Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-05
Nem preshrterlan Hymnal.

New Presbyterian hsihn'
Dr w !. Dawson, pastor OF the
ITi,st PRESBYTERIAN Church, is a poet
and an imaginative writer. as well as
a minister of the gospel. lie ls' theie-
fore possessed of the CHIEF requaslee
of the editor of hymnal. no
American Hymnal," which he mas
complied is a proof of his poetic IN
stinct and of his catholicity OF sas.e
and Judgment. An examination Oh INC
work will show that not since INNS
Ancient and Modern" was publisneo
has there been launched book OF Inc
kind. so grateful to the devout or SO
accountable to the worshiper whose
noetic and musical ear rebels at trlV-
ialities and unworthy, false harmony.
1t Is as if another spirit OF the type
of Sir Francis Palgrave had arlsen' as
if another Golden Treasury with
the addition of musical scores, mad
apneared. Let anyone look at the
metrical index to tunes in the WORK
and observe the wonderful breadth OF
choice, which has preserved every
glorious metrical composition Whlcn
has approved itself to the ages, as
we'll as those of more modern origin
which have moved the hearts OIL
devotees in every part of the world
where sacred music inspires the liv-
ing or gives comfort to the dying.
But, above even this great merit,
there is the spirit of liberality which
includes in a hymnal devoted to the
Presbyterian form of worship those
compositions which fanatical, mar
row mind would reject as savoring
too much of a doctrine inimical to
the Westminster catechism or the
teachings of John Knox.
The publishers have been so deeply
impressed with the book as recom-
mended by their expert readers and
musical critics that they have adopt
ed it as their standard publication Of
the kind.
THE AMERICAN HYMNAL. Edited
by the Rev, w. J. Dawson, D. D. The
Century Company, New York.
French Books for the Alliance Franchise,
The members of the branch of the
Alliance Franchise in Newark, IL not
already aware of their publication,
may be interested to hear of certain
French works now lying on the Ia
bles of such great vendors of French
books as Wanamaker's in Manhattan.
One of them is entitled "Eulalie, ou lie
Gree Sans Larmes,' or, in English,
Greek without tears. 1t has always
been a popularity of the French sa-
want of strong imagination to put his
knowledge into the form of fiction
for the benefit and instruction of the
youth of his country. Striking ex-
amples of this are the time-honored
work of the great Fenelon and the
Voyages D'Antenor en- Greece ct en-
ASIA" of Lantier. From this last
work more may be learned of the
Spartan youth and maidens and their
sports and habits than from a score
of serious histories. But the book in
question, Greek Without Tears" is
notable especially because it is de-
signed for girls, causing a French
review to remark that it. appears
that French women are taking up
Greek at time when university men
are talking of giving it up. Those
who have seen, or read, that enter
tanning classic, Letters to Emile"
in which Desmoutier painted the sem
suous legends of mythology in delic-
ious prose and verse; will observe that
it certainly inspired his book. 1t may
lead the French girl to learn Greek
when she remembers that at Is Lady
Jane Grey could both read and write
Greek. 1t is curious also, that the
method taught in the book was that
pursued by Alfieri, who learned
Greek when he was 40, and beguiled
his time, or such part of it as he
could spare from the Establishments
of the ravishing, but violent, Coun-
tess of Albany, in translating
Aeschylus and Sophocles into Italian
verse.
Three other recent French books
of interest are. novels. They are Lies
Files de la Pluie," by A. Sarignan
"L'Ordination, by ]. Benda; "Le
Crime de Biodos,' by P. Lasserre