New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-17
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

NEW POBLlCAl1ONH
schr,sts Christianity" Henry Holt & Cob Is
an. somewhat sensational title Of an analysis and
Arrangement by subjeces of the precepts and doc
&rnes of Our Lord as they are recorded IN the oos
uels The author of the book is Albert IL. w aiker'
alawver of Hartford. The choice aud distribution
of topics arc careful and systematic. and we have no
aonbt that Mr. Walkers labors will be Ut use 10
o,.rcvmen and students No theological bias is APP
p.rent in the arrangement and the instances IN
which Il has been necessary to make sileht Ver"ai
changes in the text in consequence OF the cnahso
of context arc explained very frankly In the pro.
face Mr.. " alker has followed the phraseoiogy VI
the Revised Version and in Difference. as he says TO
the opinion of the revisers he has treated Marh
xvi 9to 20, and John vii. 90 to viii. IL as MOI
authentic. The revisers however, do not pronounce
those passages very poorly supported" ana WIN
reference to the Important passage OF Mark III p"i
ticular their Judgment 10 by no means 81 poS''''
as Mr. Walker represents it.
uisalone time since we have seen more elegantly
made book than the ewly collected edition OF Inc
Poems Of Thomas Bailey Aldrlch." illustrated py
thu Paint and Clay Club (Houghton. Miifin Il Coz
II IL ratbe, thin octave in flexible covers OF dark
olive with gilt top and unplanei edges, rich IN
manner and in type though a fastidious collector
would perhaps complain that the paper il 'nii
enough to let the impressions show through GU
fine and dainty writer as Mr., Aldrich deserves
dainty treatment. OF the illustrations IL Is high
praise TO say that they are characteristic ana SONIC
of them are very striking. They have enlisted the
pencils of ten twelve artists and various as tney
are in style tLey have this quality in common that
they really serve to adorn IL book which IS more
than can be said of most Illustrations.
The first number of Philosophic Series" brief
treatises in pamphlet form Charles scrloners
Sons. by Dr. James McCosh, is little tract on ap'
Piled logic bearing the title Crlteria OF DIVERSE
Kinds OF Truth as Opposed to Agnosticism. W.
McCosh meets the agnostic not by direct argument
because agnosticism allows us no premises as
ground on which to start, but by showing that the
human mind is capable of reaching knowledge. and
that it has tests to determine when it has done so
The treatses in the are to appear quarterly
and the subjects of those now announced are The
Nature of Causation" IN relation to the doctrine OF
the conservation of forces the scope and hmlta-
ton of Development the philosophy or Kant;
and the ethics of Herbert Spencer.
Let nobody be repealed. by the unattractive typog-
raphy aud common paper cover IRON reaolng 'no
Songs of IA Semitic" by Miss Emma Lazarus pub
Iished al the Office of The american Hebreao. The
Dance TO Death" which gives a subtitle to the
collection is fve-acG semi-historical tragedy
somewhat lurd but vigorous. In the shorter
pieces including a number of translations from the
Hebrew poets of medieval Spain, Miss Lazarus APP
peaIs to more decided advantage She has magma
tiun strong feeling and literary taste apd the
sopgs which she bring have flavor quite new to
our age and race.
In tho % Idvls of Norway and other Poems
tCharles Scribner's Sons) Professor II. III. Boyesen
gives evidence of true poetical fancy and a sur
prisng power of correct and graceful expression.
His method direct and simple, his imagery is PIC
turesque and though the metre trips now and then
vet his verse is upon the Whole very musical Inc
Idyls are probably the most successful o. the pieces
included in this volume but other styles OF COM
position well represented.
The three volumes of Poems of America" edited
by Henry WadswoIth Longfellow. and just pub
lisbed by Houghton Mifln IL Co., consist OF selec-
tions originally made for the popular series OF
"Poems of Places" in which they foImed SIX
volumes. They arc now presented under the same
geographical arrangement. but In new outward
dress and but for the coarse illustrations they
would be very handsome.
sour Liberal Movement III Theology" by Joseph
Henry Allen Roberts Brothers., comprises course
of lectures recently delivered before the Divinity
School of Harvard In versity. II is review OF
the history and antecedents of New-England Uni d.
tarianism, interspersed with interesting personal
"reminiscences, and ending with an appreciation
of The tendencies of mOdern liberal theology and
forecast of the future.
@Studles in Early English Literature" by EN-
elyn W. Washburn &c. 7. Putnam's Sons) make
no pretension of profound scholarship or original
criticism, but they contain interesting and appre-
ciative remarks upon the chief figures IN English
literary history up to the time Of Bac written in
an earnest aud often enthusiastic spirit and Illus
tratod with pertinent extracts.
Ncw pnbliraiions