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The Ultimate Austerity

Or So dreary is the sea of mediocrity and talent through which the critic has to wade that -he gasps, incredulous, when suddenly a palm-shadowed island of genius is sighted.......

Recent Theology The Capacity For God. By R. F. Horton,

MA., D.D. (George Allen and Unwin. 7s. ed.) Da. Hon:ropes book is delightfully written. It is something better still. A recognized champion of Nonconformity, from the day when,......

The Nabobs In England

The Nabobs in England. A Study of the returned Anglo-Indian, 1760-1785. By James Holtzman. (Published in New York.) This very entertaining book should have been twice as long I......

Studies In The Text Of The New Tentament. By A.

T. Robertson, D.D. (Hodder and Stoughton. 8s. 6d.) Professor Robertson has added to a long list of works on the New Testament an admirable synopsis of the gradual evolution,......

Eternity : Is It A Biblical Idea ± By James

Henderson Brown. (James Clarke and Co. 3s. 6d.) Eternity : Is it a Biblical Idea ± By James Henderson Brown. (James Clarke and Co. 3s. 6d.) A great part of the discussion on "......