Footsteps of the Master. By Harriet Beecher Stowe. (Sampson Low,
Marston, and Co.)—This is a very good example of a class of books becoming more and more common, in which the facts of Scrip- ture are heartily accepted, but no dogmas are deduced from them, or at least, as few dogmas as possible. Mrs. Stowe brings to her task much literary skill, a rich culture, and a fair amount of knowledge connected with the subjects on which sho writes, and vindicates with a minute carefulness many events in the life of Christ, and many points in His character, She is oven more successful than most writers who follow the same plan in escaping from dogma, and also more successful than most of them in avoiding sentimentality, against which a certain amount of dogma seems a necessary corrective, though it is also un- happily true that dogma and sentimentality do in some cases exist side by side.
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