SOME: BOOKS OF TIIE WEEK.
[Under this heading we notice such Books of the seek as have tot Leon reeerved for reties:in other forms.]
The Eschatological Question in the Gospels. By Cyril W. Emmet, 'M.A. (T. and T. Clark. 6s. aet.)—This isavo/ume of essays, partly republished from the Expositor and other periodicals, partly new, the essay, in six chapters, which gives a title to the volume, appearing for the first time. The main question dealt -with in this is, How are we to take the utterances of Jesus about His own coming again and the end of the world ? Are they, as some would say, the dominant part of His teaching? Is the Gospel, so fax as it is a moral eode, something devised to meet an instant need, not to regulate a permanent society ? (We are to give to everyone that asks, because the social order which such a rule would cer- tainly break up is about to disappear.) Mr. Emmet owns the difficulties of the subject. There are words which can hardly be explained away, and it is quite certain that some such belief gained very wide acceptance in the early Church. Of the other essays we would especially commend to our readers that on the Resurrection, a criticism of M. Loisy.
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