—The American lady who introduces these " Foreshadowings," and her
countrywoman who compiled them, are both evidently in earnest; but the word "compiled" is used advisedly in regard to the book, for though the chapters are arranged in an orderly manner, giving under each heading the various opinions of the founders and promoters of the great religions of the ancient world on their respective subjects, yet the book is rather a compilation from the workings of other minds than a reasoned exposition of their effect on the author's own. Even if the authorities consulted were not, and could not be in most of these cases, the original writers, the book would have been more effective if she had given her own impressions in a continuous form, rather than by stringing together innumerable quotations, apt though they be.
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