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The book is valuable and interesting. It arouses our deepest sympathy for the toilers who are close to the earth, bearing the burden and heat of the day. The world forgets them in its mad haste for wealth, learning, culture, and position; but the Son of man was a carpenter and a day-laborer, and belonged to the great industrial army who are our brethren, and upon whom we are all dependent.

Mr. Wyckoff has no theories to maintain, and has not attempted any deductions from his experience. Another volume will appear, and we may anticipate more philosophy in that.

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THIS COUNTRY OF OURS. By BENJAMIN HARRISON, Ex-President of the United States. Pp. 360. 121110. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. $1.50.

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The American people have never been obliged to inquire seriously, "What shall we do with our Ex-Presidents?" General Grant broke his silence by his memoirs, the only happy outcome of his financial misfortunes, and the example which he set, and that is now followed by ExPresidents Harrison and Cleveland, will have its influence on succeeding Presidents.

The first of these books is a valuable and practical treatise on the machinery of our government. It is written in a popular and simple style, yet it is dignified, statesmanlike, and learned.

The last book does not fulfill the estimate which the New York Sun has placed upon the author as being a ponderous and platitudinal writer, a maker of meaningless phrases. It is a clear and interesting treatise on some phases of self-culture, is original and sensible. It was first given as an address to the students of Princeton College.

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PRINCIPLES OF VOCAL EXPRESSION; Being a Revision of the Rhetoric of Vocal Expression. By WM. B. CHAMBERLAIN, A.M. of the Chicago Theological Seminary. Together with MENTAL TECHNIQUE AND LITERARY INTERPRETATION. By S. H. CLARK, Ph. B., of the University of Chicago. Pp. xix, 479. 12mo. Chicago: Scott, Foresman & Co. 1897. $1.50 net.

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THE HISTORY OF ORATORY from the Age of Pericles to the Present Time. By LORENZO SEARS, L.H.D., Professor in Brown University. Pp. 440. 16mo. Chicago: Scott, Foresman & Co. 1897.

So far as we know, this volume of Professor Sears is the most compre hensive, discriminating, and helpful treatise which has so far been written upon the subject. So thorough is the presentation that the volume is really a cyclopedia of information as well as a highly artistic presentation of the important theme. Relating to modern oratory the reader will find discriminating critiques of the characteristics of that of the British Parliament and of America during the Colonial period, and of the Congressional speakers during the first century since the Declaration of Independence, as well as of occasional orators, such as Edward Everett, Rufus Choate, Charles Sumner, Wendell Phillips, and George William Curtis, of whom our country has furnished so many brilliant examples. All classes of readers will find the volume interesting and profitable.

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This popular summary of what is really the most dramatic portion of modern church history is worthy of all praise, and is by no means devoid of philosophical interest. During this period John Wicklif arose in England, the new learning crossed the Alps, America was discovered, Savonarola ran his tragic career, and the printing-press began its revolutionary work. In treating the complicated and pregnant facts of the period, Dr. Van Dyke is at his best.

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ARTICLE I.

PLACE OF THE PULPIT IN MODERN LIFE
AND THOUGHT.

BY THE REVEREND NEWELL DWIGHT HILLIS, D.D.

HAVING lingered long in foreign climes and countries, Plutarch returned home to affirm that he had found cities without walls, without literature, without coin or kings; peoples who knew not the forum, the theater, or gymnasium; "but," added the traveler, "there never was, nor shall there ever be, a city without temple, church, or chapel." Since Plutarch's time many centuries have come and gone, yet for thoughtful men the passing years have only strengthened the conviction that not until cities are hung in the air, instead of founded upon rock, can the ideal commonwealth be established or maintained without foundations of morals and religion. Were it possible for the ancient traveler to come forth from his tomb, and, moving slowly down the aisles of time, to step foot into the scene and city midst which we now do dwell, he would find that, in the influence of religious teachers upon liberty, literature, art, and industry, that would fully justify the reassertion of the conviction expressed so many centuries ago. Indeed, many students of the rise and reign of the common people make the history of social progress to be very

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