K. Fiske records a dream of the future world, and expounds his views on the destiny of man. The fiction is sustained of a person who was rendered insensible and to all appearances dead for three days by a railroad accident, and whose spirit sojourned in the other world for that time. Recalled to life and earth, he feels himself a stranger among those who were of his kind, and is impelled to leave a record of his experiences and impressions in the abode of spirits. Hints are given of the persistence of the principle of evolution throughout the universe, and of the continued development and perfection of the human race in the after-life.
A collection of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's patriotic addresses, compiled a few years ago by Mr. John R. Howard, contained a review of Mr. Beecher's Personality and Influence in Public Affairs. This is now separated from the original volume by the author, and published by itself, by Fords, Howard & Hulbert, under the title of Henry Ward Beecher: a Study of his Personality, Career, and Influence in Public Affairs. It is, in fact, an interesting and critical biography of a man whose influence on American thought and political tendencies has been second to that of few if any others. The book is embellished with excellent portraits of Mr. Beecher at forty-three, at sixty-five, and at seventy-three.
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Brooklyn Institute. Third Year-Book, 1890-'91. Brooklyn. Pp. 232.
Canaday. W. P., and West, Goldsmith Bernard, Editors. Railway Law and Legislation. Vol. I, No. 1. Semi-monthly. Washington. Pp. 20.
Cobb. John Storer. The Torch and the Tomb. Boston: New England Cremation Society. Pp. 40.
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