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strength to compel obedience" That is to saw.
the world OF men will never advance beyond a
recognition of brute power. So long as poli-
tics meant wars and rumors of wars SO long as
every twisted knot or tangled sken was to be
cut by sword or battle axe, there was. no place
for women's hands in this field. They could
hold and WELD no such weapons. But that
Gay is done. Women who, as a rule, are so
cleanly and careful In their own house, aud
such admirable nurses in their own homes. and
SUCH capital organizers in their own small do.
maiDs would see that all questions concerning
the general health of towns and cities, the gen.
eral care OF hospitals and asylums of all sorts,
were better met and answered than they are by
the men who now face and settle them.
woman can only do her duty to her home,
10 other people homes,-if her own is safe;
her duty to her children, her duty to her own
soul, by going into the world, not to strive, in
unwomauly fashion for place. and name. and
authority, and rights; but, in womanIy fashion
to do the work that no man is doing the work
that men are doing i'll, the work that men are
actually forbdding to be done. Selfishness is
not lOveliness; weakness is not tenderness; as
woman's life broadens and deepens as her
thought and her cares and her responsibilities
widen, so does her capacity for love, her
strength of love, broaden and deepen, grow in
richness and beauty, grace and power AS
women love humanity more they will give bet
ter love to the men by their Sides Out of such
work and such life, men, then, will be the gain
ers in that for which they reveal the most de-
sire, and express the most care.
ELIJAH, THE PROPHET. By Rev. VIM. NJ. Tay-
lor, d. D. Published by Harper Bros, n. Y. For
leby Loring, Short 8 Harmon.
This is a very successful attempt at religious
writing, at present frequently adopted, which
aims to popularize truth by presenting it in
its relation to modern life and dvestlug it of
traditonary dimness and the quality of unap-
proachableress which mistaken reverence has
attributed to the latter, adplies it to the spirit
OF sto-day. This species of religious compost
,sition has of course been pushed beyond its linn.
its by such sensational sermonizers as Mr.. Tai
mage, aud is apt to transgress the bounds of
the fitness of things and shock, even disgust,
by its familiarity of treatment Of sacred
themes. But in the instance of the pres
ent volume the good taste of the au-
thor, who is evidently what DR.. Holmes calls
"a gentleman in his religion" obviates easily
any such difficulty. The work evidences solid
study, careful acquaintance with, and compari.
son of authorities, and gives clear and ex-
ceedingly interesting account of the life and
mission of Elijah. The polemic quality of the
book is very liberal, AMI its enjoyment and
profit will bellimited by no sectarian divisions.
1t is valuable addition to the long list of books
which help to make clear and living the grand
figures OF the Scriptures, and remit to our mod
ern times the experience of the past.
THRoUH AND THROUGH THE TROPICS. BY Frank
Vincent, jr. New York: Harper q Brothers. For
sale by Loring. Short & Harmon.
Through and Through the Tropics is duo
decimo book of three hundred pages, published
by Harpers, without illustrations, describing
journey of Frank Vincent, jr., from New York
in 1869, around Cape Horn to San Francisco
across the Pacific tarrying at the Sandwich
Islands and Australia. Thence he went to
Calcutta and made four thousand mile trip
through Hindosian. Without telling anything
particularly new, be gives an interesting view
of the present state of the more familiar por-
tions of the country, which shows that it is
gradually improving under the English rule