SERMONS.—Words of Exhortation. By the Rev. W. C. E. New-
bolt. (Longmans and Co. 6s.)—Canon Newbolt's sermons— twenty-three in number and preached on various occasions and various places are always to the point. Some of them are of fine quality, the last, for instance, "The Three Hundred Men that Lapped," preached at the anniversary of the Church Guilts Union. Sometimes we could wish for a different expression. To speak of spiritual death becoming eternal (p. 239) is surely wrong. It is eternal, because it concerns the eternal,—i.e., the unseen things. But it need not be everlasting ; it may yield to life. "Solomon and Toleration" is, perhaps, a not altogether judicious title. He may be quite sure that more than half of his hearers have much more need to be warned against intolerance than against its opposite. The next sermon on " Controversy " seems to us conceived in a better spirit. "Low down the points in which we agree are deeper and more fundamental than those in which we are in disagreement." That is the root of the matter.—The Food of Immortality, by the Rev. W. B. Trevelyan (Rivingtons, Is. 6d.), contains a series of six instructions on St. John vi., with a special reference to the Eucharist. —The Redemption of War. By Francis Paget, D.D. (Longmans and Co. 2s. net.)—The first of these sermons was preached, we suppose, before the beginning of the Spanish- American war, II.-VIIL at special services of an Oxfordshire regiment, and the last in the January of this year on lessons taught by the war now proceeding. The good that comes out of war, and, generally, a soldier's duty, are Dean Paget's subjects. He has followed, we think, the right way in dealing with them. To avoid the laying down of opinions, and to. state, enforce, and illustrate principles, is the preacher's duty. The temporary gratification, and even success, which may follow on his taking an advantage of the pulpit's opportunity, are, indeed, dearly purchased. The sermons are published, we see, for the benefit of the Transvaal War Fund.—The Story of Peter, by Quintin Hogg (Horace Marshall and Sons), is a book of sermons, of a practical kind, founded on the history of St. Peter as given in the Gospels, and addressed to young men at the Polytechnic Institute.
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