Our Eastern Sisters and their Missionary Helpers. By Harriett Warner
Ellis. (Religions Tract Society.)—There is much that will interest the reader in this volume. It is a record of work that has been done among women in India and the Further East, in Persia, Egypt, and Syria, during the last fifty years. There is in the world much silly and some spiteful talk against Missionaries ; no better refutation .could be found than is offered in this unpretending little book. Let any one read, for instance, if he wants to know more, what has been done by them among the Khonds, where hundreds of girls doomed to death by a hideous practice of infanticide have been rescued. The question of belief may be set aside ; about the gain to humanity there is no question. Nothing in the volume is more interesting than the account of the "Female Medical Missions," which are doing a daily increasing work in India.
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