7 APRIL 1894, Page 26

One Snowy Night ; or, Long Ago at Oxford. By

Emily Sarah Holt. (J. F. Shaw.)—This is one of the careful historical sketches in which Miss Holt excelled. It is of the time of the twelfth century, and the chief characters in it are Gerhardt and his companions. Gerhardt is a historical personage. He came to preach what he conceived to be a purer gospel in England during the reign of Henry II., and met with his death. The whole story is a very curious one. How did this German hope to make himself understood ? One scarcely wonders that his preach- ing made, it is said, but a single convert, a girl, whom his enemies declared he had bewitched.