25 FEBRUARY 1865, Page 21

Eternal Punishment and Eternal Death. By James William Barlow, M.A.,

Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College, Dublin. (Longman and Co.) —The author, holding the doctrine of future punishment, contends that it must always be reformative, and that when there is no more chance of reformation the sinner incurs the penalty of eternal death or annihila- tion. He therefore denies, or at least does not affirm, the theory of a final universal restoration of all men, and energetically denies the popular dogma that eternal death means endless life in intolerable tor- ment. These views are expressed with great clearness and force, the writer principally urging the inconsistency of the popular creed with "the rudimentary axioms of morality."