7 NOVEMBER 1896, Page 12

Tons Sharman and his College Churns. By J. 0. Keen,

D.D. (S. W. Partridge.)—It would be as well in tales intended for young people not to introduce the vexed questions of Anglicanism and Nonconformity, and of the varieties of opinion which Anglicanism includes. Dr. Keen's views about the "true Church" may be entirely in accord with reason and revelation, but they are distinctly out of place in a tale. As to the Oxford scenes, we may remark that a student who comes out in the first class can hardly have been so much in the dark about his attainments and prospects as to "hope to pass, but despair of honours."