Essays and Addresses. By Phillips Brooks. (Macmillan and Co.)— It
is needless to say that these papers, most of them read or spoken before various assemblies, meetings, or societies, are well worth study. They are divided between "Religious" and "Literary and Social Topics." The number of the two classes is about the same, but the latter are somewhat longer. A clear, broad-minded thinker, with a great gift of exposition, Bishop Phillips Brooks always has something to say that is well worth consideration. He does not always persuade; but then he would have been the first man in the world to appreciate an honest difference of opinion. We may mention the papers called "Heresy" (though some of its statements demand a careful weighing), "The Pulpit and Popular Scepticism," " Orthodoxy " in the " Religious " section ; "The Purposesof Scholarship," "Literature and Lie," and "Dean Stanley" in the "Literary and Social." We see that the Bishop approved of Dean Stanley's wish to have the monu- ment of the Prince Imperial in the Abbey, as the" commemoration of a picturesque event,"— surely an inadequate reason.
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