LITERARY NOTICES by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 15, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 27.

LITERARY NOTICES.

By Editor

"THE SUPREMACY OF PETER; OR, DID CHRIST ESTABLISH A PRIMACY IN THE CHURCH?" By Moses Eastman Kellogg. Illustrated, neatly bound in cloth, 290 pages; price, $1.00. Review and Herald Publishing Company, Battle Creek, Mich.

This modest little volume aims to set before the reader in smaller compass than the great church historians, and with less elaborate discussion than by theologians in general of certain Scripture passages, the following points: (1) No human primacy was established by Christ or recognized in the apostolic writings; (2) how the primacy grew up in the church; (3) the power and position attained by that primacy in the temporal reign of the popes; (4) the loss of the temporal power; (5) church government as revealed in the New Testament. There are twenty-four chapters and twenty-five illustrations. The book presents in brief before the reader what he might fail to get in many volumes. On a more careful perusal we shall probably refer to it again.

"THE SEPARATED NATION." By H. L. Hastings. No. 19 Anti-Infidel Library. Bound in manila covers, 224 pages; price, 20 cents. This is a discussion of that remarkable people, the Jews, their vitality, fecundity, longevity, the superior character of their social life, their educational characteristics, their finance and statesmanship, their sources of power, their history, their law, their hope, their relation to God, their present condition, the coming of the Messiah, and Jewish enfranchisement in America. Tho all may not agree with the implied answers to the author's questions, they will be interested in perusing the little booklet. It contains much information, and is worthy of circulation. H. L. Hastings, 47 Cornhill, Boston, Mass.

"Historic and Prophetic Diagram of the World." Printed in seven colors, containing twenty-two colored engravings specially prepared for this chart; 5 1/2 feet by 3 feet 10 inches. J. E. Woodward, publisher, 4327 Evans Avenue, Chicago, Ill. Cloth, convenient for folding, $3.75; tough paper, cloth-bound edges, with rollers top and bottom, $3.00; the same with cloth back and rollers, $3.75.

Were we to criticise the above, our great criticism would be that it contained too much. But as an aid to Bible study it is an immense help. It presents in diagram and illustration the past, future, and present, some of the great symbolic prophecies of Daniel, the origin of Sunday, religious persecution, the sanctuary, the plan of salvation, the millennium, and several other important subjects. We cheerfully indorse it as a valuable aid to Bible study.

The above cut is an illustration of 'The Two Ways,' a diagram or chart, designed by W. H. Wild (published by Wild & Hilliard, 67 Kendall Street, Battle Creek, Mich.), to illustrate the way of life and the way of death, and to show God's love for erring man. It is lithographed in twelve colors, and printed on fine white enameled manila paper; size, including margin, 23x30 inches; price by mail, postpaid, 75 cents, including key. It presents an interesting study, and would be helpful in giving instruction to children, which they would much better remember. Illustrated circulars may be obtained from the publishers. Agents are wanted.

The Cosmopolitan Magazine, published by John Brisben Walker, Irvington-on-the-Hudson, New York, sent to India Mr. Julian Hawthorne, as a special commissioner, to investigate the famine and plague in that country. British officials in India were not anxious to have Mr. Hawthorne risk his life by a close inspection of the horrors of plague and famine, but he is a typical American, and having undertaken to see the real conditions, was deterred by no dangers. Eight and a half millions of people have already perished, and the reading of Mr. Hawthorne's description will open the eyes of the world to a condition of affairs that is almost inconceivable in this year of jubilee. The first installment is found in the July Cosmopolitan, and the information it gives is well worth more than the price of the magazine, 10 cents a number, $1.00 a year. For sale by all news-dealers.

McClure's Magazine (S. S. McClure Co., 141-155 East Twenty-fifth Street, New York) holds its own well, and is superior to many of the higher-priced ones. The July number has, among other interesting articles, "The Smallest Republic in the World," governed by boys for two or three months in the year from the tenement districts of New York, and "Andrew Jackson at Home," by his granddaughter, illustrated by "Life Portraits" of Jackson at 48, 52, 61, 63, 68, and 78 years of age, ten in all. Price of magazine, 10 cents; a year, $1.00. For sale by all news-dealers.

WE have received the following from the American Sabbath Tract Society, Plainfield, N. J.: "The Catholicization of Protestantism on the Sabbath Question, or, Sunday-Observance Non-Protestant," by Abram Herbert Lewis, D.D., a pamphlet of 60 pages and 11 chapters, presenting trenchant truths for Protestants to ponder; "Pro and Con, the Sabbath Question in a Nutshell," 4 pp.; "The Sabbath and Spiritual Christianity," 16 pp.; and "The Authority of the Sabbath and the Authority of the Bible Inseparable," 16 pp. These may be obtained by writing to the above address. Price not stated.

"Proceedings of the General Theological Library" for the year ending April 26, 1897, with a sketch of its History, Rules, a List of its Officers, Founders, Patrons, Members, etc. 53 Mount Vernon Street, Boston, Mass. This worthy institution must prove a great help to all the religious students round and about Boston.

"God-Ordained Spiritualism Is Not God-Prohibited Serpent-ism, Commonly Called Modern Spiritualism," a pamphlet of 12 pages, by Orlando C. Brown, Columbus, O. The matter is addressed to the Progressive Spiritualist and Liberal Society, of Columbus, O., whose claim is that Spiritualists believe the Bible, and that "the Bible begins and ends with Spiritualism." The author, Mr. Brown, conclusively shows from the Bible, it seems to us, that man's hope of continuance in life is harmony with God, and the only hope of immortality is the resurrection; while, on the other hand, the doctrine of inherent immortality is based upon Satan's story to Eve, "Thou shalt not surely die."