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Christ Our King. By the Rev. W. H. Pinnock. (Bell

and Sons.)— Dr. Pinnock is well known as the author of some very useful text-books of history, sacred and secular. We cannot see that this volume is more than a manual on an enlarged scale of the Gospel narratives. The author has not attempted to harmonise the Synoptic Gospels, and his book is therefore free from the disturbing element of special pleading, f rem which the work of a professed harmoniser always suffers. But the special characteristic which he claims for it, that it speaks especially of "Christ the King," is not easily to be distinguished. Still, it has the merits of a careful study by one who is experienced in such labours, and cannot fail to have its use.