Scripture Searchings. By the Rev. E. D. Whitmarsh, D.C.L. (G.
Bell and Sons.)—This book is certainly true to its title. In addition to long extracts from the Scriptures, not always very apposite to the subject discussed, long lists of texts to be looked out are given, which lists are often more than a page in length, and as one turns over the leaves have a very bizarre appearance. The reader who follows Dr. Whit- marsh's guidance has at least a year's work before him. Copious quo- tations are given from some of our best divines and philosophers, but of original matter there is not very much. This is to be regretted, as some of the author's suggestions are strikingly practical. This one is even painfully so ; the italics are the author's :—" The thought may naturally suggest itself, in the case of a man buried alive, how, according to our limited knowledge of the laws of matter, can we possibly conceive the means by which the spirit and the soul, buried with the body, escape into the open air of heaven through a thick wooden box, called a coffin, and several feet of thick, heavy earth ? Our ignorance ought surely to make us very careful, lest we unintentionally bury people alive."
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