vincial students. We will also say at once that she
appears to us to be influenced by a sincere desire for truth. Having said that much, we must also add that if this book were not supremely ridiculous it would be supremely mischievous. Tho author seems to have sat down with the intention of evolving a religion out of the depths of her moral con- sciousness, and so far as we can make out, the only tangible opinion she has arrived at is a belief in the transmigration of souls. The matter of the book is an attack on all the fundamental doctrines of Christianity, and it is a strange medley of sciolism, flippancy, clever- ness, and absolute nonsense. She positively contends that the natural meaning of Acts xix., 11, 12, is that the handkerchiefs which were brought to the sick from St. Paul's body and cured them of their dis- eases actually grew out of the Apostle's body. After this we shall be readily believed when we say that as a contribution to the religious controversies of the time the book is absolutely worthless. Any one who does not mind a most irreverent method of handling sacred subjects may read it as a curious instance of the results which an undisciplined mind taking the Bible, and nothing but the Bible, may succeed in elicit-
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