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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 31, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 31.

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LITERARY NOTICES.

“SELF-PRONOUNCING BIBLE DICTIONARY.” By James P. Boyd, A. M. A. J. Holman & Co., Philadelphia.
The above is a little gem. It is only 2¾ inches wide by 4½ long, and ⅜ of an inch thick, outside measurement. It can be carried in the vest pocket easily. It contains the proper names of the Bible, and many other words, syllabified and accented, sounds diacritically. May its mission be large.
“CHEERFUL TO-DAYS AND TRUSTFUL TO-MORROWS.” By Margaret E. Sangster. With portrait of the author and other cuts. Eaton and Mains, New York.
This is one of this well-known writer’s best books. The beauty of true Christianity glows in every chapter, of which there are thirty-two in the modest, neatly-printed little volume. We are sure that many a mother, worried with the cark and care of life, will find in it a helping hand to restfulness in Him. It will prove an inspiration in many a home-life. It has its theological errors, but they are few, and it has its abundance of Gospel sunshine.
“A REVOLUTION IN THE SCIENCE OF COSMOLOGY: THE KEYSTONE TO THE ARCH OF SCIENCE.” By George Campbell, Esq., Oswego, Kansas.
This unpretentious little work, of a little more than 150 pages, is a veritable charge of grape-shot and canister right in the face of the commonly-taught ideas concerning world formations. The author, a lawyer and judge, has studied and read widely upon the subject, and, as the “Introduction” tells us, the contents of the book include the latest data bearing upon the question, gathered, at great expense, from all parts of the world. The writer holds that the very latest and most emphatic developments show that the earth began in an aqueous condition, and will end in an igneous condition. It began, as the Bible declares, covered with water, and that the fusing with fire is in the future, when the elements shall “melt with fervent heat.” We believe that the book is worth reading by all scientists and teachers. There is one thing that Mr. Campbell has not taken into consideration, and no correct theory of the cosmogony of the universe can ignore it, and that is sin and its effect. It is also a pity that better work was not done by printer and proof-reader. The book can be obtained by addressing the author.
“FOR CHARLIE’S SAKE, AND OTHER LYRICS AND BALLADS.” By John Williamson Palmer. 12mo., cloth, deckle edges, gilt top. Price, $1.00, net. Postage, 7 cents. New York and London. Funk and Wagnalls Company.
This little book shows the author to be a true poet, the tone of the sixteen poems will live, except almost wholly in the hearts of the poet’s personal friends. The volume is beautifully printed.
“THE TRANSFIGURATION OF MISS PHILURA.” By Florence Morse Kingsley. 16mo., cloth; halftone frontispiece. Price, 60 cents, net. New York and London. Funk and Wagnalls Company.
This is a bright little story, hardly worth the neat printing, binding, and price, illustrating some of the phases of that sort of faith found in faith perversions.
“SPIRITUAL KNOWING, OR BIBLE SUNSHINE.” By Theodore T. Seward. Funk and Wagnalls Company, New York and London.
This book is a mixture of some precious truths of Christianity with the baleful errors of spiritual pantheism and Christian Science. It lacks the pure, unaberrated sunshine of God’s truth and love.