ception a mere question of physiology,-giving the "invisible engineer" a large part to play in the drama of life; and while propounding physical theories to explain all visions, he is not willing to affirm that "absolutely all" cases of vision may be so explained. His attitude is that of one who follows science fearlessly to its utmost bounds, yet recognizing within material forces spiritual life, and beyond natural law the supernatural Law-giver. His trust is as calm as his knowledge. Mrs. Merriam's Scholars. "Ten Times One Series." A Story of the "Original Ten." By Edward E. Hale. Boston: Roberts Brothers. 1878. $1.00. Mr. Hale realizes that words are forces, and evidently means that this generation shall learn his Harry Wadsworth mottoes by heart. By heart many of the young people who read of their incarnation in so many brave, happy, and wholesome lives must learn these mottoes, and be allured to attempt their practice. This story may not quite rise to the interest of the Bromwich temperance experiment; nor is there any point of so thrilling interest in it as where, in the first "Ten Times One," the old Calvinistic Doctor "lends a hand," and the reader is moved to throw up his hat and cheer with the waiting world. This is the story mainly of the trials and victories of a school-girl who went to teach the freedmen during the Rebellion; and it had its counterpart in the experience of many teachers at the South during that period. The enthusiasm that gave itself to serve in hospitals and camps, and even to undertake the free education of a race, made the romance of our civil war; and it is only to be deplored that it was so largely a mere enthusiasm, as the dropping of these schools from lack of aid to sustain them has proved. Had they been carried strongly on till now, something more would have been done to prepare the blacks for intelligent citizenship, and to shorten the evil days through which the South is politically passing. But all that was done has its results in the improved public-school systems which the States have gradually been establishing; and such institutions as that of Hampton Institute and Lincoln University, and the schools of the American Missionary Association, are still continuing the good work then begun. We hope that Mr. Hale will carry out his plan of a "Ten Times One is Ten Series." With his Christmas story,-In His Name, it will form a library which may be put into the hands of the young as sure to teach by varied and pleasing illustration the gospel of the Good Samaritan. OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED. Outlines of Ontological Science; or, a Philosophy of Knowledge and of Being. By Henry N. Day. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1878. The Latest Word of Universalism. Thirteen Essays by Thirteen Clergymen. Boston Universalist Publishing House. 1878. Nineteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-First, and Twenty-Second Annual Reports of the Board of Directors of the St. Louis Public Schools (for the years 1873-6). St. Louis. Daisies. By William Brunton. Boston: Lee & Shepard. 1879. The Ethics of Positivism a Critical Study. By Giacomo Barzellotti, Professor of Philosophy at the Liceo Dante, Florence. New York: Charles P. Somerby. 1878. The Blessed Life. Favorite Hymns, Selected by the Editor of Quiet Hours, Sursum Čorda, etc. Boston: Roberts Brothers. 1878. 16mo. $1.00. PAMPHLETS AND PERIODICALS. The Western. March to November, 1877. A Statement of the Theory of Education. Moral Education. Syllabus of Lessons in Natural Science. The Idea of the State and its Necessity. German Reform in American Education. By William T. Harris, Superintendent of Schools in St. Louis, Mo. Catalogue of Dartmouth College. 1878-9. Some Affirmations and Denials of the Liberal Faith. By Rev. G. W. Cutter. Buffalo. A Farewell Sermon to his Parishioners. By William Orne White, Pastor of Keene Congregational Unitarian Society. Preached Sunday, Nov. 3, 1878. Printed by request. Religion and Morality. A Sermon by John W. Chadwick. Brooklyn, N.Y. 1878. Also "The State of the Nation." Eleventh Annual Report of the Directors of the Massachusetts Infant Asylum. 1878. Report of the Board of Directors and of the Physician and Superintendent of the Virginia Western Lunatic Asylum. Richmond. 1878. "Unity" Sunday-School Lessons. First Series. By Mrs. Kate Gannett Wells. 66 Corner Stones of Character." Chicago. Service of Joy. For Old and Young at Christmas. Chicago. Tribute to William Cullen Bryant, by Robert C. Waterston, at the Meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society, June 13, 1878. The East and the West. A Sermon Preached in Trinity Church, Boston, on Sunday morning, Sept. 22, 1878. By Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, D.D., Dean of Westminster. Boston: A. Williams & Co. 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