“The treatment is popular, but in touch with the results of modern investigation.”

+Bib. World. 30: 239. S. ’07. 40w.

“When we get to what he rightly calls ‘the very centre of the subject’ ... we have a feeling of disappointment, a feeling that after all Dr. Beeching has failed to take us to the centre. We believe Dr. Beeching to be true and correct so far as he goes, but we believe that he has not gone far enough or deep enough; he has given us but part of the doctrine of the atonement.”

+ −Sat. R. 104: 460. O. 12, ’07. 360w.

“A short book upon the atonement which shall be at the same time learned and popular, will, we are sure, be eagerly read by many persons whose views in regard to this difficult doctrine have become unsettled as a result of recent criticism. Such a book lies before us at the present moment.”

+Spec. 99: sup. 645. N. 2, ’07. 210w.

Beer, George Louis. British colonial policy, 1854–1865. **$2. Macmillan.

7–30451.

A work which in presenting the British colonial policy from 1754 to 1765 covers the fundamental cause of the revolution. It is a work which “has not for its purpose the glorification of revolutionary patriots or motives, but which is content to view the facts of the period as facts.” (Ind.)