CURRENT LITERATURE.
The Missionary Year-Book for 1889 (Religious Tract Society), which gives the history and statistics of the principal Protestant missionary societies of the Old and New Worlds, is one of the best volumes of the year-book kind that has ever been published. The historical and statistical account of each mission is followed by a " summary " which gives that account in a nutshell, and a very full index aids the consulting reader even more. This volume may be summed up in the statement that the " heathen" converts to Protestant Christianity number about three millions, of whom three-quarters of a million are regular communicants. A careful "Introduction" deals, not too polemically, with the alleged failure of Christian missions, of which so much has been heard recently.
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