The Scottish Review Volume 35 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ... much more than one of style; and as Tauler himself owns, and as Mr. Butler says, his real spiritual master was Nicholas of Basle, the leader of the Friends of God. The Theologia has often been attributed to Tauler, but that he was the author of it has yet to be proved. Mr. Butler's excellently-written volume throws light on a somewhat obscure period in the religious life of Scotland, and fully maintains the position he took up in his previous volume on the indebtedness of the Wesleys to Scotland. Two numbers of the Famous Scots Series have reached us during the present quarter. One is George Buchanan, by Robert Wallace; and the other Thomas Campbell, by J. Cuthbert-Hadden." In the first, Mr. Wallace has made a new departure for the series. Hitherto the volumes have been cast in the biographical form, and the biographical has always predominated in them. In Mr. Wallace's volume we have for the most part a series of chapters on the life and genius of Buchanan. Mr. Wallace has evidently studied his subject with conscientious care, and says many just and true things concerning the great Scottish humanist. On the otlier hand, he says a number of things on which there is sure to be a difference of opinion. For the most part he follows Dr. Brown, and from a note by the Editor we infer that the volume has Dr. Brown's imprimatur, but there is another opinion as to Buchanan, and it does not follow that because Dr. Wallace and his Editor are enthusiastic in their praise, we must necessarily accept it. Unfortunately, Mr. Wallace did not live to complete bis sketch. Its preparation for the press has been placed in the hands of his fellow-student Sheriff Campbell-Smith, who suppliespart of biographical details, and a chapter partly on Dr. Wallace, partly on the Buc...