PATRIOTIC.

Sung, to music composed by the author, at the anniversary of the battle of Concord, at Concord, Mass., 1898.

This land of ours, we love it.’Tis Freedom’s own, where reignNo tyrants throned above itO’er serfs that wear their chain;Where birth and wealth to worth give way,And none in camp or court have sway,Except as all ordain.Chorus:O Land that leaves the true man freeFor all the soul would do or be,Thank Heaven for life that gave us thee,America, our home!Kind homes are ours that wake usTo life whose morn is bright.Free schools are ours that make usBelieve in truth and right.Our churches all are churches taughtThat conscience guides the wisest thought,And love wins more than might.Chorus: O Land that leaves, etc.We love the rule that trains usTo duty, self-control’d,And honor’d toil that gains usWhat order helps us hold;Where never, save for threaten’d right,Our starry flags, like stars at night,O’er war’s dark storms unfold.Chorus: O Land that leaves, etc.We love the life that bears usToward all that seers can see,And, led by hope, prepares usThe whole world’s hope to be,When, in the day that war shall cease,OurGolden Ruleshall keep the peace,And all mankind be free.Chorus: O Land that leaves, etc.

This land of ours, we love it.

’Tis Freedom’s own, where reign

No tyrants throned above it

O’er serfs that wear their chain;

Where birth and wealth to worth give way,

And none in camp or court have sway,

Except as all ordain.

Chorus:

O Land that leaves the true man freeFor all the soul would do or be,Thank Heaven for life that gave us thee,America, our home!

O Land that leaves the true man free

For all the soul would do or be,

Thank Heaven for life that gave us thee,

America, our home!

Kind homes are ours that wake usTo life whose morn is bright.Free schools are ours that make usBelieve in truth and right.Our churches all are churches taughtThat conscience guides the wisest thought,And love wins more than might.Chorus: O Land that leaves, etc.

Kind homes are ours that wake us

To life whose morn is bright.

Free schools are ours that make us

Believe in truth and right.

Our churches all are churches taught

That conscience guides the wisest thought,

And love wins more than might.

Chorus: O Land that leaves, etc.

We love the rule that trains usTo duty, self-control’d,And honor’d toil that gains usWhat order helps us hold;Where never, save for threaten’d right,Our starry flags, like stars at night,O’er war’s dark storms unfold.Chorus: O Land that leaves, etc.

We love the rule that trains us

To duty, self-control’d,

And honor’d toil that gains us

What order helps us hold;

Where never, save for threaten’d right,

Our starry flags, like stars at night,

O’er war’s dark storms unfold.

Chorus: O Land that leaves, etc.

We love the life that bears usToward all that seers can see,And, led by hope, prepares usThe whole world’s hope to be,When, in the day that war shall cease,OurGolden Ruleshall keep the peace,And all mankind be free.Chorus: O Land that leaves, etc.

We love the life that bears us

Toward all that seers can see,

And, led by hope, prepares us

The whole world’s hope to be,

When, in the day that war shall cease,

OurGolden Ruleshall keep the peace,

And all mankind be free.

Chorus: O Land that leaves, etc.

Sung, to the music of “Marching through Georgia,” at the anniversary of the National Society of the Children of the American Revolution, held in Columbia Theatre, Washington, D. C., Feb. 22, 1899.

Hail, all hail, the flag above us. Oh, how oft, to rightWrong that war alone could end, that flag has led the fight,Streaming on with fire and shot till, through the smoke, the lightBurst on the victory of freedom!Chorus:Hurrah! Hurrah! beneath the flag to be!Hurrah! Hurrah! its loyal wards are we!Where theStars and Stripesare flying over land or sea,Under the flag there is freedom.Hail, all hail, the flag above us. Peace is in each hue;Storms are signal’d not by stars, or skies red, white, or blue;Peace is in it e’en in war, for, when the war is through,That which has won then is freedom.Chorus: Hurrah! Hurrah! etc.Hail, all hail, the flag above us. In its blue more brightShine the stars to guide our way than in the dome of night;Higher aims the hope that sees them, for their spotless whiteSymbols the pure light of freedom.Chorus: Hurrah! Hurrah! etc.Hail, all hail, the flag above us. Nature never knew,In the dawn’s red ladder-bars where daylight climbs to view,Stripes that brought as fair a day as these anon shall do,When all the world turns to freedom.Chorus: Hurrah! Hurrah! etc.

Hail, all hail, the flag above us. Oh, how oft, to right

Wrong that war alone could end, that flag has led the fight,

Streaming on with fire and shot till, through the smoke, the light

Burst on the victory of freedom!

Chorus:

Hurrah! Hurrah! beneath the flag to be!Hurrah! Hurrah! its loyal wards are we!Where theStars and Stripesare flying over land or sea,Under the flag there is freedom.

Hurrah! Hurrah! beneath the flag to be!

Hurrah! Hurrah! its loyal wards are we!

Where theStars and Stripesare flying over land or sea,

Under the flag there is freedom.

Hail, all hail, the flag above us. Peace is in each hue;Storms are signal’d not by stars, or skies red, white, or blue;Peace is in it e’en in war, for, when the war is through,That which has won then is freedom.Chorus: Hurrah! Hurrah! etc.

Hail, all hail, the flag above us. Peace is in each hue;

Storms are signal’d not by stars, or skies red, white, or blue;

Peace is in it e’en in war, for, when the war is through,

That which has won then is freedom.

Chorus: Hurrah! Hurrah! etc.

Hail, all hail, the flag above us. In its blue more brightShine the stars to guide our way than in the dome of night;Higher aims the hope that sees them, for their spotless whiteSymbols the pure light of freedom.Chorus: Hurrah! Hurrah! etc.

Hail, all hail, the flag above us. In its blue more bright

Shine the stars to guide our way than in the dome of night;

Higher aims the hope that sees them, for their spotless white

Symbols the pure light of freedom.

Chorus: Hurrah! Hurrah! etc.

Hail, all hail, the flag above us. Nature never knew,In the dawn’s red ladder-bars where daylight climbs to view,Stripes that brought as fair a day as these anon shall do,When all the world turns to freedom.Chorus: Hurrah! Hurrah! etc.

Hail, all hail, the flag above us. Nature never knew,

In the dawn’s red ladder-bars where daylight climbs to view,

Stripes that brought as fair a day as these anon shall do,

When all the world turns to freedom.

Chorus: Hurrah! Hurrah! etc.

Not mountain chains, nor streams that cleave the plains,Nor the wide ocean that around them rollsCan bound the realm of Freedom’s loyal soulsWho serve the Spirit that above it reigns.Not the mean few who snatch for selfish gainsThrough pathways opening toward the noblest goalsCan shake Heaven’s children’s faith that Heaven controlsThat life the most which Earth the least enchains.O ye who see but lust for wealth or ruleWhere love would end one more wrong’d people’s thrall,As your sires ended yours, how blind are ye!Who says there is no God is no more foolThan he who hears not God’s voice in each callTo loose man’s bonds and let the oppress’d go free.

Not mountain chains, nor streams that cleave the plains,

Nor the wide ocean that around them rolls

Can bound the realm of Freedom’s loyal souls

Who serve the Spirit that above it reigns.

Not the mean few who snatch for selfish gains

Through pathways opening toward the noblest goals

Can shake Heaven’s children’s faith that Heaven controls

That life the most which Earth the least enchains.

O ye who see but lust for wealth or rule

Where love would end one more wrong’d people’s thrall,

As your sires ended yours, how blind are ye!

Who says there is no God is no more fool

Than he who hears not God’s voice in each call

To loose man’s bonds and let the oppress’d go free.

Creative Spirit, Source of Life,And Father whom we trust,Keep us and keep our state from strifeThrough deeds to all men just.Teach us that each, though poor or base,Is yet a child of Thine,And born, whate’er his rank or race,Or wheresoe’er his dwelling-place,To destiny divine.Let not one nation’s pride of mightOn other nations preyWith brute-like hosts that boast a rightTo plunder and to slay.If one land’s war-lord claim his ownTo be Thy Spirit’s call,Teach men that no God so made known,No God of but one land alone,Was ever God of all.Grant all, oh Lord, through lives of love,A glory to attainAs far as heaven’s could be aboveWhat earthly battles gain.Grant all, wherever patriots viewTheir country’s flag unfurled,The right to think that service dueGod’s country calls for patriots tooWhose country is the world.

Creative Spirit, Source of Life,

And Father whom we trust,

Keep us and keep our state from strife

Through deeds to all men just.

Teach us that each, though poor or base,

Is yet a child of Thine,

And born, whate’er his rank or race,

Or wheresoe’er his dwelling-place,

To destiny divine.

Let not one nation’s pride of mightOn other nations preyWith brute-like hosts that boast a rightTo plunder and to slay.If one land’s war-lord claim his ownTo be Thy Spirit’s call,Teach men that no God so made known,No God of but one land alone,Was ever God of all.

Let not one nation’s pride of might

On other nations prey

With brute-like hosts that boast a right

To plunder and to slay.

If one land’s war-lord claim his own

To be Thy Spirit’s call,

Teach men that no God so made known,

No God of but one land alone,

Was ever God of all.

Grant all, oh Lord, through lives of love,A glory to attainAs far as heaven’s could be aboveWhat earthly battles gain.Grant all, wherever patriots viewTheir country’s flag unfurled,The right to think that service dueGod’s country calls for patriots tooWhose country is the world.

Grant all, oh Lord, through lives of love,

A glory to attain

As far as heaven’s could be above

What earthly battles gain.

Grant all, wherever patriots view

Their country’s flag unfurled,

The right to think that service due

God’s country calls for patriots too

Whose country is the world.

END

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THE AZTEC GOD, AND OTHER DRAMAS

By GEORGE L. RAYMOND

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“Professor Raymond is no dabbler in the problem of the human spirit, and no tyro in the art of word painting, as those who know his prose works can testify. These pages contain a mine of rich and disciplined reflection, and abound in beautiful passages.”—Hartford Theological Seminary Record.

“Here are lines which, if printed in letters of gold upon the front of every pulpit, and practised by every one behind one, would transform the face of the theological world.... In short, if you are in search of ideas that are unconventional and up-to-date, get ‘A Life in Song,’ and read it.”—Unity.

“Some day Dr. Raymond will be universally recognized as one of the leaders in the new thought-movement.... He is a poet in the truest sense. His ideals are ever of the highest, and his interpretation is of the clearest and sweetest. He has richness of genius, intensity of human feeling, and the refinement of culture. His lines are alive with action, luminous with thought and passion, and melodious with music.”—Cleveland World.

“The main impulse and incident of the life are furnished by the enlistment of the hero in the anti-slavery cause. The story of his love is also a leading factor, and is beautifully told. The poem displays a mastery of poetic rhythm and construction, and, as a whole, is pervaded by the imaginative quality which lifts ‘a life’ into the region of poetry,—the peculiar quality which marks Wordsworth.”—Christian Intelligencer.

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“... Rhythmical in its flow and deliciously choice in language ... indicating a deep acquaintance with human nature, while there is throughout a tone that speaks plainly of a high realization of the divine purpose in life.... Not the least charming characteristic is its richness in pen-and-ink pictures marked by rare beauty and presenting irresistibly that which the poet saw in his mind’s eye.... We confidently promise that any one taking it up will enjoy the reading throughout, that is, if there is any poetry in him.”—Boston Evening Journal.

Books by Professor Raymond

Dante and Collected Verse.16mo, cloth, gilt top$1.25

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“The poet and the reformer contend in Professor Raymond. When the latter has the mastery, we respond to the justice, the high ideals, the truth of all he says—and says with point and vigor—but when the poet conquers, the imagination soars.... The mountain poems are the work of one with equally high ideals of life and of song.”—Glasgow(Scotland)Herald.

“Brother Jonathan can not claim many great poets, but we think he has ‘struck oil,’ in Professor Raymond.”—Western(England)Morning News.

“This brilliant composition ... gathers up and concentrates for the reader more of the reality of the great Italian than is readily gleaned from the author of theInfernohimself.”—Oakland Enquirer.

Pictures in Verse.With 20 illustrations by Maud Stumm. Square 8vo, in ornamental cloth covers$.75

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“Little love poems of a light and airy character, describing pretty rustic scenes, or domestic interiors.... As charming for its illustrations as for its reading matter.”—Detroit Free Press.

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The Mountains about Williamstown.With an introduction by M. M. Miller, and 35 full-page illustrations from original photographs; oblong shape, cloth, gilt edges. Net, postpaid$2.00

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Rhythm and Harmony in Poetry and Music.8º$1.75

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Professor Raymond’s Art-Books

Art in Theory.8vo, cloth extra.$1.75

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“His style is good, and his logic sound, and ... of the greatest possible service to the student of artistic theories.”—Art Journal(London).

The Representative Significance of Form.8vo, cloth extra.$2.00

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“An original thinker and writer, the charm of his style and clearness of expression make Mr. Raymond’s book possible to the general reader, though worthy of the study of the student and scholar.”—Hartford Courant.

Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, as Representative Arts.With 225 illustrations, 8vo.$2.50

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“The whole book is the work of a man of exceptional thoughtfulness, who says what he has to say in a remarkably lucid and direct manner.”—The Philadelphia Press.

The Genesis of Art-Form.Fully illustrated. 8vo.$2.25

“In a spirit at once scientific and that of the true artist, he pierces through the manifestations of art to their sources, and shows the relations, intimate and essential, between painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture. A book that possesses not only singular value, but singular charm.”—N. Y. Times.“A help and a delight. Every aspirant for culture in any of the liberal arts, including music and poetry, will find something in this book to aid him.”—Boston Times.

“A help and a delight. Every aspirant for culture in any of the liberal arts, including music and poetry, will find something in this book to aid him.”—Boston Times.

Proportion and Harmony of Line and Color in Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture.Fully illustrated. 8vo.$2.50

“No critical person can afford to ignore so valuable a contribution to the art-thought of the day.”—The Art-Interchange(N. Y.).“One does not need to be a scholar to follow this scholar as he teaches while seeming to entertain; for he does both.”—Burlington Hawk-Eye.“The artist who wishes to penetrate the mysteries of color, the sculptor who desires to cultivate his sense of proportion, or the architect whose ambition is to reach to a high standard will find the work helpful and inspiring.”—Boston Transcript.

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“One does not need to be a scholar to follow this scholar as he teaches while seeming to entertain; for he does both.”—Burlington Hawk-Eye.

“The artist who wishes to penetrate the mysteries of color, the sculptor who desires to cultivate his sense of proportion, or the architect whose ambition is to reach to a high standard will find the work helpful and inspiring.”—Boston Transcript.

Books by Professor Raymond

Poetry as a Representative Art.8º$1.75

This book is an attempt, in accordance with modern methods, aided by the results of modern investigation, to determine scientifically the laws of poetic composition and criticism, by deriving and distinguishing the methods and meanings of the various factors of poetic form and thought from those of the elocution and rhetoric of ordinary speech, of which poetry is an artistic development. The principles unfolded are illustrated by quotations from the first English poets.

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“I have read it with pleasure, and a sense of instruction on many points.”—Francis Turner Palgrave, Professor of Poetry, Oxford University.

“Dieses ganz vortreffliche Werk.”—Englische Studien, Universität Breslau.

“An acute, interesting, and brilliant piece of work.... As a whole the essay deserves unqualified praise.”—N. Y. Independent.

The Essentials of Æsthetics.Fully illustrated. 8º$2.50

A compendium of all the art-volumes, designed as a Text-Book.

“So lucid in expression and rich in illustration that every page contains matter of deep interest even to the general reader.”—Boston Herald.“It can hardly fail to make talent more rational, genius more conscious of the principles of art, and the critic and connoisseur better equipped for impression, judgment, and appraisement.”—New York Times.

“So lucid in expression and rich in illustration that every page contains matter of deep interest even to the general reader.”—Boston Herald.

“It can hardly fail to make talent more rational, genius more conscious of the principles of art, and the critic and connoisseur better equipped for impression, judgment, and appraisement.”—New York Times.

The Orator’s Manual.12mo$1.50

A Practical and Philosophic Treatise on Vocal Culture, Emphasis, and Gesture, together with Hints for the Composition of Orations and Selections for Declamation and Reading, designed as a Text-book for Schools and Colleges, and for Public Speakers and Readers who are obliged to Study without an Instructor, fully revised with important Additions after the Fifteenth Edition.

“It is undoubtedly the most complete and thorough treatise on oratory for the practical student ever published.”—The Educational Weekly, Chicago.“I consider it the best American book upon technical elocution. It has also leanings toward a philosophy of expression that no other book written by an American has presented.”—Moses True Brown, Head of the Boston School of Oratory.

“It is undoubtedly the most complete and thorough treatise on oratory for the practical student ever published.”—The Educational Weekly, Chicago.

“I consider it the best American book upon technical elocution. It has also leanings toward a philosophy of expression that no other book written by an American has presented.”—Moses True Brown, Head of the Boston School of Oratory.

The Writer(withPost Wheeler, Litt.D.) 12mo$1.00

A Concise, Complete, and Practical Text-book of Rhetoric, designed to aid in the Appreciation, as well as Production of All Forms of Literature, Explaining, for the first time, the Principles of Written Discourse by correlating them to those of Oral Discourse.

“A book of unusual merit ... prepared by practical teachers, and the end in view is evidently to teach rather than to give information.”—The Pacific Educational Journal.“The pupil will forget he is studying rhetoric, and will come to express himself for the pure pleasure he has in this most beautiful art.”—Indiana School Journal.

“A book of unusual merit ... prepared by practical teachers, and the end in view is evidently to teach rather than to give information.”—The Pacific Educational Journal.

“The pupil will forget he is studying rhetoric, and will come to express himself for the pure pleasure he has in this most beautiful art.”—Indiana School Journal.

Ethics and Natural Law.8vo. Net,$2.25.

A Reconstructive Review of Moral Philosophy, Applied to the Rational Art of Living,—a Book that is in effect a Continuation and Completion of the Author’s well-known Æsthetic Works, showing the Relationship of the Principles underlying Art to the Culture of Character.

“The student of ethics will considerably fortify his knowledge of the history of ethical thought by reading the book, especially the first twelve chapters. In these Mr. Raymond embodies, with copious references, his extensive knowledge of what has been written and thought by moral philosophers. On pp. 63-67, for instance, will be found in footnotes a kind of classified anthology of all the definitions given of conscience by modern writers. The various ethical theories holding the field do not, he thinks, recognize as indispensable the coöperation, in every slightest detail of thought and feeling, of the two necessary factors of every desire; and he claims that his own doctrine keeps to the purpose he avows in his opening chapter,—to draw no inference, and to advance no theory, not warranted by known facts as ascertainable in connection with the operations of natural law.... Chapters XIII to XXIII deal acutely and comprehensively with the various sides of American life.”—London(England)Times.In an article entitledA Desirable Acquaintance,Prof. A. S. Hobart,D.D. of Crozer Theological Seminary, after mentioning his twenty years’ experience in teaching Ethics, says, “I find this book the only one that has come within the range of my reading which has, for the basis of its system, what I have found to be satisfactory. The writer assumes that there is in the nature of things a law of ethical conduct as continuous and self-evincing as is the law of physical health.... The study of psychology has opened the mind to inspection as we open the back of a watch-case and see the wheels go round; and this study lays its crown of victorious explorations at the feet of ethics.... His view is that conscience is the sense of conflict between bodily and mental desires ... therefore not a guide; it is only a sense of lostness in the woods, that wants a guide. Good sense and good religion are the guides to be consulted. By many illustrations and very clear reasoning he verifies his view. Then, ... he takes up the task unusual in such books—of showing how the leading moral qualities can and ought to be cultivated. In view of my own careful reading of the book I venture to call attention to it as a most fertile source of instruction and suggestion for ethical teaching.”—The Baptist.“The book is clear and comprehensive. His theory in regard to conflict is reasonable, and the principles deduced from it have philosophic foundation.”—Boston Transcript.“Professor Raymond extracts a fundamental principle that largely reconciles existing ethical theories ... makes distinctions that have vitality, and will repay the necessary study and application.”—Scientific American.

In an article entitledA Desirable Acquaintance,Prof. A. S. Hobart,D.D. of Crozer Theological Seminary, after mentioning his twenty years’ experience in teaching Ethics, says, “I find this book the only one that has come within the range of my reading which has, for the basis of its system, what I have found to be satisfactory. The writer assumes that there is in the nature of things a law of ethical conduct as continuous and self-evincing as is the law of physical health.... The study of psychology has opened the mind to inspection as we open the back of a watch-case and see the wheels go round; and this study lays its crown of victorious explorations at the feet of ethics.... His view is that conscience is the sense of conflict between bodily and mental desires ... therefore not a guide; it is only a sense of lostness in the woods, that wants a guide. Good sense and good religion are the guides to be consulted. By many illustrations and very clear reasoning he verifies his view. Then, ... he takes up the task unusual in such books—of showing how the leading moral qualities can and ought to be cultivated. In view of my own careful reading of the book I venture to call attention to it as a most fertile source of instruction and suggestion for ethical teaching.”—The Baptist.

“The book is clear and comprehensive. His theory in regard to conflict is reasonable, and the principles deduced from it have philosophic foundation.”—Boston Transcript.

“Professor Raymond extracts a fundamental principle that largely reconciles existing ethical theories ... makes distinctions that have vitality, and will repay the necessary study and application.”—Scientific American.

A Poet’s CabinetandAn Art Philosopher’s Cabinet.

Two books containing quotations, the one from the poems, and the other from the æsthetic works of George Lansing Raymond, selected by Marion Mills Miller, Litt.D., editor ofThe Classics, Greek, and Latin. Each book 8vo. cloth-bound, gilt top. $2.00

“Dr. Raymond is one of the most just and pregnant critics, as well as one of the most genuine poets, that America has produced.... His verse generally, and his prose frequently, is a solid pack of epigrams; and hundreds of the epigrams are vigorous, fresh, telling, worth collecting and cataloguing.... Probably from no other American but Emerson could a collection at all comparable be made. Many of the phrases are profound paradox.... Others are as hard-headed as La Rochefoucauld.... Some are plain common sense, set in an audacious figure, or a vigorous turn of phrase.... But few or none of them are trivial.... As an æsthetic critic, Professor Raymond is, by training and temperament, remarkably versatile and catholic. He is almost or quite equally interested in architecture, painting, sculpture, music, poetry.... Each is as definitely placed in his system as the several instruments in a great orchestra.... If Dr. Raymond had been born in France, England, or Germany, he would, no doubt, have enjoyed a wider vogue. But it is just as well that he was none of these; for the, as yet, æsthetically immature New World has sore need of him.”—Revue Internationale, Paris.“We risk little in foretelling a day when all considerable libraries, private as well as public, will be deemed quite incomplete if lacking these twin volumes. Years after the thinker has paid the debt to nature due, his thoughts will rouse action and emotion in the hearts and minds of generations now unborn.”—Worcester(Mass.)Gazette.“This Poet’s Cabinet is the best thing of its class—that confined to the works of one author—upon which our eyes have fallen, either by chance or purpose. We can’t help wishing that we had a whole book-shelf of such volumes in our own private library.”—Columbus, (O.)Journal.“The number and variety of the subjects are almost overwhelming, and the searcher for advanced or new thought as expressed by this particular philosopher has no difficulty in coming almost immediately upon something that may strike his fancy or aid him in his perplexities. To the student of poetry and the higher forms of literature ... the volume will be of distinct aid.”—Utica(N. Y.)Observer.“Dr. Miller’s task in selecting representative extracts from Professor Raymond’s works has not been a light one, for there has been no chaff among the wheat, and there was an ever present temptation to add bulk to the book through freedom in compilation. He thought best, however, to eliminate all but the features which revealed the rare rich soul and personality of the poet, and each quotation is a gem.”—Albany(N. Y.)Times-Union.“To study the works of any one man so that we are completely familiar with his ideas upon all important subjects—if the man have within him any element of greatness—is a task which is likely to repay the student’s work.... This fact makes the unique quality of the present volume ... quotations which deal with practically every subject to be found in more general anthologies.”—Boston(Mass.)Advertiser.

“We risk little in foretelling a day when all considerable libraries, private as well as public, will be deemed quite incomplete if lacking these twin volumes. Years after the thinker has paid the debt to nature due, his thoughts will rouse action and emotion in the hearts and minds of generations now unborn.”—Worcester(Mass.)Gazette.

“This Poet’s Cabinet is the best thing of its class—that confined to the works of one author—upon which our eyes have fallen, either by chance or purpose. We can’t help wishing that we had a whole book-shelf of such volumes in our own private library.”—Columbus, (O.)Journal.

“The number and variety of the subjects are almost overwhelming, and the searcher for advanced or new thought as expressed by this particular philosopher has no difficulty in coming almost immediately upon something that may strike his fancy or aid him in his perplexities. To the student of poetry and the higher forms of literature ... the volume will be of distinct aid.”—Utica(N. Y.)Observer.

“Dr. Miller’s task in selecting representative extracts from Professor Raymond’s works has not been a light one, for there has been no chaff among the wheat, and there was an ever present temptation to add bulk to the book through freedom in compilation. He thought best, however, to eliminate all but the features which revealed the rare rich soul and personality of the poet, and each quotation is a gem.”—Albany(N. Y.)Times-Union.

“To study the works of any one man so that we are completely familiar with his ideas upon all important subjects—if the man have within him any element of greatness—is a task which is likely to repay the student’s work.... This fact makes the unique quality of the present volume ... quotations which deal with practically every subject to be found in more general anthologies.”—Boston(Mass.)Advertiser.

The Psychology of Inspiration. 8vo, cloth. (New Revised Edition). Net,$2.00; by mail,$2.14

The book founds its conclusions on a study of the action of the human mind when obtaining and expressing truth, as this action has been revealed through the most recent investigations of physiological, psychological, and psychic research; and the freshness and originality of the presentation is acknowledged and commended by such authorities as Dr. J. Mark Baldwin, Professor of Psychology in Johns Hopkins University, who says that its psychological position is “new and valuable”; Dr. W. T. Harris, late United States Commissioner of Education and the foremost metaphysician in the country, who says it is sure “to prove helpful to many who find themselves on the border line between the Christian and the non-Christian beliefs”; and Dr. Edward Everett Hale, who says that “no one has approached the subject from this point of view.”

The first and, perhaps, the most important achievement of the book is to show that thefactofinspirationcan bedemonstrated scientifically; in other words, that the inner subconscious mindcanbe influenced irrespective of influences exerted through the eyes and the ears,i.e., by what one sees or hears. In connection with this fact it is also shown that, when the mind is thus inwardly or inspirationally influenced, as, for example, in hypnotism, the influence issuggestiveandnot dictatorial. Not only so, but such faith as it is natural and right that a rational being should exercise can be stimulated and developed in only the degree in which the text of a sacred book is characterized by the very vagueness and variety of meaning and statement which the higher criticism of the Bible has brought to light. The book traces these to the operation and requirements of the human mind through which inspiration is received and to which it is imparted. Whatever inspires must appear to be, in some way, beyond the grasp of him who communicates it, and can make him who hears itthinkandtrain him to think, in the degree only in which it is not comprehensive or complete; but merely, like everything else in nature, illustrative of that portion of truth which the mind needs to be made to find out for itself.

“The sane, fair, kindly attitude taken gives of itself a profitable lesson. The author proves conclusively that his mind—and if his, why not another’s?—can be at one and the same time sound, sanitary, scientific, and essentially religious.”—The Examiner, Chicago.“The author writes with logic and a ‘sweet reasonableness’ that will doubtless convince many halting minds. It is an inspiring book.”—Philadelphia Inquirer.“It is, we think, difficult to overestimate the value of this volume at the present critical pass in the history of Christianity.”—The Arena, Boston.“The author has taken up a task calling for heroic effort, and has given us a volume worthy of careful study.... The conclusion is certainly very reasonable.”—Christian Intelligencer, New York.“Interesting, suggestive, helpful.”—Boston Congregationalist.

“The author writes with logic and a ‘sweet reasonableness’ that will doubtless convince many halting minds. It is an inspiring book.”—Philadelphia Inquirer.

“It is, we think, difficult to overestimate the value of this volume at the present critical pass in the history of Christianity.”—The Arena, Boston.

“The author has taken up a task calling for heroic effort, and has given us a volume worthy of careful study.... The conclusion is certainly very reasonable.”—Christian Intelligencer, New York.

“Interesting, suggestive, helpful.”—Boston Congregationalist.

Fundamentals in Education, Art, and Civics: Essays and Addresses.8vo, cloth. Net,$1.40; by mail,$1.53

“Of fascinating interest to cultured readers, to the student, the teacher, the poet, the artist, the musician, in a word to all lovers of sweetness and light. The author has a lucid and vigorous style, and is often strikingly original. What impresses one is the personality of a profound thinker and a consummate teacher behind every paragraph.”—Dundee Courier, Scotland“The articles cover a wide field and manifest a uniformly high culture in every field covered. It is striking how this great educator seems to have anticipated the educational tendencies of our times some decades before they imprest the rest of us. He has been a pathfinder for many younger men, and still points the way to higher heights. The book is thoroughly up-to-date.”—Service, Philadelphia.“Clear, informing, and delightfully readable. Whether the subject is art and morals, technique in expression, or character in a republic, each page will be found interesting and the treatment scholarly, but simple, sane, and satisfactory ... the story of the Chicago fire is impressingly vivid.”—Chicago Standard.“He is a philosopher, whose encouraging idealism is well grounded in scientific study, and who illuminates points of psychology and ethics as well as of art when they come up in the course of the discussion.”—The Scotsman, Edinburgh, Scotland.“Agreeably popularizes much that is fundamental in theories of life and thought. The American people owe much of their progress, their optimism, and we may say their happiness to the absorption of just such ideals as Professor Raymond stands for.”—Minneapolis Book Review Digest.

“The articles cover a wide field and manifest a uniformly high culture in every field covered. It is striking how this great educator seems to have anticipated the educational tendencies of our times some decades before they imprest the rest of us. He has been a pathfinder for many younger men, and still points the way to higher heights. The book is thoroughly up-to-date.”—Service, Philadelphia.

“Clear, informing, and delightfully readable. Whether the subject is art and morals, technique in expression, or character in a republic, each page will be found interesting and the treatment scholarly, but simple, sane, and satisfactory ... the story of the Chicago fire is impressingly vivid.”—Chicago Standard.

“He is a philosopher, whose encouraging idealism is well grounded in scientific study, and who illuminates points of psychology and ethics as well as of art when they come up in the course of the discussion.”—The Scotsman, Edinburgh, Scotland.

“Agreeably popularizes much that is fundamental in theories of life and thought. The American people owe much of their progress, their optimism, and we may say their happiness to the absorption of just such ideals as Professor Raymond stands for.”—Minneapolis Book Review Digest.

Suggestions for the Spiritual Life—College Chapel Talks.8vo, cloth. Net,$1.50; by mail,$1.63

“Sermons of more than usual worth, full of thought of the right kind, fresh, strong, direct, manly.... Not one seems to strain to get a young man’s attention by mere popular allusions to a student environment. They are spiritual, scriptural; of straight ethical import, meeting difficulties, confirming cravings, amplifying tangled processes of reasoning, and not forgetting the emotions.”—Hartford Theological Seminary Record(Congregationalist).“The clergyman who desires to reach young men especially, and the teacher of men’s Bible Classes may use this collection of addresses to great advantage.... The subjects are those of every man’s experience in character building ... such a widespread handling of God’s word would have splendid results in the production of men.”—The Living Church(Episcopalian).“Great themes, adequately considered.... Surely the young men who listened to these sermons must have been stirred and helped by them as we have been stirred and helped as we read them.”—Northfield(Mass.)Record of Christian Work(Evangelical).“They cover a wide range. They are thoughtful, original, literary, concise, condensed, pithy. They deal with subjects in which the young will be interested.”—Western Christian Advocate(Methodist).

“The clergyman who desires to reach young men especially, and the teacher of men’s Bible Classes may use this collection of addresses to great advantage.... The subjects are those of every man’s experience in character building ... such a widespread handling of God’s word would have splendid results in the production of men.”—The Living Church(Episcopalian).

“Great themes, adequately considered.... Surely the young men who listened to these sermons must have been stirred and helped by them as we have been stirred and helped as we read them.”—Northfield(Mass.)Record of Christian Work(Evangelical).

“They cover a wide range. They are thoughtful, original, literary, concise, condensed, pithy. They deal with subjects in which the young will be interested.”—Western Christian Advocate(Methodist).

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