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Liberal Evangelicalism. (Hodder and Stoughton. 6s. net.) This is a

wise and timely book. The religious affinities of Liberal Churchmen are with the Evangelicals ; and it is difficult to conceive a revival of religion in England starting from other than Evangelical ground. But it is even more difficult to conceive one which remains at this starting-point : and some recent utterances of prominent Evangelicals have been caloulated to strain the alliance, in itself natural, between the Liberal and the Evangelical schools. These essays should serve as an Eirenicon. That by Canon Barnes, on the Future of the Evangelical Movement, in particular, is at once judicious and sane.