NEw Enmoxs.—Volcanos. By G. Poulett Scrope. (Longmans.)— The first edition
of this book dates nearly half a century ago, when the author was associated with Sir 0. Lyell in the secretaryship of the Geological Society. A second edition was published in 1862, and to this Mr. Scrope adds a new preface, reviewing some recent discoveries bear- ing on his subject, especially that relating to the supposed fluidity of the interior of the earth, an hypothesis to which he is not inclined to sub- , acribe.—The Conscience, Lectures on Casuistry. By Frederic Denison Maurice. (Macmillan.)—In his preface to this second edition Mr. Maurice thus characteristically noticed a criticism of Dr. Duncan in "Colloquia Peripatetica " : —"He says that my system is pure illegality ;' that Law is by me banished from Ethics, or is swallowed up in Ethics. What my system is or does I really am not able to say. I have always professed with great earnestness that I had never constructed a system ; that if I did it would exclude most of the troth which I feel to be the support of my life, would include most of the falsehoods against which I protest. Bat that I hold any morality which banishes law to be inhuman morality—to be inconsistent with the order of God's Universe—I think every reader of these lectures, and of those on "Social Morality," will be constrained to admit, whatever may be his judgment in other respects of them or of me."—We have received The Bible and Popular Theology. By G. Vance Smith, B.A. (Longmans.) — The Temperance Bible Commentary, by F. R. Lees, Ph.D., and Dawson Burns, M.A. (Partridge), is a book which it is not necessary to criticise. One passage will suffice, the note on "When men have well drunk" 7.ray Fdosari):—" The A. V. is opposed to the assumption that mike° and methusko necessarily signify drinking in the sense of intoxica- tion. The governor did not refer to the inebriating effect, but to the large quantity consumed, and this is the primary signification of the word." Messrs. Lees and Brown have, we are sure, the best intentions, but to say that the primary signification of tadelai or piAlwxw is to be found in the quantity, not the quality of the drink, is simply a pious fraud.—In the reissue of the Aldine Edition of the British Poets (Bell and Daldy) we have the Poetical Works of Thomas Parnell.—We have to acknowledge Dr. Adam Glance's Commentary on the Bible, condensed, &c., by Rev. R. N. Young (Tegg); and Bishop Burnet's History of the Reformation, abridged (Virtue).—The Purpose of God in Creation and Redemption (Laurie) has reached a fourth edition. It is an apology for the Irvingite, or, as it denominates itself, the Catholic and Apostolic Church.
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