LITERARY NOTICES by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 5, 1892

LITERARY NOTICES.

By Editor

WE have received from the General Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists, Battle Creek, Mich., a nicely printed octavo book (illustrated) of about 400 pages, entitled "Rise and Progress of Seventh-day Adventists, with Tokens of God's Hand in the Movement, and a Brief Sketch of the Advent Cause from 1831 to 1844." The book is written by one of the oldest pioneers in the work, Elder J. N. Loughborough, who is yet doing active service in the cause. The work contains twenty-nine chapters, some of the chief headings of which are as follows: God's Hand in the Advent Movement; Extent of the Advent Proclamation; The Tarrying Time; The Midnight Cry; The Second Angel's Message; The Disappointment; The Bitter Book; Fresh Tokens of Divine Guidance; Perils, Reproaches, Victories; Truth Advancing under Difficulties; New Features in the Work; The First Seventh-day Adventist Printing Press; The Trial of Faith—the Work Advancing; Organization; The Civil War; Health Institutions, etc.; California and Switzerland; Closing Labors of Elder James White; Truth Advanced Even by Opposition, etc., etc. We bespeak for the book a wide circulation among our people. As a work of history it should be in every family, and from God's blessings of the past fresh courage should be gathered to "go forward." For sale by Review and Herald, Battle Creek, Mich.; Pacific Press, Oakland, Cal., or 43 Bond St., New York. Or it may be obtained of our Tract Societies. Price in cloth, plain edges, $1.25; gilt edges, $1.50.

From John D. Wattles, Philadelphia, we have received two little booklets. The first is "Two Northfield Sermons;" the first, "Moral Color Blindness," preached at Northfield, Mass., June 30, 1888; the second, "Our Duty of Making the Past a Success," preached July 3, 1892, both by Rev. H. Clay Trumbull. Both good, but the first is worthy of special mention and careful reading. Price, thirty cents.

The second booklet is by the same author, entitled "Light on the Story of Jonah," republished from the Journal of Biblical Literature. The "light" which the author presents is the fact that the miracles, message, and repentance recorded in the book of Jonah are, according to Assyrian life and history, in every way reasonable. Price, twenty cents. Address as above.

"Peloubet's Select Notes," by Rev. Dr. F. N. and M. A. Peloubet. 340 pages. Illustrated, cloth, 12mo. Price, $1.25. Boston, W. A. Wilde & Co. For sale by Am. Tract Society, San Francisco. This commentary on the international Sunday school lessons for 1893, like its eighteen predecessors, bears evidence of the widest research on the part of its compilers into every field of Christian literature. Its exhaustive quotations, excellent suggestions to teachers, helpful anecdotes, and admirable notes, are well adapted to impress upon the mind the salient points of each lesson.

The library references are particularly full and a great convenience to the busy worker who desires to study in detail from original sources, of the times, places, personages, and secular as well as the sacred history of the events and peoples mentioned in the lessons.

In authentic colored maps, appropriate original illustrations, and general mechanical make-up, the present volume excels all previous issues, and this is praise enough. Specimen pages are sent free by request. Will any of our readers who make such request please mention this paper. Address as above.

The California Illustrated Magazine for December shows in its two first articles the abrupt and striking contrasts of Christmas in this wonderful state, from the snowy scene in the Yosemite in the frontispiece to the "California Wild Flowers," an article by Bertha F. Herrick. Dr. Remondino discusses various portraits of Napoleon. Thomas Crawford Johnson has a concluding article on "Did the Phoenicians Discover America?" connecting them with the Aztecs. Dr. Hirst writes on "Methodism in California." There are other excellent articles, which space will not permit us to mention. The California Illustrated is the great magazine of the West, and, like the West, is constantly and rapidly improving. For sale at all news stands.

The Cosmopolitan for November is well up to its usual high standard. It has for the frontispiece a fine engraving of Mr. Gladstone. Japan Revisited, by Sir Edwin Arnold; A Cosmopolitan Language, by M. Q. Holyoake; The City of Hamburg, by Murat Halstead; Aerial Navigation, by John P. Holland, are a few of its principal articles. The magazine is well illustrated. Price, 25 cents. For sale at all news stands.

Astronomy and Astro-Physics for November is just such a number as will interest students in astronomy. The principal papers are: The Probable Origin of Meteorites, by George W. Coakley, professor of mathematics and astronomy, University of New York; The Motion of the Solar System, by J. G. Porter; Stars Having Peculiar Spectra, by M. Flemming; The Nebular Hypothesis, by Professor James E. Keeler (formerly of the Lick Observatory); The Lunar Atmosphere and the Recent Occultation of Jupiter, by Professor W. H. Pickering, in which the author calculates that the density of the moon's atmosphere at the surface cannot exceed one-four-thousandth that of the earth; the pressure at the surface of the moon should be about equal to, but not much exceed, that at forty-five miles above the surface of the earth; A Large Southern Telescope, by Professor Edward C. Pickering; The Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago, and very much more of interest. Price, $4.00. Published at Northfield, Minn.

The Good Citizen is a new magazine, the organ of the Columbian College of Citizenship, with headquarters at Columbus, Ohio. Its object is to discuss on broad lines what its promoters believe will tend to develop good citizens. The Central College has its subordinate district colleges, while these in turn have their branch local colleges. The organization is designed not only to be national, but international. It has great possibilities for good or evil. We shall be glad to see on which side of the great "reforms" it ranges itself. Price, $2.00 a year, Columbus, Ohio.

The Health Exponent, published monthly at Mount Vernon, Ohio, at seventy-five cents a year, is a bright, crisp, and helpful little magazine, just like a cool hygienic dinner. It is conducted by Dr. O. G. Place and wife.

"Road Making As a Branch of Instruction in Colleges, and the Betterment of Our Highways," from Mr. Albert A. Pope, Boston, Mass. It is not the province of this paper to discuss public roads, but if this country does not have better roads in the future, it will not be the fault of Mr. Pope.

BIBLE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS CONCERNING MAN. By Alonzo T. Jones. Bible Students' Library, No. 76. Pacific Press Pub. Co., Oakland, Cal. 16 pp.; 2 cents.

BAPTISM: Its Significance, Its Nature, and the Necessity for It. By E. J. Waggoner. Bible Students' Library, No. 75. Pacific Press Pub. Co., Oakland, Cal. 16 pp.; 2 cents.