Life of Lord Lawrence.
By R. BOSWORTH SMITH, M. A., late Fellow of Trinity
College, Assistant Master at Harrow School: author of
“Carthage and the Carthaginians,” “Rome and Carthage,”
“Mohammed and Mohammedanism,” etc. With maps and
portraits. 2 vols., 8vo, $5.
These two volumes contain the biography of one of the
most remarkable Englishmen of our time. John Lawrence
exemplified the highest and most characteristic
qualities and virtues of an Anglo-Saxon, and his life
is the history, more or less complete, of British
rule in India during the most memorable period since
Englishmen first gained a footing there. Lawrence’s
career is first traced, from the time when he went out
as a young student for the Indian service, through
the rapid steps that brought him into positions of
authority and showed his extraordinary tact and
firmness in dealing with the native population, up to
the time when his position as the master of Indian
administration was recognized in his appointment to
the Lieutenant Governorship of the Punjab. But it is
of course in the period of the mutiny that Lawrence,
as the “Savior of the Punjab,” reaches his full
development, and it would not be easy to exaggerate the
power of this part of Mr. Bosworth Smith’s narrative in
awakening enthusiasm for his subject. But it will be
found that Mr. Smith has given the work even greater
claims to attention, by making of it one of those
great biographies which form, perhaps, one of the most
interesting groups in literature—the few books in which
a vigorous individuality is brought out with perfect
success.
Recollections of Arthur Penrhyn Stanley,
Late Dean of Westminster. Three lectures delivered
in Edinburgh, in November, 1882. By GEORGE GRANVILLE
BRADLEY, D.D., Dean of Westminster, Honorary Fellow of
University College, Oxford. 1 vol., 12mo, $1.
These recollections, written down by his successor
and life-long friend, and covering the whole course
of Stanley’s life, make up so fine and sympathetic
a picture of the man, that even if a more ambitious
biography appears later, these reminiscences will be
preferred to it by many. The accounts of Stanley’s life
at Rugby and Oxford, and of his early manhood, have
a special attraction. The whole memoir, while by no
means effusive, communicates to the reader much of the
feeling with which Dean Beadley writes of an intimate
friendship “of more than forty years.”
Final Causes.
By PAUL JANET, Member of the French Academy. Translated
from the Second French Edition. With Preface, by PROF.
ROBERT FLINT, D.D., LL.D. 1 vol., 8vo, $2.50.
“No book of greater importance in the realm of
theological philosophy has appeared during the past
twenty years than Paul Janet’s ‘Final Causes.’ The
central idea of the work is one which the whole
course of scientific discussion has made the burning
question of the day, viz., that final causes are not
inconsistent with physical causation. Janet does
not contend against evolution in Nature; but only
against the atheistic interpretation of evolution,
which denies the presence in it or operation behind
it of intelligent and definitive finality.”—_The
Independent._
Socrates.
A Translation of the Apology, Crito, and parts of the
Phædo of Plato. Containing the Defense of Socrates, his
last Teachings, and his Thoughts on Immortality and the
Future State of the Soul. An introduction by Professor
W. W. Goodwin, of Harvard University. 1 vol., 12mo. A
new and cheaper edition, paper, 50 cents.
Criteria of Diverse Kinds of Truth.
As opposed to Agnosticism. Being a Treatise on Applied
Logic. (Philosophic Series No. 1.) By JAMES MCCOSH,
D.D., LL.D., D.L. Author of “Intuitions of the Mind,”
“Laws of Discursive Thought,” etc. 1 vol., paper, 50
cents.
Energy, Efficient and Final Cause.
(Philosophic Series, No. 11.) By JAMES MCCOSH, D.D.,
LL.D. 1 vol., 12mo, paper, 50 cents.
Bibliotheca Theologica.
A Select and Classified Bibliography of Theology and
General Religious Literature. By JOHN F. HURST, D.D.,
LL.D. 1 vol, 8vo, $3.00.
On the Desert.
With a Brief Review of Recent Events in Egypt. By REV.
HENRY M. FIELD, D.D., author of “From the Lakes of
Killarney to the Golden Horn,” and “Egypt to Japan.” 1
vol. crown 8vo, with a map, $2.
This volume is the account of a journey in the track of
the Israelites along the Red Sea, among the peaks of
Sinai, through the Desert of the Wandering, and up to
the Promised Land.
From Rev. Wm. M. Taylor, D.D.: “I was so interested
in its perusal that it was with difficulty that I
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an excursion through those scenes which must be forever
sacred to the lovers of the Word of God. Nor must I
forget to add that every now and then a delightful
humor bubbles up in these pages, which adds immensely
to the charm of a very charming book.”
The Religions of the Ancient World.
Including Egypt, Assyria and Babylonia, Persia, India,
Phœnicia, Etruria, Greece, Rome. By GEORGE RAWLINSON,
M.A., author of “The Origin of Nations,” etc. 1 vol.,
12mo, $1.
“The historical studies which have elevated this
author’s works to the highest position have made him
familiar with those beliefs which once directed the
world’s thought; and he has done literature no better
service than in this little volume.... The book is,
then, to be accepted as a sketch, and as the most
trustworthy sketch in our language, of the religions
discussed.”—_N. Y. Christian Advocate._
An Honorable Surrender.
By MARY ADAMS. 1 vol., 12mo, $1.
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have read so bright a little novel.”—_Phila. Bulletin._
Ice-Pack and Tundra.
An Account of the Search for the _Jeannette_ and a
Sledge Journey Through Siberia. By WILLIAM H. GILDER,
correspondent of the New York _Herald_, with the
Rodgers Search Expedition; author of “Schwatka’s
Search.” 1 vol, 8vo, with maps and illustrations, $4.
Mr. Gilder’s book is an account of the voyage of the
_Rodgers_, her discoveries and destruction; with the
thrilling personal narrative of his own solitary and
perilous journey through the Siberian wastes. The whole
story of the _Jeannette_ is given from its papers and
the accounts of survivors. It will be seen that the
volume possesses an extraordinary interest.
Dorner on the Future State.
Being a Translation of the Section of his System of
Christian doctrine, comprising the Doctrine of the
Last Things. With an Introduction and Notes. By NEWMAN
SMYTH, D.D., author of “Old Faiths in New Light,” “The
Orthodox Theology of To-day,” etc. 1 vol., 12mo, $1.
“The present book is only one of the series of
treatises which Dorner has written; but it contains
most of the distinctive views by which he is best
known. It is an attempt in plain words to bring the
doctrine of Christian eschatology into harmony with
the best knowledge and the best thought of the age....
It brings theology into harmony with man’s deepest
longings, and bathes its rugged logical corners
with the melting tenderness of Divine love.”—_N. Y.
Tribune._
Webster: An Ode.
By W. C. WILKINSON. 1 vol, small 4to, $2.00.
“Upon opening this fine volume one perceives instantly
that he has before him a piece of literary work done in
that spirit of literary conscientiousness of which we
have been speaking. But while he finds this conviction
justified as he reads on, he finds also another thing
true, and that is, that the poem is written from the
heart, a genuine effusion of love for the memory of a
great man.”—_Chicago Standard._
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