Some Urgent Questions of the Day. Edited by the Rev.
Harry Jones. (Rivingtons.)—Mr. Jones invited a number of clergymen of various schools of thought to give Sunday afternoon lectures in a London church. Freedom of choice in their subjects, which include topics not commonly discussed in sermons, and a general "liberty of prophesying," together with the fact that the invita- tion was addressed to people who had something to say, have naturally produced an interesting volume. To review these fourteen discourses at length would be to deal with some of the most important questions of the present day. Mr. C. W. Stubbs, for instance, lectures on " The Social Creed of the Church." What he says goes down to the principles of human society, to the theories of individualism and what may be called, in the wide sense of the word, " socialism." Then follows an instructive glance at the past in Dr. Jessopp's lecture on " The Monastic Life and its Teachings." Mr. E. C. Hawkins's " New Theology," and Mr. B. H. Alford's " Catholicity of the Coming Church," may be read together as a conjecture as to the Christianity of the future. " Positivism " is discussed by Mr. Page Roberts, and " Vege- tarianism " by Professor Mayor, who is careful to inform us that his watchword comes not from " vegetable," but vegetus. The "vegetarian is one who studies and pursues vegeta, all that promotes vigour, alertness, vitality of mind and body." We may most emphatically commend an admirably sensible paper by the editor, on " Women's Work in the World."
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