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" The New Acts of the Apostles, or the Marvels of 

 Modern Missions " ; A. C. Thompson also lectured in 

 our own country on " Protestant Missions " ; Henry 

 W. Rugg edited " Our Word and Work for Missions " ; 

 Max Wood Moorhead edited addresses and discus- 

 sions of the Second International Convention of the 

 Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions, 

 held at Detroit, Mich., Feb. 28 to March 4, 1894; 

 and Sara Morrill entitled woman's work in the Church 

 "A Life of Service." Among volumes of sermons and 

 addresses are especially to be noted " Herald Sermons," 

 by Kev. George H. Hepworth ; " The Honeycombs of 

 Life," by Louis Albert Banks, D. D. : " God's World, 

 and Other Sermons," by Rev. B. Fay Mills ; " Justice 

 and Mercy," by Marion D. Shutter, D. D. ; " The 

 Heresy of Cain," by George Hodges ; u The Power of 

 an Endless Life," by Rev. Thomas C. Hall; "Fifty 

 Short Sermons on Important Subjects," by Dr. J. M. 

 Pendleton; "The Pacific Coast Pulpit," edited by 

 Rev. D. H. Irwin ; " Occasional Sermons and Ad- 

 dresses " of Rev._ John M. Kiely ; " The Life here and 

 the Life hereafter," an Easter sermon of Bishop 

 Phillips Brooks ; " The Leisure of God, and Other 

 Stories in the Spiritual Evolution," 15 sermons by 

 John Coleman Adams ; " The Christ and his Church," 

 20 short sermons, Easter, 1894, by Rev. W. H. Lewis ; 

 " Stories from Genesis," sermons" for children, by Dr. 

 Alfred G. Mortimer ; " Five-minute Object Sermons to 

 Children," by Dr. Sylvanus Stall ; " Religion and 

 Business," practical suggestions to men of affairs, by 

 Rev. Henry A. Stimson ; " The Church and Secula*r 

 Life," 8 lectures by Frederick W. Hamilton ; " Social 

 Reform and the Church," by John R. Commons, to 

 which Richard T. Ely supplied an introduction ; 2 

 addresses upon " The Church and the Kingdom," by 

 Washington Gladden ; " Master and Men," by William 



Methodology," by Drs. George R. Crooks and John F. 

 Hurst. Helen West Ridgely's description of "The 

 Old Brick Churches of Maryland " was illustrated by 

 Sophie De Butts Stewart ; and " Historic Churches of 

 America," by Rev. Philip Slaughter and others, till 20 

 parts. \V . F. McCauley gave " Why ? Reasons for 

 the Christian Endeavor Movement " ; Mary J. Chis- 

 holm Foster termed the Sunday school " The Kin- 

 dergarten of the Church " ; Dr. J. M. P. Otts out- 

 lined the mother's holy ministry with her children 

 "At Mother's Knee"; Emily Huntington Miller gave 

 " Home Talks About the Word." " Sunday School 

 Studies," by Dr. E. E. Hoss. relate to the " International 

 Lessons" for 1895, which were the theme of several 

 other volumes, viz., the twenty-first annual volume of 

 " Select Notes, by Dr. F. N. and M. A. Peloubet ; the 

 twentieth series of sermons by the " Monday Club " ; 

 and "Illustrative Notes, 1895,'" by Jesse L. Hurlbut 

 and Robert Remington Doherty ; while "A Scrip- 

 tural Index " to the whole series from 1873 to 1895 

 was prepared by Rev. S. G. Barnes. Representative 

 clergymen also drew up practical helps for pastors 

 and teachers on the " Augsburg Series " of the same. 

 Voyages and Travels. " Far Hence " was the title of a 

 collection of letters written by Henry N. Cobb, D. D., 

 during a journey round the world, and Dr. J. M. 

 Buckley published a record of " Travels in Three 

 Continents : Europe, Asia, Africa." Charles A. Stod- 

 dard told of a spring journey to California in " Beyond 

 the Rockies " ; John Muir described " The Mountains 

 of California" with enthusiasm and scientific accu- 

 racy ; and " Wonderland," by Edward S. Parkinson, 

 tells of twelve weeks in and but of the United States. 

 The St. Lawrence is described in " Down the River to 

 the Sea," by Agnes Maule Machar; "The St. John 

 River in Maine, Quebec, and New Brunswick," by 



Burnet Wright, D. D. ; and " The Deeper Meanings," J. W. Bailey ; " From Blomidon to Smoky, and OtheV 

 by F. A. Hincklev ; while valuable compilations were Papers,'' was the last work that we shall have of 



by F. A. Hinckley ; while valuable compilations were 

 "A Cloud of Witnesses,'' a collection of biographic 

 and autographic testimonies from 800 of the highest 

 men in the world respecting Christ and the Bible, by 

 Rev. Stephen A. Northrup ; the eleventh series of 

 u Christian Thought," edited by Drs. Charles F. 

 Deems, Amory H. Bradford, and Rev. John B. Devins ; 

 " New Streams in Old Channels," selected from the 

 writings of Dr. Lyman Abbott by Mary Storrs 

 Haynes ; " At Dawn of Day," thoughts compiled from 

 the morning hour by Jeanie A. Bates Grcenough ; 

 "A Gift of Peace and'Loving Greetings for 365 Days," 

 compiled and edited by Rose Porter; "A Book of the 

 Heavenly Birthdays," by Mrs. Eleanor Vere Gordon 

 Boyle ; "A Symphony of the Spirit," compiled by G. 

 5. Merriam; and "Angelus Domini," a compilation 

 with legendary lays and poems in honor of the Virgin, 

 by Miss Rachel A. La Fontaine. Dr. J. M. Buckley 

 supplied an introduction to " The Revival and the 

 Pastor," by Dr. Jonas Oramel Peck ; Rev. H. B. 

 Restarick treated of " Lay Readers : Their History, Or- 

 ganization, and Work " ; Edmund B. Fairfield, D. D., 

 wrote " Letters on Baptism" ; Rev. H. B. Hartzlertold 

 of "Moody in Chicago"; and William E. Ketcham 

 compiled and edited " Thanksgiving Sermons and 

 Outline Addresses" as an aid to pastors. More than 

 5,000 hymns and poems are contained in " The Plym- 

 outh Hymnal," edited by Dr. Lyman Abbott; 

 "_Songs of Zion" was the title of a collection of prin- 

 cipal melodies of the synagogue from the earliest times 

 to the present, compiled by Rev. Alois Kaiser and 

 Rev. William Sparager ; Frederick L. Hosmer and 



series of" The Thought of God in Hymns and Poems." 

 The Pilgrim Pastor's Manual," by G. M. Boynton, 

 D. D., and " The Pastor's Companion," compiled by 

 M. R, Drury, D. I)., are akin in interest. Rev. William 

 Turner supplied a" Handbook of the Bible," as Rev. J. 

 B. R. Walker did " The Comprehensive Concordance 

 to the Holy Scriptures " ; while " The Exhaustive Con- 

 cordance of the Bible," by Dr. James Strong, repre- 

 sents the labor of more than thirty years, and claims to 

 show every word of the text. A new revised edition 

 was issued of the " Theological Encyclopaedia and 



Frank Bolles, and consists of papers published in 

 various periodicals from 1890 to 1894; Bradford Tor- 

 rey wandered from his old haunts, as will be seen 

 from " A Florida Sketchbook," which he sent out 

 this year; a series of summer letters tell of what 

 Hiles C. Pardoe encountered " Up the Susquehanna " ; 

 u My Summer in a Mormon Village " seems to have 

 proved a delightful one to Florence A. Merriam while 

 traveling with Olive Thorn Miller to study the birds 

 of the Salt Lake Basin in 1893 ; "A Man from Corpus 

 Christi" told of the adventures of two bird hunters 

 and a dog in the Texas bogs ; " In the Land of Cave 

 and Cliff Dwellers" is the record of two expeditions 

 into northern Mexico made by Frederick Schwatka ; 

 and Edward S. Ellis was at home " Among the Esqui- 

 maux." A new popular edition was made of " Three 

 Years of Arctic Service," by Gen. A. W. Greely ; 

 " On and Off the Saddle " pictured characteristic 

 sights and scenes from the great Northwest to the 

 Antilles, as seen by Lispenard Rutgers ; Mexico is 

 again recognized in "The Kingdom of the White 

 Woman," by M. M. Shoemaker; John W. Butler, 

 D. D., published 8 lectures delivered at Syracuse 

 University on the Graves Foundation in 1894 under 

 the title of " Sketches of Mexico in Prehistoric, 

 Primitive, Colonial, and Modern Times " ; and Hu- 

 bert Howe Bancroft published separately in English 

 and Spanish a work upon the "Resources and De- 

 velopment of Mexico." " Hawaiian Life " was de- 

 scribed by Charles Warren Stoddard in what he 

 termed " Lazy Letters from Low Latitudes " ; and 



William C. Gannett Were the authors of a second " Picturesque" Hawaii " was the subject of John L. 

 Rprina nf " TVin Tv,,!^ ^f n^A : ij,,~, ~jT>~,v~,,, cn-^r^g and W. B. Oleson. "Memories of Hawaii 



iwaiian Correspondence " were also supplied by 

 A. Palmer, Jr. Milton S. Terry told of" Ram- 



Stevens and W. B. Oleson. " Memories of Hawaii 

 and Ila\ 

 Julius 



bles in the Old World"; Mary Bowers Warren's 

 " Little Journeys Abroad "were illustrated by George 

 II. Boughton, E. K. Johnson, Irving R. Wiles, and 

 others; Louis Lombard vouchsafed "Observations 

 of a Traveler"; "Our English Cousins" were por- 

 trayed by Richard Harding Davis; and James S. 

 Stone, D. D., visited " Woods and Dales of Derby- 

 shire." " The Borderland of Czar and Kaiser," notes 



