CURRENT LITERATURE.
MINOR BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
(Under this Heading we intend to notice such Books of the week as has, not been relieved for Mina oiler formaj A Commentary on the First Epistle of St. John. By Dr. Ernst Dryander. Translated and edited by the Rev. W. 0. E. Oesterley.
(Elliot Stock. 6s.)—Dr. Dryander is known as one of the eminent
preachers in Germany, and this volume, in which the homiletic form is strongly marked, will be welcomed by many English
readers.—Another contribution to theology from the Berne
country is The Apostles' Creed, by Dr. Iheodor Zahn, translated by C. S. Burn and A E. Burn, B.D. (Hodder and Stoughton, 6s.)
Professor Zahn is a leader of the orthodox party ; and this treatise, while far from being rigidly conservative in its tone, will be found a powerful help to those who think that the
destructives and extremists have had their day.—The Christian Crud, by C. W. Leadbetter (Theosophical Publishing Society), treats the same subject from the theosophical point of view.
The Doctrine of the Lord's Supper, by J. J. Stewart Perowne, D.D. (Elliot Stock, 3s. 6d.), is mainly a reprint of the Bishop's Primary Visitation Charge. The Bishop is an able exponent of the
Eucharistic doctrine as held by the Reformers.—With this may
be mentioned, though it deals with practical Church politics rather than with dogma, Church Troubles and Common-Sense, by W. H. Carnegie, MA. (J. Murray. 2s. 6c1.) Mr. Carnegie's words are worth weighing, but we much doubt whether he is right in saying that the differences between High Churchmen and Low Churchmen are "not so much matters of principle as of proportion."
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