actical
blacksmith, some of them delivered in his shop to a few neighbors, but
the audience becoming larger, the rest were given in an adjacent church
building. To most persons, the title affords a slight clue to the drift
of the book, which is to show the duty and the benefits of giving the
tithe of a man's income to the Lord. The author's bottom thought is
based on this statement in the preface: "God pledges himself for the
success of that individual who renders obedience to the divine
money-claim." In other words, the path to wealth is the path of
benevolence. The obligation to give the tithe is earnestly enforced by
the ordinary Scripture quotations, and by arguments drawn from other
sources. Whatever the reader may think of the theory of the book, he
will find in it a good deal of valuable and practical truth.

_Yale Lectures on the Sunday-school._ By H. CLAY TRUMBULL. Philadelphia:
John D. Wattles.

This book contains Dr. Trumbull's addresses before the Yale Divinity
School in the course of the Lyman Beecher Lectures for 1888. They were
not only heard with interest, but the Faculty of Yale College expressed
their thanks to the author, and their wishes that the discourses might
soon be given to the public. Such an author in such a presence and with
such a theme, may well be supposed to have presented whatever is
interesting and valuable on a subject of such vast importance to
Christian families and the Christian church. We commend the book most
cordially.

_Cooking and Sewing Songs and Recitations for Industrial and Mission
Schools._ Edited by MRS. J.R. ROMER. J.W. Schermerhorn & Co., New York.

Of a very different style and size from the book above noticed is this
little neatly-printed pamphlet with flexible covers, occupying sixty-six
pages, of songs, to be used by pupils in connection with their
industrial labors. They are vivacious, pithy, adapted to the purpose in
hand, and doubtless would cheer and brighten many an hour that might
otherwise pass in the humdrum of an unrelieved toil, and at the same
time impress upon the memory and heart a good deal of salutary truth.

_The Songs of Praise_ with tunes. Published by A.S. Barnes & Co., New
York and Chicago.

Contains 500 choice Hymns with music well adapted to meet the
requirements of social worship. Such churches as do not desire a larger
collection will find this an excellent book of social song.

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