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LITERATURE, AMERICAN, IN 1896. 



Won? The Official American Yacht Record for 

 1896 " was compiled by James C. Summers, com- 

 pleting the tenth year of the annual ; and from 

 W. II. Lewis we had " A Primer of College Foot- 

 ball." A superb volume upon " Korean Games," 

 with notes on the corresponding games of China 

 and Japan, by Stewart Culin, contained 153 illus- 

 trations and 22 colored plates by native artists. 

 Major.-Gen. A. W. Drayson gave us " Whist Laws 

 and Whist Decisions"; "Winning Whist" was de- 

 scribed by Emery Boardman, as " Short-Suit 

 Whist" was by V. W. Starues; Emanuel Lasker 

 (Champion) accompanied " Common Sense in 

 Chess with illustrations of positions ; and John 

 F. B. Lillard edited " Poker Stories." Norman D. 

 Gray was the author of " Ninety-six Charades " ; 

 Herbert T. Ingalls followed his successful " Boston 

 Charades " with " The Columbian Prize Charades " ; 

 and Katharine I. Sanford offered " A New Book of 

 Charades." Daniel C. Beard described " Outdoor 

 Games for all Seasons: The American Boy's Book 

 of Sport " ; Mary White wrote " The Book of a Hun- 

 dred Games"; Eleanor Withey Willard compiled 

 "Children's Singing Games "; and Grey Burleson's 

 "Marching Plays" were illustrated by L. J. Bridg- 

 man. " Gobolinks : or, Shadow Pictures for Young 

 and Old " were supplied by Ruth McEnery Stuart 

 and Albert Bigelow Paine, and an anonymous vol- 

 ume of "Pantomimes" furnished amusement for 

 many. " How to lead the German " was told 

 anonymously. 



Theology. Among prominent books of the year 

 are to be mentioned a " History of Christian Doe- 

 trine," by Dr. George Park Fisher, in the "Inter- 

 national Theological Library " ; " Old Faiths and 

 New Facts," by William \V. Kinsley; "Agnosti- 

 cism and Religion," by the President of Cornell 

 University, Jacob Gould Schurman ; "Evolution 

 and Dogma," by Rev. J. A. Xahm : "The Warfare 

 of Science with Theology," by Andrew D. White: 

 and " The Gospel for an Age of Doubt," by Dr. 

 Henry Jackson Van Dyke. R. C. Moberly, D. D., 

 wrote on " Reason and Religion," presenting some 

 aspects of their mutual interdependence ; Dr. J. 

 Macbride Sterrett discoursed briefly on " Reason 

 and Authority in Religion"; Dr. Randolph II. 

 McKim wrote on "Christ and Modern Unbelief"; 

 Josiah Gilbert, on "Nature, the Supernatural, and 

 the Religion of Israel"; "The Inspiration of Holy 

 Scriptures," and six other essays, by Rev. Francis 

 Longridge and others, were edited with an intro- 

 duction by H. R. Percival, D. D., and had a preface 

 by Isaac Lea Nicholson, Bishop of Milwaukee ; 

 "The Inspiration of History" was the theme of 

 James Mulcahey ; and from D. MacDill, D. D., we 

 had "The Mosaic Authorship of the Pentateuch 

 defended against the Views and Arguments of 

 Voltaire, Paine, Coleuso, Reuss, Graf, Kuenen, and 

 Wellhausen." "The Theology of the Old Testa- 

 ment " was examined by W. H. Bennett for " The 

 Theological Educator," and " The Church and the 

 Bible " was an explanation and vindication of the 

 just claims of the Bible to inspiration by Rev. 

 William Brevoort Bolmer. Dr. Daniel Dorchester 



fave us " Christianity vindicated by its Enemies " ; 

 'rank Byron Jevons wrote " An Introduction to 

 the History of Religion " ; Rev. James L. Meagher 

 told of "The Religions of the World, and how the 

 Fifty-eight Grandsons of Noe and their Descend- 

 ants founded the Nations after the Flood"; Rev. 

 E. W. Donald delivered Six lectures upon " The 

 Expansion of Religion" before the Lowell Insti- 

 tute; John McDowell Leavitt published "The 

 Christian Democracy : A History of its Suppression 

 and Revival"; Dr. Andrew C. Zenos. a "Compen- 

 dium of Church History," to which Dr. John De Witt 

 contributed an introduction ; Charles Foster Kent 



was the author of " A History of the Hebrew Peo- 

 ple from the Settlement in Canaan to the Division 

 of the Kingdom " ; Burdett Hart, D. D., of " Bibli- 

 cal Epochs " ; and Leonard Woolsey Bacon, of 

 " Irenics and Polemics, with Sundry Essays in 

 Church History." The first of four or five volumes 

 to contain " The History of the Christian Church," by 

 Dr. George H. Dyer, was given to the " The Found- 

 ing of the New World, 1-1600 A.D. " ; Dr. Marvin 

 R. Vincent contributed " The Age of Hildebrand " 

 to the series of " Ten Epochs of Church History," 

 and Dr. William Bright sent out " The Roman See 

 in the Early Church, and Other Studies in Church 

 History." "A History of Auricular Confession -and 

 Indulgences in the Latin Church " was written by 

 Henry Charles Lea, in three volumes ; and Rev. P. 

 A. Baart described " The Roman Court." " Protes- 

 tant ism," by Edward P. Usher, was a study in the 

 direction of religious truth and Christian unity, 

 and Rev. J. Gregory gave his attention to ''Puri- 

 tanism in the Old World and in the New," while 

 "Sabbath and Sunday" was the theme of Dr. Wil- 

 liam de Loss Love and " Sabbath Day Journeys " of 

 Rev. W. J. Harsha. Henry Clay Trumbull, in " The 

 Threshold Covenant," traced the beginning of reli- 

 gious rites, and Dr. 1 ( . Bergstresser discoursed of 

 Baptism and Feet Washing." "From Jerusalem 

 to Jerusalem " was the title of lectures by Rev. 

 Alfred J. Belt; "Studies in English Church His- 

 tory." of five lectures, by Rev. Hamilton Scliuyler; 

 and "Unity and the Lambert Declaration," of ad- 

 dresses delivered under the auspices of the Minne- 

 sota Church Club. " The Historic Episcopate," by 

 Dr. R. J. Cooke, made a study of Anglican claims and 

 Methodist orders ; Rev. William Montgomery Brown 

 advocated "The Church for Americans''; Dr. John 

 Atkinson traced "The Beginnings of the Wesleyan 

 Movement in America and the Establishment there- 

 in of Methodism"; Dr. J. M. Reid's work on " Mis- 

 sions and Missionary Society of the Methodist 

 Kpiscopal Church" was revised and extended by 

 Dr. J. T. Gracey, bringing the story of the Metho- 

 dist mission work down to the present date through 

 three volumes; Dr. Robert M. Patterson followed the 

 course of " American Presbyterianism in its Devel- 

 opment and Growth " ; " Christian Unity " was the 

 theme of five lectures delivered in the Union Theo- 

 logical Seminary of New York during the winter 

 of 1895, by Dr. Charles W. Shields, E. B. Andrews, 

 Dr. John P. Hurst, and others; and lectures deliv- 

 ered in 1895. under the auspices of the Church Club 

 of New York, were published by that organization 

 under the title of " Christian Unity and the Bishop's 

 Declaration." " Thirty-seven Sermons by American 

 Rabbis " were edited and published under the aus- 

 pices of the Central Conference of American Rabbis. 

 A new second enlarged edition was published of 

 " Loyalty to Church and State," by Cardinal Satolli, 

 and William Ileth Whitsitt investigated "A Ques- 

 tion in Baptist History : Whether the Anabaptists 

 in England practiced Immersion before the Year 

 1641." "The Gospel of the Divine Sacrifice " was 

 a study in evangelical belief, with some conclusions 

 touching life, by Dr. Charles Cuthbert Hall ; Dr. 

 Charles J. Vaughan published twelve sermons on 

 "Christ, the Light of the World," as well as two 

 other volumes, entitled " Characteristics of Christ's 

 Teaching drawn from the Sermon on the Mount " 

 and "Plain Words on Christian Living." From 

 Dr. David James Burrell we had " For Christ's 

 Crown, and Other Sermons"; from Rev. Andrew 

 Murray, "The Master's Indwelling"; from Dr. F. 

 A. Noble, " The Divine Life in Man, and Other Ser- 

 mons "; from Dr. J. Elder dimming, "Through 

 the Eternal Spirit," a biblical study on the Holy 

 Ghost: from Dr. John Robson, "The Holy Spirit, 

 the Paraclete," a study of the work of the Holy 



