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Thomas Chalmers : a Biographical Study. By James Dodds. (011phant.)—This

book was published ten years ago, and is now, we suppose, though we see no intimation of its being so, a new edition, reprinted. A "Biographical Study" is apt to show, not so much the man, as the writer's opinion of the man, and Mr. Dodds' work is not free from this fault ; yet it is of considerable value, not indiscriminate

in eulogy, and candid in its estimate of friends, if not of enemies. Surely the " Moderates " were not the wholly degraded beings whom we seem to see in Mr. Dodds' pages.