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

LITERARY NOTICES.
TRIBUNE ALMANAC.
This standard Almanac published by
the New York Tribune company is re-
ceived for tie year 1881. 1t is also, as
it claims to be, a political register, con-
tanning election and census returns for
the past year, list Of U. s.. 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.
DEC1sIvE e BATTLES 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 a contrary event
would have essentially varied the dra-
ma Of the world III all its subsequent
scenes, is highly esteemed by all readers
OF history. 1t has 4 long time been on
Harper's list as one of their standard
books, 1T tile price of $1.5O. Now it is
issued in 4 very handsome cloth-bound
volume, by the American Book Elk.
change, New York, ut the nominal
price of 80 cents. 1t forMs one of their
Acme Library of History, which in.
cludes Macaulay's England, $l.25 ire.
duced from $7.3O). Gibbons Rome,
$3.50 (reduced from 5000, Rollins An.
cient History, $1.75; Froissart's Chron-
icles. 81 80. and to which list will soon
be added, ut equally low prices. Grote's
Greece, Green's (larger) England,
Mommsen's Rome, Masson's Guizot's =
France. Carlyle's French Revolution,
Schiller's Thirty Years. War, and 9th.
ers. Catalogues of the standard low.
priced books of the Literary Revolution
will he sent on application to tue Am.
erican Book Exchange, Tribune Build.
ing, New York.
THE CHOICE OF BOOKS.
A very elegant little volume with the
above title, by Charles F. 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
"f five cents. 1t will delight all who
love good books, and in it's wise sugges
tions will be greatly helpful to all who
want help in choosing good books. In
it's various chapters it treats of The Mo
tive of Reading. The Reading Habit
What Books to Read. Tue Best Time tc
Read, How Much to Read, Remember
ing what One reads, The Use Of Note
Books, The Cultivation of Taste, Poet
~. The Art Of Skipping. The use oil
Translations, 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 rich III
striking quotations from the world s
most famous authors and thinkers
from Aristotle to Emerson, including
such Names AS Addison. Bacon, Burns
Cato. Carlyle. Dsraeli, Fenelon, Gibb
on. Hugo, Keats, Lamb, Locke, Lu
ther. Milton. Petrarch. Ruskln Shakes
peare, and Thoreau. 1t is real litera'
ay treasure house.
TIE RELIGION OF SPIRITUAL.
ISM. Its Phenomena and Philoso.
ply. BY SAMUEL WATSON, Auth.
or ''Clock Struck One, Two and
Three" Thirty-s 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 IN extended review in our col
umns, but 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.
DR.. Watson was for many years a
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 i 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 :dvo
eating the phil osophy and the religion
of Spiritualism.
DR.. Watson may be called 4 "Chris.
tian Spiritualist," that is, while his
views us to Orthodox theology have un.
dergone a radical change, he is still d
profound student of and believer i'll the
Bible as Il revelation and Il record OF
spirit manifestations, and in Jesus
Christ us tire greatest teacher of spirit.
nal truth who has ever appeared among
men.
Hence his work is of especial interest
and value to church people, and we un.
derstand tie 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-
phy OF Spirit Control, Biblical Proof of
Spirit Manifestations, Death or Transi-
tion and what Follows. Does Proba-
tion Terminate with Earth-Life, The
Resurrection, Spirit orld, Law of Rec
ompense. A number of chapters are
devoted to spirit communications re-
ceived during a series of years, giving
much information concerning condi-
tions and modes Of existence in the
spirit-wOrld.
We have space only for y few quota
tions from tlsis interesting work:
Of Jesus he says:
But it (Spiritualism) distinctly and
emphatically maintains that, while
scattered rays OF revelation have fallen
o. waiting eyes in Zoroaster, Confuci-
us. Buddha, 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
Spiritualism, and whatever destroys
modern manifestations must, with un.
ind