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    Aug. i, issi The Publishers' Circular 5 ...

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    Index to the Boots published between July 15 and 30. The wor d* in Italic* art those -under which the Title* are given Alphabetically in full, with the Publisher's Name.

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    A Brave Lifo, True IUcord of G. R. Brown...

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    Books Received:— From Samuel Bagster & S...

    ¦ _ since . The author then proceeds to deal exhaustively with the basis of the practice of

    cardiolatry as gm ^ » ^ he ^^* ^^ belieye **^ ^^ " ^^ ^ *^ * ^ and ^ ^ s ^ , T from — the ind results ulgence g J inevitabl in such _ ^ - y a __ following devotion - ^ — — — , . _ its founda

    Its errors he sums up as involving 'in - tion the principle of Montanism ; in its practice the errors of Arms and Nestorius ; in its implied

    moral teaching princi the ples heresy and precepts of Macedonius almost ; every and ono in its of the fatal errors denounced by Pope Innocent XI .

    in his Bull " Ccelestis Pater , " directed against Molinos and the Quietists in the last century / From the Sunday School "Union ,. —*

    Conversations on the Creation : Chapters on Grenesis and Evolution , ' by A Layman . A reprint in a collected form of a series of papers originally

    published in the Sunday School Chronicle , and presenting , as may perhaps be inferred from the name of the journal for which they were written

    a series of popular articles on the relations of , science and revealed religion in regard to the earlhistory of the -world and of man . The

    author y writes boldly and freely , and never seems to be afraid to grasp with the manifest difficulties of his subjectbut at .. _ the sam _ e time _ . _ it __ is __ only

    v — — _ — — _ — _ , — — —y just to add that he displays much strength and ^^ ability in dealing with it . He deals hardly , but many people "will not think too hardlywith the

    fashion in which such -writers as , Professor Clifford have touched upon the points at issue , and he shows much skill in discriminating

    between what we may term false science and true science . From . Messrs . "Ward , Lock & Co . — ' Certainties

    of the Soul and Speculations of Science , ' by the Eev . Joseph Cook . A volume of lectures by the eminent _ Boston __ __ preacher ____ . _ the __ _ Rev . _ . Josep _ _ . _ _ h Cook _ _

    who has during the last , few months addressed , many large audiences in London and elsewhere in this countryml . One of the - -. lectures - — in the series

    contained in the present work on ' Certitudes in Religion' has been delivered by its author during his English tour , and may be cited as an

    clearness example of of his his incisive reasoning style . The and strong of the point marked in Mr . Cook , and that which differentiates him so

    notabl is his mastery y from the of science majority and of his Eng wide lish knowled preachers ge , of scientific — ^ ^~ ^^ ' — ' ' ™ " ^ ^ ^^^* - ^^ writers p w *^ *¦ ^^» ~ ij ~ jm ^ v ^^ ^ and ^^^ ^ ' ^^ ^^^ v thinkers ^^ ^^^^ ** ¦¦ ^*^ ^^^ v ^ ^^ . ^ B ^ i ^ N ^ r- y w this ^^^ b ^ b ^^ r ^^ means ^ v ^^ mv ^ m ^ ^ k >^ w *^^ i ~

    ijhe is able to deal with the various questions now agitating their bearings men ' , s for minds he possesses with a comp the lete knowled mastery ge of of i the specialistnot onlon the religiousbut on

    able the scientific to quote with , side effect of his y the subject observation . He is s , , of agai some n , of the foremost orators and authors of our day

    whose words he often uses with very considerable , power to reinforce his own statements . And this remark applies not only to English and American

    The authors authorities he possesses , with , but whose evidently to investi the a great very gations full bod and y acquaintance of deductions German .

    inerel tions -ine lectures lectures y to readers may mav , . who in in are fact fact untroubled , , be be co commended mm b y d specula ed not not

    on religious questions , but to the by no

    means inconsiderable class of persons whose minds have been disturbed by recent criticisms of

    facts once accepted without a word of doubt , and who will be glad to see the difficulties that have been raised satisfactorily disposed of .

    From the same . — 'Scepticism and nationalism : the Elective Rev . Josep Affiniti h Cook es and . Another Hereditary volume Descent of what , ' by

    are termed the * Boston Monday Lectures / dealing sis in with the the first views place , and with teachings much power of Theodore of

    analy-Parker , , and , secondly , with the problems involved in the question of elective affinities and of the hereditary transmission of mental and moral

    qualities . To deal adequately with such subjects difficulty is , it will be but readil the reader y admitted will , a we task believ of no eadmit slight

    , , - , ~ — that it has ^ been most satisfactorily accomplished ; and the first part of the book is likely to be specially valuable , as what is termed 1 in the

    preface ' New England Rationalismhas a far from inconsiderable following in this country . From the same . —* Profitable and Economical

    Poultry Keeping , ' by Mrs . Eliot James . An illustrated handbook to the management and choice of poultryincluding full instructions for

    the management , of their houses and yards , their food , eggs , reariEg , fattening , diseases , bad habits , daily routineand other mysteries of the hen

    roost . The authoress , adds to her manual a monthly balance-sheet of legitimate incomings and outgoings , proving on paper at least that it

    is possible to keep fowls , and ensure a plentiful consumption supply of eggs , without and a fair tradiDg quantity at a loss of bird . There s for

    are many illustrations and diagrams , which will add largely to the practical value of the book . From Messrs . F . V . "White & Co . — ' Alice Warner : '

    a Novel . By Mrs . Joh n Allen . In two volumes . Messrs . F . V . White & Co ., as the successors of Messrs . Samuel _ Tinsley & Co . are - keep j ^ - ing j up

    — — ~ _ — — — — — — — _ _ , j g-- ^ the stant traditions succession of of the works firm ^ of by fiction publishing one of a which conlies before us . To describe it as , a sensational

    story is but to note its prevailing characteristic , for it includes not merely a large amount of intriguefrom the effects of which the heroine

    , althoug is for a h long she time emerge one s as of a the happy chief wife sufferers at the — last—but it includes a positive tragedy in the

    wi murder fe , who of had Wilfrid been forced Stunheart by her by parents his beautiful to wed him for his money , and when driven to

    despera-There tion pushed are some him clever into the bits water of portraiture on his own among estate . the minor characters of the book , and its villains

    are intensely villainous . If a second edition is called her sheets for , the over authoress carefull would and to do well them to read of y prune

    some verbal and grammatical slips which somewhat is a book interfere of very with livel the interest reader ' s and pleasure althoug . It h

    its situations cannot y be commended , without reservation , it is likely to find many willing

    readers .

    Aug. I, Issi The Publishers' Circular 5 ...

    Aug . i , issi The Publishers' Circular 5 8 7

    Index To The Boots Published Between July 15 And 30. The Wor D* In Italic* Art Those -Under Which The Title* Are Given Alphabetically In Full, With The Publisher's Name.

    Index to the Boots published between July 15 and 30 . The words in Italic * art those -under which the Titles are given Alphabetically in full , xr tth the Publisher ' s Name . I

    A Brave Lifo, True Iucord Of G. R. Brown...

    A Brave Lifo , True IUcord of G . R . Brown , Forsaith ( P . ) 8 d . * A ^ ta Man of ' s the Mietfike Apostles , a N , " Questions ovel , 3 vola and . 31 Notes b . 6 d . , Mason ( W . T . ) Is . Mm in the

    Agriculture Desert , Alphab , and et of other Principles Poems , , Pri Tanner ngle ( ( T H . . ) ) 10 6 d s . . 6 d . A ^ ce ^ arner , a Kovel , 2 vola . Allen . ( Mrs . J . ) 21 a . ^

    Alleyn ' s College Catalogue of MSS . Wnrne ( G . P . ) 15 s . An Old Fogey , and other Stories , Adeler ( Max ) 2 a . 6 d . AntiquaryTheVol . 37 s .

    CdA Present , Saviour , , Butt , on ( R . 8 . ) new edit . Is . Arithmetic , Key to , Thomson ' s , new edit . 6 b .

    Asia , JLight of , Arnold ( E . ) 7 th . edit . 2 s . 6 d .

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Aug. 1, 1881, page 587, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01081881/page/11/