The record-union., 1897-04-26

& Co., New York; 81 so. It is a prac-
teal book, not magnifying words above
grace, but considering methods in
Christian work from the standpoint of
simplicity, effectiveness and practica-
bility. 1t treats of the new era in
church work, the free and open insti-
tutional church, what church members
are and should be and do, concert in
church work, how to reach the outsid-
ers, personal work, the choir, young
peoples societies, evening service, cot
tage prayer meetings, Libraries, open
air preaching, chapels and missions,
evangelization, etc. 1t is a book into
which the author has thrown his heart
and soul. There is nothing cold and
formal about it, practical though it is.
The volume ought to be welcomed by
all sincere workers in the vineyard of
Christianity.
"Chun Ti-kung, His Life and Adven-
lures, is a charming novel by Claude
A. ReeS (Dodd, Mead & Co., New York;
81 70. 1t is a refreshing novel, clear,
crisp and cf sustained interest. It is de-
llghtful for its novelty likewise. 1t
gives in a narrative form a most inter
esting insight into the manners and
customs of people with regard to whose
home life We have really but a vague
idea, as a rule
Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, have
sent out in charming form Beatrice
Harradens "Hilda STAFFORD" 1t is a
pretty volume, and enshrines most fit
1Crl rly- !,
heartful works The scenes and action
are in California, and they pay a beau
tlful tribute to our climate and scenery.
Her chapter in this little volume on
The Great Miracle''-that is, the
changing of the seasons in California
is one of the best descriptions of our
climatic transformations we have ever
read, and one that for beauty of die
ton, gentleness of thought and loving
and reverential appreciation of the
beautiful, the wonderful and the mys-
terious in nature has not been sur
passed.
THE Other House. is novel by
Henry James. 1t is from the press of
the Macmillan Company, London and
New York, and is in muslin and large
type. 1t is wholly unnecessary to say
anything of the methods of a novelist
so widely read as is James This vol
ume presents one of the more subtle
and fascinating of his fictions.
The Black Cat" for May GA High
street, Boston, is at hand It's COM
plete stories are The Passing of Polly
hL ho
sequies of Ole Miss Jug" by Jean Ross
Irvine; "A Modern Goliath" by j. c.
w. Brooks, U. s. A; THE Colby Girls. -
by Charles Bryant Howard; Trans
Saharan Stations 15-M," by ]. E. Penn
Der.
"Cassell's Family Magazine" for May
(Cassell Publishing Company, New
York and London) is at hand. This
family magazine is in the perfect sense
for the family. We have watched it for
ten years or more, and have always a
joyful welcome for it, 1t is pure in
thought, clean in matter, chaste in sug-
gestion, and at once entertaining. in
structive and informing For the home
circle we know of no magazine that is
better. There are more pretentious and
VolumlnouS periodicals, and other clean
ana helpful ones, but this is at once a
cheap and good ma gazine. 1t brings to
US hctiOn, poetry, news of art, inven-
ton, mechanics, the garden, the home.
travel, adventure, history, research,
geographical science. etc. In all re-
spects, and notably in fine, chaste IL
lustration it is a model magazine, and
the May number sustains the standard
We have indicated.