Questions of Faith and Duty. By Anthony W. Thorold, D.D.,
Bishop of Winchester. (Isbister and Co.)—This is a volume full of the sober, devotional spirit which may be said to be charac- teristic of the Church of England when it is at its best. The earlier sections are devoted to the subject of " The Personal Life " and " The Home." From these we proceed to distinctively Christian doctrines, and thence again to their application to life in its sorrows, its failings, and its work. Such books are not fit subjects for criticism, and we can only commend Dr. Thorold's volume to our readers.—We may join in this commendation a book of excellent discourses, in which the expository and didactic elements have a part as well as the devotional, The Lord's Prayer, by Robert Eyton, M.A. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.) There are eighteen sermons in all, and no one will wish that the number was less.—The Story of a Friendship. By Alfred Gurney, M.A. (Same publishers.)—Short Sermons for the Christian Year. By W. Henry Jones. (Skeffington and Son.)—Here we have sixty sermons, which might average five minutes apiece in delivery. Sim- plicity of thought, apt illustration, and a devotional spirit make them suitable for the " homely folk " for whom they are intended. —From the same publishers we receive the second volume of Sermons for the Christian Year, by A. Noel Hunt, B.A. ; and Sermon Outlines, by the Rev. F. St. John Corbett, M.A., notes for the use of preachers.—Happiness in the Spiritual Life. By the Rev. W. Clavell Ingram, M.A. (Longmans.)—The Ancient Fathers on the Priesthood (Skeffington and Son), an English translation or adapta- tion of a French work entitled "Du Sacerdore."—Short Sermons for Children, by H. J. Welmot-Buxton, a "third edition" (same publishers.)—Christianity and Buddhism, by T. Stirling Berry (S.P.C.K.), a volume described as a " comparison and contrast." There is no little exaggeration in the claims that are put forward for Buddhism, and a calm, reasonable discussion of the subject should be of no small utility.—Simple Lessons for Little Children. By Frederick A. Laing. (D. Bryce, Glasgow.)—A Modern Disciple. By Arthur Jenkinson. (Nisbet).—There is much that is instructive in this volume. The writer deals with the intellectual and moral difficulties which beset " the young disciple," and will be found helpful, dealing as he does courageously with them.
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