We have several books, it is true, on the subject, but none that supply the want I allude to.

A German ought to write it; for it is, probably, only a German that would have the requisite learning.

A German only, too, is likely to treat the mighty subject with boldness, and yet with veneration; without the shallow flippancy of the Frenchman, without the timid sectarianism of the English.

It would be a noble task, to trace the winding mazes of antique falsehood; to clear up the first glimmerings of divine truth; to separate Jehovah's word from man's invention; to vindicate the All-merciful from the dread creeds of bloodshed and of fear: and, watching in the great Heaven of Truth the dawning of the True Star, follow it--like the Magi of the East--till it rested above the real God.

Not indeed presuming to such a task," continued the German, with a slight blush, "I have about me a humble essay, which treats only of one part of that august subject; which, leaving to a loftier genius the history of the true religion, may be considered as the history of a false one,--of such a creed as Christianity supplanted in the North; or such as may perhaps be found among the fiercest of the savage tribes.