St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-29


mented on. and because his preaching is S,
vigorous and UNIQUE in style that his idea
strike men as new in fact, when they are
merely new in form. He is known the
country over as being believer in the
| Evolutionary philosophy. and has been
widely discredited by many religious papers
and men on that account; while there is no
similar disposition to criticise men like DR..
McCosh of Princeton, Prof. Dana of Yale
Prof Gray of Harvard, and in England.
the Duke of Argyle the Bishop of London
and others. who accept the new view and
teach it, but. for various reasons, are not
in so marked way held to account for it.
| The whole series of sermons is rather of
a fundamental and theoretic than of prac
| teal and specific character. Nevertheless.
this series. complete in itself, is crowded
with practical, suggestive, helpful, hopeful
| thoughts.
The discourses of the present group are
not so notable for Their imaginative and
rhetorical beauties as others in which the
preacher has given freer rein to his i'm
pulses: but they will be none the less read
pondered. and accepted as fore CLEANS of
hope by many man and woman who has
seemed to see the old light growing dim
and the new one cold, cherries and uncer
| tain.
EVOLUTION AND REL1GIoN-Eight sermons
discussing the bearings of tho Evolu-
| tionary Philosophy on the Fundamental
| Doctrines OF Evangelical Religion, by
Henry Ward Beecher; Svo pamphlet
price, so cents. New York: Fol bes, How
ard s. Hubert.
The disposition for decorating and adorn-
ing the home has taken such strong hold
of the people of this country that a paper
or magazine devoted exclusively to the sub
! ject cannot fail to succeed, especially where
| the articles and designs in the magazine
meet the requirements and tastes of almost
every person. This may account for the re-
markable success of The Decorator and
Furnsher, which comes to us monthly,
| flied with the very best hints concerning
the home. The November number, which
just reaches U.S. has the beginning of a
series on furnishing OF city houses, finely
illustrated: some japanese stencils; an arti
Gle ON sanitary house furnishing, with illus
tration of cellar. which is to be followed
with all the rooms i'll the house; an account
of the recent yacht races, with pictures of
all the cups; sketches at South Kensington
museum; stained glass; studio interior; an
economical mantel; oil cloth designs; eco
nomical furnishings; and variety of other
| matter. The magazine is published at 30
and 80 East Fourteenth street, New York
| City.
A compact and clear statement of the At
| CHAN problem. showing the advance of the
| two great Eurobean powers toward the land
of the Ameer. the history of Russian and
British ACKNOWLEDGMENT between the Indus
and the Oxus. the great political and COM
mercial questions involved and the strategic
value of various points in Afghanistan, is
given in volume published which will be
read with interest. 1t is the initial number
of what promises to be very interesting
series.
| ENGLAND AND RUSSIA IN CENTRAL ASIA, No.
l Of the Timely Topic series; VOL, 16mo.,
with maps. Price so cents. Ticknor & Co.,
| Boston.
Certainly it is curious and interesting
idea that Miss Cruger advances in her novel
| HyperRsthesia-which might be called ''Su-
persons tiveness'' although it is based on
| the ancient and simple notion of counter
irritation. To induce nervous and suffer-
ing child to stop fretting by means of at
tracing its attention to something else than
itself and its ills is as old as the existence
of nurseries; but the way in which Miss
Cruger sets out with the difficulty, that all
of her characters with whom the reader
| HliuoCl1 III pdLus diO iii oOiiiC way
the subjects of Over-sensitiye Susceptbilities
| (ether of body, or mind, or what for lack
of better word might be called morale),
and the mode in which she offsets the needs
of each by some corresponding element
| that the others have the wit or the luck to
supply. and thus brings about at last the
blissful hygiene of happiness, is very apt,
and shows keen knowledge of human ma
ture-perhaps especially of woman nature.
The summer hotel, which affords the
scene of the story, is supplied with the
usual types and groups that summer travel
ers will recognize and be amused to see re-
produced.
The complications of the plot, and it's
blind mysteries, are very ingeniOusly
worked out; and the finale of the ghost
scene shows one of the few touches of
humor in the book. though its beginning is
creepy-crawly enough to satisfy the most
exacting appetite.
HYPEREsrHEslA. A novel. By Mary Cru
ger. 400 PIP. Cloth, 81. New York: Fords.
Howard s. Hubert.
An enumeration Of Bryant's literary
friends would be but suggestive Of the ma
terials of interest gathered into particu-
larly handsome and bookly little volume of
Gen. Wilson's. entitled Bryant and His
Friends. The author has given full bio
graphical notes Of the chief writer's who, in
beginning the career of letters in what was
known as the ''Knickerbocker'' period of lit
erary work in New York-that is. about
the first fifty years of this century-were
pioneers of American literature at large
William Cullen Bryant is taken as the
center around which the others are grouped,
because he was among the very earliest, and
became and remained the most eminent of
the brilliant circle. The more complete
sketches are of Bryant, Paulding, Irvine,
Dana, Cooper, Halleck, Drake, Willis. Poe
and Bayard Taylor (who is one Of the prom
inent figures of the latter portion of the
time covered; and then follows chapter,
entitled The Knickerbocker Literature,
which. after paying its respects to those
already treated Of proceeds to give brief
notices of about a score of Others of note,
but of lesser Importance. such as: Wood
worth, Pierpont, Verplanck. DR.. Francis,
Payne. Leggett, George P. Morris, Hoff-
man, COZzenS and SO on.
| BRYANT AND HIS FRIENDS: Some reminis-
| ucences of the Knickerbocker writer. Illus
trated, 444 pp., 16mo. Cloth. beveed
| boards, gilt top, So. New York, Fords,
| Howard & Hubert.
An Intere sting Quintette,