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LITERATURE, AMERICAN, IN 1883. (LAW.) 



Rev. George A. Jackson's " Post-Nicene Greek 

 Fathers" (D. Appleton & Co.) sketched the pa- 

 tristic literature and its authors, A. D. 325-370. 

 *' Gates into the Psalm Country," by Dr. M. R. 

 Vincent (Charles Scribner's Sons), was an in- 

 teresting study of the Davidic literature of the 

 Old Testament. " Foundations of Religious 

 Belief" (Bishop Paddock Lectures, 1883), by 

 Dr. W. D. Wilson (D. Appleton & Co.), was the 

 title of a collection of theological addresses 

 to seminary students. Books which attracted 

 more than ordinary attention were " Right and 

 Wrong Uses of the Bible," by Rev. Heber C. 

 Newton (John W. Lovell Co.), and Dr. Mor- 

 gan Dix's ' Lectures on the Calling of a Chris- 

 tian Woman " (D. Appleton & Co.). u Epochs 

 of Church History," by Dr. E. A. Washburne 

 (E. P. Dutton & Co.), treated of the great 

 periods of ecclesiastical growth. Rev. W. C. 

 Gladden's " Christian League of Connecticut " 

 (Charles Scribner's Sons) discussed the possi- 

 bilities of a union of sects in religious work. 

 " English Style in Public Discourse," by Prof. 

 Austin Phelps (Charles Scribner's Sons), was 

 a capable manual of pulpit rhetoric. Other 

 works dealing with the philosophical and di- 

 dactic sides of theology and religion, worthy 

 of mention, were " Atheism and Theism," by 

 Rev. John Wilson (J. B. Lippincott & Co.) ; 

 "Beliefs about the Bible," by Rev. M. J. Sav- 

 age (George H. Ellis) ; Little's " Biblical Lights 

 and Sidelights"; Briggs's " Biblical Study "; 

 "Certitude, Providence, and Prayer," by Dr. 

 James McCosh (Charles Scribner's Sons), a 

 metaphysical study of the reasons for faith and 

 devotion ; " The Church Idea," by Dr. W. R. 

 Huntington (E. P. Dutton & Co.), an essay on 

 Christian unity ; Sherwood's " History of the 

 Cross" (Funk & Wagnalls); "The Doctrine 

 of Probation, examined with Reference to Cur- 

 rent Discussion," by Dr. G. H. Emerson (TJni- 

 versalist Publishing Co.) ; " Mystery of Crea- 

 tion and Man," by Dr. L. C. Baker (J. B. Lip- 

 pincott & Co.) ; " The Outermost Rim and 

 Beyond," by Charles Van Norden (A. D. F. 

 Randolph & Co.) ; and Dr. J. G. Adams's " In- 

 ner Life" (Universalist Publishing Co.). The 

 following were the principal collections of ser- 

 mons and lectures published during 1883 : Dr. 

 Taylor's " Contrary Winds, and other Ser- 

 mons " (A. C. Armstrong & Co.) ; " Lectures 

 and Addresses," by Dr. Thomas Guard (Phil- 

 lips & Hunt) ; " Principles of Agnosticism ap- 

 plieJ to 'Evidences of Christianity," by Dr. J. 

 A. Harris (Thomas Whittaker) ; " The Radical 

 Pulpit: Discourses in Advanced Thought," by 

 Dr. O. B. Frothingham and Felix Adler (Truth- 

 Seeker Co.); "Sermons," by Rev. William 

 Cooper Mead (Dodd, Mead, & Co.) ; " Sermons 

 on Future Punishment," by Dr. Randolph Mc- 

 Kim (Thomas Whittaker) ; " Sermons from 

 Plymouth Pulpit," by Henry Ward Beecher 

 (Fords, Howard. & Hulbert); ''Sermons on 

 the Higher Life," by Dr. L. R. Dunn (Wai den 

 & Stowe) ; " Sermons preached in English 

 Churches," by Rev. Phillips Brooks (E. P. Dut- 



ton & Co.) ; and " Sermons," by Rev. David 

 Swing (Jansen, McClurg, & Co.). 



The more important works by British and 

 foreign authors issued under American im- 

 print were : " An Analysis of Religious Belief," 

 by Viscount Amberley (Truth- Seeker Co.); 

 Dr. Robson's " Bible : Its Revelation, Inspira- 

 tion, and Evidences" (Thomas Nelson & Sons); 

 Dr. Oldenberg's " Buddha," translated by Will- 

 iam Hoey; "Boy Life: Its Trial, Strength, 

 and Fullness Sundays in Wellington College, 

 1859-'73," by his Grace the Archbishop of 

 Canterbury (Macmillan & Co.) ; Dr. Gebhard 

 Ullhorn's " Christian Charity in the Ancient 

 Church " (Charles Scribner's Sons) ; Crass's 

 "Coals from the Altar" (Thomas Whittaker) ; 

 Bithell's " Creed of a Modern Agnostic " 

 (George Routledge & Sons) ; "Dorner on the 

 Future State," edited by Dr. Newman Smyth 

 (Charles Scribner's Sons) an admirable state- 

 ment of the orthodox views on eschatology; 

 Canon Farrar's "Early Days of Christianity" 

 (Cassell & Co.) ; Cardinal Manning's " Eternal 

 Priesthood " (John Murphy & Co.) ; Dr. Mc- 

 Lear's "Evidential Value of the Holy Eucha- 

 rist : Boyle Lectures, 1870-'80 " (Macmillan & 

 Co.) ; Dr. Hefele's " History of the Councils 

 of the Church," Vol. Ill, A. D. 431-455 (Scrib- 

 ner & Welford) ; Matthew Arnold's " Isaiah of 

 Jerusalem " (Macmillan & Co.) ; " Luther and 

 other Leaders of the Reformation," by Prin- 

 cipal Tullock (Scribner & Welford) ; Zschok- 

 ke's " Meditations on Life, Death, and Eter- 

 nity," translated by Frederica Rowen (Hough- 

 ton, Mifflin, & Co.) ; Beard's " Reformation of 

 the Sixteenth Century," and Monier Williams's 

 " Religions Thought and Life in India" (Scrib- 

 ner & Welford) ; " Rivers of Life'; or, Sources 

 of the F.-iiths of Man in All Lands," by Gen. J. 

 G. R. Furlong (J. W. Bouton) ; " Sermons and 

 Discourses," by the late Dr. McHale, Arch- 

 bishop of Tuarn (Catholic Publication Society) ; 

 Dean Stanley's "Sinai and Palestine" (A. C. 

 Armstrong & Co.) ; " Sacred Books of the 

 East," Vols. XVIII, XIX (Macmillan & Co.); 

 Dr. Bernhard Weiss's "Life of Christ" (Scrib- 

 ner & Welford) ; " The New Testament Scrip- 

 tures: Their Claim, History, and Authority 

 Croall Lectures for 1882," by Dr. A. H. Char- 

 teris (Robert Carter & Brothers) ; and " Ser- 

 mons," by Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, consisting of 

 "Saint and Saviour," "The Present Truth," 

 "Types and Emblems," "John Ploughman's 

 Talks," "John Ploughman's Pictures," "The 

 Treasury of David," and "Gleanings among 

 Sheaves " (Robert Carter & Brothers) ; Herzog- 

 Schaff's " Religious Cyclopedia," Vol. II (Funk 

 & Wagnalls); and Mcllvaine's "Wisdom of 

 Holy Scriptures" (Charles Scribner's Sons). 



Law. The principal American law books 

 were " Abbott's Supplementary Digest to the 

 New Edition Digest " (Baker, Voorhis, & Co.); 

 Phillips's " Treatise on the Law of Mechanics' 

 Lien "(John D. Parsons, Jr.); Vol. II of 

 " American Probate Reports " (Baker, Voor- 

 his, & Co.) ; Vols. XIV and XV of " Blatch- 



