New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-29
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SOME RELIGIOUS BOOKS.

A D. f. Randolph & Co. issue DR.. Alfred
Edersheims Prophecy and History in Relation TO the
Messiah being the Warburton Lectures for lsoo1soa.
Dr. Edersheim's previous contributions TO the's'ec"
literature have given him deservedy high reputation
in Europe and America and in the present volume he
fully sustains that reputation. 1t is needless 10 say
that he has no sympathy with the latest conclusions
of many Biblical critics which deny the Mosaic anthor-
ship of the Pentateuch and the inorfancy OF inc
Scriptures In his opinion, such conclusions destroy
the value OF the Bible Divine Reveauon' ana
especially of the Old Testament Prophetic record
of the Messiah. He is, OF quite aware thaI
this attitude toward criticism puts him IN the
apparent position Of opposing wellascertaheo mctS'
But he believes with conservatives generally t' Oho
strength of the destructive criticism OF To-Day Is sp-
parent rather than real and that the oaseiess CHAR
acter Of it's claims will be ultimately proved IL oniy
remains to be said that DIR: Edersheim though earnest
in opposing what he deems to be erroneous views Is
at all times courteous and fair in his treatment Oh those
who hold those views and his book is storepouse OF
learned research and luminous thought.
The late Dr. Samuel smith Harris, the Protestant
Episcopal Bishop of Michigan deservedy ranked as one
of the greatest of the Episcopal bishops MIS- ho''
T. SIocum, of Detroit, has collected number Oh OK
tracts from his unpublished writings which Thomas
Whitaker publishes under the title Thoughts on
Life Death and Immortality Tbey reveal BISHOP
Harris as man with a deep sense of spiritual real
tiles and q profound faith in God and man. HIS
many friends and admirers within ana WHOM Tue
Church he so faithfully served, will welcome this little
volume as a memorial of him.
3The Life Of John McIiale, Archbishop of ruam'
BY Dr. Bernard O'Reilly Or. Pustet d Co., New-fork,'
appears in two sumptuous illustrated Volumes ana s
fitting tribute to the memory OF the great lsh hrci
bishop who is reverenced by Irtshmen not only be-
cause he loved country but because of his SANITY
life Born in 1871 and dying in 1881, his life covered
q period when most OF the great problems now &C.
oupyfng the attention of his native country began 10
shape themselves and is not therefore strange that
his career was one Of storm and stress. He stood IN
the forefront as advocate Of Irelands right to self
government and IN opposition to the laws whch
Disseminated against his Church. That he met with
bitter opposition from some Of the most dstin
gushed men of his creed and class, is not at all
strange. But those who refused 10 act with MN
on many religious and political issues never thought
of imputng to John OF Tuam any selfish or unworthy
motive. Under an outward manner of austere dignity
he concealed kindly heart and deep sympathy for
the downtrodden and oppressed and in the west OF
Ireland where he born. he loved and revered
BY all He deservedly ranks as one OF the grcatest
prelates of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland
Thomas Whitaker has brought out q hftysecond
edition Of that old stand by" Crudens Concordance
Of the Bible, concerning whose many merits IL Is not
necessary here 10 speak John Marbeck, ~ganlst OF
Windsor College in the reign Of Henry V1l1 brought
Then followed similar works by IIeTey In 1878 Barker
I'm 1879 and many others until 1876, when Alexander
Cruden published his great work. He was the son OF
O merchant Of Aberdeen, scotland where he was born
I'm 1901. He educated for the ministry but never
preached owing the fact that his reason became I'M
settled through disappointment In love. He was
several times inmate of insane asylum, during
his whole life was Eighty and cratic, and shortly be
fore his death imagined himself TO be great reformer
of the world aTogatng to himself the title OF Alex
ander the Corrector." Yet to this unbalanced mad
man the world owes the greatest Concordance Of the
Bible In the English language. The work has had
many careful revison since it first appeared the most
notable of which is that Of the Rev. DR.. John Eade,
Professor Of Biblical Literature to the United Presby-
toran Church of Scotland, who has done much to
make il at complete and convenient in SIZE The
present edition is well printed good paper, and at
the low price of 81 is easily within the reach of most
Bible students.
The Rev A. r. Fausset's Z" Bible Cvclopaedia"
(Fpnk Wagnalls) contains good deal OF useful in
formation in compact FORM though to accomplish this
result the publishers obliged TO use small type
and to divide the page into three columns, vlcous
practice that we hope to discontinued long
The author is an Anglican clergyman whose evan
gelcal fervor is sometimes more apparent than his
scholarship In fact the great defect OF the book is
that most Of the approved conclusions of modern
Biblical scholarship ignored only slightly re-
ferred TO- The author has written with strong bias
in favor Of the traditional view Of the Bible, which
often leads him to make statements that longer
tenable. lie betlsys neither scholarly critical
temper and is often childish In his arguments on the
whole should say that the publication of this book
hardly worth while; but 1t will doubtless meet
the views of those who believe that any questioning
Of the old traditional conceptions Of the Bible is
deadly sin. We only commend those articles IN
it which relate to evident or historical facts