CURRENT LITERATURE.
Men of Might. Studies of Great Characters. By A. C. Benson and H. F. W. Tatham, M.A. (Edward Arnold.)—The authors of these studies say that many of the lectures are little more than compilations ; but we imagine that, for their purpose, nothing ,better could be arranged. The papers are the picked work of those who knew their audience. Written for educated boys of fifteen to eighteen, they are calculated to interest other hearers, and we can recommend the papers to those intending to give biographical lectures in institutes or class-rooms. Only those who have tried it know the mutual pleasure that can be given when cultivated minds share their treasures with those whose circum- stances have prevented them from knowing where to find the teachings of history, biography, and poetry, for which there is at present a new demand. The characters sketched in this volume are—Socrates, Mahomet, St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Girolamo Savonarola, Michael Angelo, Carlo Borromeo, Fenelon, John Wesley, George Washington, Henry Martyn, David Living- stone, General Gordon, and Father Damien.
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