our Church-going and Psalm-singing life, but has also a direct bearing on science, literature, and art; on business, morals, and politics; and, indeed, upon everything with which man is concerned. The Christian is, therefore, not required in a cowardly manner to run away from the world, and shut himself up in a cloister; but amongst men, and amid the ordinary affairs of life, he must live and obey the laws of Christ. Christ must be King, constantly ruling in every realm of thought and activity.

This is, moreover, a searching book; for while perusing its pages we often feel that our own heart is being probed, and our own character faithfully delineated, and we are led to resolve to amend. It is impossible to read these various articles without being led to attach a greater importance to life, and without being taught not to call anything common or unclean.

Dr. Dale's great ability and strong individuality are so well known that it hardly needs to be said that every subject considered receives a comprehensive and lucid treatment, and abounds with healthy and helpful thoughts. The chief characteristic of the volume is manliness.

Studies in the Gospel according to St. John. By Rev. J. CYNDDYLAN JONES. London: Hamilton, Adams & Co. 58.

THE cordial commendation we gave to the author's "Studies in the Acts," and "Studies in St. Matthew," we can unhesitatingly accord to this volume, which is modelled on the same plan, and executed in the same masterly manner. If we are rightly informed, Mr. Jones was formerly minister of Bedford (Independent) Chapel, London, but is now associated with the Welsh Calvinists in Cardiff. His Calvinism, however, must be of a very mild type, for there is very little trace of it in any of his volumes. All the discourses are thoroughly evangelical in tone; and, while quite natural and just, his interpretations and illustrations, even of much-used texts, are always fresh and striking; and every "Study" sparkles with suggestive and beautiful thoughts, set in choice and charming language. We consider that these studies are models of what the discourses of a really helpful ministry should be, for they alike inform the mind and warm the heart; and we would express the hope that Mr. Jones may elucidate other books of the Bible as he has done those mentioned above; indeed, as at least one-third of this volume is taken up with discourses on the wonderful first chapter of John, there is ample scope, even in the same Gospel, for a second series of such "Studies."

Modern Romanism Illustrated. By Rev. GEORGE OSBORN, D.D. London: T. Woolmer.

THE Marquis of Bute has spent some years in studying and translating out of Latin into English the Roman Breviary, and has recently published it in two volumes containing 3,082 pages of closely-printed matter. The Breviary is a book of devotion and instruction for the daily use of all the clergy; the regulations concerning the use of it are both strict and binding; and this is the first time it appears entire in the English tongue.

Dr. Osborn wrote a somewhat lengthy review of the work for the Wesleyan Magazine, and showed up in a very strong light some of the absurd traditions concerning the Romish saints; also the arrogant assumptions of the Papal Church, and the error of much of her teaching.

This article induced the Rev. James McSwiney, a Jesuit, to send a replyand we must admit, a very able and scholarly reply-for insertion in the pages of the same magazine. This gave to Dr. Osborn the opportunity of adding a few more masterly strokes to his illustrations of Romanism, and of giving to

the whole picture a more striking effect. In this little volume these three articles appear, and will well repay perusal.

Life and Holiness, By WILLIAM WOODS SMYTH. London: Elliot Stock. THIS little book contains the substance of some of the Author's addresses upon the subject of holiness. We cannot but regard favourably any effort that is made to promote personal sanctification, and these chapters, we think, are admirably adapted to this end. The thoughts are clearly conceived and vigoureusly expressed, and some of the illustrations are quite new. His book would not have been less forcible if the Author had refrained from making censorious references to the teachers and teaching of the present day, and if he had not implied that those who differ from him in their views of this, as of other subjects, are grossly in error.

The Lord's Supper Historically Considered. By G. A. JACOB, D.D. London: H. Frowde.

THE author is widely known as a cultured and trustworthy writer, and we welcome from his pen the above contribution on a vitally important subject. It is as timely as it is true to New Testament teaching; while giving a brief but compendious view of the history of the Lord's Supper from the commencement of the Christian Church to the present time, it expounds and defends views of this Divine ordinance as clear and simple as the most evangelical believer can desire. In these days it is most important that a volume like this should be carefully studied, and it has our cordial commendation. The Clerical Library. Vol. vi. Expository Sermons and Outlines on the Old Testament. London: Hodder & Stoughton. Price 63.

THESE Expositions have been gathered from "fugitive or unpublished sources," and are well worth the gathering. They are chiefly illustrative of Old Testament biography, and their authors are the foremost preachers of the day, except Spurgeon, who is conspicuous by his absence. The volume will heighten the interest so widely felt in, and the admiration so generally expressed for, the "clerical library," the works of which are published in handsome form, and with praiseworthy regularity.

Edited by S. Cox, D.D. London:

The Expositor. Second Series. Vol. viii. Hodder & Stoughton. Price 7s. 6d. WITH this volume, Dr. Cox closes his labours as editor of The Expositor, and in a preface, at once manly and regretful, he states the reasons of his retirement. With a strong band of contributors, Dr. Cox has been enabled, for ten years, to make The Expositor both a literary and commercial success, while its helpful influence to students and ministers of Christian truth has been very widespread and manifest. We trust the new series, under a new editor, will be yet more serviceable in the exposition and defence of the sacred Word, and that this high-class magazine, henceforth to receive the co-operation of the foremost Biblical scholars of the Continent and of America, will retain and strengthen its hold upon the mind, heart, and conscience of its constituency in the churches. The Mother's Friend, 1884. London: Hodder & Stoughton. Price 18. 6d. THIS is a pretty and pleasing volume. Its stories are capital; its poetry is choice, and its general papers are lively and practical. Mothers who wish to look well to the ways of their household will find it enlivening and helpful. Sunshine for 1884; for the Home, the School, and the World. Edited by Dr. WHITTEMORE. London: G. Stoneman.

Ax illustrated magazine, chiefly of tales and puzzles for young people, which answers very well to its name.

The World of Proverb and Parable. By E. PAXTON HOOD. London: Hodder & Stoughton. Price 128.

In this racy and entertaining volume, we open upon an introductory essay on the popular Proverb and Tale in all ages, and then follows-covering more than 500 pages-illustrations from history, biography, and anecdotal table-talk of all sorts, and on almost every subject.

"Racy and entertaining," we say this large book is; but it is much more. Its proverbs and parables are turned to good account, for many a useful moral is drawn, and many a precious lesson is taught; and the desire to profit, as well as amuse and instruct his readers, is evinced by the wise and witty author on almost every page. The book is just the companion needed, on these long winter nights, in homes full of boys and girls, for it blends mirth with instruction, and compels the quaintest fun and richest joke to minister to our pleasure and profit. It is a book to be shunned by those who consider gloom to be godliness, and seriousness to be salvation; but parents who wish their children to believe that religion is a joy-inspiring thing will do well to make it a household treasure-we have no fear of the result.

Thirty Thousand Thoughts: Being Extracts Covering a Comprehensive Circle of Religious and Allied Topics. Edited by the Revs. CANON SPENCER, M.A., JOSEPH S. EXELL, M.A., and CHARLES NEIL, M.A. Vol. iii. London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. Price 168.

THIS great work carries up, in this third volume, the topics selected through the tenth and eleventh sections, dealing, in the main, with "Virtues, including excellences," and in outline with "The Mosaic Economy." As in the earlier volumes so in this one, the entire range of literature is placed under contribution, and scores of searchers have gone through thousands of volumes by the Fathers and the Puritans; books of biography and theology, books scientific, classical, philosophical, foreign books, University lectures, and all the leading reviews of this century. Again, as in volumes i. and ii., we find illustrative extracts and quotations, choice literary gleanings, anecdotes aiding to define moral and religioas truths, historical parallels and similitudes-in fact, carefully selected and suggestive thoughts on all the subjects discussed. No wellfurnished library can be complete without these massive books.

Parson Jaques, and his Chips and Chats. By J. O. KEEN, D.D. London: Bible Christian Book-room.

PARSONS and people alike may profit by reading this lively little work. The Chips and Chats are very amusing, but Parson Jaques has his head on the right way, and his heart in the right place, and is a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. True to its title, the book is fragmentary, and many pages are fascinatingly funny; whoever needs a few recreative hours can find them, and extract profit from them, in fellowship with Dr. Keen's acute and clever little "Parson."

Religion in History and in the Life of To-day. By Principal FAIRBAIRN. London: Hodder & Stoughton. Price 1s. 6d.

THIS course of lectures was addressed to the working men of Bradford to "explain to them what religion is, how the Bible is to be construed in relation to it, what has been its action in history, and what is its bearing on the questions that most concern them to-day." Happy indeed are the working me who have the privilege of listening to such lectures, and happy indeed for our readers will be it if they are led to peruse them. Seldom do we find so much manly

noble, and convincing truth as is found here compressed into six addresses. What is religion? The place and significance of the Old Testament in religion; and of the New Testament in religion; the Christian religion in the first fifteen centuries of its existence; the Christian religion in modern Europe; and in relation to our political, social, and industrial questions-these are the subjects discussed, and the discussion is conducted with an earnestness, a breadth and wealth of thought, a fidelity to truth and fact, a discriminating candour, and a glowing eloquence which all who know Dr. Fairbairn would expect, and which ought to produce incalculable good.

Our Modern Philosophers Darwin, Bain, and Spencer; or, The Descent of Man, Mind, and Body. A Rhyme with Reasons, Essays, Notes and Quotations. By PSYCHOSIS. T. Fisher Unwin, 26, Paternoster-square. Price 4s. 6d. THIS is a novel method of treating philosophers and the profound problems with which they deal. Yet it may be safely said of the author of this remarkable book that he has full knowledge of the men and their theories, and his rhymes, reasons, essays, notes, and quotations pour upon those theories a flood of sarcasm and ridicule; while, in many noble and serious paragraphs, he defends "the fair domain of faith," and seeks to protect and encourage the millions of our race to whom that faith makes life worth living. Whatever we may think of the author's method, we most heartily approve his purpose. Indirect Evidences in the New Testament for the Personal Divinity of Christ. By F. R. YOUNG, D.D. London: W. Stewart & Co. Price 2s. 6d. DR. YOUNG conducts his inquiry, and accumulates his proofs with rare skill, and his argument, taken as a whole, is sound and satisfactory. His valuable book should be read by students, and especially by such inquirers after truth as are in perplexity about the true and proper Divinity of our Lord and Saviour. The evidences adduced are cogent, connected, and convincing, and the thanks of the Christian World are due to Dr. Young for his timely and helpful work. A Little Disciple. By T. D. London: T. Woolmer. Price 1s.

A BRIEF life of John Wesley D—, a very young disciple of our Lord, early called to His presence and joy. It will interest and instruct the very little subjects of the Kingdom, and the story "is quite true-every word of it." Training of Children; or, How to make the Children into Saints and Soldiers of Jesus Christ. By the GENERAL OF THE SALVATION ARMY. London: Salvation Army Book Stores. Cloth boards, 2s. 6d.

"I MUST WORK," is the motto of Mr. Booth, as it was of his Master when on earth. And the amount of work he does is prodigious. Brain and muscle, pen and tongue, are ever astir, but one end seems ever in view, viz., to bring young and old to Christ and Salvation. In this goodly volume the author discusses, in the form of question and answer, a theme of universal and paramount interest, and while the bulk of the teaching is specially designed for “Salvationists," much of it is equally applicable, and is intended equally to apply, to Christian parents and households generally. Strong common sense, solemn and powerful conviction, wide experience, and unfaltering faith in Divine precepts and promises, are apparent on every page of this comprehensive volume. That parent must have a stony heart indeed who can read its lucid statements and forcible appeals without being affected and aroused. "The best way to test the correctness of my theories is to practise them," says the shrewd and practical author, and in this we fully agree with him. We shall be glad if his book is read, and the successful training of his own remarkable family is equalled among ourselves.

Memoirs and Recent Deaths.

MR. JOHN WALLACE.

MR. WALLACE was born at Blyth on February 23, 1799. To him the words addressed by the Apostle Paul to Timothy were specially applicable: "And that from a child thou hast known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation, through faith which is in Christ Jesus." At an early period the teachings and influence of his loving mother had a very salutary effect on his susceptible mind. His father regularly attended public worship in our chapel, and he was generally accompanied by his little boy. The preachers and their ministry had a wonderful attraction to the youthful hearer, who listened with deep and ever-increasing interest to the preacher's word. These early impressions were never erased.

Through the varied circumstances of his long life, and to its close, he had the most vivid recollection of Haslam, Atkinson, Jackson, Wood, Bosher, Shuttleworth, and other early preachers, and of their sermons. Under their ministry, by the power of the Holy Ghost, he was gradually changed from "darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God." It may truly be said that he feared and served God from his youth. His convictions of sin so impressed and troubled him that he anxiously inquired, "What must I do to be saved?" As yet he knew not the way of salvation, but he wisely resolved to go to the class-meeting and learn it there.

The forgiveness of sins by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and a change of heart by the power of the Holy Ghost, and his privilege to experience both these blessings, were now made clear to his mind, and so powerfully affected his conscience that he resolved to seek and find the desired blessings. Unfortunately, at this critical period in his experience he met with a review of a Unitarian work in an old Methodist magazine. He thus became aware that by some men the Divinity and Atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ are denied; and this became a cruel snare to him. He was a perishing sinner and seeking pardon and salvation for Christ's sake. But if Christ was not divine, and had not died for the sins of the world, He could not be his Saviour, and how else could he be saved? Clouds and darkness now filled his mind, and growing despondency paralysed his hopes. The dreadful thought that Jesus Christ was not God manifest in the flesh, and was not at "God's right hand a Prince and a Saviour to give repentance and remission of sins," so haunted his anxious mind, and became so overpowering, that he ceased to pray, and tried various means to stifle his convictions and all thoughts of his sinfulness and danger.

Very providentially at this turning-point in our young friend's experience, the Rev. Abraham Scott was led to preach from Heb. i. 8, “But unto the son He saith, Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever." This was a word in season. The lucid and logical utterances of the preacher arrested the anxious youth's profound attention and interest. His eternal welfare was at stake, and from the beginning to the end of the sermon he hung upon the lips of the preacher with breathless anxiety. His case was met; the