of Christ. It is based upon his famous article JESUS CHRIST in the Dictionary of the Bible. But Dr. Sanday has worked over the whole material again, and made the article into a new book.

Another volume may be chosen from Messrs. T. & T. Clark's list. It is a volume of sermons. But the sermons are by Dr. Hastings Rashdall of New College, Oxford. The title is Christus in Ecclesia. This volume will be uniform with Mr. Inge's Faith and Knowledge. Both books have been carefully chosen. They prove that the scholar can be a preacher.

The Rev. Kirkwood Hewat travels abroad, and then comes home and spends Half-Hours at the Manse writing delightful short essays on what he has seen and what he is thinking. His latest book under that title is published by Mr. Gardner of Paisley. Its first essay is on Sir Walter Scott and Dr. Chalmers, its last is on Panama. Between those two lie Mount Blanc, the Pilgrim Fathers, and a Veteran Golfer, for he is a tolerant, largehearted author.

Dr. Momerie's Immortality has been touched on already. Let it now be commended as a serious and strong contribution to a subject which apparently will never lose its interest while the world lasts. That people should doubt the fact of immortality, now that we have Christ, is certainly a puzzle. But this book deals with far more in its five and thirty chapters than the fact of immortality. Mr. Allenson did well to publish it so cheaply. We shall look to find it selling by tens of thousands.

It is said that to most travellers the first view of the Holy Land is a disappointment. It is not because the average imagination is lively enough to call up too ideal a picture in the mind. It is partly due to the beautiful drawings of its most famous scenes which our painters and engravers have made so familiar to us. It is very likely that those who visit Westminster Abbey after they have examined Mr. Fulleylove's book will meet with a like disappointment at first (Westminster Abbey, Painted by John Fulleylove, R.I., described by Mrs. A. Murray Smith; A. & C. Black; 7s. 6d. net). The illustrations are all in colour and reproduced with the perfection of the printer's art on

specially prepared paper. Even the tomb of Chaucer will certainly be a disappointment, it is so exquisite here. The writing of the book is more ordinary. It is even a little reminiscent here and there of the professional guide. But we must not blame Mrs. Murray Smith if she does not touch us into the same ecstasy of enjoyment as her fellowworker. For her art is old compared with his, and we have got well accustomed to it. She loves the Abbey, she knows it, she describes it. Let us be content. And now, returning to Mr. Fulleylove, it seems to us that this volume contains some of the most pleasing of all the pictures he has painted. We feel the quiet, the repose of the Abbey as we look at them. And there is no need of even the verger to cry Hush. The Abbey is packed with an expectant congregation, but they are all of the silent dead.

Mr. Oliphant Smeaton is editing for Messrs. Dent The Temple Series of Bible Handbooks' (9d. each). The following volumes have been published-The Early Christian Martyrs and their Persecutions, by Prof. Herkless, D.D.; Saul and the Rise of the Hebrew Monarchy, by the Rev. Robert Sinker, D.D.; The Twelve Apostles, by the Rev. George Milligan, D.D.; A Primer of Old Testament History, by the Rev. O. R. Barnicott, LL.D.; The Religions of India, Brahmanism and Buddhism, by Prof. Allan Menzies, D.D.; St. Paul, the Apostle of the Gentiles, by the Rev. J. Gamble, M.A.; The Age of Daniel and the Exile, by the Rev. W. A. Mitchell Hunter, M.A.; Joseph and the Land of Egypt, by Prof. A. H. Sayce, D.D.; Joshua and the Palestinian Conquest, by Prof. W. H. Bennett, D.D.; The Post-Exilic Prophets, by the Rev. J. Wilson Harper, D.D. Mr. Smeaton is an editor and Mr. Balfour is a Prime Minister. Mr. Balfour keeps an open mind on the Fiscal Question; Mr Smeaton has still an open mind on the Criticism of the Old Testament. Beside Dr. Bennett's Joshua, you observe, stands Dr. Sinker's Saul. It may not be quite satisfactory to those who read the series right through, but no one is asked to read the series. right through. The volumes are published separately in order to be read separately. Messrs. Dent make no mistakes with the 'get up' of their books. They have made no mistake with this

series.

Messrs. Heffer of Cambridge have published an

Analysis of English Church History, by the Rev. S. Stewart Stitt, M.A., and also a sermon on the revision of the Athanasian Creed, entitled In the Name of the Trinity.

Professor George Henslow is a trained investigator and a convinced believer. His investigations have lain mainly among the sciences that have to do with life. These are the sciences which give the believer trouble in our day. Professor Henslow seems therefore to be the proper man to write a book on Present-Day Rationalism (Hodder & Stoughton; 6s.). It will be said that he undertakes to defend too much. It certainly cannot be said that he has nothing worth defending. Many men of science have recently been making approaches towards belief. There is always the risk that in our desire to meet them halfway we may make concessions that involve things fundamental. Professor Henslow makes no such concessions. He is perfectly courteous, but he does not capitulate. Without the swing and the rush of Mr. Ballard's famous book, Professor Henslow's volume will make its way with those who have been a little troubled by the confidence with which materialists come forward and claim that there is no science but materialism.

There is no edition of Thackeray in existence, or likely to come into existence for a long time, so good for the simple pleasure of reading as Macmillan's three-and-sixpenny edition. The new volume is Ballads and Verses. In completeness and in finish only the most expensive editions can touch it.

The latest issue of the English Men of Letters' is Hobbes, by Sir Leslie Stephen. The previous issue was Maria Edgeworth, by the Hon. Emily Lawless. What a contrast between the two books. Maria Edgeworth was an Irish novelist, and the Hon. Emily Lawless wrote of her with Irish impetuosity and banter. Hobbes was an English philosopher and Sir Leslie Stephen has told us how

he

'reasoned high

Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate,
Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute,
And found no end, in wandering mazes lost."

There are four chapters in the book of nearly equal length. The first contains the Life-well written,

unspeculative, and easily read. With that chapter the biography ends. The rest of the book wrestles with Hobbes and with the problems that gather round the World, Man, and the State. The chapter on Man is divided into three parts-Psychology, Theology, and Determinism. For Sir Leslie

Stephen was no writer at random. Having undertaken to describe Hobbes the philosopher, he spared no pains that he might get us to know what was his philosophy and what it is worth to-day (Macmillan; 2s. net).

The Provost of Inverness Cathedral has undertaken to edit the 'Oxford Sermon Library' (Mowbray; 2s. 6d. net). The first volume has not reached us. The second is a reprint of Mr. W. J. Butler's Sermons for Working Men. But is 'reprint' the right word? Provost Staley 'has not scrupled to revise very freely every sermon, recasting sentences, omitting words which served no purpose, with a view to better literary style and the making more clear the author's meaning.' For in spite of the fact that 'Mr. Keble helped Mr. Butler greatly' in preparing his volume for the press, Mr Staley found even the second edition frequently quite ungrammatical. But about the sermons. They are simplicity's self. And yet they have the horizon of the eternal, so that the simple thing at once appears the great thing. No sharp contrast is drawn between that world and this. Worldliness and other-worldliness are alike impossible when we live our little life as those simple parishioners were taught to live it, as a vital and momentous part of eternity.

Now there are 'primers' of everything. The last primer is A Primer of Philosophy (Murray; 1s.). It is a book of delightful freshness and simplicity. Dr. A. S. Rappoport may write bigger books, he will never write a greater book than this.

There was a group of Ainus at the Saint Louis Exposition. Mr. Frederick Starr brought them there. The Ainus were found to be more interesting than the machinery. But everybody could not attend the Saint Louis Exposition. So Mr. Starr has written a book about them, and given their portraits. It is published by the Open Court Publishing Company of Chicago.

Three issues of the 'Religion of Science Library'

have reached us. The Religion of Science Library is edited by Dr. Paul Carus, most accomplished, most indefatigable of editors. It is published in Chicago by the Open Court Publishing Company, and in London by Messrs. Kegan Paul. The three new issues are Ants and Some Other Insects (2s. 6d.), by Dr. August Forel; Kant and Spencer, by Dr. Carus himself (1s.); and a new edition of The Nature of the State, also by Dr. Carus (9d.).

We do not often review novels. Novels are not often worth reviewing. We review A Woman's Soul (Kegan Paul; 3s. 6d. net), because it is worth it. We cannot get away from 'problems' in these days, and this book does not get away from them. The two great problems of our time are God and Woman. Have they not been the problems of all time? They are the problems of this book, and they are handled with originality, with power, with much mastery of language, with purity, with a great victory. What is it in the book that constantly reminds us of Mark Rutherford's Autobiography? But it goes beyond Mark Rutherford's Autobiography, and that just in autobiography. It seems to be at once both more universal and more particularyour autobiography and mine, and yet the author's autobiography only. In its victory it stands far apart from Mark Rutherford's defeat, but there is not more pathos in defeat than in this victory. It is a human victory, and pathetic enough, but it is a victory, and so also divine.

With Heart and Mind, a Book of Daily Thoughts selected from the works of the Right Reverend Handley C. G. Moule, D.D., Bishop of Durham, by Louise Buckland, with a short Life of the Bishop by the Rev. A. R. Buckland, M.A. So runs the title. The Religious Tract Society has made a most attractive book of it. Dr. Moule is not at his best in extracts, but, for all that, this is one of the best books of extracts we have seen (3s. 6d.).

The Christian Social Union is an active and aristocratic organization. It owes its success to its activity. Part of its activity is shown in preaching, part of it in publishing what is preached.. We do not say that if the Christian Social Union is not practical it is nothing. For it has ideas. But it is practical. It insists on turning its ideas into practice, in spite even of the climate, which is such a hindrance

to the realization of some of our noble ideas. A series of practical sermons was preached recently at St. Paul's Church, Covent Garden, under the auspices of the London branch of the Christian Social Union. Mr. W. H. Hunt, who edits them for Messrs. Skeffington (5s.), says they are alive. He says they deal with present-day problems. He says the questions they try to answer are these: Will Christianity do? Is it practical? Can it be applied here? Try these sermons.

Interest is knowledge, and as we come to know more of the religion of other nations we take more interest in it. Few studies are likely to prove more fascinating or more popular in the immediate future than the study of Comparative Religion. A contribution has just been made to the study of Religion in China by Mr. Walter Gorn Old, M.R.A.S. It is a new translation, with introduction and commentary of The Book of the Simple Way of Laotze (Wellby; 3s. 6d. net). Read Laotze. You speak of grandmotherly legislation, and you think the idea is new. Laotze said, 'The State should be governed as we cook small fish, without much fuss.' Mr. Old's commentary is sometimes, it must be confessed, a trifle watery, but how otherwise than by watering down can you comment upon Laotze's sententiousness? What a wise old man he was-almost Wisdom personified, as in the Book of Proverbs. But after all, Wisdom personified will not do. Wisdom must be a person. The ancient Church Father was right in Religion, though not in Science, when he identified the Wisdom of Proverbs with the Lord Jesus Christ.

What is the difference between the theological curriculum in Britain and in America? In America the study of the Bible forms part of it, in Britain it does not. In America they have Chairs of the English Bible, in Britain we have none. That is the chief difference. Is the Bible not taught in our Divinity Colleges then? No, it is not taught. A little Hebrew is taught and a little Greek. A little of the Old Testament is read and a little of the New. But our divinity students are not taught to study the Bible.

We would therefore recommend to our divinity students a book published in America on the Study of the Bible. It is published by the Winona Publishing Company of Chicago. Its title is Bible Study Popularized. Its author is the Rev. Frank

T. Lee. No doubt divinity students ought to be beyond it. No doubt they are beyond it in America. But until we get Chairs of the study of the Bible in Britain our divinity students should master this book. It is a book of methods. It tells us how to study the Bible by periods, how to study it by books, how to study its characters, the sermons and addresses in it, its scenes and incidents, and its topics. Some of these methods are more fruitful than others. The most fruitful of all, we think, is the last. It is quite true that topical sermons are not always successful, but that is because they are not Biblical. The preacher who takes to a topic simply wants to get rid of the Bible, and no wonder that people prefer expository preaching. But let the topic be taken from the Bible and studied there, it is then 'expository preaching' of the most attractive and enduring kind.

In November 1903, Dr. John P. Peters of New York went to Bangor, in the State of Maine, and delivered six lectures on Early Hebrew Story. Messrs. Williams & Norgate have now published the lectures under that title in their 'Crown Theological Library' (5s.). What did Dr. Peters dare to say on Early Hebrew Story to the students of Bangor Theological Seminary? This will tell

'At the beginning of the sixth chapter of Genesis we have a curious fragment, evidently from a larger whole, which was mythological in character. The sons of the gods saw the daughters of men that they were good to look upon, and took them wives from all whom they chose. Out of this union seem to have been born the mysterious nephilim, translated "giants" in our English version (64). The compiler of the history of Genesis. is putting legends and fragments of legends together, with a view to giving us a history of the world. This fragment is introduced to prepare the way for the account of the wickedness of the world, which resulted in its destruction by the Flood. It would appear that the compiler had

before him a legend which was offensive to his religious belief, because of its distinctly polytheistic character. At the same time it was a well-known story, and one which fitted into the account of the corruption of the world. He adopted it with the elimination of the offensive polytheistic elements, which resulted in leaving little more than a torso of the original.'

There is no fear of consequence there. Yet there is reverence for the only living and true God: it is felt throughout the book. There is never a moment's hesitation; when He is near, the knee is bowed, the heart is contrite. The last chapter is on the moral value of Early Hebrew Story. Dr. Peters never hints that religion is morality. His last word is the first word of Jesus Christ, childlikeness, Except ye turn and become as little children.' That is the religion of Early Hebrew Story.

But

An active and progressive force in Canadian Christian life is Principal R. A. Falconer. He is still in touch with young men. He is a young

man.

The International Committee of Young Men's Christian Associations has published The Truth of the Apostolic Gospel by him. The book consists of a series of studies in the Gospels. It cannot be read. It, or rather the Gospels it is based upon, must be studied. It sets forth the Gospels and their contents in order. The order is both historical and religious, or historico-religious, as the Germans would say. The great religious ideas, presented in their historical order, are the rise of a new Brotherhood, a fellowship of love to Christ, the hope of the Brotherhood, the sense of power in the Brotherhood, the Christian Character a new Creation, and so on. Dr. Falconer has the literature of his subject always within hail, and he has himself the feeling for it. He is scientific also. Progressive we called him. But there is no man living who could say more sincerely, We determined not to know anything among you save Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

THE dedication of your new church to Hugh Latimer, one of the greatest and best of the Bishops of Worcester, was a settled thing before I became Bishop; but I accept the arrangement with gratitude, if for no other reason, because it has given me a fresh opportunity to engrave upon my own mind the image of this great preacher of righteousness, this great and vigorous lover of God's people. And on this day of the consecration of Bishop Latimer's church, I would do my best to make his name a living thing in your hearts and minds.

He was born about 1490 at Thurcaston, in Leicestershire, the son of a small yeoman, or tenant-farmer, who brought up his family in godliness and honesty; made enough out of his land to keep his family and some half-dozen men; to marry his six daughters with a small portion; to send his sharp-witted son to school and then to Cambridge (for the educational ladder was a great reality in those days in England); and all the while to keep hospitality for his poor neighbours,' and 'to give some alms to the poor.' Altogether a noble, industrious, and religious figure is this of Hugh Latimer the elder, as his famous son portrays him for us. His son grew up to see English agriculture decay, and the class to which he had belonged extinguished or impoverished; partly through the suppression of the monastic cultivators, partly under the pressure of the wool trade, which led to the substitution of pasture for agriculture, to the unjust enclosure of lands formerly held in common, and to the rack-renting of the farms, largely such as had been monastic property and had passed into less merciful hands-

'Whereas,' says Latimer, "there have been a great many householders and inhabitants, there is now but a shepherd and his dog.' 'All such proceedings do intend plainly to make the yeomanry slavery.' 'He that now hath my father's farm payeth £16 a year (four times the former rent), and is not able to do anything for his prince, for himself, nor for his children, nor to give a cup of drink to the poor.'

What we should call Latimer's 'ardent socialism' (for he was a prince of Christian socialists) was 1 A sermon, preached on Saturday, 23rd July 1904, at the consecration of a new church at Birmingham, dedicated to Bishop Latimer.

due in great measure to the thoughts bred in his keen mind by the depopulation of the country districts, and the poverty and misery of the peasantry. Once more, the suppression of the schools, which had been largely connected with guilds and chantries and monasteries, broke down the educational ladder

'Charity is waxen cold,' cries Latimer; none helps the scholar nor yet the poor. And in those days, what did they when they helped the scholar? They maintained them who were very papists, and professed the pope's doctrine; and now that the knowledge of God's word is brought to light and many earnestly labour and study to set it forth, now hardly any man helps to maintain them.' 'If ye bring it to pass that the yeomanry be not able to put their sons to school (as indeed universities do wondrously decay already), and that they be not able to marry their daughters to the avoiding of whoredom, I say, ye pluck salvation from the people, and utterly destroy this realm. For by yeomen's sons the faith of Christ is and hath been maintained chiefly. Is this realm taught by rich men's sons? No, no; read the Chronicles. Ye shall find sometime noblemen's sons which have been unpreaching bishops and prelates; but ye shall find none of them learned men." 'The Commons be utterly undone, whose bitter cry ascendeth up to the ears of the God of Sabaoth.'

Such were the abiding social judgments of Latimer. As for his religious beliefs, he remained at Cambridge till he was thirty-'as obstinate a papist as was any in England.' Then (as he says) he began to 'smell the word of God,' first through Thomas Bilney (a martyr for the reformed opinions before Latimer became a bishop), who came to him to make his confession. And 'by his confession I learned more than before in many years.' After that, he was with increasing sympathies on the side of the new learning, and his extraordinary power in preaching and force of character made him a leader, the most powerful in the land. He was a Protestant of the older type, before Calvin's influence was felt. He was strongly 'antiCalvinist,' as we should say—

'Christ shed as much blood for Judas as he did for Peter.' 'We may be in the book (of life) one time, and afterwards, when we forget God and His word, we come out of that book: that is, out of Christ, which is the book.' 'God would have all men to be saved: His salvation is sufficient to save all mankind, but we are so wicked in ourselves that we refuse the same.'