A Missionary Band : a Record and an Appeal. By
B. Brownhall. (Morgan and Scott.)—The first part of this volume is devoted to extracts from the letters sent home by missionaries in China, especially by the seven young men who left England last year to undertake evangelising work in that country, Messrs. C. T. Stndd, D. E. Hosts, W. W. Cassels, Stanley P. Smith, Cecil H. Polhill- Turner, Arthur T. Polhill-Turner, and Montagu Beauchamp. Then follow various missionary subjects, with special reference to India, China, and Africa, explanations of the greatness and value of the missionary work, 8co. We notice, among other things, a startling statement that all the titled persons in England contribute bat 21,065 annually to the missionary cause. The calculation, how- ever, takes no account whatever of gifts to any Society but the Church Missionary. All the Roman Catholics and Nonconformists among the "upper ten" are therefore omitted, and, we should think, a majority of the Anglicans, who probably favour the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. But the figures are, in any case, startlingly small.
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