2 JULY 1892, Page 33

The People's Bible. Vol. XV. By Joseph Parker, D.D. (Hazell,

Watson, and Viney.)—Dr. Parker has in this volume brought down his large enterprise, wh;ch he terms "Discourses upon Holy Scripture," to the nineteenth chapter of Jeremiah. It con- tains even more than usual of Dr. Parker's well-known but not always disciplined vigour, perhaps because the Prophets supply specially inspiriting topics. Sometimes he attains almost Spurgeonic point, as in "Every act we sow may come up a habit." This is, at all events, much better than heavy-shotted sentences like "0 poor prodigal soul, with th3 divinity nearly broken out of thee, smashed, bleeding, crushed, all but in hell— while there is a shadow of thee outside perdition; he would heal thee and save thee." •