p. 13 | LITERARY NOTICES by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Apr 12, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 15.

LITERARY NOTICES.

By Editor

"The Booklet of the Golden Leaves." By LeRoy G. Davis. Published by Broadway Publishing Company, 835 Broadway, New York City. Cloth; 52 pp.; price not given.

In this little booklet the author sets forth in passable verse the absurdity of some of the theories of the Socialist propaganda. An exponent of Socialism is represented as seeing, in vision, a country in which his theories are worked out; and this results in his repudiation of the theories.

"The Harmonized and Subject Reference New Testament." By James W. Shearer. 662 pages, cloth, $1.50. The Subject Reference Co.; or the author, Deleware, N. J.

Some of the special features of this volume are as follows: 1. It is the common version in modern English print. That is, it is printed in one column, as any other book; direct speech is placed within quotation marks; ordinary rules of capitalization are followed; and the paragraph division is followed, instead of the verse division.

2. The chapters are divided into sections with appropriate subheads. These subheads are numbered, the same subject having the same number in each Gospel. Below the section number are numbers indicating in what other Gospels, if any, the record is found. Wherever verse divisions are admissible by punctuation and subject, they are preserved.

The arrangement certainly makes the reading and study of the New Testament more interesting and more helpful to the average student.

The book has a copious index, which is also an outline of Gospel harmony. The author also discusses, in an appendix, various differences among harmonists. While we can not agree with all his dates, we commend the work as helpful.

"A Peculiar People: The Doukhobors." By Aylmer Maude; cloth, fifteen full-page illustrations, two maps, 346 pages, price $1.50, net. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York and London.

The author of this interesting book was closely identified with the migration of the Doukhobors from the land of their persecution in Russia to their new home in the Canadian Northwest, and with the securing and allotment of land for their occupancy. He gives a very clear, unvarnished statement of their beliefs, their history, their persecutions, and their eccentricities, as manifest both in Russia and Canada. While they are an extremely eccentric people, they are admitted to be a people of high moral principles. Their misinterpretation of good principles (because of a quite general ignorance of the Word of God) has led companies of them to many extravagancies, such as their aimless pilgrimages in nudity. The history of their persecutions in Russia, as given in this book, clearly illustrates the unrighteousness of the church-and-state principle against which the Doukhobors always have protested, and still do protest.