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jects the doctrine of inspiration as heretofore taught, and maintains 

 that all scholarly theologians do the same. A religion in harmony 

 with science may. he thinl<s, be founded on the following doctrines : 

 " 1°. There is an Infinite Intelligence whom we call God ; 2". Man is 

 by nature a religious being ; 3". Every religion has in it a nucleus 

 of truth ; 4'='. No religion is exclusively true or founded upon an 

 exclusively divine revelation." Christianity, however, is regarded 

 as the best of all religions, and as the " highest outcome of human 

 nature." Mr. Bray quotes many passages from non-Christian re- 

 ligious wfiters, including the Greek philosophers, the authors of the 

 Vedas, the Chinese moralists, and many others, in support of his 

 positions; and these quotations form an interesting portion of the 

 book. On the subject of immortality the author speaks with hesi- 

 tation, presenting the arguments on both sides, and drawing the 

 conclusion that there is ground for hope but not for dogmatizing. 

 Our readers will see that there is nothing essentially new in these 

 views ; but as coming from a clergyman, and addressed to a con- 

 gregation of the people, — for they were originally presented in 

 public lectures, — they have considerable interest, and Mr. Bray's 

 book will well repay perusal. 



A Text-Book of Euclid's Elements. By H. S. Hall and F. H. 

 Stevens. London and New York, Macmillan. 12°. $1.10. 



This volume contains the first six books of Euclid's elements, 

 together with appendices giving the most important elementary de- 

 velopments of Euclidean geometry, The text has been carefully 

 revised, and special attention given to those points which experi- 

 ence has shown to present difficulties to beginners. The authors 

 have been guided in part by the suggestions contained in the text- 

 book of the Association for the Improvement of Geometrical 

 Teaching. The propositions are throughout treated very fully, 

 and the authors have avoided condensing two or more steps into 

 one. In this they were guided by the weighty consideration that 

 only a small proportion of those who study elementary geometry, 

 and study it with profit, are destined to become mathematicians. 

 To a large majority of students, Euclid is intended to serve not so 

 much as a lesson in mathematical reasoning, as the first, and 

 sometimes the only, model of formal and rigid argument presented 

 in an elementary education. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



The Christmas number of Scribner's Magazine, which com- 

 pletes its second year, will contain a variety of articles in prose and 

 verse, especially suited in sentiment and illustration for the holiday 

 season. There will be twenty full-page pictures, and many others 

 from drawings by such artists as Elihu Vedder, J. Alden Weir, W. 

 Hamilton Gibson, Bruce Crane, and Robert Blum. The art of 

 making stained-glass windows, which has had its renaissance in 

 this country within the last twelve years, will be the subject of a 

 paper by Will H. Low ; the third and concluding instalment of 

 Lester Wallack's reminiscences will appear ; George Hitchcock (the 

 artist, whose picture, ' The Tulip Garden,' in the Paris salon of 

 18S7, made his reputation) has written and illustrated for the num- 

 ber a short paper on ' Sandro Botticelli,' as ' the man who, above 

 all others, gave an impulse in the right direction to the new art of 

 the Christian world,' and Elihu Vedder has illustrated a strikingly 

 original anonymous poem which will, it is believed, excite consider- 

 able curiousity as to its authorship. Treasure Trove for 



November opens with an illustrated account of the Lick Observa- 

 tory, followed by articles on the Wilkes-Barre accident ; the Cana- 

 dian fish question ; the disagreement of the doctors ; the Chicago 

 riots ; and the wheat corner, under the caption ' Is that the Law .' ' 

 by Wolstan Dixey ; 'Yellow Fever,' by W. H.'H. ; 'A Famous 

 Astronomer.' with portrait of the late Richard A. Proctor ; 'Ameri- 

 can Politics,' by Oscar R. Hart ; ' Getting Ready for Christmas,' 

 with illustrations, by Lucy Clarke ; ' Russian-America ' (second 

 paper), illustrated. Besides this are illustrated papers on ' Mary 

 Stuart,' by J. R. D. L. ; ' Crystals,' by Margaret E. Houston ; ' Chil- 

 dren's Lunches;' 'The Metal of the Future;' 'What Congress 



Costs,' and others. A new edition of Browning's Educational 



Theories, with a complete analysis, a new index, and an appendix 

 on the ' American Common School," will be Issued at once by E. L. 



Kellogg & Co., of New York and Chicago. Also Dr. Nicholas 

 Murray Butler's ' The Argument for Manual Training,' and a new 

 edition of Perez's ' First "Three Years of Childhood.' G. Stanley 

 Hall says of this last book, " I esteem the work a very valuable one 

 for primary and kindergarten teachers and all interested in the 



psychology of childhood." The first step in avoiding mistakes is 



to find out how we fall into them. Valuable aid in this direction 

 will be furnished in Prof. Joseph Jastrow's paper on ' The Psychol- 

 ogy of Deception,' which will open the December Popular Science 

 Monthly. As illustrations of his subject the author cites the tricks 

 practiced by conjurers, and the delusions which from time to time 

 gain a hold on the public mind. ' Infant Mortality and the Envi- 

 ronment ' is the subject of an article which J. M. French, M.D., will 

 contribute to the same magazine. Dr. French points out the chief 

 causes of infant mortality, which are due partly to heredity and 

 partly to the surroundings. Finally ' Beliefs About the Soul ' is the 

 title of an article by R. A. Oakes. It is full of traditions of civilized 

 and savage peoples, relating to immortality and to plurality of souls. 

 Ticknor cSc Co. will publish this month 'Better Times,' a vol- 

 ume of stories by the author of ' The Story of Margaret Kent,' ' The 

 Philistines,' by Arlo Bates ; ' Pen and Powder,' by Frank B. Wilkie, 

 of the Chicago Times, a series of monographs on the late war in 

 the West ; ' Vagrom Verse,' by Charles Henry Webb (John Paul), 

 a collection of poems, pathetic and humorous, in illuminated vellum 

 covers : ' The Other Side of the War — with the Army of the Poto- 

 mac,' letters from Headquarters of the United States Sanitary Com- 

 mission during the Virginia campaign of 1S62, by Katharine Pres- 

 cott Wormeley, issued under the auspices of the Massachusetts 

 Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. Miss 

 Wormeley, now so well known as the translator of Balzac, was a 

 prominent worker in the Sanitary Commission, especially in the 

 Peninsular campaign. They will also publish ' Wanderers,' being 

 a collection of the poems of William Winter, author of ' Shake- 

 speare's England," etc., and dramatic critic of the New York Tri- 

 bune. Elizabeth Robins Pennell, wife of Joseph Pennell of Phila- 

 delphia, and his companion through Europe on a tricycle, will have 

 a paper on ' Wells and its Cathedrals,' in the December number of 

 the Magazine of Art. In this same issue will be the first of two 

 papers on the ' Portraits of Dante Gabriel Rossetti,' by Wm. M. 

 Rossetti. The portraits of the poet-painter in this number cover 

 the period from his sixth to his twenty-fifth year, and are by him- 

 self, Holman Hunt, John Hancock, J. E. Millais, and others. 



Ginn & Company announce ' Analytic Geometry,' by A. S. Hardy, 

 Professor of Mathematics in Dartmouth College, and author of 

 ' Elements of Quaternions ; " to be published in January, 1889. This 

 work is designed for the student, not for the teacher. Particular 

 attention has been given to those fundamental conceptions and 

 processes which, in the author's experience, have been found to be 

 sources of difficulty to the student in acquiring a grasp of the sub- 

 ject as a method of research. The limits of the work are fixed by 

 the time usually devoted to analytic geometry' in our college courses 

 by those who are not to make a special study in mathematics. The 

 same firm also announce ' The Beginner's Book in German,' by 

 Sophie Doriot, author of ' The Beginner's Book in French," to be 

 published Jan. i, 1S89. This follows the natural method. The 

 lessons are introduced with a humorous picture followed by some 

 corresponding verses from the child-literature of Germany. A con- 

 versation upon the subject, with the study of words and phrases, 

 completes the lesson. The second part contains graded selections 

 for reading. They have in preparation ' A Reader in Botany," for 

 school use, selected and adapted from well-known authors by Jane 



H. Newell. In the Edinburgh Revieio for October is a graphic 



description of a tornado and its effects. D. Appleton & Co. will 



publish this week in their International Educational Series. ' Mem- 

 ory—What it Is and how to Improve it," by David Kay ; ' Astron- 

 omy with an Opera-Glass," a popular introduction to the study of 

 the starry heavens with the simplest of optical instruments, with 

 maps and directions to facilitate the recognition of the constella- 

 tions and the principal stars visible to the naked eye, by G. P. Ser- 

 viss ; also, new editions of Drs. Lindley and Widney's ' California 



of the South,' and of EdnaLyall's' Donovan.' Roberts Brothers 



will publish on the 15th ' The Man without a Country,' by Edward 

 Everett Hale, with forty illustrations by F. T. Merrill ; ' The Pil- 



