13 MAY 1876, Page 25

Angelic Beings: thew Nature and Ministry. By the Rev. Charles

D. Boll. (Religions Tract Society.)—We cannot say that from the reading of this volume, we have learnt very much about the nature of angels. When Mr. Bell tries to prove that angels excel in strength by referring to the angel in the Apocalypse, who "took up a stone like a great mill- stone, and cast it into the sea," he seems to prove but little. Some ancient millstones were so small that even a child might lift one, and one that would have been called great would probably not have been too heavy for a man of average strength to take up. From another passage we learn that angels have "dazzling brows," and from the book generally we gather that angels are in their views decidedly Evangelical.