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tyred in 258, "Difference of opinion shall be without prejudice to Christian union," is a prominent lesson of the history of the second and third centuries covered by this volume. These two centuries are specially important, the fact being that in them the simplicity of primitive Christianity underwent modifica tions which continue to this day. The study of such a period, therefore, has a claim on the more intelligent members of the Church, which has been too often neglected in the interest of secular history. The present volume has been written for such readers, and we share the writer's conviction that "Chr stian history is quite as necessary to education as English history." (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York.)

Charlotte Yonge has fulfilled a labor of love, grateful to all who revere the name of the sweet singer of the "Christian Year," in her volume entitled John Keble's Parishes. In her record of "the thousand peaceful years' that have passed over Hursley and Otterbourne (in the South of England) the authoress, as "an old inhabitant," has included no little antiquarian lore, together with a lovingly careful account of whatever has been consecrated by association with Keble. (The Macmillan Company, New York.)

Our Unitarian Gospel, by M. J. Savage, contains sermons given in the Church of the Messiah during the first year of Dr. Savage's pastorate in New York. They are characterized by the qualities which have made him an attractive and influential preacher. The constructive purpose which underlies the incisive criticisms of orthodox formularies appears in the claim that "we liberals of the modern world are the ones who come nearer to preaching the gospel of Christ than any other part of the so-called Christian Church." (George E. Ellis, Boston.)

The volumes of the Rev. M. A. Sadler's Commentary which we have already noticed are followed by one on Galatians, Ephesians, and Philippians. The interest in which the author writes appears in his comment on the address of the letter to Philippi to "the bishops and deacons." We learn that these "bishops" were the "presbyters who superintended particular congregations," but that" the Episcopate, in our sense of the word, resided in the Apostle." This twist of the Greek word for "bishops " (episcopoi) into "presbyters" ignores the fact that the primitive "historic Episcopate" was parochial, not diocesan, the Apostle's relation to which was

that of the modern missionary (in Greek, apostle) to the churches gathered in his preaching tours. (The Macmillan Company, New York.)

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Pansy "(Mrs. Isabella M. Alden), so well known to youthful readers, has revised, and in part rewritten, for them her Life of Christ entitled The Prince of Peace, and sends it forth with special introductions by Bishop Vincent and Dr. Francis E. Clark, and illustrations by Hoffmann. In her conviction that her theme has even more to do with the present than the past, Mrs. Alden endeavors "to put the dress of to-day on the facts of the long ago," and writes with a simplicity that is pervaded with tender and devout feeling. (Lothrop Publishing Company, Boston.)

Points in Church History for Schools and Colleges, for which Dr. Thomas Richey has written a prefatory note, is a series of outlines prepared for St. Gabriel's School, Peekskill, N. Y, by the Sister in charge. (James Pott & Co., New York.)

The Kingdom of Heaven, Here and Hereafter, by Canon Winterbotham, of Edinburgh, is occupied with Christ's parables of the Kingdor, and treats them with marked originality and freshness. In his hands our reading into them of theological doctrines they were not intended to teach receives vigorous correction. Christ's object, he insists, was to exhibit the characters and requirements of his Kingdom here and now, even when the form of his discourse is most eschatological and apocalyptic. "As he ignored death, so he ignored what comes after death." What he said about the things to come after, he said only "in such a way as to throw light on the things that are." Occasionally the writer seems to carry this idea to an extreme, as in his treatment of Christ's promise of his Return, the spiritual nature of which, as manifested in the world, he does not recognize. But even where he rouses disagreement he is stimulating to thought, and the whole tenor of his work is morally invigorating-inculcating, as it does, the fundamental truth that the future is in the womb of the present, and eternity involved in to-day. (The Macmillan Company, New York.)

SCIENCE

The story of the evolution of the land and its surface features, of which an installment was given in Professor Russell's "Rivers of North America," recently noticed, is

continued in Earth Sculpture; or, The Origin of Land Forms, by Professor Geikie, of Edinburgh. Greatly as the earth's surface has been wrinkled by the contraction of the cooling globe, its present aspect is due to the eroding of these rocky wrinkles by sun and frost, water, wind, and ice, by whose activity the earliest upheaved mountains have been either demolished or remodeled. The tracing of these processes back toward the beginning is a recent branch of geological inquiry, opening up a wonderful history. Professor Geikie modestly regards his work as an introductory treatise, preliminary to such unsolved problems as the origin of our continental areas and oceanic basins. It is written for non-specialists, and is illus trated. (G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York.)

BIOGRAPHY

Samuel E. Sewall, by Nina Moore Tiffany, is a well-written memoir of one of the noblest of Boston gentlemen, who, in advance of his time, and especially in advance of the social class to which he belonged, gave his support to the despised Abolitionists. A personality so attractive would have made the work interesting in almost any hands, and the present biographer has brought to her task, or rather her labor of love, a keen discernment of the events which would interest the world at large as distinguished from those of merely local or family concern. (Houghton, Mifflin & Co, Boston.)

A book about as wide and long as this column is wide, entitled A Pocket History of the Ladies of the White House by Olga Stanley (The Woolfall Company, New York), contains very short biographical sketches of all the women who have presided at the White House, with the portrait of each, with the exception of the wife of President Taylor. There is also a condensed history of the White House, with tiny illustrations.

The author of Within the Purdah, S. Armstrong-Hopkins, was the physic an in charge of the Woman's Hospital Dispensary and Training-School for Nurses of Hyderabad, Sindh, and her experience entitles her story of the life of the people to the fullest confidence. She states in her preface that she has recorded in minu'est detail the life of individual men and women treated in her practice. She has chosen to do this to prove to Christians the necessity of supporting missionary interests abroad, not only in the cause of religion but of humanity. The book

is written entirely from the missionary point of view, and is graphic and personal. (Eaton & Mains, New York.)

BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

Editha's Burglar, by Frances Hodgson Burnett, illustrated by Henry Sandham, has been added to “The Young of Heart" series. (Dana Estes & Co., Boston.) This story of the queer, loving little girl and her daring and successful effort to protect her mother, and the equally queer burglar, is too well known in play and story to need co ment.

A charming story of a little American boy in China is Little Mr. Van Vere of China, by Harriet A. Cheever. (Estes & Lauriat, Boston.) This little fellow is more original than Little Lord Fauntleroy, but lacks a certain charm possessed by that little gentleman. The story is remarkable in that all who minister to the boy are men. Little Mr. Van Vere of China becomes a stowaway on a ship sailing to China, and there he finds and is found-but this is telling the story.

The Rev. A. J. Church has had a veteran's experience in dealing with a great deal of the richest story-material of the past. In his latest book, Heroes of Chivalry and Romance, he deals with three great streams of story: Beowulf, King Arthur and the Round Table, and the Treasure of the Nibelungs, translating the stories into connected and condensed narrative with special reference to the interest of younger readers. The book has a frontispiece in color by George Morrow. (The Macmillan Company, New York.)

The American Bapti t Publication Society has just published two smal books, with ornamental covers, for small children. In The Story of Johnikin, by Beth Day, the hero with the awkward name becomes a boy in a story, as he much desired. In Two Little Every-Day Folks, by Cail Foster, the story of two tiny folks, a brother and sister, is told. Both books are illustrated by Elizabeth M. Hallowell.

An Island Heroine, by Mary B. Sleight(The Lothrop Publishing Company, Boston), is a history of the people who lived in the "East End" of Long Island during the time of its occupation by the British. The story is graphic, and presents a charming girl heroine. The same house publishes a romance of the days of Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, told by William H. Babcock, entitled Cian of the Chariots. The author has carefully studied the history of the time of which

he writes. His previous romantic history, "The Two Lost Centuries of Britain," made friends for this later work, which is carefully illustrated by George Foster Barnes. The movement in this romance is quick, and the unfolding of the history is a part of the story, for it reveals the temper and purpose of the times and the people.

The Lothrop Publishing Company also publish Marjory and Her Neighbors, a charming story of three little girls and a boy. One must forgive the precocious girl of ten who devises a doll's dress that secures a patent that sells for ten thousand dollars, because of the beautiful results which follow.

A delightful story of The Widow O'Cal laghan's Boys has been written by Gulielma Zollinger. (A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago.) These seven sons, from Patsy down, or from Larry up, are all characters, witty, brave, and loyal. The history of the way they grew up and established themselves in business under their wise mother's guidance is a lesson for mothers and boys.

A Little New England Maid, by Kate Tannatt Woods, is a story of a New England family of the best type, and the " Little Maid" is charming in her naturalness, vivacity, and spirit of helpfulness, entirely free from selfconsciousness. (The Lothrop Company, Bos

ton.)

MISCELLANEOUS

Mr. Jacob A. Riis is to be congratulated on the cover design of his new book, Out of Mulberry Street. The color is the gray of a city street in a dull November twilight, with the outlines true to the life of tenementhouse streets. Above the dying light of the present day there is the promise of a glorious to-morrow; and this typifies the spirit of the stories which make the book. Every story in the book is inspiring because it recognizes that love is the greatest gift in life, and the universal gift, found wherever a human heart throbs. Mr. Riis has the constructive temper, and hope, not hopelessness, is the result of reading these photographic pictures of life in lower New York. (The Century Company, New York.)

Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution, by Charlotte Perkins Stetson, is a book for the thoughtful, written with clear-minded wit and courage. The object of the author, who, by the way, is a great-granddaughter of Lyman Beecher, is to point out, explain, and justify

the changes now going on in the relations of women to society. Her contention is that the long-continued economic dependence of women has tended toward their becoming more feminine and less normal human beings. We have now "reached a stage where individual and racial progress is best secured by the higher specialization of individuals, and by a far wider sense of love and duty." In a state of economic independence the woman's specialization in industry develops more personality and less of sexuality, with general benefit to society. The great difficulty in the way of this social benefit seems to Mrs. Stetson to be the cumbrous machinery of housekeeping, with the servitude it imposes on woman. Whether the co-operative kitchen and nursery are to become facts, time will show. Meanwhile Mrs. Stetson's criticisms upon the things that are can be accepted with less hesitation than her visions of things that are to be, although with a feeling that there is more light in the existing conditions than she has thrown upon her canvas. Our own conviction is that the desideratum is not new social arrangements, which, after all, must come through growth rather than manufacture, so much as a higher morality infused into the old. (Small, Maynard & Co., Boston.)

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The Religious World

Dr. Thomas C. Hall and Union Seminary Union Seminary has very greatly added to its strength by choosing for Professor in the chair of Christian Ethics the Rev. Thomas C. Hall, D.D. The appointment seems to us well-nigh ideal. For the last few weeks much has been said about Dr. Hal's succeeding his father in the pastorate of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. Of that possibility we spoke in a recent paragraph

in these columns. Those who have been familiar with the circumstances have all along believed that such a choice was almost too good to be expected. The election of Dr. Hall to Union Seminary keeps a strong man in New York, puts in the chair of Ethics a man singular y equipped for the position, and gives to Union Seminary the prestige of one who has rare ability both as a scholar and as a preacher. Dr. Hall graduated at Princeton in 1879. Afterward he studied at Union Seminary, and still later at the Universities of Göttingen and Berlin. He is about forty years of age, and in personal appearance strikingly resembles his distinguished father.

Dr. Coe's Change of Work

The Rev. E. B. Coe, D.D., of the Collegiate Church at Fifth Avenue and Forty-eighth

Street, New York, has been relieved of the pastorate of that church, in order that he may give more time to his duties as Senior Minister of the Collegiate Reformed Parish. In the future he will have the general supervision of the nine churches and chapels connected with the Collegiate Church corporation. Dr. Coe has been connected with the Forty-eighth Street Church since 1879. He is the President of the General Synod of the Reformed Churches of America. He is also a trustee of Columbia University and of several hospitals and asylums. The Collegiate Reformed Church is the oldest in the city. It was organized in 1628, and chartered in 1696. It maintains four churches and five chapels, which are under the pastoral care of ten clergymen and are governed by the Consistory. Dr. Coe, as is well known, is a son-inlaw of the Rev. Richard S. Storrs, D.D., of Brooklyn. This change leaves two of the wealthiest churches in New York, with perhaps the very finest buildings in the city,

without pastors-the other being, of cours the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church.

Robert College, Constantinople

The thirty-fifth year of Robert College, Constantinople, has closed with bright pros pects. The President reports a full quota of two hund ed and fifty students, divided according to race as follows: Greeks, 88; Armenians, 87; Bulgarians, 49; Turks, 10; all others, 16. The College was obliged to refuse a number of applicants in the spring because of lack of room. The financial statement is brief and encouraging; the total expenses of the College, $37,223.55, being more than covered by the receipts and regular income. The needs of the College, as set forth by the report, are two new buildings, one for the younger boys in the preparatory department, and a new study hall to take the place of the temporary building that has been in use for ten years; another need is for additional endowment for French and mathematics, for physical and chemical laboratory apparatus, and for the library. The College, in aiding its poorer students, follows the principle of Mr. Robert in requiring a student to pay a part of his own expenses, and demanding high scholarship and good character as a condition for any aid whatever. The College is now exceedingly prosperous, and as its Christian influence radiates out to the distant parts of the surrounding countries, the wisdom of its founders, Mr. Robert and Dr. Cyrus Hamlin, is amply justified.

The Life of Dr. Dale

The event of the month in Nonconformist circles in England is the publication of the life of the late Dr. Dale, of Birmingham. It is the work of his son, Mr. A. W. W. Dale, Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. We do not refer to the book in this department for the sake of review, but only as an event of importance in the religious world. Both the "Christian World" and the "British Weekly" give large space to its contents. In the latter paper the department known as "Table Talk" is chiefly occupied with extracts, while the book itself is reviewed by Professor Denny. No leader among Nonconformists during recent years has had so

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