25 FEBRUARY 1865, Page 22

Essays, Thoughts and Reflections, and Letters. By the Rev. H.

Wood- ward, Rector of Fetharcl, Ireland. With a memoir by his son, the Peen of Down. (Macmillan and Co.)—We are not surprised to see that the essays of a clergyman of the Irish Establishment who had the courage some half a century ago to write that he looked on Christianity rather "as a life than a creed," should have reached a fifth edition. At the same time Mr. Woodward takes a decidedly Evangelical, and even narrow, view of many of the subjects he handles, but never an intolerant or im- moderate one. His son has prefixed a very simple and pleasant account of the author's pursuits and character, and the few necessary feats of an altogether uneventful life.