Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-03-22
AMONG THE NEW BOOKS.

EyENrrrl NIeHrs ~ BrsLs HisIoRY. By Alfred
Lee, Bishop OF the Protestant Episcopal church
In Delaware l'ino. PIP i93 New York har'
OF the kind Of books 10 which this belongs,
tho Episcopal church is particularly prolific;
aud 1t would seem that the class OF devout
readers to whom they are addressed Is suth-
ciently numerous TO warrant their production.
The series of discourses, or meditations, OF
which Bishop Lees work consist are purely
devotional. They breathe the sweet and
peaceful spirit OF prayerful Christian soul,
whose faith Is firmly fixed and duuquestioning,
whose hope is sure and undisturbed, and
whose love is warm and deep to God and
man; a spirit unruffled by conflicts with
linguistic difficulties or questions of critical,
historical, scientific controversy. ltconcerns
itself with none of these. 1t is eminently
serene and restful in its tone aud in its effects
on the reader; book full OF food ana
nourlshment encouragement comfort ana
edification for the Christian believer. Fifteen
nights In the Old and seventeen in the New
Testament are contemplated, sometimes with
glowing eloquence often with much fresh-
ness of thought, always in rustfui, deeply
devout spirit
MAsrAI TRAISrSe. The solution of social and
industrial problems. By Charles Ii. Ham.
illustrated. 4! mo. PIP AS. Harper Bros
New York.
The authors theory is that through the arts
alone all branches Of learning find express
sion aud touch human life the true dehni-
ton of education is the development of all
the powers of man to the eliminating point
of action. Mr.. Ham has been laboring in
Chicago, through the press and upon the
other educational forces there, in behalf of
manual training, and there his theory is being
tested in the splendidly equipped manual
training school erected on the boulevard.
Much of the book is taken up with an expo
sition of the various departments OF this in
stitution ; and the whole plan of the volume
is a forceiul plea for the combination of
manual and mental training.
LIVES OF GREEK STATESMEN second Series.
Ephialtes - Hermokrates. By the Rev; Sir
per & Bros New York.
This is the second volume of an admirable
series, by the same author, the first OF which
was noticed in these columns before Eph-
| ialtes, Kimon, Perikles, Phormion, Archi-
| mados, kleon, Brasidas Demosthenes,
| Nikias and Hermokrates are the subjects OF
| the present work and they are treated in the
| critical and historical spirit which. distin-
| guishes the author. He aims essentially TO
| contrast the Athenian polity and that OF
| Sparta, aud of the essays in this volume a
| comparison of the character OF Perikles with
that OF Brasidas points the authors moral
| very clearly.
| liz THE GOLDEN DAYS. Edna Lyall. l6 mo. PIP.
| S1. Harper \ Bros.
The author of this historical romance quits
| the nineteenth century field of prevailing
| fiction, and while she disclaims the idea of a
| "historical novel," she introd uces Algernon
| sydney Betterton, the actor, Francis Bern
| field, and a halt dozen other personages OF
| the England of the seventeenth century with
| a good deal of freedom. They play a second
| ary part in the story, however, which is one
| of "golden days" or of iron times, as you
| view them.
"Harper's Monthly" for April, from c. II.
Barr, is number of rare merit and apart
from all its special features the regular
monthly departments of George William
Curtis, Charles Dudley Warner and W. d.
Howells are a feast of fat things Thirty-fiye
years OF HdTper'S Monthly constitute library
| in itself and the index of over 700 pages TO
| this vast repository of science and learning,
| history aud art, literature and humor, is an
open sesame to storehouses of valuable
| reference The new edition of this compre-
| hensive work, Just published, is vast i'm
| provement on the first issue. 1t has 81 ,0oC
| references and comprises remarkably
| complete exposition Of modern life in every
department