FOUR CAMBRIDGE MANUALS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1901, 8 November 1913, Page 9

FOUR CAMBRIDGE MANUALS.

A USEFUL SERIES, The Cambridge University Press liavo sent us four of their "Manuals, of Seieneo and Literature." Tho series is a very attractive and useful one, each volume _ being written by a recognised export in tho subject dealt with. Dr. I' 1 . 13. Jovens, Professor of Philosophy in the University of Durham, writes on "Comparative Mdigion" awl "Tho Idea of God in JSariy .Religions." ])r. Jevoiis is one of tho greatest living authorities mi tho history 01 religions, la each of these littlo books he baa managed to compress a wonderful amount of interesting information which ho presents to his readers in a very striking and impressive manner. In "Tho Idea of -God" ho "deals with tiie religious phenomenon, studied as au inner fact, in. tho earlier stages of religion," and, in his other vohiitto lio gives tho history and meaning of saeriiice, magic, ancestor-worship, tho future life, and other liko matters. Dr. \\<>rkmiui,_ Principal of. the Westminster Training College, tolls' tho story of Methodism in a _ masterly fashion—-its rise and growth in Britain and its ex* pansion in America and beyond tho seas ■ its divisions and reunions; its theology and polity. In his concluding chapter he declares that "the greatness of Methodism as a worldwide church does not, and will not. lio in tho millions of its adherents, nor in tho magnitude and adequacy of its equipment, but in tho degree to which jt is true to its fundamental conviction—tlio personal, conscious appropriation of tho Lifo and Passion of tho lUsen Christ." Br. John Brown has a great subject in "The History of tlio English and ho handles it well. Tho book contains u number At interesting illustrations, and tho writer "takes us back to the JJfaiKisfcery of Wliitby> wliero Caediuoii the Monk paraphrased Scripture Story in Saxon sang, and brings us through the cenjuries to the Abbey of Westminster, where a distinguished body of English scholars met in 1870 and Commenced that Revision of tho Scriptures which first saw tho light in 1881."