tendency.

STEPHEN GIRARD, merchant and mariner, as he styles himself in his will, was born at Bordeaux, in France, on the 24th day of May, 1750. Little is known of his parents or early education, exVOL. I.-11