Editorials

An elegant pamphlet, and pleasant to handle, is the new Cambridge Annual, begun by Geo. F.

In this book—published by the Unitarian Sunday-school Society, at a low price—we have a compendium of just such information as is needed by students of the Hebrew Scriptures. Questions about the origin and history of the books of the Bible are now at the front.

Manford's Magazine is published by Mrs. H.

In the criticism of some scholars, Christianity owes more to Paul than to Jesus; partly because Jesus left no written word, whereas Paul wrote letters which constitute a large part of the New Testament—14 books (or 13, if we omit Hebrews, the doubtfulness of whose authorship is generally conceded) out of 27. The genuineness of other Pauline epistles is questioned by many, but this need not be considered in this paragraph, which is written to call attention to a small volume by Rev.

Since the days of Æsop's Fables and Reynard the Fox, there has always been an interest in stories which endow animals with speech and other human faculties. The Boys are two malicious mice, who disobey their mother, ill-treat their red-haired sister, are avaricious and mean.

In the February number of Mind in Nature (an interesting and well-printed Chicago magazine) a correspondent gives vent to his amazement over the mysterious moving of a piano, when several men were sitting upon it. I was amazed at this display, at about the same time (ten years ago), but the explanations afterward made showed the supposed phenomenon to be only the trick of a cute woman, with an eye for shekels.

The seer should be also a sage. Small streams are noisy, and rush precipitately in small torrents.

Parents and teachers, who are searching for subjects and stories to talk to children about, would do well to look at a little book, costing only 15 cents, published, in very pretty shape, at the Sunday School Rooms, 7 Tremont Place. It was arranged for Dr.

Madame Blavatsky is in trouble with the Theosophical Society. She is accused, and the charge appears well sustained, of arranging fraudulent miracles, in India, if not in England.

Among the writers to Words of Faith, a Philadelphia magazine, is Mrs. Rosa Henderson, who describes her relief from extreme suffering, from ulcerous catarrh and diseased lungs, through the prayer and anointing advised in one of the New Testament books.