The Good Fight ; or, More than Conquerors. By John
Hunt, D.D., and others. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—These "Stories of Christian Martyrs and Heroes " make a handsome volume. There are thirty- nine chapters in all, the subjects being chiefly drawn from the ante- Nicene and the Reformation periods. The execution is scarcely all that coed be desired. Can it be right to say that "Saul of Tarsus had become a believer " when St. Stephen was martyred ? His own account of his behaviour previous to the conversion is, " I did it ignorantly in unbelief." One may doubt also, as to Ignatius, whether there was not more policy than rage in the causes of Trajan's con- duct. In the fourth chapter, "Ipsea " and "Braesia " seem barbarous forms. The word " Hades " is out of place in a Latin story. With some of the chapters no such fault is to be found ; bat the book as a whole is scarcely equal to its conception.
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