The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-11-16
NEW BOOKS.
THE PEOPLES BIBLE HISTORY.
SYCAMORE, ILL.


months ago we called attention to this
work as preparing for publication and
gave slight outline of it's character and
contents. We then ventured the pre-
diction that it would prove remarkable
enterprise if carried out on the lines of
the advance announcement The work
is now before us, and 10 all respects it
fulflls the high expectations then en-
tertained and expressed. 1t is an i'm
posing volume in form and substance,
containing $50 pages of the pulpit or
family Bible style. 1t is bound in
morocco and the paper and printing is
of first class workmanship. 1t is CO.
piously illustrated with portraits of con-
tributing authors. Bible scenes, char
acters. Many of the illustrations, near
ly all full page, are reproductions of the
great pictures of the world, the work of
such artists as Raphael, Micbelangelo,
Rubens. Corregio among the great mae
ters, and Roberts, Dore, Vernet and
Holman Hunt among more modern
names. There are also valuable fac
SMILES of ancient manuscripts of the
Biblical text and half-dozen or more
beautifully executed maps.
The artistic work is exquisitely rem
dered. There are over 200 engravings
in the volume, all of high order of merit
in design and execution. The press
work is we'll nigh faultless throughout.
Evidently the most painstaking care
was exercised in the mechanical depart
ment of the volume. AS an illustrated
work the PEOPLES BIBLE HISTORY is the
peer of any volume devoted to it's par
ticular class of reproductions appearing
in recent years.
The text is furnished by contributors
whose names are guarantee of schol-
arship and good literary workmanship.
Mr.. Gladstone furnishes the general in
PRODUCTION in a luminous paper review
ing the history of the Bible and it's re-
lation to Christianity and the civiliza
ton of the world
The work is divided into fifteen chap
ters, or booke, with subdivisions, each
covering particular period and around
which are grouped the historical facts
and the conclusions of critical research.
the whole embodying continuous and
remarkably interesting and instructive
account of Bible history. Among the
contribute tors are the we'll known schol-
ars of European reputation, Prof. A. H.
Sayce, Dean Farrar and DR.. Casper
Rene Gregory; Samuel Ives Curtiss,
Prof. W. G. Wilkinson, President E. H.
Capen of Tufts College. and Edward
Everett Hale, and also other we'll known
names. The list of contributors also
includes some well-known preachers,
among them Drs. Gunsaulus and Bristol,
of Chicago and Drs. Mac Ar hur of New
York, Monro Gibson and W. T. Moore,
of London.
1.-THE Peoples Bible History" remarks
DIR. Lorimer in the editorial preface to
the work, "while planned by the editor
in the interest of evangelical religion.
was not designed to be either narrow or
repressive.' This is a notice to the
reader, especially in connection with
what follows it, that the work is not
conducted on the lines of Anticipated
sectarianism either in dogma or research.
The contributors are fully abreast of the
times and some of the most valuable re.
suits of the higher criticism are included
in the contributions of Prof. Sayce and
Dean Farrar. While dissenting from
some of the positions advanced by his
contributors, DIR. Lorimer finds that
there is "a distinctly evangelical school
OF higher criticism" and considers that
il is "a great gain to the Christian world
to see for itself that the old faith has
nothing to fear from the freest thought
and the most brilliant scholarship"
This monumental work, which is a
credit to the man who conceived it. and
to the editor and contributors who car
ried out the plan, and to the firm which
has placed it before the public. is pub
lished by the Henry o. Shepard Co.,
ola Monroe st. Chicago. 1t is sold only
by subscription.