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and the cross the doctrine of the fall and 

 depravity of man through the subtlety of 

 'the dragon, that old serpent called the 

 Devil and Satan, which deceiveth the whole 

 world,' and the recovery of fallen man 

 through a still mightier One, who comes 

 from heaven, assumes human nature, and, 

 by suffering, death, and exaltation to the 

 right band of supreme dominion, vanquishes 

 the dragon, and becomes the author of eter- 

 nal salvation. The preaching of this is the 

 preaching of the gospel." 



But the rubbishy erudition that seems 

 necessary to understand this gospel, accord- 

 ing to the present commentator, is some- 

 thing frightful. Certainly, if such a per- 

 formance as this can pass muster, and the 

 " Pastor of the Church of the Holy Com- 

 munion, Philadelphia," has a rightful place 

 in the Episcopal Church, Heber Newton has 

 no business in the organization. 



Moral Education, its Laws and Methods. 

 By Joseph Rodes Buchanan, M. B. New 

 York : S. W. Green's Son, 74 & 7<3 Beek- 

 man Street. Pp. 395. Price, $1.50. 



Although this work, by its title, is lim- 

 ited to one phase of the great subject of 

 education, and although the moral idea pre- 

 vails throughout the exposition, yet the book 

 is far from being a mere homiletic essay in 

 the ordinary sense. The moral conception 

 is dealt with in connection with many prac- 

 tical questions, so that there is a good deal 

 of generality in the instructiveness of the 

 treatise. Indeed, it is chiefly valuable from 

 the breadth of the author's preparation for 

 dealing with radical educational questions. 

 Dr. Buchanan is an unfettered thinker, and 

 his work is stamped with the individuality 

 of his studies. He is, first of all, a physi- 

 ologist a student of man as a corporeal 

 being, and he assigns to the subject of or- 

 ganization that fundamental place which it 

 must hold in every rational system of cul- 

 ture, and which is beginning to be more 

 clearly recognized in our own times than 

 ever before. Yet the work is by no means 

 and in no sense a physiological one, and the 

 author is far enough from being a material- 

 ist. The truths of organic science are as- 

 sumed rather than expounded, and on its 

 basis and under its limitations the author 

 deals with a whole range of the higher edu- 



cational problems. No person interested in 

 education can read the book without being 

 helped by its information and its sugges- 

 tions. It contains much of the philosophy 

 of life, and many special problems that are 

 now beginning to press upon teachers and 

 educational managers are discussed with 

 acuteness, ability, and much freedom from 

 the restraints of tradition. It is impossible 

 to enter here into any of the particular in- 

 quiries opened by Dr. Buchanan, and we 

 have to confine ourselves to a general esti- 

 mate of the character of the book. But, 

 while very cordially commending it, the 

 reader will not infer our agreement with all 

 its views. We are all in that inquiring 

 stage in regard to education which implies 

 incompleteness of knowledge and a result- 

 ing diversity of opinion. We are working, 

 it is to be hoped, toward a higher agree- 

 ment, and such contributions as this of Dr. 

 Buchanan are unquestionably valuable as 

 means to this important end. 



Fifteenth Annual Report of the Trustees 

 of the Peabody Museum of American 

 Archaeology and Ethnology. Cam- 

 bridge, Massachusetts. Printed by or- 

 der of the Trustees. F. W; Putnam, 

 Curator. Pp. 103. 



The trustees of the museum, in an ap- 

 peal to the public last year, called attention 

 to the fact that it is the only institution in 

 the country especially for the preservation 

 of collections and the study of American 

 archaeology, and that its income (the inter- 

 est of $90,000) is only $4,500 a year. Its 

 rooms, reasonably commodious and contain- 

 ing larger or smaller collections from dif- 

 ferent parts of the world several hundred 

 thousand specimens in all are open free to 

 visitors during business hours, and are sup- 

 plemented with free descriptive lectures by 

 the curator. The additions during the year 

 include a valuable series of objects from the 

 Ainos of Yesso (Japan), by Professor Pen- 

 hallow ; more than two thousand stone im- 

 plements from Delaware, by Mr. II. R. Ben- 

 net ; new objects, by Dr. C. C. Abbott, from 

 his own collections in New Jersey, and ex- 

 changes from Ohio, Kentucky, and England ; 

 new specimens of the Wakefield (Massa- 

 chusetts) stone implements in every stage 

 of manufacture ; potteries from Southeast- 

 ern Missouri and Southern New Mexico, by 



