Text: Edgar Allan Poe (?), Literary, Broadway Journal (New York), June 7, 1845, vol. 1, no. 23, p. ???-???

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Vital Christianity. Essays and Discourses on the Religions of Man and the Religion of God. By Alexander Vinet, D.D., Professor of Theology in Lausaune, Switzerland. Translated, with an Introduction. By Robert Turnbull, Pastor of the Harvard. street church, Boston. Gould, Kendall & Lincoln. 1845.

Religious books are too often “got up” as though the goodness of their contents would overbalance any amount of vileness in their externals; but if the work before us possesses as much internal merit as it does exterior beauty, it is well worth the regard of the Christian reader. It is a sufficient indication of the character of Dr. Vinet, that he is called the Chalmers of Switzerland.