3 AUGUST 1901, Page 23

The Law of Forgiveness. By J. M. Schulhof, M.A. (Heller

and Son, Cambridge.)—This is a careful and thorough study of all the passages in the Old and New Testament which bear on the subject of forgiveness and on the kindred topics of retribu- tion, &c. Mr. Schulhof will accept no conventional views, as, e. g . , the fallacious commonplace that sin is always punished in this life ; nor does he bind himself by traditional interpretations. He does his best to bring to his subject an unprejudiced mind. What he says will repay study.