The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-05-22

tneIe-IOp CldIlnllS yOuiS tOuliNAy girl. This romance runs through the novels varying scenes--of which mis- sion meetingg in the slums, an opening night of a burlesque, and day with q detective are some of the most vlVld. 'Che pastoral breeziness of the Maine woods, the whirling rush of the great ,ity, and the thrilling ventures of the Colorado mlnes,-all these are here, to hold one's interest from first to last,
 Nonsense for Old and Young" by Eugene Field, has had large sale, and its publishers Henry A. Dickerman x S9n, Boston, have just issued new ebition in very attractive form. Ihe numerous gaily colored illustrations are in excellent keeping with the many w.t. u and humorous selections The book is a jolly one from first to last, very al ilusing and care repelling. The illus tr,tions, of which there are ninety-four, art by John c. Frohm. The book has good picture of it's lamented author for it's frontispieee Price fifty cents; Tor sale by booksellers or by the publishers.
 
 The following extracts from an inter- est,ng and able review of the new book by Rev pr. Smyth, Through Science to iraith,' are from the Christian Her aid and are with pleasure reprinted in our columns:
 IWhen we receive a new book from Newman Smyth we open it with high expectations. We are not sure that it will be original in the sense in which Dal wins Origin of Species was so,- very few books are; but we do expect it t. wear the impress of a penetrating and self-reliant mind. We have no doui,t that it's style will be lucid, it's aim noble, it's candor invincible.
 The book in it's origin was course of twelve lectures delivered before the Lowell Institute. The author is ruled by the conviction that the time has come for the reconstruction of our nat ural theology.
 Evolution, the author not only frank ly, but warmly, accepts. His sole aim is to show that there is a God behind 1t and working through it. Though first and last and always theologian, he has get steeped himself in biological scena
 He does, however, range widely for his ia cts, and hug" them with Elmer sonial, tenacity as he seeks their higher meaning.
 His first chapter is of the nature Of proleg0mena; his discussion really be- gins With the second, which is devoted chiefly to the cell; and, if one will read a "fairy-tale of science" here it is for him. This cell is the microscopic dot of protop asm, and yet the worlds chief wonder for the mysteries of organic being gre compressed within it's many and amazing potentialities.
 Biolo sical evolution, all the way from amoebe to man, is the unfolding of the contents of this cell. Tine author calls it revelation, and he could hardly have chosen for it better name, What is revelation if not the bringing of the hidden pto view? "Evolution,' he tells us, lis It novel with plot.
 With ihe sixth chapter we come to the "Mhral Character of Direction in Nature,' and once more the problem of evil, which we seem destined ever to ci- pher at, but never to solve
 still, ldill's terrible indictment of na- ture that she 'impales men, breaks them as If on a wheel, casts them to be devouret. by wild beasts, burns them to death, cfushes them with stones like the first Christian martyr, starves them with huhger, freezes them with cold, poisons them with the quick or slow venom o, her exhalations, has an ar ray of fsrts in it's support which trou- bles our philosophy even when it does not vanisi our faith. There is no eVl- dence thc+ the author fails to see all this, or .hat he is dull to its signifi- canoe. B,;t through all he sees, and Tn this he rests his contention, steady increase ,f vital value" The eVolu- ton of life is from lower to higher, from poore,r to better. This end there fore ruler it's direction. While many incidents may trouble us, this large principle Is clear. While our syr1pa- thies nav go out to the hard fortunes of the less fit, it is very much, after all, that the Attest survive.
 One of fl . most interesting chapters in the volume is the seventh, on the "significan.e of the Beautiful" Since Darwin's lay, beauty in nature has heen preva}ingly held to be utilitarian only. Our author with single success, combats tn t view, holding that beau tv is it's ow excuse for being"
 Tn partjnsr with our author, we would thank him for the high service he has done uAthr tusn the copiousness of his knowledge, 'he largeness ol ms 'iio"sn It and the lofttness of his cneer'
 "The Req condolences of Faith and Other Essays" By the Rev. w. s, Rainsford. Doubleday, Page &t Co, of New York, ,NIblishers. Price SIPS net For sale by Judd
 Some of t,e subjects of Dr. Rains fords consi iteration are courage "There Wres tied Man, Ihe tyes of the Heart" "Creation and the Fall The so-calle,l essays in the book are really discou ses which the preacher has delivered before his congregation and elsewhere,
 Under the title "The Rest Day" is printed pr. Epinsford's famous sermon on Sunday ard its rational observance
 pr. Rainsft cd has done about as much as any man of our time to spread the broad, healthy, manful and cour- ageous Christianity for which he stands. Emin!n ntly direct and practical never sentimental or mawkish, full of strength and vigor and physical force 4t,;, loo1y 1ilyn +bo man biJooea1f ic I1nN-