Editorials

This able bi-monthly dates both from New York and Chicago; and is furnished at the low price of $2. 50 a year.

A hopeful sign of religious liberality is to be seen regularly in the book-notices of the denominational weeklies. These notices are impartially bestowed, upon books widely selected.

Writers for this Journal are fraternally urged to write only on one side of each sheet, to use no abbreviations, to write a large hand, and to put their lines wide apart, so blessing the printer as well as the editor. Postage is cheap now.

This is so important a contribution to physical and metaphysical research, that there is no time or space to do it justice in this number of our Journal, but more will be said about it at some future time. No wonder it has already reached its ninth edition.

The storm and stress of April days, To sunshine tribute bring; So Lexington and Concord raise The song of Freedom's Spring. This is a lovely book,—or rather a cluster of sheets, exquisitely engraved, published by Lee & Shepard.

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.

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.