RELIGION AND THE FUTURE LIFE. (George Allen and Unwin. 12s.
(id.) These are twelve Lectures given at Yale by well-known American specialists in the development of the belief, not so much in immortality, as in the future life. The most striking are, perhaps, those by Professor B. W. Bacon on Immortality i in the Synoptics and in the Fourth Gospel. But the subject is dealt with from a general point of view, beginning with the idea of the future life among primitive tribes and ending with immortality in Mohammedanism : the drift of the series being that, while the matter is one with regard to which many false starts have been made and had to be retraced, the belief in immortality is the supreme achievement of the moral sense of man. The book is an important one and deserves to be widely read in England.
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