purposes designated in the title of his book. The facts show that in such hands as his hypnotism is a potent force for the awakening of dormant, the restoration of perverted and debased, and the strengthening of weak and wavering powers of mind and will. In all reform work it is of inestimable, but as yet poorly recognized, value. As the work of a thoroughly competent and trustworthy authority, we regard this as the best book on the subject that we have seen. We have to add that the facts of moral reclamation through hypnotism leave not a shred of reason for the belief that the possibilities of human redemption are closed at death.

Jack's Carrier Pigeons. By Hezekiah Butterworth. Illustrated. A. I. Bradley & Co., Boston. 74x5 in. 289 pages. $1.25.

Many are the stories here told about Father Taylor, the keen-witted, big-hearted preacher to sailors, of whom Dickens spoke in his "American Notes," and many also the tales related by his supposititious mariner friends. Incidentally Mr. Butterworth illustrates the possibilities of a kindergarten Sunday-school, and preaches simply and sincerely of our duty to men and animals.

John Knox. By Marion Harland. Hannah More. By Marion Harland. Illustrated. (Literary Hearthstones.) G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. Each 7x5 in. $1.50 each.

Mrs. Terhune has followed her biographies of Charlotte Bronté and William Cowper in the Literary Hearthstone Series by two companion volumes presenting the biographies of John Knox and Hannah More, bound in the same attractive style, and with illustration. These books will receive further notice.

Later Love Letters of a Musician. By Myrtle

Reed. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. 82X5 in. 165 pages. $1.75.

This volume is in the same vein of sentiment as its predecessor, "The Love Letters of a Musician." It is essentially a book of sentiment, but the sentiment plays over a considerable range of subjects. The book is largely a transcription of certain poetic aspects of nature recorded in an imaginative vein, but with a tone of real feeling. Miss Reed has the gift of poetic expression, and although her book by its quality will appeal especially to those who are sensitive to beauty either in nature or in art, it is not esoteric; it deals with aspects of life, of experience, and of nature from which men and women are excluded only by the limitations of their insight or their imagination.

"Machine "Abolished and the People Restored

to Power, The. By Charles C. P. Clark, M.D. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. 74×5 in. 196 pages. $1.

A full statement of the plan of nominating public officers to which public attention was called a few years ago, when the author, with the support of neighbors, persuaded one branch of the New York Legislature to accept it for trial in his city of Oswego. Its essential features are the selection of "primary constituencies" by lot, and the election of "electoral colleges" by these constituencies. The object of selecting the primary constituencies by lot is to get a body small enough to assemble

together and yet representative of the whole people. To the electoral colleges Dr. Clark would give not only the right to appoint officials, but also the right to remove them. Maid of Maiden Lane: A Sequel to "A Bow of Orange Ribbon." By Amelia E Barr. Dodd, Mead & Co., New York. 8x51⁄2 in. 338 pages. $1.50. This is the sequel to “ A Bow of Orange Ribbon," which is one of the most charming novels Mrs. Barr has written. Like that book, it deals with life and love in Old New York, and introduces a number of historic characters. Master Christian, The. By Marie Corelli.

Dodd, Mead & Co., New York. 4×71⁄2 in. 604 pages. $1.50.

In this latest story the author of "The Romance of Two Worlds" and "The Sorrows of Satan" has attempted to deal with a very difficult subject-the failure of the Church to rightly interpret religion, and the consequent loss to the world of spiritual power and hope. She is to be credited with entire sincerity of purpose in her attempt to bring out dramatically the failure of organized religion to make the world understand the teaching of Christ and to bring men to his way of life, and the Church's responsibility for its failure; and she has written a story which will not fail to hold her own constituency and probably to materially enlarge it; a story in which there are touches of genuine skill and ability. The central figure, Cardinal Bonpré, is touched the character is well drawn, and it is one of here and there with unreality, but on the whole great beauty. But, although Miss Corelli writes books which are widely read, she does not, and it is highly improbable that she ever will, write stories which can be classified fromany point of view as literature. She has considerable invention, but she lacks the gift of artistic construction. She has great fluency, but she has a rudimentary sense of style. Her expression is pretentious, ornate, and inartistic. As a presentation of an aspect of religious life "The Master Christian" may do good; as a piece of writing it is conspicuously bad.

Messages of the Apostles, The. By George Barker Stevens, Ph.D., D.D. (The Messages of the Bible. Vol. XII. Edited by Professor Frank K. Sanders, Ph.D., and Professor Charles F. Kent, Ph.D.) Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. 62×5 in. 258 pages. $1.

This volume contains the apostolic discourses in the first portion of the Book of Acts, the Catholic Epistles, the Pastoral Epistles, and Hebrews. Dr. Stevens has followed the same method as in "The Messages of Paul." Historical and critical introductions, both general and special, and a list of reference-books for further study are given in connection with the text, consisting of a paraphrase of the original in modern style. As a sample of this, see the rendering given to the saying in 1 Timothy ii., 15, about the woman being "saved through childbearing," viz.: "She shall realize her salvation, not by assuming the functions of public life, but by keeping in all faithfulness and simplicity to her allotted sphere as wife and mother." The words we have italicized are not only injected by the paraphrast, but are unnecessary to the elucidation of the passage.

It may be questioned if this is not taking an undue liberty with the original. In general, we commend this book as heartily as the preceding volumes of the series.

By Adah L. Sutton. The Saalfield Publishing 104 pages. $1.25.

Mr. Bunny: His Book. Illustrated by W. H. Fry. Co., Akron, O. 11x9 in. Napoleon III. at the Height of His Power. By Imbert de Saint-Amand. Translated by Elizabeth Gilbert Martin. With Portraits. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. 74×5 in. 305 pages. $1.50. This is the twenty-fourth volume relating to French historical biography published by M. de Saint-Amand, and the fifth in the series relating to the Second Empire. The great popularity achieved by these books is due to their intimate study of persons, character, and social aspects rather than the military and political history. The present book has, perhaps, less of this special attractiveness than some previous volumes, but it is incisive and clear. The period covered is from the end of the war over Italy between France and Austria down to 1860, when the author leaves Napoleon III. "a happy husband, happy father, happy sovereign."

Ned Myers. By James Fenimore Cooper. Introduction by J. Pomeroy Keese. Mohawk Edition. 8251⁄2 in. 242 pages. $1.25.

This story, in the preparation of which Mr. Cooper acted as a reporter of Ned Myers's talk, cannot be classed with the novels in point of interest or importance, but has a value of its own as the record of a sailor's life eighty years ago. It will be remembered that Ned Myers was one of the acquaintances formed by Cooper during his brief experience of life before the mast; that they were separated for many years, and finally came together when Cooper was living at Otsego Hall in Cooperstown. During this period Myers filled many hours of Cooper's time with stories of the seastories which constituted the record of his life; and it was from this material that Cooper prepared the narrative which bears the name of his sailor friend.

New Study of the Sonnets of Shakespeare. By Parke Godwin. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. 84×5 in. 306 pages. $1.50.

Mr. Godwin's book is evidently the fruit of long and loving study, and has the interest which attaches to a new point of view. Shakespeare's Sonnets have been interpreted from so many different points of view that it seemed almost impossible that some one should present an entirely fresh interpretation, but that is precisely what Mr. Godwin has done. He has done this by pushing the Sonnets further back in point of time. It will be remembered that they were published in 1609. Most students and critics have believed that they were written between 1593-4 and 1600-the period during which Shakespeare was writing the lyrical plays. Mr. Godwin believes that they were written when Shakespeare was about twenty-that is to say, they were written at Stratford before he went up to London; that the seventeen sonnets which have heretofore been regarded as being addressed to a friend urging him to marry, constitute "a plea for poetic or creative art;" that a number of the

sonnets were addressed to Anne Hathaway, and were the expressions of the love which the poet felt for his wife; and that the whole group is an expression of personal history, but along entirely different lines from that which has heretofore been surmised by commentators on the sonnets. Mr. Godwin illustrates his view by introducing prose paraphrases of the sonnets, which are by no means easy reading to one who carries the sonnets in his memory. The book is very suggestive, and brings out some points in Shakespeare's life with great clearness. Many objections, however, will at once occur to Mr. Godwin's interpretation. It is very difficult, for instance, to believe that the sonnets were written at so early a period in Shakespeare's artistic development. Mr. Godwin is a warm defender of Anne Hathaway; there is no reason why he should not be, for the prejudice against Shake speare's wife is utterly without foundation in positive proof of any kind. The book is disfigured by some colloquialisms which might better have been omitted. The sonnets are reprinted at the end of the book in the order in which Mr. Godwin believes they ought to be read.

Nuttall Encyclopaedia, The. Edited by the Rev. James Wood. (Twentieth Thousand.) Fred erick Warne & Co., New York. 5×8 in. 700 pages. A new edition of a popular English condensed cyclopædia. It does not seem to include the American-Spanish war or that in South Africa; the names Dewey and Baden-Powell, for instance, are conspicuous for their absence. Allowing for faults inherent in a one-volume, low-priced book which aims to cover almost the whole field of human knowledge, the book is a useful and fairly satisfactory work of reference.

Patriotic Eloquence; Relating to the Spanish

American War and its Issues. Compiled by Robert I. Fulton and Thomas C. Trueblood. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. 7x5 In. 364 pages. $1.

A volume of declamations selected with discrimination and fairness from speeches for and against the war in the Philippines.

Paul of Tarsus. By Robert Bird. Charles

Scribner's Sons, New York. 8x5 in. 515 pages. $2. Mr. Bird has introduced himself so successfully to young folk by his "Joseph the Dreamer" and "Jesus the Carpenter as to win them to his introduction of a figure more difficult of presentation to them-St. Paul, the favorite of theologians. If any one could write a life of St. Paul that would interest children, it is Mr. Bird, and he seems to have done it. "In doing this," says he, I have drawn him in brown cloak and sandals, amid everchanging scenery, giving shape and color as with a brush. I have also broken up and paraphrased his writings, so that they are no more presented in long epistles to be passed over, but bit by bit, in their settings, to be taken in with the narrative."

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Referendum in America, The. By Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer, Ph.D. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. 84×54 in. 430 pages. $2. Although the author is not democratic in his sympathies, this volume is the fullest and

fairest account yet published of the steadily growing disposition of the American people to settle all important public questions by submitting them directly to the judgment of the whole body of voters. Those who have thought of the referendum as a peculiarly Swiss institution will be convinced that it has from the first been deeply rooted in the soil of our own democracy, and is now putting forth branches in many different directions with little aid from Swiss ingraftings.

Romance of Gilbert Holmes, The. By Mar

shall Monroe Kirkman. The World Railway Pub lishing Co., Chicago. 8×5% in. 425 pages. $1.50. Too prolix and too leisurely in narration. The author has gathered from the characters, whose talk he has put in literary form and connected with a thread of fiction, considerable material about early Western history and social cusBut as a story the book lamentably lacks vigor and directness.

toms.

Second Book of Word and Sentence Work. By M. W. Hazen, M.A. (Hazen's Grade Spellers) Ginn & Co., Boston. 7X54 in. 238 pages. Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, A. By Laurence Sterne. Dodd, Mead & Co., New York. 8x51⁄2 in. 213 pages. $1.50. The first of a series of reprints to be known as the "Bookman Classics." The form is pleasing; the rubricated titles and headlines give a touch of color; the type is clear and open; the cover in design and color is original, but not to our taste as attractive a feature as those just named. Of Sterne's humoroussentimental little masterpiece everything that needs to be said in praise or fault-finding is familiar to all readers.

Short Talks by D. L. Moody. The Bible Institute Colportage Association, Chicago. 7x42

in. 127 pages.

Situation in China: A Record of Cause and

Effect. By Robert E. Speer. Fleming H. Revell Co., New York. 7x41⁄2 in. 61 pages. Two things are made clear by this pamphlet the natural fruit of Christian missions in the reform movement in China which was suppressed by the Empress Dowager, and the fatuity of Western statesmen in allowing the reactionary forces to suppress it and to seize control.

Sons of the Morning. By Eden Phillpotts.

G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. 8x5% in. 492 pages. $1.50.

This is the first novel of consequence written by Mr. Phillpotts since his Children of the Mist," which was regarded by many English and American critics as the ablest novel of its year. It is not strong dispraise to say of the present story that it is not as clearcut and vigorous in its character-drawing or as pungent in its humor as its predecessor. It is, not the less, a serious piece of literary work, thoughtful and intended to incite to thinking, not a mere rush-and-hustle tale to be skimmed through for the plot and then quickly forgotten. The scene is again in Devonshire, and the descriptions of external nature of woods and birds, of moors and hills-are as close in their exact knowledge as they are essentially poetic in form. The delightful Devonshire rustics are as strongly

drawn as are those of Thomas Hardy or Walter Raymond, but they have a grim and hard as well as a quaint side. The main theme of the story, the love of a refined, high-minded girl for two men at the same time, in different degrees and in different ways, is treated delicately, but it is too temperamentally complicated and of too psychological a nature to make a satisfactory subject for fiction. It is here, we think. that Mr. Phillpotts falls short of the best effects reached in " Children of the Mist." One wearies of the strained situation. The ending of "Sons of the Morning is not convincing, and the catastrophe which cuts the knot of the problem is a conventional tour de force, done, to be sure, in an unconventional way. But with all its defects the book has character, originality, and literary quality; and of how many of the popular successes of the last two years in fiction can that truly be said?

Story-Tell Lib. By Annie Trumbull Slosson. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. 64×4 in. 79 pages. 50c.

A crippled but imaginative little girl in a mountain village tells stories, "kind o' fables that learnt folks things and helped 'em without bein' too preachy.' Mrs. Slosson here repeats these little parables.

Sunning Well. By F. Warre Cornish. E. P. Dutton & Co., New York. 74×5 in. 289 pages. Supreme Leader, The. By Francis B. Denio, D.D. The Pilgrim Press, Boston. 7×4 in. 264 pages. $1.25.

"The

This is one of the important theological issues of the year. Treatises on the Holy Spirit are generally unsatisfactory, because recognizing only or mainly the transcendence of God. At length Professor Denio has given us one which equally recognizes God's immanence. Holy Spirit, as the Deity immanent in all creation, manifests his presence by the operations which we call the laws of nature." Likewise in the laws of mind: " He who secures the normal action of his mind is promoting the ordinary operation of the Spirit." And, if one feels stirred by any wrong-doing in the world, this is evidence of "the presence of the Spirit stirring in his heart." Professor Denio distinguishes the activity of the Spirit into "Cosmic" and "Redemptive," and holds it probable that a large part of his redemptive operations are immanent, as well as the cosmic, regarding him as "the principle of life, intelligence, and moral action in man, and as the agent securing their preservation." It is in the sphere of the sub-conscious life that Professor Denio believes the influence of the Spirit to be ordinarily exerted. While the influence of modern conceptions is thus strikingly apparent, older modes of thought are also conspicuous. It seems hardly necessary to encumber the subject with a doctrine of the Trinity which, by alleging that there is society in the Deity," involves a tritheism that is no less objectionable for being metaphysical. The whole aim of Professor Denio, however, is practical, and converges on the development of a conscientious, well-balanced, and active Christian life. In this point of view the book would be difficult to improve.

Storied West Indies, The. By Frederick A. Ober. Illustrated. (Appletons Home Reading Books.) D. Appleton & Co., New York. 74×42 in. 291 pages. *75c.

Those who have visited the West Indies and those who have not will alike find interest in this account of those islands. Extracts from the letters and diary of Columbus, describing the gentle natives and the strange birds and animals, tell how they appeared to the first European visitors; and their history is brought down through the horrors of the early conquests, the times of the buccaneers and treasure-seekers, and the years of Spanish cruelty to the present day. Mr. Ober's explorations in the islands enable him to give occasional personal verification to an ancient name or custom, and to describe the ruins of the city

of Isabella, founded in Haiti in 1493, the first city to be planted in the New World.

Two Little Street Singers. By Nora A. M.
Roe (Mrs. Alfred S. Roe). Illustrated. Lee &
Shepard, Boston. 7X44 in. 182 pages. $1.
The story of two children who were stolen by
a street musician.

Wall Street Point of View, The. By Henry Clews. Silver, Burdett & Co., New York. 7×5 in. 290 pages. $1.50.

A well-named book. Mr. Clews is the incarnation of the Wall Street spirit, and what he says on any subject voices the sentiment of the street. He puts his views forcibly, and this makes his book an exceptionally quotable one both to the friends and to the enemies of the ideas he champions.

1. Does the Bible teach that man in his future

existence will remember the things of this life? If
so, where? 2. To what extent have the pagan relig.
ions influenced the Christian religion? 3. Can a
man, who has the opportunity, be a Christian and
yet not attend church? I mean must he practice
formal religion? 4. Bishop Taylor is said to have
held that the Hottentot has a saving religion. Has
his statement printed form? If so, where can it be
obtained? What is the opinion of The Outlook in
regard to the idea that heathen people generally
have saving religions?
Н. С. К.

J. Luke xvi., 9, implies this by teaching that benefactors will be greeted hereafter by the friends they have made here. 2. A book is devoted to this subject, the Rev. A. H. Lewis's Paganism in Christianity" (Putnams, New York, $1.50). 3. We should not wish to affirm the negative of this. There is such a thing as unconscious Christianity, Christian in fact but not in form. Jesus seems to intimate this in John x., 16. 4. We do not know where the statement may be found. On one hand, we believe that any man who conscientiously endeavors to follow the best light he has will be saved. On the other hand, the moral condition of pagan lands gives small evidence of saving religion.

Will you mention any comprehensive works on the history and biography of missions? G. D. E. Within a year or two the following have been published: "The Healing of the Nations "-a plea for medical missions (Students' Volunteer Movement, New York); "Missionary Annals of the Nineteenth Century" (F. M. Barton, Cleveland); " Questions and Phases of Modern Missions" (Dodd, Mead & Co., New York); Dr. Storrs's "Addresses on Foreign Missions" (Pilgrim Press, Boston). For many others previously published see copious bibliographies in Dr. Dennis's volumes on "Christian Missions and Social Progress" (The Revell Company, New York).

Can The Outlook give me any information about G. R. Steevens? Was he married, and did he leave children? AN OLD SUBSCRIBER. We presume you mean George W. Steevens, the English war correspondent and author. He was an Oxford graduate (Balliol); began his editorial work on the staff of the Pall Mall Gazette" in 1893; went to the "Daily Mail" in 1897 in which year his book on this country, "The Land of the Dollar," was printed. His other books followed fast: "With the Conquering Turk" in

is attributed to Anna L. Waring. I have been an
admirer of the poem since I met it in an old "Chris-
tian Lyrics," and should like to get some information
about its author.
E. R. F.

All that we know of her, except through her hymns, is that she was born in 1820, and has resided at her native place, Neath, in South Wales.

Kindly suggest some books or magazine articles that would be serviceable in the preparation of a series of popular addresses on "A Christian's CITIZEN. Responsibility as a Citizen."

Dr. Prail's "The State and the Church" (T. Whittaker, New York, $1.25); the Rev. S. W. Batten's prize essay on "The New Citizenship" (American Sunday-School Union, Philadelphia, 90 cents); Dr. Abbott's "Christianity and Social Problems" (Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston, $1.25); Dr. Hodge's "The Heresy of Cain" (Whittaker, $1).

What is your construction of Matthew xix., 24? Do you construe literally? J. B.

At the time the statement was made, Jesus' death had been determined on, and it was impossible to expect that a rich man would stake his all on what seemed to be a lost cause. We therefore construe the saying about a camel going through the eye of a needle literally, with reference only to that time. It is utterly wrong to detach it from its special historical connection and take it as stating a general fact.

The Inland Empire's Harvests

To the Editors of The Outlook:

The Outlook's interesting story of "The West's Golden Harvest" is incomplete because it relates only to the Middle West that lies east of the Rockies, whereas there is a West Coast that includes the wheatfields of California and the Pacific Northwest, which have their own peculiar conditions, and a means for harvesting wheat that discounts all that you describe in the way of harvest machinery in your late story of harvests in Oklahoma, Kansas, and the Dakotas. Of course the farmers of the West Coast have all that you describe, and in some portions are compelled to rely on it continually, while there are especially dry districts where the combined reaper and thresher can be used.

As far back as in the eighties an Oregonian caught the idea of a harvester that should cut, thresh, and even sack the clean wheat at one operation. To do this completely required a dry climate, with not excess of dewfall, and away from the moist breath of the ocean. It was not found practicable to use such a harvester in western Oregon, where the dewfall is heavy and the air laden with moisture from the Pacific. For some time this machine attracted attention, but the maturing of the idea went slowly, and finally the inventor was induced to remove his works to San Leandro, California, where capital was ready to assist him.

There the idea was perfected, resulting in a harvester that is extensively used in the drier portions of that State, and made effective in the harvest work of what we call "The Inland Empire "-all the Pacific Northwest that is east of the Sierras known to the North as the Cascade Range. This Inland Empire includes a vast reach of fertile basaltic soils found on the waters of the Columbia in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and even in Montana.

There is wide difference in the climates east and west of the great Cascade range; the western valleys bordering the coast mountains have humidity that requires very warm weather to ripen wheat or corn, while this humidity is barred by the great range, permitting the climate to the east

ward to be unusually dry. The same is true of a vast area of the wheat-growing districts of California. So there is a wide field for the use of the combined thresher and reaper. It can be used to advantage where the dews are off and the wheat dry by nine o'clock, as the days are long and work can be extended late in the evenings.

Some years ago, as I was going by rail up the Columbia to Walla Walla, I heard the work of these harvesters described by parties on the train, to find that in the seat before me was the agent of the manufactory, who gave me an interesting account of its success. When returning a few days later, a man took the train at evening-as we passed through a wheat region-who said he had just finished his day's work as one of a gang of six men who had that day cut and threshed, sacked and hauled, the wheat on sixty acres of land that bore a heavy yield. This had been done by horse-power, and work did not begin until late. While sixty acres may seem a large figure, that was not the full capacity of the harvester, which, I think, when all goes perfectly, can cut nearly a hundred acres. Imagine automatic working that cuts the grain rather high, passes it through the threshing process, and requires a man at the rear end to handle sacks and tie them as fast as the wheat comes pouring out! There is an arrangement for dumping sacks in heaps, convenient for the wagon to follow and load and haul them off. Ten acres a day to the credit of each man employed does not need enlargement, but that has been excelled.

The wheat of the Inland Empire usually stands short, and is easily handled as a result. Such tall straw as is common to the hither West is unknown there. The advantage of having the straw and chaff left on the stubble, to be turned under by the plow, and return so much to the soil, needs no argument, especially when it is common to see the straw accumulated from threshing burned, and so lost to fertilization. This harvester seems to do its work so carefully that it is used wherever the normal conditions are favorable; that is, wherever standing grain can be