Joshua Harrison : a Memoir. (Hodder and Stoughton. 2s. 6d.)
—The author of this memoir speaks of himself as "one who knew him." Probably there are many who may be so described, and who will be glad to read this account of a teacher and friend. Mr. Harrison was ordained to the ministry of a chapel at Tottenham in 1841, when he was twenty- eight years of age, a more mature period than is usual in either the Anglican, the Presbyterian, or the Nonconformist Churches. In 1846 he received a call to Park Chapel. It was no great preferment, for the church was in debt, and when shortly after the building was totally destroyed by fire (being insured for .21,500 only) it seemed as if the change had been a diameter. But these difficulties were overcome, and Park Chapel had a prosperous existence under its pastor for between forty and fifty years. Mr. Harrison wrote no books, and seldom came before the public. He intervened in an energetic yet dignified way when Mr Lynch was involved in the unhappy " Rivulet 's controversy, in favour of that much-maligned man. In politics he was a moderate, a Liberationist, probably in theory, but not in fact, and an anti-secularist in education. Of his attitude on snore recent questions we are not informed. On the whole we gets. picture of a very useful and blameless life, of a mind moving forward, slowly indeed, but still moving.
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