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Show HOOKS RKCK1VEU. Footfalls on tho lijundary (f Another World; with narrulivu illustrations by Kobert Ditto Owen ; l'hildt.lphiV J. li. Lippincott ifc Co.; clth, Oil! np" 1 I $1.7-3, Jamo'.Dwyer, bait Lako. 1 That this is a work of mom thrilling interest the title itself would suggest, while the ability of its anchor is unquestioned. un-questioned. H it gives tho reader no knowledge of the other world upon whose boundaries it scckB to venturo, it certainly is full of must wonderful narratives, and describes startliofc phenomena phe-nomena that all should bo familiar with. Not relying on his own opinions, Mr. Owen quotosfrom nearly a hund- red and fifty leading writers upon in tellectual powers, psychological in-i in-i quirief, philosophy of sleep, &o. Ac, I bo that tho book becomes valuablo without regard to tho deductions of . ita author. At the sams time it urges I upon its reader il.o importance of ! K-ll-cultorc, of education, of seeking aficr all knowledge, rightly assuming that no motivo can bo proposed thi' hIi-iII bo noro powerful toward (his end thuu tho assurance that not an effort to train our hcaits or store our mindVi but has its result and its reward, hereafter, in eternity. ' In tho dimnesu of tlio present our longings for the uttermost enlinhtuient may never attain bat faction. We may bo destined to wuit, Thai which human wit and iudiniry cannot compass ia their twilight world, may be a discovery postponed only till wo aro admitted, bcyoud the boundary, into I ho morning uuu.sliiue of another." Iu cluMug hia book the author cays ; "I do nut pietiud that (In 10 is to hi; found, in tho examples adduced in this volume, sufficient to u a k the eharaefer of our next ihao of life. Hut if there bo f'uotl'allH upon the boundary boun-dary of another world, let us li.slcn to ihoir echoes. There aro favored mo mentHat least, in every good man's life moments when tho hard aud the lelfish and tho worldly arc held in abeyance moments when tho soul nriijgs forth, like a durance-freed bird, equal to every sacrifice; when nothing seems too high to reach, nothing too distant to oompass moments mo-ments when the still, small voicu as-HortH as-HortH itn buprcmacy, and man feels that if life were but made up of such, ho would need no other hcavon." .Sketches of (Jreiition; a popular viow of Bomo of tlio grand conelusiuns of tlio peiencos, in refcrenco to maltur and of Life: by Alexander Wincliell, LL.D., with illustrations; How York, iiurpor ltrB.; ctotli, ioi pp, James Dwyor, Sail Lake. To the many readers who havo not tho tiuio to study iutoall tho developments develop-ments of geology, Prof. Winchell's akotches give a bird's oyo view of tho wholo field, and a vivid picturoofthe great outlines and prominent landmarks land-marks of this science. And while he" treats of tho wonders of Nature, he docHSO with tho feeling aud conviction that Nature is intended as a revelation revela-tion of its Author. "Science interpreted is theology ; soiunco prosecuted prose-cuted to its conclusions lead to God," aro tlio key notes of his work whioh is submitted, To all who lovo to hold communion with the thoughts embodied in the visible forms of Nature; who delight to oontemplato the sublimo, persistent, all-comprehending and beneficent plans of Deity, unfolding through geological cycles toward defioito and intelligible ends; in short, to all who lovo to "Look through Nature up to Nature's God." |
