Aids to Reflection, and Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit. By
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. To which are added his Essays on Faith and the Book of Common Prayer, &c. New edition, revised. (George Bell and Sons.)—It will suffice to call attention to the publication in one volume of two of the most suggestive and fruitful theological works that have been published in this centnry. To Coleridge, Frederick Denison Maurice has confessed his obligations in no niggard terms, and many a hint given in the "Aids" or the" Con- fessions" has been laid hold of by more recent, and perhaps more popular, writers. To men whom these books, to use a Coleridgian term, have " found," their value cannot readily be estimated, for they have enabled them to look at life and at the Bible with new eyes. The reprints seem to have been revised with care, and the get-up of the volume is admirable, although readers who possess the old editions published by Pickering are not likely to prefer the new.
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