By DR. HERMANN GUNKEL, Professor of Old Testament Theology in the University of Berlin. Translated from the German by W. H CARRUTH, Professor in the University of Kansas. Pages, circa 164. Cloth, $1.00 net (4s. 6d. net). TO BE IMMEDIATELY PUBLISHED. This book is a translation of the Introduction to Professor Gunkel's great work Commentar über Genesis, recently published in Göttingen. The Commentar itself is a new translation and explanation of Genesis,—a bulky book, and in its German form of course accessible only to American and English scholars, and not to the general public. The present Introduction contains the gist of Professor Gunkel's Commentar, or exposition of the latest researches on Genesis in the light of analytical and comparative mythology. Professor Gunkel is an orthodox Protestant theologian who appreciates to the utmost the intrinsically religious value of the Bible. He says: "The conclusion that any given one of these narratives is legend is by no means intended to detract from the value of the narrative; it only means that the one who pronounces it has perceived somewhat of the poetic beauty of the narrative and thinks that he has thus arrived at an understanding of the story. Only ignorance can regard such a conclusion as irreverent, for it is the judgment of reverence and love. These poetic narratives are the most beautiful possession which a people brings down through the course of its history, and the legends of Israel, especially those of Genesis, are perhaps the most beautiful and most profound ever known. "A child, indeed, unable to distinguish between reality and poetry, loses something when it is told that its dearest stories are 'not true.' But the modern theologian should be farther developed. The evangelical churches and their chosen representatives would do well not to dispute the fact that Genesis contains legends-as has been done too frequently-but to recognise that the knowledge of this fact is the indispensable condition to an historical understanding of Genesis. This knowledge is already too widely diffused among those trained in historical study ever again to be suppressed. It will surely spread among the masses of our people, for the process is irresistible. Shall not we Evangelicals take care that it be presented to them in the right spirit?" The Open Court Publishing Company, Chicago 324 Dearborn Street. LONDON: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. A MONTHLY MAGAZINE 1901 Stanfor rary Devoted to the Science of Religion, the Religion of Science, and tbe Editor: DR. PAUL CARUS. Associates: C. HEGELER. MARY CARUS. VOL. XV. (NO. 12) DECEMBER, 1901. NO. 547 CONTENTS: Frontispiece. PAGODA OF PEKING. America. A Poem. The HON. CHARLES CARROLL BONNEY, President of An Evening with the Spiritualists. LIEUT.-COL. W. H. GARDner, U. S. A. The Tai-ping Rebellion. (Concluded.) The Decline of Hung Siu-tsuen's Cause. The Ever-Victorious Force and the Suppression of the Rebellion. With Pictures of Scenes in Peking, and of instruments in the Peking Observatory. From S. WELLS WILLIAMS's Report Deluge Legends of the American Indians. With Illustration. EDITOR Judge Waite on the Early History of Christianity The Hon. Charles Carroll Bonney. With Pen and Ink Drawing by Eduard 705 721 CHICAGO The Open Court Publishing Company LONDON: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd. Per copy, 10 cents (sixpence). Yearly, $1.00 (in the U. P. U., 5s. 6d.). Copyright, 1901, by The Open Court Publishing Co. Entered at the Chicago Post Office as Second-Class Matter. VALUABLE NEW BOOK ON EGYPT THE BOOK OF THE DEAD An English Translation of the Chapters, The Open Court Publishing Company, Chicago Monon Building 324 Dearborn Street. IMPORTANT NEW PUBLICATION Geometric Exercises in Paper-Folding By T. SUNDARA ROW. Edited and revised by W. "I have sought not only to aid the teaching of geometry in schools and THE OPEN COURT PUBLISHING CO., LONDON: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. CHICAGO, |