SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as ham, not bun reserved for review iw other forms.] Christian Thought on Present-Day Questions. By W. Allen Whitworth, M.A. (Macmillan and Co. 4s. 6d. net.)—Many will be glad, we believe, to possess a memorial volume of an accom- plished and thoughtful preacher, whom the English Church could ill afford to lose. Mr. Allen Whitworth represented liberal ortho- doxy in a singularly felicitous way. He habitually addressed a congregation of high average intelligence, and was recognised by his hearers as a genuine teacher. These sermons fail, as almost all sermons must fail, to give a wholly adequate idea of the preacher. But they are a valuable possession, for they at least represent to us the thinker, and this was the character in which Mr. Whitworth was at his best. We may mention among the thirteen discourses here published "The Law of the Wager" and "Political Duty," and as a specimen of reverent speculation in /LET& vh CPW7iKd, "The Place of Will among the Cosmic Forces."
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