The Icelandic Discoveries of America. By Marie A. Brown. (Trabner
and Co.)—Miss Brown thinks that the time is come to "proclaim the fact of the Norse discovery, and denounce the Columbian one as a deliberate fraud of the Church, devised for proselyting [sic] purposes." This duty is especially laid on the United States. If the States fail to perform it, they will suffer the most terrible penalties. Rome accomplished a most evil work, thinks Miss Brown, in Christianising the Norsemen, "and the consummation of this iniquity was reserved for the nineteenth century, to be outworked on American soil." In fact, the States will perfect a miserable priest-ridden country, rendering a humiliating worship to St. Columbus. What is the remedy ? "Tear down Christianity," says Miss Brown, with the utmost candour, and above all things prepare for the millenary of Norse discovery in 1985, and do not "be chilled by the thought that it is
one hundred years off." The author dedicates her book to "Mrs. John Morgan Richards, of London," who has aided her substantially in placing this work before the world. It is not often that people who write such nonsense find others equally silly to help them to publish it.
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