17 JANUARY 1903, Page 25

A REPRINT PEON THE "SPECTATOR." — The Amen of the

Unlearned. By M. C. E. (Elliot Stock. 5s. net.)—These essays, twenty-three in number, originally appeared as "sub- leaders," to use the technical phrase, in the Spectator. They excited considerable interest at the time, and many of our readers, we. do not doubt, will be glad to hear that they have been re- published in volume form. It is not, of course, for us to pass any criticism upon them, but it may be allowed to indicate in the fewest possible words what they are. They give the impressions made on a reader not versed in theology, but keenly interested in religious matters, by some of the great personalities and remark- able utterances of Scripture, the voice of "a lay mind speaking to lay minds."