Life's Tangled Thread. By the Right Rev. W. Boyd Carpenter,
D.D., D.C.L., D.Litt. (Cassell and Co. is. net.)—If a man is old, able, and an optimist it is always worth while to listen to what he has got to say; probably we may hear something which will put us in heart. Bishop Boyd Carpenter's little book, Life's Tangled Thread, can hardly fail to do this. He defends life against the on- slaughts of the modern pessimist, and quotes and evidently inclines to agree with Dr. Wallace, who says that "Once we allow the idea of progress in the world—the necessity of death and reproduction- ' it is difficult to imagine a system by which a greater balance of happiness could have been secured.'" Bishop Boyd Carpenter writes of "Life's Problems," of "The Tangles of Man's Making," and of "The Silver Thread of Faith." We recommend it to all those who seek courage or consolation in rational and religious disquisition.
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