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makes Thackeray mountains OF many q
little American molehill. The two volumes
are very Handsomely gotten up. -
An important and interesting work. the
production OF which has involved much
labor. sThe Encyclopedia Of Missions"
Funk a Wagnalls Company appears In
q second revised edition. The editors are
tho Rev. Henry Otis Dwight, LII. D., H.
Allen Tupper, Jr, D. D., and Edwin Mum
sell Bliss, d. d. II should be called more
properly q record Of Protestant missions
for the account Of Catholic work IL dispro-
portlonately inadequate. and with the best
Of intentions to be impartial, Catholic efforts
to Christianize the heathen are naturally
looked at askance. For instance. In COM
plete oblivion Of the Church's missions in
the Middle Ages to convert Germans and
Angles, at least, Catholic missionary enter
prise IL attributed TO the desire to re-
gain among the heather the ground
lost In Protestant countries. Catholics
are praised whore they deserve blame,
as In Paraguay. and their praise
worthy efforts In some other lands are
passed over In silence. The book is prac-
tically made up Of three sets OF articles:
missionary gazetteer OF the world, In
which we often might desire more posi-
tive and detailed statements Of fact; q
biographical dictionary Of missionaries,
and an account Of the various missionary
societies. In the statistical tables In the
appendix We note that the editors have
discreetly abstained from giving the num-
ber Of converts under the missions to
convert tho Jews. The Papist converts
to Protestantism, too, seem to te few
In proportion to the expense and the ex-
ertion. The encyclopaedia, however, fur
nishes q mass Of valuable information
OF many kinds. and a study Of the facts
and failures presented may lead sincere
persons to hope for better results from
q union Of, at least, all Protestant sects
in the endeavor to Christianize, instead
OF quarrelling on tho ground Of sectarian
belief or nationality. We imagine the
Hawaiians might have something to say
about the material results OF missionary
effort in their islands that would not be
wholly pleasing TO the missionary societies.
Such things are Offset in measure by
the many records Of devoted, unselfish
effort and martyIdom OF individual mis-
sionaries.
Tho lectures, sermons and other writ
ngs OF Henry Ward Beecher have been
'riturated and the fragments arranged
Inder heads and subheads by two of his
admirers, John r. Howard and Truman
J. Ellinwood. in A Treasury OF Illustra-
ion Fleming H. Revell Company. To
he volume OF extracts the Rev. Newell
Dwight Hills, d. D., who now occupies
hr. Beecher's pulpit IN flymouth Church'
supplies rather fulsome laudatory intro
luction. rapidly departing generation
" old people in Brooklyn, and perhaps
n other places, still ciings to Mr. Beecher,s
words, and his Successors in the Plymouth
pulpit have certainly done nothing TO
loubt that this book will find Its suitable
public.
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