must be prodigious. If we calculate the fig-| have tangible evidence of what would other- many respects he may be compared to Gladures at $300,000,000, we only fix the sum con- wise be scarcely credible that he has the stone. tributed annually by each inhabitant at one aspect of men in general. Yet it is dollar; and all this money is employed at a good rate of interest or put away in safe places. Thus the Church is now again richer than the Government. MISCELLANEOUS. BEECHER AND SPURGEON. As a words without discrimination, if anything more "" a fact that murderers, as a rule, give no HIGH PRAISE FOR OUR GEOLOGICAL SUR- A NORWEGIAN GLADSTONE. A ture in general, but was easily duped; the other had an almost intuitive perception of character, of fitness or unfitness for a particular use. The great preacher of America was unpractical and dreamy; the Englishman had a sturdy common sense which never failed. Beecher was a man of moods, worked when he felt like it, and inclined to procrastinate; Spurgeon was as industrious as a mechanic paid by the piece, and punctual to the minute. The pastor of Plymouth Church preached, wrote, and lectured on many themes not closely related; the preacher of the Metropolitan Tabernacle was primarily a man of one book and one work. The former received immense sums for lecturing; the latter, after his early years, Nicolay Grevstad, in the Minneapolis Jourdeclined to lecture. Beecher attached less im- nal.-Johan Sverdrup, the ex-Prime-Minister TIGERS' BONES.-Consul Denby, of Peking, portance to the letter of the Bible, accepting it of Norway, whose death is announced, was the in general; he conceived his own ideas, greatest political genius Norway has produced China, reports that in 1889 from one port, giving to them two elements which mark in the 19th Century. The names of the fathers Ichang, there were exported 13,000 pounds of For use as fertilizers-the only genius, "novelty and grandeur," using the of the organic law of 1814 are hallowed in the tigers' bones. Scriptures as far as they would illustrate his memory of the Norwegian people, and since use intelligent people seem to have for dead conceptions. All of Spurgeon's sermons were then the little country has reared a large num- tigers-these bones might be worth $150, yet drawn directly from the Bible; hence, where ber of able statesmen. Johan Sverdrup over- they were entered at a value of $3,000 even Beecher was often vague, though splendid as shadowed them all. In political dexterity and when the price was governed by the" pauper the Milky Way, and, to the ordinary mind, parliamentary skill and eloquence he is with- labor" of China. They are to be used as a when different sermons were compared, seemed out a peer in Norwegian history. His breadth medicine. From them will be made a "tonic somewhat contradictory, Mr. Spurgeon was of view, his aggressiveness, the dash of his which the Chinese invalid believes will impart positive. Though Universalists, Sweden- parliamentary tactics, his fiery eloquence, and to him some of the tiger's strength and fierceFor the same "medicinal" reason borgians, and Spiritualists claimed Beecher, his personal magnetism were so many revela-ness. and Arminians and Calvinists quoted him tions to the stolid, sedate members of the Stor-9,000 pounds of "old deers' horn" were valued against each other, none ever doubted as to thing. This was something new to them. In at $1,700. Many of us who are filled with diswhat Spurgeon held, or accused him of this new light the disorganized and more or gust at the folly of such absurd beliefs are now self-contradiction. Mr. Beecher made rad- less antagonistic liberal elements of the various keeping up old customs and habits that are ical changes in his theology; Mr. Spurgeon provinces blended into one harmonious body. almost as absurd and expensive, in the light of Johan Sverdrup's political creed became the modern progress, as this tiger bone tonic!programme and he himself the leader of a Rural New Yorker. Liberal party whose main element of strength was the farmers of the country. His parlia- A MARVELOUS YOUTH.-A wonderful calcumentary campaign of 30 odd years was a suc-lating young man, by name Inaudi, was yestercession of hardly contested battles, beginning day introduced to the Academy of Sciences, with a series of defeats and ending with an unbroken chain of victories. During all these years Sverdrup has been the foremost champion and the Liberal party the powerful agent of every great reform that has been wrought in Norway, embracing every phase of national life. He found the constitutional liberty and Monday," and simultaneously formed the independence of Norway a tender plant ex- square of 4,800, diminished by one, and divided posed to the chilly blasts of early spring. When it by six. His performances in algebra and he breathed his last breath the noonday sun of geometry were equally astonishing. M. Inaudi full national independence and robust coustitu- is a native of Piedmont, and his skull is tional liberty met the parting light of his reported by Professor Broca to present exlarge, brilliant eyes. His life work, summed traordinary features. He is only twenty-four up in one brief sentence, is to have made the years of age.-Paris correspondence, London Constitution of Norway a living reality. In¦ Standard. none. PHYSIOGNOMY OF MURDERERS. Letter from Vienna, Belletrisches Journal (New York), Feb. 17.-A man who deliberately butchers one wretched creature after another for no other reason than to get possession of well-nigh worthless personal effects, a man who makes a business of murder for the sake of servant-girls' trunks-to seek to understand such a man is like studying a horrible mystery, and one thinks of him as something not human, which can hardly be supposed to bear a human visage. Nobody would be surprised if the prisoner advancing between yonder guards into the presence of the court should prove to be a being with the head of a werewolf. Hence the eagerness to behold the monster, to hear him speak, to and greatly astonished that learned body by the rapidity and accuracy with which he solved by mere headwork the most abstruse calculations. One specimen will suffice: M. Bertrand asked him on what day of the week fell the 11th of March, 1822. He immediately replied, Index to Periodical Literature. AMERICAN AND ENGLISH. BIOGRAPHICAL. Australian Men of Mark. Francis Adams. Fort. Rev., London, Feb., 19 pp. Bodichon (Madame): A Reminiscence. Miss Betham-Edwards. Fort. Rev., London, Feb., 6 pp. Bronte (Emily): A Modern Stoic. Arthur L. Salmon. Poet-Lore, Feb., 6 pp. Cardinal Archbishop (The). The Rev. John Morris, F.S.A. Month, London, Feb., 20 pp. A sketch of Cardinal Manning. Ferrel (William), Sketch of. Prof. W. M. Davis. Pop. Sc., March, 10 pp. With Hardy (Mr. Thomas), A Study of. J. A. Newton-Robinson. Squibob.' Westminster Rev., United Service, Sketch of the life and works of John Phoenix alias Kane (Sir Robert). Sketches in Irish Biography. No. 21. Irish Monthly, Dublin, Feb., 6 pp. Liebig (Justus Von): An Autobiographical Sketch) Pop. Sc., March, 11 pp. Read at a joint meeting of the Chemical Laboratories, University College, Liverpool, March 18, 1891. Loti (Pierre). Edward Delille. Fort. Rev., London. Feb., 8 pp. Manning (Cardinal) in the Church of England. Reginald G. Wilberforce. XIX Cent., London, Feb., 13 pp. Manning (Cardinal), Memorials of. Merry England, London, Feb., 82 pp. Manning (Cardinal), Reminiscences of. I. Wilfrid Meynell. II. Sarah Sheldon Amos. III. Benjamin Waugh. IV. The Editor. Contemp. Rev., London, Feb., 24 pp. Maury (Cardinal). Lyceum, Dublin, Jan., 5 pp. A sketch of the career of the famous French ecclesiastic. Pitt 99 (Lord Rosebery's). J. Seymour Long. Westminster Rer., London, Feb., 9 pp. Points out the special characteristics of Lord Rosebery's work. Wordsworth (William), D. C. L. Rev. A. Copeland, M. A. Methodist Rev., March-April, 10 pp. Biographical sketch. EDUCATION, LITERATURE, AND ART. "As You Like It," Character in; An Inductive Study. C. A. Wurtzburg. Poet-Lore, Feb., 10 pp. Browning, The Epilogues of: Their Artistic Significance. Dr. D. G. Brinton. Poet-Lore, Feb., 7 pp. Calendar (The New) of Great Men. The Right Hon. John Morley, M.P. XIX Cent., London, Feb., 17 PP. Comments upon The New Calendar of Great Men. Edited by Frederic Harrison. Carlyle (Thomas), Conversations and Correspondence with. II. Sir G. Gavan Duffy, K.C.M.G. Contemp. Rev., London, Feb., 26 pp. Citizens, The Education of. Halford J. Mackinder. University Extension, Feb., 5 pp. University Extension is the means for the training of enlightened citizens. Clarence and Avondale, the Duke of, The Death of. Lord Tennyson. XIX Cent., London, Feb., 2 pp. A poem. Controversy of Moment. Lyceum, Dublin, Jan., 5 PP. The school controversy in the United States. Education (Compulsory), Is It a Failure? Joseph J. Davies. Westminster Rev., London, Feb., 13 pp. General survey of the educational question. Education Question (The Irish). T. W. Russell, M.P. Fort. Rev., London, Feb., 13 pp. A general statement of the question. Glove (A). A Prose Play. Björnstjerne Björnson. Poet-Lore, Feb., 11 pp. Law, The Literature of. Ernest W. Huffcut. Green Bag, Feb., 21⁄2 pp. Literature and Life. Social Economist, Feb. 8 pp. The literary class not in touch with real life. Newspaper-Man (The) as a Confidant. A. E. Watrous. Lippincott's Mag., March, 4 Pp. Perfectly trustworthy. He knows intuitively how much is intended for print. Plato, The Genius of. Walter Pater. Contemp. Rev., London, Feb., 12 pp. In what was his genius specially manifest. Savonarola (Girolamo) in History and Fiction. The Rev. J. Jessop Teague. Westminster Rev., London, Feb., 121⁄2 pp. Sichel's Ideal Portraits of Classic Beauties. C. M. Fairbanks. Chautauquan, March, 9 pp., Illus. Description of the works of National Sichel. Speeches (Great) by Eminent Men. E. Jay Edwards. Chautauquan, March, 6 pp. Wendell Phillips, Daniel Webster, etc., etc. Stage (The) and Literature. William Archer. Fort. Rev., London, Feb., 14 PP. Theatre (An Independent). Edward Fuller. Lippincott's Mag.. March, 4 pp. A question of dramatic reform. Theatre (The Free or Independent) of New York. James L. Ford. Lippincott's Magazine, March, 3 pp. Defines the character and aims of the projected insti tution. University (A Teaching) for London. J. Spencer Hill. Westminster Rev., London, Feb., 9 pp. Shows the necessity for such an institution, etc., etc. University Extension. Why? A. E. Winship. University Extension, Feb., 31⁄2 PP. University (The "Ideal "). J. Churton Collins. XIX. Cent., London, Feb., 12 pp. POLITICAL. Canada. The First Annexation of. John G. Nicolay. Chautauquan, March, 4 pp. Historical. Cartoons (Political) of John Tenniel. E. C. Reynolds. Cosmop., March, 11 pp. Illus. Descriptive. China: A Far Eastern Question. Wm. Robertson. Westminster Rev., London, Feb., 17 pp. Undertakes to answer the question: Can China work out her own salvation? Customs-Unions (Europe's New). George Wheeler Hinman, Ph. D. Social Economist, Feb., 6 pp. Italy. The Foreign Policy of. Emile De Leveleye. Contemp. Rev., London, Feb., 19 pp. From a French point of view. Knutsford (Lord) and Colonial Cpinion on Home Rule. E. J. C. Morton. Contemp. Rev., London, Feb., 7 pp. Criticisms. Labour Party in New South Wales. Sir Henry Parkes, G. C. M. G. Contemp. Persia, The Reign of Terror in. Sheikh Djemal Ed Din. Contemp. Rev., Lon- Tewfik Pasha, Recollections of. Edward Dicey, C.B. XIX Cent., London, Anti-Popery Scare (The Great). Donahoe's Mag., March, 2 pp. Refers to the position of Protestants on the school question. Bibliolatry. The Rev. Walter Lloyd. Westminster Rev., London, Feb., 9 pp. An examination and criticism of an extraordinary "Declaration on the Truth of Holy Scripture." Church (The) in the South. A. E. P. Albert, D.D. Methodist Rev., New York, March-April, 12 pp. Hexeteuch (the), Principal Cave on. Professor Driver, D.D. Contemp. Rev., London, Feb., 13 pp. An answer to Principal Cave. Methodist Laymen. T. A. Goodwin, D.D. Methodist Rev. New York. MarchApril, 8 pp. The time is coming for their full representation in the Councils of the Church. Pan-Slavism, The Doctrine of. Rev. Stephen Thomoff Sistof. Methodist Rev. New York, March-April, 6 pp. Preachers (Inefficient Traveling), The Compulsory Location of. J. M. Buckley, D.D., LL.D. Methodist Rev., New York, 20 pp. Argues for their compulsory location. Ressurrection (the), What is? L. R. Fiske. D.D., LL.D Methodist Rev., New Sermons, The Traffic in. II pp. Theosophy, The Marvels of. The Month, London. Feb., 25 pp. Erial Navigation. Cosmop., March, 7 pp. Illus. An account of experiments; what has been accomplished, etc. Astronomy. XV. New Chapters in the Warfare of Science. Andrew D. White, LL.D., L.H.D. Pop. Sc., March, 20 pp. Tells of the battles fought between the Church and scientists regarding astronomy. Athetosis (Complete), A Case of, with Post-Mortem. 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Wilbur Aldrich. Social Economist, Feb., 7 pp. The economic aspect of corporations. Directors (Non-Directing). Social Economist, Feb., 7 PP. The point is that the average directors of corporations know little of the institutions with which they are connected, and that this ignorance is the cause of defalcations, embezzlements, etc. Divorce. A Symposium. C. W. Smith, D.D. Hon. H. L. Sibley. H. W. Rogers, LL.D. Methodist Rev., New York, March-April, 17 pp. Marriage, The Future of. Wordsworth Donisthorpe. A Reply. Susan, Countess of Malmesburg. Fort. Rev., London, Feb., 25 pp. Morals (American). H. R. Chamberlain. Chautauquan, March, 5 pp. The public morals of America. Natal, White and Black in. Harriette E. Colenso and A. Werner. Contemp. Rev., London, Feb., 9 pp. The Race Question in Natal. Natural Law in the Economic World. The Rev. J. C. Kimball. Social Economist, Feb., 10 pp. Discusses the question: Does the increase of laborers and capital involve a decrease of wages to the one, and of dividends to the other. Population in the United States, Growth and Distribution of. General Francis A. Walker. Chantauquan, March. 3 pp. Social Problems. Edward Everett Hale. Cosmop., March, 4 pp. Considers the question of profit-sharing. Social Statistics of Cities. V. Lessons from the Census. The Hon. Carroll D. Wright. Pop. Sc., March, 9 pp. Unhealthiness of Cities: Its Cause and Cure. Francis Peek and Edwin T. Hall. Contemp. Rev., London, Feb., 17 pp. UNCLASSIFIED. Accused (The). George F. Tucker. Green Bag, Feb., 4 pp. A vindication of the lawyer from charges brought against him. Accused (The) as a Witness. Frederick Mead (Metropolitan Police Magistrate). XIX. Cent., London, Feb., 9 pp. Sets forth objections to the proposed change in the law. Avian Fauna (the) of Chester County, South Carolina, A Further Review of. 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With Illustrations Taken by Prince Henry of Orleans, and a Large Route-Map in Colors. Cassell Pub. Co. Cloth, $3.50. Wagner As I Knew Him. Ferdinand Praeger. Longmans, Green, & Co. Cloth, $1.50. Current Events. Wednesday, February 17. In the Senate, the Dubois-Claggett contest is discussed; a resolution to return captured battle-flags to Mexico is passed......The House considers the Indian Appropriations Bill.... The New York Assembly passes the Ranney Bridge Bill; also a Bill for a bridge over the St. Lawrence at Wolfe Island.... One of the Italian passengers of the Massilia dies at Carbon, Pa., of what was supposed to be typhus fever...... Anti-Hill delegates are elected in Clinton and Tompkins counties......In Tarrytown, an old resident is shot at a Democratic primary......In New York City an inquest is begun in the cases of the victims of the Hotel Royal fire......Third annual dinner of the Goethe Society. Several vessels are supposed to have gone down in the recent storm off the coast of Ireland......The House of Commons debates measures relating to Ireland......It is announced that ex-King Milan, of Servia, will become a Russian subject. Thursday, February 18. In the Senate, Mr. Palmer discusses the election of Senators by popular vote; eulogies are spoken on Senator Plumb...... In the House, the Indian Appropriation Bill is discussed; the Secretary of the Treasury gives his reasons for continuing bonds......In the New York Legislature, the Senate resolves to investigate the Reading deal; the Assembly votes to exempt Kings County from the provisions of the " Greater New York" Bill......The Excise Committee of the Assembly gives another hearing on the Liquor Dealers' Excise Bill; Bishop Doane is the principal speaker against the Bill... At San Francisco, news is received of the loss of the bark Tamerlane, with eighteen men, off the Rocks of Puna...... A fire in New Orleans destroys property to the value of over $1,000,000......The Department of Superintendence of the National Educational Association closes its twenty-eighth Annual Convention at Brooklyn......In New York City, General Horace Porter is elected President of the Grant Monument Association All the members of the French Cabinet resign......In the British House of Commons the Irish Local Government Bill, introduced by Mr. Balfour, passes to its first reading. Friday, February 19. In the Senate, an issue of District bonds is discussed; a letter is received from the Secretary of the Treasury opposing the Revenue Marine transfer. ......In the House, an excited debate occurs on the questions of free silver and protection...... Many members of both houses go to Chicago to see the work for the World's Fair...... The New York Assembly votes for having the building of the Empire State at the World's Fair closed on Sundays; the General Appropriation Bill is introduced......Governor Flower asks Governor Abbett to explain the action of New Jersey health officers in sending typhus fever patients to New York City......In New York City, it is discovered that burglars had, for a week, held high carnival in a house, the owners of which were absent from the city......Twenth-ninth annual dinner of the Harvard Club......Arion ball at Madison Square Garden. President Carnot accepts the joint resignation of the French Ministers...... Heavy storms rage in Great Britain; the disabled steamer, Sir Walter Raleigh, is blown out to sea with officers and crew, from an Irish harbor...... It is stated that the Irish Local Government Bill, introduced by Mr. Balfour, is a compromise measure, Mr. Balfour having been frequently overruled in the Cabinet meetings... Russia agrees to apologize to England for the expulsion of Captain Younghusband from the Pamir. Saturday, February 20. The last White House reception of the season is given......A_negro, for criminal assault on a white woman, is burned at the stake, at Texarkana, Ark., in the presence of thousands of spectators......The ice gorge in the Allegheny River above Pittsburgh breaks without doing serious damage... The prosecution of Chief of Police Hackett, of Tarrytown, for killing James Hannon is dropped......In New York City, the Staats Zeitung property and adjoining plots are chosen as the site for the new municipal building... Seventh annual dinner of the Ohio Society; Annual dinner of the City College Alumni. M. Ribot, French Minister of Foreign Affairs, undertakes to form a new Cabinet. ... Edward Deacon, the American who shot his wife's paramour at Cannes, is released on his own recognizance. Sunday, February 21. Many delegates to the Democratic State Convention arrive in Albany... Delegates to the Confederated Industrial Conference arrive in St. Louis and manifest strong sentiment in favor of putting a third-party ticket in the field ....A unique but unsuccessful attempt is made to rob an express car on the New York Central, near Lyons; the messenger is seriously wounded, and the robber is captured..... In New York City, about a hundred negroes arrive, having been promised free transportation to Liberia...... Officers of the Egyptian Monarch tell of the terrible fate of the crew of an oil ship burned at sea. President Carnot confers with Constans, Say, and others in regard to the formation of a new Cabinet......A large vessel, believed to be a Spanish steamer, founders off the Cornish coast; all on board supposed to be lost ......It is reported that the Enriquez revolt in Guatemala has been suppressed. Monday, February 22. Washington's birthday.... At the Democratic State Convention, in Albany, it is decided to send a delegation to the National Convention, under the unit rule, in favor of David B. Hill for President; delegates and Presidential electors are chosen..... The Anti-Hill Democrats at their meeting in Albany issue a call for a State Convention to be held at Syracuse May 31.... Ex-President Cleveland delivers an address at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor......Governor McKinley, Senators Perkins and Dolph, J. Sloat Fassett, and others speak at the banquet of the Michigan Club in Detroit...... The Industrial Convention at St. Louis meets and organizes...... George William Curtis delivers a lecture on James Russell Lowell before the Brooklyn Institute......In New York City, the day is celebrated with dinners, meetings, and entertainments......Annual dinner of the Southern Society. Accounts continue to come in of wrecks and loss of life on the Irish coast Mr. Jackson, Chief Secretary for Ireland, introduces the Irish Educational Bill in the House of Commons; Mr. Chaplin introduces an Agricultural Holdings Bill. Tuesday, February 23. In the Senate, the Pure Food Bill is discussed; the President sends in the nomination of William B. Gilbert, of Oregon, as Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit......In the House, a few committee reports are received......An exciting struggle occurs in the St. Louis Convention over the admission of a third-party delegate from Georgia......In the New York Legislature, many Bills are introduced......The National Convention of Electrical Engineers begins its annual session in Buffalo......Secretary Foster sails for Europe; he says he will endeavor to arrange for an international conference on silver. .....In New York City, the annual bench-show of the Westminster Kennel Club opens......Annual dinner of the Hardware and Metal Trades. President Carnot entrusts to M. Rouvier the task of forming a new Cabinet. ......A motion to disestablish the Church of Wales is defeated in the House of Commons, 267 to 220...... Great damage by floods is reported in Spain..... It is announced that reciprocity negotiations are to be opened between the United States and Austria, R. S. STORRS, D.D.: 'The Schaff-Herzog is a work of immense value. The articles are compact, careful, and well distributed." 66 A New Edition of a Great Work. SCHAFF-HERZOG THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RELIGIOUS KNOWLEDGE. Editor: PHILIP SCHAFF, D. D., LL. D., Associate Editors: SAMUEL M. JACKSON and Rev. D. S. SCHAFF, Assisted by a large Corps of Eminent Scholars in Europe and America. 66 The first announcement of this great work awakened no little enthusiasm among scholars in all English-speaking countries. Its basis is the great German Herzog Encyclopædia," edited by Drs. Herzog, Platt, and Hauck, assisted by some hundreds of the best known of European scholars. The Herzog is universally admitted to be, beyond all comparison, standard and authoritative in all departments of Biblical and Ecclesiastical learning. The German work is issued in many volumes and is distinctively German. Dr. Schaff clearly saw that a mere translation of the immense work would not answer the wants of the American and English readers. Many of the articles are very long, and of comparatively little interest outside of Germany, and the department of English and American church history and biography is, naturally, too limited. The Schaff-Herzog is not a translation, but an adaption of all the important German articles, with a large number of new articles, comprising a considerable part of the whole. These new articles have been prepared by scores of the ablest American and English scholars. Thus, beyond that of any other work, The Schaff-Herzog is the joint product of the scholarship of the world. It is an entire library of Biblical and Theological knowledge. Few works have received such universal indorsement : PROF. HOWARD OSGOOD, D.D., Rochester Theo. Seminary, says: "It is a very great advance beyond any similar publication hitherto made in America." PROF. W. J. MANN, D.D., Luth. Theo. Seminary, Phila., says: "I know of no work in the English language that could in any way compare with it." DAVID SWING, D.D., Chicago, says: "It is the first great work of its class in our language the field of religion what the Britannica' is to general knowledge." NOAH PORTER, D.D., Ex-President of Yale College, says: it is in "I do not hesitate to recommend the Schaff-Herzog as a work that will meet the wants of clergymen in an eminent degree." THE PHILADELPHIA TIMES says: "There is no other work in one language or in any language that com bines so many points of excellence." THE BOSTON DAILY GLOBE says: "The Schaff-Herzog will rank for fullness, comprehensiveness and accuracy as the best ever published." BISHOP J. H. VINCENT, of Chautauqua, says: "It is undoubtedly a work for every minister and for every library." PROF. E. J. WOLF, D.D., Gettysburg Luth. Seminary, says: "It exceeds the most sanguine expectations. It offers the immense and sterling treasures of European learning coined into American currency." THE CONTEMPORARY REVIEW, London, England, says: "The American work (The Schaff-Herzog) is one which ought to find a place in every library, for it is the German Herzog boiled down, and supplies information about American church writers, divines, and colleges, which can nowhere else be found." ROSWELL D. HITCHCOCK, D.D., LL.D. (Pres. Union Theo. Sem. N. Y.), shortly before his death, said of the first edition: "The Schaff-Herzog is the very best Religious Encyclopædia. I am acquainted with no work that equals it." TALBOT W. CHAMBERS, D.D., New York, says: "I expected much from the Schaff-Herzog Encyclopædia,' but find my anticipations exceeded. In fullness, fairness, and accuracy the work is unequaled in its kind." THE NATIONAL BAPTIST, Phila., says: "We have nothing like it in English. The articles are clear, condensed, and just such as an intelligent layman can readily understand and appreciate. The array of learning represented in the names of the contributors is such as has never been brought together in a single work before." THE CHURCHMAN [Episcopalian], New York, says: "We commend the work to our readers as superior to anything of the kind which has yet been produced. We believe that as it is the latest, so for many years it will be the best and most reliable compend of Religious Knowledge that we shall have." WILLIAM M. TAYLOR, D.D., of New York, says: "For fullness, comprehensiveness, and accuracy, this 'Encyclopædia' will take first place among Biblical Encyclopædias. Every article is 'boiled down' so as to contain nothing that is not essential to a knowledge of the subject handled, and so the work, as a whole, will be the concentrated essence of Religious Imformation, as well as a Directory which will indicate where fuller discussions are to be found." THE STANDARD [Baptist], Chicago, Ill., says: "That the work, in its complete state, will take its place at the very head of encyclopædic literature, religious in its nature, in the English language, there can be no doubt." THE JOURNAL OF EDUCATION, Bostou, says: "It will rank for compactness, comprehensiveness, and scholarship among the first of all the Encyclopædias." PROF. E. A. PARKS, D.D., says: "This Encyclopædia' is preeminently valuable." W. ORMISTON, D.D., LL.D., says: "It is of vast value and matchless worth.' JULIUS H. SEELYE, Amherst College, Amherst, Mass., says: "I have long been acquainted with the original work of Herzog, which in scientific structure and profound learning has held the first place among works of its kind. The present edition, to which Dr. Schaff's accomplished supervision adds so much worth, is invaluable." MARK HOPKINS, Ex-President of Williams College, says: "Whether we look at the character of the original work, at that of the American editor, or at the contributors engaged, the Religious 'Encyclopædia' edited by Dr. Schaff promises to surpass anything in its line heretofore published." THE NEW YORK HERALD says: It is an excellent work, and will be found extremely useful. "We have compared some of the articles of the Schaff-Herzog with the original, and, so far as we have gone, we have found the work of condensation to be carefully and acurately done. Strange to say, the condensing process seems to have improved the original articles. Chief among these we place the article of Dr. Schaff himself on Christology. It is in fact a treatise in itself on the person of Christ from the dogmatic point of view, as an object of the Christian faith. It far excels the corresponding article in the original Herzog." THE CONGREGATIONALIST, Boston, Mass., says: "With six or seven encyclopædias within arm's length, we find ourselves more often taking down this than any other, and in no single instance do we remember to have been disappointed in cur inquiries among its pages. Where a minister can have but one such work, it is our impression that, on the whole, whether for comprehensiveness or cheapness, this is best; while its freshness of subjects, and its attention to the literature of its topics always brought down to date-add peculiar value." THE DAILY GLOBE, Boston, Mass., says: "The completion of this work is an event in the history of the religious literature of this country, and will be hailed with a general recognition of the wisdom of its conception, and the learning and ability of its execution. It is so scholarly in its plan and treatment, and of such distinguished merits, that it must remain at the head of all our theological publications. The library of every Scripture student may now possess a work incomparable in the variety and fullness of its theological information and unequalled in its ability to satisfy daily reference." THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL TIMES, Phila., Pa., says: "The second volume shows, even more clearly than the first, the superiority of this 'Cyclopædia' over that of McClintock and Strong (its only rival in American literature) in brevity, evenness, and general accuracy. 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