Emmanuel; or, the Incarnation of the Son of God the
Foundation of Immutable Truth. By the Rev. M. F. Sadler. (Bell and Daldy.)—We can fully believe that this work is an expansion of a series of parochial lectures delivered to a mixed congregation, and we admit that as such an expansion it has a good deal of merit. Still it is too mach of an ex- pension. It is far too long, in the sense of being spun out, and clearness and simplicity are attained at the expense of conciseness. Mr. Sadler Mates that the greater part of his book was written before he "had the satisfaction (mingled at times with very deep regret) of reading Ecce Homo!" We do not suppose that the perusal of that work would have changed Mr. Sadler's opinions, or made him lecture above the heads of his mixed congregation. But it might have taught him to express 'his thoughts more briefly, and in his own language, rather than by superabundant quotation of texts and verses.
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