Morning journal and courier., 1890-10-31
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

f'Not of Her Fathers Race" by Viii
liam T. Merideth (New York; Cassen &
Co., 10 no., 291 pages. Price fifty cents.)
A sad story, based upon race disabilities
and color prejudice. New York and New
port society amusements are described;
rich man fails to wed his betrothed on
finding she had q quadroon mother, but
himself turns out to be a thief and q for
ger and fees the country forever. The
story has a tragic ending, not impossible,
though somewhat improbable. The best
character in the book is the teacher of the
negro children "An her life she had
heard her father discourse of Lucretia
Mott, the agitator, and Wendell Phillips,
the orator, in the cause of anti-slavery."
Finally she became n missionary to the
blacks, and, like q great many similar self
DENYING workers for humanity, had her
reward in the work of doing good. Sow
ers of good seed on good ground do not al
ways behold the promised harvest, but
''he that soweth and he that reapeth shall
rejoice together"
"How Shall we Revise the Confession of
/ Faithf' bundle of papers by Llewellyn
| j. Evans, Marvin r. Vincent, Samuel III.
Hamilton, Erskine N. White, Charles Fl.
Parkhurst, Charles L. Thompson and
Charles A. Briggs (New York; Charles
Scribner's Sons, 12 mo-. 214 pp- Price
| S1) A timely and valuable book. About
one-half of it was written expressly for
publication in this form, and the rest has
been published in other forms in the peri
odicals of the day, or delivered in debate
on the floors of presbyteries. The papers
are scholarly in substance, temperate in
tone and attractive in style. They will
not repress the desire for theological ad.
vance, but will tend to promote Christian
unity, and will instruct as to the need and
extent of revision. The names of the au
thors are guaranty of sincerity, scholar
ship and Christian zeal.
''The Tartuffan Age" by Paul Mantle
gazza. Translated by W. A. Nettleton
assisted by Professor L. d. Ventura
Boston; Lee & Shepard, 16 no., Isl PIP
Price $1.25) The unique dedication o
this peculiar book is in these words: ''T'
my friend of many years; to the profoun,
thinker, to Pietro Ellero, whom envy tn
sublime wrong of being born q centur
before his proper time" The autho
takes the title of his book from a notabl
character in one of Moiere's plays-TaI
tuffe, the impostor, and goes on to sho,
that the age we live in is one of imposi
tions and impostures. The book seems t
arraign the hypocrisies of the toilet, th
. deceptions of courtesy, and the variou
I Tartuffian methods of political, religion
and social life. The appendix contains
list of the most noted cosmetics, with in
: dications of their hygienic value.
$ "Corals and Coral Islands, !" by James L
Y Dana, IL. D., professor of geology an
q mineralogy in Yale college; author of n
J, ports in connection with the Wilkes Un
ted States expedition on geology, zo'
phytes and crustacea; of system of mil
: eralogy; Manual of Geology, etc. Thir
r edition, with. various mendations, larl
additions, three new maps and four ne
colored plates.
20 1--WE wandered where the dreamy palm
% Murmured above the sleeping wave;
And, through the waters clear and calm,
ia l. c. p, U. s. N. Expl Expd.
(New York; Dodd, Mead & Co., 8 vo
cloth, 440 pages.) This new edition of
IS valuable work contains full discussion
q the views and arguments which have +
he Gently been brought forward in opposite
=. to the theory of coral reefs proposed
Darwin and explained by Professor Dan
q Four new maps have been introduced al
ID four colored plates added. The six cha
Makers;n STRUCTURE of Coral Reefs al
n. Islands, Formation of Coral Reefs al
= Islands, and Causes of Their Features
~ Geographical Distribution of Coral Rec
st and Islands," Changes of Level in t
ar Pacific Ocean," Geological Conclusions
he In the appendix the author speaks of "a
- tesian Wells on Southern Oahu" "Rate
20 Growth of Corals and Coral Reefs" a
ne ssNames of Species in the Authors Repc
i'll on Zoophytes." There is also an inds