Charles Haddon. Spurgeon. • By One -Who alnew-Him .Well. (A.
Melrose. • 2s. fkl. net.)—This "biographical sketch and appreciation" is very well done. The writer does not blindly admire, but discriminates with much judgment between Spurgeon's best work and that which was inferior. He was not a theologian, —indeed, in that crisis of his life when a great theologian in so commanding a position might have exercised a most beneficial influence he distinctly failed. But he was . a great, a very great preacher. The enormous mass of good matter that he gave out week after week was really an achievement, that stands without parallel He published sermons week by week for many, years and did not repeat himself. Some interesting notes of his per- sonality are recorded. He' was wonderfully openleiaidee' it is' -easier to keep a vow of poverty than to hive ehe Power to accu• mnlate and then die poor. Spurgeon left hothing but what he.
could not give away, his buildings and his copyrights. ' • '
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