material!" said the padre, as he mopped his face. "These abominable houses of bamboo and dry leaves! We only saved ourselves, as the sailors say, on a plank." "Rather on a cane, Father," I said. Long after I had turned into my hard bed that night, I heard the friar crying from the window:

"Take care, Captain! Don't abandon those embers. See that the watchmen don't fall asleep, and that the poor families are lodged !"

Six thousand inhabitants; and among them all but one arm, one heart, and one soul-the soul, the heart, and the arm of Fray Celestino.

An Eventful Night. By Clara Parker. Doubleday & McClure Co., New York. 44x6% in. 152 pages. 50c.

A farcical little comedy of errors-too much of the knock-down-and-drag-out style of burlesque to be as funny as is intended.

Ascent Through Christ, The. By E. Griffith

Jones, B.A. James Pott & Co., New York. 5×8% in. 469 pages. $2.50.

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The main effort of this work, in which the results of copious reading are digested by careful thinking, is to harmonize the theological doctrine of the fall of man with evolutionary anthropology. As a pioneering "attempt to deal with the question of the Fall per se in its critical, psychological, and anthropological aspects," it is a work of some importance. To modern criticism the author wisely makes this necessary concession as to the narratives in Genesis, that an inspired history means "a story of events from a spiritual point of view," not an infallible account of facts in their bare reality." He is quite right in holding what the records of degeneration prove-that there is no inherent improbability for the evolutionist in the notion of a fall. But a fallacy creeps in with the capitalizing of this word as a "Fall." The sin in Eden opened the door for similar yieldings to temptation by "the whole race," and then and there a "moral poison" mingled with the springs of human life. It is impossible to reconcile this idea of a corporate as distinct from an individual fall either with Genesis itself or with anthropology, the man of Eden certainly not being the ancestor of all races. The remainder of the volume treats of the Incarnation, including the atonement, and the Resurrection, including the doctrine of the future life, from the evolutionary point of view. The author's treatment is admirable at many points, but it is hardly satisfactory to a consistent evolutionist to represent the incarnation of the life of God in the world as an isolated event occurring at the Christian era, rather than as the greatest of many incarnations manifest in a historical process that is coeval with the existence of life on the earth. Nor does the evolutionary conception of the unity of life, both in its finite streams and its infinite fount, permit one to regard the prob

lem of "the union of natures" in Christ as anything but obsolete. Mr. Griffith-Jones is a writer of the liberal-orthodox school. He has worked well away from the traditional theology in his conceptions of inspiration, atonement, and future retribution. His book takes a high rank in the literature of that school. It has a special interest of an autobiographical kind, as exhibiting the process of thought by which, amid serious intellectual difficulties, "the strenuous quest for a rehabilitated faith" won for him "an ampler and clearer outlook on both faith and life." Autobiography of a Quack. By S. Weir Mitchell, M.D. (Illustrated.) The Century Co., New York. 4X7 in. 149 pages. $1.25.

One almost regrets that Dr. Mitchell did not work out the idea of this book more fully. The baseness, shiftiness, and consciencelessness of an out-and-out quack and medical swindler offer countless opportunities for a man of Dr. Mitchell's special knowledge to weave into a drama of human passion and psychological problem. This brief novel excites interest and arouses feeling in a noteworthy way. Its value and exactness as a study of depravity is great, and as a bit of literary work it is thoroughly artistic. A curious little semi-medical tale, "The Case of George Dedlow," fills out the volume. Bewitched Fiddle, The, and Other Irish Tales.

By Seumas MacManus. Doubleday & McClure Co., New York. 4x6 in. 240 pages. 75c. Two of these Irish tales originally appeared in The Outlook. All are rich in racy Irish humor or pathos, and all indicate that the author has a warm heart for the kindly traits of his countrymen and for their genial folklore.

Boys and Men. By Richard Holbrook. Charles

Scribner's Sons, New York. 5x71⁄2 in. 417 pages. $1.25.

This is one of the best books in this series of stories of college life. The Yale undergraduate atmosphere is fairly well reproduced; and college fun, college politics, college love-making, and college ambitions are presented with a good deal of spirit and faithfulness. Old graduates will be amused at the evident continual recurrence in these later days of

precisely the types of college characters that prevailed in their own time-such, for instance, as Budson, the cheeky, self-important, selfprotuberant person, withal having a good heart and a generous spirit, the kind of man who is chaffed by everybody and by every body tolerated and even mildly liked. The book may be criticised as not adequately showing the more serious side of college life, but, after all, it is a story and not a treatise. Charlemagne (Charles the Great). By H. W. Carless Davis, M.A. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. 5x7 in. 338 pages. $1.50. An addition to the long list of books belonging to "The Heroes of the Nations” series. The author chiefly devotes himself to bringing out the character of the first and greatest Western Emperor as it affected the political, institutional, and social development of his time. As a historical narrative also the book, though somewhat over-compressed, is reasonably full and satisfactory. The pictures of mediæval times, manners, and people are particularly good. Some space is given to the literary outgrowth of the day. The illustra tion is varied and artistically reproduced and printed.

Deacon Bradbury. By Edwin Asa Dix. The Century Co., New York. 5x7 in. 288 pages. $1.50. This is a strongly written story of New Eng land folk, the central interest of which is in a family tragedy involving character rather than fortune or life. Outwardly the sky clears at last, but the eclipse of faith in God that is brought on by cruel trial does not pass off. For the sufferer under this eclipse the unlikeliest subject is selected-a veteran deacon of Puritan ancestry. This being so, the moral effect of the story might have been bettered by bringing him out of it by more convincing reasonings than those that are tried in vain. The individuality of the principal characters is well maintained with close fidelity to the Vermont type, though the technique in a point of Congregational church procedure is rather inaccurate. The story runs on with unfailing interest to its dénouement in the discovery that the mother's heart is wiser than the father's head. But in the family crisis the deacon's son, the cause of all the misery, is a psychological freak, and unaccountable on any known principles, ordinary or extraordinary." Debts of Honor. By Maurus Jokai. Double

day & McClure Co., New York. 4×7 in. 417 pages. $1.25. A welcome addition to the list of authorized translations issued by this firm of the stories written by the marvelously versatile and always vivacious Hungarian novelist, dramatist, poet, and politician. This romance is full of incident, and the contrast between gypsy and robber life on the one side, and Hungarian higher-class manners on the other, gives the book pungency. Invention and imagination make this one of the best of Jokai's hundred tales.

Dictionary of English Synonymes. By Richard Soule. New Edition, Revised and Enlarged by George H. Howieson, LL.D. Little, Brown & Co., Boston. 5x8 in. 488 pages.

This work has been twenty years before the

public, and now has been minutely revised and considerably increased. It remains a thorough and satisfactory aid in what the author originally described as "aptness and variety of phraseology." Professor Seeley rightly says, "The exertion of clothing a thought in a completely new set of words increases both clearness of thought and mastery over words." In this mental exercise as well as in the practical work of composition, such a compendium of synonyms is a constant and indeed all but indispensable assistant.

Easter Visions: Selections from the Writings of Rev. Charles A. Savage. By M. F. S. E. P. Dutton & Co., New York. 434×7 in. 129 pages. $1. Enoch Willoughby. By James A. Wicker

sham. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. 5x7% in. 356 pages. $1.50.

This is a series of chapters in the life of a family reputed "queer," and certainly peculiar people, who oscillate between Quakerism and Spiritualism, and finally become Spiritualists. It is merely a narrative, but rather interesting, the design of which seems to be an exhibition of the affinities between Quakerism and Spiritualism, despite a strongly marked antipathy on the Quaker side. Enoch is a strong and is pre-eminently such. The writer's sympathies saintly character, and his sister-in-law, Lyddie, end. The substratum of the book seems to with Spiritualism are strongly avowed at the be its implicit continuous protest against the common error of misjudging an individual because of the ill repute attached to the sect or party with which he is popularly classed. Kate Wetherill. By Jennette Lee. The

Century Co., New York. 4×7 in. 199 pages. $1.25. An undertone of pathos underlies this "comedy," and at the end prevails. The characters are true to life, and the author conveys a genuine reflection of the sorrow and weariness of constant petty trials, as well as of serious troubles. The author follows Dante's trifold division of the "Commedia" in her subdivisions.

Kela Bai. By Charles Johnston. Doubleday & McClure Co., New York. 4x61⁄2 in. 106 pages. $1. This reminds one of Mr. Kipling's "Plain Tales from the Hills," but it is told with greater refinement and delicacy of style than most of Mr. Kipling's Indian tales, if with a little less vigor. Decidedly in Mr. Johnston we have a new imaginative interpreter of native character, and one who writes with evident intimate knowledge as well as with literary skill. The titular heroine is an Indian woman of a shameful profession, and there are those to whom this fact will make the book one to be avoided; in a large sense we do not find it offensive or of ill intention.

Modern Spain, 1788-1898. By Martin A. S. Hume. (Illustrated.) G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. 5x7 in. 574 pages. $1.50.

No more valuable volume has been published in the extremely valuable "Story of the Nations series. The author, as editor of "The Calendars of Spanish State Papers" in the British Public Office, has had a fine training in the historical material which he has here worked into a vivid and readable narrative. He also, as he tells us in his introduction, has

witnessed many of the stirring scenes recounted, from the revolution of 1868 up to the death of Alphonso XII., and for a much longer period than that included between these events has studied closely contemporaneous Spanish history in all its incidents. His style is easy and pleasant, and his sense of historic perspective just. We know of no other book which gives with anything like the adequateness and completeness here found the history of the political struggles and the innumerable ministerial crises which unhappy Spain has undergone. The narrative ends with the close of the war between Spain and the United States, and the author expresses a hope that as "Spain's greatness and Spain's ultimate misery arose from the same cause, namely, the extension of her interests and dominions beyond the power of control possessed by her own nation," so it may prove that the loss of those possessions be to her a blessing in disguise, and end the long tale of her tribulations.

may

Management and Diseases of the Dog. By John Woodroffe Hill. (Illustrated.) The Macmillan Co., New York. (Fifth Edition.) 52×81⁄2 in. 531 pages. $3.50. This is the fifth edition of a book which is well known to all dog-lovers as the standard work on canine pathology and surgery. It is exhaustively thorough and complete in its treatment of the subject, and is illustrated by

many cuts.

New Race Diplomatist, A. By Jennie Bullard

Waterbury. (Illustrated) J. B. Lippincott Co.,
Philadelphia. 434×7 in. 367 pages. $1.50.

This is a somewhat high-colored and high-
pitched story of action in France and America.
Although it is sometimes over-written and
overwrought, the author must be credited
with decided fertility of invention; and the
story-interest of the book is considerable.
Pen Drawing. By Charles D. Maginnis. (I
lustrated.) The Bates & Guild Co., New York,
5x7 in. 121 pages.

A capital idea, this-that of instructing the young artist in questions of style, values, technique, decorative effects, and other points in pen drawing by referring directly to many reproduced drawings by Pennell, Gibson, Railton, Vierge, Raven Hill, and other masters of black and white. These drawings are used with great skill and intelligence to illustrate one by one the exact points under discussion. Personal Religious Life in the Ministry and in Ministering Women. By F. D. Huntington, S.T.D., LL.D., L.H.D. Thomas Whittaker, New York. 5x7% in. 212 pages. 75c. The six addresses presented under this title are of the heart-searching kind. Laying bare unconscious faults and exposing subtle temptations, they are helpful to self-knowledge, as stimulants to self-recollection and self-examination. The Church's need, says the Bishop, is a clergy who have renounced self in the three forms of self-indulgence, self-will, and self-promotion. Upon "an apostleship to intelligence and property," a "mission to the rich," as an overlooked part of woman's work in the Church, he lays an emphasis which recalls the saying of Dr. Nettleton, the revival preacher seventy years ago, about "the neg lected rich."

Post-Millennial Advent, The. By the Rev. Alexander Hardie. (Second Edition.) Eaton & Mains, New York. 2x3 in. 74 pages. 25c. Problems in Ethics. By John Steinfort Kedney. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. 5x7% in 252 pages. $1.50.

Psychiasis: Healing through the Soul. By

Charles H. Mann. Massachusetts New Church
Union, Boston. 4×7 in. 158 pages. 35c.

Railway Control by Commissions. By Frank Hendrick, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. (Ques tions of the Day Series.) 5x7% in. 161 pages. $1. This volume is not strongly or even clearly written, but contains much serviceable information respecting the State control of railways in various European countries, and also in the United States. The author reaches the conclusion that the methods followed by the Massachusetts Railway Commission are the best that can be pursued. Unfortunately for him, his volume is published the very month in which the Massachusetts Commission report that local freight rates average forty per cent. less than the published tariffs, and the attorney of the Boston and Albany acknowledges that "no shipper knows what rate his rival is getting." The author's praise of the Massachu setts system seems belated, for the people of Massachusetts do not share his contentment with present conditions.

Sailing Alone Around the World. By Captain

Joshua Slocum. (Illustrated.) The Century Co., New York. 52x8 in. 294 pages. $2. Captain Slocum is a man of shrewd native wit, and has an individual and racy style. He tells us that his father was the sort of man who, if wrecked on a desert island, would find his way home if he had a jackknife and could find a tree. "Like father, like son"-Captain Joshua knows how to build a boat and how to sail one, and his story of the voyage of the Spray shows what can be done by one man who is handy with tools, knows navigation, and is not afraid. There are many pictures. St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans. By Charles

Gore, M.A., D.D. Vol. II. Charles Scribner's Sons,
New York. 4X7% in. $1.50.

The portion of the Epistle which Canon Gore
expounds in this volume is freed by his treat-
ment of it from the repellent aspect which it
wears in some minds. "The recognition of
the fact that God works universal ends through
selected races and individuals is robbed of all
that ministers to pride and narrowness in the
elect, or to hopelessness and a sense of injus-
tice in the rest." To us Canon Gore is more
successful as an expositor than as a critic. He
attaches "no doubt" to the authorized version
of Romans ix., 5, notwithstanding the margi-
nal readings of the Revision. And it is ex
tremely venturesome to attach to the word
"faith" the sense of "creed" in such passages
as Galatians i., 23, and Ephesians iv., 5.
Slave, The. By Robert Hichens. Herbert
S. Stone & Co., New York. 4X7% in. 463 pages.
$1.50.
This does not seem to us a wholesome or an
inspiring story; that it is clever in certain
ways cannot be denied. Mr. Hichens has
much aptitude in fashioning a phrase which
describes a character or epigrammatically sets
off a satirical remark. He has, too, an intimate

knowledge of London social life, although the reader may complain that he shows too much of the fast and dissolute side of that life, and not enough of the kind and generous ele ment which may be found there as elsewhere. Here, as in other of his books, he indulges his fancy for semi-intelligible mysticism-almost diabolism-and this part of the book contrasts oddly with the realism of his descriptions of modern life. The atmosphere of the whole is morbid, and, despite frequent flashes of wit, one rises from reading the novel dispirited. Smith College Stories. By Josephine Dodge Daskam. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. 5x7% in. 343 pages. $1.50. These stories are in a lighter vein than their predecessor, "Across the Campus," and pre sent the mirthful aspect of things, when college girls are off duty and free for amusement. Their prevailing tone is that of jollity, with here and there a serious or pathetic strain. The writer's style is brisk and sparkling, champagny, if we may coin the word, and she is sure of readers in all the colleges of either sex and both. We anticipate that such books, and similar ones from Harvard, Yale, and others, will by and by tempt some psychologist to a fresh special study of the typical characteristics of the sexes in a comparative view. We doubt if the peculiar altruism exhibited in Miss Daskam's story of "A Case of Interference" can be paralleled except in a woman's college. The Perry Pictures Lesson System for the Sunday-School. By the Rev. Edgar Gardner Murphy The Perry Pictures Company, Malden, Mass. Two Portfolios: Portfolio A, 52 lessons, $1;

Portfolio B, 12 lessons, 30 cents.

The Rev. Edgar Gardner Murphy, rector of St. John's Church, Montgomery, Ala., has devised an admirable use of the widely known Perry Pictures" for Sunday-schools-a use which may be best described in his own words:

One Sunday of each month, in our Sunday school, is called "The Rector's Sunday." On that Sunday I go into my school eight minutes before the close of the session. I come prepared to talk for five minutes on a particular topic, and I am provided with a picture (on the basis of one copy to each member of the school) appropriate to that topic. All of the pictures (for that Sunday) are alike, and each scholar and officer of the school is to be given one of them. Before I begin to talk, I see that the pictures are divided among the teachers, each teacher having enough for his or her own class. Then I speak to them as pointedly and as vividly as possible for just five minutes on the one aspect of the one subject which I have in mind. For example, I may take the subject of Christ the Teacher (beautifully illustrated by Zimmermann's "Christ and the Fishers"), and, if so, I tell them some of the beautiful sayings of Jesus, showing them as quickly and as distinctly as I can how wisely, how lovingly, how firmly, how tenderly, how patiently, he was the Teacher of the heart. Then I ask that the pictures, instantly but carefully, shall be given to the scholars; and the school is dismissed. This talk and this use of the picture on the Rector's Sunday have no necessary connection with the regular lesson of the school. My work is not a substitute for anything in the usual course. It is supplementary.

Mr. Murphy has prepared two courses of "lesson talks" and pictures, one containing twelve and the other fifty-two subjects, which have been issued in convenient portfolios by the publishers, and may be used, not only in the school, but in the home. They form a fresh and original kind of lesson help which we do not hesitate to commend warmly to the attention of progressive Sunday-school

workers, who will, we believe, receive and use the suggestion with appreciative satisfaction. It should be added that these lessons are based on the simple truths of the four Gospels, and so are entirely undenominational, and are written with a charity and simplicity of spirit which will appeal to children. War in South Africa, The. By J. A. Hobson. The Macmillan Co., New York. 512x9 in. 324 pages. $2.

This is a book that deserves respectful consideration even from those who, like The It merits respect, first, because its author, a Outlook, do not agree with its conclusions. well-known political economist of the modern humanitarian school, is an authority on politico-social subjects, and has made a careful study on the ground of the racial conflict in South Africa; and, second, because of the spirit of fairness which pervades his work of observation and his judicial balancing of evidence. Mr. Hobson, while he sorrowfully believes his country to be in the wrong, neither eulogizes the Boers as a body of stainless, prayerful Christian patriots, nor condemns the English as a band of selfish, brutal landgrabbers. His general attitude seems to be that there are definite grievances on both sides, which, however, might well have been allowed to settle themselves by the flight of time and the peaceful processes of political education and assimilation. The volume is not only useful, it is very readable. Such an anecdote as the following will interest American readers, and remind them of conditions prevailing in communities somewhat nearer home than South Africa: "There was a wide prevalence of pernicious bribery, which consisted in paying inspectors to neglect their duty, or to wink at breaches of the law. Here is an instance given me first hand by a mine manager. When the boiler inspector comes round, this man says he hands him a £10 note in order to save trouble. The inspector takes it, and does not stay to examine the boilers. But why do you pay him this money?" said I; 'surely your boilers will stand inspection?' 'Yes, the boilers are all right,' he replied, 'but if he didn't get the money he would quite unnecessarily have every fire out for the day in order to inspect, and that would cost us nearer £1,000 than £10." Thus it seems that some of the corruption in South Africa is not merely Boer corruption, but Anglo-Boer corruption! Woodworking for Beginners. By Charles G.

Wheeler, B.S. (Illustrated.) G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. 5×71⁄2 in. 551 pages. $3.50. No more agreeable occupation for unemployed hours exists for those who have some capacity in handling tools than wood-working in its many forms. There has long been need of just such a practical, clearly written, and easily understood book of instruction as Mr. Wheeler has here supplied. The many cuts bring out clearly to the eye precisely what the author describes. The work is an excellent one to put in the hands of boys who will eagerly study and apply its instructions. It will tell them what tools are, and how to use them; how to handle raw material, and, from point to point, how to make articles of furniture, boxes, boats, and even small houses.