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LITERATURE, BRITISH, IN 1894. 



a retrospect and a forecast, by T. A. Spalding ; Rev. 

 H. W. Clark published "A History of Tithes " ; and 

 Dean Luckock " The History of Marriage, Jewish and 

 Christian, in Relation to Divorce." " The Industrial 

 and Social Life and Duties of the Citizen" were 

 handled by J. Edward Parrott in the " Waterloo 

 Series," and John MacCunn wrote on the " Ethics ot 

 Citizenship." "Toward Utopia" was the title of 

 speculations in social evolution by A Free Lance; 

 " English Commons and Forests," by G. Shaw-Le- 

 fevre, told the history of the thirty years' struggle for 

 public rights; and from Prof. Edward Jenks we have 

 an admirable "Outline of English Local Govern- 

 ment." " Appearance and Reality " was a metaphysi- 

 cal essay by F. II. Bradley ; " Philosophical Remains 

 of George Croom Robertson " were edited by Alexan- 

 der Bain and T. Whittaker ; " Historical Philosophy 

 in France, and French Belgium and Switzerland," by 

 Prof. Robert Flint, is the first volume of a contem- 



the difference between " The Christian Ethic " and 

 other moral systems ; and Rev. J. D. Robertson pub- 

 lished an essay toward a new analysis, deduction, 

 and development of " Conscience." Prof. Alexander 

 Campbell Fraser collated and annotated " An Essay 

 concerning Human Understanding," by John Locke, 

 of which there had been hitherto no ample and 

 worthy edition, with biographical, critical, and his- 

 torical prolegomena, the wnole filling 2 volumes. 

 " The Riddle of the Universe," by E. D. Fawcett, was 

 an attempt to determine the first principles of meta- 

 physics. William Samuel Lilly examined " The 

 Claims of Christianity ": Charles B. Upton delivered 

 the Hibbert Lectures in 1893 upon " The Bases of 

 Religious Belief" ; " None like it : A Plea for the Old 

 Sword" emanated from Joseph Parker, the author 

 of the " People's Bible " ; " The Higher Criticism and 

 the Verdict of the Monuments " were confronted with 

 each other by Rev. Archibald II. Sayce ; Rev. Luke 

 Rivington wrote on " The Primitive Church and the 

 See of Peter"; Dr. Alexander Balmain Bruce, on 

 " St. Paul's Conception of Christianity " ; Dr. James 

 Stalker, in " The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ," 

 supplied a devotional history of our Lord's passion ; 

 " Fishers of Men " was the title of addresses by the 

 Archbishop of Canterbury; and "Church Work" 

 had its means and methods scanned by the Bishop 

 of Manchester. " Rectorial Addresses delivered at 

 St. Andrew's " were edited by Prof. Knight ; the 

 anonymous author of" Supernatural Religion" made 

 a study of "The Gospel according to St. Peter"; 

 " Sacerdotalism, if rightly understood, the Teaching 

 of the Church of England " was by Canon W. J. 

 Knox-Little, who published also " Labor and Sor- 

 rows," a volume of sermons ; " The English Church 

 in the Nineteenth Century, 1800-1833 " came from Rev. 

 John H. Overton ; Rev. Robert B. Fairbairn published 

 u The Oblation and the Invocation " ; " Christ and 

 Skepticism" was the theme of 13 essays by S. A. 

 Alexander ; and among other works on religion may 

 be mentioned " The Theology of the New Testa- 

 ment," by Walter F. Adeney ; " The Tenderness of 

 Christ," by Dr. Anthony W. Thorold ; " The Acts of 

 the Apostles," by F. Denison Maurice ; " Judaistic 

 Christianity," by Dr. Fenton J. A. Hart; "The Res- 

 urrection of the Dead," by Dr. W. Milligan " Col- 

 lege and University Sermons," by Arthur Temple 

 Lyttelton ; " God's City and the Coming of the King- 

 dom," by Canon Scott Holland ; " The Book of Rev- 

 elation," by Rev. Frederick Shaw ; " Clerical Life 

 and Work," by Canon Liddon ; a second series of 

 "Sermons preached at Whately," by Rev. R. W. 

 Church; "The Natural History of 'the Christian 

 Religion," by Dr. W. Mackintosh ; the Bampton Lec- 

 tures for 1894, by Rev. J. R. Illingworth, upon " Per- 

 sonality, Human and Divine"; and " The Super- 

 natural in Christianity," considered by Dr. R. Rainy, 

 Prof. J. Orr, and Dr. Marcus Dods, with special ref- 

 erence to statements in the recent Gilford Lectures. 



T. Harwood Pattison wrote " The History of the Eng- 

 lish Bible " ; Rev. C. J. Ellicott, " Plain Introductions 

 lo the Books of the Bible"; "I Peter-Revelation" 

 was a new volume of " The Sermon Bible " ; " The 

 Epistles of St. Peter," by Dr. J. Rawson Lumby, ap- 

 peared in the new sixth series of the " Expositor's 

 Bible," while the new seventh series included '-The 

 Book of Numbers," by Dr. Robert A. Watson ; " The 

 Book of Chronicles," by W. H. Bennett ; " The Sec- 

 ond Book of Kings," by Canon Farrar ; " The Sec- 

 ond Epistle to the Corinthians," by James Denney; 

 " The Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans," by C. G. 

 Handley Moule ; and the second and third volumes 

 of " The Psalms," by Dr. Alexander Maclaren, who 

 also published 4 volumes on the several gospels in 

 the " Bible Class Expositions Series." In the " Pres- 

 ent Day Primers " we had " The Printed English 

 Bible, 1525-1885," by Richard Lovett, and " Early 

 Church History," by J. Vernon Bartlett, and in the 

 "Handbooks for Bible Classes," "The Last of the 

 Prophets," by J. Feather. Rev. C. L. Marston made 

 notes on " The Psalms at Work " ; " Heroes of Israel " 

 were commemorated by Dr. W. G. Blaikie ; Rev. F. 



B. Meyer sketched the character of "Jeremiah, Priest 

 and Prophet " ; and from Dr. Horton we had " The 

 Cartoons of St. Mark." Among collections of ser- 

 mons may be mentioned : " Christ and our Times," 

 by Archdeacon Sinclair ; " God and Christ," by Rev. 

 Stopford A. Brooke; "The Spiritual World," by 

 Principal Cave ; and " Lombard Street in Lent." by 

 Archdeacon Farrar, Canon Scott-Holland, the Dean 

 of Ely, and others. Lectures by Spurgeon on " The 

 Art of Illustration" in preparing sermons were also 

 printed. " If Christ came to Chicago " was a sensa- 

 tional review of the wickedness of that city by Wil- 

 liam T. Stead. An anonymous writer touched upon 

 " The Jewish Question and the Mission of the Jews." 



Books of a general character, which may as well be 

 included here as anywhere, were " The British Fleet," 

 the growth, achievements, and duties of which were 

 traced by Commander Charles N. Robinson; and 

 "Britain's Naval Power," by Hamilton Williams; 

 " Our Railways," in 2 volumes, by John Pendle- 

 ton; "British Locomotives," by J. C. Bowen Cooke; 

 "The Tower Bridge," by J. E. Tuit; "The Book of 

 the Lifeboat," edited and arranged by J. C. Dibdin 

 and John Ayling ; " Ancient Ships," the first install- 

 ment of an exhaustive work by Cecil Torr; "Notes 

 on Docks and Dock Construction," by C. Colson; 

 the Howard Lectures for 1893 " On the Development 

 and Transmission of Power from Central Stations," 

 by W. C. Unwin ; " Tidal Rivers," by W. II. Wheeler, 

 in the "Civil Engineering Series"; "The Water 

 Supply of Towns and the Construction of Water 

 Works," by W. K. Burton, of the Imperial University 

 of Tokio, Japan; E. Henry Davies's treatise on 

 " Machinery for Metalliferous Mines " ; " Cotton Man- 

 ufacture," by J. Lister, and " Cotton from Field to 

 Factory," by J. Mortimer; "A Text-Book of Ore and 

 Stone Mining," by Clement Le Neve Foster; "Min- 

 ing Royalties," by Charles A. James ; Vol. II of " The 

 Tannins," by Henry Trimble ; and " Animal and 

 Vegetable Fixed Oils, Fats, Butters, and Waxes," by 

 Charles R. A. Wright. " Secrets of the Prison House," 

 by Major Arthur Griffiths, contained the experience of 

 a quarter of a century, and with it may be mentioned 

 " Reminiscences of an Indian Police Official," by T. 



C. Arthur " Suicide and Insanity " was a physio- 

 logical and sociological study, by Dr. S. A. Strahun, 

 in the "Social Science Series," and Dr. George W. 

 Balfour wrote upon "The Senile Heart." "Scotch 

 Deerhounds and their Masters," by the late George 

 Cupples, was edited, with a biographical sketch of 

 the author, by James Ilutchinson Stirling ; J. P. Hore 

 wrote a "History of the Royal Buekhounds"; Raw- 

 son B.. Lee continued his history of " Modern 1 ><>:*:' 

 with a nonsporting division; Major Glyn 

 embodies sixteen years of experience in his book uj 



" The Camel " ; and " The Arabian Horse " receiv- 

 generous treatment at the hands of Maj.-Gen. W. 

 Tweedie. In the " Fur and Feather Series " appeared 



