Calvin Wilson Mateer, by Daniel W. Fisher. The next best thing to having lived a good life is to have written one. Men live on in their biographies. Calvin Wilson Mateer was for forty-five years a missionary in Shantung, China. He was that and more. Some grow like the palm, tall, straight and branchless, others like the banyan, reach out and root themselves in the earth about them. Such a man was Dr. Mateer. He wrote books, organized schools, translated the Scriptures, and assisted at the transformation of a nation. His life was the life of foreign missions told in the concrete. Instead of words he employed deeds. The selection of Dr. Fisher as his biographer was especially fortunate. The two had been classmates at college and each kept the other in sight ever after. This biography has a two-fold interest-religious and political. It is an unanswerable argument in favor of foreign missions, and a marking of those incipient forces that are creating a new China. A faithful record of an eventful life. (The Westminster Press, Philadelphia. Price, $1.50 net.)

Every Man's Religion, by George Hodges. The background of all religion, according to this book, is the fact of mystery, in the midst of which is a sense of the divine. With God and the soul in the world, religion becomes imperative. Revelation is the disclosure of God, not of historic facts, but of God. Miracles are made subordinate. They are few in number, and belong mainly to the times of six men: Moses, Elijah, Elisha, Peter, Paul and our Lord. Jesus is the supreme disclosure of God. The two fundamental facts in religion, God and soul, meet in Him. He reconciles man to God. Theology is a way of thinking, while religion is a way of living. In the New Testament theology is always a part of ethics.

The result is character. Character in the Commandments was obedience to law; in the Sermon on the Mount it becomes aspiration toward an ideal. The strength of this book lies in its clearness of statement. The reader may not agree with all of its conclusions, we do not, but the author has put essential truth in a most readable form"Theology is the technical side of religion, while religion is the practical side of theology." Studied from either side, both theologians and laymen will find this book one of

interest and profit. (The Macmillan Company, New York. Price, $1.50 net.)

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Everyland is a quarterly missionary magazine for boys and girls. It is published at West Medford, Mass., at fifty cents a year. The wonder is how a magazine of such excellence can be produced at so low a price. We are in receipt of the number for March and have read it with the greatest interest. contains a Dutch story by Henrietta S. S. Kuyper; a Scotch story by Abbie Miller Ogilvie; an Indian story by Maude J. Ebmon; a Korean story by Caroline O. Brown, and a sea story by Mrs. Frances E. Clark, aside from short sketches by other writers. The illustrations are excellent and the magazine in every respect all that one could desire. As a children's publication we know of nothing superior. Single number fifteen cents. (The Everyland Publishing Company, West Medford, Mass.)

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The Youngest King, by Robert Hamill Nassau. This is a story based upon the tradition that the Magi were made up of three kings each representing one of the great political divisions of the then known world. The youngest of these kings was Gasper, an AfriHe was a prince who, on the death of his father, refused to ascend the throne, claiming that he had heard voices that bade him find the true king far at the North. The kingdom is left in charge of a regency, while as a pilgrim he leaves the shores of the Nyanza, passes down the Nile and finally joins in the land of Moab a band of pilgrims, among whom are two other kings following a Star in search of the same Christ. They arrive at Bethlehem, see the Child, and return each to his own country. Gasper's kingdom in the meanwhile has passed into other hands. dies, and his followers disperse among the people, only to carry out his teachings through the missions of modern times. The idea, as the reader will at once perceive, requires a pen of no ordinary skill. And in this the author is especially happy. His descriptions of the seas, deserts, mountains and forests of the great Southland it would be hard to surpass. This is a most delightful little book and a classic of its kind. (Presbyterian Board of Publication, Philadelphia. Price, 50 cents net, postage, 5c.

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Dr. Wiley Resigns

AS A CONTRIBUTING EDITOR TO A MAGAZINE, HOWEVER, HE WILL CONTINUE HIS GOOD WORK FOR PURE FOODS.

The resignation of Dr. Wiley is a great loss to the cause of purity and cleanliness in the manufacture of foods. It will be keenly felt by millions of consumers who have looked upon Dr. Wiley as the one official con-. nected with the Department of Agriculture who could be depended upon to enforce the national pure food law without fear or favor. It is not too much to say that almost any other official connected with the federal government might have been more easily spared. In this case, however, the Government's loss is the people's gain. Dr. Wiley's editorial connection with a magazine of large national circulation will give him an opportunity to do more effective work in behalf of pure foods than it is possible to do in any federal job where the processes of prosecution are slow and tedious.

In the meantime, while the President is looking for ? new Chief for the Bureau of Chemistry, women's clubs, housekeepers' leagues and other organizations are taking up the question of instructing consumers how to detect adulterations in foods. They are being shown how to detect the presence of adulterations in canned peas and other canned goods; how to tell the various imitations of butter; how to tell whether strawberry jam is made of real strawberries; how to analyze maple syrup, and how to detect the presence of formaldehyde in milk.

All this is good work, but it takes time and money to apply these tests, and moreover very few housewives will care to maintain a chemical laboratory in their kitchen. The safest way is to eat a pure, clean, elemental food like shredded wheat biscuit which contains nothing but whole wheat steamcooked, shredded and baked in the cleanest, most hygienic food factory in the world. In making this food nothing is used but the whole wheat grain. It contains no yeast, no baking powder, no grease, no chemicals, no preservatives and no seasoning of any kind.

Very few people know that two shredded wheat biscuits with milk or cream and a little fruit will supply more real strength-giving nutriment than meat or eggs and at a cost of

New Testament Theology. New Testament Theology, by Henry C. Sheldon, Professor in Boston University. It is refreshing to read a work on Theology which is something more than the personal opinion or prejudice of the author. Such is the work before us. It discriminates between Theology Systematic and Biblical-a distinction unfortunately not always present. Three sources lie back of the New Testament essential to an understanding of its Theology, which the author recognizes at the outsetthe consciousness of Jesus, the Old Testament, and post-canonical Judaism. These constitute the first two chapters. The third chapter considers those portions of the New Testament "more or less akin to the synoptical gospels in their representations of a primitive type of Christian teaching. The three remaining chapters are devoted respectively to the "Pauline Theology," "Modified Paulinism-Hebrews and First Peter," and "The Johannine Theology." The work as stated in the preface is an effort to present a Biblical

Theology "sufficiently free from scholastic formality to be fairly acceptable to the general reader, and on the other hand, sufficiently compact in statement, logical in arrangement, and fundamental in its treatment of the subject matter to be fitted for service as a text-book." In this the author has succeeded. A work alike valuable to minister and layman. (The Macmillan Company, New York. Price, $1.50.)

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