LITERARY NOTICES. 



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is in domestic heating. The open fireplace 

 and several ventilating fireplaces, and the 

 " American " stove, are mentioned ; but most 

 space is given to gas heating and cooking 

 stoves. Heating by means of hot air, hot 

 water, and steam also receives attention. The 

 application of fuel to vaporization, i. e., the 

 heating of boilers, is next treated ; and from 

 this subject the authors pass to the evapora- 

 tion of liquids and distillation. The drying 

 of wood and malt, baking bread, and firing 

 brick and porcelain, also have a place. Fur- 

 naces for metallurgical and other technologi- 

 cal operations are next treated, and an im- 

 portant chapter follows on gas-furnaces, in- 

 cluding those using the regenerative prin- 

 ciple. The closing chapter deals with the 

 practical effect of fuel. A series of tables 

 giving analyses of coals follows. Through- 

 out the book exact information in regard to 

 the several divisions of the subject is fur- 

 nished in tables and diagrams. The volume 

 contains seven plates and six hundred and 

 seven other illustrations, and is provided 

 with an adequate index. 



Liberty and a Living. By Philip G. Hu- 

 bert, Jr. New York and London : G. P. 

 Putnam's Sons. Pp. 239. 



This book is described in its sub-title as 

 the record of an attempt to secure bread and 

 butter, sunshine and content, by gardening, 

 fishing, and hunting. One of its mottoes is, 

 " The royal peace of a rural home." The 

 author, a writer on New York newspapers, 

 wearied with the monotony and drudgery 

 of city life, sought a way in which he could 

 spend his time in the outdoor season prof- 

 itably in the open air, and without giving 

 up the winter residence in the city which 

 his profession demanded. He found a place 

 on the sea coast of Long Island which af- 

 forded a home, garden, wood-lot, access to 

 the water for boating and fishing, and hunt- 

 ing privileges. The book describes his life 

 there, and the moral and practical lessons 

 derived from it. The transcript of the 

 diary of a week gives a realistic picture of 

 the average life. The home and its arrange- 

 ments, the garden-work and its returns, the 

 fishing, the bee-raising, the advantages de- 

 rived from the possession of a wood-lot, and 

 the balance of advantages and disadvantages, 

 are described in successive chapters. The 

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balance is shown to be decidedly in favor of 

 the country, pre-eminently so to those who 

 seek quiet, rational enjoyment, with health, 

 who desire leisurely culture without excite- 

 ment, who are willing to live independently 

 of fashion, and who do not attach an exag- 

 gerated importance to show. 



Jonathan Edwards. By Alexander V. G. 



Allen, D. B. Boston and New York : 



Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Pp. 401. Price, 



$1.25. 



This is the first volume of the series of 

 "American Religious Leaders," or biogra- 

 phies of men who have had great influence 

 on religious thought and life in the United 

 States, in which it is intended, besides de- 

 picting great figures in American religious 

 history, to indicate the leading character- 

 istics of that history, the progress and pro- 

 cess of religious philosophy in America, the 

 various types of theology which have shaped 

 or been shaped by the various churches, and 

 the relation of these to the life and thought 

 of the nation. The present volume relates 

 to the earliest and probably the greatest of 

 those leaders — the thinker who, along with 

 Benjamin Franklin, American and foreign 

 critics agree in naming as representative of 

 American intellectual activity in the eight- 

 eenth century. Prof. Allen's aim in this bi- 

 ography has been "to reproduce Edwards 

 from his books, making his treatises, in their 

 chronological order, contribute to his por- 

 traiture as a man and as a theologian." Some- 

 thing more than a mere relation of facts 

 seemed to be demanded in order to justify 

 the endeavor to rewrite his life. What we 

 most desire to know is, what he thought, 

 and how he came to think as he did. " Ed- 

 wards is always and everywhere interesting, 

 whatever we may think of his theology. On 

 literary and historical grounds alone no one 

 can fail to be impressed with his imposing fig- 

 ure as he moves through the wilds of the New 

 World." Edwards's life is full of dramatic 

 incident, and his writings furnish ground 

 for fruitful study — a study which he that 

 would understand the significance of New 

 England thought in the last century, and un- 

 der its later aspects as well, will find indis- 

 pensable. The summation of the result of 

 Edwards's work is concluded with the asser- 

 tion that " all who accept the truth that 

 divine things are known to be divine be- 



