Page:The Martyrdom of Ferrer.djvu/101

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
There was a problem when proofreading this page.

== == A Selection from the R.P.A. List. == ==

                ----------------

BENN,A.W.-== Modern England. ==

A Record of Opinion and Action from the time of the French Revolution to the Present Day. xxvi.-518 pp.; cloth, 2 vols., 7s. 6d.

"A masterly record ...Modern England is a book to keep you up late at night. It tells you in a delightful way all that is best worth remembering in the history of the eventful period it covers."-The Clarion.

--== Revaluations: Historical and Ideal. ==

xv.-320 pp.; cloth, 3s. 6d. net, by post 3s. 10d.

CASSELS, WALTER R.-== Supernatural Religion: ==

An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation. Popular Edition, thoroughly revised by the Author. xvi.-920 pp.; paper cover, 2s. 6d. net, by post 2s. 11d.; cloth, 6s. net, by post 6s. 6d.; half morocco, gilt edges, 10s. net, by post 10s. 6d.

A really great work, pronounced by Matthew Arnold to be "learned and exact," and by John Morley to be "decisive, trenchant, and far-reaching," the author stating "his case with a force which no previous English writer on the negative side can have the smallest claim to rival."

CONYBEARE, F.C.,M.A. (late Fellow and Praelector of Univ. Coll., Oxford; Fellow of the British Academy; Doctor of Theology, honaris causa, of Giessen; Officier d'Académie).-== Myth, Magic, and Morals: ==

A Study of Christian Origins. xviii.-376 pp.; cloth, 4s. 6d. net, by post 4s. 10d.

In his Preface the Author states that his object is to inquire carefully who Jesus of Nazareth was, what were his real aims and ideas, what the means at his command for realising them, and how the great institutions connected with his name originated and grew up. The investigation is conducted in a simple and straightforward, and at the same time scholarly, manner. Mr. Conybeare insists that we must face the problems of our age and adopt the solutions which an enlightened criticism provides. (Highly praised by the Press.)

GORHAM, CHARLES T.-== The First Easter Dawn: ==

An Inquiry into the Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus. xii.-320 pp.; cloth, 4s. 6d. net, by post 4s. 11d.

"The book is well written, is marked by conscientious study, and takes a wide survey of the field."-Edinburgh Evening News. "An impartial and clear-headed summing-up of evidence."-Scotsman.

GOULD, F.J.-== The Children's Plutarch. ==

With six full-page Illustrations by Walter Crane. viii.-286 pp.; cloth, 2s. 6d. net, by post 2s. 10d.

-

A Concise History of Religion.

3 vols. Vol. I., 3s.; Vol. II., 3s. 6d.; Vol.III., 5s.

No work of the same size and dealing with this important theme contains such a mass of information. All the highest authorities have been carefully consulted, and the book gives the main results of Biblical criticism, together with other valuable matter, in what is, by comparison at least, a nutshell. The First Volume treats of the superstitions of savages and primitive man, and delineates the characteristics of the religions of America, Finland, China, Egypt, Arabia, Chaldæa, Syria, India, Japan, Persia, the Kelts, Greeks, and Romans. The Second Volume takes to pieces the whole of the Old Testament literature, and explains the origin of the various parts. The last chapter describes the Religious Environment of early Christianity. The Third Volume traces the growth of the Christian movement, the lives of Paul and Jesus (with due separation of the mythical elements), and affords a Rationalistic analysis of the whole of the New Testament books.