for the election. The primaries were so entirely controlled by the machineelement as to exclude the better part of the citizens from participating in them. Everything was cut and dried beforehand by committees under control of the bosses, so that there was nothing left but to vote for their selected agents. The movement of the Citizens' Union was a revolt against the boss system, but owing to lack of that thorough organization that characterizes a party machine, and to the perfection of the machines already in existence, the revolt was unavailing, except as a protest against the iniquitous methods of the party leaders, and as a preparation for a more perfect and effective organization, with a view to dethroning the existing bosses one after the other, and thereby to secure future political freedom. The results thus far have shown how powerless the better elements of society are under present conditions. Altho all the preachers, with perhaps a single exception, preacht in favor of the movement for pure municipal politics and nonpartizan municipal government, and tho all the leading newspapers of reputable character favored the movement and engaged most earnestly in advocating it, its defeat was overwhelming. All of which goes to make as clear as possible the importance of the Christian Citizenship Movement, on which THE HOMILETIC REVIEW for November printed a strong article by Dr. Carlos Martyn. A New Organization. THERE is reported from London the organization of a new society, to be known as the "London Society of Church Beggars." It is said that the members are pledged to devote themselves, individually and collectively, to prevailing upon those who hitherto have spent their money at fairs and entertainments for charity to give a like sum directly. It is an attempt to meet what is at present a crying evil in the churches and in the communi ties. It will be a great thing if something can be done to put an end to pious oyster-suppers and all that sort of thing, upon which people, even Christian people, have so largely depended for securing funds for benevolent objects. The objections to these methods-which will be found in THE REVIEW in an article (p. 562) by Rev. Edgar Grim Miller-are manifold. We object to them particularly because they substitute selfishness for benevolence, and cultivate self-indulgence rather than self-denial. The church needs to come down to conscientious, direct, Christian giving. Vast sums of money are thrown away by the false methods in vogue. If there are to be any more organizations, let us by all means have a "Society of Church Beggars." The Criticisms of Princeton. MANY of its friends have been pained by the severe criticism that has recently been directed against that long-honored institution, Princeton University, in connection with the licensing of the so-called "Princeton Inn.” It is no doubt true that a large majority of its faculty are opposed to such licensure, and that the authorities of the university are not directly responsible for it. Indeed, many will remember that several years since Princeton, under the lead of the president of the university and some of its professors, in a hardfought battle drove the saloon out of Princeton. But it is at the same time true that a very large portion of the outside public can not be made to understand the real state of affairs, and that a majority of the constituency of the university are strongly opposed to having their sons in college subjected to the temptation of the saloon, whether gilt-edged or otherwise, and that as a consequence this venerable university is liable to suffer serious injury. True, Princeton University is not ecclesiastically Presbyterian, but it is generally lookt upon as in fact the representative Presbyterian university of this country. Is not the institution making a blunder in not placing itself on record as unmistakably in harmony with the deliverances of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church against the licensing of liquor-selling and the drinking of intoxicating liquors as a beverage? It is understood that Harvard University has placed itself on record as against the saloon and against intoxicating drinks, not only in the city of Cambridge, but in all college banquets; Williams College and other institutions have done likewise. Does not Princeton owe it to its young men, to its constituency, to the church, and to the public in general to place itself on record in the same way? Such a course will speedily put a stop to the hurtful criticism. NOTICES OF BOOKS OF HOMILETIC VALUE. THE LIFE OF DANIEL DE FOE. By Thomas Wright, Principal of Cowper School, Olney: Author of "The Life of William Cowper," etc. New York: A. D. F. Randolph Company. Price, $1.50. This elegant octavo volume of almost five hundred pages is the standard life of De Foe, by one eminently qualified for the task of writing such a life. It lets the reader into the secrets of a great career. Daniel De Foe is often thought of-even by those fairly well acquainted with English history and literature-as merely the eccentric author of that immortal work, "Robinson Crusoe." But he wrote two hundred and fifty books, and was perhaps the most infiuential, altho the most persecuted, man of his age. He probably did more than any other man of his day to help William and Anne, whose special counselor he was, to pave the way for the free modern England introduced by the revolution of 1689. The story is a marvelous record of an intellectual giant struggling for the freedom and morality of a great people. The biographer brings out clearly the fact that "Robinson Crusoe" was intended to represent in allegory the personal experience of De Foe in his extraordinary career, as journalist, politician, and statesman. Alongside of De Foe, among the strong men of his age, we feel constrained to place Dr. Arbuthnot, the physician and friend of Queen Anne, author of the celebrated "Life of John Bull. Everybody knows of Swift and Pope, and lauds them, but the man who has not taken the measure of De Foe and Arbuthnot knows but little of the more powerful forces at work in that age out of which came a better English freedom and morality. HELPFUL DATA IN CURRENT LITERATURE. · IN THE PRESBYTERIAN AND REFORMED REVIEW for October, Prof. John De Witt, D.D., LL.D., of Princeton Theological Seminary, has a valuable article on "Princeton College Administrations in the Nineteenth Century," in which he completes the task begun in the previous number of the Review, of giving a view of Princeton College until it became Princeton University. The biographical notes on some of the leading professors of the century add materially to the value of the article, much of which is devoted to the administration of Dr. James McCosh. Dr. William Henry Green contributes a timely article to the same number on "The Dramatic Character and Integrity of the Book of Job," vindicating the book against the attacks of Dr. Karl Budde, Wellhausen, Cheyne, and others. In the same number is a review of Dr. George A. Gordon's "Immortality and the New Theology," by Prof. Arthur L. Gillett, of Hartford Theological Seminary. He summarizes the contents of the book as follows: "The argument of the book elaborated amounts to this. If God is good; if man knows the universe so well, in process and goal, that he knows how the absolute good must act in the premises; if the worth of man is such that the absoluteness of the Divine goodness would be violated if every man were not im . mortal; then every man must be immortal. (It should be borne in mind that immortality with Dr. Gordon always means perfected, blessed immortality, at some time realized.)" As the author affirms all these positions, the conclusion is in favor of man's Immortality. "As to the 'newness' of this theodicy and its validity as proving immortality, little need be said. It is substantially the same as the argument with which Colonel Ingersoll, and men like him, have long made our public platforms redolent. The difference is simply this: Ingersoll says, 'God is a guess'; but if He be a true guess He must bring men to immortality. Gordon says, God may be held to be capable of demonstration, and then simply changes Ingersoll's judgment from the hypothetical to the categorical form. Any such line of argument, whether new or old, involves a pretty complete set of theological tenets, and its validity rests on these." Professor Gillett then summarizes the fundamental doctrines held by Dr. Gordon, (1) "respecting the Scripture"; (2) "as to the nature of God": (3) "as to the view of sin." After discussing these he concludes: "To any reader who may have a class in formal logic the book is recommended as containing a mine of old logical fallacies for practise, put into a new dress." 48 242 326 291 525 32 144 [The abbreviations in parentheses indicate the section or department in which the articles INDEX OF AUTHORS. PAGE Banks, Louis Albert, D.D., The Crowned Brane, Rev. C. I. B., Where to Look for 239 Burr, E. Fitch, D.D., LL.D., The Church 317 524 523 Burrell, David James, "Take Up Thy Bed Campbell, Rev. James M., The Scotch Preacher of the Olden Time (Mis.) .. 557 Dwight, President Timothy, D.D., LL. D., 143 Edwards, J. H., D.D., The Preacher Be- 248 199 335 PAGE 240 Foss, Bishop Cyrus D., D.D., LL. D., The Gibson, John Monro, D.D., The Glory of 387 229 383 336 Gilbert, Rev. Jesse S., Ph.D., Seed- Our Views of a Future State (Ser.).. 412 238 Paton, J. G., D.D., The Wonderful Works 434 334 Pearse, Rev. Mark Guy, Receiving and 243 458; 540 234 Hall, Thomas C., D.D., What Salvation 403 241 Hamilton, J. W., D.D., The First Chris- 47 Hawthorne, J. B., D.D., Christ's Dying 435 Henson, P. S., D.D., The Angels' Song Hoge, Moses D., D.D., LL.D., The Bible ......... Pentecost, George F., D.D., Christian ... 137 195 522 290 Sheppard, Rev. William C., Homiletic 497 Kennard, J. Spencer, D.D., The Personal 429 McCurdy, J. F., Ph.D., LL.D., Light on 441 430 Sinclair, William M., D.D., Our Anglican 341 40 525 237 McLane, William W., D.D., Ph.D., The 188 8 McLaren, Alexander, D. D., When the Oil Thompson, Charles L., D.D., Our Greater ..... 145 187 523 Macmillan, Hugh, D. D., IL. D., F.R.S. E., McNeill, Rev. John, "I Go A-Fishing" 425 Warner, Rev. Horace E., A.M., The Pas- 87 124- |