Reason, Revelation, and Faith. By Francis Peek. (W. Isbister.) —Mr.
Peek seeks to deal frankly and liberally with various pro- blems that occur in the large controversy of Religion v. Science. If the friends of belief would have the courage, for instance, to say, "Scripture contains no justification of the idea that the Resurrection body will consist of any of the materials of which the earthly body is formed," they would find their way very materially cleared before them.—We may commend to the attention of our readers The Sternness of Christ's Teaching, and its Relation to the Law of Forgiveness, by T. F. Bethune-Baker, M.A. (Macmillan and Bowes, Cambridge), "an essay which obtained the Norrisian Prize for the year 1888."—In Christian Reunion, by the Rev. John de Soyres (Deighton and Bell), we have the Hulsean Lectures for 1886, an able plea for the union of religious bodies which have the groundwork of a common faith. The practical diffi- culties are enormous.—The same subject is treated from a very different point of view in The Coat without Seam Torn, by Douglas Macleane, M.A. (Griffith, Ferran, and Co.), described as "a plain appeal to the Holy Scriptures on behalf of unity among English Christians in the One Apostolic Church." Why these differences ? urges Mr. Macleane ; why do you not all agree with us ? And he has a great deal to say for himself.
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