SOME BOOKS OF TI-IE WEEK.
(Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.) Hints from Boden-Powell. By the Rev. R. L. Bellamy. (Gale and Polden. Is. net.)—Mr. Bellamy takes various passages from General Baden-Powell's " Book on Scouting," and makes what in preaching is commonly called an " application " of 'them to Christian duty: Of course, there are cases in which the use must be guarded. "Confidence in yourself" is a necessary' qual ty in the scout, whereas self-confidee'ce is even proverbially dangerous in the spiritual life. But our preacher seems able to get over this difficulty well enough. His idea is an excellent one—the words of a popular hero come with an effectiveness which is ready- made for them, so to speak—and, on Par whole, he has carried it out well.--,--From the Batatfield to a Glorious Resurrection, " Expectans " (same publishers', is a speculation with which we could have dispensed. We do net dcubt. the .excellence of the author's motive, but we regret that he has seen fit to advance a view which has a fairly unanimous agreement of Christian thought against it,—that the resurrection follows immediately on death.—More in .the usual line of . their issues, we have from the same publishers Questions in Military History, by Lieutenant-Colonel H. M. G. Brunker (2s. net) ." Itiilttary History" does not cover the whole contents of the book. There is, indeed, a second part, with questions on campaigns, from that of 'Moreau in Germany (1790) onwards, ending with one of a comprehensive kind on the Boer War summarising all thelessons to be learnt- from the war. (The candidate who can answer that satisfactorily ought to be made, Commander- in-Chief, or, at the least, Chief of the Staff, at the very earliest opportunity.) But the first part deals with general matters,— the meaning of "tactics," e g., and "strategy," the possibilities of invasion, the conditions of warfare in various countries. Is the author going to publish a key ?
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