The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1886-07-15
Literature.

| spun FROM FACT. BY Pansy. Anything
| that Pansy writes is sure of readers no matter
| what her subject or whom she addresses. Her
| style is natural and easy, and she always has
| some definite object in view. which She never
loses sight of, and which always serves to
point a moral or illustrate some useful lesson.
The present story turns upon the eXtraor-
binary physical and spiritual phenomena
which has excited so much attention within
| the past few years, and which is popularity re-
ferred to as the faith or prayer cure
The story told is that of a Young girl, jean
ME Bartlett, who through long and painful
illness became, AZ it was supposed, crippled
for life. From time to time stories came to
her of the miraculous cures effected by PRAYER
and hope grows up in her that even her case
may not be beyond help. A time is set for 4
season of united prayer in the sick room. The
friends gather about her in the large arm chair
in which She has been placed. one eager,
heartfelt prayer follows another, and at the
close, the invalid, full of faith, and endowed
with a new and wonderful strength, rises to
her feet and walks with firm step across the
floor, 1t is no temporary cure; her strength
remains. and from that time forth She is whole
and well. If this We're merely 4 story it might
be passed ever with smile at the ingenuity of
the author in weaving what to many minds
would he considered an improbable incident
into the book, but the author assures us that
the narrative is literally ">pun from fact"
u. Lothrop N Co., Boston, Price. &1.50.
l. THE MYSTERY OF MATTER. II. THE
Philosophy or IGNORANCE. BY J. AlIanSon
Picton. There exists in our time 10 such
>chism between Religion and Intellect us that
which characterized the eighteenth century.
On the contrary, side by side with growing
| independence of traditional crced>, there is
more marked tendency than the world ha,
| ever known before, to associate the emotions
| of religion with the discoveries Of science. TO
| those whose only notion of alliance between
religion and science consists in the futile COM
| promises of the current schemes of ''rrconcil-
| aton.N this may appear a bold assertion. But
| those to whom the most obvious emotion of
religion is rcyerentaI awe, and its chief fruits
| >clf-~ubordnation, uncompromiSng truth and
charity, will Gladly allow that science rs repre-
scnt2d by its most distinguished masters, is i'll
| creHrln@Iy affected by the inspirations of the
| spiritual life. This view of the relations be-
tween science and religion is admirably illus
| tratcd in the two very remarkable ESSAYS nam
| ed above J. Fitzgerald, Publisher, 393 Pearl
ST., New York. Post free, l5 cents.
DEN OF THIEVES; or the Iay-Ecalrr of
st. Marks. by Mary Crugrr. 1t is difficult
TO tell whether the scene of this story is Eng
| land or America, and the incident, seem some
| what improbable, although they are not inn
| possible. Some of the characters are forciby
drawn, however, and the evils of rumSellny
| and the efforts to put it down are dramatically
portrayed. The work is one that will interest
| and at the same time lo good. The publishers,
Funk y Wagnalls, 10 and = Dty street, New
York, have presented il IN an attractive form
| and at the low price of - cents il ought 10
have a large sale.