3 AUGUST 1895, Page 25

The Highway of Sorrow. By Hesba Stretton. (Cassell and Co.)

—Miss Hesba Stratton's story relates the sorrows and troubles of the Stundists, the Nonconformists, as they may be called, of Russia. That they are an interesting community is unquestionable, and that they suffer greatly is equally certain. Nor must it be forgotten that, unlike their fellow-sufferers, the Jews, they have no powerful friends abroad. Whether they approach, as their champion thinks, "more nearly to the Christians of the Apostolic age than any other existing Church," may be doubted. That they deserve our sympathy need not be questioned. This story will be found an interesting and affecting record.