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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 12, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 37.

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New Books

By Editor

WE have just received from the Hamburg Publishing House the following new books:—
"Hymns and Tunes" in Polish; "Steps to Christ" in Hungarian; "The Mystery Unfolded," by Elder L. R. Conradi, in German; and a collection of sixteen new tracts in the Croatian, Dutch, Lettonian, Polish, Rumanian, and Servian languages. In "The Mystery Unfolded" the author traces the unfolding of the mystery of God as revealed in the prophecies down through the ages from creation until it is finished "in the days of the voice of the seventh angel." The book has 270 pages, 21 chapters, and 24 full-page illustrations.
We have also received from the International Tract Society in Hamburg a brochure of twenty-four pages, giving a brief history of the progress which has been made by that society since the beginning of its work in 1889. At that time it was little thought that a large publishing house, issuing publications in more than twenty languages, would be the result. The office force has increased to nearly seventy regular workers. A great work has been done during the last few years in sending out literature to the various European, Asiatic, and African fields. Nearly 532,000,000 pages of books and papers have been printed, the aggregate sales of periodicals amounting to 984 marks, and of books and tracts to 4,391,000 marks. In addition to the work carried forward from Hamburg, branch houses have been established in Basel, Switzerland; Riga, Russia; Constantinople, Turkey; and Budapest, Hungary. It is worthy of special mention that the Gospel of Matthew, prepared and published by the Hamburg house in the Chasu, one of the German East African languages, was the first part of the Bible ever issued in that tongue. Surely, through the good providence of God, our brethren have been enabled to accomplish a great work. May the blessing of God continue to be with the faithful workers laboring in this important field.