p. 13 | LITERARY NOTICES by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 27, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 17.

LITERARY NOTICES.

By Editor

"The Lover's Love; or John Three-Sixteen." By William P. Pearce. 176 pages, cloth, 75 cents. Review and Herald, Battle Creek, Mich.

This little book of ten chapters, with an introduction by Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman, is a beautiful treatise of that wonderful scripture, John 3:16. We do not exactly like the title; it seems too sentimental; but the subject matter is excellent. The character and scope of the work is well set forth in the chapter titles as follows: Love Counteth Not the Cost; John Three-Sixteen; The Lover, "God"; The Lover's Intensity of Love, "So Loved"; The Lover's Object, "the World"; The Lover's Proof, "That He Gave"; The Lover's Gift, "His Only-Begotten Son"; The Lover's Proviso, "Whosoever Believeth"; The Lover's Purpose, "Should Not Perish"; The Lover's Pledge, "Have Everlasting Life." We do not know how it could be read and the reader not be helped. Its object is to bring men to God and deepen the love of the believer.

"Russia at the Bar of the American People, a Memorial of Kishinef." By Isidore Singer, Ph. D., projector and managing editor of the Jewish Encyclopedia. 12 mo., cloth. Price, $1.50; by mail, $1.65. Funk & Wagnalls Co., New York.

Dr. Singer has collected records and documents concerning the massacre at Kishinef, and sets forth what certainly must be, from the Jewish side, the best statement of the case. The book is written not only that Jews may keep in remembrance those who suffered, but that the world may know the truth of the matter. It is worth reading,—a good example of the intolerance generated by a union of church and state.

"The Vegetarian Cook Book." By E. G. Fulton. Cloth, 75 cents. Pacific Press Publishing Co., Oakland, Cal.

The instruction in this book, and the preparation and compilation of recipes, are from one who has had years of successful experience in catering to the public in vegetarian lines; and these recipes, we understand, are true and tried. In the variable prices of meat, and the variable and uncertain qualities of meat, this book should come as a boon. We know the diet is good. The book contains numerous recipes on all foods which man needs to have prepared.

"The Aristocracy of Health." A Study of Physical Culture, Our Favorite Poisons, and a National and International League for the Advancement of Physical Culture. By Mary Foote Henderson. 772 pages. Colton Publishing Co., Washington, D. C.

Such is the title-page of a book which ought to have tremendous effect among reasoning, thinking men and women. It is written by a woman of influence and of large opportunity of observation, the widow of the well-known Ex-Senator J. B. Henderson. Her discussion of the "Favorite Poisons," tobacco, alcohol, opium, cocaine, tea and coffee, will open the eyes of many, if it does not close their stomachs (the more's the pity). May it speed on and do good.