Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 20, 1880, Page 9

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Fatien its frame, and coldand motted fungus Gathors upon tho humid, rotting wood; Wild horb and vino ommosh thelr threads about Hy Wooil-stalks and brambles tanglo whore it stood, Nover at dawn, whon morning's mctiow atar Pales, wud tho caylee aurges from tho Enst, Will tho illd clash of rivor-wave and wheel Croon to mo-low, For time the sound has conscd— Consau Itko the beat of bis noble hoart who loved Censod like bis song outwafted to the door, Coldly, alone, T hedr the water mourning; Ever his song iu silent on the shore, Silent tho wheel, his heart, hissong—all still Under tho balm, and bloom, and sunimer-scent; No more at duskefall, and never more at dawa, Psnitn and river-cadenco shall bo bicnt, Under the eylantine nd searlot-runnes Bilunt at dusky clasp iy bande and wal Wait, though bis stop will neverorugh tho clover, Nor his strong band unclasp and swing the gate, oro in mortal regtons, through the film. No, Eurte-born mala a folds about ue hero, 5 tho song 81 io Odors Oo! ie morn— Shall tho inild clash of wave and wheol drift Yot a the Barth-mist by Fatth's true glow be cloven— the eong echo from a Holy Bhore, Maem by the Throws, sual the gash, of ving water ‘ Blend with the songs of Morning evermore. Trim WHITNEY, Hawatits, Jeferson Oo, Mo. LITERATURE AND ART. A New History of Painting— Early Egyptian, Christian, and Medieval Art. Self-Culture—Moslem Egypt and Chris- tian Abyssinia—Lile of Beetho- ven—Theological Works. Holiday-Books—Notes on New Books— Magazines—Books Recelyed—Lit- erary and Art Notes. LITERATURE, A NEW HISTORY OF PAINTING. The volume before us forms the first of a set, Which, when completed, will take rank as the best and most complete lilstory of Palnting yet produced. Not asa history of Art, but as a listory of one department of Art. Asa historian of the more comprehen- sly subject Winekelmann or \Waagen are sull entitled to take preeedence of all others, Previous to the appearance of thls work of Prof, Woltmann’s Dr. Kugler’s Handbook has been tho standard general book on the subject. Ils work, however, was published in 1837, and since that the the work of ex. porers and of sclentists have brought to Neht many new facts In relation to, and il lustrations of, both ancient and medieval painting, Semper's works were rather In the Mne of architecture, and although Sehnaase published a seven-volume, history of the picture-crenting art some six years after Kugler, his work fs neithor ox far-reaching, ns rellable, or ns useful us Kugier's, ‘ Begloning with Exypthin palnters the pres- ent handsome volume Jenves us at the open- {ng of the art-flourishing period of Glotte, Asecond volume, containing a history of painting during tho Renaissance, is promlsed within a few months, While the beginning of a history of this kind with Egypttan artists is somewhat arbitrary, it Is undoubtedly the proper tlme from which to date the origin of the trio palnter,. No one cares to xo back any furthor,.- Yet the Hinitation destroys the claim to absolute complete: » fora knowl edge of palnting was certaluly common to the Chinese, Hindoos, Perstans, Assyrians, and Phorntelans centuries” before the date 2,000 B.C. As Haydon Justly says: “In What country painting first orlginated ts nearly ns diMenlt to discover as it fs to find a. country In whieh ft never existed at ail’ Egyptian patntings are comprised in three classes,—thoss on ‘the walls of tombs and temples, tiose on the cases and clots of mummies, and — those on papyrus rolls, Prof. Woltmann fas con- fined his attention to those of tho first class, tho great monumental representations ex- ecnted on the walls of temple-painces or tombs. ‘These are: the most numerous and tho niost meritorlous, although none of them can be properly considered works of art. | Sculpture and vatnting were orlgluully prac- ticed in conjunction, the latter being the sub ordinate art, and tho earliest eniployment of the patnter, says Mr. Weyman, was to color statttcs, bas rellefa,. and intuglios, Egyp- than art is monotonous. For thousands ot years St developed no yatlety, being con. trolled by the priesthood, — Perspective, chiaroscuro, and the science of camposition seem to have been unknown. “When two figures have to be represented behind one nuother, thisis often done by simply doub- Hays the outlines of the tirat figure; the natu- ral consequence fs that the farther of tho two looks larger than the nearer.” Probably every ong who has looked over a volume of Egypthin’ illustrations has noticed this pecuitarity without cousiderhig its cause. Men and womon were generally painted red, tninals brown, birds blie and yellow. Sometimes a ‘varnish of glue or Tesin was applied to tho finished pleture, which may neeount for the freshness whieh the colors sill retain, From 1400 B.C, to 525 1. C,, the tine of the Persian conqnest, was th purlod of greatest prosperity in Egyptian art, Prof. Woltmann next deals with the history of patnting in ancient Greees and taly, IIe eluting far Greclan painters equal rank with the Greelan seulptors, Boetinine with Polygnotos, about 403 B. C., Zert Parrha- slos, ‘Uhaanthes, Protagenes, Apnoties were celebrated In prose and'verse.” Doubts as to the merits of Greck painting ara due to the fact that no single work of niyof these funous paintors hns survived to our thine. Early Greelan: palnters have been classed in diferent schools; the Athenian, the Asintle onic, the Sicyonian, From tho thie of Alexnnder art rapidly deteriorated, and subsequent to, the middle o the third century senreely another namo of note ocetirs, Greek pulutings were exconted In distemper, with glue, milk, or white of egm, and in encaustle upon wood, elay, plaster, stone parchment, and, finally, upon canvas. Pliny says that Appeiles de- rived his brillant ‘coloring from a liquid which he calls “atramentum,.” ‘The finest ancient pleturo extant, with respect to com- position, foreshurtening, and perspective, 3 the “Battle of Iysno,” from. the casa deb Fautro at Pompeii, and now atthe National Muscum at Naples. On the subject of com- parison Prof, Woltmann says: “As for tho rolation of ancient Greek painting ta modern. painting ag {thas beon practiced since the sixteenth century, we niay bo sure, after what has been sald, thatif’ it were Figuet tis tolook upon somo great masterpieces by aGreck artist, wo should not be struck by any technical shortcomings in his work, but should place it without hesitation by the most finished performances of ull thnes or races, It is true that In certain orders of work womlght perhaps percelvecrrors of per- spective and weakness of coloring; and it Uie old Greck masters could sec some of tha most accomplished modern pictures they would doubiless thonisclyes acknowledge that, though wo may not have attained the noble style and feeling for Boauty: whieh their choleer works possessed, we have still mado advances and opened felis unknown te them in the pletorin! grasp of nature, and in tho mode of reproducing heruspects with technical correctness on nm plane surface, Tho high renown of haying been the tirst to create ft true art of palntliug will, howevor, not in future be denied tu the Greeks,” ‘The. early Romans were ehietly portrait painters, pid a leading Wwilter any that “to such a depth of degradation did painting finally descend among thein that it was practiced chlelly by slaves, and the palnter was estimated by the quantity of work he could do ina day, Prof. Woltman clahns hat the Roman artists come “but as an ap pendix to those of Greece,” and that "upon talian soll haye been sound the remaing which give us our best iden of what had once been the technical capabilities and mastery of Greek art," ‘ Enrly Christian Art, whieh ts the next division of the aubject, began before the tlne of Constantine, and was first used as a incans of Ineulcating religions principles, And the catacombs of Rome ate the only places in which are found remains of Christian paint- ings of cariler data than tho close of tho fourth century, It was the persecuted Christinns—who mado of the catacombs their chapel, mecting-places, and tombs until the recognition of Christinitty by Constantino— who symbolized their faith and also tou gers tain extent thelr historles by thelr mural palntings. Christ was fur the first tine por Fayed 44 the Good Shepherd in the Cata- comb of Callxtus. Kugler says of these works that thay possessed a pecullar golem: nity and dignity of style,” Vrof, Woltmin has followed, to a great ex: tont, the classification aud sloveloument of the subject inaugurated by Kugler. ‘The work Js-both a selentific and plilosophieat history. It, is a monument of scholarship and Inbor, “Ihe samo cluboruto review of tha earlier forms of patnting Js carried through the discussion of tho medieval perlod— the Carolingian age, Ulwnlnated —man- uscripts, fresco-painting, and mosaics until we are brougit to tho threshold of that great artistic era, the perlod of the Renals- sance, beginning about the year 2400. ‘Th succeeding volumes will bo awaited with In- terest. . Should they be us full In thelr dis cussions as {3‘this first volume the set will form an addition to art-literature of which the century may well be proud, ‘The transla- ton appears to have been carefully and ac surately done, Possibly a Froncli or an En- Rilsh author might have prepared popular volume, one not quite as tity or hard reading. But the work ts adintrably thorough in every part, and fills a vacant place as a manual and reference book, ‘There ago 133 a more: illustrations which are not remarkable ns fpeclinens of delicate engraving or flue work, ‘The publishers have given the English edl- ton a handsome and appropriate dress, It. 1s muitde Iniburtane by the the author's dignithed and scholarly mode of treatment, Published by Dodd, Mead & Ca, New York, —— MOSLEM EGYPT AND CIRISTIAN 4 ABYSSINIA, ‘The compass of this work fs well indfented. by Its sub-title, * Military Service Under tho Khedive, in IMs Provinees, and Beyond Their orders, a3 Experienced hy the American Stil’? It will be remembered that about the yonr £568, or, at any rate, about the time of the completion of the Suez Canal, the Khedtve of Eeypt attempted ta Improve his nilltary organization by attaching to his stata number of American ofticers, all of whom hat seen active services during tho War of the Rebellion, some with the Union army and others with the Rebel forces, From first to Inst there wera forty-clght of these Atnericans In the service of the Egyp- tlan ruler, of whom the author of this book —n gradunte of West Point anc a regular army ofleer of experience and abliity—was one, ‘Their contracts stipulated that they shotild serve for five yenrs, but might be dis: charged on short notice with sx months! ex- tra pay. ‘They were obliged to serve against any Power with whieh Egypt might he at wat, excepting the United States, and their pay was to be the sume ns that of officers of the same grade tn the United States army. ‘There were a number of other provislons Which tended to make the positions destra- ble ones for those whose trade was war, ‘This book Is an attempt, and a successful one, to give a general idea of the service per- formed by these officers, ag n body, “also to portray something of the character, and to depict a Mttle of the life of the interesting people with whom they came In contact, from Zanzibar to Alexandria in Egypt, and from Alexnndrin’ to the Victoria Nyanza, ineluding the Niam-Niam country, Darfour, and Kordofan.? We may say right here that Col, Dye has shown himself competent for the work he attempted. His book is yaluable contribution to the Mterature of travels and explorations, It will be read with interest und profit. Sts defects ara those of style, finish, nnd arrange- nent. The very fact whieh the author sa much regrets—that the matter 1s, In lari part, niade itp from letters and notes written f entent of the field when the mind evercly taxed with more practical af- cives a reality and a char to the work which makes amends for its lack of pollsh or fatits of Inexperience. i y Col. Dye's opening chapters,In fact about the Airst quarter of the book, are oeeupied with dee sertplon¢of the Court and pockaty of Egypt under Istnall, the Khedive’s financial system, his entertainments and palaces, his lurem, life in Cairo, the work of the American ofll- vers, snd’ the attempt to make an_ efficient army out of the Exypttan forces. ‘These are Interesting chapters, ulthouzh not ns impor- tant historically us the rest of the book, in which Col, Dye gives a graphic history of the war between” Egypt and Abyssinia in 1876-77, ‘This $3 the first complete account of that War yet published. :- dt Is stated In the third chapter that during hls comparatively short reign the Khedive bankrupted his’ priyate estate, valued at $300,000,000, and burdened his peopla with a debt of nearly €590,000,000, Lily reekless ex- travagance and the more than Orlental splendor with which he invested his con- santly occurring entertalnments were the unending drain upon the public and private treasuries, Of the harem as an Institution, Col, Dyosays: “It isto this institutlon and its mafntenance, with all its Iforance, su- verstition, cuss {gloss and intrigue, that mny be troced fying, backshish, blackniail, bribery, forgery, theft, and corruption gener- ally, high and low, and exorbitant taxes, eru- elty aul murder, emasculation and slavery, and oil their concomitants, .. . Although the first wife may be superior to the others, the hundreds of women who afterward en- ter the harem generally do so ay sinves, com- tug from the very depths of barbarism, igno- rance, and superstition; and those are tho mothers, the educators of youth, upon whom ¢ hang Eqyots futuro hopes. The word harem” dtself, if not ‘originally — tha plural of hhuar (hot), certalnly augeosts ® helt on earth, a3 the "institution Is known, with Its sooty guard... . Were Egypt's engagements with othor Powers for the suppression of-the slave-trada fully carried out, the harem would no doubt Tose Its iniluence and power within a genern- tlonortwo. Mut the trafile continues, only being less holes: and more alert than a few years back, harems being kept to their wi. . . In hisnumerous harems the ex- Khedlye, when in power, had about 900 wom- en. ‘The Khedival, family had about 3,000 women. Oceastonally sone of those women are married off and pensioned. While the Empress Eugénie was in Cairo, for her ex- press entertainment, the Khedive married off one of his women: to a young Egyptian named [brahim Boy.” The Abyssinian war was provoked: by nn unwarranted invaston of Abyssinin by twa Egyptinn columns. ‘These were repulsed and almost annihilated, and then an army was organized on a comparatively largo scale to avenge this defeat. Col. Dye acted as Adjutant-General to Gen. “Loring, who wis nominally second in’ command and chief of staf! to the Exyptian forees, ‘I'he battle of Gur Plains is graphic- ally described by ono who was an active partietpant in it The native officers were neficient, jealous, and incapable, A dls astrous retreat was the natural result. The mien were only saved by the gallantry and coolness of tho foreign officers, many of whom were wounded, Col, Dye ainong the number. The fort to which’ they hud re- treated was Init siogo to by the Abyssinian King, who was, however, finally repulsed. Peaco negotiations followed, and the Exyp- tans withdrow from Abysd@ilan territory. Col. Dye sums up his observations after tho battle “with this remark: If enough has not been'aald to indicate that no intelligent foreigner should over serve uniler an Egypuan, i wish here to state detinitly to those having an Interest in the progress of the country that an Intelligent ferelener can recompllsh Httle in Pave unless he has une Jimited power Intrasted to him,” in thodistribution of awards and decorations after the disastrous war lid closed the cow. ardly and the Inefileient were decorated and praia Ot the aAmerleat oflivers, who. hid dony tholr wholo duty, “not only wero the services of the largor number of these ofticors not recognized in any way whatever, but none of thom were received at tho palace, ng is usual in such cases, on their re- turnoven from a mere leaveot absence.” And Hnatly Cal, Dyo saya: Isinall Pasha hadno ather such disinterested servants In his mile itary or other service aa the Americans, When his troubles came en he began his downward eareer by sacrificing them.? Inn note, Col, Dye says that no detinit peace his yet been made between Eyype and Abyssinia, Egypt scoms to have de elded that the King can be most readily folled by fomenting strife and revolt among his chiefs, An oxcetlont mop is ane noxed to the volume, whieh will be enjoyed aga falr, frank, Interesting narrative of per- sonal experience in a country, or rather in countries, with which wo are likely some thue to have more Inthmate relations, We notice only one typographical blunder, whore Intellectual fs printed ‘intellectuel,”” _ Published by Atkin & Prout, New York. ba SELF-CULTURE, This book contalns a course of lectures by damos Freeman Clarke, Any work from hls pen is sure to by welcomed ag the result of faithful, study, patient Investigation, and practienl common-sense, And it fs valuable because it possesses these attributes, In these lectures the reverend gentle man has summed up the experl- ences of nf lifetime, Ant what more important themo can thoro be for man. kind to consider than self-culture,—" physl- cul, Intellectual, moral, and spiritual”? In truth, these subheads cover # vast realm of thought. The writer hns taken thine for his Journeying In these domintons,—ho has been the stow, observing, methodical traveler, And the result of his mature thought Isa yolume full of interest, full of didactic value, full of power, full of good, sound common sense, It ls not noticeable so much tor sny novelty or striking orlginality of thought, Rather, it 1s for the recall and relnforcement of some forgotten truths, the presentation In now dress of well-known facts,—tho plaln, dl- rect, earnest enforcement of well-grounded riuciples,—these are the objects attained by Dr. Clarke, ‘Let each man do what he can to tho best end” Is the summing up of his teackings, and he hag shown how to adapt our forces to the attainment or dls- covery of the “bestend.” He calls atten- ion to “the need and the practicability of unfolding toamueh higher degres than has usually been thonght possible the prinial facuitfes of man’ In this spirit the semi. apologetic tone of the following paragraph fppears to be uncalled for: Fhope thatthe frequent references to the spirit of Christ's teaching wilt not be thoneht out of place. ‘This spirit seems to me both a strong ineent- ive and 1 practleal guide fn education.” So it is. Why apologize for Sts pre: the foutclation of moral tnw, 1s we jurisprudence, he coutd not have written with any strength without this very basis,— for whose existence he makes a lame attempt At an qj olony. ‘Tho Inst, chapter In the book Is filled with pithy sayings, "Do not seek for n great tht ot beafrald ofa great thing if fyou thatsomething ought hen probably you are the person Whenever we do what we can, welmmnediately ean do mores "Half the ood that is done comes fram hbelng thought- ul, considerate, neeommodating,”” ‘There 13 nothing dogmatte tn thesy lectures. are well worthy the attention of an uniiinited constituency. “Its chapters have for titles: Man’s Duty to Grow: ‘Training and Care of the Body;.the Use of ‘Th elf-Knowl- edge; Education of the Po: ‘of Obserya- tion: Edueation of the Refleetlve Powers: ‘The Intultional Nature; ‘The Imagination; Edue cation of the Consctence; Education of the Affections and Social Powers; Edneation by Means of Stoners Educatlon of the ‘Tempers Culture by Reading and Books; ‘The Eduea- tion of Courages Education of the Will; Edu- cation by Means of Amusoment; Education of Tope: Ky Man Is Proper Gift; Let Us Do What We Can. Published by J. I Osgood & Co., Boston. LIFE OF BEETHOVEN. This {s another yolume in the serles of condi biographies of great musicians, of which “Mozart” was the first, They are especially prepared fora cheap series yub- lished in Vienna, entitled “ Biblogrnphies Universelies,” and Noht condensed his large two-voluine editions of the Jives both of Morart and Beethoven tonsize betteradapted to the popular demand. These sinaller vol- umes have now been translated Into English, and are belng published in this. city, Beethoven—first of great masters in the art of musival composition—has had many bing- raphers. ‘The earliest blography was a two- voltine edition, published In 1838 by A, Schindler, aud translated §nto English -by Moseheles, It is prabatily the Dest extant, and furnished Nohl much of his interitl. Mr, Thayer's exhaustlye work will probably. rank as the most complete and exhaustive IC it Is ever finished. Wegeler and Ries, Dr. A. 3B. Marx and Dr. Heinrich Déring have also Written volumes on the life of Beethoven, Mr. Nohl's Inree two-volume edition was first published in Vienna in 1864, ‘The Mte work before us ty satisfactory as faras {t goes, and. answers the pyrpase of giving the general reader 9 goad Hea of tho chief churacterisiics and features of DBeo- thoyen’s life and work, It will not satisfy Nore than an elementary tr tlie would ‘satisfy a spectatist. Beethove Infused a new soul into muste, ie made his artthe medium of commtnuleating his feel- ings and fnmpressions; he painted character iu music os no other master has ever done. Jn_ extemporancous performances he sure passed Mozart in force, vigor, und fire. In orchestral musle he reached lights beyond those ever attained by any composer, “And he was a man of commanding intellect,— ft greet man in any sphere of imental activity, The translation has been fairly well done, sufficiently so for all practical pur- poses, A few silps are noticeable, due probably to carelesness ‘or haste; here and there the translation is too {diomatle, re- sulting, apparently, In involved or faultily- constructed sentences, If tho best transla- tlon Is one that so reads ns to render it imposalble to beileve that it 1s not an orizi- nal, then this version is faulty, for there no mistaking the fact that it faa translation, If an transtation is sufiiciently well done when it reproduces accurately the sayings and facts of the original, the substance rather than the spirit, then’ there Is no fault to be found with Mr. Lalor’s version. Published by Jansen, McClurg & Co., Chi- cago, THEOLOGICAL WORKS. There are two fundamentally distinct views entertained among Christians in re- gard to the ordinary operations of the Holy Spirit inthe world. According to the one view those operations are wrought in tho hearts of individuals either with or without the ordinances of the Christian Church, and, as their results are Incomplete in the earthly experiences of the individual, so are they in- complete in the carthly: Church considered asa body; and hence the Church, like the individuals of whom itis composed, Is falli- ble and imperfect. According to the other ylew, the tioly Spirlt operates In the ex- perlences of individuals through tne ordl- nances of the Chureh, espeelally Baptism and the Lord’s Supper, and although the iudl- vidual remains falllbte, the Chureh aso. bey, so recelyes and enjoys the indwelllng Spirit ns to ba infallible," This latter view lng been. formerly supposed to be definitly held only in the Roman Catholic communion. But there are nob wantlae at this day High Churoh ritualists in the Episcopal Churen who earnestly advocate the same dovtrine, Notable smonz these is the Rev c Ewer, LL. D., of New York, who in a public discourse na few. yenrs ago pronounced “Protestantism a failure.” Dr, Ewer has lately published a vole con- talniug the substance of his discussions in several Conferences on the Catholle doctrine of the Holy Spirit's operations. In this vol- ume he contends that the Holy Spirit so dwells In the visible Chureh as to lnsure her infallibitity in regard to Christian doctrine, By the Church he means the Angilean, the Greek, and the Noman Churches, whleh agree in teachluy the doctrine of Apostolical sues cession and maintaining the organic unity of the Chureh under the goyernment oft Bishops, On almost every other point these churches | ditfer, and the Greek ond Roman Churehes excommunicate each other and refuse to fel- lowship the Anglican Chureh, But, aveord: ing to Dr, Ewer, thoy all together constitute te one Catholic and infallible. Chureh, whose sacraments are the appointed ehann of Divine grace and the. medium throw which the Holy Ghost exerts Ils sanetifying iniluences, ‘Those who are curious to see by whut argunents these and slintlar posttlotis are defended would do well to read the vol+ une before ns. ‘To some tho discussions will prove conyineing, to others aurpristiy, and lo others still amusing, We iuugtne it will bo some thing before the Christian world will come together on Dr, Ewer'’s basis, —'Phe question of tho approaching end of tho axe, as regurds the Savlor's premllenntal coining, has been oceasionally revived through the centuries of Christhin history. It was earnestly discussed in’ the early ages ofour cra when it seemed as he Church would perish by the hands of her perseeutors ifshe were not saved by some stupendous: miracle, Hut after te triumph of Christinn- {ty inthe Roman Emplre this: subject was = ‘comparatively fergotton until the reforwiers wore compelied ta contend for their faith even nto blood, And then the exeesses of the Annbaptists, who wore preiillarinns, speedily brought the doctrine of [erguallten: nialism into ‘isroptite, Aguin, thls doctrine was revived In tha season of renctlon durtug the latter half of the seventeenth century, Since the days of Meds untl! near the middie of tho present century bas been the provalling hope of the Church that tho milenntim would be ushered in’ by the use of the means how employed for tha spread of the Gospel and before the second visible coming of Ghriat. Tn this age, and especially since tho discourngemont occas stoned by tha unprecedented growth of skepticisin In Great Britain and America, a new tnpotus has beon given to the bellot that Christianity in its present form can never conyert the world, and that the greater wrtot the wicked’ people of the earth will bo miraculously destroyed by the brightness of the Lord's “speedy coming to set up His throne at. Jerusalem, and reign over the Tisen salute and tho communts of the nations. By some advocates of this doctrine itis held that there can be no detinit thue set for the end of the oxisting Christian age or dis pensation, Othors still contend for the the- ory thataday in prophecy signifies 9 year, and endenver to show from the books o Dantel and the Apocalypse that the desig- nated prophetic periods that were to clipse before the Lord’s second comlng azo nearly at anend, Of the latter class is HL Grattan Guinness, whose extended volume on thts subject has just been republished in this country, Mr. Guinness holls: that the Sec- ond Advent is near, and that the means are now available for Interpreting correctly ian Snclent predictions that were of design left obscure untit of late, so that the Ghuren might be ever expecting the Redeomer’s coming a8 near at hand, through all the cen- turies of the Christian era. ‘The volume bee fore us embraces upwards of 700 pa and is divided into four parts. ‘The tirst part pertains to Progressive Hevelation "; the rs thine tothings SF urd to th! ‘oretold and Fulfilled’; the fourth to’ The Diving System of Times and Seasons, Natural and Raveated.” Under the Jnst head the nuthor endeavors to trace a cor respondenca between periods in Nature, and history, aud prophtele times, ‘Those who ara curlous to. see how far speculation may be ° carted In such a line will be Interested In ' reading this laborious and ingenious discus- sion, ‘To those who, with oursolves, dissont Wholly from most of the author's Inforpreta- Hons ‘and conclusions, the work will sttlL brave suggestive; while to those who agree with his principles of exposition and his inain positions, iteannot fall to bo convine elng and exciting, It will n extensive renling. osteghe pbialnan Prof. Joseph Henry Allen, of Harvard’ Divinity Sehool, Is among the most learned teachers of Christian history in our country. At various tines he bag contributed intereate jng articles vo different Journals on. hfs fn- vorit theme, He has lately gathered suyeral of these urticles Into x small veluine. After an Introduction fn witeh he discusses the stutly of Christian history, ha brings befora the reader twelve tuples, as_ follows: The Messiah ant the Christy St. Pauls Christian. Thought of the ml Cenittry; The Mind of Paganism; The Arian Controversy; Ste Augustine;, Leo the Great: Monnaticisn aa: n Moral Force; Christinnity in the Ensts Conversion of the Burbariinas The Holy oman Empires The Christian Schools, Li the author's treatinent of the Messiah and tho Christ.and St. Paul, it Is ensy to discern, his -Unitariin prepossessions and his low vlews of the inspiration of the Christian: Seriptures, Jn later artleles he distinguishes between the faith of the Chureh and human reason In such 2 way as to Indicate a convice tion that the religious bellefs by whieh: the [aswertil neties on the stage of Christian history liave been impelled were grounded An passlonate inspulses, and had no’ rational basis. ‘The work Is Instructive, and seems to be pervaded by a spirit, of candor; but it is evident that the faith of the writer is not of that quality which has made Christianity the. inlxhtiest force that has entered into tha his-. tary of the last eighteen centuries, ‘The falth of Paul and Peter and the early Chris- thins was, In the judgment of Prot. Allen, # quenchless energy that gathered strength by ypposition and perseeution, and achteved vio~ torles in all directions by the reslstless power of the Inner life which tt Inspired. It is an Interesting question, What type of Chris+ thanity ut this day comes nenrest to the prime itive type, as ev! A by its spiritual and practical forces? e study uf comparative religious and coinparatlye phases of thesame rellgion fs entitled to more attention than 16 hag yet reeelved. Systeins ay well as indl- vituals are to be {tice by their fruits. In this Hht such volumes as this of Prof. Al- , Jen cannot fall to contribute to those practl+ eal convictions by which the principle of “the survival of the fittest ?* fs to be more and more Ulustrated In the religious conflicta of these latter days. --It argues a specinl interest In questions pertaining to the Author of Christianity and, the power of Ilis religion in the world: that 80 many lives of Christ have been written within the present generation, ‘These Hves have been produced, by men of all sliades of reltzious bellef or unbellef from Frederick Strauss to Bishop Ellicott, Canon Farrar, and Pressensé. A sezond edition of Stalk- er's sinatl volume on the subject Lins been re- cently Issued in Bngland, and is. republived by Sumner &Co,, of this city, as a handbook for Bible classes, with an introduction by the. Rey, George C. Loriner, DD. It Is charnes teristic of this work that it presente tho human side of Christ's life in clear and. airline outlines, while itdoces not shun to recognize the Divine ny developed in: and, through the human. It Js written Ina plain, forcible style, and Is well adapted to answer its purpose. Of course it docs not profess to clear up all the erltieal dificulties that have been urged by such skeptleal authors as Strauss and Renan, But at the cluse, un- der the head of “Hints for teachers and questions for pupils,” references aro mado to many of the scholarly. treatises In which: these polnts are fully examined. ‘ (Four Conferences Touching the Operation . of the Holy Splut, Delivered at Newark, N.J. By the Rev, F. C, Ewer, 8, T. Dy New York: G, P. Putnam's Sons, Price $1.25.) ‘Tho Approaching Endof the Age, Viewed’ in he Light of History, Prophecy,” and Sel- ence, By I. Grattan Guinness. Now Yorks: A.C, Armstrong & Son. Price $2.50.) te (Fraginents of Christian Il!story to tho Foundation of the Holy Roman E:npire. ne Joseph Henry Allen, Lecture on Ecclestast{~ enl History in Marvard University. Boston: Roberts Bros, Price $1.50.) * (The Life of Jesus Christ. James Stalker, M.A. With an Introduction by George C, Lorinor, D. D., Pastor First Baptist Chureh, Chicago, Guleanas Henry A. Sumner & Co.). ‘RW. By tha: Rev, OLIDAY BOOKS, ° “Guests of the Heart’ Is a eclected col lection of poems from the religious newspa- pers, and of religious poeins by popular aus thors. For so neat o volume the illustrations are of inferior merit, and do ‘not appear to- have been prepared espectally for this vole ume, Tho.printing has been carelesly done,’ ns tho Ink has rubbed off on the opposit pago in nearly every Instance. The compiler ap- pears to have used good taste In hts selece tions, ant the volume will undoubtedly give pleasure to many, —"Little Zee” Is-a very pretty child's book by Julin Daniels Mosotey. It ts a fairy story, and a pleasing one, The workmanship” on the cover fs niinirable, Rete —Mr, Barnes has furnished a set of vory nent and appropriate illustrations for a boole prepared by Miss Amanda B. Harris, called “How We Went Birds’ Nesting.” Both text and {Nustrations have, wo believe, been alrendy published in Wide slwake, Tho present appearance of the book leaves noth- ing to be desired. It is charming story of feld rambles, simply and clearly told, and offered In attractive and pleasing dress. It is alson study of many of the mora familiar wild birds, * —"Tho Sweet Singer” 13 a poem by D, C. Addison, Asa poem it does not require any extended notice, There {sn touch of patlios inthe story whieh isnot iimproved by Its yersitled setting, As the writer says in the - opentig Hies of Part Fifth: In telling a gad tule, rhymes sound ~ Like too gay music at a funoral, cme We arethelined to necept his statement as afact, ‘There nre some pretty bits of sent.’ ment seattored through the verses, ‘Th book 13 peatly xotten tp, and Is an addition to hollday literature, Its typorraphiical appeurance Isdisigured by on absurd man- ner of putting cuts of unbotauleal flowers or unsymmetrical tigures a8 head and talk pieces, or to (Ul up spaces, ‘They add noth- uz ta the beauty of the page, for they look cheap and commonplace, —It will bo remombered that the great French designer, Gustave Dord, illustrated a inagntileent two-volume follo edition of the Bible. ‘This work was toa costly for general eireuintion. ‘Che pubtishors have therefore mule a selection of 100 of the choicest plet- ures, und, accompany am with ado serlptive narrative sufliciuntly full to furnish. all tho. necessary Information, — havo pS red oA beautiful volume for ao holiday, gift, ant nt. a moderate price." Theru is also n good woodcut portralé of Doré and a memoir of his iifo by Tatbot W. Chambers, In its preaont form {t!s ono of the few roatly handsome and: valuable books produced especially for the holiday » season, , —" Pletures of Bird Life in Pen and Pone cl," by the Rev, MG. Watkins, with illite trations by Glacor ) Will probably take rink as the handsomest and one of the most elaborate gift-books of tho year. Its illum trator Ia a master of his art of bird-palnting, and the text has been very carefully pre pared. The binding fs in excellant taste, a i realy a marvel of beautifnl workmanship. "Pho group of thirteen birds deserlbed in tits work are a fair satnple of birds found In Ene. clad during the summer near most country fiouses, Soue of tho descriptions: are pleas- ant reading, even without the addition of th admirable engravings. Lavors of birds will welcome this addition to the library of their loves, while lovers of fine books will welcome this new clulinant for thelr favor for Its own evident merits, oF NOTES ON NEW BOOKS. ‘The best part ot Mr, Iudson's edition of “Shakspenre’s Midsummer-Night's Dream" —In the annotated Engilsh Olassics Sorics—is his most exceltent preliminary treatisy upon “English {nu Schools,” He calls fora higher standard,—a oultivation ofa taste for the bes: writers, The work ls fully annotated, and well adapted for school use, 4 ty --Mr. Boper’s *Scrap-Book Reoitations ™ havo been so successful that he has issued @ second volume, The charactor of such @ book depends entirely on the quality of the bear Progressive Intorpratation "tho" oe gy ow