Savannah morning news., 1885-01-25
BOOK NOTICES.

MEMOIRS OF REV. DAVID BRAINERD, the Mis-
eiOnary Hero and Saint of the Eighteenth
Century. Edited by j. NJ. Sherwood.
Funk & Wagnalls, publishers, 10 and IL Dey
street, New York.
The memoirs of David Brainerd, the dis
tinguished missionary to the American
Indians, who died at the house of the
great DR.. Jonathan Edwards. who pre-
pared his memoirs, were published in
Boston in 1749. A new edition, including
Brainerd's journal, was edited by DR..
Serene E. Dwight, and published in New
Haven in 1922, and afterward included in
the complete edition of Edwards works
issued in 1890. The work is now entirely
out of print, and yet it is work Of rare
excellence and extraordinary spiritual
power. Brainerd is the missionary saint
of New England. The story Of his life has
been a potent force in the modern mis-
siOnarv era. Reading the life Of Brainerd
was what decided Henry Martyr to de-
vote himself to the missionary work.
Carey also received a baptism from the
same source. Thousands and tens of
thousands of Christians in America and
Europe, and all over the missionary
world, have had their pietY deepened,
! their faith quickened and their spirit of
conservation famed into flame by read
ing the wondrOus record OF this mans
/ life and Christian experience, whose brief
ministry was spent among the Indians of
/ the American wilderness.
| THE CHANGED BRIDES; or, WINNING HER
WAY. By Mrs. Emma ID. K. y. SOuthWOrth.
! One volume, I2mO., 500 pages; price 70 cents.
I L. b. Peterson & Brothers, Philadelphia,
publishers.
''The Changed Brides is a powerful
love story of the utmost yividness, in
genuity and charm, with multitudes of
sensational, thrilling and unexpected in
cidents, and is justly entitled to high
| rank among her most famous and popu-
| lar productions. Like all Mrs. South
wOrth's romances, it is characterized by
| the possession of a plot of great strength
and the most intense interest, the love
| element as usual occupying the foremost
! place, while the emotional phases of hui
man nature are largely drawn upon with
| consummate skill, and dramatic climaXes
are literally employed. Many of the
scenes display thrilling and phenomenal
power.
MAGAZINES.
In Gen. Grants paper on Shiloh, in the
Century for FebrurY, he tells the story of
a narrow escape Of himself and two Of his
staff officers who got within range of the
! Confederate musketry on the second day
| of the battle. The illustrations of Gen.
/ Grants paper on Shiloh are more profuse
than those of the other war papers al
ready published. Articles in the same
| number by Col. Johnston, the son of the
Confederate General, Albert Sidney john
ston. and by Col. Jordan, of Gen. Beaure-
CARDS staff, tell the story of the ConIed-
crate side Of Shiloh. A letter from Gen.
FitZ John Porter, describing the circum-
stances of the offer of high Federal com
mand to Gen. A. 5. Johnston, who, at the
breaking out of the war, was in charge of
the department of the Pacific, declares
| that the assertion that Gen.
Johnston intended to turn over
| to the secessionists the de-
| fenses of California, or any part of the
regular army, is false and absurd. The
Centuy Company, Union Square, New
York.
II the issue of the Current for Jan. d,
Louise Andrews, the Indiana essayist, has
most interesting paper on ''Fiolins";
: probably one of the most entertaining
collocations of "reminiscences regarding
! Edmund Kean which has for many years
| appeared is by James B. Gull; Barton o..
! Aylesworth, an editor Of the ChTISttGn