Tales illustrating Church History. Vol. V., Eastern and Northern Europe;
Vol. VI., Asia and Africa. (John Henry and James Parker.)
—These volumes contain a number of pleasant narratives, which will not be the less pleasant to schoolboys and schoolgirls because there is very little power of conceiving character in them. The exterior features of the different countries and ages in which the scene is laid are, however, well caught, and the volumes therefore will doubtless attain the end which probably the author set before himself,—that of attracting the attention of his readers to ecclesiastical history. But the pious Christians should not have quite so many dreams which in answer to prayer warn them how to avoid danger. It certainly has never been common for Christians to be thus directed as to their con- duct, but that is quite the impression that these stories produce.
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