The Law of Creeds in Scotland. A Treatise on the
Legal Relation qf Churches in Scotland Established and not Established to their Doctrinal Confessions. By Alexander Taylor Innes. (Blackwood.)—We fear that we cannot recommend this book to any but Scotchmen, or to any Seotchmen but ecclesiastical Seotchmen. Other readers will not be tempted to go beyond the title-page, unless they are in search of information. In that case some portions of the table of contents may hold out hopes which the contents themselves will partly gratify. There is a want of order and method in Mr. Innes's writing, while his subject is one which needs all the available attractions of clearness and condensation. Creeds and confession!' and statutes and cases ought to be discussed with brevity, except for those to whom they are already so familiar that the end of the discussion can be predicted from the outset.
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