The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-18

This biography of Goschen is the worK of his grandson, the present viscount Goschen The book Is literally illus trated with photogravure portraits and plates, including many fac simile pages and reproductions of early engravings THE EGREGIOUS ENGLISH.-By An
 gus McNeill.
 Last fall when Mir. T. w. H. Crosland held up his warped mirror to Scotland l and exhibited the Highlander as "The 1 Unspeakable Scot" 1t was certain that l therL would be a speedy reply. > | That reply has now come in "The Egre- 1 gious English" The author Is MT. An gus MC Neill, whose very name proves his right to speak. He has gone at his task with zeal and in the spirit of the ancient | Romans. who spared nor son nor wife, nor limb nor life, In the brave days of old"
 He finds an abundance of vulnerable points h the Englishmen in spite of their comrlacent conviction that they are the original lclds of creation. He scathes them in literature; attacks them in bus mess; Iursucs them on the hunt; stabs them in their homes; and leaves them only in their cups stunned by their vile ccnct oticns." "The English woman Of tooay" he discloses as just foolish doll, thing of frllls and fluff and patchwork, daughter of vanity, and a worshpper of dressnakers. Under her little foot, under her mild, blue. greedy eye, the Englshman has become a capering car pet-knight" MT. McNeill does not fear to go like Saul among the prophets, and ill behalf of the matrons of Scotland he quotes Solomon in all his glory.
 The reader who agreed with MT. Cross land will find their antpathy Justified by lot f1f ,1.f, Scot; while those who writhed under the earlier book can now taste the sweet ness of retaliation.
 THE EDUCATION OF CHRIST.-IIil-
 Side Reveries.-By ". M. Ramsay, D. C.. L Professor of Humanity in Aber-
 deen University.
 Professor Ramsey, the author of "The Church in the Roman Empire, A. D. Gi- 170" "St. Paul, the Traveller and the at Bethlehem?" has written a little book of reveries on the education or Christ. The keen judgment and scholarship of his three preceding works give the au- thor high authority on all subjects con neeted with Church history.
 This present books consists of a series of simple and reverent studies on the de- yelopment of His character.
 Professor Ramsay describes the great plains which lay by Nazareth and he shows the effect that the surroundings have had, and must have on the forma- ten Of serious natures. Tie tells of the storied interest of the scenes stretching | to the south of Nazareth. Gideon, De- borah, Saul, and Elijah are names that must have constantly recurred to Nazar- enes as they looked down from the neigh boring hills over this historic landscape There Is nothing complex or dogmatic In the work, and 1t will appeal to all thoughtful readers regardless of creed ST. AUGUSTINE AND HIS AGE-Bv Joseph McCabe
 MT. McCabe, the author of Peter Abe lard" shows in the life of St Augustine the same vgor of reasoning, thorough ness, and attractive style that character ized his earlier work. By his ecclesiastic training he Is particularly fitted to write CT the great figures In Church history He has approached St. Augustine rather as a man than as a saint, differing in this respect from all previous biographers, and showing a more frank ana open spirit than is found in the "Conressions' of St. | Augustine himself
 The book is eminently rational, and Mir. McCabe pays due attention to all the in- 1 nuences of the time; including studies | or other men, vivid pictures of Roman 1 life, and expositons of the current ideas a''d beliefs that affected the mind of Au- l Gusiine.
 The treatment is strongly sympathetic i throughout, as Is shown in the following l extract which closes the work: And the, writer who can captivate a Calvin and Boccaccio a New man and Byron, has an immortality assured whatever creeds or anti-creeds prevail" THE GERMAN REVOLUTION OF 1S4o.
 Being an Account of the Final Strug-
 gle in Baden for the Maintenance of
 Germany's First National Representa-
 tive Government.-By Charles w. Dah- finger
 MT. Dahlinger treats a dramatic phase of that struggle for popular liberty which broke out over continental Europe in the years 1S4S and 1S49. France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, all felt it's force; and this zeal for freedom affected our own country, when a great body of Ger man refugees fought for their convictions in the American Civil War
 This work describes the final struggle in Badcn when the cause of the people was utterly crushed. This forms an in- c.dent in the history of Germany scarce