19 OCTOBER 1867, Page 20

CURRENT LITERATURE.

The Last Words of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. By the Rev. R. S. Cobbett. (Rivingtons.)—Mr. Cobbett is Curate of Twickenham, and this book contains a course of seven sermons preached by him during Passion Week in the church of that parish. In one or two places Mr. Cobbett shows that he is aware of the especial difficulties of his subject, and if he does not wholly master them, he does not shrink. from grappling with them. His sermons are good and earnest, but though they may occupy a fair position with regard to the average of preaching, they are not up to the average of publication.