Faithful to the End : the Story of Emil Cook's
Life. Adapted from the French by Louise Seymour Houghton. (Hodder and • Stoughton.)—There is too much gush about this biography of a good, pious, and eminent man. It has the fault of the French pietistical school,—over-unctnousness. M. Emil Cook was a French Methodist preacher, who led a most useful and exemplary life, underwent many trials, and did a great deal of good, especially daring the period of the Commune in Paris in 1871. He appears to have been singularly free from the exaggerated and over-emotional tone which has un- fortunately been lent to this memoir of him. The adapter has done her work With better will than judgment, and if the chapter-headings are of her own application, we cannot compliment her on them; we do not think M.'Emil Cook would on his own account have borrowed so freely from St. Peal.
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