The Reverend HENRY S'TEBIIING is well known as a rhetorical
divine, whose fluent emphasis of style passes with many for the higher qualities of animation and vigour. His History of the Reformation (LARDNEWS Cabinet Cyclopedia) will rather add to the literary reputation he has acquired than detract from it. The facts have been carefully collected, and they are narrated in a readable and even an interesting way. The life and career of LUTHER are well told, having the more taking points both of history and biography ; the progress of the Reformation in Ger- many, as well as its unsuccessful attempts in Spain and Italy, and its incipient appearance in France, display equal merit, but have not the same personal interest which attaches to the exertions of an individual. These remarks, however, must be rigidly limited to the mere narration of events or the abridgment cf doctrines. If the reflections, the conclusions, and the views of the writer be stripped of their wordy clothing and nakedly examined, they will generally be found to be false where they are not truisms.
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