10 JUNE 1865, Page 22

Orthodoxy, Scripture, and Reason. By the Rev. W. Kirkus, LL.B.

(Williams and Norgate.)—In this temperate and well-reasoned essay the author endeavours to show positively what are the doctrines of the Gospel, and in so doing he examines the principal articles of the Creed of Christendom. Space will not allow us to say more than that students of theology will find this volume very worthy of perusal, but candidates for the ministry had better eschew it. The author, a Congregationalist minister, seems to adopt the exactly orthodox creed of no sect outside the Church, nor that of the Church itself. He is rather an eclectic.