Life in Faith. Sermons at Cheltenham and Rugby. By T.
W. Jex-Blake, D.D. (Murray.)—We are ashamed to see the date 1876 on the title-page of this volume. Let us repair, as far as may be, our neglect, by saying that it contains some really excellent dis- courses, sensible and plain-spoken ; perhaps, here and there a trifle too pugnacious (we say it, though Dr. Jex-Blake is on our side), but thoroughly good. There are several ways of addressing boys with effect. Dr. Farrar's is one way ; mature readers may object to his style as ornate, but there is no question about its success with the audiences for which it was intended. The sermons before us are' totally different. They are perfectly plain and simple, but we can- not imagine them to have been spoken without a very considerable effect. We are glad to find that such teaching is heard in a chapel where anything but a manly and rational religion would be especially out of place.
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