Bun yea's Country. By Albert J. Foster. (Virtue and Co.
6s.)—There is something in the idea that John Bunyan's memory was impressed by the scenery and associations of his native country, and that he drew, it may well be almost unconsciously, from his own surroundings when he described the localities through which his pilgrims passed. Bnt the writer who works out this idea into a volume can hardly escape being fanciful. The pursuit of finding analogies and resemblances is dangerously fascinating. Some of Mr. Foster's ingenuities would, we think, have surprised Bunyan ; some, one might say, would have even annoyed him. Is be likely, for instance, to have had the thought of the Elstowe nuns in his mind when he described the virgins of the House Beautiful,— Prudence, Discretion, Piety, and Charity ? If, however, the reader will keep the customary grantim salis at hand he will find this an interesting and even instructive book. It is well and fully illustrated.
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