PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.
Tracts for Priests and People. No. V. " On Terms of Communion :" I. The Boundaries of the Church. By the Rev. C. K. P. II. The Message of the Church. By I. H. Langley, M.A. Cambridge: Macmillan and Co. London: 23, Henrietta-street, Covent-garden.— The object of the first of these tracts is to prove that a much greater variety of opinions may really find standing-ground within the Church of England than is commonly supposed. -Instances are given of the opposite extremes which exist at this moment within her pale. The dilierence of ritual, as great as that " between the ceremonial of Italy and Scotland," which is to be observed in adjoining churches, and the absence from her formularies of all dogmatism on inspiration, Eternal punishment, the Atonement, prophecy, and miracles, are
i quoted in favour of this view; and attempts are made to show that even her most apparentlr positive assertions admit always of some modified construction. The writer says that he is not called upon to Piave these propositions. The fact that he, a member of the Church of ltugland, can promulgate them safely is, he urges, sufficient by itself to attest the Church's comprehensiveness. But without stopping to criticize This view at any length, we may be allowed to remind the writer that he has yet to answer that large body of theologians, who will tell him that a man may be in the Church and yet not of the Church, and who relyon the parableof the wheat and the tares to support this opinion. Tract No. II. is by an " ex-Dissenter," and is intended to show what it is which Dissenter:, and the Evangelical clergy overlook in the Christian religion. Mr. Langley has certainly succeeded in expressing with much eloquence his own conception of the doctrine of Baptismal regeneration, and the gloomy nature of the doctrine to which it is opposed. But we are constrained to say that both these benev e•ssoIs olen seece m to us to want power, and to be obscured by an excess of . A .Reply to the Letter Entitled "The Su 'on of Doubt is not Faith." By One who Doubts Not but Fu lieves that the Bible is the Word•of God. Oxford and London: J. H. and J. Parker.— This pamphlet is clearly the production of a regular old-fashioned Low Churchman. It is pervaded by all the choice theological slang peculiar to that school, and is not embarrassed by logic.
dnti-Essays : " Essays and Reviews" of 1860 fallacious and futile, at variance with each other, and mutually destructive. By the Rev. C. H. Davis, M.A., of Wadham College, Oxford, Chaplain of Stroud Union. Nailsworth: K. Washbourn ; London: Simpkin and Mar- shall.—The author of this pamphlet displays so considerable a know- ledge of theological literature, that we are driven to conclude either that his case is a very weak one, who, with these materials at his com- mand, has established so little, or that his argumentative powers are sadly disproportionate to his learning. He has certainly succeeded in placing his fingers upon a certain number of weak points in " Essays and Reviews ;" places, that is to say, which the writers have either neglected or been unable to fortify by arguments intelligible to the multitude. Those persons who are prepared to condemn "Essays and Reviews," upon certain broad and traditional principles which prevail widely among the English people, without troubling. themselves with any more searching speculations, will find in Mr. Davis's pages a good deal to confirm them in their position. But he only relegates the con- troversy a step further back. He shows, we Thinkthat certain assumptions of the Essayists rest on insufficient foundations. But he does not vindicate the contrary propositions. He helps to ease the consciences of such persons as do not wish to vex themselves with the controversy. We fear he will be found of little use by those who do.
Beyond the Orange River ; or, Scenes in Southern Africa. By the Author of "The Last Earl of Desmond." London : Newby.—In spite of a rather silly preface this book has spirit and fun in it, and de- tails some adventures of elephant-hunting, slave-dealing, and love.- making with passable vigour and vivacity. TheSecond Year of one of England's Little Wars. By Octavius Hadfield, Archdeacon of Kapiti, New Zealand.. London : Williams and Norgate. —This is a closely-printed pamphlet of ninety pages, containing a well- written and telling defence of the native side in the New Zealand war, supplemented by various extracts from the colonial press, pre- senting altogether a formidable array of argument. We have pro- nounced often on the rights of the question here, but we may say that the natives have found a very competent, if not a very successful, champion in the Reverend Archdeacon of Kapiti.
Memorandums and Recollections of Gout and Rheumatism, 4e. with a few Practical Remarks on Sciatica and Lumbago. By Edward Duke Moore, L.R.C.P.E., &c. London; John Churchill.—This essay apparently contains the fruits of considerable experience in the treatment of the above diseases. It is written in a quiet, unpre- tending tone, and is calculated to prepossess in the author's favour. Mr. Moore, we should state, is a warm believer in the efficacy of the Turkish bath. _Milton's Poetical Works. Vol. II. Bohn's Illustrated Library.— This edition of Milton may be distinguished as the Montgomery edition, as it is prefaced with that memoir and criticism of the poet which were written many. years ago by that author. The present volume contains the Paradise Regained, and the minor poems, and is enriched with a complete index verborum to the whole of Milton's works.' Some few of the illustrations are pretty, but the majority are not commendable ; least of all, that one in which Satan carries Our Saviour through the air, the figures reminding us rather of a couple of modern acrobats than of anything so sacred as they are intended to represent.
Latin Texts with Notes: " Cesar de Bello Gallica." M. T. Ciceronis, pro T. Annio Milone oratis. Oxford : Parker.—These are two very pretty little classical texts for the use of schools. The notes appear to be particularly good; short and simple, yet by no means superficial. We have observed several grammatical difficulties, and peculiar idioms, explained with great perspicuity.
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