n cloth_,
SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED,

THE LONDON PULPIT.

BY

JAMES EWING RITCHIE.

Contents: The Religious Denominations of London--Sketches of the Rev. J.
M. Bellew--Dale--Liddell--Maurice--Melville--Villiers--Baldwin
Brown--Binney--Dr Campbell--Lynch--Morris--Martin--Brock--Howard
Hinton--Sheridan Knowles--Baptist Noel--Spurgeon--Dr Cumming--Dr James
Hamilton--W. Forster--H. Ierson--Cardinal Wiseman--Miall--Dr Wolf, &c.
&c.

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OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

The subject is an interesting one, and it is treated with very
considerable ability. Mr Ritchie has the valuable art of saying many
things in few words; he is never diffuse, never dull, and succeeds in
being graphic without becoming flippant. Occasionally his strength of
thought and style borders rather too closely on coarseness; but this
fault of vigorous natures is counterbalanced by compensatory merits--by
an utter absence of cant, a manly grasp of thought, and a wise and genial
human-heartedness. The book is a sincere book; the writer says what he
means, and means what he says. In these half-earnest days it is a
comfort to meet with any one who has "the courage of his opinions,"
especially on such a subject as the "London Pulpit."--_Daily News_.

"One of the cleverest productions of the present day."--_Morning Herald_.

"Mr Ritchie is just the man to dash off a series of portraits, bold in
outline, strikingly like the originals in feature and expression, and
characterized by bright and effectual colouring. We have here
photographed a group of the most distinguished pulpit orators of the
metropolis, of all religious denominations and sects."--_Civil Service
Gazette_.

"The style of Mr Ritchie is always lively and fluent, and oftentimes
eloquent. It comes the nearest to Hazlitt's of any modern writer we
know. His views and opinions are always clear, manly, and
unobjectionable as regards the manner in which they are set forth. Many,
no doubt, will not agree with them, but none can be offended at them. As
we have already remarked, Mr Ritchie does not write as a sectarian, and
it is impossible to collect from the treatise to what sect he belongs.
The tendency of these sketches is to introduce into the pulpit a better
style of preaching than what we have been accustomed to."--_Critic_.

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