COMMENTARIES ON THE

BIBLE.

Class 8.

Briggs, C. A. Higher criticism of the Hexateuch.

A very thorough revision has been made of this edition of Prof. Briggs' work; and new material added both in the body of the work and in the appendices.-Pub. Weekly.

A decided advance on all other commentaries.- Outlook.

Driver, S. R. Critical and exegetical commentary on Deuteronomy.

Gould, E. P. Critical and exegetical commentary on the Gospel according to St. Mark.

Contains, besides the notes, an intro.duction, stating the synoptical problem, a discussion of the characteristics of Mark and an analysis of events; a statement of the Person and Principles of Jesus in Mark; a discussion of the Gospels in the second century; a review of recent literature, and a statement of the sources of the text. There are also notes on special subjects scattered through the book.-Preface.

Moore, G. F. Critical and exegetical commentary on Judges.

Designed chiefly for students and clergymen.

Moulton, R. G., and others. The Bible as literature.

Moulton in his various works on the Bible as literature is doing important work, almost too well known to mention.-Literary Journal.

Sanday, W., and Headlam, A. C.

Critical and exegetical commentary on the Epistle to the Romans.

It is hardly necessary to say that this series will stand first among all English serial commentaries upon the Bible. We are greatly in need of just what this series promises to give.-Pres. W. R. Harper of Chicago University, in the Biblical World.

Whitney, Mrs. A. D. (T.) Open mystery; a reading of the Mosaic story.

Mrs. Whitney seeks to interpret the Pentateuch so as to enlist livelier and profounder interest in the Mosaic story. Back of simple narrative she finds deep and helpful suggestions for our daily life and stimulus to our wiser thought.

DOGMATIC THEOLOGY. Butler, J. Works; ed. by W. E. Gladstone. 2 v. 11f

For form, arrangement, annotation and especially for luminous paragraph headings which are inserted, it is a model edition, and is bound to be the standard one for libraries.-Library Journal. Hancock, T. Christ and the people. 11d Sermons on the obligations of the church to the state and to humanity. Mortimer, A. G. Catholic faith and practice; a manual of theological instruction for confirmation and first communion [in the Protestant Episcopal church]. 11a

The main purpose of the book is to supply a manual from which the clergy may draw matter for their confirmation classes and other instructions; and in which the laity may find a simple but full and accurate statement of the church's teaching on all the chief points connected with the practical life of the Catholic.-Pref. Schurman, J. G. ligion.

Agnosticism and re11c

Interesting; unconservative.—Library Fournal.

Stanley, E. J. Patriotism and religion as potent factors in our country's history and destiny; a Thanksgiving tribute. 11d Van Dyke, H. Gospel for an age of doubt. 11b

Excellent from every point of view, and so excellent from a literary point of view as to make it doubly profitable.Library Journal.

SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SCI

ENCES. Class Ref. 17.

Arena. v. 17. Dec., 1896-June, 1897. Forum. v. 22. Sept., 1896-Feb., 1897. Gothaescher genealogischer Hofkal

ender. 1897.

Running over with information regarding the nations of the earth and their rulers. It is full of facts relating to the crowned heads of all the monarchies, great and small, their families, their ancestors, their children, their children's children, and their relatives by marriage, far and near. Every year the proof-sheets of all this matter are sent to the castles and palaces of royalty, and the sheets are never printed until after

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correction by some princely hand. The Almanach shows the oldest reigning prince to be Pope Leo XIII. The national holidays of the countries of the globe have this year been listed for the first time.

National review. v. 27-28. Mar., 1896Feb., 1897.

Political science quarterly. v. 11. 1896. Post-Dispatch almanac. 1897. Statesman's year book. 1897.

J. Scott Keltie, the editor, has introduced a special feature, appropriate to the year of the Queen's Commemoration, of a series of maps illustrating the changes in political boundaries which have taken place during the sixty years of the Queen's reign. Statistical tables, exhibiting progress in various directions during the period have also been added. Sun (Baltimore) almanac. 1897.

JURISPRUDENCE.

Baltimore. Mayor and City Council. Ordinances and resolutions, 1894-96.

Ref. 23c Central law journal. v. 43. July-Dec., 1896. Ref. 19d Fustel de Coulanges, N. D. The origin of property in land; tr. by M. Ashley. 19a Green bag. v. 8. 1896. Ref. 19d Philadelphia. Select and Common Councils. Ordinances, 1895-96. Ref. 23c Pollock, Sir F., bart. A first book of jurisprudence for students of the common law. 18

"This book," writes Sir Frederick Pollock "is addressed to readers who have laid the foundation of a liberal education and are beginning the special For this public it forms study of law." an almost perfect manual. Our object in reviewing it, however, is not so much to insist upon its merits, for these will, we may be certain, receive rapid and extensive recognition, as to take the book as a sign of a revolution which will gradually remodel the study of law in England. The revolution is nothing less than this, that law works are becoming a part of English literature. The "First book of jurisprudence" is well adapted for the use of students of the common law; it is a manual which every one should read, but it is also, what few manuals are, and what very few English legal treatises have hitherto been, a book which every man of liberal education can read with pleasure. It is the work of a writer who is the master of his subject; it is the work of a trained thinker; it is the work of a man of letters. -Nation.

Bell, Sir J., and Paton, J. Glasgow, its municipal organization and administra tion.

We are presented with enough history, but not too much. We see Glas

gow grow from a small missionary settlement into a community affording “an illustration of commercial and industrial expansion without parallel."National Observer.·

Chicago. Civil Service Commissioners. 2d annual rept., 1896.

"The most marked effect that the adoption of the Civil Service law and rules has thus far produced, has been in relieving the Mayor and heads of departments from the pressure of applicants for office, thus leaving them free to attend to their more important public duties. Perhaps its next most marked effect has been in relieving the city employes from the unfair burden of political assessments. This had grown to be so great an evil that action by the Legislature of the State was necessary for its suppression. It was an irregular, unofficial form of taxation, levied by irresponsible agents who made no public report as to the amount collected or the purposes for which it was expended, and yet its collection was officially enforced by the executive of whatever political party happened to be in power."

Goodnow, F. J. Municipal problems.

A most useful and timely contribution to the science of municipal government. The author holds the chair of administrative law in Columbia, and is exceptionally well qualified to deal with those phases of municipal government which have to do with the position of municipality in the State and with the formal structure and organization of municipal government. Particularly useful for those interested in questions affecting municipal charters. Deals with organization of municipalities rather than with their life and work.-Review of Reviews.

Harvey, C. M. Republican National Convention, June 16th to 18th, 1896. Ref.

Contains also a history of the party since its foundation. Lowell, A. L. Governments and parties in continental Europe. McKechnie, W. S. State and the individual.

This is a well-meant book. The determination of the proper limits of governmental action is something that the time requires, and that deserves the most thorough investigation. The theories of those who are called socialists and those who are called individualists may be advantageously compared and contrasted, and there is room for a statement of the theories of those who class themselves with neither school.Nation.

Mr. Fisher . . . has traced back every material clause in the constitution through previous American documents and forms of government in colonial times. He reaches the conclusion, supported by abundant evidence, that the constitution is a purely native product, developed step by step on American soil, through more than one hundred and fifty years of the colonial period.

It is the first book of its kind, and a complete history of colonial government and American ideas of government previous to the year 1788.

Gordy, J. F. History of political parties in the U. S. v. 1.

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uments. v. 14-16.

Written, primarily, for the teacher who has not had the advantage of a

54th Cong., 2d sess. 1896-7. Congressional record. v. 29, pts. 1-2.

"The duties of the Secretary of State are various, requiring diligent and constant attention. By the law he is, together with the Governor and AttorneyGeneral, a member of the State Board of Examiners. He is also one of the three Capitol Commissioners, whose duties are to care for the thirty-five acres in lawn and flowers comprising the Capitol grounds. The Capitol building is under his immediate charge. His other duties are largely clerical-filing and recording papers presented, supplying State officials and legislators with stationery, and distributing the statutes, reports, etc."

Connecticut. General Assembly. Public docs. 1894-96.

-House of Representatives. Journal. 1891. Illinois. Sec. of State. Biennial rept.

Gibbins, H. de B. English social reformers.

The object of these few sketches is to elucidate the chief influences for social and industrial reform that have been active in England in the past, and, in one or two cases, to show their relation to problems of the present. . . . I have tried to point out, without obtrusiveness, one thing throughout this book: that social reform of any kind, to be effective, must proceed from a change in the individual himself as well as a change in his material environment. -Preface.

Hodges, G. Faith and social service. Characterized by a wisdom as beautiful as it is uncommon in books written upon social matters. The dominant tone is scientific, or, better still, it is simply human. The chapters on "Poverty," "Labor," "Moral Reform," "The City," are the most valuable in the book. They do not distract us from the things which have in them some possibility of help by visions of impossible things.-Christian Register. Lebon, G. Crowd.

A study of the psychology of crowds --the way in which men's emotions and actions are influenced by being massed; extended also to include a study of legislative and public assemblies along the same lines. The subject is new to the average reader, and this is the only book treating of it in English. It is interesting and suggestive. The chief criticism is that the author is largely indebted for his material to Prof. Tarde, his countryman, and has not made due acknowledgment of the fact.--Library Four

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Lend a hand; [ed.] by E. E. Hale. v. 1718. 1896-Feb., 1897. Ref. Mackenzie, J. S. Introduction to social philosophy.

The only merit which I can hope it may be found to possess, is that it has brought into close relation to each other a number of questions which are usually, at least in England, treated in a more disconnected way.-Preface.

New York. Mayor's Committee. Report on public baths and public comfort stations.

A large amount of historical and statistical information is here brought together concerning both American and foreign experience in the lines indicated. . . . The relation between intemperance and the absence of public comfort stations is here suggested, and is likely to astonish those who have given no thought to the subject.-Nation. Revolutionary tendencies of the age.

An earnest appeal for laws to restrict the concentration of wealth and to make democracy a reality in the administration of the commonwealth. The author does not believe in socialism, but arraigns plutocracy for producing some of the same evils.-- Outlook.

Ritchie, D. G. Darwinism and politics. I seek to prove that the theory of Natural Selection (in the form in which alone it can properly be applied to human society) lends no support to the political dogma of Laissez faire

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and attempt to answer the question: In what form, if in any, can the theory of Natural Selection be properly applied to the intellectual, moral and social development of man?--Pref.

Stebbins, C. M. The new and true religion.

Stegman, C., and Hugo, C. Handbuch des Socialismus.

A handbook of biography and socialism, carefully collected from extensive and often almost inaccessible literature presented in a convenient form. It aims to furnish material for any one who wishes to form an opinion regarding the merits of socialistic efforts, but does not undertake to criticize methods of socialistic parties or the theories of socialist thinkers.

Booth, C. Life and labour of the people in London. 10 v. Hobson, J. A. The problem of the unemployed.

Thoroughly good.-Library Journal. Howell, G. Handy-book of the labour laws.

My object is to make the book a useful guide to all it may concern, employers and employed —Pref. Plener, E. v. English factory legislation from 1892.

Rae, J. Eight hours for work.

In the course of investigation I have found it impossible, personally, not to grow a stronger and stronger believer in the eight-hours day. Shorter workhours have left every nation that has chosen them at once healthier, wealthier and wiser; and the shortening to eight seems, if I may say so, to be blessed above its predecessors.-Pref.