Latter-day Teachers. By R. A. Armstrong, B.A. (C. Kogan Paul
and Co.)—In these six lectures Mr. Armstrong gives some vigorous sketches of certain phases of theological thought. They would have been all the better, if a certain rhetorical exuberance, not out of place in the pulpit, had been pruned before they wore submitted to the cool judgment of the reader; but they are distinctly worth reading. Our standing-point is different from that which, as we gather from his comments on various thinkers, rather than from any express statement, Mr. Armstrong himself occupies, but we have read his book with pleasure, and, we hope, profit. If he can hold his theistic, semi- Christian position against the assaults of the believer in moral develop- ment, to whom the Christian ideal can be but a temporary position, soon to be superseded by some far grander growth, we would not say a word to disturb 'his faith. Meanwhile, we take leave to doubt. But in criticism, if not in construction, Mr. Armstrong is powerful. The subjects of his lectures are Mill, Matthew Arnold, Theodore Parker, Professor Tyndall, and Canon Farrar, whose works on Christ and St. Paul he attacks with vigour.
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