24 JULY 1897, Page 25

Faith and Self - Surrender. By James Martineau, D.D. (James Clarke.)—This "Small

Book on a Great Subject" is a noble utterance on a subject of supreme importance. "The only know- ledge that can really make us better is not of things and their laws, but of persons and their thoughts." "Nothing that is worthy of a living man can be unworthy of a dying one." "A purely self-regarding being is necessarily a solitary being." "Whosoever has received of heaven the suggestion of some practicable deed of goodness or sacrifice or mercy, bears a burden which he can never lay down, and which will be asked at his hands when he knocks at the everlasting gate." These sentences are taken almost at random from a rich treasury of admirably expressed thought.