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plored jungle areas and tries to erase from his mind the conviction that he should return to Africa to carry on Livingstone’s work. Finally Livingstone dies and is buried in London with royalty by the Queen and Stanley goes to Africa to preach the gospel. For this book Harry J. Albus uses as source material Stanley’s work How I Found Livingstone and puts it into 87 pages of rather simple jargon (the natives say “ Sure!” and “Hey, you!” ). In the same storybook style Albus tells how Stanley fulfilled Livingstone’s dream by seeking the source of the Nile, exploring the Lualaba River, the borders of Lake Tanganyika and Lake Albert. The work is too short to set much mood and is taken up mainly with dialogue and fast-paced action. 87 pages; pa per; Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids; $1.25.—Reviewed by Norman B. Rohrer. “ Cheaper by the dozen” was almost true of this venture on the part of the Holt family of Creswell, Ore. in adopting eight abandoned orphans from Korea and adding them to their own family of six children. The story poper; Moody Press, Chicago; 50c. A Moody Pocket Book. JUNGLE DOCTOR HUNTS BIG GAME by Paul White. 119 pages; boards; Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids; $1.00. No. 14 in this fascinating juvenile series. CASE HISTORIES FROM THE FILES OF DR. LUKE by Paul N. Vomer. 154 pages; cloth; Worburg Press, Columbus, Ohio; $2.50. The healing miracles recorded in Luke told in mod ern language by a minister who has specialized in psychotherapy. Refreshing language en hances the details of the stories while intimate, local fill-in of modern flavor makes these stories sound like today's office conversation. RELIGION IN AND ON THE JOB by Eugene Carr. 128 pages; cloth; Coward McCann, Inc., New York; $2.00. A prominent layman looks at Jobs and labor problems with sympathy and understanding and orients many phases of the common man's daily life in the direction of Christian considerations by means of specific life situations. He is himself a civic leader and a member of the executive committee of the National Council of Presbyterian Men. HANDBOOK OF CHRISTIAN ETIQUETTE. 11th ed. revised, by Mrs. W. B. Riley. 182 pages; cloth; Moody Press, Chicago; $2.95. ILLUSTRATED NEW TESTAMENT. 496 pages; cloth; Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, Mass.; $1.00. Colored illustrations make this an attractive volume for children. OUR WONDERFUL BIBLE by S. Maxwell Coder. 32 pages; paper; Moody Press, Chicago; 25c. MISSIONARY ADVENTURES by Carol Allison. 95 pages; paper; Moody Press, Chicago; $1.00. Illustrated stories of many lands. T h e S e e d f r o m t h e E a s t By Mrs. Harry Holt as told to David Wisner
has been told briefly in some of the popular magazines and now we have the full account. There is a struggle here that is well worth recounting and a generosity and genuine Chris t i a n philanthropy t h a t c a n be matched in few places. The intima cies of these experiences w ill thrill the heart of any mother. However, it is too bad that the publisher could not have conformed the book more to the standard form. There are two title pages and a half title. Pagination runs by count from the outside of the front cover through seven blank l e a v e s and even through the end papers onto the inside of the back cover, a fact which may make this a unique book in our times stylistically, but is nonetheless unattractive in format. 255 pages; cloth; Oxford Press, Los Angeles; $3.50. Many of the books published on the Revelation repeat material previ ously written, but Dr. Tenney’s book has some features that are different and i t is w o r t h a d d i n g to one’s library. This is not a commentary but consists of some chapters on introduc tory matters, some on the interpreta tion and some on the theology of the book. The outline has been worked out in an alliterative form: Christ communicating, Christ in the church, Christ in the cosmos, Christ in con quest, Christ in consummation and Christ challenging. There are a num ber of charts and detailed outlines and two indexes, together with an extensive bibliography. Some good arguments are presented for the literal and futuristic methods of interpretation, but Dr. Tenney out lines the other methods as well. He is no date setter, however. The author is dean of the graduate school of Wheaton College. 220 pages; cloth; Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids; $3.50. T h e l i f e o f E lija h By Arthur W. Pink “He being dead yet speaketh” is true of Arthur W. Pink who died in 1952. There is a thoroughness and a depth to his writings that commend them to the, serious student of the I n t e r p r e t i n g R e v e l a t i o n By Merrill C. Tenney
T h e P e a r l o f P s a lm s By George Henderson
This is a revised reissue of a charm ing exposition of Psalm 23. It is full of spiritual meat from verse one to the end. The shepherd theme is held in the interpreter’s mind throughout the psalm, although he recognizes the al ternate interpretation of shepherd, traveler and host. There is good hom iletic treatment and considerable po etic illustration. 61 pages; cloth; B. McCall Barbour, Edinburgh, Scot land; 5 shillings. " D r . L i v i n g s t o n e , I P r e s u m e ? ” By Harry J. Albus It’s been a fashionable joke to stick out the hand and say to a friend, “ Dr. Livingstone, I presume?” These celebrated words were spok en nearly 120 years ago in Ujiji, Africa by New York Herald Reporter Henry M. Stanley who found the famous British missionary after he was believed to be dead. In the jungle Stanley renews his boyhood faith in Christ and is faced with Livingstone’s searching ques tion, “Would you be willing to give the rest of your life to Africa?” Stanley then goes to London, files his story with the Herald, turns over Livingstone’s geographical n o t e s , charts and maps of hitherto unex- The Book Ends BOXES, BOTTLES AND BOOKS AT THE JUDG MENT SEAT OF CHRIST by Robert T. Ketcham. 32 pages; paper; Moody Press, Chicago; 50c. An exposition of the golden lampstond of the tobernacle. PILGRIM'S PROGRESS by John Bunyan. 191 pages; paper; Moody Press, Chicogo; 50c. A Moody Pocket Book edition. THE CHANGED LIFE by Henry Drummond. 64 R ages; cloth; Fleming H. Revell Co., Westwood, IJ .; $1.00. One o f a new series of RevelI's Inspirational Classics. THE CHRISTIAN LIFE; DEVOTIONAL MES SAGES FOR DAY-TO-DAY CHRISTIAN LIVING by Lelia Boring Lassiter. 94 pages: cloth; Green wich Book Publishers, New York; $2.50. Twenty- one extended devotionol messages with poetical selections and Scripture references. A WONDERING JEW FINDS REST by Leon Feldman. 48 pages; paper; Bock to the Bible Publishers, Lincoln. Neb.: 10c. A short auto biography of a Hebrew Christian. A YEAR OF YOUNG PEOPLE'S PROGRAMS by Wolly and Esther Howard. 64 pages; paper; Moody Press, Chicago; 75c. STORIES WE WROTE by boys and girls, com piled and edited by Aunt Theresa Worman. 64 pages; paper; Moody Press, Chicago; 50c. Letters ond testimonies from the children ac company the stories. THE HAPPY CHRISTIAN by An Unknown Christian (Albert Ernest Richardson). 159 pages; 36
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