The Religion of the Crescent. By the Rev. W. St.
Clare Tisdall. (S.P.C.K.)—This volume contains lectures delivered some three years ago at the request of the trustees of the "James Lang Lectureship Fund," an endowment designed for the purpose of spreading information about non - Christian religion, Mr. Tisdall is a missionary in Persia, and sees Islam close at hand, probably not under on of its best aspects. His view is not a favourable one, less favourable, certainly, than it is now the fashion to take. He considers the religion vitiated at its very foundation, remarking acutely the radical error involved in the idea that indulgences were granted to the founder because of his greatness as a prophet. The greater the man, the stricter the law by which he lives, is certainly the true theory.
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