But this time they come from the Rev. R. J. Campbell. Now Mr. Campbell has a double right to preach to young men. He is young himself, and he is a man. Nay, has he not a third and higher right than those, that he has put off the old man and put on the new? All these things are in this volume. It is the volume of sermons of this month.

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Have Messrs. S. C. Brown discovered a way with sermons unknown to other publishers? a month but they issue several volumes. have spoken of the 'Preachers of the Age.' There is also that prolific series, 'The World's Pulpit,' in which as latest and most unexpected appears Now and Then (3s. 6d.), by the Rev. Spencer Jones. So there is to be no cribbing or confining in respect of creed. If there is real preaching, preaching with conviction and intelligence, the creed may be Arminian or Calvinist, Low Church, High Church,-the sermons will be published.

The business of a teacher of the Old Testament is not to read the old Testament through with his pupils, but to read a little thoroughly and give an appetite for the rest. That is what Dr. H. H. B. Ayles has done in his Critical Commentary on Genesis ii. 4-iii. 25 (Clay; 55.). To know this section of the Old Testament as Dr. Ayles teaches it here is to know it thoroughly, its text, its authorship, its theology. And he touches so many exciting and unsolved problems that he leaves a craving appetite for the rest. Even his last chapter, which discusses the value of the Hebrew tenses, makes us see that there are more things in the Hebrew tenses than we knew. The book should be the first manual of instruction in every Hebrew class-room.

Professor E. D. Burton of Chicago does nothing imperfectly. His first book on the 'Moods and Tenses of New Testament Greek' at once made obsolete all other books on the subject. His interests have become wider since then. In particular, he has given much attention to Sundayschool work. But the first thoroughness runs through everything he does. His latest book is A Short Introduction to the Gospels (Chicago Press; $1). It is short and clear and conservative. Yet not too conservative; admirably adapted for the use of Sunday-school teachers or the like.

Have you seen the 'Florin' Series of standard English authors? It is the cheapest yet. For the texts are edited and complete, and the printing and paper are without a flaw. There is a touch of severity in the binding, but that also is in keeping with the utter absence of glitter and sham throughout. The volume before us is Whittier (Frowde; 2s.), the first complete Whittier in this country. The editor is Mr.

Garrett Horder.

The enterprise of the Oxford Press has made another revolution in Bibles. Their first revolution was made by the use of india paper. The second, which is as radical, and likely to be as far-reaching, is accomplished by the use of clarendon type. How is it that no one hit upon this before? Between the black letter, which no one could read for its blackness and closeness, and the roman type, which no one can read very long in the small type of pocket Bibles for its thinness and fineness, there has always been room for the clarendon type. Here it is at last, and it has come to stay. editions have been issued, one with and one without the references, both in pearl 32mo. Now pearl 32m0 in roman type is far too small to read; in clarendon it is restful and even inviting to weary eyes. The publishers have issued a prospectus with specimen pages, but it is right to say that the pages of the Bibles themselves are much more readable than the pages of the prospectus.

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It is a curious thing that the Principal of Lancashire Independent College in Manchester is described on the title-page of his new book as though he were still in New College, London. The explanation is that it is a new edition of an old book, and somebody has forgotten to make the alteration. It is a new edition of How to Read the Bible (Clarke; 1s.). Dr. Adeney has done as much as most of us for the scientific study of the Bible. He would have done much if he had written this book only.

There is a way of entering into fellowship with the Eastern Church which need offend no one, and the Rev. John Brownlie has found it. It is to translate its hymns and sing them. This is the third volume of Mr. Brownlie's translations. He calls it Hymns from the Greek Office-Books (Gardner; 3s. 6d. net).

Mr. Gardner of Paisley has published in white canvas and gold a small book on The Art of Being Successful. It is written by the Rev. C. A. Hall, who has already written 'The Art of Being Healthy' and 'The Art of Being Happy.' It is short itself, and its chapters are still shorter, so that those who have begun to be successful and are very busy might snatch the time to read a chapter of it, and so become busier and more successful.

If there is in any man's mind any honest doubt as to the drift of belief in the United Free Church of Scotland, let that man read a small volume just published by Messrs. Hodder & Stoughton under the title of Questions of Faith (5s.). The writers of its chapters are all members of that Church, and they write on the momentous testing things. Are they sound in the faith? Who are the men? They are Professors Orr, Mackintosh, Dods, Laidlaw, Lindsay, Denney, and Mr. Carnegie Simpson. And the things? God, the Son of God, Christ's Resurrection, the Holy Spirit, the Church, Forgiveness, Immortality. So orthodox on those things are those men, that one might almost be reading Hodge. And yet it is certain that orthodoxy or heterodoxy was not in all their thoughts, but the frank expression of their own living faith. It is one of the strangest cantrips of the devil, and one of the cleverest, that he gets men to denounce Professor Dods as a heretic.

There are two kinds of preaching, the preaching that teaches and the preaching that exhorts. No doubt every sermon should both teach and exhort. But there are preachers who can only do the one, and preachers who can only do the other. Dr. S. H. Kellogg can teach, and he can do it supremely. In his new volume of sermons, The Past a Prophecy of the Future (Hodder & Stoughton; 6s.), he handles the greatest problems of the Christian faith with confidence in his ability to explain their meaning, and when he has explained their meaning he is content. Yet once and again he makes his explanation more impressive than any formal exhortation could be. The last sermon is on the Second Coming of the Lord-what do we need but to understand it?

The readers of the Record have long been familiar with its Homiletic Hints.' Now they know the

authors of those sketches of sermons which never wandered from the Gospel, and never wandered from their text. They are the Rev. A. R. Buckland, the Rev. F. Baylis, and the Rev. W. R. Blackett. Out of fifteen years' contributions a volume has been made, and made to fit the Calendar. Its title is Text-Studies for a Year (Hodder & Stoughton; 6s.).

The miracle of modern authorship is Dr. James Moffatt of Dundonald. He is the author of the 'Historical New Testament,' and he is the author of The Golden Book of John Owen (Hodder & Stoughton; 6s.). Has he read John Owen through? He manifestly has. For not only does he give selections from any or all of his works, but he writes an Introduction to the Selections, which shows conclusively that he knows John Owen through and through. Some of us have hoped that we should read John Owen through ourselves. Now we know that we shall never do it. We shall be content with the best things John Owen has to say; we shall be content with another man's estimate of John Owen. Dr. Moffatt will be too great a temptation for us. We shall be content with Dr. Moffatt.

Dr. Wells has published his biography of Dr. Hood Wilson (James Hood Wilson; Hodder & Stoughton; 7s. 6d.). He undertook an impossible task. Biography is always impossible. Then how impossible the biography of a man who filled his life with nothing but well-doing! We knew him and loved him, and no biography would have contented us. Yet we have not been disappointed. It is loyally written. We know him now better than we did; we do not love him less. One thing has surprised us all. We thought we knew how great he was in gathering for the needy and in giving. Now we see that we did not know. We see that great as he was in giving he was greater in concealing what he gave. It is a book to make us ashamed. It is a book to make us fall at his knees, as Peter did at the Master's, and say, 'Depart from me.' But it is a book to draw us very near to Christ.

The Rev. J. G. Greenhough, M.A., has published an educational handbook on The Apostles of our Lord (Hodder & Stoughton; 5s.). He says that we might describe the apostles in the words of St.

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Paul, as unknown, yet well known.' For it is surprising, when we think of it, how little we know about them and how well we know them. Greenhough regrets that we know so little about them, but it has its advantages. It enables Mr. Greenhough to differ from others in his estimate of them; it enables us to differ from Mr. Greenhough. We differ from him in his estimate of Thomas. He does not call Thomas the Doubter, as others have done; he calls him the Pessimist. But if you are going to apply an epithet, the right one is the Realist. The estimate of the individual apostles is, however, the least part of Mr. Greenhough's book. He is good in his individual estimate, even though we differ from him here and there. He is better in what he says on the Training and Making of the Apostles. For now his own experience comes into play, and it is in experience that Mr. Greenhough is most strong. He is neither Andrew nor Philip, but he is one of those who have been trained and made for the Master's use.

St. George's Church in Edinburgh is served by two ministers, the Rev. Alexander Whyte, D.D., and the Rev. Hugh Black, M.A. This service is ideal, for so well do these two ministers supplement one another that the saying has become common, 'Dr. Whyte blackens the saints in the morning, and Mr. Black whitewashes the sinners at night.' The saying is, of course, an unholy exaggeration; but could Dr. Whyte write a book on The Practice of Self-Culture? He could not. Could any man of Dr. Whyte's generation write. it ? It is more than two men meeting in the pulpit of St. George's, it is two generations of

men.

Does not this title of Mr. Black's tell us that the central article of our theology is no longer the corruption of our whole nature? Does Mr. Black believe in the Fall in any sense? We should probably entirely misrepresent him if we said he did not.

But we do not misrepresent him when we say that the Fall is no longer in the midst with him, but Christ is in the midst. 'Christ is the Christian ideal. To have the same mind in us which was in Him is distinctly set before us as our aim. How full His mind was of beauty and truth, full of sweet thoughts and noble ideas, because full of love. It was the perfection of culture.' That is the meaning of Mr. Hugh Black's book (Hodder & Stoughton; 3s. 6d.).

Why is it easier to preach sermons than to listen to them? Because, says Mr. Joseph Dawson, preachers are trained to preach, but hearers are not trained to hear. So he has written a handbook of Homiletics for The Man in the Pew (Kelly; 2s. 6d.). Henceforth let every preacher train his hearers to hear before he begins to preach to them, and let him use Mr. Dawson's manual as his text-book.

The test of a religion is its treatment of Woman. A series of lectures was delivered last winter in Manchester by some learned men, who are also lovers of Christ. With true discernment it was arranged that the last of the lectures should be given by a woman, and that her subject should be 'Christianity and Womanhood.' The lectures are now published by Mr. Kelly in a volume of 400 pages, under the title of Is Christianity True? (2s. 6d.). The last lecture alone is worth the price of the volume. Among other things, Miss Burstall notices the argument-what a testimony to Christianity that it should be possible to notice such an argument-the argument of some recent German writers that Christianity is a religion of women and children. It is,-she does not deny it, -but of men also; for it is along this very line of self-sacrifice and devotion to others that evolution is now moving, and, according to science, producing its greatest human triumphs. This Manchester enterprise has much significance for our time this volume should be seen by everyone who desires to serve the Lord Christ.

Mr. Kelly has begun to publish the new series of Manchester Lectures on 'What is Christianity'? There is nothing in the world better fitted to commend Christianity (unless it be the lives of Christians) than those penny pamphlets-they are so fair, so learned, so popular.

Mr. Kelly has also published Some Things the Bible has taught an Unlettered Layman (2s. 6d.); and two numbers of the 'Bright View Booklets.'

It is not an easy thing at present to write on the Teaching of Christ, or on anything belonging to Christ. But under the title of The Teaching of Christ in its Present Appeal (Inglis Ker; 2s.), the Rev. W. L. Walker, well known by his two great books, 'The Cross and the Kingdom,' and 'The

Spirit and the Incarnation,' has written a really helpful, edifying, inspiring little book, and has not forgotten the claims of criticism on a single page of it. He has not forgotten it, but he has never thrust criticism in our faces; for he feels that he has not been sent to criticise the Gospels, but to commend their Christ. And he brings us into the very room where He is. We hear His voice.

Morning and Evening Cries is the title of a book of household prayers written by the Rev. J. G. Greenhough, M.A. (Kingsgate Press; 2s. 6d. net). It is one of the choice volumes of prayer, one of the few which really help us to pray. There is naturalness, there is filial affection, there is Scripture truth in every prayer.

A handbook for the clergy has been written by the Rev. Clement F. Rogers, M.A., on Charitable Relief (Longmans; 2s. 6d. net). The clergy need a handbook on Charitable Relief. Not because they are less practical than other people, for they are not, but because they have so much charitable relief to give, and it is so supremely difficult to give it well. Mr. Rogers has studied the subject thoroughly, and he is thoroughly courageous. Not the clergy only, but every person with anything at all to give, must read his book.

In the city of Sheffield there is a very successful Bible class. It was begun by the Rev. Frank Swainson, who now tells its history in Bible Work and Warfare (Longmans; 25. net). Mr. Swainson had to leave the city after some years, but the class is still conspicuously successful. They speak of thousands in its membership. How was the success obtained? Not by advertisement, nor even by music. By prayer, says its present teacher, in his short preface, by prayer and hard work. The book does not teach us to pray; it teaches us to work hard. But it insists on both. Be assured, all whom it concerns, that the money spent on this book will be well spent.

Canon Ainger will never be thought of apart from Charles Lamb. But he could preach too. Four-and-twenty sermons of his, preached when he was Master of the Temple, have been edited by Canon Beeching and published by Messrs. Macmillan. The title of the book is The Gospel and Human Life (6s.). Surely it is an ideal congrega

tion that worships in the Temple Church. Says a well-known scholar and thinker, Although I have preached more than once in the University pulpits, I have never seen a sight which impressed me so much.' And they can listen. Canon Ainger clearly understood that if others were called to 'feed my lambs,' he was called to 'feed my sheep.' His language is simple enough and always literary, but every sermon contains some fresh thought, and it is not always an easy thought.

Another volume has come of Macmillan's great History of the English Church (7s. 6d.). We call it great, not merely because it runs into eight volumes, but because every volume is written by a master, and will last. This service to learning, and service to Christ, was done by the late Dean of Winchester and Dr. William Hunt. Together they planned the work and impressed the spirit. Each writer was chosen, a lover of the Church of England, because, first of all, a lover of truth. The partisan history has its day, and ceases to be. This history we say will last. This history will make history.

The new volume covers the reigns of Elizabeth and the first James in England. The writer is Mr. W. H. Frere. Mr. Frere's knowledge of the period is first-hand, and thorough. The facts have been familiar to him long enough to enable him to grasp the principles. And he can write. He cannot write popularly perhaps. He cannot command the interest of the uninterested. But he can write clearly, firmly, truthfully, remembering the shadows in this mixed history as well as the brilliant sunlight. Mr. Frere's volume will last with the rest.

It was during his illness that Bishop Ryle agreed to publish a volume of sermons. For he wished his friends to possess some record of the convictions which he has striven energetically to uphold. We dare not say with Luther, 'O blessed illness,' but we rejoice that the Bishop of Winchester is restored to us, and that we have his volume also. It is not an ordinary book of sermons in subject or in treatment. It is not an ordinary bishop's book. For though there are sermons here which only a bishop would think of preaching, there are others which no one could preach but Dr. Ryle. One of these is the sermon on the Doctrine of the Trinity. It is the audacity of it that is all his own, his audacious way with the Athanasian Creed. A

bishop, and he says 'it is not the layman's creed; it is no test of his Churchmanship; it is to him an honoured historical document warning against the errors of old time, recalling the triumphs of militant orthodoxy.' And he says it with such authority, with most authority when he is most opposed to tradition. Yes, the man who writes this book has convictions, and he has the courage of them.

Messrs. Macmillan have published a third edition of Professor Butcher's Some Aspects of the Greek Genius (75. net). It is not a large book for the money, but it is all gold. Its essays are: (1) What we owe to Greece, (2) The Greek Idea of the State, (3) Sophocles, (4) The Melancholy of the Greeks, (5) The Written and the Spoken Word, (6) The Unity of Learning, and (7) The Dawn of Romanticism in Greek Poetry. What does he mean by the unity of learning? Perhaps this anecdote will tell you

'An Oxford undergraduate, a scholar of his College, was about to go in for his final examination. He went to his tutor to talk over with him a difficult metaphysical problem. The tutor discussed it on various sides, but produced no definite solution. The pupil at last told him plainly that this was not what he wanted. "What I want is the examination answer to the question; give it me in a precise form." "I really can't," was the reply; "it is a point on which nobody can speak dogmatically. Honestly I don't know." "Come now, Mr. ," said the other, "but you are paid to know.'

What should the 'English Men of Letters' be? Biography or Philosophy? Biography certainly. So Sir Leslie Stephen was wrong when he filled his 'Hobbes' with Hobbes' philosophy. Mr. Francis W. Hirst is right when he gives us a biography of Adam Smith (Macmillan; 2s. net). For the philosophy of Adam Smith we had better read the Wealth of Nations or some handbook of Political Economy. This is the book to read for Adam Smith himself. Mr. Hirst is a good biographer, accurate, sympathetic, and unselfish. By 'unselfish,' we mean that he does not try to show how clever a man he is himself; he tries to show how great a man was Adam Smith. And he almost succeeds in showing it. He could not wholly succeed, because Adam Smith's ideas are now common property. The only thing that re

mains to him is his style, and for that we must read Adam Smith himself. His ideas are common property now, but how great they were and what a revolution they have wrought! Mr. Hirst does not believe that even Mr. Chamberlain will get us to go back beyond them. How scornful he is of the efforts, made it seems even by men in our own day, to prove that Adam Smith was not a free trader. They were made in Cobden's day, and he quotes Cobden to the purpose. They try,' said Cobden, 'to make out Adam Smith a monopolist. And how do they do it? As the atheist proved from Scripture that there is no God. Finding the text, "The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God," he simply cut the first part of the text away.'

Another volume by Westcott. Another volume of sermons. It is made up mostly of expository sermons on St. John. Its matter, the editor frankly tells us, is largely to be found in the well. known volume of the Speaker's Commentary. In some places the words are identical. But it is commentary in the one case, and sermon in the other; the two MSS also were quite distinct. It was right to publish both. It was more than right, it was necessary. For the one book makes clearer the other, and Westcott often needs to be made clearer. But there is more here than the sermons on St. John. There are three of special interest on the call of the Prophet,-the call of Isaiah, the call of Jeremiah, and the call of Ezekiel. We place the volume with much affection in the long row labelled Westcott. We know there is still another to come. Then the row will be complete, but its work will be but begun.

When a man preaches in America, his sermons can be published in this country without his knowledge. This must be annoying to his publishers. It is equally annoying to his readers. The authorized publishers in this country of the sermons of Phillips Brooks are Messrs. Macmillan. But other publishers have published various volumes; and the volumes do not range in size or even altogether in contents. It is most annoying. We have no room for repetitions, and we want Phillips Brooks complete. Let our readers remember this then, that if they want Phillips Brooks and nothing but Phillips Brooks they had better stick to Macmillan. The title of the new volume is Seeking Life (Macmillan ; 6s.).