The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-01-11
SOME NEW BOOKS.
THE LOST TRUTHS OF CHRISTIANITY. PhiIa-
drlphta: }. Il. Lippincott 4 Do, 1880. New
Orlraus Eyrich, 100 Canal street. Price
81 d

! THE LOST TRUTHS OF Christianity. PhiIa-
| d-lphia: J. Il. Lippincott 4 Uo 1880. New
Orlraus Eyrich, 100 Canal street. Price
| 81 25.
| 284 pages the author, who is currently re-
| ported to be New Orleans physician of some
| note, attempts TO solve the mystery OF the In :
| earnatiDn, the nature Of the divine and
human existence, sin and Its punishment, and
goodness nd Its reward. Fortified with
numerous texts from the Bible ths author
| attempts to show how certain truths OF re-
ligi III have become lost In the ma 1ifold transit
| tons OF creeds and churches. aud how they
have been restored to their proper place aud
function In this book The work is we'll
written even eloquent In some portions -but
the authors notions are often 80 veilei In a
haz9 OF mysticism as to bs exceedingly diff
cult of apprehension. Although proTeeseiIy
building upon the groundwork OF his scrip
tnral texts, he occasionally arrives at con-
illusions almost identical with those Of the
modern positivst school so cleverly satirized
by Mallock In the "New r. public" and so
merGessly criticised III his iatrr work. Some
OF the authors propositions read lik. para
phrases from Hindoo philosophy. as when he
saws:
sc ,od Is therefore sef-rewarding aud evil
Is self-punishing In the very existence Of
things. Eleh man creates and car
ries within himself his own heaven or he'll"
Page 270l
Compare this with the following statement
OF the doctri ne of Buddh, from the Light of
Asia" Book willy:
Nought from the helpless go1s by gift and
hymn.
Nor brlb- with blood nor feed with fruits and
Within uree'f dsivsrnnce must be sought:
L ch man his prison makes"
We refer, however, all those Interested fand
who 10 notO III the problens 1t seeks to solve
to the book itself. We have only been able to
Indicate its tendencies.
THE KEYS OF SECT; or, The Church OF the
New Testament compared with the Sects
Sturtevant. ID, LID, etc. Boston:
Les II shepard, 1880. New Orleans:
Eyrtcb, $50 Canal street. 81 rs.
This is an earnest endeavor to reconcile and
unite the various sects OF Christianity. This
united church IL TO be spiritual catn0llcity
which rests for its only basiB on the doctrine
OF the forgiveness OF sius through faith In
Jesus Christ, and that thorough refof nation
witch this Is sure to produce. In the opinion
Of the author this is to be the church of the
future, which shall endure forever. and
against which the gates OF hell ehali not pre-
vail. ALI current forms of religion are
siml ~ forms Of hierarchal organization, with
fatal deficiency OF spiritual life Hence, the
tendency Of all the sects Is towards q more
perfect system OF ecclesiastical organization
and government, which beats fruit Ia thu con-
stantly increasing number OF converts to
Roman Catholicism, the highest and most
perfect type Of such hierarchal government
10 stem this Rome-ward tide spetns TO be
partly the object of this work. It Is v ry
doubtful whether the hopes sn confidently
held by the author will ever be fulfilled.
SHORT STUDIES OF AMERICAN AUTHORS. By
Thomas Wentworth Hieginsou. Boston:
Lee d Shepard. 1880. New Orleans: Ey-
rich, 100 Canal street. rs cents.
Six brief studies on the works OF Haw-
thorne, Poe, Thoreau, Howells, Helen Jack
son (''H. I'll. = and Henry James, Jr make up
this neat little volume OF sixty pages. The |
papers have ell appeared In The Literary
World, and are now collected and reprinted |
with corrections and additions The two last |
essays in the book--the one on Helen jack |
son, who is gener lily believed to be the au-
thor OF the SAKE Holm" stories, and that on |
Henry James, Jr,-are the best Of the SERIES |
Col. Higginson's criticism Is incisive and pol |
ished The work will be OF great use in the |
study OF the writings OF the authors named.
LETTERS FROM EUROPE. By Hon. William
ID. Kelley. Philadelphia: Porter II Coates,
$780,. New Orleans Eyrich, 1870 Canal
street.
A pamphlet OF sixty. four pages, containing
The lHttn-S-aiy in ullrnbor writ ron by Gnp