The Tables of Stone. By the Rev. H. M. Luckock.
(Macmillan.)— This is a volume of sermons on the Commandments preached in one of the parish churches of Cambridge. One of them—that on the Fourth Commandment—is very good. The views set forth in it are, indeed, taken from Dr. Hessey's Sunday ; but Mr. Luckock must be allowed the merit of knowing the value of what he borrows, and of making it snit his purpose. Of the rest of the volume we cannot say much. It has little originality or eloquence, and it is disfigured by some very rash statements. To say that Atheism never exists except "as a cloke for immorality and sinful indulgence," is to make an assertion so palpably untrue that it cannot but injure the cause of belief. To declare that Constantine's vision of the Cross was "an immediate revelation from God," justifying and even commanding the use of that symbol, is less harmful, but equally rash. It is impossible that undergraduates, who, NVO are told, attend Mr. Lnckock's church in considerable numbers, can look with much respect to such a teacher.
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