The Riverside Bulletin, March, 1910 Part 4

THE EARLIEST SOURCES FOR THE LIFE OF JESUS By Francis Crawford Burkitt

In the Modern Religious Problems Series. 12mo, 50 cents _net_. Postage 5 cents.

The author of this book is a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, and has been Norrisian Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge, England, since 1905. He has made a special study of the Semitic Christianity that once flourished east of the Roman Empire, and believes that the rise of the Christian Church can be understood only in relation to the hopes and fears of the Jewish nation during the first century.

Our view of these hopes and fears must profoundly modify the critical judgment that we pa.s.s on the Gospels and the sources from which we may suppose them to have been derived. In a previous work, called "The Gospel History and its Transmission," Professor Burkitt considered the problem how it came to pa.s.s that any historical record of the Life of Jesus should have survived. In the present volume the main positions taken up are (1) the general historicity of the sketch of our Lord's career given in the Gospel of Mark, and (2) the impossibility of making a satisfactory reconstruction of the lost source or sources used (in addition to Mark) in the Gospels according to Luke and Matthew.

PAUL AND PAULINISM By James Moffatt

In the Modern Religious Problems Series. 12mo, 50 cents _net_. Postage 5 cents.

The author of this monograph made his first contribution to the criticism of the New Testament in 1901 by the publication of "The Historical New Testament," a work which was at once recognized in Germany and America, as well as in Great Britain, as an original and fruitful statement of its position. In 1907 Dr. Moffatt delivered the Jowett Lectures in London upon The Spirit in the Early Church. These have not yet been published, but the present monograph is a compact and popular outline of the argument developed in the first and second of the Lectures. Dr. Moffatt has contributed articles on various aspects of Paul to the Encyclopedia Biblica, the new edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, and the critical reviews. He writes out of a prolonged study of the subject, both on its critical and on its constructive side, so that the present monograph may claim to have behind it that original research without which no contribution to the literature of Paulinism is ent.i.tled to a hearing.

THE CHURCH AND LABOR By Charles Stelzle

In the Modern Religious Problems Series. 12mo, 50 cents _net_. Postage 5 cents.

This little book seeks to make clear the steps which have been taken to bring the Church and Labor into closer relationship with one another, and to point out methods of still closer relationship. Mr. Stelzle was born in a tenement house district in New York City. At eight years of age he left school and went to work in a tobacco factory. Later he was a newsboy, and then a machinist, which has given him the right to be a member of the International Order of Machinists, and to have access to the Labor Unions of this country. He annually attends the two weeks'

convention of the American Federation of Labor as a fraternal delegate, and his addresses have created the greatest enthusiasm. He is now directing some laboratory work for the Presbyterian Church among the foreign-speaking people of New York City. He is director of the Department of Christian Sociology in one of the leading schools for Christian workers, and as Superintendent of the Presbyterian department of Church and Labor, has done yeoman service in bringing the Church to an appreciation of the laboring man, and the laboring man to an appreciation of the Church.

_Poetry_

COMPLETE POEMS OF RICHARD WATSON GILDER

With photogravure portrait. Crown 8vo, $1.50. Also in leather bindings.

This complete edition of Mr. Gilder's poems appeared under his supervision a year and a half ago. It contains his final selection from his nine previous volumes, together with his last pieces, and is a notable and permanent addition to the library of American song.

POEMS OF BELIEF By Theodore C. Williams

Translator of "Virgil's neid" and "Elegies of Tibullus."

With frontispiece by Elihu Vedder. 12mo.

Mr. Williams, whose recent edition of the neid is regarded by the _Harvard Graduates' Magazine_ as "the best English translation of the present time," offers in this new volume about seventy poems which may be divided into three groups,--religious, occasional, and translations from the Latin. The poems express devoutly and freely the common experiences of the religious life, but are not ecclesiastical; and though not doctrinal, the accent is rather upon truth than feeling. The standpoint is ethical idealism. As _The Christian Register_ has said, Mr. Williams is "a religious idealist who is at heart a true poet ... as well as a thorough cla.s.sical scholar and a winning religious teacher."

_Riverside Press Editions_

A POET IN EXILE BEING SOME EARLY LETTERS OF John Hay

Edited by Caroline Ticknor. Limited Riverside Press Edition. With portrait. 8vo.

A highly interesting and significant episode in the life of John Hay is presented in this unusual little book in the original doc.u.ments. In 1858, young Hay, then twenty years of age, graduated from Brown University and went to study law in a dingy law office in Warsaw, Illinois. This was his poetic period of storm and stress. Remote from the literary friendships that had been a delight and inspiration in college, exile as he felt himself, he poured himself out in some interesting unpublished poems and particularly in a series of letters to his friend, Miss Nora Perry, the poet of Providence, who was one of the most interesting women of her time. The slender volume, which contains these letters and poems published for the first time, will be of extraordinary interest to book-lovers, collectors, and the many admirers of Mr. Hay. It is octavo, of about 64 pages, printed from type on Batchelor hand-made paper, and bound uncut in paper-boards with paper label. The frontispiece is a contemporary portrait of Hay engraved on copper by Sidney L. Smith.

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PAN'S PIPES By Robert Louis Stevenson

Riverside Press Edition of 550 numbered copies, 500 for sale. Small 16mo.

There are few more charming essays in modern letters than Stevenson's characteristic whimsical discourse which he has ent.i.tled "Pan's Pipes,"

a faithful rendering of that pagan spirit which is eternal in the human heart. The delicacy and cla.s.sic air of the essay has made it seem a peculiarly fit subject for exquisite typographical treatment. In this edition, Mr. Bruce Rogers has given it an embodiment of simple neo-cla.s.sic charm which leaves little to be desired. The little book consists of 18 pages printed from type on a special quality of Italian hand-made paper and decorated with medallions of fauns and satyrs adapted from old engraved gems. The binding is of brilliant red paper on thin boards, stamped with a representation of a maze, also taken from an old gem.

_Educational_

American Education By Andrew S. Draper

Commissioner of Education of the State of New York. With an introduction by Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University. 12mo, $2.00 _net_. Postpaid.

Dr. Draper gives in this book the results of his unusually wide and fruitful experience as city superintendent, state superintendent, president of a state university, and Commissioner of Education of the State of New York.

The Principles of Education By William C. Ruediger

a.s.st. Professor of Educational Psychology, Teachers College, George Washington University. 12mo, $1.25 _net_. Postpaid.

Professor Ruediger discusses the teacher's education and training and presents a very satisfactory summary and interpretation of the best educational theory underlying the aims of education, the administration of schools, and methods of teaching.

The First Book of Stories for the Story-Teller By f.a.n.n.y E. Coe

Teacher of English in the Boston Normal School. 16mo, 80 cents _net_. Postpaid.

This collection of stories has been especially prepared by Miss Coe for teachers and parents of children of the age of those in the first grade in our public schools.

European Hero Stories By Eva March Tappan

Profusely ill.u.s.trated. Square 12mo, 65 cents _net_. Postpaid.

This book, in a picturesque but historically accurate narrative, portrays the preminently great characters of European history, from Alaric the Visigoth to Napoleon.

The British Isles By Everett T. Tomlinson