Di. Fort Newton has put many good things into his little book, "Preaching in London' (Allen and Unwin, 6s.). Like a true American, he responds quickly to the historical stimulus of Eng-Jand, and_he writes well enough to make English readers respond ico. His book is based on extracts from his diary, incisively noting the things he saw and the people he met. There is also a_ detailed and excellent study of his predecessor at the City Temple, Dr. Parker. Dr. Newton is inclined to over-writing, and is sometimes slave to a phrase. His Jove for England is clear, but not indiscriminating, He—is uneasy about Mr. Lloyd George, and notes, without comment, that when' he went to Birmingham and mentioned the city's greatest men the name of Cardinal Newman was received with groans and that of J, H. Shorthouse in dead-silence
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