New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-19
PUBLISHERS NEWS
Current Talk of Things Present
and to Come.


Major General William Crawford
Gorgas's Sanitation in Panama" IS
announced by D. Appleton & Co. for
immediate publication. The book is
one of the most important contribu-
tons to the literature Of the construc-
ton Of the Canal
The City's Seal and Flag.
In commemoration of the 250th an
niversary, on June "a, of the estab-
lishment of municipal government un-
der the Mayor and Board of Aldermen
of the City Of New York as successors
to the Burgomaster and Schepens OF
the City Of Nieuw Amsterdam, the
Messrs. Putnam have issued "The Seal
and Flag of the City of New York"
The book contains papers on The
Transition from Dutch to English Gov
eminent i'm the City of New York" by
Victor Hugo Paltsits; The Origin Of
the Seal and Flag" by L. Hagaman
Hall, L. II. D.; The Meaning of the
Flag" by John B. Pine; the report pro-
posing the adoption of the seal and
flag and a record of the proceedings OF
the Art Commission and of the Board
Of Aldermen, together with the ordi-
nances as finally adopted and approved
by the Mayor; with illustrations of
the seals used by the city during the
Dutch and Colonial periods, the stand
ard design of the city seal, and re-
production in color Of the official flag.
Robert Widen Neeser.
Robert Widen Neeser. author Of
"Our Navy and the Next War" Serb
which justifies the statement that he
is an expert in naval matters. In 1910
he made his first cruise with the feet in
the Kansas, with Admiral Charles J.
Badger. then the Kansas captain. This
cruise lasted four months. In the fall
Of 1911 he made another cruise in the
Kansas. In April, 1913, he was with
Admiral Badger, then commander IN
chief of the Atlantic feet. In the fall
of that year he made another cruise
with Admiral Badger in the Wyoming,
and in March, 1914, he was with the
Atlantic feet at Vera Cruz. In the
fall of 1914 he made a cruise in the
Drayton, a destroyer with the Atlanti:
torpedo fotilla. Mr. Neeser is Secre-
tary Of the Naval History Society, sec
rotary Of the naval committee Of the
National Security League, and di-
rector Of the Navy League.
Care of the Teeth.
The Harvard Health Talks, published
bv the Harvard University Press, make
accessible to a wider audience the pub
lie lectures which have been delivered
for several winters past at the Harvard
Medical School The latest addition
TO this useful and inexpensive series
is "The Care of the Teeth" by DR.. c.
A. Bracket.
Judaism and st. Paul"
Mr.. C. G. Montefore dedicates TO his
friend, the Dean Of Peterborough, the
two essays which make up the volume
Judaism and st. Paul. (E. P. Dutton
& Co... The first deals with the gen.
esis Of the religion Of the Apostle and
argues that st. Paups pre-conversion
Judaism was Of the poorer sort, such
as we identify with the Jews Of the
Dispersion, and comprising elements
not to be found in the genuine Rab-
binic Judaism which came TO flower IN
the sixth century of our era. Re
ligious conceptions and practices from
non-Jcwish sources had their influence,
so that tho youth Of Tarsus had a re-
ligious outlook colder and more sombre
than that OF rabbinical orthodoxy. A
jew to whom the rabbinic require
ments were not a burden, but delight
and "the Joy of the commandment
was not unknown in normal Jewry
could never have turned with such
scorn upon the law as being but the
negation Of spiritual life. The Pauline
type of Christianity is better under
stood when the poverty and the pes
simism of his pre-Christian Judaism
are taken into the reckoning
If il was not to be expected that a
Jewish scholar would defend the
Christian thesis Of the Apostle Paul,
il is nevertheless a remarkably sym
pathetic portrayal Of the great mis-
sionary that is given in Mr.. Mont
flores pages. After making allow
ances for doctrines which the modern
Jew would find difficulty in accepting,
the author pays tribute TO the valiant
emphasis Of St. Paul on truths which
are common 20 what IS best IN both
Judaism ard Christianity. Thus, com
menting on the descriptions, in the
Epistles, of the regenerate life, Mr..
Montefore says:
Regarded merely as literature,
they are magnificent. Moreover
such fervent and rapturous words
are to some extent infectious,
even though they may depend upon
conceptions which are alien TO
those that read them. Can we 20
n little further and more specif-
callv make use of them? II Is
clear that we, like any modern
Christian, are born into our faith.
There cannot be for US a tremen.
dous severance between old and
new. Nevertheless, we can learn
70 live unto God and not to our
selves. We can learn TO
feel love toward God and TO be-
lieve that God loves us, and IN the
conviction and energy OF that dual
love might some OF us not be ca
pable of rising to new heights OF
devotion, sacrifice and enthusiasm
Art at the Panama Exposition.
"Tbe Galleries Of the Exposition" by
Eugen Neuhaus, is announced by raul
Elder & Co. as a companion volume TO
Mr.. Neuhaus's "The Art OF the Expo
sition." The new book will be devoted
in picture and text, TO the paintings,
statuary, etc, in the Palace of the Fine
Arts at the exposition.
More Photodramatization
Marie Van Vorsts novel Big Ire
maine" which has reached It's Tour
teenth edition, is 10 be turned INTO a
motion picture play; and so IS 4;
Phillips oppenheim's Mr.. GreK o.
Monte Carlo"