On a subject which may be taken to be pretty
well threshed out for the present, we have Certainties of the Soul and Speculations of Science, by the Rev. Joseph Cook (Ward, Lock, and Co.), and Beneath the Surface, by Edward Duke, M.A. (Hatchards), the objects of the latter work being expressed by its second title, " Physical Truths, especially Geological, shown to be Latent in many Parts of the Holy Scriptures."--Dealing with the whole subject of the controversy between Belief and Scepticism, we have The Christian's Plea against Modern Unbelief : a Handbook of Christian Evidences, by R. A. Red- ford, MA., LL.B. (Hodder and Stoughton), a manual prepared, we observe, at the request of the Christian Evidence Society.—Similar in its aim, but compressing its argument into a much smaller com- pass, we have Sceptical Fallacies of eel lain Modern Writers Examined, by W. J. Hale, M.A. (Rivington.)—The Endowments of Man, by Bishop Ullathorne (Burns and Oates), has for its chief object " to fortify the Catholic mind against the errors respecting man and his endowments which so evidently pervade the world of thought in our day, not so much by direct confutation, as by confronting them with the Catholic view of man, as it has been revealed by God, and drawn out by Catholic thinkers throughout the long ages of Christianity." —Of miscellaneous theological books we have received Thoughts on the Bible as a Key to History, by John Contts. (London : F. Pitman. Melbourne : M. L. Hutchinson.)—The Church at Home, by Rowley Hill, D.D., Bishop of Sodor and Man. "A Series of Short Sermons, with Collect and Scripture, for Sundays, Saints' Days, and Special Occasions, (Cassell and Co) ; " How Readest Thou ?" a Series of Practical Expositions and Thoughts, by the Rev. F. B. Proctor, M.A. (Hodder and Stoughton) ; The Mosaic Era; a Series of Lectures on Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, by John Munro Gibson, MA., D.D. (Hodder and Stoughton), a work the conclusion of which will have, we fancy, to be somewhat modi- fied by the results of Professor Robertson Smith's teaching; The Catholic Doctrine of the Atonement, by Henry Nutcombe Oxenham, M.A. (W. H. Allen and Co.), a third edition, "carefully revised throughout," and containing also some additions of im- portance; The Province of Law in the Fall and Recovery of Man, by the Rev. John Coope (Hodder and Stoughton) ; Natural Elements of Revealed Theology, the " Baird Lecture for 1881," by the Rev. George Matheson, D.D. (Nisbet) ; Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England, by the Rev. Joseph Miller, D.D., Articles VII. and VIII. (Hodder and Stoughton) ; Lectures on the Opening Clauses of the Litany, by John B. Fletcher, M.A. (Blackwood and Sons) ; The Authorship of the Fourth Gospel, by Ezra Abbot, D.D. (Trubner and Co.) ; of a more devotional kind is The Life of Christ, by S. Bona- venture, translated and edited by the Rev. W. H. Hatchings, M A (Rivington).
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