The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-10-16

The Seals Opened, or the apocalypse Explain
ed by DR.. Enoch Pond, Pro essor in the Theo-
logical Seminary at Bangor, Maine, will be re-
ceived gladly by students of the Bible every
where. DR.. Pond sta'es in his preface that the
hook of Revelations has been the subject of his
earnest thought and inquiry from childhood.
This early prediction for the study of the
Apoca ypse. followed by years of reflection
thereon, no doubt explains the spirit of conf
dence in which the author promulgates his
plan of Interpretation. He holds that there is
need no longer of the uncertainty concerning
that mysterious scripture which has from the
the earliest ages vexed the student Of the re-
vealed word. He fixes the date of the recep-
ton of the Apocalypse much later than Prof.
Smart of Andover and other distinguished
commentators, and by this means is able to
make the prophetic threatenings that have
been quite commonly supposed to refer to the
destruction of Jerusalem in the first century,
fcresbadow the prospective overthrow of Papal
Rome. This position constitutes the salient
point in the book, and is defended stoutly, but
in kindly, catholic spirit, with all the wea-
pons in the Doctors polemical armory. His
convictions on this and other points are sur
| prsiDgly strong, and he is as certain that be
knows the exact significance of every seal
| trumpet and beast-of the mystical Baby Ion
the scarlet woman and the seven vials-as he
isl that he knows the meaning of the Arabic
numerals. All this is extremely comforting to
those whe know that b s predecessors have
differed endlessly" at every point, and disput
| ed the whole ground, val by vial, trumpet by
| trumpet, beast by beast and seal by seal. Pub.
| lished by Hoyt, Fogg & Breed, Portland, VIII
| are to be congratulated on the creditabe ap
bearance which they have given to so valuable
and learned a work.
The Management of Infancy by Andrew
Comoe, edited by the late Sir James Clarke
has been reprited by d. Appleton & Co. from
the tenth London edition. If book gain.
| popularity from great names this one will be
circulated as widely in America as it has iu
Europe, for both its author and editor were
men of the very foremost rank in their profes
| sion. The author was a brother of that George
Combe who is better knswn as a phrenologis
than as a physician, and Sir James Clarke
held to the day of his death the position o
medical adviser to the royal family of Grea
Britain. A perusal of the work justifes th,
high anticipations with which the reader set
out 1t is a grave, calm, learned but simpl
treatise on matters to which men of the high
est attainments have given the study OF life
time. But of ALL it is in the highest degre
practical. 1t is unnecessary to say that it i
altogether wanting in that sensationalism tina
is characteristic OF some of the later American
medical works designed for popular reading.
William Winters name is not unknown t.
reauers of current poetry. The many to WHOM
the gentle and cheerful spirit of his poetry il
pleasing will be glad that his fugitive piece
have been collected in a book. My Witness il
the name the little volume bears. 1t is pub
lished by James r. Osgood & Co., and is 10
sale by Hall l.. Davis.
Every reader OF the Atlantic Monthly know
how we'll done are those papers on Spanis
lie, social and political, written by that Johl
Hay who used to be private secretary to Abrs
ham Lincoln, aud who has since become so ia
nous as the author of the spike County Bal
lads. These Castilian Days have been pub
lished in volume by James r. Osgood & CO
Iu a brief PREDATORY note the author says
thing that will take nine-tenths.of his reader
by storm, ,Gpd make them gladder than eve
that they have Get congenial soul. "TbeI
are thOse," says M. Hay, who think III
Spauiards are not tit fsc freedom" He Sc,
tentioasly adds: II believe tAat no people al
fit for anything else" tF0r sale By Hall ]
Davis.)
Froude's essay on Calvinish which Greats
such a sensation when delivered to the stu
dents at st. Andrews last March has been pul
lished in volume, made up oi this and otht
essays. either delivered before academic bodie
or published in periodicals, and entitled Shol
Studies on Great subjects 1t is all enjoyabi.
Those who are not equal TO his many-volume
History of Eaglaud will fad these short studie
pleasant. The narrative paper ON old Hugo
Avalon, Bishop of Lincoln in the days of HeI
ry ii, Richard of the Lion Heart and John.
especially graphic. We fear that Mothf
Rome gives us few such bishops now. (Chas
Scribner & Co. For sale by Loring, Short 1
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