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the recently recovered vestiges of the Hittites and of other ancient peoples, the traditions of the creation and deluge, and the revelations of science, instead of destroying the authority of this oldest book in the world strikingly corroborate and confirm it. In a series of well-written chapters Mr. Spiers adduces this evidence and frankly meets many of the difficulties cited by neo-criticism, and presents a lucid and cogent argument in favour of the hitherto prevalent acceptance of the Mosaic age and authorship of the Pentateuch

Cornish Stories. By MARK GUY PEARSE. New York: Hunt & Eaton. Toronto: William Briggs. Price, 70c.

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Mark Guy Pearse has made the duchy of Cornwall peculiarly his own. He is to the manner born, and loves Cornwall and its people with a love that has " grown with his growth and strengthened with his strength.' His immortal story of "Dan'el Quorm and his Religious Notions" has never been surpassed for picturesque description and keen spiritual insight. In this volume Mr. Pearse has collected a number of short stories illustrating Methodist life and character in the land of Tre, Pol and Pen. These are as good in their way as anything in Dickens or Barrie, and have the infinite advantage of being instinct with the highest religious teachings. A fine vein of old-fashioned humour runs through these stories that enhances their enjoyment. The quaint characters Mr. Tresidder catches to the very life in his clever illustrations. The fact that this is the eighteenth thousand of this book is demonstration of its popularity and merit.

The Christless Nations. By BISHOP J. M. THOBURN, D.D. A Series of Addresses on Christless Nations and Kindred Subjects Delivered at Syracuse University on the Graves Foundation, 1895. New York: Hunt & Eaton. Toronto: William Briggs. Price, $1.00. James Thoburn and William Taylor have the honoured distinction of being the two missionary bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Each of them

LIGHTEN mine eyes, O Saviour,
Or sleep in death shall I ;
And he, my wakeful tempter,

Triumphantly shall cry:

"He could not make their darkness light, Nor guard them through the hours of night!"

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Call no man happy till he is dead, says the Greek adage. In a modified form this may be applied to the poets, those sages and seers of mankind. Only after they have passed away is the full scope of their influence realized, do they take their places in the great Valhalla of the gods. Then do those dead and buried sovereigns "still rule our spirits from their sceptred urns.' Whittier, beloved by thousands during his life, is now throned among the immortals. His literary canonization may be marked by the preparation of this beautiful Year Book from his writings. For every day of the calender a notable poem is printed. To this treatment Whittier is the more adapted from his reflex of nature in her various seasons and many moods. The selection has been made with taste and will be welcomed by every lover of the good Quaker bard.

The Lord's Supper, Aids to its Intelligent and Devout Observance. By W. T. DaVIDSON, M.A., D.D. London: Charles H. Kelly. Toronto: William Briggs. In this little book Dr. Davidson combines a sketch of the history and meaning of the Lord's Supper, with devotional guidance towards its reverent observance. He describes its institution, our Lord's teaching concerning spiritual food, traces the institution in the early Church, points out the end and purpose of the service, and inculcates the truth of its privileges and obligation. It is a very neat, rededged, red-lined volume.

Be Thou my soul's Preserver,
For Thou alone dost know
How many are the perils

Through which I have to go:
O loving Jesus, hear my call,
And guard and save us from them all.

NEW (OTK LLIC LIBRARY

ACTOR LENOX AND TILDENFUNDATIONS.

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AMONG the most striking confirmations of the Scriptures are those derived from the testimony of ancient cities and civilizations long forgotten by mankind. The explorer has often been the best commentator, and the spade his best critical instrument. The discoveries of Layard and Rawlinson, amid the ruins of ancient Babylon and Nineveh; of Belzoni and Petrie, among the tombs of Egypt; of Conder, and Wilson, and Warren, amid the tels and mounds of Palestine, have brought strongest corroboration of some of the most questioned statements of the Bible.

The clay tablets of Assyria, with their traditions of the creation and the deluge, the Rosetta stone and the Moab inscription, the Babylonian slabs on the walls of the British Museum, and the incised inscriptions on the pylons of the great temple of Karnak, are illustrations of the minute fulfilment of prophecy, all the more striking because it is impossible that they could have been feigned or forged. But none of these ancient tablets are more remarkable than the rediscovery and exploration, after it had been forgotten for a thousand years, of the rock city

* Compiled by the Editor from various authorities. VOL. XLII. No. 6.

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