I read excerpts of this book in seminary and took it off my shelf to read it straight through. The subtitle is Wisdom on Preaching, to which I would say that some of the pieces in this book were very good, particularly by people of days long past, such as Augustine, Luther, Calvin, Edwards, Spurgeon and others, while other pieces were exceedingly tedious (and these appearing primarily to be directed at scholarly audiences and lacking apparent practical value) and seemed not in the least to be connected with Paul's objective of preaching Christ, and Him crucified. A so-so book, as least from my perspective of being one who preaches weekly. ( )