30 JANUARY 1864, Page 20

Sermons Preached in Lincoln's Inn Chapel. By Rev. F. C.

Cook. (Murray.)—A volume of carefully written and sensible essays, very well adapted to the sleepy legality of mind which is the attribute of the Benchers of an Inn of Court. We do not, however, believe that any one who requires to be touched or warmed by words addressed to his heart and conscience will find here a syllable of the sort. Three of the sermons are devoted to the subject of inspiration, for which, we think, they do not do much, except that we learn that the author recognizes "with just complacency" that the system of the Universe to be found in the Bible "has adapted itself most marvellously to the progress of inquiry and the development of human thought."