Missionary Success in the Island of Formosa. By the Rev.
W. Campbell. 2 vols. (Trabner and Co.)—This book consists of two parts. The first gives an account of the mission of the Dutch Reformed Church in the seventeenth century, a mission which was brought to an end by the Chinese invasion of 1662. Some inter eating specimens of the Formosan language of that period are given in an appendix, together with the Lord's Prayer in the pseudo-Formosan of that arch-impostor, George Psalmanazar. The second part.gives the personal experiences of Mr. Campbell, experiences which began in 1872. He is hopeful about missionary work in the island. Seventy small Christian congregations are now established, " some in villages occupied by people whose ancestors were members and office-bearers of the early Martyr Church of Formosa." A similar and yet more successful work is going on in the Pescadores, a group of islands between Formosa and the mainland, exactly on the Tropic of Cancer. It is pleasant, as a set-off to some not very agreeable things that one hears about French doings in the East, to read an emphatic testimony to the character of Admiral Courbet. Here is the native character of him :—" He was exceedingly brave—he was very strict—he was good at sympathising with miserable people."
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