New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-04-14
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

zssAAiafs SucHr TIE n THE ' WEsr By Brooke Foss
svo, PIP vi, 3o7. Macmillan & Co.
bishop Wcstcott Is not writer who woulu aViacs
BY the mere beauty charm Of his STYLE hei soDer
serious learned and direct Altogether intent on prAhs
Ing to view some great truth or establishing s'n'o
fundamental principle, he has no time 10 waste y"
nice turns Of expression the frpperes OF rhetoric
He takes his subject and himself with grave serious
ness. At the same time, he gains the feSpe0o a"s
rood-wl of his readers by making his suDJecV anu
his treatment of it worthy of their most serious az
tenton He has spoken on questohs Oh 'ueOlOss
and scholarship without gaining the ear OF schoarS ~
hotb Great Britain and the United States. Ana ITO
has never spoken without adding something " 'no
sum of human knowledge.
The present volume OF essays Is the cu.0o"o
design which DIR. Westoott formed carry IN me- y.
show how some Of the great representatives Vi W.
ern Thought NAV contribute toward better uiue,
s.a,s,nr 80 tho mower of the Christian creed Much
hoe heen said and deservedly said. of the DEBT winch
.h. world owes the East in the matter Oh cieo i
certainly no intelligent man viii have any u7V y, :.
minimize that debt. 1t is the glory OF 'ne E"''
in n originated all the great ideas OF religion ~
navo Ieft an enduring mark the civilization VI Uno
n o.. % sbouId not be forgotten that the "cse
hos not only shown itself 10 be peculiarly icoeP''0 ~
.hesa ideas but has had the wisdom 10 uoNeloP -
modify them in accordance with It's nceus. ,l
ont with this thought Or. WestcotU u"io'O' -
singular clearness and sympathy inc sre". 80
,ruths contained in the myths VI ~,
A. r,avs of Aeschylus and Eurlpiuos' w
writings of Donysus the Areopagite, anu VI 1891
"a ,he noetry of Robert Browning lie also u'S' ~
the relation of Christianity to art ChriSuan.S -
absolute religion, and reviews inc me- Va d.
wb;cheote the great Provost of Cambridge ho s"o"o
oncIrsive,S how really and vitality the great thlAcr
~ 49, MD have borne witness to fundamental
.th ~ religion which finds its most perfect ca
nresson I'm Christianity OF course the supIec' s "
mo means exhausted in these essays "hio" "o "o,
or less fragmentary; and DR.. WestcOu .eApi1Ssi9
declares that the same method may De eAoehue" "
JIomer Heraclitus, Virgil Epictetus, flouhus' DIS
,, - o,hor mora modern thinkers. What he has
do,o is IN suggest method by which the universally
80 the religions instinct may be proved the DOCK Is
enc that viii repay careful perusal and it VIII appear
40 the scholar quite as much as TO the ChrlSUaii'
The Scott Publishing Company issue four sermons
y, the Rev. Thomas Dixon, in, OF THIS Guy, !o''is
clergyman who has ceased to be ooSCuFe anu "'9 a.
90, hecoue famous The sermons are an answer "
n onestion What is Religion? and 80 over tiio
well-worn arguments showing that rehsion Is mo
rather than creed. In style they are Simple anu
forcible.
Keran Paul Trench, TruDner & Co. send us " strlH
tnr Events in Irish History" by c. F. DoWsey' Anls
volume seems to have been compiled us an anu hoo
Rpe mammal; at all events it is adapted to no other
semblsce of everything. that can make against 'a'
cause and can create or strengthen the impression
that the Irish are incapable of sefgovernmehN anu
that whether they are or not Great Britain can never
afford to let them try the experiment OF course inc
argument gees too far but that is the fault OF all
arguments Of the kind.
line or two is demanded by another Browning
hook or TO speak by tie card, booklet. Arnold d 10
issue A Few Words Robert Drowning, Drochue
of sixty pages anonymous, but full OF sense ana WI"
II is better wocth reading than many cunbrouS COM
mentarles and whose reads, marks learns ana III
wardy digests 1t will, if beginner, be IL cohdoh 10
proceed ntelgently and TO his or her own ADVANTAGE
and that without becoming member Of Brownmgite
Society.
LonCmans. Green & Co. have published a new and
popular edition of Spencer Walpole's Life OF LORD
John Russell" heretofore reviewed in The Tribune
The cheaper edition is still in two volumes, the type
is clear and Of comfortable size, the paper Is good
and all things else in conformity.
Macmillan & Co. issue cheaper, one-volume edition
If Walter Pater's admirable book "Marius the Epi-
curesnn work Of such excellence that 1t almost
seems to be predesned to narrow circulation by It's
very merits but which appears to have been appre-
ciated to the credit of the age.