but really, it seems that, in view of the high consideration in which he is held on the Pacific Coast, his thorough acquaintance with every thing there, and his singular endowments, he could do a work in that wonderful and weird country, which no one else can accomplish. We are tempted to say more, but forbear at present. The book is adorned with a fine engraving of the author, and the kind autograph inscription on the presentation-page elicits our most grateful appreciation. Ecce quam bonum. A slip on page 115 has been corrected for the next edition-in the present a pencil note may say, "Memphis, 1870," instead of "Louisville, 1874."

The Literary World for November, 1881, is opulent. Pub

lishers' notices are numerous, and the editorial criticisms are excellent. We are pleased to see a commendation of Judd's Volcanoes. A learned friend asked us what we thought is in "the heart of the earth," if it is not a mediterranean sea of liquid fire, feeding volcanoes, geysers, etc. Mr. Judd furnishes our answer: "The earth is rather a solid than a molten mass, with the denser iron, nickel, etc., mostly free and unoxidized, toward the center. The immediate motive-power of volcanoes is steam'bubbles' bursting and causing the eruptions; and the more remote causes are physical pressure and chemical action." We might add to this statement, but this will suffice. We are pleased to see a healthful denunciation of the Rev. J. W. Chadwick's infidel Life of Jesus, which is simply blasphemous and preposterous. Our musical friends will be gratified to learn the British Museum has been furnished with a collection of 439 volumes of manuscript music from the thirteenth century to the present, found by Julian Marshall. T. Hall Caine's "Sonnets of Three Centuries" number sonnets hitherto unpublished by Hartley Coleridge, Rossetti, and others.

The Canadian Methodist Magazine for December, 1881, states that the Central Board of Missions, Oct. 25, appropriated $14,000 for houserent and removals of missionaries; for Indian and French Missions, $12,545; for missionary districts, $27,476; for Domestic Missions in the six Annual Conferences, $39,565. These are small sums considering the magnitude of the work. The Canadian General Conference forbids that the appropriations shall exceed the income of the preceding year.

Vanderbilt Observer is the title of a handsome monthly periodical published by the Literary Societies of Vanderbilt University, with the sanction of the Board of Trust and Faculty. An experienced professor remarked that this is the best periodical of its class he ever saw, and we are disposed to think he is not much mistaken. It is creditable to all concerned. "Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull." Success to it.

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Christian Institutions, by Dean Stanley-Orr's Papal Power in Politics-Studies in the Book of Mark, by Hughes-Proceedings of the Ecumenical Methodist Conference-Blake's The Pulpit and Pew-Hinds's The Use of Tobacco-The International Revision Commentary on the New Testament, Based upon the Revised Version, by Schaff; and The Gospel According to Mark Explained by RiddleHensel's Mendelssohn Family-Rivers's Our Young People-Ladd's Principles of Church Polity-Paul the Missionary-Manual of Object Teaching-Lipscomb's Lessons from the Life of Saint Peter-Chaillu's Land of the Midnight SunBurr's Commentary on Job-McFarland's Cousin Eula-The Bible Doctrine of Hell-Teachers' Edition of the New Testament-Harper's Popular Cyclopædia of United States History-Ralston's Elementary Text-book on Evidences of Christianity, Christian Morals, and Church Polity-Hibbard's Commentary on the Book of Psalms-Spurgeon's Treasury of David-Brown's Drawing of the Lord's Prayer Rylance's Pulpit Talks on Topics of the Times-Letters from Confederate Prisoners-Ridgaway's Life of Bishop Janes-Against the Stream-Stanley's Life of Arnold-Wilson's Missions of the M. E. Church, South-Woolsey's Divorce and Divorce Legislation.—PERIODICALS.

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HALIEUTICS is that branch of Theology which treats of the evangelization of the world-in plain English, the cause of Missions.

The word is derived from the Greek sortzós, that which pertains to fishing. It is thus defined by Webster: "A treatise upon fish, or the art of fishing; ichthyology.'

The ecclesiastical appropriation of the word was suggested by Matthew iv. 18-22: "And Jesus, walking by the Sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea (for they were fishers). And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of menἁλιεῖς ἀνθρώπων. And they straightway left their nets, and followed him. And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them. And they immediately left the ship and their father, and followed him."

Luke (v. 1-11), after narrating the account of the miraculous draught of fishes, states that "Jesus said unto Simon, Fear not, from henceforth thou shalt catch men"—à0pánovs 'tay ἀνθρώπους έσῃ

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wypu. The word hapßávw, to take, or catch, is used in a similar tropical sense in 2 Cor. xii. 16, "I caught you with guile," as Paul's calumniators insinuated.

Then there is the suggestive parable of the drag-uet: "The kingdom of heaven is like unto a net that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind, which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away." Matt. xiii. 47, 48; cf. Ezek. xlvii. 9, 10; Matt. xvii. 27; John xxi. 1-14.

In a note on Jer. xvi. 16, "Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall fish them," Fausset says, "The same image of fishers' and 'fish' is used in a good sense of the Jews' restoration, implying that just as their enemies were employed by God to take them in hand for destruction, so the same shall be employed for their restoration (Ezek. xlvii. 9, 10). So, spiritually, those once enemies by nature (fishermen many of them literally) were employed by God to be heralds of salvation, 'catching men' for life (Matt. iv. 19; Luke v. 10; Acts ii. 41; iv. 4-cf. here ver. 19: 'O Lord, the Gentiles shall come unto thee '), 2 Cor. xii. 16."

As there is so much interest, not to say fascination, in fishing, men of an unbridled imagination, lacking in sound judgment, may make the allegory run on all-fours; so that the spiritual fisherman has been made a ridiculous charactervery different from the apostles and primitive missionaries, who were "fishers of men."

The term Halieutics, as a theological technicality, may not have been well chosen, but this matters little: it means the cause of Missions.

In Halieutics there are four things to be considered: the object proposed; the reasons assigned; the methods pursued; the history recorded.

First. The object proposed.

This is the evangelization of the world.

Poimenics, or the pastoral office, as the word denotes, concerns the Church-that part of the world already evangelized. Still, no very sharp line of distinction can be drawn between the work of a pastor and that of a missionary. It is the duty