21 SEPTEMBER 1889, Page 24

We have already had occasion to speak favourably of the

series of penny biographical tracts published by the Religious Tract Society, but the issue of a special number, containing the Biographies of the Reformers—Luther, Calvin, Farel, Melanchthon, Wycliffe, Knox, Huss, Erasmus, Latimer, Tyndale, Dr. Bugenhagen, and Juan and Alfonso de Valdez—calls for a fresh word of commenda- tion. The writers employed by the Society have not fallen into the mistake of regarding the Reformers as faultless. Professor Gibbs's little monograph on Erasmus, Mr. Taylor Innes's on Knox, and Mr. George Wilson's on Melanchthon, may be mentioned as being exceptionally well written.