Sermons from Browning. By F. Ealand, M.A. (S. C. Brown
and Co. 2s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Ealand has republished, with the addition of two more recent essays, four "sermon-lectures" which he gave to the world some twelve years ago. The new subjects are " Saul " and "A Death in the Desert," treated in chap. 5, and " Ferishtah's Fancies" in chap. 6. From the latter we may quote a few lines in which Mr. Ealand sums up Browning's philosophy of this life and the life to be : " Here is the same robust optimism, the same determination to justify the ways of God to man, the firm faith with doubt kept quiet beneath its feet, the persistent exaltation of love above knowledge; the sturdy defence of the heart against the head if need be; the continual protest against the isolation and the maiming of individual life." We do not think that the matter could be better put.
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