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26 TH1 j Library "A Standard Bible Dictionary." Designed as a comprehensive guide to the Scriptures, embracing their languages, literature, history, biography, manners and customs, and their theology. Edited by Melancthon W. Jacobus, D. D., (Chairman of the Editorial Board) Dean and Hosmer Professor of New Testament Exegesis and Criticism, in Hartford Theological Seminary; Edward E. Nourse, D. D., Professor of Biblical Theology and Instructor in New Testament Canonicity and Textual Criticism in Hartford Thelogical Seminary; and Andrew C 7.pnns n r* Prnfooonr Ecclesiastical History in McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago; In associaUon with American, British and German scholars. Embellished with New and Original Illustrations and Maps. Large Quarto. 9,000 Titles, 944 pages. Cloth $6 net. New York and London: Funk & Wagnalls Company. 1909. The above is the title in full of this new aspirant for a place in our reference book shelves. The work has been prepared at a very heavy expense, some $50,000. Its writers have been picked men, eminent in their several departments of scholarship, thirty seven in number and representing seven denominations of the Protestant Church in America, Great Britain and Europe. It is more man a uiDie Dictionary, verging almost upon being a work on General and Special Introduction, with some titles that are theological rather than Biblical, and giving abundant material concerning the Apocrypha and names and wants of the interbiblical period. In type and arrangement it is excellent for reference. It transliterates the Hebrew and Greek. It gives much of the bibliography of the topics presented. Use is made of the alphabetical thumb index to indicate quickly the position of the contents. The maps and illustrations are attractive and informing. Analyses are given of the most important articles and some of the oooks or the Bible. As to the contents of the book, the evidences of scholarly work abound everywhere. The articles on unimportant topics are crisp and clear, on important themes greatly extended. The one great feature of the book to which we would take exception is the delivery of every topic about which there has been debate to the hands. of the advanced school of critics, as that throughout it is the rationalistic criticism that colors the discussion of authorship, date and purpose of the books of the Bible. The ex treme position is taken wherever possible. The composite nature of the Hexateuch and its several parts the Manasseh date of Deuteronomy, the Maccabean date of Daniel and the double authorship of Isaiah, are accepted as facts. The au:.nor of the article on Daniel falls Into the usual emphasis laid upon Aramaic language there and to the appearance of E PRESBYTERIAN OF THE SOU' two or three Greek names of musical instruments. The author of the article on Deuteronomy is wise enough to say nothing about the "planting" and alleged discovery of the "Book of Law" by Hilkiah. a piece of fiction which usually goes along with his theory of its late authorr.U:? Dili p. "The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge." Edited by Samuel Macauley Jackson, D. D.. LL. D.. (Editor-in-Chief), Charles C. Sherman, George W. Gilmore M. A., (Associate Editors), and others. Complete in twelve volumes. Volum.e IV. Draeseke-Goa. Large Quarto, 500 pages. Prices: Cloth, $5 per volume. Per set, $60; Sheep, $84; Half Morocca, $96; Full Morocco $108. New York and London: Funk and Wagnalls Company. 1909. The successive volumes of this great encyclopedia of religious knowledge are appearing with great regularity, one every three months. As a simple matter nf mooh onlnol ~ ?* ? ,Uwvui?.iv<>i nuin luul ia marvelous, and especially so when one sees how accurately and how handsomely it has been done. But when the contents are examined the wonder increases. The five hundred great pages of this fourth volume treat 948 different topics, by 176 scholarly collaborators. The method of treatment has been described heretofore. The editors have aimed to deal with impartiality when there are opposing views, by affording, in most cases, to both sides an opportunity to present them. The present volume does not touch many leading points in religious, biblical, or theological discussions. The Church of England, Episcopacy, Eschatology, Finland, France, Germany, and the Books of Ecclesiastes, Esther, Ezekiel, Ezra and Nehemiah (which are treated as one), furnish the topics which are most fully treated. Mrs. Eddy is noticed, very slightly and her indebtedness to Dr. Quimby properly mentioned. In the study of Ecclesiastes and Esther, the editors hardly keep their promise as to impartial treatment. Only the most advanced critical position is stated and argued. Ecclesiastes is represented as having been written at the end of the period in which the Hebrew language was used, and in Egypt. Esther is represented as the product of oral tradition plus noteworthy "literary reaction," and about the most that is reluctantly admitted is that it has a "historical kernel." This great work is one whose place can not be filled by any other extant. It brings together the scholarship and information from a range so wide than none could compass it or possess the sources. As it is designed primarily for American students, however, we could wish that it were a little less German. The bulk of it comes from -Germanic sources, and the bibliography of the subjects treated is very largely German. The one who wilfully goes in the way of evil is as one who thrusts his hand into a hornet's nest or into the adder's den. TH. November 17, 1909. "Little Sister Snow" is the title of a new book issued by The Century Company, October 9. The author, Frances Little, is, we are II11U1IIIMU. iUi'y. Funnit^ C. Macaulay, of Louisville, Ky., whose story, "The Lady of the Decoration," has been so favorably MISS FRANCES LITTLE. received. By the kindness of The Century Co. we are permitted to use a reproduction of a recent photograph. So if thou be a walker with God, it will appear in the relations wherein thou stande8t; for grace makes a good husband, a good wife, a good master, a good servant.?Thomas BoBton. A FOOD DRINK Which Brings Daily Enjoyment. A lady doctor writes: "Though busy hourly with my own affairs, I will not deny.myself the pleasure of taking a few minutes to tell of my enjoyment daily obtained from my morning cup of Postum. It is a food beverage, not a stimulant like coffee. "I began to use Postum 8 years ago not because I wanted to, but because coffee which I dearly loved, made my nights long weary periods to be dreaded and unfitting me for business during the day. "On advice of a friend, I first tried Postum, making it carefully as suggested on the package. As I had always used "cream and no sugar," I mixed my Postum so. It looked good, was clear and fragrant, and it was a pleasure to see the cream color it as my Kentucky lneuu tiiwayh waniea ner conee to iooh. like a new saddle. "Then 1 tasted it critically, for I had tried many 'substitutes' for coffee. ' was pleased, yes, satisfied with my Po9tum in taste and effect, and am yet, being a constant user of it all these years. I continually assure my friends and ac- 1 quaintances that they will like Postum. in place of coffee, and fecelve benefit from its use. I have gained weight, can sleep and am not nervous." Read "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs"There's a Reason." Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full of human interest.