“It is not unlikely to prove true in the end that the most useful popular service which Dr. McCosh has rendered to the cause of right thinking and to a sound philosophy of life is his proposed Philosophic Series, the first number of which, Criteria of Diverse Kinds of Truth as Opposed to Agnosticism, we have perused with great satisfaction.”—The Independent.
FINAL CAUSES.
By Paul Janet, Member of the French Academy. Translated from the Second French Edition. With a Preface by Robert Flint, D.D., LL.D. 1 vol. 8vo, $2.50.
“No book of greater importance in the realm of theological philosophy has appeared during the past twenty years than Paul Janet’s ‘Final Causes.’ The central idea of the work is one which the whole course of scientific discussion has made the burning question of the day, viz.: that final causes are not inconsistent with physical causation.”—Independent.
THE BEGINNINGS OF HISTORY,
According to the Bible and the Traditions of Oriental Peoples. From the Creation of Man to the Deluge. By François Lenormant, Professor of Archæology at the National Library of France, etc., etc. (Translated from the Second French Edition.) With an introduction by Francis Brown, Assistant Professor in Biblical Philology, Union Theological Seminary. 1 vol. 12mo, 750 pp., $2.50.
“The work is one that deserves to be studied by all students of ancient history, and in particular by ministers of the gospel, whose office requires them to interpret the Scriptures, and who ought not to be ignorant of the latest and most interesting contribution of science to the elucidation to the sacred volume.”—New York Tribune.
THE RELIGIONS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD,
Including Egypt, Assyria and Babylonia, Persia, India, Phœnicia, Etruria, Greece, Rome. By George Rawlinson, M.A., author of “The Origin of Nations,” etc. 1 vol., 12mo, $1.
“The historical studies which have elevated this author’s works to the highest position have made him familiar with those beliefs which once directed the world’s thought; and he has done literature no better service than in this little volume.... The book is, then, to be accepted as a sketch, and as the most trustworthy sketch in our language, of the religions discussed.”—N.Y. Christian Advocate.