p. 13 | BOOK NOTICES by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Dec 20, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 51.

BOOK NOTICES.

By Editor

Holy Bible. Sunday School Scholar's Edition, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 37 East 18th Street, New York.

This is another edition of the Standard American Revised Edition, published by Nelson & Sons. It is especially designed to aid the young Sunday-school scholar. The type is a good, clear-faced minion. There are 24 full-page colored illustrations of scenes in Bible lands as they exist to-day, which greatly help to make the study of interest, and the history more realistic. Besides this there are nearly a hundred pages of helps, brief, simple, clear. There is a summary of the Bible story from Adam to the death of Christ; a summary of the contents of the books of the Bible; an explanation of the Jewish sects—Essenes, Pharisees, Sadducees, Samaritans; "The Lord's Land as the Lord Saw It," a description of Palestine; "How a Boy Learned the Bible;" A Bible Catechism, consisting of a series of questions on the Bible as a book, on Bible geography, on Bible history, and Bible doctrine; good suggestions as to how to study the lesson; a list of precious memory verses; a list of good hymns to memorize, which blessedly does not include, "Lead Kindly Light;" suggestions as to how to pray; the Lord's Prayer; the Beatitudes; the Ten Commandments; lists of the parables and miracles of Jesus; etc. This book will make a splendid birthday or New Year's gift, or gift at any time for boy or girl. The more it is used, the more precious it becomes. Prices range from 75 cents to $3.00; binding from cloth to Egyptian seal, divinity circuit, thin paper, red under gold edges.

"The Saloon Problem and Social Reform." By John Marshall Baker, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology in the School of Theology, Boston University. Bound in cloth. Price $1.00. Everett Press Company, Boston, Mass.

Professor Baker treats the problem under four aspects, economic, political, social, criminal. He presents a tremendous array of facts and figures, and a severe and decisive arraignment of the saloon business. The author also presents an array of co-ordinating social forces which are involved in the solution of the problem. It is a helpful book to the student and actor in the great moral movements of the world.

William Lloyd Garrison. By Archibald H. Grimke, M.A. Cloth, 406 pages, price, $1.50. Funk & Wagnalls Company, New York and London.

This is one of the series on American Reformers, edited by Carlos Martyn. It is a sympathetic life of a great American, a true reformer, with a history of the struggle for freedom, and its splendid issue, which in the words of Henry W. Grady, swept "from American soil" "human slavery." The work has a copious index. Even those who fought Mr. Garrison will enjoy reading the life of a man who stood for principle.

"Ready Money," By George H. Knox, cloth, 318 pages, net price, $1.68. Personal Help Publishing Company, Des Moines, Iowa.

This is a volume of the Self Help Library, in which the author, president of the Self Help Publishing Company, seeks to inspire boys with determination, courage, and perseverance to make something of themselves. The title, "Ready Money," means such a character, such resources, as shall be ready to meet emergencies. Nearly one-half of the book is given to selections of eloquence from great speakers.