nation numbering nearly one-third of the human race slowly and majestically rousing itself from the torpor of ages under the influence of new and powerful revolutionary forces. No other movement of our age is so colossal, no other is more pregnant with meaning." With the ample knowledge derived from prolonged travel and study in China our author treats this subject. The chapters on the Missionary Outlook and the Future of China are of special importance. brings a severe indictment against the importation of Western Ivices to this Orient land. A "Christless civilization," he says, "is always and everywhere a curse rather than a blessing." is handsomely illustrated.

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"To Jerusalem Through the Lands of Islam, Among Jews, Christians, and Moslems." By Madame Hyacinthe Loyson. Chicago The Open Court Publishing Co. Toronto: William Briggs. Pp. viii-325.

This is one of the handsomest books of Oriental travel which we know. Madame Loyson, it will be remembered, was the wife of the distinguished Pere Hyacinthe, the eloquent priest who for conscience's sake left the communion of the Catholic Church. The book is well introduced by the ex-Mayor of Jerusalem and by Prince Polignac. It describes in interesting chapters the visit of Pere Hyacinthe and his distinguished wife to Algiers, Oran, Tunis, Malta, Upper and Lower Egypt, and Palestine. The book pays special attention to the religious conditions of the Copts, Jews and Moslems of the East. It presents a tremendous indictment of the liquor traffic in Malta and elsewhere. The white man's vices are the greatest obstruction to the mission work in the non-Christian world. The writer is not as sympathetic with missions as we could wish, accuses them of too intense denominationalism, says she has not yet met with a single converted Moslem or Jew. She must have been unfortunate in experience, because there are scores, if not hundreds, of clergymen of the Anglican and other churches who are converted Jews.

ing and profound study in the problems of biblical criticism. The reckless attacks of some of the "higher critics upon the validity and authenticity of the Holy Scriptures have instilled doubt and fear, uncertainty and trembling in the minds of multiudes of Bible students, and have in many cases overthrown the faith of those who once believed. Dr. Langtry examines the proofs and arguments offered in support of the new theories and endeavors to show that they are illogical, insufficient and altogether unconvincing. "The premiss upon which almost every fundamental conclusion of criticism rests," he says, "is a conjecture or an assumption and not a fact or a demonstration, and so we are now in a position for a final stock-taking and a final judgment." With much learning and literary ability, sometimes rising into an impassioned eloquence, Dr. Langtry pursues his task. He examines the great questions of evolution to anthropology, the Mosaic cosmogony, the "analytical theory," the Hebrew history, and kindred topics in defence of his argument. The book will be a new buttress to what Mr. Gladstone has well called "the impregnable rock of Holy Scripture." The book is published in handsome style by our Book Room.

"William Hickling Prescott." By Thurston Peck. New York : The Macmillan Co. Toronto: Morang & Co. Pp. x-186. Price, 75 cents net.

It is a remarkable circumstance that the two American writers who have treated most fully the subject of American and Canadian history, Prescott and Parkman, should both have been almost incapacitated for reading by partial blindness. Yet they both overcame this handicap and through sheer force of will accomplished a vast amount of high-class work. The labor involved in the research of documentary evidence, often in obscure manuscript and in foreign tongues, is one of the great achievements of literature. It is very appropriate that this study of Prescott should form one of Macmillan's English Men of Letters series. This is a biography of unusual interest. Prescott was received into the best circles in England, met many distinguished men. He says of Macaulay that he believed he could restore the first six or seven books of Milton's "Paradise Lost" from memory if they were lost. So great is the interest of this biography that we will present its substance in a special paper.

"The Church of Christ."

By a Layman. New York: Funk & Wagnalls Co. Toronto: William Briggs. Pp. 336. Price, $1.00 net.

The increased attention given by lay writers to the great problems of religion is one of the most encouraging features of the times. The writer of this book is prominent in Y. M. C. A. work and in this relation fills the need of a closer unification of the different members of Christ's body, the Church. He seeks a new and larger union of all true believers. To find a basis for this union he investigates the conditions of membership in the kingdom of heaven. The great essential of this is the old Methodist doctrine of the full assurance of pardon and acceptance with God. The book is full of inspiration and encouragement.

"Missions from the Modern View." By

Robert A. Hume, of Ahmednagar,
India. New York, Chicago, Toronto:
Fleming H. Revell Co. Pp. 292.
Price, $1.25 net.

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The subject of missions is one which challenges the attention of the Christian Church as never before. "The Mission Problem," says our author, "is the readjustment of missionary ideals methods to the state of knowledge. admit the need of readjustment in the field the same honorable category with every other field of lofty human enterprise. Readjustment means growth, progress, augment tion of power, as the effects of increased knowledge and experience." Dr. Hume's book is written from the point of view of the missionary in the field. It discusses missions and their psychology and sociology, treats the historical development of Hinduism, a comparison of that ancient religion with Christianity, and in many ways broadens and deepens our conviction that the religion of Jesus is the only solvent of the age-long problem of the race.

"Edward Fitzgerald." By A. C. Ben

son. New York : The Macmillan Co. Toronto: Morang & Co. Pp. vil-207. Price, 75 cents net.

The history of a man of letters is almost always uneventful. That of Fitzgerald was singularly so. He was a shy, retiring scholar who published little over his own name, and who was best known as the translator of the Persian poet, Omar Khayyam. But the man who won the friendship and admiration of Tennyson, Thackeray, Carlyle and others of the chief lights of English literature, must be

"Southern Writers." Selections in Prose and Verse. Edited by W. P. Trent. New York: The Macmillan Co. Toronto Morang & Co. Pp. xx-524. Price, $1.10 net.

It was a happy idea to collect in one volume an anthology of southern literature in prose and verse. This book is one of wide range, from Captain John Smith, of the seventeenth century, down to living writers. Between these dates are given selections from Washington, Henry, Jefferson, Madison; in later times from General Lee, Jefferson Davis, Cable, Joel Harris, Thomas Nelson Page, and many other prose writers. It is to the galaxy of poetry, however, that the South has given some of the most brilliant stars, as shown by copious quotations from Poe, Father Ryan, Randall, author of "My Maryland," Sidney Lanier, O'Hara, author of "The Bivouac of the Dead," and many others who have lent lustre to the southern muse. For a book of five hundred and forty pages, the price is remarkably low.

"Seven Sorts of Successful Services."

Suggestive Solutions of the Sunday
Evening Problem. By James L.
Hill, D.D. Author of "Growth of
Government," etc. New York: E. B.
Treat & Co. Toronto: William
Briggs. Pp. 224. Price, $1.00.

The Sunday evening problem is met with in an acute form in the United States, where the evening congregations, and morning ones, too, are far inferior in numbers to those in Canada; but even here the wise counsels of this book will be found very helpful. The proper use of good music, character studies, the "you-and-I plan," heart-to-heart talks, the 'going out - into-the-highways-andhedges plan," the after-meeting, and other subjects are wisely discussed. "sensational " plan is strongly denounced: This Red-Fire, Hurdy-Gurdy, ad captandum Pyrotechnic, Wild-West, ad hominem Brass-Band style of service is wide open to the stricture of wise Dr.

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Johnson, who said, 'The odd never lasts.'" The Saturday early closing or half-holiday is a distinct gain to Sunday services. We commend this book to all our preachers.

"Paths to Power." Central Church S r

mons. By Frank W. Gunsaulus, D.D. New York, Chicago, Toronto: Fleming H. Revell Company. Pp. 362. Price, $1.25 net.

Dr. Gunsaulus, by his long and eventful ministry, has won the right to speak with authority on ethical and religious subjects. He is one of the most able and eloquent preachers of the American pulpit. His elegy and eulogy on the occasion of the death of Queen Victoria the Beloved was the noblest tribute to the great queen that we read. Besides being for twelve years pastor of Plymouth Church, Chicago, and since pastor of Central Church of that city, he is President of the Armour Institute of Technicology, Lecturer at Yale, and Professor at University of Chicago as well. The book is a message to the age.

"Self-Control: Its Kingship and Majesty." By William George Jordan. New York, Chicago, Toronto: Fleming H. Revell Company. Pp. 192. Price, $1.00 net.

These are strong, terse, epigrammatic papers on subjects of vital importance, an excellent antidote to the hurry and skurry of modern life, the Majesty of Calmness, the Dignity of Self-Reliance, the Revelations of Reserve Power are opposed to Worry and Hurry, the Scourge of American Life. "Blessed be God," says John Wesley, "I worry at nothing." Few men maltreated, maligned

were ever more

"The Revival." A Symposium. Collected and edited by Rev. J. H. MacDonald. Cincinnati: Jennings & Pye.

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ronto William Briggs. Pp. 147. Price, 75 cents net.

These addresses were first delivered before the Chicago Preachers' Meeting, and were designed to awaken a more general interest in revival work. They were received with great favor, and were highly successful in accomplishing the purpose for which they were planned. This fact is the warrant for giving them a still wider circulation, in the hope that they may prove as stimulating to those who may read them as to those to whom they were originally delivered. They cannot fail to be greatly helpful in promoting a revival of the work of God.

"The Codes of Hammurabi and Moses." By W. W. Davies, Ph.D. Cincinnati : Jennings & Graham. Toronto: William Briggs. Pp. 126. Price, 75 cents net.

It was a remarkable "find" when a few months ago the Hammurabi Code, going back to the year 2250 B.C., was discovered. Hammurabi was the monarch who ruled over Ur of the Chaldees when Abraham left that ancient city to establish himself in the land of Canaan. This code throws a flood of light upon the period. The text of the code, with illustrative notes, enables us to better understand the heart of that old antediluvian world in which our civilization and religion had their origin.

"Soul-Winning." A Problem and Its Solution. By Phidellia P. Carroll, Ph.D. New York: Eaton & Mains. Toronto William Briggs. Pp. 110. Price, 50 cents net.

Soul-winning is the great work of the Christian Church. To it all things else are subsidiary. This little book is full of wise counsels on this important subject. It emphasizes the value of personal effort and of the winning of the young.

"The Christian Faith Personally Given in a System of Doctrine." By Olin Alfred Curtis, Professor of Systematic Theology in the Drew Theological Seminary. New York: Eaton & Mains. Toronto: William Briggs. Pp. xi-541. Price, $2.50 net. Reserved for fuller notice.