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"Ihe Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prem tiss, by the Rev. George l.. Prentiss is the title of an exceedingly interesting biography. Mrs. Prentiss was g. daughter of the distin- guished Portland divine, Dr. Edward Payson, and inherited from him remarkable intellec- tual gifts. Says a critic s'Her life and character are gracefully and sympathetically portrayed as illustrating the intense religious spirit which combined something of the old Puritanic vigor with the evangelical and evangelistic impulses of her day, and had felt the influence of the ethical and philan- thropic movements represented by Dr. Chan ming. She was brilliant example of mental and spiritual power, developed in connection with material weakness, and showing by con- trast its independence and it's greatness. Her physical constitution was from the first feeble and her temperament delicate and sensitive so that she was keenly susceptible to suffer ing, and obtained of it an unusual share Her life is said to have been largely shaped by sorrow, and yet was not a sorrowful life but joyful one. 1t was not 8 poor and meagre life, but 8 rich and effective one both in itself and it's fruits." Those who have
 
 any of the seventeen volumes of which she was the author, will be especially interested in this account of her life and work Pub lished by Anson D. F. Randolph 6 Co, New York, and for sale in this city by F. T. Jar man.
 1Ae Neao Englander for January is an ex- cellent number. Rev: Burdett Hart of Fair Haven writes concerning ''Conditions of Be- lief" Rev. J. M. Whiton discusses "Dar- win and Darwinism." Hon. Frederick J. Kingsbury of Waterbury contributes a very Interesting and well written article on Saint Luke: Physician, Painter and Poet" Other articles are: "A Popular Fallacy," by Rev. F. H. Bardick; The Pilgrim Line of Theo- logical Progress" by Rev. George Mooar :; 'Herbert Spencer's Data of Ethics," by Rev. A. c. Sewall; "St. Thomas Aquinas CT, Scholastic Philosophy in Modern Theology by Austin Bierbower; "The Preservation of the Classic Texts," by Professor A. G. Hop. kins ''Swedenborg as Theoiogian and a Seer,' by Rev. J. Brainerd Thrall; ''Spirit- ism 8 Scientific Question: An Answer to Professor Wundt's Open Letter." by Dr. II. Ulrici (translated by Rev. J. B. Chase.) A number of new books are also noticed.
 Ho1per's for January is a remarkably beau tful and interesting number. The opening article is the first of the long expected series of papers by George H. Boughton, entitled "Artist Strolls in Holland" and illustrated from drawings by the author and E. A. Ab bey. J. c. Boards illustrations for Mr. Charles F. Holders entertaining article Living Lamps," beautiful and novel representations of phosphorescent phenome na Ernest Ingersoll, as a writer, and A. C. Redwood, as an artist cooperate in a most Logging Camp'-full of pictures of the Coast Range region in California. Colonel Higginson continues his American History series, with chapter entitled ''The Old English Seamen," :" showing what the Cabots Hawkins Drake. Cavendish and Raleigh did for the maritime supremacy of England ir America in the sixteenth century. Conrad Wilson contributes paper on the posslbili 1 ties of the American Dairy. In fiction anc 1 poetry the number is unusually strong.
 The chief attraction of the Atantic fol January is paper by Dr. Holmes, entitled 'An After Breakfast Talk" Another feature l is the first part of hitherto unpublished dramatic poem by Longfellow. The frag ment from Hawthorne's posthumous papers 'The Ancestral Footstep," is continued The eleventh paper in the series of "Studie. l in tho South" is pleasant and profitable read | ing. H. Fl. writes of 'Chance Days in Ore gon.'' Charles Dudley Warner describes tn, performance of Wagner's Parsifal. The edi , tor reviews Bjornson's stories and the lives of Jackson and Randolph in the American Statesmen series. There are poems of Whit ! tier, Harriet w. Preston and Maurice Thomp son, story entitled "A Stranger Yet a Home," by l.. c. Wyman, The Contributors Club, and notices of new books.
 The North American Re0ieao for Januar, opens with symposium in which three o the most prominent advocates in this countr of the "Revison of Church Creeds," namel Rev. Dr. Newman Smyth, Rev. Henry War Beecher and Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott, SC forth the grounds upon which such revision is deemed necessary defence of reveale religion against the encroachments of sker ticism, and as an adjustment of the relation between faith and science. ''Upiversity Ed uoation for Women" is discussed by Profes sor w. Ie Conte Stevens, who zealously a6 vocates the measure Professor Isaac Rice gives a "Definition of Liberty" dt duced from 8 philosophical study of tn phases of political evolution, from the cal Hest Anglo Saxon times to the present day
 "Amerioan English, by Gilbert M Tucker is spirited defence of our cis Atlantic fasl ion Of English speech. The Rev. Dr. E
 w. Thomas writes on "The Responsibilitie , of Progressive Thinkers" ''Bigotry in th Medical Profession" by Dr. David Hunt,
 protest against the rule of medical ethic which forbids association with any but regr lar practitioners. Finally, Charles T. Cong
 don, under the title of 'Adulteration of IT
 telhgence," exposes some of the grave evi
 to be apprehended from the monopolizatio of telegraph lines, press associations and il auential public journals.
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