C URRENT LITERATURE.
Religion in Life. Discourses and Meditations. By Edwin Smith, M.A. (E. T. Whitfield.)—These discourses were delivered to the Upper Brook Street Congregation at Manchester, and present every sign. of being the work of not only a thoughtful and accomplished, but also of a gentle and pious spirit. And if we find them marked by a certain cold- ness and want of colour, if they seem to offer to humanity in its trials and sufferings only a philosophic soothing in place of warning or con- solation, we should be inclined to impute it rather to the negative cha- racter of the writer's tenets than to any personal deficiencies as a Christian minister. If we were to single any of these compositions out for especial praise, it would be the sermon on "Mysticism" and the paper on the "Patriotism of Christ."
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