The Worthington advance., 1881-02-17
LITERARY NOTICES.

LITERARY NOTICES.
TRIBUNE ALMANAC.
This standard Almanac published by
the New York Tribune company is re-
ceived for the year 1881. It is also, as
it claims to be. a political register, con-
tanning election and census returns for
the past year, list of U. $. and State
officers, acts of Congress-, etc. AS the
price is only 25c it is within the reach
of every one, and no one interested in
political or public affairs can afford to
be without it.
DECIsIvEBATTLEso OF THE WORLD.
Creasy's extremely Interesting VOL
ume narrating the history of the fif-
teen decisive battles Of the world, those
few battles of which contrary event
would have essentially varied the dra-
ma OF the world in all its subsequent
scenes, is highly esteemed by all readers
Of history. 1t has long time been on
Harper's list as one of their standard
books, at the price of $3.50. Now it is
issued in very handsome cloth-bound
volume, by the American Book Ex-
change, New York, at the nominal
price of 81 cents. 1t forms one of their
Acme Library of History, which in-
cludes Macaulay's England, $1.25 (re-
duced from $500. Gibbons Rome,
$3.50 (reduced from 50. COY, Rollins An
cirnt History, $1.75; Fr0issart's Chron-
icles. 81 so, and to which list will soon
be added, ut equally low prices. Grote's
Greece, Green's (larger) England.
Momnsen's Rome, Masson's Gnizot's
France, CArlyle's French Revolution,
Scliller's Thirty Years. War. and 9TH
ers. Catalogues of the standard low
priced books of the Literary Revolution
will he sent OH application to the AM
erican Book Exchange, Tribune Build
ing, New York.
THE CHOICE OF BOOKS.
A very elegant little volume with the
above title, by Charles +. Richardson,
is just issued by the American Book Ex-
change, Tribune Building, New York,
at the very low price of 25 cents; also a
cheap paper edition at the nominal cost
Of five cents. 1t will delight all who
love good books, and in its wise sugges-
tions will be greatly helpful to all who
want help IN choosing good books. In
its various chapters it treats Of The Mo-
tive Of Reading. The Reading Habit,
What Books to Read. Tue Best Time to
Read, How Much to Read. Remember
ing what One reads, The Use Of Note
Books, The Cultivation Of Taste, Poet
ry, The Art Of Skipping. The use of
Transitions, How to Read Periodicals,
Reading Aloud and Reading Clubs,
What Books to Own, The Use Of. Pub
lie Libraries. The True Service Of Read
ing. The volume is remarkably ricl, III
striking quotations from the worlds
most famous authors and thinkers,
from Aristotle to Emerson, including
such names rs Addison. Bacon, Burns,
Cato. Carlyle. Disraeli, Fenelon, Gibb-
on. Hugo, Keats, Lamb, Locke, -Lu-
ther. Milton. Petrarch. Ruskln Shakes
peare, and Thoreau. 1t is a real litera-
ny treasure house.
TIE RELIGION OF SPIRITU AL
ISM. Its Phenomena and PhilosO-
ply. BY SAMUEL WATSON, Auth
or Of ''Clock Struck One, Two and
Three Thirty-six years a Method
ist Minister.
We are indebted to the Religio. Phil
osophical Journal Publishing House,
Chicago, for a copy of this excellent
work. We have waited some time in
the hope of finding time and space to
give it al extended review in our COL
n,nns, bat we are not yet able to do so,
and must be content with a more brief
notice than the merits of the work de-
serve.
DIR. Watson was for many years 4
prominent clergyman in the NJ. E.
Church of the South, was editor of the
Southern Christian Advocate, and at
one time came very near being elected
Bishop. The Phenomenon of a clock,
which was out of repair and not run
ming, striking before the death of his
child, led him to investigate Spiritual
ism and, AS an inevitable result, he be-
came devoted Spiritualist and is CIV
ing his best thought and effort to Advo-
eating the phil osophy and the religion
of Spiritualism.
DR.. Watson may be called "Chris-
tian Spiritualist," that is, while his
views us to Orthodox theology have un-
dergone Il radical change, lie is still a
profound student of and believer in the
Bible as Il revelation and a record of
spirit manifestations, and in Jesus
Christ as the greatest teacher of spirit
ual truth who has ever appeared among
men.
Ilence his work is Of especial interest
and value to church people, and we un-
derstand the aim of the present work is
especially to influence and reach that
class of readers.
Among the subjects treated are:
Harmony of Religions, Biblical Testi-
mony, Writing Mediums, Phenomena,
Naturalization, Bible Proof, Philoso-
ply of Spirit Control, Biblical Proof of
Spirit Manifestations, Death or Transi-
ton and what Follows, Does Proba-
ton Terminate with Earth-Life, Tie
Resurrection, Spirit World, Law of Rec
ompense. A number of chapters are
devoted to spirit communications re-
ceived during series of years, giving
much information concerning condi-
tions and modes of existence in the
spirit-W0rld.
We have space only for u few quota
tions from this interesting work:
OF Jesus he says:
But it (Spiritualism) distinctly and
empl'atically maintains that, while
scattered rays OF revelation have fallen
oI waiting eyes III Zoroaster, Confuci-
us. Baddha, and others, ancient and
modern, have fitted through this twi.
light, the submits OF revelation lave a.
lone been attained in Jesus of Naza-
reth.
Of Christianity:
Christianity, as We understand it,
stands upon precisely the same basis as
Spirit,lalism, and whatever destroys
modern manifestations must, with nn-