This is a unique book.  It purports to give the addresses of a practical blacksmith, some of them delivered in his shop to a few neighbors, but the audience becoming larger, the rest were given in an adjacent church building.  To most persons, the title affords a slight clue to the drift of the book, which is to show the duty and the benefits of giving the tithe of a man’s income to the Lord.  The author’s bottom thought is based on this statement in the preface:  “God pledges himself for the success of that individual who renders obedience to the divine money-claim.”  In other words, the path to wealth is the path of benevolence.  The obligation to give the tithe is earnestly enforced by the ordinary Scripture quotations, and by arguments drawn from other sources.  Whatever the reader may think of the theory of the book, he will find in it a good deal of valuable and practical truth.

Yale Lectures on the Sunday-school. By H. CLAY TRUMBULL.  Philadelphia:  John D. Wattles.

This book contains Dr. Trumbull’s addresses before the Yale Divinity School in the course of the Lyman Beecher Lectures for 1888.  They were not only heard with interest, but the Faculty of Yale College expressed their thanks to the author, and their wishes that the discourses might soon be given to the public.  Such an author in such a presence and with such a theme, may well be supposed to have presented whatever is interesting and valuable on a subject of such vast importance to Christian families and the Christian church.  We commend the book most cordially.

Cooking and Sewing Songs and Recitations for Industrial and Mission Schools. Edited by MRS. J.R.  ROMER.  J.W.  Schermerhorn & Co., New York.

Of a very different style and size from the book above noticed is this little neatly-printed pamphlet with flexible covers, occupying sixty-six pages, of songs, to be used by pupils in connection with their industrial labors.  They are vivacious, pithy, adapted to the purpose in hand, and doubtless would cheer and brighten many an hour that might otherwise pass in the humdrum of an unrelieved toil, and at the same time impress upon the memory and heart a good deal of salutary truth.

The Songs of Praise with tunes.  Published by A.S.  Barnes & Co., New York and Chicago.

Contains 500 choice Hymns with music well adapted to meet the requirements of social worship.  Such churches as do not desire a larger collection will find this an excellent book of social song.

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THE SOUTH.

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DEDICATION OF BALLARD BUILDING, MACON, GA.

MRS. LIVA A. SHAW.

The dedication of Ballard Building took place Thursday, February 14th.  The services were attended by a large number of the patrons and friends of the school, among the latter some of the leading white citizens of Macon.  After the opening exercises, short addresses were made by Prof.  Zettler, Superintendent of Bibb Co. schools, Dr. Greene, a leading colored physician, and the following city pastors; Dr. Warren, First Baptist; Dr. Jennings, First Presbyterian, and Mr. Miller, Washington Avenue Presbyterian, (Colored).  These were followed by Corresponding Secretary Dr. Beard, of New York.