Henry Callaway : a Memoir. By Marian S. Benham. (Macmillan
and Co.)—Henry Callaway was an excellent specimen of the medical missionary. In early youth he joined the Society of Friends, and his consequent abandonment of a still earlier in- tention of taking Anglican Orders caused him to study medicine. He found by degrees that the communion which he had joined did not satisfy him. After a period of suspense he definitely left it, and then returned to the first purpose of his life, to which he could now bring the qualification of medical knowledge which he had acquired as a substitute. This surely is a very remarkable " ordering" of a man's goings. His lines did not fall in places that were altogether pleasant. His "patron," so to speak, was Bishop Colenso, who preached the sermon when he was ordained by the Bishop of Norwich. It was in the diocese of Natal that Mr. Callaway was first stationed. The Bishop's administration did not always commend itself to him, and he had a difference, which was more serious than it seems, about Colenso's choice of an equivalent for " God " in his translation of the Bible. When the Bishop's speculations on the Pentateuch were published Mr. Callaway was not carried off his feet as were most of the clergy both at home and in the colony. Yet, on the whole, he dis- approved, and though he did not agree with Bishop Gray's action, be reluctantly sided against his old friend. His judgment on the Bishop's critical writings, though adverse, is perfectly calm and moderate. Ultimately Mr. Callaway became Bishop of Kaffraria. Native life is graphically portrayed in these pages, and there is a highly interesting account of the religious work carried on in the midst of it.
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