Labour and Victory. By Alexander H. Japp. (Marshall, Japp, and
Co.)—In this unassuming little book, Dr. Japp has collected a series of eight condensed memoirs of earnest workers in various fields of labour. The soldier, the naturalist, the missionary, the scientifio man, and others are brought before our notice in these pages. The tone of the volume is serious throughout, but it smacks, perhaps, just a little too much of the typical literature of the Sunday- school, to be pleasing to all palates. Although we could wish that Dr. Japp had been less anxious to "justify the ways of God to mon," we have read this work with interest. The memoirs are drawn from 'the best sources, and there must assuredly be a number of readers to :whom the story of the lives of such men as Bishop Selwyn, Sir -James Simpson, and Ellis, the missionary, will prove very acceptable. 'To Sir James Oatram, "the Bayard of India," the first, and by far the longest, of those notices is devoted. To our thinking, this is also the best.
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