The Romance of Colonisation. Vol. II. By G. Barnett Smith.
(S. W. Partridge and Co.)—In this volume Mr. Barnett Smith, having told that part of the story which concerns the voyage of the Mayflower,' the planting of Virginia and the Carolinas, Maryland, Ire., brings his narrative to a conclusion. He has a hard task in contracting within necessarily narrow limits the eventful story of more than two centuries, and he accomplishes it with adequate success. Nor does he fail, for the most part, in fairness and candour. Nothing is wanting to the just severity with which he denounces the barbarity and injustice with which the Quakers were dealt with in some of the States. But how is it that he does not see, or at least does not condemn, the intolerance of Massachusetts in refusing to allow adherents of the Church of England to worship God after their own way P One of the most singular phenomena of the day is that the Anglican Church is the one religious community which opponents cannot treat with equity. The book is less useful than it might be if an index had
been provided, but it gives a great amount of good matter, well put together, at a very moderate price.
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