30 MARCH 1867, Page 24

The Mission of Great Sufferings. By Elihu Burritt. (Sampson Low

and Son.)—" Made perfect through suffering" is the moral and the motto of Mr. Burritt's volume. With this end in view he goes through the history of martyrdom and heroism from the first ages of Christianity down to the Cotton Famine, and insists on the efficacy of trials in re- fining human nature. The style in which he writes is not always to be praised, any more than his taste in some passages. But he is in earnest, and he makes his readers earnest.