10 BOSTON MONDAY LECTURES. 



look like a series of theses set up for the defiance of all comers. 

 But ear and sense alike are captivated as we read, and we are forced 

 to recognize a master of English prose. 



Religious Herald (Richmond, Ya.J. 



No man in America is just now attracting more attention than 

 Joseph Cook, and his Titanic blows are telling on the materialistio 

 scepticism of the day. . . . He is clear, axiomatic, and irresistible 

 through all his arguments, and, while always courteous to opponents, 

 is often keenly satirical. 



The Theological Medium, Nashville, Tenn. 



His learning is immense, his faculty of order eminent, his imagi- 

 nation very brilliant, and his logic strong and close. 



New Orleans Times. 



The Lectures are crowded with eloquent passages, telling satire, 

 and keen, critical, and precise reasoning. 



San Francisco Evening Bulletin. 



The style is peculiarly vivid, presenting occasionally some of the 

 characteristics of Carlyle. The book, in consequence of its scope 

 and general attractiveness, is destined to become very popular. 



San Francisco Bancroft's Messenger. 



Possessed of a calm, critical, and methodical mind, Mr. Cook haa 

 constructed, from the material at his disposal, about a dozen of the 

 most interesting essays that have yet appeared on the relation of 

 religion and science. On almost every page of the volume, elo- 

 quence leaves its mark. 



San Francisco Evening Post. 



Emotion, clearness, and sound sense are the weapons with which 

 he produces conviction. 



The Congregational Quarterly. 



"We can most heartily commend the work on Orthodoxy for its 

 graphic power, for its bold and manly exhibitions of truth, for thu 

 carefulness in general of its distinctions, for the magnetic quality of 

 its style, for its clear aim and direction; in short, for a portrayal of 

 orthodoxy such as is reasonable and defensible. 



The Bibliotheca Sacra. 



There is no other work on biology, there is no other work on the- 

 ology, with which this volume of lectures can well be compared, tt 

 Is a book that no biologist, whether an originator or a mere middle- 

 man in science, would ever have written. Traversing a very wide 

 field, cutting right across the territories of rival specialists, it con- 

 tains not one important scientific misstatement, either of fact or 

 theory. Not only tfie propositions, but the dates, the references, the 

 names, and the histories of scientific discoveries and speculations, 

 are presented as they are found in the sources whence they ar« 

 Xaken, or at least with only verbal and minor changes. 



