and rewards justly followed, and he became Commander-in-Chief of the British Army; but not for long, as in the course of civil administration that office' was abolished: a momentous step for the Army as well as its chief, for whom ordinarily it would have meant effacement; for Lord Roberts, however, it opened his most noble campaign. Untrammelled by office, he forthwith devoted his days to unceasing warning of danger to Britain and the need of preparation for war. He advocated universal military training, so that in emergency a sufficient force might at once be available for dispatch abroad and for defence at home. His warning, unfortunately, fell on deaf ears; yet now, when the truth of his words is revealed, he does not upbraid. On the contrary, at the age of 82, he undertakes with fresh energy all he can do to help his country in a war for which the adoption of his measures would have found us better prepared. To have served as Lord Roberts has is great; to have lived unspoilt by success, and to have devoted the evening of his days to rousing his countrymen to the danger which threatened (a far from popular part to play), is still greater. Of the preparation of the book it is unnecessary to say much it would have benefited by more careful revision, for there are misprints and slips which might have been corrected, but they are more irritating than important. Clement of Alexandria: a Study in Christian Liberalism. By R. B. Tollinton. 2 vols. (Williams & Norgate, ll. ls. net.) A DIFFICULT task has been undertaken by Mr. Tollinton, and he has accomplished it with success. He has shown the Alexandrine Father as man whose a writings have not only an important place in the history of religious thought, but also a living interest in view of the theological questions of the present day. He sets forth the personality, the period, the standpoint, and the problems of Clement. He gives us, too, graphic pictures of Alexandria and of some of Clement's notable contemporaries, and a lucid account of the thought of the age. At the outset attention is claimed for Clement's biography "as essentially that of the first great Christian scholar." It is pointed out in reference to his life in Alexandria that, while contact with great forces acting at high pressure and beyond the control of individuals has driven men frequently to pessimism, Clement with his convinced optimism never fell into a sombre attitude of mind. "But something," says Mr. Tollinton, of the peculiar influence of a great city may be detected in the lack of finality which is certainly a characteristic of his work"; and he proceeds to show that Clement's enterprise of a completed scheme of Christian 66 truth remained unfulfilled, and that he did not settle any of the problems of Christian theology. Clement is represented as a man whose contribution to progress is a greater thing than his personal qualities, and as one who "did a greater work than it was in his nature to do." The explanation of this paradox lies in the fact that there was a singular accord between his nature and his age, and that he was the instrument through which wider forces were exerted. Certain scholars, among whom is Hermann Diels, have found no originality in Clement, and have brought a charge of plagiarism against him. Mr. Tollinton, however, does not admit that the charge is valid. He recognizes that Clement could not have been intimately acquainted with the 348 writers to whom there is a reference in his works; but he claims that Clement knew all that was worth knowing in the poetry and philosophy of Greece, and that he was more than the "cleverest of thieves." Clement would have ranked as a Modernist had he lived in the present age; and Mr. Tollinton declares that never before had the early Church been told so boldly that there was good in Paganism, and that her sacred Scriptures were the highest, but not the only documents which revealed the will of God." He maintains, too, that rarely has the aim of religious literature been in the Stromateis, and that Clement's discussed from a higher standpoint than decision to write books and his conception of an author's responsibilities are a fine example of the Church's vocation to minister to intelligence, and a reminder, needed in our own time, that unsettled minds are sometimes abundantly deserving of her thought and care. 6 66 66 In the chapter on the Incarnation it is admitted that Clement accepted the Virgin Birth as a part of the Christian tradition, and pointed out from time to time its significance in the Christian scheme. While agreeing that Clement's example is in full accord with Bishop Gore's statement that there are no believers in the Incarnation discoverable, who are not also believers in the Virgin Birth," Mr. Tollinton contends that it is in no sense true to say that Clement's acceptance of the Incarnation depends on his belief in the Virgin Birth; and he maintains that, while Clement accepted the Virgin Birth, he did not make it the groundwork or condition of his belief in the Incarnation of the Word, and, indeed, that it might be eliminated from his theology without disaster to the general structure. confronted by the claims and problems of to-day? In his answer he points out that for the age of Clement there was no Social Question, in the sense in which we are conscious of it. The regeneration of the individual was then the primary concern of Christianity, and outward conditions were only indirectly changed. We, on the other hand, begin with the conditions and treat character as the consequence. "We think," Mr. Tellinton says, that we must first build the City of God, and then consider how to produce the angels." Further, it is shown that in the second and twentieth centuries alike Christian thought is found in solution. In Clement's age a man could be a Stoic and a Christian, while now he may be a Christian and a Hegelian. Then the ideas. in liquidation were derived from ancient philosophies, Eastern religions, Nature cults, the Mysteries, or the hoar antiquity of Egypt, and into the ferment, as the latest element, was thrown Christianity. Now the condition of solution is found again; and, while the component elements are no less varied, Christianity is the oldest of them all. Mr. Tollinton concludes that in the Christianity of the twentieth century, contrasted with that of the second, there is a score of points in which it has the advantage; and yet in one respect of primary importance the preference lies with the early Church. It was less deeply committed to the past. more free, just because it was so much Apart from any contrast of the centuries, Clement offers, according to Mr. Tollinton, a great example of the synthetic attitude of mind. He delights to reconcile Plato with the Gospels, is ready to see value in culture, and wishes to understand the best in Gnosticism. As we are told by Mr. Tollinton, ; "he finds the one Divine Word everywhere at work, and builds on this faith a great habitation, in which the simple and the learned, the Greek and the Jew, Past and Present, Church and Cosmos, Saint and Philosopher, may meet to be at one and we are reminded that the synthetic attitude is singularly appropriate to the Christian teacher who has to recognize Science, Criticism, and Democracy as powerful factors in the world of to-day. Another service is mentioned which Clement may render. He may teach men to place a value on the items of their professed creed; and it is, Mr. Tollinton affirms, perhaps in his estimate of the 66 proportion of faith" that the modern spirit can follow him most closely. Little is said by him of Sin, Reconciliation, or Judgment; and no stress is laid on the Virgin Birth, while the Resurrection is spiritualized. But, in Mr. Tollinton's words, "the doctrine of God's highest or nearest act of self-manifestation in a Human Life on earth, the extension and implications of this principle in the Church and in Humanity, the unity of the one spiritual Power in all the many forms of its self-expression, are dominant conceptions in his theology, and fication, to many questions of to-day." may be applied, with a minimum of modi FICTION. The Pastor's Wife. By the Author of Bellamy. By Elinor Mordaunt. (Methuen Elizabeth and her German Garden.' (Smith, Elder & Co., 6s.) EVEN in comparison with its predecessors from the same pen, this is a singularly charming volume. Its fascination is assuredly not diminished by the fact that it deals with that inconceivably remote -period when German domestic life was still in this country a perennial source of kindly and half-respectful amusement, when jokes could still be made on an impending Teutonic conquest of England, when East Prussia was as yet a smiling scene of rural tranquillity, and the Kaiser's theological views seemed, in their harm less eccentricity, simply refreshing. Inge borg Dremmel, the German pastor's English wife, is a creature wholly delightful; and though her actions sometimes astonish us, she always (unlike certain earlier heroines of this author's) keeps her hold on our sympathy. Her social encounters as mistress of a parsonage on the Russian frontier whether with that simple woman her mother-in-law, or with the poorer parishioners who object consoled and alleviated,' to being with the Baroness who takes her father the Bishop for something equivalent to 66 or & Co., 6s.) HERE is a capable study of the base pro- to achieve success. the woman as it is for us. The author shows not only acquaintance, but also deep sympathy, with aristocratic failure and the sordid lot of many of our workers; but, though we welcome any valid criticism relating to the evils still attendant on Labour, we think she ought to have informed her readers in a foot a Lutheran "superintendent," and her to us. gallant dispossessed loses his individ- The Man with the Double Heart. By Muriel Hine. (John Lane, 6s.) WERE we assured that the heart is the seat of the affections, two such organs might not have sufficed the hero of this romance. The supposed physical duplication is farfetched and needless, as the warring of the man's temperamental feelings, so far as they were orthodox, is quite naturally. explained by an Italian mother and a Scotch father. content with the material thus afforded, Unfortunately, the author has not been but must needs fill out her book to over three hundred pages with accounts of other and less appetizing love incidents, might have derived from the concluding which detract from any satisfaction we marriage. The space devoted to castigating the Militant Suffrage Movement seems now but a mistaken effort to galvanize back to life a dead controversy, and, if the author objects, as she tells us, to the stage being turned into a pulpit, she ought to sympathize with our distaste for the novel when used for the same purpose, though excellence of performance has, in other cases, seemed to us an all-sufficient excuse. 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HUGH JOHNSON'S chivalrous letter will no doubt evoke a sympathetic response; but in one respect at least he appears to have done less than justice to J. P. M.—in attributing to his pen the obituary notice in The Times. Internal evidence forbids the assumption. There are three statements in that notice which J. P. M. can hardly have made. Dr. Tyrrell was certainly an alert scholar : the late Prof. Albert Selss told me with admiring awe that Tyrrell had learned German in three weeks; but J. P. M. knows too much about exact scholarship to imagine that Tyrrell could have published the two first volumes of Cicero's Letters simultaneously and within only three years of his election to Fellowship; especially seeing that Dr. Louis Purser, to whose invaluable assistance and unfailing interest "he justly, and with characteristic grace and bonhomie, paid so warm a tribute in the Preface to 66 the second volume, was at that date a schoolboy in Portora. J. P. M., again, knows too well the history of Trinity College to dub Tyrrell's father-in-law, George Ferdinand Shaw, Senior Fellow and warmhearted, impulsive Irishman, with the incongruously Teutonic name of Frederick. And, again, J. P. M. is much too high an authority on Irish education to imagine that Tyrrell could ever have been a Commis sioner of National Education. May I venture to add the impression left on my own mind by J. P. M.'s appreciation? At the first reading I was repelled; but on returning to it I was impressed with its general truth, penetration, and even sympathy. H. M. BEATTY. [J. P. M. did not write the obituary notice in The Times.] 66 Permit me to say that in this respect there have been no "effects of haste" in either transcription on p. xvii or translation, p. xviii. The Hebrew text is clearly and beyond doubt (resh, yod, wau), which must be rendered 216 and nothing else. So far for the MS. But as to the matter of fact of a divine name of 216 letters which does not exist," I need do no more than refer your readers to p. 117 of Dr. Erich Bischoff's new and illuminating volume, Praktische Kabbalah' (Zweiter Teil), Berlin, 1914. HERMANN GOLLANCZ. *** If Dr. Gollancz will look again at the passage in his MS. represented on the last page but one of the facsimile, and answering to the extract printed on p. xvii, he will find that he has substituted 1 for the D1 of the original, mistaking for . In the translation on p. xviii he accordingly has " and in the name "' instead of the correct "and in them." The Maphteah Shelomo,' therefore, says: 'I call upon you....by these names of 72 letters which contain the 216 letters that proceed from Ex. xiv. 19, 20, 21. From this passage, the substance of which is a veritable commonplace in cabalistical literature, we thus learn that out of the 216 letters found in the three verses named three names of 72 letters each extracted, each name representing the figure 216/3. 66 are 66 Dr. Gollancz, on the contrary, turns the names of 72 letters" into 72 (names)," then proceeding to speak of "the Name of the 216 letters contained in Ex. xiv. 1921; and it is clear that his error (a serious one, no doubt) was caused partly by his misreading of the word referred to at the beginning of this note. As Dr. Erich Bischoff's 'Praktische Kabbalah' (Zweiter Teil, Berlin, 1914) has not yet come to hand, a definite remark regarding the statement on p. 117 referred to by Dr. Gollancz must be deferred to a later date, though the suggestion may even now be hazarded that Dr. Bischoff was possibly misled by an erroneous reading similar to that into which the esteemed editor of the Maphteah Shelomo' has been betrayed. If this surmise should prove incorrect, acknowledgment will be made in due course. THE REVIEWER. |