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vi 1 The Sportsman's Directory." "Who 

 ' the (Mlicial American Yacht Record for 

 compiled I >y JaniL'S ('. Summers, com- 

 iln- lifth yt'iir i>f tliat important publica- 

 niil in I In- " llaiiil-l)i>i)k Library " we Jiuvi- an 

 . itic (iiutlc " and " Campbell's Lawn Ten- 

 id I In- \N ay In play it." .lanu-s M. liice wrote 

 .nge Manual and Score Record," and Henry 

 Kmi; Killing," a collection of move- 

 ments and commands di-.si-ncd for the use of 

 ; schools and chilis. "How to get M US- 

 is tin- title of five addresses by Charles 

 .vortli, Jr., and Walter Camp tivatrd 

 H American Football." To Fisher Ames we are 

 indebted for " A Practical Guide to Whist by 

 tin- La! CM Scientific Methods" and for " Ameri- 

 can Leads at Whist"; to J. T. Mitchell for 

 Duplicate Whist," and to Robert F. Green for 

 Whist." "Concise Whist," giving accepted 

 American leads, was anonymous. As a supple- 

 ment to - American Whist illustrated," G. W. P. 

 supplied Whist in Diagrams." T. H. B. com- 

 piled " Conventional Whist Leads," while Eugene 

 S. Klliott chronicled " Proceedings of the First 

 American Whist Congress held at the City of 

 Milwaukee, April 14-17, 1891." "Gambling" 

 was di-eu-sed by James Harold Remain from 

 the Mandpoint of " true philosophy and ethics," 

 and "The Gambling Games of the Chinese in 

 America" by Stewart Culm in the " University 

 of Pennsylvania Series in Philology, Literature, 

 and Archaeology " (Vol. VI, No. 4). " The Two- 

 move Chess Problem" was treated by B. G. 

 Laws. "A Box of Monkeys and other Farce 

 Comedies," by Grace Livingston Furniss, are in- 

 tended for amateur and parlor presentation, and 

 " Original Charades," by L. B. R. Briggs, were 

 collected from " Scribner's Magazine. Sports 

 and pastimes of all kinds are covered by the 

 small numbers of the " Manual Library," from 

 eminent authorities. Among these may be men- 

 ti^ned the "Swimming Instructor," by Capt. 

 Webb, and the " Amateur and Professional Oars- 

 man's Manual " by W. Beach. " Man's Friend 

 the Dog," by George B. Taylor, gave informa- 

 tion as to the value of the different breeds of 

 dogs and the best way to care for them. 



Theology. More works in this department 

 were published in 1891 than in the year preceding, 

 but none more important. " Church and Creed," 

 three sermons by Rev. R. Heber Newton, presents 

 that divine's understanding of "the doctrine of 

 Christ as this Church hath received the same," 

 and from the same author we have " Five-Min- 

 ute Talks for Young People, or the Way to Suc- 

 Twenty-two %< Sermons " were selected and 

 published from the writings of Rev. Howard 

 <'io-l>y; from Andrew P. Peabody, D. D., came 

 " King's Chapel Sermons " ; from Rev. Edwin II. 

 Burgess, a volume of sermons entitled " At the 

 Place which is called Calvary" ; from Charles H. 

 Parkhurst, ( D. D., " Three Gates on a Side, and 

 other Sermons"; fromCharlesCuthbert Hall,D.D., 

 a volume of twenty discourses, entitled. "Into His 

 Marvelous Light"; and Wellesley W. Bowdish, 

 D.D., edited " Interdenominational Sermons " by 

 prominent ministers of different sects. Frederick 

 1 1. Hedge, D. D.. contributed twenty-four "Ser- 

 mons,"; J. DeWitt Burkhead, D.D., "Theology 

 for the Masses " ; Dr. James Boyd Brady, " Saen- 

 gerfest Sermons," on the sanctity of the Sab- 



bath ; and John Steinfort Kedney, D. D., " Mens 



ClmMi, and other Problems iii Theology a; , ( l 

 Christian KthicV "Pra\-r, it* Katun-, Condi- 

 tions, and Effects" were treated by C. A. Van 

 And... D.I).; JI-MJS Christ. tin- Proof of Christi- 

 anity," liy Bishop John F. Spaulding; "(Mir 

 Father's Kingdom." by Julius H. Seelyc; "The 

 Larger Christ," by George D. Herron ; ' The Ad- 

 vancing Kingdom, or the Wonders of F<-' 

 History," by Rev. F. K. T.,w,-r. " I'.ai ti-mal 

 Remission," by G. W. Hughey, D. D. and - < 

 tianity and Some of its Evidences : an Address," 

 by Oliver Mowat, are more or less allied in tone. 

 " Different New Testament Views of Jesus " were 

 collated by Joseph II. Cooper from the Unita- 

 rian standpoint, while the " Socialism of Chi i>t " 

 was contended for by Austin Bierbower. From 

 James M. Honpin (Professor of the History of 

 Art in Yale University) came nine "Sermons 

 upon Faith, Hope, and Love, together with 

 Hone Hpmilecticae." " Institutes of the Chris- 

 tian Religion," by Emanuel V. Gerhart, D. D., 

 had an introduction by Rev. Philip Schaff. James 

 Strong considered " The Doctrine of a Future 

 Life from a Scriptural, Philosophical, and Scien- 

 tific Point of View." " Waymarks, 1870-1891," 

 was the title of discourses of Bishop Henry C. 

 Potter, D. D., with some account of their occa- 

 sions. Prof. John Bascom, of the University of 

 Wisconsin, formulated " The New Theology," and 

 P. II. Steenstra, in a series of lectures, discussed 

 "The Being of God as Unity and Trinity/' 

 Francis Howe Johnson asked " What is Reality f " 

 "Positive Religion" consisted of essays, frag- 

 ments, and hints, by Joseph H. Allen, and J. Mac- 

 bride Sterrett argued upon " Reason and Author- 

 ity in Religion. Richard N. Davies presented 

 the Biblical evidence for the " Doctrine of the 

 Trinity," while "The Harmony of Ethics with 

 Theology " was an essay in revision by Henry E. 

 Robbins, D. D. E. H. Johnson, D. D., drew up 

 an " Outline of Systematic Theology," and James 

 T. Bixby denominated an examination of ra- 

 tional ethics in the light of modern science 

 "The Crisis in Morals." J. R. Miller, D. D., 

 wrote on "Making the Most of Life"; A. J. 

 Baird, D. D., on " The World and how to take 

 it " ; W. Thornton, on the " Origin, Purpose, and 

 Destiny of Man " ; Prof. Robert Ellis Thomp- 

 son delivered the L. P. Stone Lectures for 

 1891 on "The Divine Order of Human Society"; 

 the Bohlen Lectures for the same year were by 

 Rev. William Reed Huntington upon " The Peace 

 of the Church " ; and the Yale Lectures on Preach- 

 ing by James Stalker, D. D., on " The Preacher 

 and his Models." Rev. T. De Witt Talmnge 

 preached "Among the Holy Hills: Sermons 

 principally relating to Palestine," and "Twenty- 

 five Sermons on the Holy Land " ; he also pub- 

 lished " From Manger to Throne." A second 

 edition was made of the " Evolution of Man and 

 Christianity," by Rev. Howard Macqueary, whose 

 " Topics of the Times " consisted of eight lectures 

 and nine sermons, and whose defense before the 

 ecclesiastical court of the Episcopal Church in 

 northern Ohio against the charge of heresv was 

 printed under the title of " Ecclesiastical Liber- 

 ty." Rev. Morgan Dix, in a series of sermons 

 during Lent, 1891, defined "The Authority of 

 the Church as set forth in the Book of Common 

 Prayer, Articles, and Canons," and Henry R. Per- 



