Diary of the late John Epps, M.D. Edited by Mrs.
Epps. (Kent and Co.)—The " friends and patients " to whom this volume is dedicated will possibly welcome the 672 large and closely-printed octavo pages of which it consists, but an ordinary reader can scarcely fail to find them oppressive. It is not too much to say that three-fourths of the book are of no value whatever, and that the other fourth might have been lost to the world without any material injury to its profit or pleasure. Still a small volume of a fairly interesting kind might have been made of it, by hands not afraid to use the erasing-pen very freely. Dr. Epps was a reformer in politics, religion, and medicine; he fought very honestly and earnestly for what he believed to be the truth, and did some good to his generation. It is curious to note, as bearing upon a question now being discussed with some amount of auger, that Dr. Epps would never give the title of "Reverend" to a Dissenting
minister. He held that the law of the land gave it to clergymen of the Established Church, though he did not think any man the better for having it.
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