Our Golden Key. By Lady Hope. (Seeley and Co.)—When we
have added the second title of this book, "A Narrative of Facts from 'Outcast London,'" we have shown good reason why we should not attempt to criticise it. The state of things which it reveals is, to use a phrase which has become historical, "horrible and heartrending.'s But there are gleams of light, not the least being the faith in God which manifests itself in every page of this book,—a faith which all adverse evidence cannot shake, and which has at least this presump- tion of truth.—The problem which is informally stated in the volume just spoken of is systematically dealt with in The Problem of the Churchless and Poor in Our Large Towns, with Special Reference to the Home Mission Work of the Church of Scotland, by the Rev. Robert Milne. (Blackwood and Son.)—One thing certainly, as probably many others, is common to the difficulty as it exists in Scotland and
in England, and that is the division in the Churches. Whoever or whatever may have been responsible for Secession in Scotland and for Dissent in England, it can hardly be questioned that the weakening caused by this division has done much to cause the lamentable growth of a great un-Christian population, an-Christian not from antagonism, but from sheer ignorance.
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