Worthies of Science. By John Stoughton, DD. (Religions Tract Society.)—Dr.
Stoughton sketches the lives and characters of seven- teen men of science, beginning with Roger Bacon, and ending with Main Sedgeviek (and not one of the seventeen is more interesting than the biography of the veteran geologist). The choice has beer made of those in whom religious thought has been prominent, and who May, therefore, be taken to represent the essential harmony between religion and science. The work has been well done, no com- plete or acientifie treatment being aimed at, but a popular account of each man's work, and of his attitude with regard to the truths of revelation, being given. We doubt, to make the only criticism that occurs to us, whether Newton's position with regard to orthodox belief is quite correctly given. He may have objected to be called an Arian, but if hatred of Athanasius be a note of Arianism, an Arian he was.
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