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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 1, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 18.

Book Notices.

A Hundred Years of Missions, or The Story of Progress Since Carey's Beginning. By Rev. Delaran L. Leonard, Associate Editor of the Missionary Review of the World, 430 pages. Funk & Wagnalls Co., New York, London, Toronto.

This book is indeed what many have long needed, what many others interested in missions have wanted, a résumé of the last century in mission work. It embraces in its scope what can be found only by searching many volumes. Its twenty-one chapters take up the great mission movements which have left marks of note in Europe, America, India, Africa, Turkey, Persia, China, Korea, Japan, Spanish America, among the American Indians, and in the islands of the sea. The author sketches missions in the early centuries, reviews the non-missionary centuries, and the great missionary revival of modern times. The book will prove a hand-book for those interested in missions.

Early Conversion. By Rev. E. Payson Hammond, paper covers, 224 pages, price 25 cents. J. S. Ogilvie Publishing Company, 57 Rose Street, New York.

The book is designed to show how children and young people may be led to Jesus Christ and prepared for church-membership. It abounds in practical illustrations. Mr. Hammond has for many years been a successful worker in these lines. The book will prove helpful to every worker for children and youth.

Nervous Breakdown. By Albert Abrams, A.M., M.D. Bound in cloth, 50 pages, Hicks-Judd Company, San Francisco.

In this little monograph there are many good things said when the author lets alone Darwinism, Hypnotism, etc., and confines himself to the causes, symptoms, and general treatment from the standpoint of effects and causes, and natural rational treatment. He impliedly defends a moderate use of the worst nerve-destroying drugs, alcohol and tobacco. These are evil and only evil.

“Six Months Abroad for Six Hundred Dollars.” By E. H. Kellar, Carrollton, Mo. This little pamphlet gives the account of a tour taken by a gentleman and his wife in Germany, Belgium, Egypt, Palestine, Turkey, Syria, Greece, Italy, Switzerland, France, England, and Scotland. It gives valuable data in detailed expenses. Sent post-paid to any address for 50 cents.

“The Life Boat,” volume 3, neatly bound in cloth and roan, has come to hand. This excellent publication thus bound forms a book that is good to place in the reading-rooms of jails and reformatory institutions, and one that every Christian worker can study with profit. Address The Life Boat, 1926 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill.

A Clipping-File can hardly be called a book, but if well used it may be made more useful than many volumes. There is one before us now made by the Clipping-File Company, 48 Fairview Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, which can be easily thus used, because its fine enclosure envelopes give definite and complete instruction how properly to file clippings, with many valuable suggestions which the instructed may develop as he will. The file is well bound in cloth, the shape of a square box or volume, 8½ inches wide by 10½ high by 2½ thick. Each volume encloses 10 envelopes or pockets of size to fit the box, with indexes for their contents. On the front of each case or volume is printed the word “Clippings,” but the purchaser may have any other title he will printed on it, such as business papers, or theology, with the number of the volume. One can thus make a valuable library of his own, easy of access, and as limited or complete as his circumstances will permit. Address the company above.

“Brooklyn Eagle Library,” No. 57, is entitled, “Christian Science Claims Un-scientific and Un-Christian. Eddyism; Its Healings and Fallacies Investigated,” by W. H. Muldoon (“Mul”). Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Eagle Building, Brooklyn, N. Y.