The New Life in Christ. By Joseph A g ar Beet, D.D.
(Hodder and Stoughton.)—This volume, described by its author as " A Study in Personal Religion," obviously is outside the range of ordinary criticism. We must be content with giving it the re- spectful mention which is the only notice that we can accord to books of devotion. With these it may indeed be classed, so far as that which expounds the theory and principle is akin to that which is intended to help the practice. Dr. Beet is well known to theological students for his learning and power of exegesis. They will find this work helpful in another way, helpful both in their personal life and, if they are called upon to exercise the ministerial office, in their teaching. —Another work of the same character, though constructed on ecclesiastical lines, which Dr. Beet does not recognise, is Spiral Stairs, by the Rev. J. H. Townsend, D.D. (same publishers).—Dr. Townsend, to whom we have been lately indebted for a sympathetic memoir of that eminent Evangelical leader, Canon Hoare, of Tunbridge Wells, has given this somewhat quaint title to a volume of sermons in which the system of doctrinal teaching, as seen in the succession of seasons from Advent to Whitsuntide, is expounded.
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