DEAN BUTCHER'S SERMONS.
Sermons by the Late' Dean Butcher. (J. M. Dent and Co. 4s. Gd.) —Charles Henry Butcher spent the first eight years of his clerical life (1856-1864) in London (St. Clement Danes and Hammer- smith), went to Shanghai in 1864, and remained for sixteen years. In 1881 he went to Egypt in search of health, and here 'he remained for the rest of his life. One year's holiday he had during this time, besides some months towards the close of his life. He was a man of broad views, of sterling common-sense, and an indefatigable worker. Of the thirty sermons here printed, fourteen are an exposition of the Apostles' Creed. The others deal with various topics,—questions of morals and religion. He is always worth listening to, and on occasion he can use quite plain language. One sentence we will quote because it says generally what we should often like to say, did we think it expedient, about particular books. " The prose fiction of .the day—English, French, Russian, and Swedish—is largely made up of clever attempts to familiarise men and women with the growth and maturing, the attractions and the inevitableness. of vice."
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