SHORTER NOTICES

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21992, 16 January 1937, Page 15

SHORTER NOTICES

(i.) The Trustworthiness of the GosThe Fact of Immortality. By A. Gordon, James. 31 (Hi.) Prayer. lief in God. By Harold »» bp. Hodder and Stoughton. (3a £ach.) From W. S. Smart. These little booklets are published in a series called "Christian Beliefs. Each is by a competent scholar and is issued on behalf of the "Fellowship of the Kingdom.". Pastors will find these publications very useful to give to intelligent enquirers. The Life and Letters of Culloden. By George Menary, MC. M.A. Alexander MacLehose and Co. 419 pp. (12/6 net.)^There exists no other life of Forbes, but for Hill Burton's sketch, written to point the contrast with Simon Lovat, and* now nearly a century old. Mr Menary's work is based upon study of: all the material available, including much that is new and presents a full account and portrait of one who, as statesman and judge, served Scotland and the Union endlessly, especially by the wise moderation which he imported into public affairs. The outstanding examples of its exercise were afforded by the Rebellion of the Forty-five and the Porteous Riots. Pedagogue Pie. By D. F. P. Hiley. Ivor Nicholson and Watson Ltd. 128 pp. (2/6 net.) Through Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd. These are the reflections of a strong, level-headed, humorous, kind- (but not. soft-) hearted woman upon the conduct of a large school. She was for a long term headmistress of the Central High School, Newcastle-on-Tyne. The First of the League Wars. Its 5 Lessons and Omens. By MajorGeneral J. F. C. Fuller. Eyre and Spottiswoode. 319 pp. (10/6 net.) General Fuller does two things in this book. He gives a complete account of the Abyssinian campaign; and he connects the origin and progress of the war with the political system and ideas that emerged from the Great War with the peace treaties arid the League of Nations. He writes as a Fascist philosopher who sees in the League ideology and machinery only further dangers, while the hope of "vastly limiting" wars and "curtailing their present destructive nature"—-he does not suggest more—lies in the national and international organisation of the "new universal authority" of corporate or three-fold states. "The establishment of a new morality within a nation is* the first step to-wards-the establishment of a new morality, .between nations."'