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Andrew A. Bonar, D.D. : Diary and Letters. Transcribed by

his daughter, Marjory Boner. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—The fact of a diary kept without interruption for more than sixty years is in itself sufficiently remarkable. The first entry was made on August 21st, 1828, the last on Tuesday, December 6th, 1892. Dr. Boner's last sermon was preached on December 25th, in that year ; five days afterwards he died so quietly that he seemed not to be aware of his condition, while those about him hardly knew when he passed away. The book is not one for criticism. Dr. Boner was evidently a man of vivid, sensitive piety. His diary shows a con- stant anxiety to keep up to a standard of personal holiness; doubts of any other kind do not seem to have troubled him.