The Key of Doctrine and Practice. By the Rev. H.
R. Haweis. (J. Bumpus.)—We need hardly say that Mr. Haweis's little book (so conveniently small of size that it may be easily carried in a pocket) is worth reading. Any one starting on a journey, indeed, cannot do better than find a corner for it. It will give him plenty to think
about, now taking him up to transcendental heights, and now guiding him in quite practical, everyday paths of life. There is a chapter on the Trinity, of which this is a specimen.:—" God •the Vague, God the Definite, God the Immanent, that is the inexorable order of thought, and that is the eternal doctrine of the Trinity in Unity." It would not be difficult to label this with a very heretical name. Is "The Vague" a separate person from the "Definite" and " the Immanent ?" "Immortality" is the subject of another chapter, and a very good one it is. On quite another range of thought we have Mr. Haweis dis- coursing on " The Stage," on " Girl's Work," on " Woman," and, not without a sense of being audacious, on various topics on which we are liable to deserve reproach, in " Undone." Whatever it is that he writes about, he is vigorous, with, perhaps, a not unwelcome disposi- tion to paradox.
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