With all the loyal admiration which is the natural result of so faithful a study of Raleigh’s life, the biographer fully recognizes the difficulties and perplexities of his task, and is in no sense a blind partisan. As a writer, he has notable clearness and terseness of style, but the latter good quality sometimes degenerates into an undue use of curiously short, abrupt sentences. Though as a narrator he has not that picturesqueness and force which the subject almost demands, his historic insight, temperance of judgment, and critical acumen win the reader’s respect and confidence. Stebbing rightly calls his work a biography, and the personality of his hero is not constantly lost in the history of his time, of which, however, as should be the case, the writer shows a vivid and accurate knowledge. (The Clarendon Press, Oxford Macmillan & Co., New York.) A most lifelike portrait of the man who was at once poet, historian, politician, courtier, soldier, sailor, philosopher, orator, and many a thing beside, and who, in his splendid vigor and marvelous versatility, stands beyond all peradventure as the type of the Elizabethan age. Sir Walter Ralegh, by William Stebbing, M. Not thus have its real victories been won. His use of the term “ false religions,” although it may be a mere verbal infelicity, strikes the reader as starting with an assumption and throughout the book he seems to weaken his own position by treating Christianity as a competitive religion. Nevertheless, we suspect that the absence of first-hand knowledge vitiates his power to enter deeply into the spirit of the faiths which he attacks. He disclaims any first-hand knowledge of his subject, but uses with judgment, as any scholar might, the testimony of experts.

The author follows a topical arrangement, and enters upon wide fields in such inquiries as the Ethical Tendencies of the Eastern and Western Philosophies, the Traces of a Primitive Monotheism, and the like. (Scribners.) These lectures use a comparative method, taking up in turn Buddhism, Mohammedanism, Hinduism, and other faiths, and contrasting them with Christianity. Oriental Religions and Christianity, by Frank F. The book is learned without being over-technical, and ought to be of real service to thoughtful readers. Stevens says, “ has been to inquire into the genesis of Paul’s leading thoughts, so far as their origin may be the subject of historical inquiry, to define critically their content and relation to each other, and thus to present a systematic account of his teaching upon the great themes which he considers.” In carrying out this scheme, he discusses the Conversion of Paul and its Relation to his Mission and Theology, Paul’s Style and Modes of Thought, the Shaping Forces of Paul’s Teaching, the Sources of Pauline Doctrine, the Doctrines of God, Sin, the Law, Redemption, Justification, the Church, the Person of Christ, the Christian Life, and the Pauline Eschatology. (Scribners.) “ The aim which I have set before me,” Dr. The Pauline Theology, a Study of the Origin and Correlation of the Doctrinal Teaching of the Apostle Paul, by George B.

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