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Knisoopal Church. By D. P. Kidder, D. D. 

 Draper, Andovor, Muss ) 



Lectures on tin; (iospt-ls, for the Sundays and < 'hi. f 

 : ds of the Church Year. By Josuph A. Seiss, 



D. D. (Lutlu-nm Book-utorc.) 



..ITIirmrs A Volume of Sermons. By Kev. 

 Charles (J. Finney, Lute President of Obedla College. 

 Ivliti-l ly Rev. Henry Oowles, D. D. (Goodrich, 

 Oberlln.) 



Light on the Cloud; or, Hints of Comfort for Hours 

 row. By M. J. Savage. (Lockwood, Brooks 

 & Co., Boston.) 



The Religion of Evolution. By M. J. Savage. 

 (Look wood, Brooks <fe Co., Boston.) 



Luther and the Swiss. A Lecture. By Gorhard 

 Uhlhorn, I). D. Translated by G. F. Krobel, D. D. 

 (Lutheran Book-store.) 



Fifty Years with the Sabbath-Schools. By Rev. 

 A-.i Bullard. (Lockwood, Brooks & Co.) 



Orthodoxy and Revivalism. By J. T. Sunderland. 

 (Miller.) 



Si riuons on the Parables. By the Late William 

 Davidson, D. D. (Western Tract Society.) 



" Graybeard's " Lay Sermons. Being a Summary 

 of the Great Doctrines of Holy Scripture as inter- 

 preted and illustrated by the Scriptures themselves. 

 By John Franklin Graft. (Lippiucott.) 



A Young Man's Difficulties with his Bible. By 

 Rev D. W. Faunce. (Sheldon.) 



Why Four Gospels? or, The Gospel for all the 

 World. A Manual designed to aid Christians in the 

 Study of the Scriptures, and to a Better Understand- 

 ing of the Gospels. By D. S. Gregory, D. D. (Shel- 

 don.) 



The Fire and the Hammer; or, Revivals, and how 

 to promote them. By Rev. Orson Parker. 



Octavius Brooks Frothingham, and the New Faith. 

 By Edmund C. Stedraan. (I'utnams.) 



The Meaning and Power of Baptism. By Rev. 

 J. G. D. Stearns. (Tibbals.) 



Footsteps of tha Master. By Harriet Beecher 

 Stowe. (Ford.) 



Soul-Hurst, and Other Sermons. By Francis 

 Washburn. (Tibbals.) 



The Teachings of Providence ; or, New Lessons on 

 Old Subjects. By Rev. J. B. Gross. (Lippincott.) 



The King's Ferry-boat. By John N. Norton, D. D. 

 (Whittuker.) 



How to see J.:sus. By James William Kimball. 

 (Lockwood, Brooks & Co.) 



Christ the Teacher of Men. By A. W. Pitzer, 

 awthor of " Ecce Deus-Hpmo." (Lippincott.) 



The Fulness of Blessing. By Sarah F- Smiley. 

 (A. D. F. Randolph.) 



Lessons of Faith and Life. Discourses by Rev. 

 E H. Chapin, D. D. (Miller.) 



Milestones in our Life's Journey. By Rev. Samuel 

 Osgood, D. D., LL. D. (Dalton. ) 



Peter the Apostle. By the Rev. William M. Tay- 

 lor, D. D. (Harpers.) 



From Bethlehem to Calvary. By Faith Latimer. 

 (Nelson & Phillips.) 



The Psalter a Witness to the Divine Origin of the 

 Bible. By Talbot W. Chambers, D. D. The Ved- 

 der Lectures for 1876. (Randolph.) 



The Land and the Life. Sketches and Studies in 

 Palestine. By Rev. Albert Zabriskio Gray. (Ran- 

 dolph.) 



The Faith of our Fathers. Being a Plain Exposi- 

 tion and Vindication of the Church founded by our 

 Lord Jesus Christ. By theRt. Rev. James Gibbons, 

 D. D., Bishop of Richmond, etc. (J. Murphy & Co., 

 Baltimore.) 



Under Canvas; or, Tent- Worship in Summer 

 Months. Bv William B. Mucklow. (Atlantic Pub- 

 lishing and Engraving Company.) 



The Doctrine of the Iligner Cnristian Life com- 

 pared with the Holy Scriptures. By Alvah Hovey, 

 D. D., President of the Newtou Theological Institu- 

 tion. (Young, Boston.) 



Sermons to the Clergy. By Gail Hamilton. (Gill, 

 Boston.) 



GEOGRAPHY, TRAVEL, AND EXPLORATION. 

 To the literature of travel a few remarkable 

 additions have been made. "The Mikado'-. 

 Empire," by W. Elliot Griffis, A. M. (Har- 

 pers), might, with almost equal if not jri 

 propriety, have been placed among histories, 

 as half the work is made up of a sketch of 

 Japanese history, including a particularly full 

 account of the recent revolution. The re- 

 mainder of the volume records the author's 

 observations in different parts of the empire. 

 His position as a professor in the Imperial 

 University, and his uniformly friendly rela- 

 tions with the Government, gave him every 

 opportunity for acquiring authentic informa- 

 tion. It has been suggested by some critics 

 that he relied somewhat too implicitly on the 

 information he received from Japanese officials, 

 and that the view of the empire presented in 

 his book is more rose-colored in consequence 

 than the reality. But prejudice in favor of 

 an Asiatic government is so uncommon in ob- 

 servers from Europe and America that it may 

 be fair to sot off Japanese against European 

 prepossession, and to conclude that something 

 is to be learned from combining the views on 

 both sides. Mr. Griffis has certainly made a 

 volume of extraordinary interest, notwith- 

 standing the drawback of a too rhetorical 

 style. Mr. Eugene Schuyler's " Turkistan : 

 Notes of a Journey in 1873 in the Russian 

 Province of Turkistan, the Khanates of Kho- 

 kan and Bokhara," etc. (Scribner), did not 

 need the advertisement it gained from the au- 

 thor's report of Turkish outrages in Bulgaria. 

 His thorough command of the Russian lan- 

 guage, and the favor and encouragement he 

 received from Russian officers, civil and mili- 

 tary, gave him every opportunity for observa- 

 tion in regions from which European, and 

 especially English, visitors have been pretty 

 strictly excluded. Much of the information 

 he has gathered is therefore absolutely new, 

 and things before dimly known are set in 

 clearer light, and made intelligible. Light is 

 thrown upon the character, the strength, and 

 weakness of the Russian occupation of Cen- 

 tral Asia, and the policy which led to it and 

 rules in it. The narratives and descriptions 

 are graphic, but simple and unpretending in 

 style, making the work as entertaining as it is 

 informing. In his "Through and Through 

 the Tropics," Mr. Frank Vincent, Jr., has 

 condensed the observations made in " Thirty 

 Thousand Miles of Travel in Oceanica, Aus- 

 tralia, and India " (Harpers) into a volume of 

 very moderate dimensions, which at once sug- 

 gests necessary superficiality. But Mr. Vin- 

 cent is an experienced traveler, and under- 

 stands well the art of selection. Out of the 

 mass of things seen, he has a quick eye for 

 what will best bear telling and will tell in his 

 composition. He is thus an entertaining com- 

 panion wherever he goes. Dr. Henry M. 



