14 MAY 1864, Page 24

The Upward Path. By the Rev. A. L. Simpson, of

Edinburgh. (T. Nelson and Sons.)—"The momentousness of life" is insisted on here by setting forth the more striking of those representations of it which are to be found in Scripture. It is considered first as a pilgrimage, then as a warfare, then as a race, &c. ; but we see nothing very original in the handling of these well-worn themes. We should suppose that the author has preached each chapter as a sermon, and is now publishing them without his texts.