The Faith of lelcim. By the Rev. Edward Sell. (Kegan
Paul, Trench, and Co.)—This is a second edition, appearing fifteen years after the first, and comprising the results of so much addi- tional study. As the first edition represented the experiences and observations of an equal period, we have here a summary of the conclusions arrived at by an observer of thirty years' standing. One of the most interesting additions to the book is the rirton‘ of The Law of Jihisi, or Sacred War." There is a rationalist school which explains away the inconvenient utterances of the Koran, but its glosses are flagrantly disingenuous. We sym- pathise with the aims of these writers, but it is impossible to approve of their methods of interpretation. It is noteworthy that the general conclusion at which the writer, after opportunities of observation which are not easily matched, arrives, fully bears out the contention of Canon Malcolm MacColl that Islim is essentially
and necessarily intolerant. It is hopeless to expect religious liberty, freedom of thought, security of life and property, and all that is involved in the term 'modern progress,' in a purely Muhammedan State."
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