Of apologetic literature relating to another aspect of the great
con- troversy between belief and unbelief, we may mention The Scientific Obstacles to Christian Belief, by George Herbert Cartel's, M.A. (Mac- millan). This volume contains the Boyle Lecture for 1884. Christianity, Science, and Infidelity, by the Rev. W. Hillier, Mus. Doc. (Nisbet and Co.), a second edition.—What I Believe, by Leon Tolstoi, translated from the Russian by Constantine Popoff (Regan Paul, Trench, and Co.), is an interesting volume of "confessions," in which the author relates the processes of thought and feeling by which he came out of infidelity into faith. "I am five-and-fifty years old," says the author in his introduction, "and, with the exception of the fourteen or fifteen years of my childhood, I have been until recently a Nihilist,' in the proper signification of that term. I have not been a Socialist or a Revolutionist, but a Nihilist in the sense of being completely without faith. Five years ago I began to believe in the doctrine of Christ, and in consequence a great change has been wrought in me. I no longer care for the things which I had prized, and I have begun to desire things concerning which I had formerly been indifferent Can it harm any one if I relate how it was that this change was effected in me
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