THESE Lectures by the late Dr. Kennedy, Dingwall, have recently been issued under the editorship of Professor J. Kennedy Cameron, M.A., Edinburgh. They consist of outlines, taken from Dr. Kennedy’s own manuscripts, supplied by his daughter, Miss Kennedy. We have read them with much interest and appreciation, and consider them a valuable addition to the discourses already in print by the same esteemed author. As outlines, they are necessarily brief in statement, and here and there curt in expression, but they are sufficiently full to give an exact and edifying survey of the field that is traversed. The occasional curtness often runs into a pithy sententiousness that is fitted to make the sentences abide in the reader’s memory. And the brevity is not equal in all cases: a most interesting exposition of “Christ’s Conversation with a Woman of Samaria” runs into forty-five pages. The opening part of the book consists of lectures on the eight Beatitudes (Matt. v. 3-12); then follows a series of discourses on eleven of the miracles of Christ, which includes, under the head of “The Healing of an Impotent Man,” an exposition of the fifth chapter of John’s Gospel throughout. Five lectures are also given on general topics, such as “Jesus justifying His Disciples in plucking the ears of corn on the Sabbath,” “Preaching Repentance,” and “Preaching in the Synagogue of Nazareth,” and the closing section is the “Conversation with the Woman of Samaria,” to which reference has been already made. What makes these outlines so interesting to those acquainted with Dr. Kennedy’s sermons and other writings, is that they are almost all dealing with texts or portions of Scripture on which we have had nothing hitherto published from his pen. It may also be pointed out that occasionally he gives short and instructive discussions of points profound and difficult. For example, under the words spoken to “the impotent man,” “Wilt thou be made whole?” Dr. Kennedy deals pretty fully with the relations between God’s sovereign will and the will of the sinner in salvation. All through these lectures, indeed, we see the insight of a divine of no ordinary calibre, and nothing could be better fitted to guide “young men preparing for the ministry of the Gospel”—to whom the book is dedicated—on many points of doctrine and experience, than a careful and prayerful study of what Dr. Kennedy has here written. We also think that it will be very acceptable to all who appreciate the other writings of the same eminent preacher of the Gospel, and that they will derive substantial profit in reading its pages. The volume is well bound, at a moderate price (2/6 net; postage, 3d. extra), and is to be had from the Northern Chronicle Office, Inverness. J. S. S.