28 JUNE 1890, Page 42

The fifth number of the Church History Series (Religious Tract

Society) is Athartasius : his Life and Life-Work, by Henry Robert Reynolds, D.D. "I have endeavoured," writes Dr. Reynolds, "to tell the story of the life of Athanasius from the standpoint of the religious consciousness, rather than that of political, ecclesiastical, or national reconstruction." The subject is one which requires a practised skill in theology, and a keen intellectual appreciation of some subtle distinctions of thought and expression in any one who would properly handle it, besides the more important qualification of a sympathetic spirit. The student will find that these require- ments are satisfied in Dr. Reynolds's monograph.