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y. a. LII. ~. MI. DIdy was formerly al
Episcopalian clergyman. Some three year,
ago ne went out OF that church under an
issue raised by work from his pen, en-
ktled GOD and Man" At the time, we
commented freely upon his book as one oil
great strength, and as especially notable
for its advocacy of liberal religious thought.
The present work is a more elaborate ex-
position of his views, which are uncon-
fined by the creed of any established
church, and is in harmony with book
issued while he was yet priest OF the
church, entitled 1.-The KHowability OF
God" in which he made stand tor the
natural as against the supernatural, IN his
Interpretation of the Scriptures. He holds
in all his writings that religion is useful
and natural, and in It's essence divine; that
there is unity of religious essentials; that
Gods revelation is universal and continu-
GUS, not local, special nor discontinuous;
that God is universally thought of as the
Father of mankind; that humanity is
brought into being, not to be damned, but
to be saved in Gods own ways, which are
as various as the peoples of the earth and
their conditions; that God is "imanent'' in
the universe and in intelligences; that the
Bible is a history of attempts of a
people to express the impressions
made on their mind by God i'm
anent in nature; that in religion the
divine element is mixed with much that is
human; that theology is full of supersti-
ton; that there Is a future life; that future
happiness depends not on creed or pro-
fessions, but upon present living; that sin
must be atoned for, here or hereafter: that
heaven and hell are situated even in the
conscious breast; that al! mankind are
the children of the universal Father whose
light and love they all receive" For such
teaching he felt compelled to sever his con.
nectlon with the church. He did so, and
is now teaching doctrine that denies the
deity of Christ denies the faWlessness of
the Scriptures; denies the literal resurrec-
ton of the dead denies the fall of man
and of vicalious atonement of eternal
punishment and of fixed state after DEATH
The book before US is history of the ex-
periences and study that led him out of the
church into his present belief. 1t is vIgor-
ously written, but still in patient spirit,
and with sincerity that cannot be doubted.
Few better numbers of a popular maya
zine have been issued than is the October
ladies Home Journal" The number
bristles with an array of good articles,
poems and stories. P. T. Barnum tells in
very entertaining manner the secret of
How Have Grown Old" Mrs. Ulysses
Grant describes her courtship with the
General; Mrs. Margaret Bottome, the Pres
ident of The Kings Daughters begins a
regular department devoted to The Kings
Daughters; Robert J. Burdette has hu-
morous article on old people who
try to be young; A. Bogardus has
an exceedingly bright sketch on "Presi-
dents l Have Photographed" DR.. Talmage
has some very bright things for
women Emma V. Sheridan, the Boston
actress, tells how to conduct pri-
vate theatricals; "Curl Papers and
Husbands" is the unique title of q
bright paper by Felicia Holt Florence
Howe Hall gives valuable hints about
wedding Anniversaries" Harriet Pres
colt Spofford, Mrs. Lyman Abbott, Lee G.
Hardy, Sarah K. Bolton, Edward W. Box,
Ellen LIE Garde, Kate Tannatt Woods,
and a score of others contribute to the
number.
Of the Boston school series, we have
from the Boston Supply Company new
book of Fables, Anecdotes and Stories
for the Purposes of Composition" Our
examination of it results in approval of
the method adopted. 1t is a simple, clear
and practical system for elementary work
in English composition. Style comes with
practice and it is not infrequent that it is
very early developed in graceful and forci-
BILE methods. But cultivation of style is
not the purpose of this book-rather its
aim is TO teach conciseness, clearness and
vigor. The finish, the adornment and the
development of taste that are the chief
elements in style are matters that are not
treated in this work. But so far as style
embraces the method. of relating phrases
and sentences to each other, to express
thoughts connectedly and nationally, or to
describe events and details in a narrative,
whether Of fact or imagination, this text
book treats in an elementary form. Clear
ness, connection and rhythm are, in short
the three divisions of the work to which
all the text relates.
The Icelandic DISCOVERIES of America"
is an able defense of the claims of North
men to the honor of the discovery of
America, and vigorous assault upon the
claims made by Christopher Columbus.
The author, Mrs. John B. Shipley, lady
who has given many years to historical re-
search is especially vigorous in denuncia-
ton of the Roman Catholic Church. which
she claims promoted the expedition OF Co
lumbus, and his assumption Of originality
in declaring that beyond the seas lay new
world, because she affirms Columbus had
previously made a trip to Iceland, and
learned of the discoveries OF the North
men that by order of the Church he kept
the fact secret, and thereafter acted in his
voyaging wholly under the instructions of
that influence, and to further its peculiar
ends. Mrs. Shipley certainly challenges
admiration for the yig0r and courage she
displays, as well as for exhaustive research.
H I. Stern has written volume en-
titled Evelyn Gray; or, the Victims of
Our Western Turks-a Tragedy in Five
Anka =. ant To nv ar
monism and the secrets of the Endow-
ment House. 1t is also an attempted
revelation of the scenes at the Mountain
Meadow Massacre. 1t is certainly graphic,
but the characters represented are in the
main so coarse and vulgar that the text IS
anything but agreeable reading. There is
q great deal of TRUTH the book, and much
exposure of Mormon hypocrisy under
Brigham Young. Perhaps in realistic
drama with such timber as history pre-
sents in the case of Utah and the Mormons,
nothing better could be done with the dia-
logue of the drama than Mr.. Stern has
dore. Nevertheless the expressions of the
Mormon characters in the tale are simply
repulsive. John B. Alden. New York, pub.
Usher.
The Overland Monthly" for october
Overland Monthly Company, San Fran
CISCO presents these papers: collegiate
Education of Women" by Horace Davis;
"The Great Archipelago" by John S. Hit
tell; Camp and Travel in New Mexico,
by Dagmar Mariager; THE Fellowship OF
Truth, by Isaac Ogden Rankin; "a Dan
ish Artist Family" by c. NJ. Wage; THE
Navajo Indians" by NJ. T. Rjordan; "The
Reconstruction of the United States Navy,
by Charles H. Stockton; Some Australian
Ghost Stories" by T. T. B.; "Platonic IDEAL
ISM by Estella L. Guppy; The Boom Of
the Cour d'Alenes," by Cecile 1. Duton;
'An Egyptian Ode" by William Herbert
Csrruth; Some Memories of Charles Oar
win by L A. Nash; "A Suburban Gar.
den,' by Alma Brakeman Jones; "Zola's
Rougon- Macquart Family" by C. W. Bar.
deem; sport in Russia by Borys F. Go
SOW; "A Park Experience" by Elizabtt
S. Bates.
The Argonauts OF California is 6
handsome quarto, freely but crudely Illus
fal Tt % k,, n w uact-spo nd &c q