The Sunday at Home. (R.T.S. 7s. ad.)—This excellent magazine shows
as good and varied a choice of matter as any reasonable reader could desire. There is a fair representation of fiction, as in " Euodias and Syntyche" by "lan Maclaren," a story which has been noticed elsewhere in the Spectator ; of biography, of which there are some noticeable examples; of history, travel, archaeology, and many other subjects. More definitely religious papers are not wanting. Altogether, the careful editing and wide choice of contributions combine to make up a very valuable volume. We would suggest that Mr. W. B. Caley might well have begun his paper on "Reasons of Sickness" by a statement of the "natural" cause, so to speak. All pain is precautionary. Lessons of edification are not one whit more impressive when they are founded on fact. With much of Dr. Hanson's "Invulnerable Certainties," two papers on Biblical criticism, we agree, but to say that critics who cannot distinguish Besant from Rice, or, to give another instance, Fenton and Broome from Pope, cannot distinguish different hands in the Pentateuch is scarcely; fair. A better analogy would be to give a combination of Clarendon, Hume, and Macaulay. That, we imagine, would not be difficult to dissect.—With this we may mention Sunday Reading for the Young (Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co., 5s.), a volume of good reading and good pictures which we welcome again as we have frequently welcomed it before.
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