LITERARY NOTICES by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 26, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 33.

LITERARY NOTICES.

By Editor

THE Preachers’ Magazine for June is filled with suggestive topics. A very helpful article is that of Mark Guy Pearse on “Moses: His Life and Its Lessons.” “How to Begin the Study of New Testament Greek,” by Rev. R. Martin Pope, M. A., is another worthy article. In Homiletics are good suggestions on “Christ Sanctified for His People,” “The One Foundation,” etc. Wilbur B. Ketcham, publisher, 2 Cooper Union, New York. Monthly, price, $1.50 per year in advance.

A new magazine asking the favor of the public is McClure’s, published by S. S. McClure, 743 and 745 Broadway, New York, at 15 cents a number, $1.50 per year. The first number (June) is creditable. It is well illustrated, and has some novelties peculiar to itself, such as giving real conversations between noted men, sketches and portraits of noted men at various times in their lives. Among articles of interest are “Wild Animals,” “The Edge of the Future,” (what is said by Edison and Professor Bell), “A Day with Gladstone” (illustrated), “Europe at

the Present Moment,” by M. de Blowitz, etc., etc. We do not know why McClure’s will not hold its own among all its older compeers if it goes on as it has begun.

The Californian for July is the Columbian number. “The California Poppy,” by Ina D. Coolbrith; “The Missions of California,” by Laura Bride Powers; “The Ambition of Cleveland,” by R. H. McDonald; “Dawn through the Golden Gate,” by Joaquin Miller, are among the many important and interesting articles. The Californian is the peer of any Eastern magazine. Price, 25 cents.

“Register of the University of California” for 1892-93. Replete with information on the University, its organization, faculty, etc., etc. Address Recorder of the Faculties, Berkeley, Cal.

“The Past and Present Steam Navigation on Long Island Sound” is a pamphlet published by the Providence and Stonington Steamship Company, New York. It is written by Henry Whittemore, author of “History of Steam Navigation in America.” It is profusely illustrated and shows from what beginning the now magnificent steamers, or floating palaces, of Long Island Sound grew.

“Tusculvm Periodicvm Latino-Græcvm” is a serial devoted to the teaching of Latin and Greek, and is designed for students, aiming to teach Latin and Greek as spoken languages. No. 1 contains two lessons each of Latin and Greek. Edited by Rugby Academy, 1415 Locust St., Philadelphia. Single copies, 10 cents.

“The Philosophy of the Real Presence,” by Robert A. Holland, S.T.D., an essay delivered twelve years ago before the Philosophical Society in Chicago. The subject is discussed purely from a speculative standpoint, with the evident desire to make philosophy support an unscriptural dogma. Price, 25 cents. Thomas Whittaker, New York.

“The Illustrated Apocalypse” (new edition revised and enlarged), by Thomas William Greenwell, F.R.S.L. Pamphlet, 50 pp. Price, 25 cents. The Craig Press, 176 and 178 Monroe St., Chicago, Ill. It contains merely a statement of the belief of the author, without proof, and holds to a past, present, and future fulfillment of much of the Revelation. His theory is an accommodating one; in fact, it is an evidently honest desire to harmonize the various schools of interpreters.

“The Siege of Cuatla,” the Bunker Hill of Mexico, is a neatly printed pamphlet giving an address before the New York Historical Society, April 4, 1893, by Walter S. Logan. Interesting in giving Mexico’s struggle for independence. Knickerbocker Press, New York.

“Mortal Man,” a pamphlet of 50 small pages, by A. Easton, being No. 25 of Unity Library, published by Charles H. Kerr and Company, Chicago, Ill. Price of Library $5.00 per year. It is a poem on man, placing him at the beginning as an ignorant, untutored savage, with an ancestry of apes. It is erroneous in philosophy and theology, and indifferent in poetry. Man begins a polynog and ends in nothingness.

From Fleming H. Revell Company, 112 Fifth Avenue, New York, we have received a neatly printed pamphlet of 68 pages, entitled “The Mosaic Record of the Creation Explained, Scripture Truth Verified,” by Abraham G. Jennings. The author takes the same ground as Morris in his “Work Days of God,” that the work recorded in the first verse of Genesis was no part of the six days’ work, and that the six days were literal, and that the work of the six days is described by Moses as it would have appeared to a spectator on the earth. The author’s faith in the verity of God’s word we admire. The author says, “Moses made no mistake in his narrative; it is the scientists who have blundered;” but we opine that the word sometimes suffers as much from its interpreters as from the scientists. The writer sustains the serpent’s falsehood to man in regard to his nature, and endeavors to lay a foundation for Sunday keeping in the account of the institution of the Sabbath. Let God be true in this also, even if it upsets theological as well as geological theories. Price, 20 cents.

“Small Talk about Business.” By A. E. Rice. A banker’s business hints for men and women. Published by Fremont Publishing Co., Fremont, Ohio. Sixty pages. Paper, 40 cents; cloth, 75 cents, by mail, postpaid. Descriptive pamphlet free. This book, as its name indicates, is a talk about business, a banker’s talks to men and women about the common, everyday business affairs of life. It is full of useful ideas for young and old, and is a book that should be on every desk and in every home.

SUNDAY LAWS OF THE STATES AND TERRITORIES. A comprehensive collection of laws and decisions regarding Sunday observance, especially useful as a compendium of information. Paper covers, 25 cents. Pacific Press Pub. Co., Oakland, Cal.

THE ATONEMENT. Part I, “An Atonement Consistent with Reason.” Part II, “An Atonement as Revealed in the Bible.” Pacific Press Pub. Co., Oakland, Cal. Cloth, $1.00.