The Dictionary of Religion. Edited by the Rev. William Benham,
B.D., F.S.A. (Cassell and Co., Limited.) — This Dictionary of Religion professes to be en "encyclopedia of Christian and other religious doctrines, denominations, soot, heresies, ecclesiastical terms," &c., and it does contain a vast amount of trustworthy in- formation on many topics connected with religion. For those who desire only a certain amount of popular knowledge on these topics, the work will be very useful. It may be osefal to students also, inasmuch as it directs them to faller sources of information. But any one at work on any religious subject must soon pass beyond the boundaries of this dictionary. The standpoint is that of orthodox Christianity, as generally understood by intelligent members of the Church of England. We have read many of the articles, those in particular in which we ourselves are interested, and we have found them to be written in a spirit of fairness. The writers have been anxious to inform, and not to criticise or dogmatise. They have been saccessf al—to take one instance in illustration of the whole—" in fairly setting forth the Nonconformist view of those great questions which divide their communions from that of the Church of England." They claim this, and their claim is made good. Altogether, having regard to the limits set to the writers, the work is good and useful.
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