.Remoter Stars in the Church Sky; being a Gallery of
Uncelebrated Divines. By George Gilfillan. (Jackson, Walford, and Hodder.)—We are afraid that most men will pronounce this book to be worthy of its subject., and likely to keep company with the obscure names for which it shows such sympathy. Mr. Gilffilan does not give us any good reason for reversing the general verdict on these unknown divines, or for reading more than two or three of his sketches. We have a good story of Dr. Croly, who, however, was to some extent celebrated in his day, and another story of a Scotch preacher who was recommended to a stranger as being not crack, but crackit. Yet this is about all that Mr. Gilfillan gives us,to read, and he gives us a good many pages to pass over. The handle of similes at the beginning of his sketch of Dr. Croly will perhaps be read, but not respectfully.
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