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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Feb 14, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 7.

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BOOK NOTICES

"Scripture and Song in Worship." A service book for the Sunday-school. Arranged by Francis Wayland Shepardson and Lester Bartlett Jones. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
This song and service book is the outcome of experience in Sunday-school work, we are told, under the leadership of the late William Rainey Harper, to whose memory the book is dedicated. There are eighteen divisions in the book, such as the Majesty and Power of God, Prayer, Jesus the Saviour, Christian Missions, etc. The Scripture readings are generally appropriate, the responsive readings excellent, and the hymns are generally good, and often old standard favorites. The prayers are often from the Scriptures, and when otherwise are well expressed petitions. One hymn in the "Sabbath" division was written for Sunday, but all the Scriptures are for the Bible Sabbath, of course. Those who want a service definitely marked out, would seek long and far to find a better guide; while to those who do not, the book will be helpfully suggestive.
"The Girl in Her Teens." By Margaret Slattery. Cloth. Price 50 cents net. Sunday School Times Company, Philadelphia.
This is a helpful little book to those interested in girls; and who is not? It is written by one who has a large, strong sympathy with the girl in her teens, in all her multi changeful moods and tenses, and who longs to save them. And she has discussed in a sympathetic and intelligent way in the ten chapters of this little book most of the important phases of this question, such as the "teen period," the physical, mental, spiritual, social sides, her relations to the church, the Bible, to every day, and her teacher.
"The Fundamentals. A Testimony." Volume III. Price 15 cents, post-paid; eight copies $1.00; 100 copies $10.00. Testimony Publishing Company, 808 La Salle Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
"Two Christian Laymen" furnished the funds for publishing these witnesses to the truth of the Christian religion, and to meet the wave of infidelity sweeping over the church through Higher Criticism. The aim of the books is to emphasize the "Fundamentals" of Christianity. Encouraging letters to the number of more than 10,000 have reached the publishers from all parts of the world, with more or less of adverse criticisms. The present volume deals with Inspiration; The Moral Glory of Jesus a Proof of Inspiration; God in Christ the Only Revelation of the Fatherhood of God; The Testimony of Christian Experience; Christianity, No Fable; My Personal Experience with the Higher Criticism; The Personal Testimony of Charles T. Studd. The writers of these papers are respectively, James M. Gray, Wm. G. Moorehead, Robert E. Speer, E. Y. Mullins, Thomas Whitelaw, J. J. Reeve — all men well known in the religious and theological world. Thank God for the voices raised for Christ and the Book.
"A Dictionary of Terms Used in Architecture and Building." Price 50 cents. Compiled from the best authorities, and published by the Industrial Publication Company.
The little book is profusely illustrated, one of the best means sometimes of defining, and is indeed an intensely practical glossary and more of architectural terms that every mechanic, and especially every architect, builder, and carpenter ought to know. There are probably 2000 terms defined, and 100 illustrations.
"World Corporation." By King Camp Gillette. The New England News Company, Boston, Massachusetts.
This book is an effort to help to settle the industrial and social questions of the world. Mr. Gillette is set forth as the "Discoverer of the Principles and Inventor of the System of World Corporation." The book itself presents the articles of "World Corporation," organized under the laws of Arizona, the capital stock unlimited, the par value of each share of which shall be one dollar; but he who owns twenty shares or less has no share in the dividends. The design is to control the labor and industries of the world on a more economical plan. It is against individualism and for the corporation, but it would make the world the corporation. We presume that if it were successful the next thing would be a corporate religion. A very beautiful, enticing picture Mr. Gillette gives us of the world under this corporation, with one great central city, little work, and much leisure. But world corporation will not change the human heart. Christ's way is best, the conversion of the individual soul.
"Catacombs of Worldly Success; or History of Coarsellor Dell." By F. M. Messenger. Metropolitan Church Association, Waukesha, Wisconsin.
The story we are told is not invented, tho the names and places are fictitious. The book is written to show the tremendous influence of commercialism, worldly ambition, and worldliness in general upon a church, a pastor, a community. The author believes that if hidden things were brought to light a condition of things would be revealed akin to those existing in the antediluvian age, and that these show that "the second coming of Jesus is at hand."
"On Christmas Day in the Evening." By Grace S. Raymond. Illustrations, done in color, by Charles M. Relyea. Doubleday, Page & Company, New York.
This is not a Santa Claus or Christmas tree story. It is a peace-bringing tale of how a few strong, earnest young people and an aged minister healed some neighborhood and church-member quarrels on a Christmas evening in an old church which had been closed for a year on account of the quarrels. Tho Jesus was not born on December 25, He is as willing to come into hearts on that day as on any other.
"The Boy Aviators on Secret Service; or Working with Wireless." By Captain Wilbur Lawton. Price 50 cents. Hurst & Company, New York.
It is strange, when there is such a general desire for peace and so much talk about it, that every possible invention of man that can be turned to his destruction in war is so used. Wireless telegraphy, at first, and still, but it has its other uses in life saving. Aviation is barely accomplished before elaborate experiments are attempted to learn what profit the bird-man may be in war. The little volume before us, the second in Captain Lawton's series, is to stir the ambition and daring of youth along the war line in the building and use of the aeroplane. We wonder if the machine will ever be used as the messenger of peace.
"The Problems of Your Generation." By Daisy Dewey. Price $1.00. The Arden Press, 122 East 25th Street, New York.
The chief beauty of this book is in its binding and printing. Claiming wonderful depth, in the light of the Bible it is very shallow, a mixture of truth and error, and this "the author claims but to have been privileged to transmit." It is a herald of another phase of self-salvation which never saves. It applies not to the times, but to the man.
Sherman, French & Company, Boston, have just issued a new work of historic value on the late Hon. "John Sherman, His Life and Public Services," by Winfield S. Kerr, in two volumes.