The New Religio Medici. By Frederick Robinson, M.D. (Elliot Stock.)—These
" present-day" papers, as the author calls them, are some of them reprinted from the Churchman magazine, and have certainly a good deal of present-day interest ; but the whole style and scope of the book strikes one as rather too slender to
support so weighty a title as the one it bears. It is true the subjects under discussion are connected both with religion and medicine ; but a new thing which takes an old name should sur- pass the old, though it may not, and certainly in this instance will not, supersede the former. Some sensible practical suggestions are made in the early portion of the book on such subjects as " Sunday Services," " The Children's Day of Rest," and " Faith- Healing ;" but by far the best chapter is the last,—" The Diary of a Puritan Lady, Mistress Elizabeth Gill," whether of the same family as the commentator is not stated, who lived a truly godly life amidst the chilling atmosphere of the beginning of the eighteenth century, and one which contains, as Dr. Robinson suggests, material for a really interesting book.
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