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THE TWOFOLD LIFE. By A. J. GORDON, D.D. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 27, Paternoster Row.

This is a volume on Christ's work for us, and Christ's work in us, and will be refreshing to all those Christians who desire spiritual stimulus rather than intellectual suggestion, and meditative piety rather than profound studies.

HEART-FELLOWSHIP WITH CHRIST. Meditations and prayers for each Sunday in the year. By the REV. W. P. BALFERN. London : Hodder and Stoughton, 27, Paternoster Row.

A book for quiet hours. Each meditation is followed by an appropriate little prayer. If not a very suggestive book, it is spiritual and earnest, and fulfils its expressed object, to 'exalt Christ in the affections of His people.'

REASONS CONCERNING OUR HOPE. London: Alexander and Shephard, 21, Castle Street, Holborn.

The title scarcely indicates the purpose of the volume, which is this: 'to give a brief survey of the credentials of Christianity'; and is addressed chiefly to those who find the battle of thought come on early and inevitably as the battle of life.' It is full of good thoughts and able arguments, and though concise is very complete of its kind. An excellent volume for the young.

OUTLINE LESSONS FOR JUNIOR CLASSES ON THE LIFE OF OUR LORD. By ANNIE B- London Sunday School Union, 56, Old Bailey.

Annie B

need not mind telling us what follows B- for this is a good work, simple but suggestive, and exactly suited for junior classes. The ability of the book is shown from the way in which heart and home counsels are given here and there. On p. 183, 'One Missed and Cared for,' she says: One sheep was missed, and the shepherd knew which one.' 'A little boy with a hundred marbles will cry if he loses one, and is sure to think the lost one was the "prettiest he had." This is a brave attempt to go through the life of our Lord with children, but it is well done, and we sincerely hope that this new 'ideal' may supersede lessons taken here and there from the Scriptures. We have no hesitation in warmly commending this volume to Sunday-school teachers.

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FROM CHRIST TO CONSTANTINE: CHRISTIANITY IN THE FIRST THREE CENTURIES. BY WALTER F. ADENEY, M.A. Same publishers. This is one of the volumes of 'Normal Studies' for Sunday-school teachers, and is one of the very best of them. It is, in fact, a Bibleclass Church history; but it is all done with such ease and freedom from 'extracts' and 'scissor' literature, that it is perfect of its kind. Limits of space being considered, this is like an egg, full of meat. Literature and doctrine in the writings of the Fathers are wisely enough omitted, and the volume is confined to the course of Christianity during the first three centuries, together with such points as Church Government and the Social Life of the Christians. We commend this to senior-class teachers. There need be no complaint that the Sunday School Union is not abreast with the necessities of the age, if these new volumes are made use of as they ought to be. It is a matter of sincere gratification to us, who have in past numbers criticized somewhat severely the provision made for Sunday-school teaching to be able to recommend so heartily such books as these.

SERIALS AND PAMPHLETS.

LITERARY WORLD. Clarke and Co., Fleet Street.

A most instructive and helpful weekly, bringing before us with suitable extracts the best modern literature. Only a penny a week to be au courant with the reading world.

THE QUIVER. Cassell, Petter, Galpin, and Co., La Belle Sauvage Yard. Rich in religious essays of high order, and able but unsensational tales, with charming articles. Wonderfully preserves its vitality.

PROTESTANT PAPERS FOR THE PEOPLE. Elliot Stock, 62, Paternoster Row.

Much needed, well written, and very telling in style.

THE HOMILETIC MAGAZINE. James Nisbet and Co., 21, Berners Street, W.

Contains Homiletical section, Theological section, Expository section. Miscellaneous section. It is edited, we believe, by an able man, Rev. Frederic Hastings, who succeeds in enlisting some of the best writers in this useful work. It is well done, but there is need in it of higher and more suggestive Homilies. The Rev. A. F. Muir, M.A., is one of the best in this department.

OUR METHOD OF VISITATION. By J. W. Morden.

A paper read before the London City Missionaries' Mutual Improvement Association, and published at threepence, laying before us the real work of a city missionary. It is full of wise hints concerning 'visitation' in general, and quickens in us the consciousness of the noble work which the army of city missionaries is carrying on in London. No men amongst us are more modest, earnest, and consecrated in spirit than these brethren in Christ.

MANAGERS' MEETING.

THE next half-yearly meeting of the managers of the Evangelical Magazine will be held at the Memorial Hall, Farringdon Street, on Tuesday morning, July 15, at eleven o'clock precisely.

WIDOWS' FUND.

THE Managers of the Evangelical Magazine acknowledge, with thanks, the following Sacramental Collections and Donations, in aid of the 'Widows' Fund':

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CHAPEL AND SCHOOL-HOUSE, NGATANGIA, RAROTONGA.

THE CHRONICLE

OF THE

London Missionary Society.

I-South Seas-Missions and Commerce.

HERVEY GROUP.

BY THE REV. G. A. HARRIS.

T is always pleasing and gratifying to see, after the lapse of a

number of years, towns and villages which we once looked upon' as poor and small having risen into great importance through the industry and perseverance of their inhabitants. England can present many such instances within the last twenty years. There are also clusters of small islands far away in the sunny South Seas which have within the last decade or two made equally rapid strides in commercial and material prosperity. And the pleasure afforded to those who are deeply interested in the general welfare of the Polynesian races is even greater than that we experience on beholding the advance of some of our own people. And for this reason: the Polynesian belongs emphatically to the weaker races, who are easily crushed by the stronger when there is any struggle between them. I think also that that pleasure and satisfaction is enhanced because a better proportion of generous giving through increased prosperity is seen among our tawny natives than among many of the British people.

It is a well-known fact in this country that the cocoa-nut tree supplies our natives with abundant material for food and commercial produce. Besides a never-ending supply of a sparkling beverage, and food suitable for young and old, the natives make from the old nut a large amount of copra for the European market, which is simply the mature nut dried in the sun and ready for expressing the oil from it. Twelve years ago the natives made the oil themselves, and sold that. With the aid of machinery copra now sends to the market a purer oil and more of it, besides supplying an additional article of commerce in the shape of oil-cake for cattle, which is made from the refuse of the nut after undergoing expression. The fluctuating character of the English market, however, makes this copra an unsteady article of

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