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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 13, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 41.

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LITERARY NOTICES.

The Interlinear Translation of the Hebrew Old Testament; with the King James Version and the Revised Version Printed in the Margins for Ready Reference, and with Explanatory Textual Foot-notes, Supplemented by Tables of the Hebrew Verb and the Hebrew Alphabet. By George Ricker Berry, Ph.D., of the University of Chicago and Colgate University, Department of Semitic Languages. Part I.—Genesis and Exodus. Cloth, $4.00; half leather, $5.00; divinity circuit, $6.00. Hinds & Noble, 4, 5, 13, 14 Cooper Institute, New York City.
This work has been well characterized, “A New Old Testament.” It is just what has been long desired by clergymen and Bible students. It will be welcomed by every one who sees it. The publishers design to finish the work, and to render to students of the Old Testament the same service they have rendered to students of the New by their “Interlinear New Testament.” To tell all of its excellencies would necessitate more than this column. The Hebrew text is clear and beautiful, and the English distinct and easy to the eye. The English Bible student as well as the Hebrew student will find it a genuine help. We gladly welcome it, and appreciate the efforts and expense put forth by the publishers in their great undertaking. We shall anxiously look for the parts to follow.
The New Illuminated Holy Bible, Self-pronouncing; with Marginal References, Concordance, Maps, and Numerous Helps. Nearly 600 Original Illustrations. American Bible House, New York and Philadelphia, 1898.
This Bible is not offered by its publishers with the claim that it is superior to all others in all respects. They clearly admit the excellence in type and helps of other Bibles; but in this Bible they present an additional feature of real worth, namely, helpful illustration. These illustrations are introduced into the text of the Bible so as to make them illustrative of the Bible story. Most of the pictures are intelligently and beautifully designed. Some of them are from photographs of great paintings, and some from photographs of the actual landscapes. The helps, while not cumbersome, are excellent, and are written by eminent men. The maps, eight in number, are good. The copy before us is well bound and one which any teacher would prize.
What a Young Boy Ought to Know (Self and Sex Series), by Sylvanus Stall, D.D. Nearly 200 pages. Price, $1.00. Vir Publishing Co., Hale Building, Philadelphia, Pa.
This, like the author’s book, “What a Young Man Should Know,” treats a difficult subject in a delicate way. There are few, very few, parents who can do this; but the great majority avoid the subject, avoid the questions of the child as to the origin of life, till the child has learned it from a low, base source, and has laid the foundation of his ruin. Dr. Stall’s little book treats the subject of the origin of life, the dangers, the uses and abuses of sexual organs, in a simple, lucid style, and earnest, Christian tone, with scientific accuracy. It may be placed in the hands of a young boy old enough to read; but, better still, it should be read with the boy by parents who have his good at heart, and may thus come into closer touch with him. We hope it may have a wide circulation. It is one of the good voices saying to sinful humanity, and saying to them betimes, “This is the way, walk ye in it.” But parents must co-operate.
Making Home Happy. By Mrs. L. D. Avery-Stuttle. 206 pages, illustrated, bound in cloth with illuminated colored cover, 50 cents; paper, 25 cents. Review and Herald Publishing Co., Battle Creek, Mich.; Chicago, Ill.; Atlanta, Ga.
The book presents before us in its seventeen chapters a typical home, cheerless and comfortless, of a great change wrought in that home, and of the efforts put forth by various members in making it such a home as every true home must be, a happy home. It is full of good Gospel teaching and helpful suggestions to every household. May its teaching help to make happy and happier many a home.
The Legal Revolution of 1902. By a Law-abiding Revolutionist. Charles H. Kerr & Co., Chicago, Ill.
The book is written from a supposed view point of fourteen years from 1898. It attempts to picture changes and reforms which took place while the country was passing through an industrial revolution. Its object is to show the people that they have within themselves the power by wholesome legislation to right all their grievances where such exist. It is an evidently honest attempt to point out a better way. But the best-laid plans of mice and men are often frustrated. Price, $1.00.
Voices of the Morning. By J. A. Edgerton. Bound in illuminated back and side title; price 75 cents. Charles H. Kerr & Co., Chicago, Ill.
This is a book of poems, which might be called almost wholly songs of labor, many of them decidedly socialistic and revolutionary in sentiment, yet singing of a better time, to be brought about by the brotherhood of man. Some of the sentiments of the book are voiced in expressions like these: “Smite the tyrant, the oppressor, robber, and despoiler;” “Down with mammon, up with man;” “Down with kings and priests and gold, up with God, Humanity.” The aim of the author has been to “voice some of the longings of the great struggling masses,” and he has. But he does not give us the remedy. This is found in individual faith in Christ.
“Hebrews and the Rights of Conscience,” by Elder F. C. Gilbert. It is an appeal to the Hebrew people in behalf of Religious Liberty. Its earnest words should appeal to every liberty-loving Jew who reads English. We hope it may have a large circulation. Only 2 cents a copy. Address the author at 45 Waverly Street, Everett, Mass.
For the story of the siege of Santiago de Cuba, as it affected the people directly involved, on either side, in their personal safety and comfort and their daily lives, there is no document yet published equal to the October number of McClure’s Magazine. Mr. Stephen Bonsal, in an article entitled “The Fight for Santiago,” describes the campaign as it affected the American soldier, writing from his own observation and experience, while for the experiences of the panic-stricken and half-starving people shut up in the city of Santiago we have a very remarkable diary kept by the British consul at Santiago, who was all the time in the closest relations with the Spanish authorities, and was expending—as it later proved—his very life in relieving the general suffering. Mr. Bonsal’s article is very fully illustrated—partly from photographs taken in the field by himself, and partly from drawings by W. J. Glackens, the special artist for McClure’s with the army of invasion. Ten cents a copy.
Among the excellent articles in the October Good Health are “The Fallacy of Tonics,” by the editor, Dr. J. H. Kellogg; “The Campaign in the Tropics,” by F. S. Oswald, M.D.; “Infant Feeding,” by Dr. Kate Lindsay, and many other good ones. Price, 10 cents a copy, $1.00 a year.