Review of reviews and world's work . at hecan deal with the more commonplace elements of human day-to-day life with success. The stories are reprinted from theCortihill, Atalatita, and Blackwood. On the Way Through. By Dorothea Gerard. Octavo,pp. 280. London: Eden, Remington & Co. only in the scene, but also in subject and treatment,Kiss Gierards laiest story reminds us of the stories of MaimjsJ6kai, the Hungarian novelist, but it lacks the strength whichdistinguishes Dr. Dumdnys Wife, to take the novel which isbest known. We know almost from the first page what will bethe end of the st
Review of reviews and world's work . at hecan deal with the more commonplace elements of human day-to-day life with success. The stories are reprinted from theCortihill, Atalatita, and Blackwood. On the Way Through. By Dorothea Gerard. Octavo,pp. 280. London: Eden, Remington & Co. only in the scene, but also in subject and treatment,Kiss Gierards laiest story reminds us of the stories of MaimjsJ6kai, the Hungarian novelist, but it lacks the strength whichdistinguishes Dr. Dumdnys Wife, to take the novel which isbest known. We know almost from the first page what will bethe end of the story—a quality which lessens the interest, andleaves the reader dependent for his pleasure, not on the plot,but on the characterization of minor events. Of the threeother tales which make the volume, My Nightmare is cnideand uninteresting. How I Came to be a Thief is chiefly nota-ble for the light which it throws on the characters of theRuthenian , and The History of Two Wedding-Gowns is prettily pathetic and MISS CHARLOTTE M. YONGE. RELIGION AND THEOLOGY. Ethical Christianity. By Hugh Price Hughes. WithPortrait. London: Sampson Low. 3s. 6d. This is the fourth volume in the series entitled Preachersof the Age. Here the most popular preacher in the Metho-dism of to-day expounds, in that incisive style which is one se-cret of his success, what he believes to be the true ethics ojChristianity; and Mr. Price Hughes conception of EthicalChristianity appears on one of the first pages, where he dedi-cates his book to The Sisters of the People, whose Lives illus-trate the Ethical Christianity it advocates. There are four-teen sermons in the book, and the burden of all is this—thatChristianity does not consist in a creed, or in the acceptanceof certain mysterious dogmas about which even Christian opin-ion is divided; that Orthodoxy must not be confounded withChristianity; that what many ardent, sincere souls have re-jected is not the Christianity of Christ, but a
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