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Recognizing that woman's seat on the horse 

 is less secure and less convenient than 

 man's, it assumes that she will encounter 

 more difficulties in management, and there- 

 fore stands more in need of instruction, and 

 of a different kind. 



" Catholic ;" An Essential and Exclusive 

 Attribute of the True Church. By 

 Right Reverend Monsignor Capel, D. D. 

 New York: Wilcox & O'Donnell Com- 

 pany, and D. & J. Sadlier. Pp. 150. 

 Price, 30 cents. 



The author, an eminent English clergy- 

 man of the Roman Catholic Church, ob- 

 served during his recent visit to this coun- 

 try that the Protestant Episcopal Church 

 claimed to represent the Church Catholic 

 here, as does also the Church of England in 

 Great Britain. Believing that the title Cath- 

 olic Church or Universal is exclusive and 

 attaches of right to his own communion 

 only, he has prepared the little work before 

 us, " to try and establish who is the lawful 

 possessor " of it. This he assumes to do in 

 a spirit, not of controversy, but of " calm, 

 honest investigation," drawing his argu- 

 ments and illustrations from standard ec- 

 clesiastical authorities and history. To 

 these he has added papers (in the version 

 of the Oxford translations) bearing on the 

 subject by St. Cyprian, St. Cyril of Jerusa- 

 lem, and St. Pacien, Bishop of Barcelona, 

 all of the third and fourth centuries, and 

 from Lord Macaulay, of the present century. 



Manual of Biblical Geography : A Text- 

 Book of Bible History. By Rev. J. L. 

 Huelbut, D. D. ; with an Introduction 

 by Rev. J. H. Vincent, D. D. Chicago : 

 Rand, McNally & Co. (Continental Pub- 

 lishing Company.) Pp. 158. Price, 

 $4.50. 



The gentlemen whose names are asso- 

 ciated on this book are well known for their 

 activity in the " Chautauqua " assembly and 

 circles and in Sunday-school work. The 

 book is designed for the use of students and 

 teachers of the Bible and for Sunday-school 

 instruction, to furnish a complete synopsis 

 of Biblical and parallel contemporaneous 

 history and of the geography of "Bible 

 lands " at all periods, from the earliest down 

 to apostolic times. In both plan and exe- 

 cution it is admirably adapted to its pur- 

 pose. In clear maps, of quarto size, with 



pictures where they will help, and associated 

 descriptive text in which the results of mod- 

 ern research are incorporated, it presents all 

 the essential facts with reference to the 

 countries, their physical constitution and 

 topographical features, settlements, king- 

 doms, boundary and dynastic changes, mi- 

 grations, and the journeys of leading Bibli- 

 cal characters, at each period of the his- 

 tory. As each epoch and each phase of the 

 story is given a separate presentation, the 

 occasional confusion, which is one of the 

 prominent faults of most works of this kind, 

 is wholly avoided. 



Introduction to the Study of Modern 

 Forest Economy. Pp. 228. Forests 

 AND Forestry in Northern Russia, and 

 Lands beyond. Pp. 279. By John 

 Croumbie Brown, LL. D. Edinburgh : 

 Oliver & Boyd ; Montreal : Dawson 

 Brothers. 



These are new volumes of the series of 

 works on forestry which Dr. Brown is giving 

 to the public, largely as a labor of love. It 

 is an encouraging sign of the spirit of the 

 times, in relation to this subject, that his 

 efforts to fix attention on it are appreciated, . 

 and his books are well received both at home 

 and in America. The first of the volumes 

 named here assumes that forestry, or forest 

 science, "relates to everything connected 

 with forests, or pertaining thereto — every- 

 thing." In its three parts, which are fur- 

 ther divided into chapters and sections cov- 

 ering details, are given what relate to the 

 extensive destruction of forests, and its evil 

 consequences; the "Elements of Modem 

 Forest Economy " ; and " Forest Adminis- 

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 descriptions of the forest-lands of the sev- 

 eral forest districts of Russia and "Nova 

 Zembla and Lands beyond " ; forest exploi- 

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 counts of the physical geography, flora, 

 paleontological botany, and fauna of the 

 several regions. 



South Carolina. Resources and Popula- 

 tion, Institutions and Industries. Pub- 

 lished by the State Board of Agriculture. 

 Charleston : Walker, Evans & Cogswell. 

 Pp. 726. (Compiled by Harry Ham- 

 mond.) 



This volume gives a full and minute ac- 

 count of the State to which it relates in all 



