The morning news., 1889-11-11

A KNIGHT OF FAITH. BY Lydia Hoyt Farmer. J,
s. Ogilvie, 81 Rose street, New York. Cloth
81, paper 5 cents.
This volume will doubtless be widely read.
as 1t is intended as refutation of Robert
Elsmere, ;" the book which has attracted SC
much attention within the last year or two.
The book has contained some striking fea-
lures.
Coal AND THE Coal MINES. By Homer Greene.
Houghton, Miffin & Co., New York. Cloth.
15 cents.
The text of this volume is accompanied
by illustrations by the author. Any one
who reads the volume will know q great
deal about coal and coal mines. The mat
ters dealt with are treated clearly and in
telligently.
The PRESENT AND FUTURE PRoDucTIoNs OF
FLORIDA. By S. Sanders Neck, Ocala, Fla.
Price rs cents; cloth 81.
The author has evidently spent a good
deal of time on this work. The produc
tions of Florida are dealt with fully, and
in a very intelligent manner. Indeed, it is
doubtful if anywhere else can there De OBJ
tanned better idea of the present and
future productions of Florida than in this
volume. The illustrations are excellent.
EARTH BORN By Sylvester Gentil The Press
Bureau, 1857 Broadway, New York. Paper
cover, price so cents.
Earth Born is a combination of remark
abe incidents which take place on thi:
earth and elsewhere in a search for our
original ancestress Eve, whom the novelist
has introduced as the literal mother, in one
of her many earth lives, of the hero of the
novel, who takes a coma drop, goes into {
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the worlds TO a cavern of Neptune, where
he is piloted by the oldest spirit of space
His unsuccessful efforts to get Eve out ol
Llith's power renders the work an interest
/ ing one.
ALDEN's MANIFOLD CYcLoPEDIA. Vol. XVIII
John B. Alden, New York.
Careful examination of the eighteenth
volume shows that in many respects thi
remarkable work is superior to any of it
competitors, especially in its adaptation b
popular use. Its combination of an una
| bridged dictionary with the ordinary feat
| ures of cyclopedia of universal knowledge
| is unique. The definitions and pronuncia
| tion of the words are clear and accurate
| the Illustrations are excellent, the topics ar,
thoroughly treated and embrace the result
fof the most recent Investigations and dis
I coveries. Then, too, the extremely low
price places it within the reach of ALL Th,
eighteenth volume is fully up to the higf
| water mark of its predecessors. 1t is espe-
cially rich in its biographies.
| OUR CHRISTIAN HERITAGE By Cardinal Glib
bons. John Murphy & Co., Baltimore, pub
fishers. VOL, 12mo, cloth, 524 pages. Price
81, net.
This volume is a very handsome one. T
the memory of John Carroll, the patriarch
of the American church, and to the preate
and clergy of the United States heirs o
his faith and his mission, it is affectionateiy
Inscribed on the Tooth anniversary Of th
creation of the Catholic hierarchy. Th
book endeavors to show that the funda
| mental truths underlying christianity ar
all susceptible of being demonstrated by
| unaided reason, but are made still more
luminous by the light Of christianity. 1t he
| nothing to say against other denominations
Most of the subjects discussed are advocate,
by Protestant writers. In closing the chan
ter on the dignity of labor the cardinal ad
dresses to the laboring man a friendl,
exhortation- He tells him to cultivate
spirit of industry, without which all tn
appliances of organized labor are unavail
ing, and says: "Above all let religion
| the queen of your household. When tn
evening of life has come and our earthl
labors are drawing to q close, it will chez
| you with the bright prospect of an eterns
| Sabbath" On the dangers that threate
| our American civilization the book says
| ''If our government and legislation ar
| permeated and fortified by divine revela
tion and christian traditions, we canno
ignore the fact that they are assailed b
unbelief, impiety and socialism. We ar
| confronted by five great evils-MoI
! monism and divorce, which strike at tn
| root Of the family and society; an i'm
perfect and vicious system of education
which undermines the religion of ou
youth; the desecration of the christia
Sabbath, which tends to obliterate in ou
adult population the salutary fear of Go;
and the homage that we owe him; that tn
systematic election frauds. and lastly tn
unreasonable delay in carrying into effec
the sentences of our criminal courts, an
the numerous subterfuges by which crimi
nal courts and the numerous criminal
evade the execution of the law. Our in
satiable greed for gain, the co-existence o
colossal wealth with abject poverty, tn
extravaganza of the rich, the discomfort o
the poor, our eager and 1mpetuous rushing
through life, and every other moral an
social delinquency may be traced to one O
the five radical vices enumerated above"
MAGAZINES.
The Overland Monthly for Novembe
presents an interesting variety. Leonart
Kip's story, "The Tale of the Incredible,
reaches an ente rtaining point, and tn
Monleff ring causes nu mber of mysteriou
complications. The short stories are thre
in number: "Adam and Eve" by Flor
Haines Longhead. is an amusing accoun
of modern Garden of Eden, illustrated by
a number of characteristic sketches. "Mr
Bodley and the Dragon" is California
story in a somewhat new vein, and MRS
Gilmore's Diamonds" by E. A. Walcott
shows ingenious treatment. Charles War
rem Stoddard has sketch of life on tn
Hawaiian Islands in the early days, that i
in his happiest vein. 400 Montgomer,
street, San Francisco.
One of Thunderbolt's Sights.