The Expository Times

But still more attractive is another small book from the same publishers. Its title is Bible Etchings of Immortality. The title, if not the idea, is clearly taken from Rembrandt's unfinished etching of the Raising of Jairus' Daughter, which is reproduced in the book. The same old baffling questions: but they are not presented by Dr. Camden Cobern as problems. It is enough to see Jesus at work with death, to hear His calm, 'She is not dead, but sleepeth.'

A Philosophical Introduction to Ethics, by W. R. Boyce Gibson, M.A. (Sonnenschein). The title of this book is a challenge. The Science of Ethics, say many of its students, requires no recognition from Philosophy or Religion. It is the science of human conduct, and the human conduct which it reduces to a science is sufficiently explained by the dread of hunger, thirst, and cold; the desire to gratify the passions; the love of wife and child or friend; sympathy with the sufferings of our neighbours; resentment of injury inflicted on ourselves. Professor Boyce Gibson challenges that. If there is a Science of Ethics, there is also a Philosophy of Morals. If sympathy and revenge are motives to human conduct, its dominating factor is a spiritual one. Professor Boyce Gibson does not deny that man is an animal; he denies that he is only an animal. The book is a series of lectures in touch with the problems of conduct at this very moment. Valuable for its own great and well-sustained contention, it is valuable also for the survey it affords of the men who are at work in Ethics, and of the work they are doing.

Archdeacon Sinclair has written the Preface to a book by the Rev. Gilbert Monks, called The Young Preacher's Guide (Elliot Stock; 7s. 6d. net), and this is the beginning of his Preface: As an Examining Chaplain of twenty-seven years' standing, I have been throughout startled and concerned to find how little training and preparation are given to young men about to be ordained as to the composition and delivery of sermons and addresses, which are unquestionably amongst their foremost

In many cases absolutely nothing is done at all; the new deacon, lately a boy at college, appears for the first time in the Seat of Teaching in the church with no instruction whatever as to matter, method, manner, or style.'

It is startling enough. It is surely a matter

of concern to everybody. If men cannot preach, what do they enter the pulpit for? If they cannot make the Bible more impressive by their manner of expounding it, why should they expound it at all? The people had better be left to read it; it is interesting enough in itself. interesting enough in itself. Mr. Monks would train our preachers to preach. It cannot be altogether done by a book, but much can be done by a book. And this is an excellent book for the purpose; its rules are practical and good, and it is crowded with examples.

Mr. Elliot Stock has published a second edition of Dr. Walpole's Communion and Offering. The first edition was noticed the other day. But we are not surprised that it is sold off already. For the little book stands quite apart from ordinary Instructions upon the Office of Holy Communion.

Mr. Elliot Stock has also published Suggestive Thoughts from the Temple, being striking passages from the teaching of the Rev. R. J. Campbell, collected by Mia Dickin (2s. 6d. net).

Is there room for another History of the Church? There is room for everything that is good. Messrs. Rivington have got the Rev. W. H. Hutton to undertake the editorship of a new History, and he will strive to make it good, and it will find room. There are to be eight volumes of it. The second in order comes first in time. It carries the period from 98 to 461 A.D. Its author is the Rev. Leighton Pullan, Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford. The series is to be ruled by a purpose. Its purpose is to demonstrate the divine origin and continuous unity of the Church. We object to novels with a purpose, but we need not object to histories. For the purpose of the novel is to give pleasure; the purpose of the history is to give truth. And in this case the aim is worthy of the best endeavour of editor and authors. Mr. Pullan has been faithful to it. And he has the literary gift.

A popular edition has been published of The Messages of Christ, by Nathaniel Wiseman (Thynne; Is. 6d. net).

Mr. Thynne has also published a new edition, the eighth, of Thoughts for Young Men (9d. net), by the late Bishop of Liverpool.

Mr. Andrew Macphail has written five Essays in Puritanism (Fisher Unwin). 'Essays in Puritanism' means Essays on Puritans. The five Puritans are Jonathan Edwards, John Winthrop, Margaret Fuller, Walt Whitman, and John Wesley. There is something in these essays, and it will be necessary for us all to read them. For although many essays have been written on these Puritans, the things which this volume contains have never been written before. Jonathan Edwards was never described as Mr. Macphail describes him, nor Margaret Fuller, nor John Wesley. The essays were read before 'a company of artists who had the traditional antipathy of their class towards the spirit of Puritanism.' Did the essays remove their antipathy? They did not attempt to remove it. Mr. Macphail either has the traditional antipathy himself, or he felt that if he showed more sympathy with these Puritans, he would lose the sympathy of his audience. Perhaps he felt that if he got his artists simply to listen, they would discover that even in the Puritans there is material for art. To read the book with pleasure one must be an artist with antipathy to the spirit of Puritanism. The one Puritan towards whom Mr. Macphail lets himself go is Walt Whitman. But is Walt Whitman a Puritan ?

Mr. Joseph McCabe has written a book upon The Religion of Women (Watts; 2s. 6d. net). Mr. McCabe calls his book 'An Historical Study.' But it is an historical study with a purpose. That purpose is to discredit Christianity. In the very first chapter Mr. McCabe contrasts the position of Woman in New England fifty years ago, with her position in Egypt six thousand years ago, and all to the advantage of Egypt. Whereupon he concludes, 'It is clear that the notion held by so many religious women-that their cause languished until the coming to power of Christianity, and then entered upon a grateful period of advance-is greatly in error.' But more than that, Mr. McCabe does not think that women need a religion. He thinks they are better without it. In the chapter on the training of children he says, 'In thousands of homes in England since the middle of the nineteenth century the word "God" has never been mentioned, and the training has been completely successful.'

Mary and Ellen Gibbs have done for all the

world what many a man has tried to do for himself. They have gathered together all The Bible References in the Works of John Ruskin, quoted them and furnished them with an accurate Index. Their book has already run into its fifth thousand, and now a pocket edition is published at 2s. 6d. (George Allen).

The Cure of Care (Allenson; 1s. 6d. net). What is the cure of care? Mr. W. J. Humberstone answers in a sentence. It is to care for others. He tells the story of the woman who implored the Buddha to give her back her firstborn from the dead. 'Go, my daughter,' he said, 'bring me a mustard seed from a home into which Death has not entered, and I will do as thou desirest.' The woman went from house to house, but Death was always there before her. Slowly her heart awoke to sympathy with the sorrows of others. Her grief lost its sting when it lost its. selfishness.

Messrs. George Bell & Sons' 'York Library' has its own peculiar quality, and must not be confounded with libraries which have no quality at all. It contains only such books as need careful reading, and are worth it. The latest addition is The Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius (2s. net), in Long's translation, with Matthew Arnold's Essay as an Appendix.

A Lenten Day-Book, with the title of Narrow Windows (Brown; 1s. 6d.), has been prepared by the Rev. Edward Collett, vicar of Bowerchalke, Wilts. There is a page for every day, and every page contains its text, as well as the Consideration, the Meditation, and To-day's Prayer.

Is there unanimity-doctrinal unanimity-among the Fathers? Miss S. F. A. Caulfeild believes that there is, and she undertakes to prove it. She proves it by quoting freely from the Fathers on all the great doctrines of Christianity. Then what is the character of the doctrine on which they are unanimous? What is their theological attitude? It is the attitude of Lord Halifax. The Fathers, Miss Caulfeild shows, believed in Baptismal Regeneration, the Real Presence, Prayers for the Departed, the Use and Veneration of Relics, and much more; they believed in all the things in which Lord Halifax believes, and they believed in

nothing else. Lord Halifax agrees with Miss Caulfeild, and is grateful. He writes an appreciative preface. The title of the brave little book is The Voice of the Fathers (Brown; 3s. 6d.).

The President of the University of Chicago is steeped in the study of the Minor Prophets. He has published an edition of The Book of Hosea, showing the structure of the text, and offering a new translation. The volume is sent out as a companion to The Structure of the Text of the Book of Amos, published last year. Both volumes should be used along with the author's edition of Amos and Hosea, which has just appeared in 'The International Critical Commentary' (Chicago Press; $1).

In America the Sunday School has risen to the dignity of demanding its own text-books. It demands text-books that are thoroughly scientific and up to date. It is not afraid of offending these little ones by telling them plainly what modern scholarship has found in the Old Testament. It does not believe that that is what Christ meant by offending them. And the moment the demand is made scholars are ready to supply it. Men of the highest position and the ripest scholarship are willing to write for the Sunday School in America. The University of Chicago has on hand a whole series of such books. One of them has been written by its president. And that the demand is real cannot be doubted. For President Harper's Priestly Element in the Old Testament (University of Chicago Press; $1), issued only a year ago, has already reached a second and enlarged edition.

At the Clarendon Press there is published a 'bijou' edition of each of the four Gospels. A 'bijou' edition means a book of about an inch square and an eighth of an inch thick. But it is printed in beautiful type, gilt-edged, and bound in leather (Is. net).

The best book which Dr. Lewis Muirhead has yet published is his Times of Christ (T. & T. Clark; 2s.). And it is going to be his best-known book. A new edition of it is out already.

Where does the Sky begin? This question is the bold title of the first sermon in Dr. Washington Gladden's new book. And then it becomes the

still bolder title of the book itself (James Clarke; 45. net). The text which furnishes this title is Job 3819-20, beginning, 'Where is the way to the dwelling of light?' But the title is not mere rhetoric. Throughout the sermon Dr. Gladden is persistently asking the question, Where does the sky begin? His answer is that it has begun already, where you stand. Go down into the cellar or into the mine, it has begun even there. But what is the sky? Turn the page and you find that the sky is eternity. I remember hearing an evangelist at an evening meeting where a solemn hymn had been sung, of which the refrain was "Eternity! eternity!" break the silence which followed the singing by the impressive question, "Where will you spend it?" The proper question about eternity, says Dr. Gladden, is not where will you spend it, but how are you spending it? Washington Gladden has a great name among

us.

This book is riper and richer than anything he has yet published.

Is there no literature for our boys but the literature of the battlefield? If there is not, at least let it be history and not fiction. For in history it is found that the race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong, and the sooner they learn that lesson the better. Let us offer them Mr. A. G. Bradley's Fight with France for North America (Constable; 3s. 6d. net). It is a marvel of cheapness and interest. It has its hero. It has two heroes. For Montcalm is not forgotten in Wolfe's glory. And there is life and movement on every page, and expectation undiminished till the end.

Messrs. Constable have published the English translation of an extraordinary book, Bartholomew Sastrow, being the memoirs of a German Burgomaster. The Burgomaster lived in the days of Luther, days of immense stir and some confusion; and if he did not see far, if he did not see the eternal spiritual issues involved in the strife, what he did see he saw clearly and describes forcibly. Plain speaking! We dare not use such language now, and we are not quite sure that it should all have been translated. Most of the matter in Burgomaster Sastrow's autobiography belongs to himself and his family, their gains and their losses, their long drawn-out litigations, their robberies and their murders. But even when the matter is most

personal it is a picture of the life of the time. The Burgomaster is not a piously religious man, though a Lutheran, but he has at least a philosophy of God. God lives to grant prosperity to the Sastrow family and to confound all their enemies. The translation is done by Mr. Albert D. Vandam, and there is an Introduction by Mr. H. A. L. Fisher of New College, Oxford (3s. 6d. net).

Some say that the things which have made the Spectator are neither its political leaders nor its literary reviews, but those occasional papers which are scattered through its pages, written by nobody knows who and upon nobody knows what. Sometimes those papers are gathered together, and then the identity of one delightful writer is discovered. So is it when Miss Eleanor G. Hayden publishes Travels Round our Village (Constable; 3s. 6d. net). It is a large octavo volume, and the wonder of its price is the greater when we turn over the pages and see how many are the illustrations by L. Leslie Brooke, and how much character is expressed in them.

Messrs. Constable have now published a popular edition of Mr. G. W. Forrest's Cities of India (5s. net). They call it popular because of the price, we presume, but the book is here in its completeness, full-sized page and fully illustrated. It is one of the ways of getting at India. There is no use waiting for a complete history of India or a complete account of its inhabitants. We must be satisfied with here a little, and there a little. It will be something to know its great cities, and this is the book to furnish us with the knowledge.

Herr Lietzmann continues his 'Materials for the Use of Theological Lecturers and Students.' The new issues are the Apocryphal Gospels, edited by Dr. E. Klostermann; the Assumption of Moses, edited by Dr. Karl Clemen; the Letter of Ptolemæus to Flora, edited by Dr. Harnack; the Three Oldest Martyrologies, and a Selection of Liturgical Texts, both edited by himself (Deighton, Bell, & Co.; 6d. each).

Messrs. Dent have added Samuel and the Schools of the Prophets (9d. net) to the Temple Series of Bible Handbooks.' The author is James Sime, M.A., F.R.S.E.

The Rev. William Beck, rector of Clanaborough, Devon, is dissatisfied with the Revised Version, and he has published a large bookful of Suggested Amendments (Exeter: Henry S. Elands). Some of his Amendments are amendments, but some are not. In Ro 1516 for 'a minister . . . ministering... by the Holy Ghost,' he suggests 'a priestly minister. . . ministering in sacrifice . . in Holy Ghost.'

The Jewish Encyclopedia is now nearly at an end. This is the ninth volume. It runs from the middle of M to the middle of P. Its first principal article is MORBIDITY, under which is discussed the tendency of the Jews to special diseases. The greatest name in M is MOSES. But it is not the purpose of this Encyclopedia to occupy the place of a dictionary of the Bible, and MAIMONIDES has as much space as MOSES. Still the article on Moses is one of the best bits of work in the volume. Its author is Professor G. A. Barton of Bryn Mawr. The article on MUSIC is disappointing. Here a great opportunity has been lost. It is true that notes on the music of the synagogue are scattered throughout the whole work, but the general article should have given a more comprehensive survey of the subject, and a better conception of its riches. In the article on the NEW TESTAMENT a brave effort is made to find the Gospels in Rabbinism. say that our Lord's teaching is not original than to say that it is not true. The longest article in the volume is the article on NEW YORK. It is longer far than the article on PALESTINE, and it is enriched with a marvellous panorama map. The last great article is devoted to PERIODICALS. is followed by a list of all the Jewish periodicals which have ever been published in any country or language (Funk & Wagnalls; 25S.).

Still, it is better to

Mr. C. H. Kelly has issued another series of Manchester Lectures, this time under the title of The Inspiration of the New Testament (6d.). That is the title of the first Lecture by Dr. J. H. Moulton. The second Lecture is by the Rev. W. C. Allen, Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. Its title is 'The Discrediting of the Gospels.' The Rev. H. B. Workman is the author of the third. He calls it 'Jesus Christ as the Son of Man: His Relation to the Race-Factor.' The fourth and the sixth are on social subjects-'The Problem of

Poverty,' by Mr. J. H. Clapham; and 'Betting and Gambling,' by the Rev. C. W. Andrews. The fifth is entitled 'B.C.-A.D., or the Difference Christ has made'; its author is the Rev. George Jackson. These are telling subjects, and these men are fit to make them tell with effect even upon such an audience as gathers in the Central Hall, Manchester.

Mr. Kelly has also published a sixpenny edition of William Arthur's Tongue of Fire. In a book published this month (The Young Preacher's Guide) the author says, 'When but a young Christian, I well remember a most eloquent preacher and successful soul-winner, named the Rev. John Warwick, declaring that whenever he felt himself spiritually "run down," he went to Arthur's Tongue of Fire for his tonic, and got it there.'

There are more ways of making sermons than we had any idea of. The Rev. R. J. Wardell describes six different methods known to him and practised by him. He not only describes the methods, but he gives illustrations of sermons built after them. The little book is entitled Studies in Homiletics. It is one of Dr. Gregory's series of 'Books for Bible Students' (Kelly; 2s. 6d.).

From the Kingsgate Press in Southampton Row come two strong appeals for an evangelical and non-conforming Christianity. The one is in the form of a tale, a German tale by Mrs. C. L. Abbot, called The Wanderer (3s. 6d.). The other is a biography, the biography of William Jeffery, the Puritan Apostle of Kent (1s. 6d. net). It is written by Charles Rudge, and it contains an Introduction by Dr. Clifford.