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Is The Higher Criticism Scholarly ? By Robert Dick Wilson,

Ph.D., D.D. (Marshall Bros., Ltd. Is. net.) Professor Wilson, who knows forty-five languages, thinks not. He believes " that no man knows enough to assail the truthfulness of......

Mr. Losabe Is Bent On Saving The World. He Has

no political or administrative scheme to suggest, but he believes that we shall become more prosperous when we are more moral.......

Victory Out Of Ruin. By Norman Maclean. (hodder And...

5s. net.) Vigorous, facile, and exultant sermons on the increasing popularity of Prohibition.......

Religion And Ethics.

The Book of Religion and F t mpire. A Semi-official Defence and Exposition of Islam wlitten by order at the (:cur t bpd with the assistance of the Caliph Mutawakkil (A.n.......

Men, Women, And God. A Discussion Of Sex Questions From

the Christian point of view. By A. H. Gray, M.A., D.D. (Student Christian Movement. 4s.) This is a very outspoken book on a subject with regard to which a tradition of reticence......

The Book Of Jeremiah. Translated Into Colloquial English...

C. Welsch, D.D. (National Adult Union. ls. 3d. net.) This is the third of a series called " Books of the Old Testa- ment in Colloquial English." The idea of the series is alto-......

The Collector.

The "Cabriole Period" would seem almost as indefinite as " the silk stocking period," and Mr. Tipping, in conceding its vagueness, explains that the term "Cabriole " should be......

A Standard Book On So Large A Subject As That

of carpets must necessarily itself be large, and when such a book is compiled by the Keeper of the Department of Textiles at the Victoria and Albert Museum we are not surprised......

Science And Psychology.

Gravitation versus Relativity. By Charles Lane Poor (Putnam. 128. 6d. net.) According to the author of this able and searching criticism, ":not proven" must be the verdict......

Three Sermons. By W. Benson. (robert Scott. Is. 13d. Net.)

The Reverend W. Benson has here written one sermon on agnosticism and two on the parables of the 'Unjust Steward and the Labourers in the Vineyard. He writes in a free, liberal,......