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insight and a style of fine writing un
 surpassed. The book in it's analysis O.
 Bushnell's works follows chronological
 order and gives the reader a treatment
 of each work by itself. It gives briet | statements of the course of New Eng land theology as taught by it's great teachers and of It's form at the time | when Bushnell wrote. It abounds in quotations from Bushnells own works | The student of theology who may not | have the opportunity to procure or the | time to read the original works will thus have an opportunity to find in
 short compass the chief teachings of Bushnell and abundant Illustration of I its style.
 1 Thus on page 106 is given quotation 1 which is called "the key to Horace | Bushnell" On page 67 Christian Nur- ture" is called the most important of all his works And on page 115 is
 found the most suggestive statement that Bushnell began to define Chris tian doctrine as formulated Christian
 experience" The main thought of each
 specific work is stated in the chapter which treats of 1t and quotations are given to show that thought In Bush
 nelps own words. Thus on page 213
 the fundamental position Of the treat
 ise on Mature and the Supernatural
 is thus stated Mature is that world
 of substance whose laws are laws of
 cause and effect, and whose events
 transpire, in orderly succession under
 those laws: the supernatural is that
 range of substance, if any such there
 l0 nt- thn ,1, ni,, Nf
 and effect in nature from without the
 chain, producing, thus, results that,
 by mere nature, could not come to pass" The book, therefore. has the very great merit of an honest attempt
 to set forth the teachings of Bushnell and not the opinions of the biograph- CT. The chapter on Sermons which gives the title of BushnelPs sermons is particularly suggestive to preachers.
 Great as the merit of this volume is there are some defects incident to the character of the work itself. A former biography written by Bushnells daughter is now out of print: the biography in this book which aims chiefly at an analysis of his work. Is so brief as to be not a photograph but an etching--a good one but yet an etching. The quotations from the former published biography, however, give such picture of home life as to put some heart and warmth into this element of the work.
 A review and summary of all of Bushnells works in a small volume of four hundred pages Is a greater feat than can be well accomplished. Not even the keen insight, clear vision, fine discrimination and felicitous express sion of our author could overcome this difficulty The contents and meaning of work like Christian Nurture" may be we'll apprehended by the read CT who is unfamiliar with the original treatise, but 1t Is to be feared that some readers Of the chapter on Ma ture and the Supernatural will rise from its Derusal without clear and comprehensive grasp of the subject. Some readers, doubtless, will wish that the author had made fewer quotations and or some of these great themes had stated more fully in his own felicitous way just what Bushnell taught Some readers also will wish that fewer quo tations from letters and reviews had been given to show the opinion of other men respecting Bushnell and that the author had taken more space to set forth his own opinion.
 These defects, however, so far as they are defects, are incident to the nature and form of the work. For the particular form chosen for the work and method pursued no one could have done so we'll and the book Is welcom- ed both for its own and its authors sake, whose pen always produces what Is well worth reading.