CroMwell Anecdotes. By Dr. Macaulay. (Hodder and Stoughton.) —Dr. Macaulay
has really put together in this volume a short history of Cromwell's career, illustrating it, as occasion occurs, with such anecdotes as history or tradition has preserved. He has not, however, inserted all. Is there not one, which has some authority, of a conversation held on his death-bed which turned on the doctrine of perseverance P Dr. Macaulay takes a very favourable view of his hero's character, and it is a view for which much can be said. Yet it is difficult to acquit Cromwell of an ambition which was not always scrupulous.—In Thomas Ellwood, and other Worthies (Nisbet and Co.), Miss Frances Anne Budge has reprinted from the Quarterly Examiner, a periodical of the Society of Friends, biographical notices of Thomas Ellwood (Milton's friend), John Richardson (1666-1753), Christopher Story (1648-1720), Samuel Bonnar (1676-1753), and William Reckitt (1706-1769), all eminent Friend-teachers.—In A Scottish Hero, by Frances L. Cooke (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.), we have the carrying-out of an excellent idea, a brief Life of Dr. Chalmers, written without any stress on his theological opinions.
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