A Parson's Ponderings. By G. J. Low, D.D. (W. Briggs,
Toronto.)—The Old Faith and the New Philosophy. (Same author and publisher.)—There is much good sense and sound teaching, not without some touches of humour, in these essays and miscellaneous papers. Dr. Low is a High Churchman, who knows how to avail himself of the movements of modern thought. The paper on "The Higher Criticism" is especially reasonable and seasonable. But surely there is some want of good sense in the attack on the Revised Version. Is not this talk about the "dear, old familiar sentences, with their sweet rhythm, altered and disfigured," a little out of place ? What we want is to get as near as possible to the real meaning of the original. If this cannot be done in any other way, the "familiar sentences" and "sweet rhythm" must go.
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