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LITERATURE, AMERICAN, IN 1899. 



coursed of The Life of the Spirit; sermons of 

 Timothy Dwight were entitled Thoughts of and 

 for the Inner Life; Individuality; or, The Apos- 

 tolic Twelve before and after Pentecost, came 

 from J. L. Sooy, D.D.; God and the People and 

 Other Sermons, from David James Burrell, D. D.; 

 The Master Idea, from Raymond L. Bndgman; 

 Heaven; or, That Better Country, from Bishop 

 Jonathan Weaver; and Life beyond Death, from 

 Minot Judson Savage, D. D. The Heavenly City 

 was edited by Dr. Edwin Wilbur Rice. In his 

 Steps: What would Jesus do? by Rev. Charles 

 M. Sheldon, attained a wide popularity, more 

 than 3,000,000 copies having been sold. William 

 Reed Huntington, D. D., published Four Key 

 Words of Religion contained in as many briet 

 addresses; God's Education of Man was reviewed 

 by William De Witt Hyde; Between Caesar and 

 Jesus was the title of lectures by George D. 

 Herron; and John and his Friends of a series of 

 revival sermons by Louis Albert Banks, D. D., 

 from whom we had also My Young Man, a series 

 of addresses to young men, as well as volumes 

 devoted respectively to The Great Sinners of the 

 Bible, Anecdotes and Morals, and A Year's 

 Prayer-meeting Talks. The Religion of To-mor- 

 row was foretold by Frank Crane; The Pure 

 Causeway was recommended by Evelyn Harvey 

 Roberts ; Christian Perfection was contributed by 

 Peter Taylor Forsyth, D. D., to the series of Lit- 

 tle Books on Religion, another issue of which was 

 The Art of Living Alone, by Amory Howe Brad- 

 ford; John Monroe Dana collected and edited 

 The Wider View, a search for truth ; Border Lines 

 in the Field of Doubtful Practices were explored 

 by Henry Clay Trumbull; Rev. James Tait de- 

 nounced Christianity without Conscience; and 

 from Rev. James J. Fox we had the nature and 

 mutual relations of Religion and Morality his- 

 torically and doctrinally considered. Cortland 

 Myers gave reasons Why Men do not go to 

 Church. Ecce Clerus; or, The Christian Minister 

 in Many Lights, claimed to be by an anonymous 

 student of the times. Bishop Henry Yates Sat- 

 terlee wrote upon New Testament Churchmanship 

 and the Principles upon which it was Founded; 

 Papias and his Contemporaries was a study of re- 

 ligious thought in the second century by Rev. 

 Edward Henry Hale; A Manual of Patrology 

 was contributed by Wallace Nelson Stearns; and 

 Vol. Ill of A General History of the Christian 

 Era (for Catholic colleges and reading circles), 

 by Augustus Guggenberger, completed that work, 

 and was devoted to The Social Revolution. The 

 Fundamental Ideas of the Roman Catholic Church 

 were explained and discussed for Protestants and 

 Catholics by Frank Hugh Foster; Leading Per- 

 sons and Periods in English Church History came 

 to us anonymously; Arthur Kenyon Rogers dis- 

 cussed Men and Movements in the English 

 Church; a Supplementary History of American 

 Methodism was offered as a continuation of his 

 abridged History of Methodism by Abel Stevens ; 

 An Exposition of the Form of Government and 

 the Rules of Discipline of the Presbyterian Church 

 in the United States was made by Rev. F. P. 

 Ramsay; Calvinism was the theme of the L. P. 

 Stone Lectures for 1898-'99 by Abraham Kuyper, 

 D. D.; a History of the Swedish Baptists in 

 Sweden and America was written by Gustavus 

 W. Schroeder; and The History of the General 

 Conference of the Mennonites of North America 

 by H. P. Krehbiel. J. M. Hanson, D. D., pro- 

 claimed Universalism the prevailing doctrine of 

 the Christian Church during the first five hun- 

 dred Years, Baptist History Vindicated came from 

 John T. Christian, D. D., and A History of New 



England Theology from George Nye Boardman. 

 The sketch of The Garrison Church of Baltimore 

 County, Maryland, by Ethan Allen, D. D., and 

 Our Church and our Village, by George W. F. 

 Birch, D. D. (Claysville, Pa.), may be mentioned 

 together. Vol. II was issued of Christian Mis- 

 sions and Social Progress, by James S. Dennis, 



D. D. ; The Christian Conquest of Asia was the 

 title of the Morse Lectures of 1898, delivered by 

 John H. Barrows, D. D.; Questions and Phases 

 of Modern Missions were set forth by Frank 

 Fields Ellinwood; and The Miracles of Missions 

 were commemorated by Arthur Tappan Pierson. 

 The Foreign Missionary and his Work, by W. G. 



E. Cunnyngham, had an introduction by W. R. 

 Lambuth. The Transformation of Hawaii, by- 

 Belle M. Brain, told how American missionaries 

 gave a Christian nation to the world. Lights and 

 Shadows of Mission Work in the Far East came 

 from S. H. Chester, D. D., and Islam in Africa 

 had its effects religious, ethical, and social 

 upon the people of the country explained by 

 Anson P. Atterbury. The Dragon, Image, and 

 Demon, by Rev. Hampden C. Du Bose, gave an 

 account of the three religions of China Confu- 

 cianism, Buddhism, and Taoism. Yesterday 

 Framed in To-day was a story of the Christ and 

 how to-day received him by Mrs. Isabella M. 

 Alden, and from Mrs. Ellen G. Harmon White 

 we had a life of Christ handsomely printed and 

 illustrated, entitled The Desire of Ages. Howard 

 W. Tilton published Lay Sermons; Amos R. 

 Wells, Sermons in Stones and in Other Things; 

 George T. Lemmon, The Eternal Building; or, 

 The Making of Man; Rev. H. T. Davis discoursed, 

 of Perfect Happiness; and Rev. A. W. Snyder 

 of The Chief Things and The Chief Days. Rev. 

 Thomas E. Green published addresses for Good 

 Friday under the title The Hill called Calvary, 

 Edward A. Larrabee compiled Prayers at Mass, 

 etc., and J. B. Hogan, D. D., arranged Daily 

 Thoughts for Priests. The Holy Family was the 

 subject of a Christmas meditation by Amory 

 Howe Bradford. A History of the Jewish People 

 during the Babylonian, Persian, and Greek Peri- 

 ods was written by Charles Foster Kent for the 

 Historical Series for Bible Students; Addison 

 Pinneo Foster was responsible for A Manual of 

 Sunday-school Methods; Jesse Lyman Hurlbut 

 and Robert Remington Doherty collaborated upon 

 the Illustrative Notes on the International Sun- 

 day-school Lessons for 1900; and Select Notes 

 on the same by Rev. Francis N. and Mary A. 

 Peloubet completed the twenty-sixth annual issue 

 of the publication. The Best Church Hymns were 

 edited with an introduction and notes by Louis 



F. Benson, D. D.; William E. Ketcham compiled 

 and edited Funeral Sermons and Outline Ad- 

 dresses as an aid to pastors; Christian Science 

 was examined by Rev. Reginald Heber Newton; 

 and again by Rev. William Short, Bishop Hugh 

 Miller Thompson contributing an introduction to 

 this collection of addresses. Buddhism and its 

 Christian Critics came from Paul Carus, and a, 

 second edition was made of his three lectures 

 on The Ethical Problem. 



Unclassified. Books not falling properly 

 under any of the classifications of this article 

 included The United States Army and Navy, by 

 A. L. Wagner and J. D. Jerrold Kelley, which 

 traced the history of both from the era of the 

 Revolution to the close of the Spanish-American 

 War; Our Navy in Time of War, 1861-1898, by 

 Franklin Matthews; Tactical Organization and 

 Uses of Machine Guns in the Field, by John H. 

 Parker; Customs of the Service, compiled from 

 authentic sources by James W. Powell; a Text- 



