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    The Rev. J. Toulhox. In The Rev. Joseph ...

    friend , whilst the whole connexion will mourn one whose high charactergenerous heart

    and really able services made , him one of the , most popular and beloved presidents who have

    ever occup X ied the conferential M . chair . His election to the general book stewardship five

    years ago proved one of the happiest appointments ever made by the conference . The tactthe enterprisethe application to

    business , , the promptitude , , and the soundness of judgment he brought to bear on all book depot matters , have made his term of office a brilliant

    success . When the last conference elected | him to the presidential chair , they not only I did deserved honour to one of the truest of

    their ministers , but they secured for themselves a president j . whose combined courtesy — * f

    and dignity ^ , good-tempered firmness and unfailing earnestness of purpose rendered the

    ! sessions of the conference of 1889 distinguished for the high tone maintained in debateand for the importance and influence of

    , the decisions reached , and the new departures made . Mr . Toulson was held in the highest

    esteem esteem bv by his his ministeria ministerial l brethren brethren , , an and d on on his his approaching retirement from the active duties of the tut ministry 1111101 / he iiv to \ have iia & been i / presented

    vx UJ . J was w a > a uj > v _ cc ; n jpi cociiucvj . with a testimonial for his distinguished services as general book steward and for the

    ability and zeal with which he had filled the various district offices and served the interests of the stations in which he had travelled . He

    died suddenly on Saturday last , April 5 , 1890 , aged 67 years . He was one of the best men ever identified with the Primitive Methodist

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    From Messrs . W . H . Allen & Co . — ' Life of Charles James Fox , ' by Henry Offley Wakeman , M . A . This new volume of the ' Statesmen

    Series' is , in our judgment , superior to almost any of its predecessors . Mr . Wnkeman does ¦ justice to Foxboth as a statesman b k and as i a

    - — — - - - — , — — ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^^ " **"* ^~—^^ - ^ m ^ - ^ ^^ K V * mj ^» ^ B I ¦! ^^ . ^ ' I > ^ krV scholar , and he is unusually successful in port raying alike the strength and weakness of a man who , with ail his gifts , lacked the sovereign

    grace of self-control . Fox was a great orator rather than a great statesman , and perhaps his chief __~ — claim — _ .. to — public _ honour _ _ and — . — . — remem ^^ , _ H ^)«

    -~~ _ ^ ^ ^ ^^ brance lies in his splendid championship of the desolate and the oppressed . Asa rule , however , he played with politicsand what Mr . Wakeman

    , well terms ^ the ' dark shadow of an unprincipled life' vitiated his influence , and to a large extent

    wrecked wrecked his his career career . . This This is is distinctly distinctly an an able abl <» book , written with care , knowledge , and skill ; and the judgment which Mr . Wakeman

    pronounces is one with which all competent students of history cannot fail in substance to agree .

    From The Authors' Co-operative Publishing Co . —* Bongs and Poems / by C . W . Grace . An unpretentious volumecontaining poems

    A , w \ T > A written during a period of suffering and mental depre JJ ssion ; traces of this condition of — mind ^ v *~ n « ¦ be ft » j ~ m found ^ P v ^«« mm-m \ J A \* L ^ j ^ a * m ± m **¦ u . ¦ -M fc a « t the im * L- book L- « . «¦* . l ^» nd > m * m if t here B- ^ « ife «^^

    may * . ^* ^ . * throughou ^^ ^ ^^ ^ ^ , a ^* ^ ^ is a slight melancholy touch here and there , the poems are never uninterestingnor are

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    From Messrs . S . C . Briggs & Co ,, Chicago . - ^ * Semitic Philosophy , * by Philip C . Friese

    The purpose of this book is to show the ultimate social and scientific outcome of primitive Chri — stianity — - ^ j in its conflict - - with - ¦ survivine - ^— — ^ V M . M | V

    ancient heathenism . The author has into his task with commendable minut gone and - has undoubtedly prese _— nted ¦¦ a work ¦ w —_ - fu eness ll of

    _ ^ — — — — ^ j — 4 ^ ^^^ % ¦ ^ sound information . He describes in detail what the Semitic philosophy is , its origin and purpose 7 man ' s original philosophy or first

    i" £ , ^^ A . Xw ** - « . WW thought , the doctrine and practice of the kingdom of God , the ideal written social constitution , the general ^^ social reformation , and — then »—~« V ^« -1

    he goes on to consider the special difficulties in the way of realising the needed general social reformation and their remedies . The

    work has an important bearing upon several of our current problems , and from this point of view it unquestionably possesses a wide interest .

    It is written in a clear and vigorous style , and with a hopeful view of the part which the Semitic Philosophy is likely to play in the

    future . The author maintains that , when this philosophy is properly appealed to , it will yield all that is needed for the instruction and

    guidance of coming generations . From Messrs . Digby & Long . — ' Wildwater

    Terrace , ' by Reginald E . Salwey . Two vols . The chief scenes in this novel take place at * Wildwater Terrace , ' a row of houses ,

    most of them uninhabited , in a desolate sandplagued spot on the Essex coast . Mrs . Deane , a widow of fortunebequeaths Wildwater

    , Terrace and a sum of money to her devoted man-servant on condition that he ferrets out a mystery connected with one of the houses , from

    which piteous cries and groans frequently proceed . John Richford conscientiously fultils the task imposed upon him , and at length unravels

    the meaning of the strange and alarming doings at No . 4 . It transpires that the actual tenant ^ hr ^^ A . ^ ^ 1 Jt- ^ K ^^ of ^^^ Jfc ^ the ^^ ^ 4- ^ ^ * house «« - -Vb ^*^ ^^> P 1 ^ ^^^ ^ is ^ WU ^ ^ Mrs ^ V ^ V . ^^ ' P ^ w . V ^ Deane ^ ' ^^^ ^ H ^ Vf *« - ^ ^^^ ¦ '^ s «^ younger *^ ^^^ ~

    scapegrace son and his unprincipled and heartless wife , who have conspired to keep in hiding the child of Mrs . Deane ' s elder son , in order

    that they may derive benefit from the property of the deceased lady . The story contains many improbabilities , lacks brightness , humour , and

    vigour , and is desperately dull throughout . The author , however , writes good English , and appears to have done his best to construct an

    attractive novel out of defective material . From Mr . Henry Frowde ( Clarendon Press )

    .--* The Marquess of Dalhousie , ' by Sir William Wilson Hunter . ( ' Rulers of India /) The aim of this important new series of half-crown

    volumes is to make English readers familiar with the political and social evolution of our Indian Empire by means of a carefully planned succession of biographies of men who have helped

    to shape the destinies of the people of that quarter of the globe . Each volume , it is stated , will deal with a icuous epoch in the making

    of Indiaand under consp the name of its principal , personage me ment nt which which will confro confro set forth n nte ted d the him him problems . the the work work of which which govern he ne

    achieved , and the influences , which he left behind . The series is under the general super the tne

    vision vision initial of of volume Bir Sir W W now . . W W befo . . Hunter Hunter re us . , , who who The book writes writes ives € Jb brief but Kf clear and connected \ lA \\ narrative g of

    a KJM . IXJJL \ M . \ J % > AA > C * JL C 4 » AJ \ A Vy J AM . sJ VVVA WI ** A »« '"' v L 1 H o 4 rd R . Da and lhousie in Lower ' s conques Rurmiih ts in the in Punja 1852 . ub Sir in f ¦ . * i *~

    William — —r ~ ^ rr ^ m ^^ " ^^ .. » r ^ ^^ " ^^ Hunter ^^ " mm m ^^* - * r ^^ r shows — — ^^— mmm ^ ^— how — ° » - — - — - Lord Dalhousie

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), April 15, 1890, page 448, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15041890/page/16/