LITERARY NOTICES | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 14, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 20.

LITERARY NOTICES.

“THE COLOR OF HIS SOUL.” By Zoe Anderson Norris, 3¾ x 7½ inches, 220 pp., deckle-edge paper, bound in white Japan vellum. Cover designs and title page by J. K. Bryans. Price, $1.00, net. Postage, 6 cents. Funk & Wagnalls Company, New York and London.

It is a series of brilliant sketches or pictures of Bohemian life in New York. The principal character is an enthusiastic disciple of Professor Herron, the color of whose soul is in doubt till the last, when he is revealed as a heartless, ruthless destroyer of woman. It is a strong presentation of an evil type of humanity that needs exposing.

“THE SANDALS.” By Z. Grenell. Small, 12mo, cloth, 59 pp., price 45 cents. Funk & Wagnalls Company, New York and London.

This is a tastily printed and nicely bound bit of Oriental fiction, purporting to give the story of our Lord’s sandals from the time they were taken from His feet at the cross until they came into the possession of His mother. The book belongs to a class of fiction which is very plentiful to-day, but whose absence would not retard in any degree real Christian progress. The history of the Lord’s sandals is not known by any one, and the only purpose this story can serve is to entertain those who can be entertained by reading what they know to be simply the fruit of man’s imagination, visionary and untrue. It is important that we know the Lord. Even the true history of the garments that He wore is not essential to us; how much less an imaginary story such as this. The religious novel is a stepping-stone toward the deadly novel of the world, and the literary pathway of our youth to-day is largely made up of just such stepping-stones.

“THE COW PEA” is a pamphlet published by the Supervising Committee of the North Carolina State Horticultural Society, Southern Pines, N. C. It contains 64 pages, with striking illustrations showing the various varieties and its possibilities, together with a description of its value as a stock food and fertilizer. The stalks and leaves are said to make fine hay, the best of temporary pasture, and most excellent green manure; its seeds, green or ripe, are as nutritious as beans, and are relished as food for man or beast. Farmers who have worn-out land in pasture or field would do well to look into the possibilities of the cow pea, and to obtain the excellent instruction found in this neatly prepared pamphlet. Address Experiment Farm, Southern Pines, N. C.

Two pamphlets have reached us from Mr. F. J. V. Skiff, Director of Exhibits of the World’s Fair, St. Louis, 1903, namely, “Rules and Regulations,” and “Official Classification of Exhibit Departments.” Fifty-three pages are required simply to enumerate in general the groups and classes of exhibits. There are 144 groups and 807 classes, each class making possible a multitude of exhibits. The grounds will cover 1000 acres; and the floor space in the buildings will equal 200 acres. These pamphlets will be mailed free by addressing as above.