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LITERATURE, AMERICAN, IN 1887. 



of Profit ; how it is now Divided ; what Part of 

 the Present Hours of Labor can be spared? " 

 Henry Wood published a very able and strik- 

 ingly original work entitled "Natural Law in 

 the Business World " ; and R. S. Hill wrote " A 

 Chapter on Wall Street, in Four Parts and a 

 Moral," and Jared Flagg, Jr.. " How to take 

 Money out of Wall Street." 



Theology. There were more books published 

 on theological subjects than in any other de- 

 partment except that of fiction. A great many 

 of these were reprints and translations, and a 

 good many more those dainty little compila- 

 tions which so many persons affect as suit- 

 able and pleasing gifts to the religious minded. 

 Many of these are published at Easter and 

 Christmas, which undoubtedly fill their place 

 and subserve a good moral purpose, but which 

 need not necessarily be mentioned as forming 

 any addition to American literature. W. Ba- 

 con Stevens, D. D., Bishop of Pennsylvania, 

 published '-The Parables of the New Testa- 

 ment practically unfolded." R. G-. Storrs, 

 D. D., appeared in a work on " The Church of 

 the Pilgrims " ; Dr. Henry Van Dyke, D. D., 

 told " The Story of the Psalms " ; and " Word 

 Studies in the New Testament " appeared in its 

 first volume by Rev. Marvin R. Vincent. Rev. 

 Charles S. Robinson, D. D., whose hymn and 

 text books sell between 75,000 and 80,000 a 

 year, published "The Pharaohs of the Bond- 

 age and the Exodus"; while from Philip 

 Schaff, D. D., we had a " Cyclopaedia of Living 

 Divines and Christian Workers of all Denomi- 

 nations in Europe and America," being a sup- 

 plement to the Schaff -Herzog " Encyclopaedia 

 of Religions Knowledge." Rev. John Ken, 

 D. D., published " The Victory of Faith " ; J. 

 A. Broaders, "Commentary on the Gospel of 

 Matthew " ; Rev. Phillips Brooks, " The Lit- 

 tle Town of Bethlehem"; and Rev. Arthur 

 Brooks, "The Life of Christ in the World." 

 From Daniel D. Buck, D. D., we have "The 

 Law and Limitations of our Lord's Mira- 

 cles"; Rev. William Armstrong wrote "Five 

 Minute Sermons to Children"; James B. 

 Walker, D. D., published " Philosophy of the 

 Plan of Salvation; a Book for the Times." 

 This latter work was from the Chautauqua 

 press. From Rev. Dr. Theodore D. Woolsey 

 we have the " Religion of the Present and of 

 the Future," and from George Dana Board- 

 man, " The Divine Man." Rev. Samuel Lane 

 Loornis wrote a book entitled " Modern Cities 

 and their Religious Problems" ; W. W. Everts, 

 D. D., published " Baptist Layman's Book " ; 

 Rev. M. T. Lamb, "The Golden Bible, or the 

 Book of Mormon ; Is it from God ? " ; Rev. L. 

 A. Lambert, " Tactics of Infidels " ; and " Life's 

 Problems, Here and Hereafter," was published 

 anonymously. From Samuel I. Harris, D. D., 

 we had " The Self-Revelation of God "; from 

 Annie S. Swan, "The Gates of Eden"; from 

 Joseph S. Taylor, "A Romance of Provi- 

 dence, being a History of the Church of the 

 Strangers, in the City of New York " ; and Rev. 



Leighton Parks wrote " His Star in the East." 

 Rev. Arthur T. Pierson published " Evangel- 

 istic Work " ; W.C. Prime, " Holy Cross ; a His- 

 tory of the Invention, Preservation, and Dispo- 

 sition of the Wood known as the True Cross"; 

 and Rev. W. S. Rainsford published " Ser- 

 mons preached in St. George's, New York." 

 W. W. Rand, D. D., issued a " Bible Diction- 

 ary," and Daniel March. D. D., " The First 

 Khedive ; Lessons in the Life of Joseph." 

 Arthur Cleveland Coxe, D. D., Bishop of West- 

 ern New York, published "Institutes of Chris- 

 tian History"; J. M. Gibson, D. D., "The 

 Ages before Moses; a Series of Lectures on 

 the Book of Genesis " ; and Richard G. Greene 

 wrote "Aids to Common Worship." Rev. 

 Charles Hale, M. A., wrote a " Manual of the 

 Book of Common Prayer " ; Rev. J. Benson 

 Hamilton, " Empty Churches and How to Fill 

 Them " ; E. F. Burr, D. D., " Universal Beliefs, 

 or the Great Concensus " ; and James Freeman 

 Clarke, D. D., published his " Events and 

 Epochs in Religious History, Illustrated." 

 Rev. Wilbur F. Crafts published "Talks to 

 Boys and Girls about Jesus"; R. N. Davies 

 wrote " Teaching of the Scripture concerning 

 Wine and Other Liquors " ; Rev. Wm. B. Deane 

 published "Abraham; Life and Times"; Rev. 

 C. F. Deems, Pastor of the Church of the 

 Strangers, of New York, published " Christian 

 Thought; Lectures and Papers on Philosophy, 

 Christian Evidence, Biblical Elucidation " ; and 

 Daniel Dorchester, D. D., published " The Why 

 of Methodism." From Rev. Joseph Cook we 

 had " Current Religious Perils," and from Anna 

 S. Sadlier, " Gems of Catholic Thought." From 

 the pen of T. Murphy, D. D., we have " People 

 and Pastor ; Duties involved in their Important 

 Relations." Rev. Andrew Murray wrote " The 

 Children for Christ " ; Rev. Newman Smyth 

 published "Christian Facts and Forces"; Rev. 

 J. F. Spalding issued "The Threefold Minis- 

 try of the Church of Christ"; and from Rev. 

 Sylvanus Stall, a Lutheran clergyman, we 

 had " Methods of Church Work." Rev. John 

 Fletcher Hnrst, D. D., published "Short His- 

 tory of the Mediaeval Church," and Rev. Minot 

 Judson Savage completes the li^t, as far as this 

 class of works is concerned, by " My Creed." 



Jurisprudence. In this department we have 

 first, in United States law, the "Law of Inter- 

 state Commerce," treated by J. C. Harper and 

 John R. DosPasos; Price and Stewart pub- 

 lished " American Trade-Mark Cases decided 

 by the Courts of the United States and by the 

 Commissioner of Patents between 1879 and 

 1887." " United States Digests," new series, 

 reached the seventeenth volume, and B. V. 

 Abbott published " Patent Laws of all Na- 

 tions." In State law we have, first, Henry 

 Hitchcock, LL. D., "On American State Con- 

 stitutions"; "The New York Excise Law" is 

 treated by W. E. Bullock ; Newton Wyeth 

 writes on "Essentials of Business Laws of 

 Illinois"; F. F. Brightly publishes a valuable 

 compendium under the title of " A Digest of 



