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Champions of the Right. By E. Gilliat, M.A. (S.P.C.K.)—Alter a

preliminary paper on "Briton and Saxon," sketching in a general way the history of Christianity in our island before the Norman Con- quest, we have a number of sketches of some of the great men and women, either themselves English or closely connected with English history. There are Alfred the Great, St. Hugh of Lincoln (who, though a Burgundian by birth, was reckoned as a naturalised English. man), John Wiclif, the Maid of Orleans, Sir Thomas More, and Sir Walter Raleigh. Besides these, there are two very carefully worked little sketches, giving the life of the " Monk " and the" Friar" respectively.