Savonarola. By Commissioner W. Elwin Oliphant. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.
2s.)—This is the first volume of a projected series of "Heroes of the Cross," which is to proceed from the Salvation Army Book Department. We give a hearty welcome to the undertaking, and we see much promise of future usefulness in the volume now before us. Mr. Oliphant does not seek to say anything new about the great Florentine, but he treats the man and his work in a sympathetic spirit. It is one of the dangers of such a movement as that of the Salvation Army that the necessities and interests of the present are apt to absorb the energies and thoughts of its workers. They forget that there have been, and that there are, men and women who have sought, and are seeking, to do the same work under widely different conditions, holding very different opinions, and using very different methods. Such books as this cannot fail to give width of view and depth of con- viction to those who read them, and we are glad to see that they come with the authorisation of responsible leaders.
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