Under Calvin's Spell. By D. Alcock. (R.T.S. 35. 6d.)—It is
quite evident that Miss Alcock has studied the Geneva which Calvin ruled with no little care. She knows that it was no happy family. There were Genevans who objected to the theo- cracy which the Reformers administered not less than did the adherents of the Old Faith, Savoyards and others, outside the walls. Norbert de Caulaincourt is not a common kind of hero. He is a fine, vigorous figure, and we follow his fortunes, which furnish a really excellent story, with no ordinary interest. The central figure of John Calvin is full of strength and dignity. And the humanity in him—and such there was, as many things go to prove—is well brought out. As for the Servetus business, our author does not shirk it. She well says that "had the victims of Protestantism been more numerous, they would have been less remembered."— Within Sea Walls, by Elizabeth E. Walsh and G. E. Sargent (same publishers, 2s. 6d.), is another story of Reformation times, the scene being laid in Holland in the stirring days when the Hollanders were fighting for faith and freedom,
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