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GIFT-BOOKS,
We have received a handsome edition of The Pilgrim's Progress. By John Bunyan. (S. W. Partridge and Co.)—The paper and printing are good, and the numerous illustrations (there are sixty- two in all) satisfactory. Altogether, the volume would make a suitable present. Dr. W. Landels writes an introduction which will hardly add much to the reader's knowledge of the author, or his appreciation of the book. What can Dr. Landels mean when he says that "the long and painful journey which Christian makes with his burden before he finds relief at the Cross, though it accords with fact often, is somewhat at variance with Scripture"? Does he mean that Scripture prescribes a normal process of conversion with which "fact," which means, we presume, experience, often does not accord'?
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