BOOK NO TICKS. 571 



Teutonic tongue is found, a copy of the four gospels in the old Gothic language 

 written a thousand years before Gutenberg was born. 



After Stockholm, Helsingfors, the Capital of Finland, on the other side of 

 the Gulf of Bothnia, with its old castles and red houses, University and Botanical 

 Garden; latterly made famous by the polar explorations of Nordenksjold, who was 

 born in Finland and is now Professor in the University of Helsingfors. 



The descriptions of the "Lapps and Finns" are extremely interesting, main- 

 ly because so little is known of them. The whole book is good and will abun- 

 dantly repay reading. 



The Fathers of the Third Century. By Rev. George A. Jackson, i8mo. 

 pp. 211 ; D. Appleton & Co., New York, 1881. For sale by M. H. Dick- 

 inson, 60 cents. 



This is the second volume of the Early Christian Literature Primers, edited 

 by Professor George P. Fisher, D.D., and published by Appleton & Co. The 

 first included the Apostolic Fathers and the Apologists from A. D. 95 to 180. 



Beginning with a chronological table of the Roman Emperors, Greek, Latin 

 and Christian writers between A. D. 180 and 325, followed by an admirably com- 

 prehensive account of the pr,ogress of Christianity in the third century, the author 

 takes up the Greek Christian ^x\\.&x%, senaiim, beginning with the earnest Irengeus 

 and continuing with the zealous and active Hippolytus, the philosophic Clement 

 and closing with the lofty and learned student and orator, Origen, and gives 

 briefly a summary of and extracts from the works of each. Of Latin writers, 

 Tertullian and Cyprian are largely quoted and summaries of their principal works 

 given. 



To readers who cannot take the time necessary to study out the earlier his- 

 tory of Christianity, this series will be found exceedingly useful as showing the 

 origin and formation of many of the doctrines of the Christian church. The vol- 

 umes to follow, so far as announced, are the " Post Nicene Greek Fathers," 

 and the " Post Nicene Latin Fathers." 



Fairway and Folly. By James J. Reno; 8vo. pp. 585. Ramsey, Millett & 

 Hudson, Kansas City Mo., 1881. For sale by the Kansas City Book & 

 News Co., $2.50. 



This is a well printed and handsomely bound temperance story. The plot 

 is laid, and the materials for the tale found, in one of the interior towns of Mis- 

 souri, where whisky had gained the ascendancy over the greater portion of the 

 population. 



There are many very good things said in the course of the story, and its gen- 

 eral objects and aims are praiseworthy, but there is abundant evidence of a lack of 

 experience on the part of the author as a writer. He has clearly aimed too high 



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