tion, could claim the rights of the Abrahamic Covenant-the blessings foretold and the rightful authority to bless men, for, as the ruler of earth, he took the place of Father Adam with all his rights and authorities described in Psalm viii, 4-6.

By keeping these rights and privileges as a man our Lord indeed would have been an earthly potentate of considerable dignity, dignity, the highest amongst men. But the Father's place for Him and for the world was far higher than this. As an earthly potentate He would have ruled over a falling and dying race and would have been privileged merely to counsel, rule and direct their imperfect energies; but he never could have brought them to eternal life. Hence the Divine Plan was that He should die as the Redeemer of Adam and his race, that thus He might have the just, the legal right to lift out of sin and degradation and death all of mankind who would fall in line with the gracious arrangements of the Divine purpose which center in Christ. It was in fulfillment of this feature of the Divine Plan that our Lord laid down the earthly Kingdom, the earthly rights, all that He had, as man's ransom price (Matthew xiii, 44). "Who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time" (I Timothy ii, 6.)

"Every Knee Shall Bow."

We now have Messiah exalted and in His possession the authority justly, legally acquired, whereby He may bless all the families of the earth all the children of Adam, by restoring to the willing and obedient "that which was lost"-earthly perfection and dominion. Where will He begin His blessing work? All the prophecies implied that Messiah would begin His work with Israel and that it should progress through Israel to all nations. But the prophecies did not even hint at the fact that before giving the "restitution" blessing to Israel, under the New (Law) Covenant of Jeremiah xxxi, 31, Messiah would first make use of His "restitution" authority for the

gathering of a special class of people, "a holy nation, a peculiar people, a royal priesthood." This, as the Apostle tells us, was kept a "Mystery," and, generally speaking, it is still a "Mystery," not only to Israel, but to the world. The gathering of the Spiritual Israelites was the first step in the new program. Those of the Jewish nation at our Lord's First Advent who were of the right attitude of heart when transferred from Moses to Christ, from natural Israel to spiritual Israel. Then, as we have seen, from the time of Cornelius onward, the Gospel message has been free to all who have the believing heart and hearing ear to take it. These, as a whole, as our Lord intimated, are but a "little flock." His words were, "Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the Kingdom" (Luke xii, 32.)

The Kingdom, the life eternal, etc., which the Lord has to give away, are those of Adam, which were lost through his disobedience and re-purchased by our Lord at Calvary. These he gives to His followers, the "little flock," but not to keep. Earthly restitution blessings are theirs to sacrifice only. only. Whoever will not accept them on these terms cannot be Jesus' disciples. Such are the terms of the heavenly or high calling, bestowed upon His followers. They must take up their cross and follow Him in the sacrfice of earthly life and earthly restitution rights, if they would share with Him the glory and honor that will be His in His exalted station.

"The World to come" merely signifies the epoch to come, the epoch wherein dwelleth righteousness, where righteousness will be in the ascendant, and where sin will be absolutely under the control of the great Redeemer, who then will be the King of glory, ruling, reigning, enlightening, blessing, uplifting, restituting, purging, purifying and bringing to perfection so many of Adam's race as will heartily respond to the rules of His Kingdom. All others will be destroyed. as brute beasts.-2 Pet. 2:12.

"The Life Story of J. Pierpont Mor

gan," by Carl Hovey.

This book is the personal history of J. Pierpont Morgan-the story of his life and his immense achievements, and a portrait of a personality of extraordinary power and singular interest. It is neither an attack nor a eulogy; neither a theory of Wall street, nor an argument about the money power. Its aim is to give the facts, and an interpretation of them based on intimate and full knowledge. It brings the reader to a better understanding of a figure of international importance, whose business with its great battles of finance, has in it a something of daring and romance, and whose pastimes of peace have added new and priceless treasures of art to the museums of America and Europe.

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The record of fact in this biography is enlivened by anecdote, personalia, and first-hand, "inside" information the story, for instance, of the Cleveland bond issue, as here told and never before published-which are by turns informing, illuminating or diverting.

Full attention is given to the great battles with Jay Gould over the Erie Railway; to the new birth of railroads under his hand; to the gold controversy of 1895; to the creation of the greatest of all industrial combinations, the United States Steel Trust; to the true story of the panic of 1907; and to many other matters of hardly less moment. The chapters dealing with United States Steel and the panic of 1907 cannot fail to be of commanding interest to financiers and all concerned with business problems on a grand scale.

Crown, 8vo. Fully illustrated. Boxed. $2.50 $2.50 net. Published by Sturgis & Walton Co., 31 East 27th street, New York.

"New Leaf Mills," by William Dean Howells.

This story, by its consistent humanness, wins more of our sympathy and belief than most tales in which the excitement of plot plays a larger part. The scene is laid in Ohio before the war. Owen Powell, a gentle old philosopher, Swedenborgian by faith, a dreamer with a curiously inventive and practical streak in him, is forced to give up his bookstore in Tuskingum, and conceives the idea of founding with his brothers a sort of communistic settlement. They buy a grist-mill and saw-mill, intending to put in paper machinery. Owen with his wife and children go to live at New Leaf Mills, quite primitively, in a log cabinOwen cheerfully, his wife forebodingly. From the first a cloud of futility hangs over the arrangement. As a communistic experiment, New

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Mills is a predestined failure; but the human qualities that the effort to realize the dream develops-Owen's unquenchable optimism, his wife's devotion, all the finer for its lack of imagination. As usual, Mr. Howells makes us feel that we share the same nature with the people he describes. There are dark colors in the picture as well as bright. The drunken miller who dreams that the sale of the property to the Owens will bring about his death with the year, and lives in the shadow of an imaginary terror, has a grim truth about him not inconsistent with an effect of humor. Rosy Heffenyer, the girl who comes to work for Mrs. Owen, is refreshing in the perfect naturalness of her girlhood, just changing to womanhood, but she is in constant danger of being discovered by her wretched and wicked mother. Captain Bickler, who tries to seduce Rosy, and, having driven her away perhaps to death or a worse fate, feels a futile,

half-sincere remorse, expresses a phase of human weakness almost too poignantly. At the same time the story reflects the happiness, the drollery, the rosy expectations, the faith that, in spite of much sorrow, enable simple people to live, on the whole, happily.

Published by Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, New York.

"The Russian Empire of To-day and Yesterday." The Country and Its Peoples, together with a brief review of its history, past and present, and a survey of its social, political and economic conditions. By Nevin O. Winter, author of "Chile and Her People of Today," "Brazil and Her People of To-Day," "Argentina and Her People of To-day," etc.

The Russian Empire has long occupied a prominent place among the great countries of the world, but although one of the most interesting foreign lands, it has been little visited by the tourist or traveler. Mr. Winter's new book, therefore, will be eagerly read not only by those who know his previous popular and authoritative travel books, but by all who wish the latest information about this great country nearly three times as large as the United States-which occupies more than half the total area of Europe, and more than a third of that of Asia, and which numbers among its many peoples races as dissimilar as the Mohammedan and the Jew, the Caucasian and the Cossack, the German and the Slav. The author has recently traveled extensively in Russia, and no one can read his book without realizing that his point of view is scholarly and sympathetic, in great contrast with the attitude of many writers who have based their conclusions on a hasty tour and a superficial study of the country. A problem carefully discussed is that of Russia's treatment of the Jews, a question which has caused the present unsettled condition of Russia's treaty relations with the United States.

With many illustrations taken on the spot by the author, cloth decorative, in a box, $3 net (carriage 20c. extra.) The same, three-quarters morocco, in a box, net $6 (carriage 20c. extra.) Published by L. C. Page & Company, 53 Beacon street, Boston.

"The Happy Warrior," by A. S. M. Hutchinson, author of "Once Aboard a Lugger."

In "The Happy Warrior," Mr. Hutchinson has written a modern romance that in literary qualities invites comparison with the best work of those authors of a generation ago whose names have become household words. The dramatic incidents, delicate love episodes and capital character delineations will win for the book a popular appeal, but best of all the story is remarkable for a quaint, charming style and a rare gift of humor and pathos that gives the work an individuality of its own.

It is now a little less than two years since the "Broad Highway" took the public by storm, adding a new name to the world's great novelists, and giving unlimited delight to a vast multitude of readers. Those who have read "The Happy Warrior" assert that it is another literary achievement. The author has everything that a great author should possess: clear, forcible English, fine imagination, strength of characterization and pathos and humor in the highest degree. The plot of "The Happy Warrior" is unusual, its love interest is sweet and pure, and there is a fight of which it may truthfully be said that there is nothing more virile and tense in literature.

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Decorated cloth, 12mo, with frontispiece by Paul Julien Meylan. $1.35 net. Published by Little, Brown & Co., 34 Beacon street, Boston.

"The Culture of Personality," by J. Herman Randall.

The author closes his Foreword as follows: "A few years ago an old manuscript was discovered containing some sayings of Jesus that had never

heretofore come to light. Among them these words: 'Jesus saith: Let not him who seeks, cease until he finds, and when he finds he shall wonder, and wondering, he shall reach the Kingdom, and having reached the Kingdom, he shall rest.' May these words express for us the spirit of earnest, honest, reverent inquiry in which we set forth on our search after the deeper Self, the true Personality."

The author takes up the child with the dawn of self-consciousness, as Jean Paul Richter expressed it, "I am me," and carries him through the development of personality, through the affections, mind, will, to the great personality, through man to God and the divine-human life. The author is sensitive to the profound thought movement finding expression in so many indefinite cults and forms, and endeavors to furnish the individual something more reliable, something more appealing to the inner consciousness. He is well equipped for his task, through close acquaintance with the ideals and ideas of the philosophers who have done so much to direct the mental and spiritual course of human thought. Hence his plea for the development of the true Self-the flower of Personality.

Cloth, gilt top; price, $1.50. Published by H. M. Caldwell Co., 208 Summer street, Boston.

"Whistler's Pastels and Other Modern

Profiles." By A. E. Gallatin.

Mr. A. E. Gallatin's volume of essays in art criticism is being brought out in a new edition by John Lane Company. The first edition of this book, published just a year ago, was very soon out of print. The new edition contains essays on Max Beerbohm's caricatures, and Frederick C. Frieseke's paintings, in addition to the original papers on Whistler, Everett Shinn, Homer, Zorn, Ernest Haskell and the notes on Forain, Conder, Beardsley, Troubetzkoy, Nicholson, Orpen and Keene. This edition, printed on hand-made paper at the Merrymount Press, contains sixteen plates,

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human race, and after careful search, seek to prove that mankind was formerly bi-sexual and through degeneracy has become uni-sexual. Plea is made that Darwin, Huxley and other evolutionists made statements endorsing this theory, "but they did not pursue the subject far enough to make apparent the real significance of the facts which they observed and commented on. The arrayment of the scientific and physiological facts concludes with a chapter on "The Gods of the Ancients," wherein the authors claim that "In the traditions of the 'Myths' of ancient races we find much to corroborate our conclusions as to the bi-sexuality of mankind. For ancient races held to the belief that they were descended from a race of 'gods,' or men of extraordinary longevity and superhuman powers, who lived in the 'Golden Age,' when the present physical evils which oppress humanity were unknown."

In cloth and gold, 12mo., size 5x7 in. $1.00 Published by Mary Isabel Wymore, Dubois, Ill.

Socialism's most forceful writers. This book represents a concise, authoritative and intensely interesting presentation of the Socialist movement brought right up to the minute. It is comprehensive, and clarifies the subject for those who have only confused ideas regarding it.

Illustrated, 12mo., cloth, $1.00 net. Published by the H. K. Fly Company, 263 Fifth avenue, New York.

"Pocket Directory of the American Press for 1913," by Lord & Thomas.

This regular "annual" of Lord & Thomas, the well known newspaper, magazine and outdoor advertisers, covers as usual a complete list of the newspapers, magazines, farm journals and other periodicals published in the United States, Canada, Porto Rico, Hawaiian and Philippine Islands. It furnishes in concise, comprehensive manner the stock data required by advertisers in seeking information regarding any periodical published in the territory mentioned. It is the readiest and best digested reference book of its kind to be had.

Bound in leather, pocket size, $3.00. Published by Lord & Thomas, 290 Fifth avenue, New York.

"Sabotage," by Emile Pouget, with an introduction by Arturo Giovannitti.

If a thousand wage workers could go on strike and keep on drawing their wages just the same, they ought to win. Doesn't it look so? Suppose they stay in the shop, but work in such a way that the employer loses money on them instead of making money? The capitalists say this is immoral. So do some Socialists.

Sabotage is the system the workers employ to win their fights, a new system of warfare in labor that is being savagely attacked and savagely defended. It was part of the warfare that led to the killing of a woman in a recent strike in Eastern mills. Arturo Giovannitti, who translated the book under consideration, was one of three

men charged with the woman's murder, and a leading spirit in the strike movement. "Sabotage" gives the viewpoint of its originators and defenders, and should be read by those who are alive to the present vital movements in labor ranks.

Cloth, 50c.; paper, 25c.; postpaid. Published by Charles H. Kerr & Co., 118 W. Kenzie street, Chicago.

"The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte," by Karl Marx.

Marx' theory of historical materialism has made history a new science. But Marx never wrote a whole book about his theory. Instead he applied it to the history of his own times. In his "Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte," he shows the economic forces underneath the turbulent politics of three eventful years in France, 1848-1851, during which an adventurer made himself first, president and then emperor. This book throws a flood of light on present day conditions, in America as well as in France. Two pamphlet editions, although unattractively printed, have sold out, and the demand continues.

Library edition, cloth, 50c., postpaid; attractive paper-covered edition, 25c. Published by Charles H. Kerr, 118 W. Kenzie street, Chicago.

"The Love Seeker," by the author of "Modern Marriage and How to Bear It."

This volume is piquant enough for the club smoking room, while its sound sentiment, and wholesome worldly wisdom fit it for general fireside consumption. It tells of love and marriage, and its subtle hints and sage suggestions to young lovers, and to those in or out of life, married or single, may well prove a real help to happiness. The author knows her ground, and speaks fearlessly. Her tenderness and charm are persuasive, and the epigrammatic brilliance of her style stamp her thought indelibly in the mind of her readers.

Published by Sturgis & Walton Co., New York.