5 DECEMBER 1903, Page 14

Religion in Homespun. By F. B. Meyer, B.A. (Isbister and

Co. 3s. 6d.)—Mr. Meyer deals with many matters of daily life,— the care of children, duty to servants, Sunday observance, trade morals, personal habits, and so forth. He is always plain, practical, and sensible. On the subject of Sunday observance, or instance, he recognises the difference between the absolute best and the relative ; tells us what he would like in his own family, and would allow elsewhere. And he can heartily praise men from whom he differs not a little, as Father Dolling, though the gulf between the theology of the two must have been very wide. We shall not make any quotations from the book. It is in its even, consistent good sense that its merit lies.