SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Under this heading we Haile@ such Books of the touts as haw not been reserved for review in °Our 'ones.] James Martineau. By Alfred Hall, M.A. (Sunday School Association. Is. net.)—The story of James Martineau's life is well told in this little book. The writer knows the traditions of the family, and writes with sympathy. There is, for instance, the story of how when he was a child of five, and had been set to "top and tail" some black currants for his mother, he grew very tired, but went on to the end, repeating a couplet from a hymn :—
" The man of Calvary triumphed here.
Why should his faithful follower fear ?"
The book is written for young readers, and naturally dwells on the active rather than the contemplative side of James Martineau's life. It is scarcely fair, by the way, to put the ejecting of the Two Thousand as a parallel to the persecution of the Huguenots. It is rather for Anglicans to lament the loss of so ninny good men than for Nonconformists to denounce it. After all, the Anglicans had been more harshly dealt with when the Parliament triumphed.
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