A SON OF KNOX.
A Son of Knox. By James Fleming Leishman. (J. MaeLehose and Sons, Glasgow. 3s. 6d. net.)—Of these " Studies, Antiquarian and Biographical," the most important is the first, from which the volume takes its title. We do not lmow much, it is true, about Eleazer Knox, the younger son of the Scottish Reformer. But that he was sent by his father to Cambridge, took (as did his elder brother) Anglican Orders, and held an Anglican benefice means a good deal. The union of the Church of England and the Church of Scotland would be an event of the utmost importance. It would assure the Anglican position more than anything else could do. And neither to Knox nor to his English contemporaries did it seem at all impossible. But the English Church of the twentieth century is wholly diverse from that of the sixteenth and the idea of the union has passed into dreamland. The other "Studies," all of them such as will well repay perusal, are "Henry Ker, the Teviotdale Jacobite," "Thomas Pringle, the African Poet," "William Leishman, the College Principal" —Leishman was Principal of Glasgow University from 1761 to his death in 1785—" Flodden Revisited," and "The Dying Gnisaxd,"— the " Guisard " may be roughly described as the Scottish Father Christmas.
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