Bishop Hannington. By W. Grinton Berry, MA. (R.T.S. is. 6d.)—This
very handy volume will be welcome to many readers. It tells the romantic story of Bishop Hannington, not without detail, but still within a moderate space, and so makes it more accessible. James Hanuington was a veritable Moses. His name is connected, and rightly connected, with Uganda, and yet he never set foot within its borders. Nevertheless he achieved much. Things seemed hopeless enough when he met his end; yet there is no part of the world where missionary effort has achieved a more distinct success. Hannington was martyred on October 29th, 1885,—he was but thirty-seven years old ; twelve years afterwards there were six hundred and fifty-nine Christian lay-agents and four thousand four hundred and forty-two baptisms, nearly half as many as those recorded in all the Church Missionary Society stations throughout the world. The story of the struggle by which these results were won is singularly interesting. Unhappily there is a very dark side to the picture. "The Baganda, the hope of Africa, are a dying nation." In seven years the population has diminished from a million to seven hundred thousand, and the causes have been the sleeping sickness, and in a large degree the vices of white men.
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