THE BULLETIN The The Cambridge Public Library Bulletin will be published on or about the 15th day of each month. primary object of the publication is to present lists of new books added to the library. The book notices will be more extended than those of the weekly lists hitherto published in the newspapers, and which will be continued as heretofore. The bulletin will also make possible the publication of special reading lists either on topics of the day or on suggested subjects. Copies may be The bulletin is for free distribution. had at all times at the library, at the local delivery stations, and possibly at a few other places to be determined later. The cost of the bulletin sent by mail will be twenty-five cents per annum, payable in advance. scriptions will be received at the library, or at the office of the Cambridge Co-operative Society, 744 Massachusetts avenue. Sub Books which have the letter R in place of the call number may be found in the reference library. The library is open for the delivery of books, except Sundays and holidays, from 10 A.M. until 8 P.M. Reading-rooms open from 10 A.M. until 9 P. M., and on Sundays from 2 until 6 P. M. LOCAL DELIVERY STATIONS Books are collected from and delivered to all local stations, Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays. Marcellus I. Dow, 169 Pearl St., Cambridgeport. E. C. Gove, 275 Main St., Cambridgeport. Mrs. H. M. Grant, 2 Holworthy St., Cambridge. James W. Hunnewell, 2074 Massachusetts Ave., North Cambridge. Michael Whalen, 2530 Massachusetts Ave., North Cambridge, Junction. LIST OF NEW BOOKS. PHILOSOPHY. Poland, William. Laws of thought; or, formal logic: a brief comprehensive treatise on the laws and methods of correct thinking. Boston, etc., 1896. 12°. 160-P75 Robertson, George Croom. Elements of general philosophy. Ed. from notes of lectures delivered at the college [University college, London], 1870-1892, by C. A. F. Rhys Davids. N. Y. [London], 1896. (University series; ed. by W. Knight.) 16°. 102-R 54 Sangster, Mrs. Margaret E. With my neighbors. N. Y., 1896. 16°. 177-Sa 5 "Bits of talk on homely themes," originally published in the Congregationalist and the Christian intelligencer. Stoeckl, Albert. Handbook of the history of philosophy. Tr. by T. A. Finlay. Part 1. Pre-scholastic philosophy. Dublin, 1887. 8°. 109-St6 Titchener, Edward Bradford. Outline of psychology. N. Y., 1896. 12°. 150-T 53 The substance of lectures delivered to second and third year classes in Cornell university. RELIGION. Abrahams, Israel. Jewish life in the middle ages. 1896. 8°. N. Y., 296-Ab8 Jewish social life, including chapters on slave trade, marriage customs, trades and occupations, costume, medieval schools, etc. Cave, Alfred. Introduction to theology: its principles, its branches, its results, and its literature. 2d ed., largely 202-C31 rewritten. Edinburgh, 1896. 8°. Hefele, Carl Joseph. History of the councils of the church, from the original documents. Edinburgh, 1883-1896. 5 V. 8°. Vol. I. 270.2-H36 To the close of the council of Nicæa, A. D. 325. Tr. and ed. by W. R. Clark. 2d ed., revised. A. D. 431-451. Vol. 2. A. D. 326-429. 3. 4. 5. Tr. and ed. by H. N. Oxenham. A. D. 451-680. Tr. and ed. by W. R. Clark. A. D. 626 to the close of the second council of Nicæa, Pember, G. H. The great prophecies of the centuries con cerning Israel and the Gentiles. N. Y., etc. [1895]. 12°. With 2 coloured charts. 220.1-P36 Story of the heavenly camp-fires. By One with a new name. N. Y., 1896. 16°. 244-St7 of Mr. Russell Sturgis says of this book, "It is the best picture Heaven ever painted. Written in beautiful classic English, with delicious as well as grand descriptions of nature, vivid and true portraiture, with exquisite touches of deep pathos, and withal thoroughly practical and biblical.” Van Dyke, Henry. The gospel for an age of doubt: Yale lectures on preaching, 1896. N. Y., 1896. 12°. 252-V 281 Contents: An age of doubt.-The gospel of a person.—The unveiling of the Father.-The human life of God.-The source of authority.— Liberty.—Sovereignty.—Service.- Appendix. In these lectures Dr. Van Dyke has sought to point out what to preach rather than how to preach. The appendix contains very full notes. Wakeman, Henry Offley. Introduction to the history of the church of England, from the earliest times to the present day. N. Y. [London], 1896. 12°. 283-W 131 Warren, Henry Clarke. Buddhism in translations. Cam bridge, 1896. Frontispiece. (Harvard oriental series; ed. by C. R. Lanman. Vol. 3.) 8°. This is a series of extracts from Pali writings, done into English, 294-W 25 and so arranged as to give a general idea of Ceylonese Buddhism. SOCIOLOGY. Abbott, Lyman. Christianity and social problems. Boston and N. Y., 1896. 12°. 304-Ab 2 The object of the book is to make some application of Christ's teachings to the social problems of our time. Chodzko, Aleksander. Fairy tales of the Slav peasants and herdsmen, From the French of Alex. Chodzko. Translated and illustrated by Emily J. Harding. London, 1896. 12°. Curtis, George Ticknor. Constitutional history of the United 398-C 45 States, from their declaration of independence to the close of N. Y., 1895-96. 2 V. Portrait. 8°. 342-73-C94 their civil war. Each volume has its own index. Vol. 2 is edited by Joseph C. Clayton and contains a bibliography of the constitution, by P. L. Ford. Dodsworth, William, ed. History of banking in all the leading nations. Compiled by 13 authors. Ed. by the editor of the Journal of 4 v. 1.8°. commerce and commercial bulletin. N. Y., 1896. 332.1-D66 Vol. 1. United States, by W. G. Sumner. Vol. 2. Great Britain, by H. D. MacLeod.-Russian Empire, by A. E. Horn.-Savings-banks in the United States, by J. P. Townsend. Vol. 3. Latin nations [France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, Portugal, and Roumania], by P. Des Essars.- AlsaceLorraine, by A. Raffalovich.-Canada, by B. E. Walker. |