Prom Coalmine Upwards. By James Dunn. (W. Green. 2s.)— Mr.
Dunn began his working life in the coalpit. He was eight years of age; he had to be at the pithead at 6 a.m., and ho commonly earned half-a-crown a week. Things were put on a better footing before many years passed, but it is humiliating that such a state of affairs was possible within living memory. When he was twenty James Dunn want out with a corps of workmen to the Crimea. He gives some vivid pictures of the siege. Returning to England, he tried various kinds of work, finally settling down in a marine engineer's factory. Here he met with the religious experiences which determined the course of his life. At the age of thirty he became a city missionary, and this employment, in various directions, was his final choice. He gives interesting details, for which our readers must go to his book. Courage, ready wit, and common-sense make themselves manifest in his story. Can any teacher of a non-Christian system show anything like this record of practical successes in making good citizens out of bad ?
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