PSYCHICAL RESEARCH.*-This third number of the reports of the American Society shows that it is continuing its work with a somewhat accelerating movement. The volume contains an account of the meetings of the Society, and brief reports from the various committees on Thought-Transference, Apparitions, and Haunted Houses, Mediumistic Phenomena, Hypnotic Phenomena, etc. On the whole, the most interesting of its contents are a paper by Professor Pierce, criticizing Gurney's "Phantasms of the Living," Remarks by Gurney on this paper, and a "Rejoinder" by Professor Pierce. General readers as well as professional psychologists will also be interested in examining the results obtained from patients themselves, and tabulated and discussed in Professor James' paper on "The Consciousness of Lost Limbs."

THE HEART OF THE CREEDS.t-The author of this book affirms that it is the growth of his own sense of need. The need felt was that of a clear, concise, and popular statement of the "rational theology of the early Church and of the best thinkers of our own time,"-" the undisputed religious principles which make the basis of the Creeds and Institutions of historical Christianity." As to his success there will no doubt be a wide divergence of opinion among his different readers. But we think that one of a candid and fair mind may go through this little book with interest and profit. And few things seem to us more foolish and ineffective than the attempts of the current ecclesiastical orthodoxy to forbid such a writer to speak in the name of Christianity, because his mode of enunciating the essence of Christian truth does not precisely accord with the more familiar terminology.

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THE HEATH IN THE WILDERNESS.-Here is a collection of twenty evangelical and practical sermons by the late Dr. Newton * Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research. Damrell & Upham, December, 1887.

The Heart of the Creeds. Historical Religion in the Light of Modern Thought, by ARTHUR WENTWORTH EATON. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1888.

The Heath in the Wilderness, or Sermons to the People. By Rev. RICHARD NEWTON, D.D. New York: Robert Carter & Brothers.

of Philadelphia. These discourses show the marvelous faculty of illustration which Dr. Newton possessed, and which made him for so many years the prince of preachers to the young; they also reveal somewhat of the secret of his success as rector over the several parishes he served in the city of Philadelphia. For no one can read them without feeling that the preacher was a genial, large-hearted man, thoroughly consecrated to his Master's work. Their homiletic style is good, and the student preacher will find them profitable for study. A brief biography of Dr. Newton, by his son, Rev. W. W. Newton of Pittsfield, makes the book more valuable to all who find profit in the story of a very busy and remarkably successful Christian ministry.

FIVE-MINUTE SERMONS.*-This little volume contains an even hundred five-minute sermons or "talks" rather, to children. Evidently Mr. Armstrong has genius for this work. The pastor who desires to cultivate the art of such preaching, will do well to examine this book.

SPURGEON'S "SERMON NOTES."-This is the last in a series of four volumes of outlines of sermons delivered in the London Tabernacle. There may have been some good reason for their publication. Perhaps an occasional student of homiletics will be interested in them, and yet there are enough complete discourses by Mr. Spurgeon, in print, for that purpose. In the preface, the author says that "there are times of special pressure, bodily sickness, or mental weariness, wherein a man is glad of brotherly help, and may use it without question. For such occasions I have tried to provide." It is to be hoped that Mr. Spurgeon does not train the young men in his college to such use of other men's homiletic work in their preaching. If a minister is ill or weary so that he cannot prepare an original sermon, let him read one of Robertson's or Brooks' or even Spurgeon's and frankly tell his audience whose sermon it is. Books like these encourage 66 mental weariness," and foster pulpit plagiarism. Their only possible good use is in the lecture-room. There are scattered through the book, in foot notes, many illustrative historical incidents, which would make the book really valuable, were they properly indexed. *Five-Minute Sermons to Children; by Rev. WILLIAM ARMSTRONG. New York: Phillips & Hunt.

My Sermon Notes. By C. H. SPURGEON. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.

of

THEOLOGY OF THE SHORTER CATECHISM.*-Dr. Schaff says the Westminster Catechism: "It is one of the three typical catechisms of Protestantism, which are likely to last to the end of time."

Undoubtedly it is in the main, an accurate and remarkably comprehensive statement of Christian truth. Its influence upon the religious thought and life of modern Christendom has been, and still remains very great. In view of these facts the authors of this book have done a good work in their exposition of the Shorter Catechism, thereby giving to pastors and teachers a valuable text-book, by which to popularize the study of theology. The work was begun by the late Dr. Hodge of Princeton, but his sudden death left Part II., relating to "Duty Required of Man," unfinished.

Dr. J. A. Hodge of Hartford who writes this portion of the book has so successfully carried out the plan and followed the style of the Professor, that one would scarcely suspect the volume was thus prepared, if the title page did not reveal the fact. The book is provided with a full set of questions, and a complete index.

THE STORY OF THE PSALMS.-Dr. Van Dyke has here given us, most charmingly, the story of the best loved of the Psalms of the "Hebrew Hymn Book." And he has done it in a way that very suggestively combines their historical, ethical, and spiritual elements. In showing how incidents in the lives of their authors are set forth in these poems, he gives them a touch of reality, and brings them home to our hearts, so that they become mirrors of our own life. No one can read—for examplethe expositions of Ps. li., "The Prodigal's Return," and of Ps. xxxii., "Music and Dancing," and not realize how true they are to his own personal knowledge of sin, penitence, and pardon. The volume includes only eighteen of the psalms, but the pleasure and profit derived from our author's exposition of them, leads us to wish that he would continue his delightful "Story of the Psalms."

* Theology of the Shorter Catechism. By Rev. A. A. HODGE, D.D., and Rev. J. A. HODGE, D.D. New York: A. C. Armstrong & Son.

The Story of the Psalms. By HENRY VAN DYKE, D.D. New York: Chas. Scribner's Sons.

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