A Maker of the New Orient. By William Elliot Griffis.
(Fleming H. Revell Company. 3s. 6d.)—Under this title Dr. Griffis tells the story of the life and work of Samuel Robbins Brown. He was born in Connecticut in 1810, receiving from his mother the inheritance of missionary zeal. His first employment was as a teacher of the deaf and dumb. In 1838 he went out as a missionary to China. Later on came some years of work in a pastorate at home. In 1860 he went out to Japan, and there spent the remainder of his life. The Japan of those days differed tote
cede from the progressive Japan that we know. What share such men as S. R. Brown had in bringing about the change it would be hard to say ; but it can scarcely be doubted that what influenoe he exercised was for good. His great work was a translation of the Bible into Japanese. This, from the way in which it has held its place, seems to have been well done. S. R. Brown was a broad- minded man, eminently fitted by his habits of thought for his life- work. We are glad to have the opportunity, given indeed rather late, for he died in 1880, of seeing what he was and what he did.
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