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LITERATURE AND LITERARY PROGRESS IN 1874. 



The Power of Grace over Acquired Habits, Special 

 Inborn. Propensities, and the Natural Appetites. Bv 

 S. H. Platt, A. M. 



The Church Porch. A Service-Book and Hymnal 

 for Sunday-Schools. Compiled and edited by W. E. 

 Huntington. D. D. 



Spiritual victory; or. Thoughts on the Higher 

 Christian Life.* By W. W. Patton, D. D. 



Children and the Church ; or, The Spiritual Con- 

 dition, Moral Capabilities, and Church Kelations of 

 Baptized Infants. By Samuel Eegester, D. D., Bal- 

 timore Conference M. E. C. S. 



The baptizing of Infants defended from the Objec- 

 tions of Anti-Pedobaptists. By E. S. Mason, D, D. 



What of the Churches and Clergy ? 



A Hand-book of the General Convention of the 

 Protestant Episcopal Church, giving its History and 

 Constitution from 1785 to 1874. By W illiam Stevens 

 Perry, D. D. 



Sermons and Songs of the Christian Life. By Ed- 

 mund H. Sears. 



Christian Truth and Modern Opinion. Seven Ser- 

 mons preached in New York. 



Public Worship, partly responsive. Designed for 

 any Christian Congregation. With an Introduction 

 by the Kev. Daniel Marsh, D. D. 



Hebrew History from the Death of Moses to the 

 Close of the Scripture Narrative. By Eev. Henry 

 Cowles, D. D. 



Grace for Grace. Letters of Eev. William James. 



Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles. By 

 Thomas 0. Summers, D. D., LL. D. 



Expository Notes on the Book of Joshua. By 

 Howard Crosby, D. D. 



Discourses of Kodemption, By Stuart Eobinson, 

 D. D. 



Farmer Tompkins and his Bibles. By Willis J. 

 Beecher, D. D., Professor in Auburn Theological 

 Seminary. 



Helps to Prayer : a Manual designed to aid Chris- 

 tian Believers in acquiring the Gift and in maintain- 

 ing the Spirit of Prayer in the Closet, the Social 

 Gathering, and the Public Congregation. 



The King's Highway; or, The Catholic Church 

 the Way of Salvation as revealed in the Scriptures. 

 By the Eev. Augustine F. Hewit, of the Congrega- 

 tion of St. Paul. 



The Modern Sunday-School. By Eov. W. H. H. 

 Marsh. 



The Christian Law of Union in Communion. By 

 George W. Samson, D. D. 



GEOGRAPHY, TBAVEL, ETC. Several works 

 of more than ordinary merit have appeared of 

 this description. Mr. Henry M. Stanley, who 

 won so much renown to his country and the 

 New York Herald by his finding of Dr. Living- 

 stone, having in a like spirit of daring enter- 

 prise assisted in two English campaigns in Af- 

 rica, tells his experiences in a goodly volume 

 entitled " Coomassie and Magdala." Another 

 correspondent of the same journal, Mr. J. A. 

 McGahen, describes " Campaigning on the 

 Oxus and the Fall of Khiva," which he had 

 personal knowledge of at the cost of great hard- 

 ships and against almost insuperable difficulties. 

 "The Land of the White Elephant; Sights 

 and Scenes in Southeastern Asia," by Frank 

 Vincent, Jr., is also a lively sketch of scenes 

 and objects aside from the ordinary lines of 

 travel. Mr. Bayard Taylor, in his volume, 

 "Egypt and Iceland in 1874," in his Eastern 

 journey goes over ground previously visited 

 and described, and gives his readers the benefit 

 of a comparison of Egypt as it now" is with the 



Egypt of twenty years ago. His visit to Ice- 

 land in connection with the recent Millennial 

 Celebration has a unique interest, which com- 

 municates itself to his narrative. "Northern 

 California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands," 

 by Charles Nordhoff, has the marks of sagacious 

 observation and vivid representation which ap- 

 pear in his previous work on California, and 

 make him a favorite tourist. In purely literary 

 merit perhaps no work of this kind during the 

 year is superior to Mr. Charles Dudley War- 

 ner's little book, "Baddeck and That Sort of 

 Thing " a sort of thing which in any other 

 hands would prove, it may be suspected, the 

 reverse of entertaining. But his humor finds 

 food where most minds would starve. " Syr- 

 ian Home Life," compiled by Rev. Isaac Riley 

 from materials furnished by the Rev. Henry 

 Harris Jessup, D. D., of Beirut, Syria, is inter- 

 esting as a faithful exhibition of Oriental so- 

 ciety, from the observations of many years, 

 under excellent opportunities, and also as show- 

 ing the working of ameliorating influences. 

 "German Universities," by Prof. James Mor- 

 gan Hart, describes them from personal expe- 

 rience, and makes a critical and instructive 

 comparison of the system of higher education 

 in Germany with that of Great Britain and 

 the United States. The following also deserve 

 mention- 



Arctic Experiences. Containing Captain George 

 E. Tyson's Wonderful Drift on the Ice-Floe, a His- 

 tory of the Polaris Expedition, the Cruise of the 

 Tigress, and Eescue of the Polaris Survivors. To 

 which is added a General Arctic Chronology. By 



E. Vale Blake. 



My 'Life on the Plains. By General G. A. Custer. 

 Life and Literature in the Fatherland. By John 



F. Hurst, D. D. 



The Mormon Country. By John Codnian. 



Ten Days in Spain. By Kate Field. 



Eernains of Lost Empires : Sketches of the Euins 

 of Palmyra. Nineveh, Babylon, and Persepolis, 

 with some Notes on India and the Cashmerian 

 Himalayas. By P. V. N. Myers, A. M. 



A Lawyer abroad ; what to see and how to 

 see. By Henry Day, of the Bar of New York. 



Song and Scenery ; or, Summer Eambles in Scot- 

 land. By James <3. Moffat. 



The Eesources of California. By John S. Hittell. 

 Sixth edition, rewritten. 



USEFUL ARTS. The placing of a work un- 

 der this head is not, of course, a voucher that 

 the book itself is useful : 



Life under Glass. Containing Suggestions tow- 

 ard the Formation of Artificial Climates. By George 

 A. Shove. 



The Architectural Sketch-Book. Edited by the 

 Portfolio Club, and comprising Designs by the most 

 Eminent Architects of New England. 



Homes, and how to make them. By E. C. 

 Gardner. 



Architecture for General Students. By Caroline 

 Horton. 



Mining Industry of the States and Territories 

 west of the Eocky Mountains. By E. W. Eay- 

 . mond, Ph. D. 



American Iron-Trade : Manual of the Leading In- 

 dustries of the United States. Compiled and ed- 

 ited by Thomas Dunlap. 



The Carpenter's and Builder's Assistant, and 

 Wood-worker's Guide. By Lucius D. Gould. 



