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    I Oct. i, 1889 The Publishers' Circular ...

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    ^ ^¦ ¦ 1 1 Kingston working , Prince the achievements Hohenloheand of other the wonder curious - ^¦ 1 and half-forgotten incidents , of past years .

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    ^¦ f Kiipports is that commonly known as ' Eternal Hj Hfe onl the y'in Christ . of ' He condemns in vigorous

    ^¦ S *< Jrms doctrine ' eternal punishment , ' and , ^ H ^^ H ; l inaking *~ . - i . a A ^ a clear V > lV > f |^ distinction UAULlllV y LJAUlA between KSj \ % . VV ^_ ^ ^< I X * sp UjVil irit 1 U ' and "A ^

    H « ou ] , ' states his belief that tlie soul , unless H quickened by Christian faith , is ' dissolved' or

    H ' destroyed' for ever by sin . The book will H doubtless be exceedingly helpful to many ^ I , | studv readers the , especiall Grenk Testament y to those for who themselves are unable . to

    Mlfo-nr l ^ rom - Messrs . S . W . Partridge & Co . — ' Lady

    Missionaries in Foreign Lands , ' by Mrs . E . R . Pitman Pitman , illustrated illnstratftd . Professor Prnfp » sanr Monier Mnnipr Williams Williama

    , has expressed his conviction that until a way is opened for the free intercourse of the

    educated women of Europe with their sisters in India , Christianity in its purer forms wiU make make littl little e nroerp . sa either Psithpr a . mnncr Hindus TTindn « or nr

    Mussulmans . progress It is cheering to among learn that there are at the present time nearly two thousand five ¦ ' — hundred ¦ k + lad Jt % evangelists V ^* V ^ Uk VVJ at | AI work in the \ MM

    forei — » v gn »• »« mission ~ a ^™« m - ^ r - ** J * . « JW ary ^ y J field -- * V «« , and ^ S ^^ y * J this new V V V ^ A . * - ^ and ^ - A * . im S ~ . X - portant departure is full of promise for the future of the worldCatherine of Sienna and

    . Elizabeth of Hungary are mentioned by Mrs . Pitman as examples of mediaeval saintly w workers ^ orkersand and she shp . ri ricrbt htl . lv adds nrlrls that t . Vm . t . since sinr » . p . the t , V »«

    , , gy Reformation the list * might be increased a thousandfold — —«~ — — — - ™ — — ¦ ^ w *^ — - ~~ — ' , » thoug ^^ ^ " - ^^ ^ ' . ^ ' ^^^ a ^^ h h ^^»^ ^ it ^ ^* is ^ ih r ¦ only ^^^ ^^ - ^^ ^^ of ^^^ ^^ late ^^ ^»^^» ^^ - ^ a ^ that ^»^ ^^^ ^^^ hi ^^ the ^* ^^ - ^^ ^ m ^'

    Christian Church has recognised the special fitness of women for such work . In these pages , brief sketches of noble lives of some

    devoted lady-missionaries are given , and the heroism , self-sacrifice , tact , and patience which marked their loving efforts to better and

    brighten the lives of their less privileged sisters is extremely well told . From Mr . "William Paterson . —In five daint

    y little volumes , clearly printed and tastefully bound r *^ - «^ ^^ — ^ ^^ , m Mr ^ ' m ^ . Paterson ^ msw ^ s ^ s ** **^ X ^ ^ ^ has ~ ~ ^^**^ published m ^ T . W * ^ A 41 *»« ' ^^ ^^^ t _ ^ the ^ t ^ . ^ ^^ ' Classic - ^^ s - * - ^^ b ^^ " ^^ ^ ^^

    Tales' of Goldsmith , Johnson , Voltaire , Marmontel , Hawkesworth , Sterne , Brooke , and Mackenziewhich Leigh Hunt edited with

    con-, spicuous taste and judgment many years ago . ^ In —• • . » their «^ A . ¦* ¦»— ' ^ Jb . present Bha * * . ^ , ^ f - ^/ -V ^ r A ^ v-f handy ^ . A « . /« # AJ , Vrf « T ¦ form - - >— ' ^ J m , these * J m- ** . -+ ~ r t ^ J ^— r ' Classic - % »^ ^ . vwu ^ f — . v ^

    Tales , Serious and Lively / ought to win many fresh readers . From The Religious Tract Society— ' The

    . Life and Times of Isaiah , as illustrated by Contemporary Monuments , ' by A . H . Sayce , ¦ LL Jj ¦¦ . D . ' B-paths f AJk * - * of rfk Bible ¦ Knowled Jk ' Series .

    » » < * m , r m , m -M- yJ W ^ - % ^ M * * - . A ^^ . . ^ ^ ^ v' -. a > ^— ' — ~ « . v ^ r w » . » ^__» » - ^ m . ge w ^ ^— ' r ~— ' ^ - ^ - ^ - * ^ - ^ " - * * Professor Sayce—who , of course , speaks on such a subject with the authority which belongs to riOriental scholarshi— attempts in the

    pe p pages of this little book to present an exact and vivid picture of the external and internal condition of the Jewish Kingdom in the age of

    Isaiah . He derives his materials partly from the Old Testament and partly from the monuments of Egypt and Assyria . The progress of scientific research in the East has brought to

    light many striking and impressive confirmations of Biblical history , so that , in Professor ' s wordsthe ' contemporaries of Isaiah

    have Sayce ceased to , be mere names to us , and have become living men of ilesh and blood ; we can

    not nnt , onl nnlv y read rpnd the t . hft very vprv word word 3 s of of Tip Tig * lath lath--Pileser Piloser ,. of Sar ^ on , and of Sennacherib , but even handle the tht * vprv documents dnf'iimpn's which wliir ^ h they thftv njinsfid caused to to be be

    inscribed very . We can sit at the councils of the Assyrian kings and follow the reasons which brought them ill into uvy contact \_ y with the rulers of i

    i _/ x il V _/ Lt 1—1 'J I- ' *~* ^^ x * * ^ - ' a r . » ' 4- »* v- ' \ j » » *¦ \ J ¦ - » w § ^^ * » .- » . » ^ - ^ » ** . _ y - Judah . A world which had seemed hopelessly past and dead has in the good providence of God benn suddenly quickened into life . ' This

    volume brings in brief compass and at a low price the results of tl : e most recent research and the most competent scholarship within the reach of student of Scripture . Books

    easy every of this character are true ' aids to faith , ' and cannot be too widely circulated . From JL * X \ - / 1- * JL Messrs 1 ^ " \^ » kj fcj A . fcj . Simpkin t * - / * - ¦*¦ - !¦* J ^ ML » A « , y ^ Marshall ^* » -V * •** — *^» - »— & - ^ - ^ r Co - *^ - - «—¦ . > — ' The — - - - - ^ -

    Veiled Picture , or the Wizard ' s Legacy , ' by Elizabeth J . Lysaght . A very uncanny story respecting the remarkable doings of a certain picture . The artist , being accused of

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• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Oct. 1, 1889, page 1201, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01101889/page/69/