The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1888-01-22

lively small number. The list OF pigments to be
avoided Ia n novelty. but will stand tho test Of
critical examination. This is Miss McLaurh-
Inns fourth work on art education. and IL will
considerably enhance her rcputation. She
writes with commendable simplicity Of STYLE.
and shows on every page that sho Thoroughly
understands her subject.
In his Memoir OF Flceming Jenkin" tscrlb-
nersh Mr.. Robert Louis Stevenson records ,bs
career OF a man almost completely unknown in
America, but whose biography, by reason of the
authors ~vivacity OF style and nervous cbarac.
terlzation, possesses an unusual interest. Ia
cannot avoid writing an Interesting book.
whether he attempts fiction or biography and
the work before us reads mt times almost like a
clever essay in the former direction. Jenkin
was u man Of gentle birth. whose fnnily had
been reduced to poverty, but whose education,
acquired under not very agreeable circum.
stances, was OF so thorough and practical q
character that long before the close of his liFo
he acquired a reputable position and was
enabled to live in comparative afluence. As
a worker and discoverer in the science OF
submarine telegraphy he made 80 conspicu-
GUS a reputation that twenty years ago he was
called to the recently created Chair OF Engt-
geering in the University Of Edinburgh, which
he filed until his death In 1885. While student
Of that institution MIR. Stevenson conceived .
warm affection for Prof. Jenkin, and this mo-
moir. prepared at the request OF the latters
family, is in all essential respects a pure labor
of love. Jenkin. he says. was a man much
more remarkable thun the mere bulk or merit
Of his work approves him-an explorer in his
chosen field Of science. whose enthusiasm end
ed only with his life. And in the following pas
sage the enthusiasm Of the writer Of fiction
fairly overcomes the calmness OF the biograph-
or: His was an individual figure such a.
authors delight to draw and all men to read Of
in the pages Of a novel, If the sitter shall not
seem to have justified tho portrait; II Jenkin.
after his death. shall not continue to make
new friends. the fault will be altogether mlne."
The Rev. Arthur James Mason. an Anglican
clergyman, Is the author OF The Faith Of tho
Gospel" tE. P. Dutton & Coz q manual OF
Christian doctrine. which, as described by him
self, is not an appeal to those who differ from
the Anglican) Church. but an attempt to help
those who profess allegiance to her" He 10
only by accident controversial. and does not
aim at exposing errors. He avoids bitter and
uncharitable language, and avows his main
purpose to be to promote Christian union. The
tolerant character Of his work is very appar-
emit, while the style is 80 simple and the illus
~trations are 30 apt. that plain people can easily
arrive at his meaning. The authors tone
throughout Is orthodox. but his orthodoxy
ID SoLuetlm0S dU Variance VIII Tue IlRlO
theology of an earlier day. Thus. regarding
the creation OF man he observes: The saying,
Lot Us make maj in Our image (Gen. L, 26l
Is In no way opposed to the modern theory
Of our development ESQ far as the animal ma
ture is concerned) out of lower forms OF life.
Man became man, whatever he may have
been before, by being made in the image Of
God. That gift constituted his humanity. OF
what material he was thus made Is not men,
toned In the verse we ave quoted" Refer
ring to the declaration (Gen. H.. u, Tho Lord
God formed man, OF the dust OF the ground,
and breathed into his nostrils the breath of
life," he says: without disloyalty to these
words. we may, In the light Of modern discov-
cries, believe that the dust was already AMI
mated dust before the breathing spoken OF.
and ages may have elapsed between the form.
ing and tho breathing" On the question Of
eternal punishment MI. Mason expresses him.
self with moro reserve than Canon Farrar and
other modern theologians. He confesses that
when the Church 10 asked II the punishment
Of the lost will endure forever she can only
reply that God has not told Of any end or limit
to 1t, and that where He has not spoken she
cannot speak. He comedies. however. that our
knowledge Of Gods character should convince
US that He will punish no one more severely
than is necessary, nor for an instant longer
than he deserves, land that II at any point
some soul In hell could be found to turn and
repent and cease to oppose itself to love and
holiness, 1t would cease to be punished as IL
had been punished"