26 JANUARY 1895, Page 10

Jeremiah : Priest and Prophet. By F. B. Meyer, B.A.

(Morgan and Scott.)—This is a companion volume to its author's works on Abraham. Joseph, Moses, Joshua, &c. Like them, it is partly historical and partly aermonical.—Mr. Mayer's eminently orthodox theological standpoint is well known. If that be allowed, it must also be conceded that he treats his subject with a very considerable amount of vigour. He writes clearly, and sometimes hits upon a happy figure,—as when he describes Jeremiah as belonging to the type of men who "have the sensitiveness of a girl, and the nervous organism of a gazelle," who " love the shallows with their carpet of silver sand, rather than the strong billows that test a man's endurance."