The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-05-05
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

Martin Luther and Other Essays. by
Rev. f. III. Hedge, ID. d. This is a book
which viii attract the attention of many
readers in Maine and interest them. In his
early manhood, DR.. Hedge was the popular
pastor of the Unitarian Church in Bangor
where he purchased to himself good degree
For many years he was to that city what Dr.
Field is now, albeit of different denomina-
ton. His influence was similar and con-
tinues to the present time. The Doctor is
strong man, diligent student and thorough
scholar. In Maine as in Massachusetts, he
was and is power for good, ever ready to
promote the highest welfare of the commu-
nifty He is no longer young man, but
these essays most of them recently written,
are sufficient to show that at three score and
ten his eye is not dim nor his mental force
abated.
DR.. Hedge was one of our earliest and is
still one of our best German scholars, being
far better versed in the literature of Ger
many than many who have lived in that
country for years. His treatment of Martin
Luther indicates thorough mastery of the
subject and a close study Of the age in which
Luther lived. His eulogy of the great Re-
former is both hearty and discriminating.
If the essays which follow this are not
quite equal to it. the reason is doubtless
found in the subjects which are all good,
but none of such general interest or import
ance. Since st. Paul the world has seen but
one Luther, the greatest Of Germans. whose
influence is and forever will be worldwide.
However, Dr. Hedge gives us beautiful pic
lures of Count Znzdndorf and DR.. Claiming
with interesting and suggestive sketches of
Feudal Society, Ethical Systems, Conserya-
tism and Reform, Science and Faith, Ghost
Seeing, The Steps of Beauty, Personality,
The Thesm Of Reason and the Friends of
Faith, etc. Boston; Roberts Brothers;
Portland: Loring, Short and Harmon.
Henry C. Lea's History of the Inquisition
of the Middle Ages, Vol. LII. We have
before us volume third of this remarkable
work which completes it, and fully bears
out the promise of the previous volumes.
The work is lasting monument to the
scholarship of the author, and is an honor to
our national literature. AS book for con-
sultation, Lea's History of the Inquisition
will take prominent and permanent place
We dRTbG Will bl6 dubuUI Ildb IcCuITcUcc 10
great movements in the past, is essential to
just apprehension of the course and condition
Of human development, although no darker
story in human annals can be told than this,
the monstrous offspring Of mistaken zeal,
utilized by selfish greed and Inst of power TO
smother the higher aspirations OF humanity,
and stimulate its baeer appetites." There
/ was 10 country in ChristendOm whose crlinl-
nei law was not subject to this terrible
engine of cruelty, which was set in motion
especially by the Papal power, and which
turning justice into a mockery, inflicted
wrong upon mankind which can never be
expiated by the church, which employed it to
stife thoughts and reduce the human intel
! lect to an intolerabe bondage. The story of
Joan of Arc is contained in this volume,
and no one can read it withou. revolving at
the terrible picture of superstition and infer
nal tyranny which assumed to represent the
| love and mercy of the Christian religion.
This history is simply record of cold facts
taken from the archives of the past and
should be read by all who desire to know
something of great movement which ex-
erted great influence upon humanity, the
results Of which can hardly be estimated
even to-day. New York: Harper a. Broth
ers Portland; Loring, Short & Harmon.
A new and enlarged edition of The Yacht
mans guide by Capt. Howard Patterson,
principal of the New York School of Navi-
cation, has just been issued by the New
York School of Navigation, No. 20 Burling
Slip, New York city The original work
| .yas iee,,ad eon,a vaars aoo and Immediately