The record-union., 1892-11-26
"How to Get Good Judges'' is

An happy flower! yet must thou confess
That she can teach the greater loveliness.
GLOW to Get Good Judges is a mono
graph by John A.. Wright Of San Fran
cisco. The ;. Carson Company, san
francisco, are the publishers. Itis plea
for scientific judicial system. lie
would include the bar in the judicial svs-
tenn, elevate the terms Of admission to it,
maintain discipline in its ranks, and thus
evolve lawyers o. higher character fitted
Tor the bench. Entrance to the bar should
be free to all qualified by study and proof
OF capacity. Judges should be chosen
only from those persons certified by the
bar as best fitted for the judicial o4lice.
Salaries should be suitable, tenure dur
ing good behavior and capacity. The
bar i'll sections should select council of
juristic discipline, convertible into a
court Of juristic dicipHne. Each chapter
or section to elect from those of ten year, S
practice the court or council of iuristic
discipline out Of this council Of dis
cipline the Judges should be elected by
the people. The councils alone should
issue licenses to practice, hear and de-
ternine charges Of unprofessional con-
duct and apply discipline. Other details
follow, but these sufficiently show the
proposed method of making the bench
attractive to the ablest and 1ittest and of
lifting the bar to u higher professional
level.
'Paganism Surviving in Christianity''
IS mastery work by Rev. DR.. Abram
Herbert Lewis, author of Biblical teach
lngs concerning the Sabbath and Sunday
etc. u. Z. Putnam's Sons, New York.
81 70, royal SvO. The title quite enough
indicates the character of the book. His
contention is that the sign Of the cross.
State religion, holy water, prayer for the
dead, the mass, are all Pagan remains.
He holds that Professionalism must fully
accept the Bible as the only standard of
faith and practice, or be crushed between
Roman Catholicism and irreligiOuS ra-
tionalism. That Biblical study and in
depreciation are ushering in the second
great feature ofthe Protestant movement.
That the core of baptism, as of salvation.
Is conformity to the example of Christ.
hence he who remains unbaptized with
out the spirit of diSobedience NAV be
saved. That there Is no ground for Sun
day observance, since no day has ever
been kept as a sabbath except under the
idea Of Divine authority. That Sunday
legislation is of Pagan origin. and.
finally, that all union Of church and State
or Christianity and State is Pagan-born
and opposed to the genius and purpose
OF Chrisps kingdom"
Lincoln and Men Of War Times'' is
A. X. McClure's long-promsed work. II
lS ITOIll INC press Ol LllO Lines IuDIlShlUy
Company, Philadelphia. 1t is avolumin-
Gus work, richly and profusely illus
trated. 1t is a work Of "reminiscences, OF
personal recollectious Of the author of the
times Of the War Of the Rebellion. 1t is
not biography or history, and makes
no pretentions in either direction. The
book is an interesting one, interestingly
written, plainly and in thoroughly un-
derstandable English, and from the heart.
The sincerity Of the author no reader can
doubt. Few men were closer to Lincoln
in political matters than Colonel Mcclure,
and few, if any, can speak with more GER
tainty of the purposes and thoughts OF
the great patriot and martyr.
"Begress and Slavery VS.. Progress and
Poverty is monograph by Rev. NJ. c.
Briggs. who shows to his own satisfac-
ton that "the single-tax theory is unjust.
impractlcable and absurd" Ii is an ably
written, vigorously maintained and in
cisive argument, armed at all points, aC-
gressive always, and defensive never. Ii
takes up leading features of Henry
Georges argument, and applies the sword
and lash most energetically, but always
with decency and scholarly regard New
York, Hunt d Eaton. Copyrighted by
the author, with his address at Peta-
luna, Cal.