The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-28

A new book of much local interest is
 one just issued from the press of The
 Futile Morehouse & Taylor company
 of this city, and entitled, Sketches of
 Church Life in Colonial Connecticut.
 It is also of much wider interest as
 is the story of the transplantng oi
 the Church of England into forty-two parishes of Connecticut, with the as- slstance of the Society for the Propaga-
 ton of the Gospel' This story is writ ten by members of the parishes in cele- bration of the 200th anniversary of the society. The work was edited by Lucy Gushing Jarvis 'as a labor of love on
 the part of a worthy descendant of the
 second bishop of Connecticut,' as is re-
 marked of her by Bishop Chauncey
 B. Brewster, fifth bishop of Connecti-
 cut, in his prefactory note to the book l Bishop Brewster further remarks in his
 preface. striking the key note of the
 subject in so doing, In the early his
 tory of our American Church there is
 no chapter more interesting, and none, l l venture tG assert. more important l than that which relates to Connecticut | In her Colonial clergy, many of whom | had come into the church because of conviction and at no little sacrifice was | illustrated q type distinctively charac- teristic of Connecticut Her church.
 manship was rooted the more deeply and firmly by battle with the winds of 1 opposition and adversity, Hers is our
 most venerable see and hers our first l Bishop whose conservation, moreover I links us with the romantic history of the Scottish Church. Hers has been
 the richest contribution to our prayer
 bolz and hers an unfailing champion
 ship of primitive truth and apostolic
 order"
 Following is the list of the histories of parochial churches or parishes in the | volume Bloomfield Brantord, Bridge port, Brooklyn Cheshire. Danbury, Derby, Easton. Greenwich, Guilford,
 Hartford, Hebron Huntingdon Litch- field. Middletown. Milford, New Haven, New London, New Milford, Newton, Northford North Guilford North Ha-
 ven. Norwalk. Norwich, Oxford, Plymouth Poquetanock Bedding, Ridgeheld, Roxbury, sharon, Southport
 Stamford Stratford, Tashua, Waling- ford Waterbury, Watertown, West Ha- ven Weston and Woodbury.
 The titles of articles by the editor in- clude: Connecticut Celebration of 200tb Anniversary of the s. r. G.; The Place of America in Religious History; Bishop Berkeley's Influence in Connec- ticut; Chronological List of pre-Revo-
 utionary Clergymen; Additional List of Men Ordained from Connecticut, but who died or returned to other Colonies; Supplementary List of Men who Have Gone Into the Ministry from Connecti cut Chronological List of Colonial Parishes; and Parochial Genealogy of Connecticut
 Special contributions are a historical address. "Outline of the $. P, G, in Connecticut" by Rev. Samuel Hart D D. and the anniversary historical ser man delivered at West Haven by Rev Dr. E. $. Lines of this city on the oc- casion of the 160th anniversary of the | building of Christ church West Haven, | of which years ago Dr. Lines was the pastor.
 A very handsome portrait of Bishop | Brewster Is the volumes frontispieCe { Other illustrations are portraits of the four previous bishops of Connecticut, viz: Bishops Seabury, Browneu and Williams, who served in the order giv en. Other illustrations are Bishop Berkeley and his household; Rev. Hen ry Gamer D. D.; Rev Bela Hubbard, n. D.; Rev, Samuel Johnson, D. D.; Rev. George Keith, D D.. Rev Rich- lrd Mansfield, D. b; pictures Of the fol- owing churches Greenwich, H1rsencck Chapel with General Punam's Escape; Trinity church, New Haven; St, James, St. Peters church in Christ church in Stratford: Christ church in West Haven: pictures If houses, Bishop Seabury's house, II New London; the Old Glebe in Wood lury.
 The price of this work is $100 net, 1.12 by mali. Copies may be obtained tt E. P. Judd's X Co.'S.
 Miss Jarvis, editor of the work. is the laughter of Rev Samuel r. Jarvis rec or of the Episcopal church in Brook yn, this state, who is q grandson ot Bishop Jarvis.
 A delightful yachting story entitled C"PI"lll Y amy NillttH Dy w. 1ldlk Russell, will soon be published by the Iew Amsterdam Book company, New 'ork. The New Amsterdam Book company nnounce the near completion of the rst title in their new Commonwealth library. The Journals of Lewis and [ lark, an unabridged reprint of 1874 dition, with maps and portraits - The Smart Set" for July opens with novelette, by Edward $. Van File, en-