Han and his Environment. Edited by John P. Kingsland. (John
Murray. 7s. 6d.)—According to Mr. Kingsland, this volume is based upon the notebooks left him by a friend who had for many years led a life of solitary thought, the general tendencies of which may be gathered from the fact that at one time he contemplated entering the Christian ministry. Mr. Kingsland says his friend was "a seeker after truth." To this it may be added that he reasoned himself into a devout belief of the simple, trustful kind, feeling himself "justified in reposing an implicit faith in the man Christ Jesus; justified in accepting His manifestation of Life as a mani- festation of the Life of the Eternal ; and His manifestation of Love as the revelation of the key-note of the Universe." Mr. Kingsland's friend recalls in many of his sayings the brooding solitary thinkers of the past who have tried to reconcile their faith with the " scientific " conclusions of their time. Here and there he suggests Amiel without his despair, and Rutherford with- out his too exuberant spirituality. His thoughts, as arranged by his editor under the heads of "Truth," "Mankind," "Life," "Forces," "Religion," and "Love" present what may be termed reverent and broad orthodoxy in an essentially mystical, but not on that account unacceptable, form. They are less interesting as a contribution to theological literature than as the self-executed portrait of a "God-intoxicated man," or, to be strictly accurate, of a man intoxicated with the idea that "God is love."
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