New-York tribune., 1897-11-08

ideas such men have the sort OF preaching re
ouired In a college pulpit-notably the most DIM
cult sort of pulpit TO fill Closely akin TO the fore
| going Is Morning in the Chapel. Short Addresses
! ~ Young Men on Personal Religion" NHoughton.
! Mlfr e. Coz by Francis Greenwood Peabody
| Professor OF Christian Morals in Harvard UNI
yersity These addresses at morning prayers
Ir1jted 10 five minutes models OF suggestive
ness In brevty Ninety-one included In 'his
small volume. The collection forms good manual
for the daily religious reading OF busy people IL
IS not unlikely that 1t may go upon the she'll or
pastors book OF Sermon stuff fun OF out
lines and hints for extended discourse, or Tor talks
in the prayer meeting.
The Illustrated Bible Treasury" Crhomas Nell
son & Sons). in the compass OF about seven nun
dred pages. presents compacty a vast and varied
mass OF information TO Bible readers. students and
teachers Among It's contributors are scholars OF
high distinction both in England and America
Half Of the volume Il devoted 10 new Concord
ance TO the Authorized and the Revised Versions
TO which Bible atlas OF dozen maps is sub
Joined. Upward OF three hundred and hfty Illus
trations accompany the text The dissertations In
troductory to the several books are mainly on the
lines Of traditional opinion. with a scant con
cesslon here and there to the modern school OF
criticism.
The Modern Readers Bible. Daniel and the
Minor Prophets" The Macmillan Company
Daniel excepted the writings comprised in this
volume are the part OF the Bible most unfamiliar
to Bible readers. few OF whom could so much
as repeat the names OF the writers. Yet 1t is OF
these that Professor Moulton, the editor OF the
series. says: at is doubtful II any collection of
miscellaneous literature has ever brought together
many writer's OF such surprising interest
Speaking for myself student OF world litera-
ture. I do not know TO what should turn for
specimens OF literary perfection rather than 10 the
rhapsodes OF Habakkul and Joel
In Clerical Types" Funk & Wagnalls Coz, by
the Rev Hamcs Mann, find "al sorts and con-
dtions" Of preachers Protestant and Catholic
from the Regular Hustler to the Flooding Par
SON." His Types do profess TO be portraits,
the characteristics of several individuals being
often blended into The sketches are short and
pointed. with many pithy sayings. Il tell you what
IT is" says the Liberal Preacher, "this Church
with its antiquated creed Is like a bottle-very
narrow at the neck but there is plenty OF room
when you squeeze in" Mr.. Mann illustrates the
characteristics Of his Types by numerous stories.
The Fighting Parson." with his spice of egotism.
he likens the Quaker who, when Friend Jones
said to him. III you and | had been born In
Turkey we would have been Mahometans." replied
s;ernly: Thee would; never" The book Is in the
clerical world much what Mr.. Fords Literary
Shop is among writers
"The Three Homes A Tale for Fathers and
Sons" (E. =. Dutton & Coz, by the Very Rev.
T. w Farrar D. D. first published in 1873,
under the pseudonyme. "F. T l.. Hope" The
Three Homes" are those of the three boys with
whom the story is concerned; the home OF perfect
accord between father and son. that OF an In
raca young lord, and that Of the hero. between
whom and his father there ls constant misunder-
standing. Out OF this living al cross purposes the
,I,,C tn Cii he
tween father and son. The book has n moral for
each. 1t is healthy story, with good share OF
the exciting adventures OF boy life 10 interest is
boy readers.