The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-03-31
9eru Publications
The WORLD TO Come. By William Burnett
Wright. Boston. Honghton, Mifflin &
Co. Cloth. Price, 81. 25.

The WORLD TO Come. By William Burnett
Wright. Boston. Honghton, Mifflin &
Co. Cloth. Price, S1.25.
The phrase "world to come" is used in the
title of this book in the New Testament
sense of age to come. In the preface the
author Gays, "The Israelites were cheered
with the hope that their wanderiDes would
end in city fairer than the old Jerusalem
had ever been; a city in which right eousness
should rule, love prevail, peace and joy be
the portion of every citizen" "That city,
the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews,
names the world to come" This explains
the title of the book. 1t is selection of
twenty sermons preached in Berke ley Street
Congregational church, Boston, OF which the
author was pastor. The sermons avoid all
theological or polemical subjects, and treat
only of the elements of Christian character
and life. Aside from this evident purpose,
which is noble one, the book has no partic-
ular merit. The sermons are good, but not
marked by any special genius or wonderful
gift of insight.
FABLES OF FLoRIAN. Translated into Eng
lish verse by Gen. ]. W. Phelps, late men,
Der of the Vermont Historical Society.
Florian was born in Languedoc, France,
in 1855. His mother was Spaniard, wo-
man of great excellence and beauty. The
family, on the fathers side, were connected,
not very closely, with Voltaire; and through
his influence Florian, at the age of thirteen,
became a page in the family of a French
nobleman of great worth and distinction.
At sixteen he entered an artillery school and
finally was promoted to the Captaincy of a
regiment of Dragons. But his taste for let
tiers grew with his growth, and acquired in
the end the ascendency over his military
tastes. Among his writings, his fables are
best known. Some of these are of touching
interest, some of sweet and playful humor,
others of a loftier strain, but all we'll adapted
| to the unaffected simplicity of childhood.
These fables have been gathered into very
handsome volume, bound in green and gold,
illustrated by J. J. Grandville, in specimens
of French art of half century ago, and pub
lished by John B. Alden at the low price of
$10O, postage, II cents extra. The book is
fine addition to juvenile literature.
NOTES FOR BoYs ON MORALS, MIND AND MAN
NERs. By an Old Boy. A. @. McClurg 81
Co., Chicago Cloth. Price $1.00.
This is reprint from the English edition
without changes of any kind. The book was
written to an English boy by his father and
is dedicated "to my boy" 1t is what it
claims to be, series of chapters on morals,
mind and manners. There is nothing about
money making, or what might be called sue
cess in life; no reference to "getting liv-
ing" of which we hear so much in this coun-
try, except one chapter on "The Choice of
Profession" There are twenty-one chap
ters, nine of them on the virtues, such as
Purity, Chastity, Temperance, Truth, Mod
esty and others. Then come other chapters
on Health, Religion, Dress, Books, Studies,
Amusements, and other equally worthy sub
jects. Any young man will be greatly bene-
fitted in all the relations of his life if he will
read, ponder and act upon the lessons incul-
Gated in this little book of two hundred pages.
1t deals in large themes in no paltry way.
Messrs. Cassell & Company have TT ady
life of the late Emperor of Germany, by
Archibald Forbes, the famous war CORE
spondept. The early chapters have been in
type several weeks, but the book has been
held back in anticipation of the sad event
that has plunged all Germany in sorrow.
The Emperor Williams life covers ninety
years, and he has played al important part
in the worlds history, having helped to de-
feat the First Napoleon when a lad of seven
teen, and having driven the Third Napoleon
from France in his old age. Mr.. Forbes
graphic pen has never had better oppo rtu-
nifty than in the writing of this book, and it
is doubtful if the German Emperor will ever
have more brilliantly written biography.
Arlo Bates, in his Boston letter to the March
Book Buyer, tells this story: Miss Rebecca
s. Clarke Sophie May is passing the winter
at her home in Norridgewock, Me-, engaged
upon a new novel which she describes as ian
old-fashioned story" Has it been told in
print, by the way, how this lady's pen name
originated? She signed her first article with
the home tbbreviation of her middle name,
and added the May" to signify, as she said,
"Sophie may write again; though" she
added, in telling the story, Z" 1 must confess
l didn't think there was much chance she'd
succeed we'll enough to make it probable she
would" AS this first story was part of the
famous Prudy Books it is hardly neces-
sary to comment on the groundlessness of
her fear.
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