Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-04
REGENT PUBLICATIONS

A party of children were once on atisit to ! their grandma in cosy New Englai home at the holiday season A regular ld-fash- toned snow storm set in and threEened to
 make the children's vacation very upleasant by confning them indoors. But iey made | the best of it and the elder memlrs of the I party told stories. Such storif as they | were, too. Indeed, they were s delightful
 that they beguiled the hours of steral dreary
 days into the season of happi1ss. And in l order that others may enjoy thu, they have been published in book caAd Spinning
 Wheel Stories" by Louisa MAlcott They will no doubt be read by tllsands. Pub lished by Roberts Brothers, pston, and for | sale in this city by Judd thebokseller. Helen Jackson, better knFn as HI. H., I has written novel called Ramona" which
 is one of the best books offs kind that has appeared this season. It novel of the ! romantic order. The pIos very enchanting, the characters new and rongly drawn and l the descrictions exceedBly well done. It will well repay perusal Published by Rob erts Brothers, Boston, ho TOT sale in this city by Judd the booeIler.
 An interesting boz is ''The Usurper," by
 Judith Gautier. a omising French writer.
 The translation is Abby Langdon Alger.
 The story is the eooration of an episode in
 Japanese historyoout the beginning of the
 17th century apGhe book is as. exciting as
 the episode whi forms its subject is un-
 known to ordjry readers. The style is ex-
 cellent. Pushed by Roberts Brothers, I
 Boston, and sale in this city by Judd the
 bookseller
 A book lat will have a very wide and
 very ben|ial influence is Pastoral Theol- ogy." by of James M. Hoppin of Yale col leee T7book is intended as a companion of the lthor's standard work on Homil- cities D treats of the pastoral office and the nasto1n his various relations. It is inst snch 1ook as every theological student and l vo,,y minister should read, for aid in the gtuJs, inquiries, trials, and mental and ns1 preparation for the active work of the ( ristry. Many minister makes a partial . entire failure of his life because he fails to 1erstand his time. His character lacks t practical element which was so marked o Jhrist, and his intelligence has not that ming which will fit it for the work of our VI
 and land. This book seeks to bring ont h practical element, to supply in a meas e that tralnia2. As the author well says: D he pastor Of sotls should know men and at they talk and think about. In our best Q, lmunities are to be found Americans bv h and education who are prefessed Budd- 's; there are Mormons; there al. Social
 and free Communists, who are worlvino s, the abolition of the laws of a Christian. W hzation; there are men tired of life be- b SC they have never truly lived; there are eaten up with the love of money and F ) know no other religion; there are materi- 0 Is who deny all supernatural truth, in g y grade from the disciples of the most uIl u 'imistic school to the purely scientific sr shippers of primitive force in tho physi- tl universe; there arc idealists who are o9- st d from the lofty minded Spinoza and the II
 aag ssg @ il8ssoRhiefl ls oR na shaffss of modern English school of skeptiea1 phi y' ,phy: there are those who believe nothing re
 hope nothing; there are those who wan O in search of their lost in the realm of T