BOOKS RECEIVED | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 5, 1878

BOOKS RECEIVED.

A prompt notice under this head of all books received, giving title, the name of the author and of the publisher, and the price, when known, will be considered by us an equivalent to the publishers for the same. A more extended notice may be given whenever we consider that the interests of our readers would be subserved thereby.

From the President of the State Agricultural College of Michigan, located at Lansing, we have received the “Twenty-second Annual Catalogue” of the institution, it being the Catalogue for 1878. Fourteen instructors and assistants constitute the faculty. Number of students during the past year, two hundred and thirty-nine.

We have received the “Fourth Annual Report” of “The New York Society for the Suppression of Vice.”

From this we are happy to learn more fully of the good work this society is doing in the suppression of obscene literature, and the bringing to justice of some of the filthy criminals engaged in its circulation. We are glad to learn that similar societies have been organized in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Anything which will tend to arouse the community to feel that moral murder is a more heinous crime than physical, is entitled to the support of all right-minded persons. In opposition to pimps, freelovers, and other promoters of filth and sensuality, we bid these societies godspeed in their holy work of trying to guard the precious youth of our land, and we shall delight to render them any assistance in our power. Any exposure of the nefarious work of these enemies of society who are scattering over the land their circulars, cards, books, and advertisements for immoral objects, will be thankfully received by the secretary of this Society for the Suppression of Vice, Anthony Comstock, 150 Nassau street, New York City.