A book of addresses on evangelical topics by a man well known as a successful international revivalist. He resigned the pastorate of the Highburg quadrant church in England to enter a more evangelistic field, and his sermons defend liberal theology and set forth the value of his work.
“His sermons are models of manly appeal to the thinking people of to-day.”
| + + | Ind. 58: 897. Ap. 20, ‘05. 180w. | |
| + | Outlook. 79: 958. Ap. 15, ‘05. 230w. |
“Among the various essays, addresses and sermons in the book the one which gives the whole its title is the best and most adequate, with the additional advantage of being written in clear, forceful, convincing English such as is seldom found in current literature.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 38: 390. Mr. 11, ‘05. 640w. |
Dawson, William James. Makers of English fiction. [*]$1.50. Revell.
Dr. Dawson begins with Daniel Defoe and discusses the writers of novels of sentiment from Richardson to Fielding, and to Jane Austen, then he takes up the works of Sir Walter Scott, Thackeray, Dickens, the Bronte sisters, George Eliot, Charles Reade, Charles Kingsley, George Meredith, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, and others, closing the book with chapters on “Religion in fiction” and a “Concluding survey.”
“He is a patient and systematic reader; his powers of analysis are considerable, his sympathies are broad, and he has, what is an extremely valuable gift, the historic sense.” E. C.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 757. N. 11, ‘05. 1070w. | |
| + + | Outlook. 81: 429. O. 21, ‘05. 220w. |
[*] “The book is well worth reading, as a comprehensive survey of a development, and as painstaking a work of criticism as has come to us for many a day.”