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what one would look for. No one in Professor Mitchell's

position could take any other line. And it mist nbt be suppbsed that his view of Scottish Christianity is narrow. He is always reasonable and moderate. He expresses himself with decision as to the policy pursued by James I. and his eon, and he writes with sympathy about the schemes of comprehension which have been put forward during the last fifty years. Professor Mitchell has compressed into this little volume of a hundred and twelve pages a great amount of ecclesiastical history, and done it with no little judgment and skill.