History of the Higher Criticism of the New Testament. By Henry S. Nash. The Macmillan Co., New York. 44×7 in. 192 pages. 75c. This is a book which many have long desired. It will clear up for the popular reader an unjustly suspected process. Criticism, indeed, is suggestive of negation, but should not be suspected as denying what it rather affirms. In the hands of Christian scholars it simply seeks to realize the principle of the Reformation by setting the Scriptures free from the bondage of tradition to speak the real thought of their writers. Professor Nash exhibits the history of Biblical study as part of a vaster history, and of a general movement of Christian experience, which has made criticism inevitable, but has not made it undevotional, or deprived it of that inspiration which the fathers found in the utterances of the Divine Spirit through human consciousness. It is a large subject, but is treated with a felicitous blending of brevity and clearness, not only as to criticism in general, but the merits of noted individual critics in particular.

Home of Santa Claus (The). By George A.

Best. Illustrated by Arthur Ullyett. Cassell & Co.,
New York. 7x 10 in. 188 pages. $1.

Santa Claus, the shyest of saints, who always hides behind his gifts, might not approve of the photographs of himself and his house but any child would enjoy the wonderful doings in Toy Land, with its real, live toys. How to Make and How to Mend. By an Amateur Mechanic. The Macmillan Co., New York. 5x7 in. 288 pages. $1.25.

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Infidel (The). By M. E. Braddon. Harper & Bros., New York. 5×7% in. 454 pages. $1.50. This seems to us the author's strongest novel and the one freest from sensationalism. has also a distinct historical value, giving as it does a capital picture of English society in the lifetime of John Wesley, and of that great man himself.

In the Days of Alfred the Great. By Eva March Tappan, Ph.D. Illustrated. Lee & Shepard, Boston. 5X7 in. 296 pages.

From his boyhood to his last victory over the Northmen, no tale of an imaginary hero is more full of interest and adventure than the life of England's greatest king. The character and deeds of King Alfred are one of the noblest inheritances of the Anglo-Saxon race, and they should be familiar history to every

child.

Jewish Laws and Customs. By A. Kingsley

Glover. Illustrated. W. A. Hammond Wells, Minn. 5x7% in 259 pages.

The peculiarities of Jewish people, especially as exhibited in literature, by Zangwill, for instance, in his story "Children of the Ghetto," are better appreciated if one knows the law on which all Jewish life is based. Mr. Glover, accordingly, has aimed, in this brief digest under thirty-five distinct titles, to exhibit for an illustrative use the law which regulates every detail of Jewish life and custom. It is based upon the codification of rabbinic laws made by Caro in the sixteenth century, and is an interesting book.

Kindesliebe: A Romance of Fatherland. By Henry Faulkner Darnell, D.D. Illustrated. MacCalla & Co., Philadelphia. 7X4% in. 188 pages. $1.

Landscape Painting in Water-Color. By John MacWhirter, R.A. Illustrated. Cassell & Co., New York. 634x72 in. 63 pages. $2.50.

This is a work of special value to students of water-color painting. Any advice and suggestions from an eminent artist would be heeded by his juniors; this should be doubly true when the author's words are accompanied by two dozen colored plates, admirable examples of Mr. MacWhirter's work.

Lenore and I: A Love Story in Verse. By James F. Sayer. The Eskdale Press, New York. 714x4 in. 59 pages.

Making a Life. By the Rev. Cortland Myers, D.D. Baker & Taylor Co., New York. 5×71⁄2 in. 326 pages. $1.25.

In these twelve essays, which may have served as sermons, Dr. Myers exhibits the power of vivid thought and speech which has made his pulpit popular. These discourses on life are full of life themselves, and amply illustrated by the facts of many lives. They are so good that they should have been made better by taking care to efface blemishes which are more easily condoned in a speaker than in a writer. Such may be noted in an occasional lack of unity and logical coherence of ideas, an imperfect phrasing of the intended meaning, and now and then a crude or coarse expression, e. g., "The Great Western, bounding safe through the gullets of the Hudson, threw her cable out on the capstan of New York." A man of Dr. Myers's gifts should not forego that "work with the file" which takes the roughnesses off of good work.

Model Prayer (The). By Gerard B. F. Hallock, D.D. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., New York. 5x74 in. 36 pages. 35c.

Monitor and the Navy Under Steam (The). By Frank M. Bennett (Lieut. U. S. Navy). Illustrated. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston. 5x7% in. 369 pages. $1.50.

The increasing number of those interested in naval construction will find this a valuable volume for reference, not only for facts concerning the Monitor and war-vessels of her type, but also for facts illustrating the origin and progress of steam navigation, concerning the evolution of the battle-ship, and concerning the part played by our navy in the Civil and Spanish wars.

Parables for Our Times. By Wolcott Calkins, D.D. Thomas Whittaker, New York. 4×61⁄2 in. 160 pages. 50c.

We have seen no better book in this series than the present. Dr. Calkins selects, as bearing on modern social problems, five of Jesus' parables, viz., the Pearl, the Talents, the Unjust Steward, the Good Samaritan, the Tares, and gives them a striking sociological exposition. He writes for the practical man, the man of business. He writes out of personal acquaintance with business methods. Not preachers or university professors, but business men, he declares the indispensable leaders in the exemplification of a truly social Christianity, and makes his stirring appeals to them. Dr. Calkins has shown his best quality as an original thinker and incisive speaker in this little book. In speaking, however, of the Golden Rule as "a tolerable and useful selfishness," we think he intended a different thing from selfishness; that is, self-love.

Paul Jones: Founder of the American Navy. By Augustus C. Buell. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. 5×734 in. 2 vols. 328 and 373 pages. $3. Mr. Buell has written a capital biography of a notably entertaining character. Paul Jones was something of an adventurer, despite his high place in our naval history, and he had remarkable political foresight; for instance, his words written in the eighteenth century stand apter than ever to-day: "The true destiny of France lies in the direction of northern Africa. That great fact is clearly perceived by even so mediocre a person as myself. The laws of geography dictate that the whole North African coast, from the Pillars of Hercules to the sands of Suez, must sooner or later fall under the beneficent sway of France." Mr. Buell thus gives us a truer picture of the man than the somewhat distorted view hitherto had. Nevertheless, Jones's title to fame remains in his conception of what a navy should be and do, and in his consequent service. Petersburg Tales. By Olive Garnett. Hough

ton, Mifflin & Co., Boston. 5x7 in. 316 pages. $1.50.

Four short stories of life in St. Petersburg, or studies of Russian character, very well told, though with some prolixity and occasionaĺ obscurity of style. Miss Garnett succeeds in making her readers feel the peculiar quality of the Russian temperament, and she also makes them feel the intangible but very real sense of oppression which rests upon intellectual and thinking Russia.

Photo-Miniature (The): Street Photography.

Intensification and Reduction. Bromide Printing and Enlarging. The Carbon Process. Chemical Notions for Photographers. Illustrated. Tennant & Ward, 289 Fourth Avenue, New York. 5x8 in. 25c. each.

Another series of these beautifully printed and illustrated manuals on photography has come to our desk. These numbers of the "PhotoMiniature" show, if possible, improvement in both literary treatment and mechanical execution over the high standard set by earlier issues.

Pictures of the Old French Court. By Catherine Bearne. Illustrated. E. P. Dutton & Co., New York. 5x8 in. $3.

In a previous volume the author gave an account of court and social conditions in France during the first half of the fourteenth century. Her present volume treats of the latter half of that century, and of the fifteenth century, namely, of the reigns of Charles V., VI., and VII., of Louis XI., Charles VIII., and Louis XII. During these reigns there were three notable queens, and the work is chiefly concerned with an interesting recital of the story of their lives.

Public Worship. By T. Harwood Pattison.

The American Baptist Publication Society, Philadelphia. 5x74 in. 271 pages. $1.25. The great merit of this book, which Dr. Pattison has designed to be complementary to his recent book on “The Making of a Sermon," is that it effectively contributes toward a desirable enrichment of the services of worship in the non-liturgical churches both in form and in spirit, with a special emphasis on the spirit of worship. It is written not for ministers

only, but for the congregation also, and those ministers who are seeking to realize a higher ideal of public worship would do well to get it read by those on whom they depend for cooperation. All parts of the service receive due consideration, but especial emphasis is put upon public prayer and the service of song. The Sunday evening service and the prayermeeting receive each a chapter; also the baptismal service and the communion servicethe latter two as observed in Baptist churches. It has often been noted as a curious fact that those churches in which a congregational polity prevails have had a less congregational order of worship than those of an episcopal type. This inconsistency is gradually disappearing, and Dr. Pattison expedites its removal. Instructive personal illustrations, enlivening allusions, and humorous quotations attract the reader to a subject intrinsically interesting and treated with signal ability.

Real David Harum (The). By Arthur T. Vance. Illustrated. The Baker & Taylor Co., New York. 5×7 in. 123 pages. 75c.

The attempt to fasten a fictitious portraiture upon a real person is usually to be deprecated. Those who enjoy bluff, big-hearted, sharpwitted "David Harum" do not care a picayune whether Mr. Westcott did or did not derive some of his traits from David Hannum. Probably he did; perhaps he drew some from other men; we hope he invented some "out of his own head."

Red Jacket, the Last of the Senecas. By Colonel H. R. Gordon. Illustrated. E. P. Dutton & Co., New York. 5x84 in. 347 pages. $1.50. An exciting story of scouts and Indians in the expedition sent against the Six Nations in the year 1779.

Riverside Aldine Classics. Five Vols.: "Evangeline," Longfellow; "Snowbound," etc., Whittier; One-Hoss Shay," etc., Holmes; "Sir Launfal," etc., Lowell; "Legends of Province House," etc., Hawthorne. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston. 44X61⁄2 in. 50c. each vol.

The Riverside Aldine Classics, of which five volumes have been issued, are admirable examples of rich material at the disposition of the Riverside Press and of the excellent taste in book-making which presides over that establishment. These volumes represent the most characteristic American literature; if selections from Poe and Emerson were added, it would not be easy to put the soul of American literature within narrower compass. The books are tastefully bound in blue, are of a convenient size, and are admirably printed. Roman Art. By Franz Wickhoff. Translated

and Edited by Mrs. S. Arthur Strong, LL.D. Illus trated. The Macmillan Co., New York. 8x12 in. 198 pages. $8.

Mrs. Strong, who has already edited Furtwängler's Masterpieces of Greek Sculpture," now publishes her translation and edition of Wickhoff's great work on the principles of Roman Art and their application to early Christian painting. We reserve this valuable volume for later notice.

St. Peter's Umbrella. By Kálmán Mikszáth.

Translated by B. W. Worswick. Illustrated. Harper & Bros., New York. 5x7 in. 290 pages. $1.50. Jókai is not the only Hungarian novelist of

repute. Almost his equal as a story-teller is Mikszáth. The invention, odd humor, and romance of this tale are all quite unlike anything else, and hold the attention. It relates the strange adventures of a ragged red umbrella and a brass caldron, and the important events which grew out of their migrations and the popular myths about them.

Salt-Box House (The). By Jane De Forest Shelton. The Baker & Taylor Co., New York. 5x71⁄2 in. 302 pages. $1.50.

A much better book than its dedication or preface promises. Nearly every chapter puts graphically before the reader some interesting phase of the life of a well-to-do family in a Connecticut hill town a century ago. The family's life is followed for three generations, and although the author's touch is always affectionate, she does not disguise the fact that the family she describes, like most families of the same social station, had no sympathy with the war for colonial independence. The volume, however, has but little to do with the political life which occupies such a disproportionately large place in most histories. It deals with every-day concerns, work and play, school and church, love and marriage, sickness and death. It gains in human interest as it progresses, Miss Mary, the last mistress of the Salt-Box House, being a most attractive old maid.

Self-Made Countess (A). By John Strange Winter. The J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia. 44X7 in. 317 pages.

Sisters Three. By Jessie Mansergh. (Mrs. G. De Horne Vaizey.) Cassell & Co., New York. 5x7 in. 280 pages. $1.25.

Soft Side (The). By Henry James. The Macmillan Co., New York. 5x7 in. 326 pages. $1.50.

In this volume Mr. James has collected twelve characteristic examples of his more recent work-twelve studies in psychology, marked by the subtlety with which he creates his problems and then proceeds to solve them, or rather to elaborate them, for Mr. James rarely solves anything. The stories are packed with close observation, with keen analysis, and with that delicate skill which is always at the command of Mr. James. They are touched continually with the exquisite delicacy of style which at his best never fails him; but they are too subtle, too psychological, too analytical, for the purposes of fiction.

Sportswoman in India (A). By Isabel Savory. Illustrated. J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia. 5x834 in. 408 pages.

Exciting adventures in "pig-sticking," tigershooting, and black-bear hunting, experiences with snakes, a view of an elephant "khedder," travel incidents in Peshawur, through the Khyber Pass, in Kashmir and the Dekkan, and elsewhere-all this has added spice and thrill because the writer is a woman. The narrative is stirring and lively, and is made still more interesting by the many capital photographs.

Stories from Dreamland. By William H. Pott. Illustrated in Color. James Pott & Co., New York. 5x74 in. 206 pages. $1.25.

Mr. Pott has the gift of telling stories for young readers; the gift of invention, of sym

pathetic approach to the child mind, and the easy and familiar style which the child understands. These stories are very simply told; they show inventiveness, and they are evidently the outgrowth of a genuine interest in children and acquaintance with them. Temperance Problem and Social Reform, The. By Joseph Rowntree and Arthur Sherwell. (Seventh Edition. Revised and Enlarged.) Truslove, Hanson & Comba, New York. 5x8in. 784 pages. $2. A new edition-the seventh-with additional chapters upon the workings of prohibition in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, of local option in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Canada, of high license in New York, and of the dispensary system in the Carolinas and South Dakota. The last-named chapter is perhaps the most valuable in the compilation. Texts for Sermons. Compiled and Arranged

by Henry M. Barron, B.A. Preface by Henry Scott Holland, M.A. The J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadel phia. 5x7 in. 237 pages.

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Such a collection is not open to the objections which lie against books of sermon outlines; it may be a good time-saver without detriment to self-reliance. Subjects suggested by texts are given with them, sometimes with striking felicity; e. g., 2 Kings ii., 16, Peradventure the Spirit of the Lord hath taken him up, and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley," suggests the theme "Spiritual Dangers.' the occasions for suitable discourses adapts The inclusion of saints' days among the book to the widest range of ministerial use. Transfigured Life, The. By Rev. J. H. Myers, Ph.D. Introduction by Albert Leonard, Ph.D. Eaton & Mains, New York. 4×7 in. 135 pages. The life thus characterized is exhibited as life dominated by the Spirit of Christ. An unwonted note in books of this kind is the author's presentiment that an inevitable change in the existing social order must come, either in this way of inward renewal of spirit in the Church, or in some external catastrophe. Earnestly but without extravagance, the question is pressed upon the Christian reader whether he really as well as nominally believes in the Holy Spirit. The book contains some of the Bible readings recently given at Syracuse University, Chautauqua, and various Conferences.

By G. Gregory Transition Period (The). Smith, M.A. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. (Periods of European Literature. Edited by Professor Saintsbury.) 5×74 in. 422 pages. $1.50. This latest addition to the studies of "Periods of European Literature," edited by Professor Saintsbury, is from the hand of Mr. G. G. Smith, a lecturer on English in the University of Edinburgh, and deals with European literature of the fifteenth century at the time when the dominant conceptions of the mediæval world were undergoing rapid transformation and the controlling ideas of modern art were slowly forming themselves. The volume will receive further notice.

"Unto You Young Men." By the Venerable 'William MacDonald Sinclair, D.D., Archdeacon of London. The J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia. 44X7 in. 258 pages.

In the thirteen chapters of this volume is embodied the substance of the author's dis

courses to the undergraduates of Oxford, Cambridge, and Edinburgh, on fundamental points of religion and morality. They exhibit the spiritual insight, the intellectual force, and the

dignity of utterance which characterize the best representatives of the Anglican pulpit, and are as pertinent to college students in this country as in Great Britain.

1. If miracles are not merely the fabrications of imagination, what does Mr. Fiske mean when he says in his "Unseen World" ("A Word About Miracles"), page 134: "Blank indeed would the evangelists have looked had any one told them what an enormous theory of systematic meddling with nature was destined to grow out of their beautiful and artless narratives"? 2. How reconcile Mr. Fiske's idea of God (in his "Idea of God") as an unlocalizable, not fully anthropomorphic deity, with the belief that Christ was himself God? Do you believe that Christ was divine in a sense essentially different from that in which one might say that Paul or Adoniram Judson or Gladstone was divine? In your opinion, does Mr. Fiske believe that Christ was divine-was God?

R. M. H.

1. Evidently Mr. Fiske does not accept miracles, and in this is at variance with some of his critics, including The Outlook. 2. Mr. Fiske must speak for himself. We hold that the difference between Jesus and any other member of the human race was one, not of kind, but of degree. Deity and humanity are essentially of one nature, not two, differing only as the infinite and the finite differ. The New Testament teaches simply that "God was in Christ "-more fully, we believe, than in any other, and as fully as human limitations made possible. 1. Kindly mention the best commentary on the Book of Revelation, from the point of view of modern scholarship. 2. Your theory of prayer has been exceedingly helpful to me, but I should like to know your views on one point. Is it useful or consistent to pray for something over which our own mental or spiritual condition, however stimulated by communion with God, can have no influence whatever? For example, should we pray for the safe arrival of a friend who is crossing the ocean? It would seem most unnatural not to do so, yet I cannot make it square with the theory of prayer held by The Outlook. M. M.

1. Among English commentaries on this book Milligan's is esteemed the best. It needs to be supplemented by other works, as Terry's" Biblical Apocalyptics" (Eaton & Mains, New York), and Gould's handbook on the "Biblical Theology of the New Testament" (Macmillan). 2. Nothing is excepted by a master in prayer like St. Paul, when urging that "everything" be included in the range of prayerful requests (Philippians iv., 6). True prayer is action upon our unseen environment, and where there is action there is reaction. That the mode and the limits of it are unknown is no cause for denying it. We are not aware of having said anything inconsistent with this.

Please suggest some recent books upon the closing century-its moral and religious movements, as well as its material and scientific progress. W. J. A. Its progress in various lines appears in the following: Wallace's "Wonderful Century" (Harpers-a scientific record); Tulloch's "Movements of Religious Thought in Britain during the Nineteenth Century" (Scribners); White's "History of the Warfare of Science with Theology" (Appletons); Nash's "History of the Higher Criticism" (Macmillan); Scudder's "Social Ideals and English Letters" (Houghton, Mifflin & Co.); Dennis's "Christian Missions and Social Progress" (Revell); Leonard's" Missionary Annals of the Nineteenth Cen

tury" (F. M. Barton, Cleveland); Bliss's Cyclopædia of Social Reform " (Funk & Wagnalls).

1. Through whom can I procure Dr. Albert Moll's Hypnotism"? Is Dr. Moll's work still considered the best on the subject, or are there later and better authorities? 2. Who is the publisher and what is the price of the cheapest edition of the Ante and Post Nicene Church Library ? H. P. H. 1. It can be ordered of Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, $1.25. It is a high authority. A recent and desirable work is Quackenbos's “" Hypnotism in Mental and Moral Culture" (Harpers, New York, $1). 2. There are ten volumes of the Ante-Nicene Series, each at $4. Of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers there are two series, each of fourteen volumes at $4 each. (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York.) We know of only this edition.

Kindly state where one can find the full text of the Westminster Confession in its form as an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, with the date of its passage in its present form, or as it was when joined with the Solemn League and Covenant.

J. F. W. You will find it in the first volume of Schaff's "Creeds of Christendom," the English text of 1647, as printed at London and Edinburgh. By addressing the Presbyterian Board of Publication, Philadelphia, you can ascer tain whether the same text can be had in another and cheaper form.

"M. W. R." quotes from a missionary long resident in Jerusalem an explanation of Jesus's saying about the camel going through the eye of a needle, differ ent from the one given to "J. B.," September 29; the substance of it being that the needle is a very narrow door in a gateway that the camel cannot pass without first kneeling and being unloaded-a proceeding analogous to that which was needful for the rich man to whom the saying was addressed. This explanation is not unknown to scholars, as "M. W. R." supposes, but most of them prefer the one which we gave.

Can you or any reader tell me where I can find the music of an old hymn beginning"Oh, Calvary. 'tis a mountain high, 'Tis too difficult a task for thee; For I have heard them say

There are lions in the way,

And they lurk in the mountain Calvary," This hymn, with several others of like character, used to be sung in the singing-schools of a certain New England town in the early part of the nineteenth century. Another hymn begins: "Mercy, O thou son of David,' thus poor blind Bartimeus cried." C. W. H.

"F. J. H." asks where Renan's essay entitled "The Poetry of the Celtic Races" may be found. The essay in question is in the volume of "Essays of Ernest Renan" which forms one of the Camelot Series, published by Walter Scott. Ltd., London. The book may be purchased for about thirty-five cents in New York City. H. D. F.

"M. W. K." asks the authorship of "The Battle Song of Gustavus Adolphus." The author's name is Michael Altenburg. O, C. H.

Vol. 66

The Coal Strike

The pacific character of the anthracite coal strike was again interrupted last week by a conflict between marching strikers and "special policemen" at the Oneida Colliery near Hazleton. Stones were thrown and shots were exchanged by which one striker and one special policeman were killed. Each side claims that the other was responsible for the bloodshed. During the present strike the right of the strikers to march to adjacent collieries over the public roads has been generally conceded. In some instances they have exceeded their rights by crossing company property and thus brought themselves into conflict with the sheriff's deputies. These public officers seem to have conducted themselves well on all occasions, and the complaints of the miners against those guarding property rights are almost exclusively against the "Pinkertons" said to be employed by the companies. When the miners' convention assembled in Scranton, there was a revival of the reports that the offers of a ten per cent. advance made by most of the operators would be rejected, and a demand made for a series of concessions -including possibly the recognition of the Union. When, however, President Mitchell addressed the convention, it became clear that his influence, at least, was to be on the side of a speedy settlement. He went as far as a leader well could in warning his followers not to "overestimate their strength" or permit "the great organization which has been built up among you to be wrecked." He looked to the future, he said, for the establishment in the anthracite fields of "the same method of adjusting wage differences as now exists in the bituminous coal regions, where employers and miners' delegates meet in joint inter-State convention, and, like prudent, sensible men, mu

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tually agree upon a scale of wages which remains in force for one year." When the convention closed, it was found that President Mitchell's influence had been dominant. The final decision reached was that all should return to work if all the operators agreed to grant the ten per cent. increase in wages until April 1 of next year, and those in the Schuylkill and Lehigh regions abolish the "sliding scale" by which the united action of all employees is rendered difficult. If these terms are rejected, the miners' convention asks that all questions at issue be submitted to impartial arbitration. As we go to press the answer of the operators is still uncertain.

Coal, Iron, and Steel

Americans may well take pride in the fact that they are now the masters of the world in the supply, not only of breadstuffs, cotton, copper, and provisions, but, since 1896, also in the supply of coal, iron, and steel. Last year the United States produced one-third of the world's iron ore. Much less than this proportion would give us the leadership. Our position, however, must be taken in connection with coal, a production on which the iron industry depends. In coal we also produce a third of the world's output. With primacy in both iron ore and coal, the position of the United States is of course one of undisputed ascendency in the control of the raw materials used in iron and steel production, and such a primacy gives to us a self-sufficing position as compared with that of our foremost rivals, Germany and Great Britain. Germany is compelled to rely upon Sweden for its iron ore, and England upon Spain. Here, on the contrary, our manufacturers are free to locate their iron and steel indus