6 AUGUST 1864, Page 21

The Story of Carey, Hardman, and Warc4 the Serampore Missionaries.

By John Clark 31arshman. (Alexander Strahan and Co.)--A popular edition of a book which will not cease to be read so long as men admire the heroic devotion of a life to an unselfish end. The Baptist community may well be proud that the first attempt to Christianize India should have proceeded from their society, and that three self-educated men should have triumphed over the open hostility of the East India Com- pany and its most influential servants. Their story is excellently told, the writer having refrained, with great judgment, from anything like fervour of tone, which is unsuited to the narration of trials which call not for active momentary exertions, but for the quiet endurance of long years of unappreciated toil.