4 DECEMBER 1869, Page 23

Early Leaves. By the Rev. John Coyle. (Glasgow: Adamson.)— An

affected title and an inflated preface give the reader a prejudice against a volume of some merit. Mr. Coyle was a young Independent minister at Forfar ; a self-taught man who had raised himself from the position of an artizan, and who died at the early age of twenty-six. These sermons are selected from his remains. They are worth pre- serving, but they do not show much breadth or grasp of thought. The real difficulties of theology he passes by ; in fact, though there is much religious feeling generally of a sound and wholesome character hi them, there is little or no theology in the highest sense of that word.