My. Edward Arnold’s Autumn Announcements. 13 
might well be called ‘A History of Our Own Times.’ This fact 
alone would be enough to give the third volume an enhanced 
interest, but there can be no doubt that the subject-matter is also 
more picturesque and arresting than the somewhat humdrum story 
of political and national life during the middle period of the century. 
The year 1867 marks a merely arithmetical division, and has nothing 
epoch-making about it, but 1870 saw the opening of a new and 
momentous chapter in the history of Europe and the world, which 
is very far from being closed yet. Sir Herbert Maxwell’s clear and 
compact narrative cannot fail to help us to realize its earlier 
development in their true perspective. 
THE SPIRIT OF POWER. 
The Church in the Barly Second Century. 
' By the Rev. ERNEST A. EDGHILL, M.A., B.D., 
Sus-WaARDEN oF THE COLLEGE oF ST. SAvioUR IN SOUTHWARK 3 
Hutsean Lecturer tn THE UNIVERSITY oF CAMBRIDGE; LECTURER IN ECCLESIASTICAL 
History 1n Kinc's CoLtitece, Lonpon, ETc. 
Crown 8vo., cloth. 5s. net. 
These studies are preliminary to a larger work on Early Church 
History which the Author has in hand. The method adopted in the 
present volume will be seen from the following summary of its 
contents ; 
CuapTer I. Power and Weakness. The Religions of the Early 
Roman Empire.—II. The Power of Attraction——III. The 
Power of Purity: The Church’s Moral Message.—IV. The 
Power of Suffering : the Origins of Persecutions in the First 
Century.—V. The Causes of Persecution.—VI. The Results 
of Persecution.—VII. The Spirit of Love.—VIII. The Spirit 
of Discipline. 
THE BOOK OF BOOKS. 
A Study of the Bible. 
By Canon LONSDALE RAGG, B.D., 
RecTor oF TiCKENCOTE AND PREBENDARY OF BuCKDEN IN LINCOLN CATHEDRAL. 
Crown 8vo., cloth. Probable price, 5s. net. 
An attempt to represent from the point of view of the ‘New 
Learning’ the various aspects of the Bible. Its themes are the 
diversity in unity embodied in the canon of Holy Scripture; the 
problems raised by present-day criticism and archeology; the 
