RELIGION.
Francois Coillard : A Wayfaring Man. By Edward Shillito. (Student Christian Movement. 5s.) Francois Coillard : A Wayfaring Man. By Edward Shillito. (Student Christian Movement. 5s.)
This is the life of an eminent French Protestant missionary, who was sent to Basutoland in 1857 by the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society, and spent the greater part of his life under the British flag. It is natural to compare it with Dr. Albert Schweitzer's memorable book, On the Edge of the Primaeval Forest ; different as the two men were in temperament and culture, the same zeal burned in the French peasant and in the German professor ; and we are reminded that, under many varieties of expression, the substance of religion remains the same. The author tells a pleasant story of a meeting between Coillard and• Bishop Colenso in 1865. Coillard could not be expected to share the good Bishop's views, which indeed " he pronounced to be blasphemous." But, per- sonally, he thought him scholarly and sincere ; and Mme. Coillard wishes that his opponents " who professed to know more of the truth, could commend it to others as he did." But she was a little taken aback by meeting at the Bishop's house a Zulu, " who calmly said : Do you not know me ? I am the Zulu who converted Colenso.' " •
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