Thoughts on the Present Position of Protestantism, by Adolph Harnack,
translated by Thomas Bailey Saunders (A. and C. Black, Is. 6d.), is a contribution of distinct value, not so much to controversy, as to the larger knowledge of the great divisions of religious thought. The Old Protestantism," which was really a dogmatic system quite as much as that against which it protested, can hardly hold its own against the more venerable and widely reaching system of Catholicism. But its position is not hopeless. It may well be that the future yet belongs to it, in spite of the astonishing growth of hostile forces.—The Thirty-Nine Articles, by the Rev. J. B. Kidd, D.D. (Rivingtons, Is.), takes'us as far only as the first eight Articles. So far, the author has not reached the subjects of present- day controversy. It sounds a little startling to say that the "creed is not inferior in authority to the Scripture," though the statement is somewhat modified subsequently.
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