The writings of the Apostolic Fathers have been collected in one volume by Wake. It is but a small one, and though I must humbly confess that I was disappointed, they are perhaps all the more curious from the contrast they afford to those of the Apostles themselves. Of the later Fathers I have included only the _Confessions_ of St. Augustine, which Dr. Pusey selected for the commencement of the _Library of the Fathers_, and which, as he observes, has "been translated again and again into almost every European language, and in all loved;" though Luther was of opinion that St. Augustine "wrote nothing to the purpose concerning faith." But then Luther was no great admirer of the Father. St. Jerome, he says, "writes, alas! very coldly;" Chrysostom "digresses from the chief points;" St. Jerome is "very poor;" and in fact, he says, "the more I read the books of the Fathers the more I find myself offended;" while Renan, in his interesting autobiography, compared theology to a Gothic Cathedral, "elle a la grandeur, les vides immenses, et le peu de solidité." Among other devotional works most frequently recommended are Thomas à Kempis' _Imitation of Christ_, Pascal's _Pensées_, Spinoza's _Tractatus Theologico-Politicus_, Butler's _Analogy of Religion_, Jeremy Taylor's _Holy Living and Dying_, Bunyan's _Pilgrim's Progress_, and last, not least, Keble's beautiful _Christian Year_. Aristotle and Plato again stand at the head of another class. The _Politics_ of Aristotle, and Plato's _Dialogues_, if not the whole, at any rate the _Phaedo_, the _Apology_, and the _Republic_, will be of course read by all who wish to know anything of the history of human thought, though I am heretical enough to doubt whether the latter repays the minute and laborious study often devoted to it. Aristotle being the father, if not the creator, of the modern scientific method, it has followed naturally--indeed, almost inevitably--that his principles have become part of our very intellectual being, so that they seem now almost self-evident, while his actual observations, though very remarkable--as, for instance, when he observes that bees on one journey confine themselves to one kind of flower--still have been in many cases superseded by others, carried on under more favorable conditions. We must not be ungrateful to the great master, because his lessons have taught us how to advance.