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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 21, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 16.

BOOK NOTICES

“The ‘How’ Book.” By Marshall A. Hudson, founder and president of the World’s Baraca Bible Class Union; secretary of the Adult Bible Class Committee International Sunday School Association. 144 pages, with introduction by Charles G. Trumbull. Price 50 cents. The Sunday School Times Company, Philadelphia.

The full title of this book is “How to Reach Men, How to Hold Men, How to Teach Men, How to Win Men, How It Has Been Done.” It is a very practical assistant in soul-winning, written by a man who is devoting his life to this work, a man whose ambition is to see a million souls saved through his efforts. Each division of the book is filled with helpful, practical instruction and examples. Sabbath-school teachers and workers for souls in any capacity will find much that is helpful and inspiring in it.

“The Covenant of Salt.” Based on the Significance and Symbolism of Salt in Primitive Thought, by H. Clay Trumbull. Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York.

The late Mr. Trumbull, for years the editor of The Sunday School Times, has presented some very striking, suggestive lessons in connection with the covenant of salt under the headings, The Characteristic of a Covenant, The Covenant of Salt, Bible References to the Rite, Meaning of Bread and Salt, Salt Representing Blood and Life, Salt and Sun-Life and Light, The Significance of Bread and Salt in Sacrifices, in Exorcism and Divination, Added Traces of the Rite, Savor of Life or of Death, etc. It has also a chapter on the Ten Commandments as a Covenant of Love with topical and Scriptural indexes.

“The Study of Stellar Evolution.” An account of some recent methods of astral physical research, by George Ellery Hale, formerly of the Department of Astronomy and Astral Physics, now Director of the Mount Wilson Solar Observatory. Price is $4.00, net. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

This is Volume 10 of the Decennial publication; second series of the university. It was planned as a handbook to the Yerkes Observatory, but many inquiries, and the removal of the author to Southern California, Mount Wilson, led to the plan of still further investigating, and the development of the present volume. The author has been assisted by other noted astronomical observers. It is a book which it seems to us every teacher of astronomy and many students would desire. The sun is considered as a typical star; large and small telescopes are compared; astronomical photography; the development of the reflecting telescope; elementary principles of spectral analysis; the phenomena of the sun’s surface. In addition to the vast amount of information that is given regarding the new processes used in the new astronomy, there is a magnificent collection of plates in the latter part of the volume, of stellar photographs—104 in number. These are almost as good as photographs themselves, printed on the finest kind of paper so as to show the photographs to the best advantage.