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THE LITERARY GUIDE: A M O N T H L Y R E C O R D A N D R E V IE IV O F U B E R A I A N D A D V A N C E D P U B L IC A T IO N S , .
No. 106.]
O C TO B E R i, 1S94.
[Price One Penny.
N E IV P U B L I C A TIONS.
T he forthcoming issue of “ The Agnostic Annual ” (6d.) will contain contributions from Mr. Leslie Stephen, the author of “ Supernatural Religion,” I)r. A. R. Wallace, Professor Max Müller, Mr. J. Allanson Picton (late M.P. for Leicester), Frofessor Momerie, Mr. Thomas Whittaker, B.A. (editor o f Professor Croom Robertson’s “ Philosophical Remains”), Professor Ludwig Büchner, Mr. Samuel Laing, Miss Constance E. Plumptre, Mr. Edward Clodd, General Forlong (author of “ Rivers of L ife ” ), Mr. B. Bosanquet, Dr. Bithell, Mr. Charles Watts, Mr. F. J. Gould, Captain W. B. McTaggart, Mr. W. Stewart Ross, and others. The chief feature of the “ Annual ” will be a symposium on “ Why Live a Moral Life ?— The Answer of Rationalism.” A full list o f the contents will be found in our advertising columns.
One of the most interesting books to be issued during the present publishing season will be the correspondence of the late Matthew Arnold, which is to contain valuable and fresh information about his father, I)r. Arnold, of Rugby, Dean Stanley, and many eminent poets and authors. The letters are to be issued in three volumes, and will be edited by Mr. G. W. Russell, M.P.
T he second part of the late Professor George J. Romanes’s “ Darwin and After Darwin,” treating of post-Darwinian questions, is to be edited by Professor C. L. Lloyd Morgan, of the University College, Bristol, whom Professor Romanes appointed his literary executor. Professor Morgan is now engaged upon the work, which will, it is expected, be published during the autumn.
A new and revised edition of Dr. Brewer’s “ Dictionary o f Phrase and Fable,” a most valuable work to all students and thinkers, is being issued in monthly parts by Messrs. Cassell & Co. To the first part is prefixed a striking portrait of the venerable author.
Messrs. Sonnenschein & Co. will issue during the autumn publishing season a new volume of “ Ethical Discourses,” by Mr. Leslie Stephen, and also “ Thoughts and Aspirations of the A g e s : Extracts in Prose and Verse from the Great Religious Books of the World,” edited by Dr. W. C. Coupland.
Messrs. A. & C. Black have in the press “ Monism ; or, the Confession o f Faith of a Man of Science,” by Professor Ernst Haeckel, translated from the German by J. D. F. Gilchrist.
T he Progressive Publishing Company has published, under the title " I s Suicide a Sin ?’’ (2d.), a brilliant paper by Colonel Ingcrsoll, and a reply thereto by Monsignor Duccy.
Messrs. Bentley announce the publication of the autobiography of the eminent Theist and philanthropist, Frances Power Cobbc. The work is of exceptional interest to liberal thinkers, containing as it does reminiscences of many notable figures in the procession of modern thought, including Theodore Parker, Matthew Arnold, J. S. Mill, Charles Darwin, and George Eliot. Miss Cobbe was one of the pillars of South Place Chapel in the early days of M. I). Conway, and previously in the famous ministry of “ Publicola.”
Messrs. Longmans have published a cheap edition of Margaret Deland’s heterodox novel, “ S idney” (2s. 6d.). It will be remembered that the book, on its first appearance, was favourably reviewed in the Rationalist Press.
Mr. Gladstone having “ boomed ” Mrs. Besant’s “ Autobiography,” Mr. Fisher Unwin has, to meet the increased demand, issued a cheaper edition of the work, in one volume. The price is 6s.
Miss Susan H. Wixon, a promising Rationalist writer, has published through the Truthsecker Company, New York, a treatise on “ Right L iv ing” (4s. 6d.), being an exposition of ethics as understood by a student o f science.
T he ninth volume of Professor Huxley’s Collected Essays includes his “ Flvolution and Ethics ” (5s.), which he has prefaced with much new matter.
Mr. Rohert Forder will publish immediately the famous chapters of Strauss’s “ Life o f Jesus ” dealing with the miraculous birth of the founder of Christianity. Mr. G. W. Foote will contribute a preface to the booklet.
Under the title of “ What Do I Believe?” Dr. Henry Smith has written two essays in justification of the argument advanced in his “ Practical Value of Religious Belief.” The little work is luminously expository, and will be interesting as coming from the pen of a professed Sceptic. Messrs. Walts & Co. will be the publishers.
Messrs. Blackie & Son are publishing, in their School Classics, “ Readings from C arly le : A Selection of Representative Extracts ” (2s. 6d.).
Messrs. G. 1’. Putnam’s Sons will issue during the autumn “ Emperor Julian, the Philosopher, and the Struggle of Paganism against Christianity,” by Miss Alice Gardner.
A nother novel of the “ Robert Elsmere” type, entitled “ Both Worlds Barred ” (3s. 6d.), is just published. It describes, somewhat after the fashion of " A Modern Heretic,” the woes of a Presbyterian minister who strays into Agnosticism, and loses his fiancee in consequence.
Messrs. Macmillan will shortly issue Dr. Andrew White’s valuable scries of papers on “ The Warfare of Science.” The papers were originally published in an American magazine, and attracted considerable notice by their pronouncedly heterodox tone.
